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Holy, hell!
What is Anna Wintour doing wrong????
Sources reveal exclusively to PerezHilton.com that…
The numbers just came out and Vogue is down - way down! - in ad pages.
The fashion mag's November issue is down 100 ad pages! That's A LOT of lost revenue.
Vogue has been on a major slump lately.
Competitors, though, are doing much better! Elle beat Vogue in ad pages in October and November. AND, Elle actually gained ad pages in November, instead of losing (100), like Vogue did.
The devil is not smiling!
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Advertising revenue at the paper of record, The New York Times, is down by 16%!
Cutbacks are expected.
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As we mentioned earlier this week, entertainment mogul, Sumner Redstone is facing some serious financial problems< ?a>.
His National Amusements Inc company being $1.6 billion in debt!
But aside from his financial woes, Redstone is now facing personal problems. The 85 year-old has filed for a divorce from his wife of five years.
According to documents, Redstone petitioned for divorce this past Friday.
The files say Sumner and his 46 year-old wife, Paula Fortunato, already have a settlement agreement. That's nice to hear.
Not having any messy divorce court drama is a good divorce.
The two married back in 2003 and have no kids together.
And as for the reason for the split?
It's the ever too common, "irreconcilable differences," excuse.
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Hubby to Faith Hill and father to three daughters, Tim McGraw, has drawn from his personal experiences to pen a children's book for little girls.
The book recounts a day between a father and a daughter doing nothing in particular apart from enjoying the pleasure of each other's company. Although McGraw himself admits that he's not really interested in doing what his three girls - the eldest being 11 - are into, such as going to the mall or getting pedicures.
Why are 11-year-olds getting pedicures?
Nor is the country singer very into Chris Brown or the Jonas Brothers, which he says his girls go crazy for.
We're glad they're not so into Slutty Cyrus!
McGraw said that among the challenges a father faces while raising daughters, one of them is having to "sacrifice what you want to do, because boys do what you want to do. If I want to go to the farm and shoot guns or ride four-wheelers in the mud when it's 40 degrees … the girls aren't really interested in doing that."
So he hopes the book will provide some quality time for fathers and daughters to sit down and read together.
While Faith, who provided the book's forward, loved the book, husband Tim said the girls weren't so into it. The reason?
No JoBros!
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Xenu arch enemy Sumner Redstone, who's a controlling shareholder of Viacom and CBS, might be forced to sell either one of the companies in order to help out with the current financial situation his movie chain is facing.
According to reports, Redstone's National Amusements Inc is in trouble. The company is $1.6 BILLION in debt mostly due to the large drop in value from CBS and Viacom.
Luckily, though, half the debt (the $800 million) will most likely be paid by the end of the year.
But, according to inside sources, the current cash situation is so bad, that the idea of selling Viacom or CBS is now a possibility.
And, according to another source, even selling parts of CBS, such as radio stations, or even Viacom's properties wouldn't be enough to fix the cash deficit.
Reports show that Redstone used shares in Viacom and CBS as collateral for loans that were used to further expansion plans for his National Amusements private company.
Looks like someone is deep in the shitter!
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Did you think what we did when we read the headlines ablaze on the front cover of the new U.K. OK? That Jordan and Peter Andre were kaput?
Well, it's not the case!
The magazine resorted to trickery and false assumptions to get people to buy that issue!
The headline refers to the one instance that the former glamour walked out on Pete for a few days after he 'embarrassed her' in front of friends. “I did walk out on him and we didn’t see or speak to each other for a couple of days," she says. " It isn’t often that we have an argument as big as that.”
Jordan insists in the OK article that their marriage is definitely not on the rocks: “We are not breaking up. We’re in love, for God’s sake. It’s never got that bad. We have big fights but I’ve never thought it’s over and neither has Pete.”
In fact, the pair recently renewed their wedding vows!
Jordan went on to say that the only thing that would break them up is cheating, “There’s nothing that would make us break up – unless one of us was unfaithful.”
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This is a pleasant surprise!
Former Bush Secretary of State, Colin Powell, who was once thought to be a potential running mate for John McCain, might instead be endorsing his opponent, Barack Obama.
According to Republican sources, Powell will be appearing this Sunday on NBC's Meet the Press and might be releasing the news then.
At the age of 71, Powell has been a professional soldier for 35 years. He's also advised the last three Republican presidents.
Fears from McCain's camp are that Powell's "unassailable national security credentials could sway voters who are vacillating about whether Obama is ready to be commander in chief, and his endorsement of the Illinois senator would make a national security emphasis by McCain in the election's closing days extremely difficult."
Well, we wonder why he isn't supporting McCain and Sarah Palin then????
And, although for the past few months, Powell has refused to publicly state who he'll be endorsing, everyone is suspecting it will be Obama.
A McCain official said, “It’s going to make a lot of news, and certainly be personally embarrassing for McCain. It comes at a time when we need momentum, and it would create momentum against us.”
NBC's Andrea Mitchell released the news of Powell's appearance this Sunday while on the Today show earlier this morning.
She said, “In what promises to be a dramatic moment Sunday, Colin Powell — a lion of the Republican establishment, whom McCain and Obama both have courted for months — will finally speak out on a variety of issues, appearing exclusively on Meet the Press."
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Stocks have taken a nosedive for newspapers in America this week.
Scary times!
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In a new tell-all book, former Brady Bunch whore sweetheart Maureen McCormick reveals all the saucy deets of a child actor's life gone awry that we just love to eat up!
Her secret life is riddled with all the usual vices: drugs, sex, depression, weight issues, wild Playboy parties, and even a couple of abortions!
But, of course, no one could suspect the actress who portrayed the iconic Marcia Brady of anything other than sunshine and rainbows, and certainly not of swapping spit with co-star Barry Williams, who played her on-screen brother.
That's…sort of gross?
Other flings include Steve Martin and even Michael Jackson. But, she says she sabotaged her dates and her opportunities to break out of the child star slump with drug use, which often left her too spaced out to behave herself around people.
After the usual interventions, rehab rinse-and-repeat, and some "experimental therapy," Maureen managed to get her life on track, marrying Michael Cummings, with whom she has a daughter. She's stayed sober and battled her depression through the help of therapy, medication, and the support of her Brady Bunch castmates.
She's even done some shitloads of reality TV - otherwise known as the Child Star Graveyard.
She says she's finally come to terms with her Marcia Brady persona and the reality of herself underneath the gilded visage.
What a mess! Hey, at least she's still alive to talk about it all!
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