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OK! Doesn’t Pay for Non-Shockers
CelebWarship —
... People Magazine reportedly plopped down $500,000 for Clay Aiken’s “I’m Gay” cover, but only after OK! Magazine passed on the exclusive. ...
Clay Aiken Cover Cost Half A Million [Gossip Roundup]
Gawker —
People snagged those Clay Aiken baby pictures for $500,000 after newly-frugal OK! dropped out of the bidding. [P6] Janet Jackson was hospitalized after getting sick right before a concert. [AP] Cindy Adams had Republican operative Ed Rollins walk through how Sarah Palin would be prepped for the debates, if the purely hypothetical case she were anything like a normal vice presidential candidate. [Post] When she was a beauty pageant contestant,Palin used to stick plaster over her nipples to ...
Burn
Litely Salted —
Burn: (Verb) To insult or disrespect someone. People magazine reportedly paid a paltry $500,000 for Clay Aiken's big fat gay announcement and pictures of his baster baby, (small change for celebrity baby photos) and part of the reason is because nobody even wanted them. Not even OK! Magazine, who will take any old scraps. A rep said, "We did bid on the Clay story but thought it was just all right, not phenomenal."(Source) Would someone like to explain to me how is Clay Aiken coming out is ...
The Real Story Behind Clay Aiken's Coming Out
Jossip —
JOSSIP REPORTS — The story behind Clay Aiken's coming out cover for People goes something like this: Lots of magazines were in the running for the photo exclusive, but People outbid them all for a cool $500,000. That's the way MSNBC's The Scoop reported it last week, and that's the story Page Six carried this morning.
Except as our sources tell it — and these are the type of sources who were, let's say, involved in the actual transaction — OK! didn't ...
Clay Aiken coaxed out of closet with large sum of money?
Hot Momma Celebrity Gossip Blog —
... According to a NY Post article, People was bidding against OK!Magazine but their [new editorial director] Kent Brownridge passed because he loathes to pay large sums for exclusives. ...
