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