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Hollywood Xmas Cont’d: ‘THR,’ ‘People Mag’ Staffs Slashed

7:40AM STV | More bloodshed from the Doomsday trenches: Nikki Finke has word that “as much as half of the Hollywood Reporter staff” faces downsizing today, with TV writers Barry Garron and Kimberly Nordyke already pink-slipped alongside editors Harley Lond and Randee Cohen. And a tipster just sent a memo confirming that People Magazine has upheld its bicoastal execution orders issued a month ago, concluding 18 buyouts and/or “staff reductions” right on schedule with the pop-culture apocalypse. Nice. The memo follows the jump. More »

Inside Clay Aiken’s Unforeseen Revelation That He Is, In Fact, ‘A Gay’

2:30AM Kyle Buchanan | Now that America has had time to process yesterday’s shocking bombshell that Clay Aiken is gay (and now that Debbie from accounting has gotten her breathing under control), People magazine has released excerpts from their exclusive cover interview. In it, Aiken discusses coming out to his mother four years ago, a rocky experience that may have prepared him for the real hurdle: weathering reaction from millions of hysterical Claymates. More »

All-New Brie-Flavored Jolie Blobs Coming to Market!

5:20AM STV | Go ahead and cancel whatever plans you have Sunday afternoon: People Magazine announced today that Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s most recent celebrated offspring will make their photographic debut on the rag’s Web site Aug. 3 at 4 p.m. PDT. “We’re thrilled to be able to feature these pictures in People,” the magazine’s managing editor Larry Hackett said in a statement to the AP. “They will delight our readers who have followed the growth of the Jolie-Pitt family.” More »

Christina Aguilera and Nicole Richie In No Holds Barred Glossy Mag Sales Contest

5:52AM Molly Friedman | With hot-headed debates regarding the sales of (People! Exclusive!!) Christina Aguilera’s baby blabber cover story in January versus (People! Exclusive!!) Nicole Richie’s baby blabber cover last week, the chattering newsies are heatedly trying to get to the bottom of a quasi-intellectual argument about fame and newsstand sales. According to an MSNBC source, the Richie issue “sold more than 1.8 million copies…whereas Aguilera’s has sold far less.” But why the greater public interest in the ostensibly careerless Richie, as opposed to the Grammy award-winning Aguilera? Apparently, weekly readers like them some knocked up druggies and the weeklies know it: “She’s gone public about being a heroin addict. Her boyfriend is covered in tattoos. By default, she’s got the more interesting baby.”