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.

00:00:00.000,00:00:03.000 Captions by www.SubPLY.com . . . . . . . . . . . . . 00:00:06.640,00:00:09.340 In entertainment news today, another celebrity baby photo-op 00:00:09.740,00:00:10.810 with a big price tag. 00:00:11.290,00:00:13.190 Actress Jennifer Love Hewitt has reportedly paid 00:00:13.380,00:00:16.950 Us Weekly magazine $2.2 million of her own money 00:00:17.350,00:00:21.320 to have the tabloid publish the first ever photos of her new baby Jason. 00:00:21.690,00:00:22.560 For the inside scoop let's go to 00:00:23.060,00:00:26.060 Onion News Network Entertainment reporter Keri Lee who's in Hollywood. - Hi Michael. 00:00:26.530,00:00:30.130 $2.2 million, Keri. That's a lot of money. Well, you know what Michael, 00:00:30.560,00:00:32.090 Us Weekly really did not want these photos. 00:00:32.530,00:00:35.200 I guess not. Apparently there was quite a scramble among the tabloids 00:00:35.400,00:00:37.800 to not print them? - That's exactly right, Michael. 00:00:38.210,00:00:42.750 OK! Magazine, In Touch, Star, insiders say they really didn't want to waste 00:00:42.940,00:00:45.780 valuable page space on such an uninteresting celebrity, 00:00:46.210,00:00:47.510 much less the baby I guess she had. 00:00:47.710,00:00:50.580 Yeah, but when she's willing to pay such a huge amount to have them published, 00:00:50.780,00:00:52.310 what do they do? - Top sources at Us Weekly say 00:00:52.720,00:00:56.390 in addition to this money Hewitt also agreed to take all the pictures herself. 00:00:56.820,00:00:58.760 So their photographers wouldn't have to waste time 00:00:58.960,00:01:00.730 on such a pointless assignment. - Right. 00:01:00.930,00:01:02.960 Hewitt also wrote the accompanying article herself 00:01:03.360,00:01:04.930 and provided the ink used to print it. 00:01:05.360,00:01:08.000 But what does Us Weekly get out of this? - Well they did a cost analysis 00:01:08.400,00:01:09.970 that showed the amount Hewitt is paying them is higher 00:01:10.400,00:01:12.140 that the amount they'll lose in newsstand sales 00:01:12.610,00:01:14.310 when thousands of readers refuse to buy the issue 00:01:14.740,00:01:17.240 after seeing her and her baby on the cover. 00:01:17.640,00:01:19.580 Okay, so it's profitable. But this Hollywood trend 00:01:19.780,00:01:21.750 of B and C-list celebrities going to any lengths 00:01:22.150,00:01:23.890 to have the public pay attention to them, 00:01:24.280,00:01:26.010 it seems to me it's just getting out of control. 00:01:26.220,00:01:28.590 It really is an issue, just last month Kim Kardash 00:01:28.790,00:01:30.730 almost ran a car full of paparazzi off the road, 00:01:31.190,00:01:33.620 while chasing them in hopes that they would take photos of her. 00:01:33.830,00:01:36.510 And we also heard about National Enquirer reporter - Right. 00:01:36.710,00:01:39.100 who had to take out a restraining order against Tory Spelling 00:01:39.300,00:01:41.440 to get her to stop hanging out around his house. 00:01:41.900,00:01:45.000 Yes. And of course there was that paparazzi who punched Tara Reed in the face 00:01:45.210,00:01:48.050 after she got too aggressive in harassing him to take photos of her. 00:01:48.680,00:01:51.050 Yeah, we got to draw a line here. Okay, Keri Lee in Hollywood, 00:01:51.550,00:01:52.720 thank you so much. - Thanks Michael. 00:01:52.910,00:01:54.810 Coming up, the International Council of Landmines 00:01:55.020,00:01:57.460 has warned all Africans to stop moving. 00:01:58.320,00:02:01.060 STILL AHEAD THIS HOUR: U.S. DEPT. OF CHRONOLOGY 00:02:01.560,00:02:03.730 ADMITS TO FUTURE MIX-UP LAST WEEK