day 7

magazine mania

it seems like today was the day to release the all important winter issue magazine covers.  here are a few of my faves from today:

rolling stone nabbed the pop princess for their new issue and usa today got the inside scoop on the issue. it looks like brit's interview was highly supervised, with all questions having to be submitted before hand and the pop tart never being allowed alone in the room with any interviewer.  at this point in time, brit's image is super sensitive and has to be groomed, similar to how angelina jolie has 

restricted her portrayal in the media as of late; news recently broke that the female half of brangelina has tight restrictions on all her magazine articles. ange, like britney, has full control over what questions she's asked, what questions she answers, and what's said about her in the articles.  the rs cover is just one step in the promotional campaign surrounding circus. 

looks like the shape creative directors are not very creative, as they've recreated a cover from just last month...the star

ter wife and former will and grace star debra messing graces (i know, i'm punny) the new cover of shape, looking quite similar to last month's cover girl faith hill.  the hot mom talks about her love life (her husband is a producer on fx's damages) and about her new film nothing like the holidays, in which she plays john leguizamo's out of place wife at his family's holiday gathering.  check out debra in the latest episode of the starter wife over at hulu and see her erie similarity to mrs. tim mcgraw's cover here. 

today's biggest news came courtesy of the hill's resident villian couple speidi: spencer pratt and heidi montag.  the couple eloped in mexico earl

ier today, giving no advanced warning to neither family nor friends.  i guess when you don't have a real job, its easy to just skip over to mexico and get married.  the surprise nuptials go against the expected; heidi and spencer were expected to get married on camera in front of the audience that made them into who they were on mtv.  there's no word on whether or not mtv cameras were in cabo with the couple, but us weekly was there to cover it all.  maybe this is the couple's attempt to get their own newlyweds style reality show on the former music net?

a city girl hits the web

speaking of the hills, former costar whitney port launched her very own website today, officialwhitneyport.com.  with her own series (the city) coming to the airwaves in late december, whitney will be able to keep up-to-date with her fans online and show off and push her clothing lines, eva and a and whitney eve.  looks like someone is taking pages out of the lauren conrad guide to fame.  is a book deal in port's future, too? stay tuned. 

gossip gets digital

e! online is reporting that a series of webisodes are in the work to give background on how the rufus/lily love story began on gossip girl.  it looks like the story focuses on lily's time in the sanatorium (not for mental disorders but one of the eating variety) and would explain how the should-they-or-shouldn't-they couple came to be.  this news comes at the same time a big death is coming to the small screen on the cw show; the development points all signs to the death of bart bass, as his character's brother has recently been on set.