Between The Lines: Why ‘Bachelorette’ Ali Is Tabloid Teflon
Thursday, July 29th, 2010
Week after week, as long as The Bachelorette has been on, Ali Fedotowsky has been a tabloid target. But in a good way. The celebrity weeklies love her because she sells issues: Give the people what they want! The people want Ali, like they want Snooki or another reality TV-sensation-of-this-given-moment. Until Ali’s 15 minutes are up, and The Bachelorette is dunzo, then obsessives of the romance franchise (including yours truly) will continue to devour each and every cracky morsel of Ali-ness available on our Google readers and magazine covers. Because the men on the show are so awful, Ali transformed from a Vienna hater into a pretty pretty popular princess and thus a projection of our own dating struggles. Ali is the people’s princess. Which is why tabloid magazine editors are wary of publishing anything anti-Ali. Why risk their audience – or an exclusive interview with Ali?
They wouldn’t. They can’t risk pissing off Ali – and ABC – and losing a potentially lucrative Ali cover to a competitor. Which is why magazines including Us Weekly passed on paying for a diary currently being shopped around by a blast from Ali’s past. It’s Ali’s diary, it contains damaging details, and the peddler was asking up to ,000, Crushable has learned.
Currently, Ali graces the latest cover of Us, alongside the headline “Secrets Of The Proposal.” She’s wearing a wedding dress with rose in hand, and inside, there’s a photo spread and article with photos of Ali’s final day in Bora Bora. Without naming Ali’s “future husband” – Roberto Martinez obviously, since Chris Lambton is a shoo-in to be the next Bachelor – a show “source” discusses details of the engagement, to be shown on Monday’s finale.
Meanwhile, she’s on the cover of People magazine with an exclusive interview, saying, “I was trying to be smart and fall in love with my heart — but use my head too. Sometimes the right thing is the hardest thing to do, and it’s definitely hard to hurt somebody. No matter what happens in the end, I hurt somebody.”
And she’s also on Star’s cover, next to the coverline, “Ali’s Hot Night With Football Hunk,” meaning Matt Leinart. Inside his a positive article on how cute Ali is (true) and how down to earth she is (again: true) and how she and Matt would make a cute couple (triple true).
Now, riddle us this: Why would Star publish photos Angelina Jolie’s ‘99 heroin bender, and not Ali’s salacious diary?
In short: To give us what we want.
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Between The Lines: Why ‘Bachelorette’ Ali Is Tabloid Teflon
