NEWS ABOUT: OK! magazine
OK! magazine stories: 10 news briefs
Tells OK! she'll wait until baby is older
OK! Oct 9, 08 8:36 AM CDT
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Teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears has nixed plans to wed her babydaddy in the short term, reports the New York Daily News . "We both agree that we want Maddie to be a little bit older so that she can be a part of it," Britney Spears’ kid sis tells OK! "We are engaged…There is no rush for anything." She also called reports of Casey Aldridge’s womanizing “completely fabricated.”
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OPINION
Running mate's star power may mean more favorable coverage
National Review Sep 8, 08 3:50 PM CDT
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Sarah Palin has been an instant hit with gossip mags and supermarket tabloids, making the covers of US , People , OK! , and the National Enquirer , even before her knockout speech at the Republican convention . It hasn't been all that flattering—the US headline was “Babies, Lies and Scandal”—but the short-term Palin-bashing belies the more long-term reality, Myrna Blyth argues in the National Review, that she's going to be a huge star at the checkout counter.
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Spears' fiance had affair while she was pregnant
In Touch Aug 14, 08 11:31 AM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears has bigger problems than being an unwed teen mom. Her college dropout fiancé, Casey Aldridge, had a “hot and heavy” affair through the end of the 17-year-old's second trimester, reports In Touch. "He totally instigated it and pursued me,” revealed 28-year-old Kelli Dawson, who said the relationship started in the spring of 2007.
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Pop star gives first interview since breakdown
OK! Aug 13, 08 12:02 PM CDT
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In her first interview since her well-publicized breakdown, Britney Spears talks about her dark days over the last 2 years, and tells OK! magazine that she hopes her sons shun celebrity, and “have a more normal childhood.” She also says she's "writing every day," and calls her next album “my best work ever.”
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Tells OK! he DJed during Levi's 'primeval' birth
OK! Jul 23, 08 12:34 PM CDT
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When contractions started for new mother Camila Alves, Matthew McConaughey was “right between her legs. We got tribal on it, we danced to it! I was DJing this Brazilian music," he tells OK! magazine for baby Levi’s reportedly $3 million photo debut. Despite his surfer-dude cool, the actor says, “Having a baby is a bloody, pukey, sweaty, primeval thing!”
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OPINION
Description of motherhood, pregnancy as 'fun,' 'perfect' send wrong message
Infos Jeunes Jul 17, 08 12:23 PM CDT
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Jamie Lynn Spears’ gushing OK! magazine spread, with its poetic waxings about motherhood, sends the exact wrong message—telling teens it's “perfect” to have a baby, critics say. “There's no way I would describe caring for a new baby as “fun.” “Fulfilling,” maybe, but it's possible Jamie Lynn lacks the vocabulary to explain how she's feeling exactly,” writes the French Infos Jeunes.
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OK! deal also includes baby's first Christmas
TMZ Jul 10, 08 10:35 AM CDT
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Matthew McConaughey landed a $3 million deal with OK ! magazine for the first photos of son Levi, TMZ reports, a deal which includes photos of the tyke’s first Christmas. But all were not happy with baby's first payday: "His publicist begged him not to work with [ OK !] because he's considered an A-lister," an insider told the New York Post .
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Photos, interview fulfill hefty deal for teen star
OK! Jul 9, 08 11:32 AM CDT
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Three weeks after giving birth, teen mom Jamie Lynn Spears debuted daughter Maddie Briann on the cover of OK!, gushing about her “perfect” delivery—"I was very blessed" —and her desire to be a soccer mom. The interview fulfills the agreement first hammered out when the 17-year-old former Nickelodeon star announced her unintended pregnancy on the weekly’s cover in December.
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People, OK! magazines go to eight digits to seal first snaps of babies
Daily Mail (UK) Jun 3, 08 11:26 AM CDT
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They’re not even born (or are they?), but the twins on the way for Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt are already worth $15 million—and counting. A bidding war has broken out between OK! and People magazines for the first exclusive photos of children, the Daily Mail reports. An OK! source told TMZ it would be “foolish” not to vie for them.
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Starlet nixes mag's offer for tell-all about coming out
New York Post Jun 2, 08 11:01 AM CDT
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Lindsay Lohan turned down a $1 million offer from OK! to come out on the magazine's cover, the New York Post reports. Lohan and the gossip weekly were negotiating a story about her relationship with celebrity DJ Samantha Ronson. "Lindsay really wants this to happen and she needs the money," said a source, but the starlet's flak says there's nothing in the works.
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