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tabloids stories: 59 news summaries

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Maddy Parents Win Apology— and $1.1M

Two newspapers run front-page mea culpa after losing libel suits

Mar 19, 08 10:16 AM CDT
(Newser) - Two downmarket British tabloids ran front-page apologies to the parents of Madeleine McCann today. The Daily Express and the Daily Star apologized for carrying articles that suggested that Kate and Gerry McCann killed their missing daughter in Portugal last year. The company that owns the two newspapers also paid the... More »

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Madeleine McCann • libel • tabloids • lawsuit • Gerry McCann • Kate McCann • apology • Daily Express • Daily Star

Lisa Marie:
I'm Not Fat,
I'm Pregnant

'Vicious' attacks
force disclosure,
Presley blogs

Mar 8, 08 5:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Lisa Marie Presley is expecting her third child, OK! Magazine reports. Elvis' daughter said she was forced to make the announcement by the media's mockery of her expanding figure. "I have had to show my cards and announce under the gun and under vicious personal attack that I am... More »

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pregnancy • MySpace • tabloids • celebrity • Elvis Presley • celebrity pregnancy • Lisa Marie Presley

Will Smith Wins Libel Suit Over Hitler Slur

London news agency apologizes for claiming actor praised dictator

Feb 22, 08 4:25 PM CST
(Newser) - A London news agency must pay undisclosed damages and apologize to Will Smith for publishing a story that erroneously quoted the actor as saying Adolf Hitler was a “good person.” E! Online reports that the World Entertainment News Network picked up and greatly distorted quotes from Smith’s... More »

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libel • Adolf Hitler • tabloids • Nazi • Will Smith • World Entertainment News Network • false accusations

LA Police Arrest 4 in Paparazzi Crackdown

Brit, LiLo followers
face jail time for blocking sidewalks

Feb 21, 08 11:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Even Britney Spears’ paparazzi can’t stay out of trouble, the Los Angeles Times reports. Late Tuesday and early yesterday, Los Angeles police arrested four shutterbugs for blocking sidewalks in their hunt for tabloid-worthy shots—part of a crackdown, using existing loitering and traffic laws, on increasingly aggressive photographers. All... More »

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media • Britney Spears • Lindsay Lohan • Los Angeles • tabloids • paparazzi • gossip • TMZ • photographers • Harvey Levin • Villa

Britney's Antics Fuel Tabloid Economy

One-woman train wreck drives demand for gossip, photos, security

Jan 29, 08 11:57 AM CST
(Newser) - Whether she's flouncing out of a courthouse or wigging out on hospital staffers, pop star Britney Spears and her antics are creating their own celebrity media economy, the AP reports. For OK! magazine, the "Spears industry" helped double revenue in 2007 to $51 million. "We're on constant Britney... More »

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Britney Spears • tabloids • paparazzi • celebrity • magazine industry

Bruni Greets Journo Topless

Buffy the Sarko-slayer indeed, Daily Mail writer finds

Jan 25, 08 10:02 AM CST
(Newser) - Carla Bruni may have the press corps covering her fiancé—French President Nicolas Sarkozy—atwitter, but it can’t be said that the model keeps cards too close to her chest, reports the Daily Mail's Simon Mills, whom Bruni recently greeted with these fittingly plain words: “Sorry for... More »

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Nicolas Sarkozy • nudity • tabloids • Mick Jagger • Carla Bruni

Winehouse
Go, Go, Goes to Rehab

Troubled pop singer checks herself in after damning footage released

Jan 24, 08 5:33 PM CST
(Newser) - Though her hit song may deny it, Amy Winehouse is going to rehab, E! reports. The Grammy-nominated singer today checked herself into an undisclosed drug-treatment facility a day after police began investigating a video in which she inhales from a smoking glass pipe. No word yet whether Winehouse, 24, will... More »

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rehab • drug addiction • tabloids • celebrity • Amy Winehouse • Grammy Awards

Winehouse's Mom Pleads: Please Come Home, Amy!

Singer's spotted roaming streets in bra

Dec 10, 07 3:04 AM CST
(Newser) - Troubled singer Amy Winehouse's mother has written an open letter to her hot mess of a daughter begging her to come home and get well. The letter, which appears in the London tabloid News of the World, was written shortly after Winehouse was photographed recently wandering the streets before dawn... More »

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London • drug addiction • mothers • tabloids • singers • letters • Amy Winehouse

'Gripping' Album Tops Doherty
Tabloid Drama

Babyshambles' latest draws thumbs up, thumbs down

Oct 24, 07 4:11 PM CDT
(Newser) - Kate Moss' ex, Pete Doherty, may have a rep as a “tawdry drug monster,” but detractors' opinions are sullying his band's great music, says Uncut, giving 5 of 5 stars to Babyshambles’ new release, Shotter’s Nation. The band's previous effort succeeded on “flinty spectrality,” but... More »

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music • tabloids • Kate Moss • Pete Doherty • Babyshambles • music review

