Love Bird Alert™: When J. Lo & Bradley's affair really started.

Publication: OK!

Date: 7 Nov. 2011

As the story stands right now, Jennifer Lopez is the jilted party, what with her poodle of a husband Marc Anthony sniffing around Jada Pinkett Smith and messing the whole thing up.  But this week, OK! says they know when J. Lo and her new beau Bradley Cooper really started seeing each other, which could completely change the whole "who jilted whom?" balance.

As usual, I didn't open the magazine to read it, so it could still be Marc got tired of Jennifer's well-formed-but-not-worth-the-grief hinder.

Annoying label bookkeeping for the Ashton Demi Bruce story of 31 Oct.

A link to the post below.

Love Bird Alert™: J. Lo and Bradley Cooper.

(photo credit: Peter Kramer/AP)
Publications: People, OK!, Us Weekly
Date: 31 Oct. 2011

Five weeks ago, there was a flurry of five stories about Jennifer Lopez dating Bradley Cooper. This week, a second smaller flurry of three stories talks about the new couple. Their relationship has also reached an important gossip milestone, since there are now actual pictures of them together in public easily available on the Internet. Here are the headlines.

• People: J. Lo & Bradley: It's on!
• OK!: J. Lo & Bradley Caught!
  She's not even divorced yet!
• Us Weekly: Jen's secret romance
  After Bradley pursues her for weeks with late-night calls and intimate dinners, J. Lo spends the night. Why she took a chance on him
  

I know I'm just a lowly blogger, but I have two pieces of advice for Mr. Cooper.

1. Sun screen.
2. RUN! No, the other direction.

Love Bird Alert™ and On The Rocks Alert: Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively. And, oh yeah, Sandra Bullock and Leonardo DiCaprio.

Publications: People, In Touch, Star, OK!
Date: 24 Oct. 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! Ryan Reynolds and Blake Lively were co-stars in Green Lantern this year, which explains this picture of them together at ComicCon, where Ryan stares into the camera manfully instead of gazing at the obvious focal point for every other guy in the room. Now they are supposed to be a couple, which allegedly brings heartbreak to Sandra Bullock, who has been romantically linked to Reynolds in several stories that both of them have denied. Blake's brief romance with Leonardo DiCaprio is also mentioned. Here are the headlines.

• People: Ryan Reynolds & Blake Lively: New Romance?
• OK!: Blake steals Sandra's man!
  she's 23 years younger than Sandra!
  Right after dumping Leo, Blake hooks up with Ryan.
  Inside their steamy Boston weekend!
• Star: Exclusive details
  Sandra dumped by Ryan
• In Touch: Blake: How she stole Ryan

Love Bird Alert™: Lauren Conrad dating Dancing With The Stars' Derek Hough.

Publication: Us Weekly
Date: 17 Oct. 2011

Lauren Conrad makes it onto two covers this week, which is pretty good work for someone from a reality TV show that's been off the air for more than a year. Us Weekly says she's dating Derek Hough of Dancing With The Stars. Hough denies it.

Love Bird Alert™: J. Lo's new man is...

Publication: OK!
Date: 10 Oct. 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! OK! has a teaser headline, promising an exclusive story on who Jennifer Lopez's new fella is.

I never play the guessing game stuff, but I will finish the sentence.

J. Lo's new man is... a damn fool if he doesn't get as far away from this drama queen as he can and double quick, too!

Love Bird Alert™: Ryan Reynolds and Olivia Wilde

Publications: Us Weekly, In Touch
Date: 3 Oct. 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! When Hollywood couples break up, the gossip rags tend to be more interested in how the woman is faring romantically than how the guy is doing. There are some exceptions to this and the most notable if 2011 is Ryan Reynolds, who divorced Scarlett Johannson late last year. He has been on the covers of the supermarket rags more often than she has. The latest alleged love for Reynolds is Olivia Wilde, his co-star from The Change-Up. Here are the headlines.

• Us Weekly: Ryan Moves on from Sandra - with Olivia Wilde!
• In Touch: Poor Sandra... Ryan & Olivia: It's On!
  

Notice how it's supposed to be Sandra Bullock's heart he is breaking with his new relationship. Scarlett is completely out of the picture, at least in the version on the covers this week.

Love Bird Alert™: Why Holly chose Blake on Bachelor Pad.

Publication: Weekly Life & Style
Date: 26 Sept. 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! Last trash of the week... right now!

There's a new spin-off of the Bachelor called Bachelor Pad. I know nothing about it except that it's a bunch of guys and a bunch of girls who I assume had been on The Bachelor or The Bachelorette. Two of them by the names of Holly and Blake decided to get together. I do not know anything about them and have little interest in learning more.

Going online, I see that the show's finale is either already happened or happening soon. For my taste, it can't be soon enough.

(Once I had a Secret) Love Bird Alert: Paul McCartney and Doris Day

Publication: Globe
Date: 26 Sept. 2011

The Globe runs with a cover story that Paul McCartney and Doris Day had a love affair some 46 years ago. You can read the conversation Sir Paul had with Miss Day online from earlier this month that says he was a fan back in the day, an interview published by the reputable Telegraph from the U.K. No mention of fluid transfer is made.

The good news in this dishonest headline is that at least they aren't trying to bury Miss Day, which is the usual headline in the supermarket rags.

Love Bird Alert™: J. Lo has dinner date with Bradley Cooper.

(picture from TMZ.COM/rights by Getty Images)
Publications: People, OK!, Weekly Life & Style, In Touch, Us Weekly
Date: 26 Sept. 2011

Fresh trash... on Wednesdays? Yes, all but two of The Only Ten Magazines That Matter have online presence, so I can check out the covers today, and one story hit all the covers of the non-AMI mags. Jennifer Lopez and Bradley Cooper were seen dining together, and though their representatives say it was business, the gossip rags are having a field day. Here are the headlines.

