For a sixteen year-old, the fun part of having a baby is being pregnant. After that, things start to get messy. And stinky. And totally no fun on a Friday night.
Similarly, the fun part of Jamie Lynn Spears getting pregnant for OK! magazine was running the exclusive. And let’s be real, magazines that judged Lynne Spears for selling the story to them were just bitter that they didn’t have the scoop. Us Weekly, we’re looking at you.
Anyway, when Heat, a British tabloid ran the quotes from the original interview as an exclusive without crediting OK!, OK! was not okay with it. (See what we did there?)
Now OK! is suing Heat over copyright infringement, which is sort of like the first birthday party equivalent of running an exclusive. A copyright suit isn’t as the exciting as the original story, but OK! could still end up with some nice presents.
Editorial Director
Despite the hype, OK! sold just 900,000 of that issue and remember it was on sale for TWO WEEKS! Do the math. Worse than Life & Style. I wonder if Sara "I'm not very good at lying" Ivens will put out another press release to correct her earlier "factual error" when she insisted the magazine had sold 1.4 million in 2 days!
You've also gotta laugh at publisher Tom Morrissy's claims in the New Yok Times where he says OK!'s sales revenue of $51 million last year. Get real jackass! He's lucky to bring in £150,000 in one week.
They also said it sold twice as many as a usual issue. If THAT part's true (and who knows with OK), it means they only sell 450,000 on a regular issue. Sad.
They DO only sell 450,000 most weeks, so that bit was true, I guess!
Any statements from OK about sales of the follow-up issue? lol