women’s magazines
Mazel Tov To Andrew G And Noa Tishby!
10:11AM Clem Bastow | In news that will likely have twice-dumped Cleo Bachelor Of The Year Jason Dundas crying into his Weet-Bix, former title-holder Andrew G has tied the knot!
The perma-tanned and questionably moustachioed/hair-styled [V] and Idol host married his long-term girlfriend, Israeli actress and model Noa Tishby (they were an item when he was Bachelor Of The Year, in fact), and we’ll get to gawp at the pics in one of the glossies next week.
For the time being, here’s the blushing bride’s take on it all:
“We’re bringing in people from all over – Australia, LA, London, Switzerland and Amsterdam,” Tishby told The Jerusalem Post, before the marriage ceremony over the weekend.
“We’re going to schlepp them all over the country – Jerusalem and Yad Vashem and the Old City, then the Dead Sea, Masada, then the Kinneret and the North,” she said.
“Andrew’s been here many times and he’s obsessed with Israel – it was very important for us to have (the wedding) here and use the opportunity to show people the country.”
Hip hip hip! Three cheers for the happy couple.
Defamer Australia sends its warmest congratulations to the happy couple, and would like to let G offsider and pal James Matheson that we are still single! More » 
Wayne Carey, New Idea Continue In Their Fight To Become ‘Best Humans Ever!’
9:26AM Clem Bastow | In case you thought Wayne Carey couldn’t get any shitter, and if you figured New Idea wouldn’t stoop any lower than, you know, opening the third-in-line for the throne up for a grenade to the head, think again!
It seems New Idea think that the best way to rehabilitate blokes who allegedly bash their partners is to hand them a sweaty wad of cash and get them to talk about feelings while their partner sits at their side like some Tammy Wynnette song writ large.
New Idea reportedly paid $180,000 to Carey and his girlfriend Kate Neilson for an interview in which they discuss drug abuse and their tumultuous relationship.
Women’s Domestic Violence Crisis Service board member Jane Ashton lashed out at the payment.
“If they’re paying for a story based on someone beating up somebody else it’s sleazy and it goes back to the fact that most people think that it’s not criminal,” she said.
“It undermines all these people who work in family violence who are trying to reassure women that it’s not normal and it is criminal.”
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The magazine last November launched a massive campaign – endorsed by celebrities including Nicole Kidman – denouncing family violence.
Good PR move, New Idea!
Look, we know celebrities – especially celebrities gone wild – sell magazines, but surely they could’ve just interviewed Neilson? They still could’ve used the phrase “WAYNE CAREY” on the cover, which presumably would make all the vultures who think they’ll never (allegedly) get a champagne glass to the face in a Miami restaurant happy to drool over someone else’s misery. More » 
The Pain Of Lley Lley ‘N’ Bum-Chin Summed Up In One Beautiful Photoshop Job
9:00AM Clem Bastow | It seems the Cartwright-Hewitts are starting to realise that selling their firstborn souls to the women’s mags may not have been a great idea as it seemed when they discussed it at their remedial English class, with Lleyton Hewitt having a whinge to the UK press about how “We are on the front cover of a certain level of magazine every week,” he said. “The last story was ‘Bec’s Breakdown’, full of lies and made-up quotes, but then a lot of people believe it.”
However, what really tickled our fancy about this story was the masterful bit of Photoshoppery that the News Ltd team managed to whip up for the piece:
Isn’t that visceral? It’s like their pain has been boiled down and reduced to one powerful JPEG. Heady stuff.
And in closing, poor baby, diddums, etc. Maybe think about that next time Ita Buttrose (or whoever) comes knocking at the maternity ward door with a fat chequebook. More » 
