In entertainment news today,
another celebrity baby photo-op
with a big price tag.
Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt
has reportedly paid
Us Weekly magazine
$2.2 million of her own money
to have the tabloid publish the first ever
photos of her new baby Jason.
For the inside scoop
let's go to
Onion News Network Entertainment reporter
Keri Lee who's in Hollywood. - Hi Michael.
$2.2 million, Keri. That's a lot of money.
Well, you know what Michael,
Us Weekly really did
not want these photos.
I guess not. Apparently there was
quite a scramble among the tabloids
to not print them?
- That's exactly right, Michael.
OK! Magazine, In Touch, Star,
insiders say they really didn't want to waste
valuable page space on such
an uninteresting celebrity,
much less the baby
I guess she had.
Yeah, but when she's willing to pay such
a huge amount to have them published,
what do they do?
- Top sources at Us Weekly say
in addition to this money Hewitt also agreed
to take all the pictures herself.
So their photographers
wouldn't have to waste time
on such a pointless assignment.
- Right.
Hewitt also wrote the
accompanying article herself
and provided
the ink used to print it.
But what does Us Weekly get out of this?
- Well they did a cost analysis
that showed the amount Hewitt
is paying them is higher
that the amount they'll lose
in newsstand sales
when thousands of readers
refuse to buy the issue
after seeing her
and her baby on the cover.
Okay, so it's profitable.
But this Hollywood trend
of B and C-list celebrities
going to any lengths
to have the public pay
attention to them,
it seems to me it's just
getting out of control.
It really is an issue,
just last month Kim Kardash
almost ran a car full
of paparazzi off the road,
while chasing them in hopes
that they would take photos of her.
And we also heard about
National Enquirer reporter - Right.
who had to take out a restraining order
against Tory Spelling
to get her to stop hanging out
around his house.
Yes. And of course there was that paparazzi
who punched Tara Reed in the face
after she got too aggressive in
harassing him to take photos of her.
Yeah, we got to draw a line here.
Okay, Keri Lee in Hollywood,
thank you so much.
- Thanks Michael.
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