Scribe Says Bye to Cool Tabloid

Fell in love with 'parallel universe' of funny stories

Aug 25, 07 5:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - Gone is the tabloid that claimed "February Sues for More Days" and "Hide-and-Seek Player Found After 34 Years," but what becomes of its writers? At least one is still missing his calling as an inventor of comedy-news. In Salon, Stan Sinberg recalls how he conceived tall tales... More »

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newspaper • news • tabloids • Weekly World News • writer

Britney's Lawyer Wants a Divorce

Attorney tries to extricate herself from the starlet's messy custody battle

Aug 18, 07 3:48 PM CDT
(Newser) - Britney's hot-shot divorce lawyer is on the verge of jumping ship, the New York Daily News reports.  Laura Wasser seems to think Britney's become bad business; she referred the pop star to other legal talent for continuing help with her her messy custody battle over her two sons with... More »

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Britney Spears • Angelina Jolie • divorce • Kevin Federline • tabloids • celebrity • custody • Laura Wasser • Nick Leahy • Criss Angel

Alert the Aliens: Weekly World News Dead at 28

Not even Elvis can save iconic tabloid from lagging print industry

Aug 7, 07 4:57 PM CDT
(Newser) - For 28 years, it was the “world’s most reliable newspaper,” replete with stories of Elvis sightings, alien babies, and dwarf-eating dieters. But the Weekly World News is no more. The black-and-white publication, known for its loose headlines and even looser facts, will publish its final print... More »

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media • newspaper • tabloids • National Enquirer • Weekly World News • Eddie Clontz • Bat Boy • Elvis sightings • American media • UFO sightings • print industry • fake news

Tabloid Paid
BP Chief's
Gay Lover

$80,000 primed tell-all that led to Lord Browne's resgination

May 3, 07 9:02 AM CDT
(Newser) - There is growing sympathy in London's financial community for Lord Browne, the CEO of energy giant BP who resigned Monday after being caught lying to a court about how he met his gay lover. The Guardian reports that the British tabloid, Mail on Sunday, paid Browne's lover Jeff Chevalier, about... More »

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gay rights • BP • Jeff Chevalier • trial • tabloids • court • homosexuality • Lord Browne

Queen Behind Royal Split

Tab claims matriarch urged Wills to dump Kate, vowing "no more Dianas"

Apr 16, 07 11:25 AM CDT
(Newser) - Royal watchers were rewarded today with a report in the News of the World  that  Queen Elizabeth was behind the sudden split between Prince William and his commoner girlfriend, Kate Middleton. The tab said Wills dumped Kate after a closed-door meeting with his grandmother, who said she didn't "want... More »

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Prince William • Kate Middleton • Prince Philip • Queen Elizabeth • tabloids • British royals

Wills and Kate Have Split

Brits mourn fairtytale marriage of Prince William to commoner Kate Middleton

Apr 14, 07 4:49 PM CDT
(Newser) - Prince William's four-year romance with shopgirl Kate Middleton is off, the Sun reported in a "world exclusive" today. Though palace-watchers had been betting on another fairytale wedding at St. Paul's, the couple has been growing apart since Wills started his military service, and seemed to prefer carousing with army... More »

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media • Prince William • Kate Middleton • tabloids • Britain • British royals

UK About-Face On Sailors Selling Stories

Public outcry leads to ban on further embarrassing interviews

Apr 10, 07 6:14 AM CDT
(Newser) - The British Ministry of Defense bowed to public opinion last night and banned further media deals for the sailors and marines released from captivity in Iran. The decision to let the detainees sell their stories had "not reached a satisfactory outcome," the defense secretary said. More »

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Iran • media • Middle East • Rupert Murdoch • Faye Turney • London • Tehran • The Sun • United Kingdom • tabloids • Arthur Batchelor • Britain • hostage

Prince Will's Steady Fights Back Against Tabloids

Kate Middleton ups the ante in struggle for privacy

Mar 30, 07 12:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Prince William's girlfirend Kate Middleton is getting tough on tabloids to get the paparazzi out of her face. Her lawyers filed a complaint with the Press Complaints Commission yesterday after the Daily Mirror published a close-up photo of her she said was obtained through harassment, the Daily Telegraph reports. More »

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Prince William • Kate Middleton • tabloids • paparazzi • British royals

Whew!
Mills Survives Week One

Beatles ex chats about Dancing With the Stars on just one good leg

Mar 29, 07 11:51 AM CDT
(Newser) - Disabled Dancing With the Stars contestant and tabloid target Heather Mills (formerly Ms McCartney) says her one leg "turned to jelly" when she realized she was staying for another week on the show. Mills writes about her experience for USA Today, talking up her designated charities (Vegetarians International Voice... More »

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television • Heather Mills • Dancing with the Stars • tabloids • prosthesis • dance • Beatles

(Newser) - Heather Mills, amputee victim and Beatle ex-wife, tried to foxtrot her way into the hearts of Americans last night on Dancing with the Stars. Much maligned by the British press since her acrimonious split with Paul McCartney last May, Mills, whom LInda Stasi calls "the most loathed amputee... More »

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television • media • Heather Mills • Paul McCartney • Dancing with the Stars • dancing • tabloids • prosthesis • accident • prosthetics

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