• People: J. Lo's dinner with Bradley Cooper
• OK!: J. Lo and Bradley's hot date (only in OK!)
• Weekly Life & Style: Marc can't handle it
  J. Lo and Bradley's hot date
• In Touch: J. Lo and Bradley: Hot New Romance
• Us Weekly: J. Lo and Bradley: Revenge Date
  

Besides this story getting five mentions and two of them implying that Jennifer is only doing this to get back at her cheating spouse, my favorite detail is OK! being delusional enough to think this story is an exclusive. The picture I nicked is from TMZ.com, which published this story back on Sunday.

Love Bird Alert™: Joe Jonas wants Taylor Swift back.

Publication: Us Weekly
Date: 19 Sept. 2011

According to Us Weekly, rapidly aging teen scream Joe Jonas wants Taylor Swift to be his girlfriend again. He's 22, she's 21, so there isn't a real age gap, but the young man has to learn a valuable lesson.

Once you've been eaten alive and spit out, you lose some of your desirability to the one who ate you.

Annoying label bookkeeping for Sandra and Ryan stories for 19 Sept.

A link to the stories listed above, with an obligatory picture of Scarlett Johansson.

Love Bird Alert™: Ryan Gosling dating Eva Mendes.

Publication: People
Date: 19 Sept. 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! Welcome to gossip hell, Eva Mendes! People reports that she and Ryan Gosling, who are currently shooting a movie together, have started an on-set romance.

Gosling was rumored to be dating Blake Lively last year. As for the tattoos, they are either new or fake, since in earlier pictures there was nothing on his hands or neck.

Love Bird Alert™ and On The Rocks Alert: This week's BrAngelina news.

Publications: Weekly Life & Style, Star
Date: 12 Sept. 2011

If these headlines were about anyone else, I'd think it was planted crap in the gossip rags to build up a buzz because Brad Pitt has a movie coming out later this month called Moneyball. But the supermarket rags have BrAngelina stuff week in and week out regardless if either of them has a project that's about to be released. Here are the headlines.

• Weekly Life & Style: Inside Brad & Angie's bedroom
• Star: Angie tells Brad: Get out!
  His late nights with sexy, young assistant push her over the edge
  He met Angelina on the set too!

Love Bird Alert™: Gadhafi's secret marriage proposal to Condi!

Publication: Globe
Date: 12 Sept. 2011

The Globe publishes a true story on the cover about Libya dictator Moammar Gadhafi's obsession with Condoleezza. The sub-headline reads "Plus: Madman's SICK love letters to her".

It's a lot funnier when Princess Sparkle Pony writes about it.

Love Bird Alert™: Successful reality show romances.

Publication: People
Date: 12 Sept. 2011

People is one of the most positive of the supermarket rags, trailing only OK! in the percentage of positive to negative stories. Both of these cheery publications achieve this by going all Pollyanna from time to time, as People does this week by recounting the romantic successes of reality TV shows. Many of their happy couples met on shows like Survivor or The Amazing Race, but the cover picture is of the great (only?) success of The Bachelor franchise, Ryan and Trista Sutter, who met on The Bachelorette back in 2003, got hitched and are still together.

I give my best wishes to the happy couple, but this story is kind of like someone shilling for the tobacco industry stating the correct fact that some people smoke all their lives and they don't die of lung cancer, emphysema or congestive heart disease.

Love Bird Alert™: How Jessica forgave Justin.

Publication: Us Weekly

Date: 12 September 2011



After the break-up of Justin Timberlake and Jessica Biel earlier this year, only Us Weekly has taken much interest in either of their romantic lives, with the exception of one story in Weekly Life & Style about Justin and Mila Kunis.



Us Weekly printed a story two months ago that the couple was back together, and now they write a follow-up about how she forgave him, and allegedly there was a lot to forgive. I have found some confirmation online that they have been seen together recently.

Love Bird Alert™: More on Sandra Bullock and Ryan Reynolds.

Publications: OK!, Star

Date: 12 Sept. 2011



Regardless of denials, the supermarket rags are determined to get Ryan Reynolds and Sandra Bullock together. Here are the headlines.

• OK!: Ryan caught at Sandra's house
• Star: Ryan & Sandra adopting together!
  
  A sister for Louis

Color me unconvinced.

Love Bird Alert™: Jen and Justin moving in.

Publications: People, Us Weekly, In Touch

Date: 12 Sept. 2011



People, the most reliable of the gossip rags, tells us Jennifer Aniston and Justin Theroux are moving in together and Us Weekly concurs. In Touch and OK! (see story below) extend the story quite a bit. Here are the headlines.

• People: Jen & Justin moving in!
• Us Weekly: Inside Jen's new home
  
  
• In Touch: Inside Jen's beach wedding
  
  The dress, the vows, the surprise celebrity guest!
  
  And why Jen is calling marriage this time around "so much sweeter"
  
  Only in In Touch
  
  The new home where they'll raise the babies!

Best wishes to the happy couple.

On the rocks alert: OK! continues to push the story of Brad Pitt and his assistant.

Publication: OK!

Date: 5 Sept. 2011



OK! continues to push the story of Brad Pitt's relationship with a young assistant on the set of World War Z, first leaked in early July. Here are the new headlines.

• Brad's mystery woman revealed
• (OK! exclusive)
• She shows off in a sexy bikini
• Parades around in her underwear
• Her x-rated message to Angie

Her name is not mentioned on the cover, but on the website OK! outs Lara Marsden as the culprit.