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  • Bruce Jenner: Victim Of The Transgender Equivalent To Blackface

    Bruce Jenner is on the cover of the latest issue of In Touch magazine, and Kris Jenner isn’t happy about it. The cover shows a photoshopped image of Bruce wearing make-up with the headline, “Bruce’s Story: My Life as a Woman”. The cover is considered low, even by tabloid standards. And according to TMZ, Kris Jenner agrees. It’s been reported that Kris has expressed her disgust over the cover to her close friends. Kris is reportedly telling friends, “It’s just mean to do whether or not it’s true.”

    People from the LGBT community have also spoken out against the cover. Howard Bragman, chairman of Reputation.com, said, “It’s the transgender equivalent of blackface. It is offensive, unacceptable and transphobic.” Bragman added, “Magazines fight for attention and they’re certainly getting that. I do not believe in the concept of attention at any price.”

    Bragman elaborated on his views regarding Jenner and his rumored sex change by saying, “It’s provocative, of course! To see his Adam’s apple gone, to see the changes he’s gone through, the polished nails. But it’s none of your business until he decides, on his terms and his time. And we should all be willing to abide by the outcome.”

    On Thursday, January 15, Jenner was seen in public for the first time since the magazine cover was made public. He was accompanied by security after attending a meeting at a studio in California. And while he looked forlorn in the picture, it’s been reported that Jenner doesn’t care about all the rumors surrounding his personal life. According to TMZ, Bruce’s close friends have reportedly stated that he doesn’t care about the rumors, and that “he doesn’t even pay attention to this stuff.”

    The rumors about Jenner undergoing a sex change started circulating after he gradually began changing his appearance following his divorce with Kris.

  • Jennifer Aniston Will Soon Welcome New Baby Into Her Life

    Friends star Jennifer Aniston has apparently received news that a new baby boy is coming into her life. According to RadarOnline.com, her younger brother AJ will be giving Aniston a baby nephew when his wife Adriane Hallek gives birth.

    “It’s a big baby. They’re having a baby boy,” said Amanda Derycke, Hallek’s grandmother. When asked if Aniston had given her congratulations to the couple, Derycke replied, “I don’t know how she feels about it. They’re trying not to pump this up a lot. I think [Jennifer] might in the future. I’m sure he’s told her. He’s very excited.”

    As for having babies herself, Aniston has reportedly said that she doesn’t feel as if not having “birthed a child” has decreased her value as a woman. “I’ve birthed a lot of things, and I feel like I’ve mothered many things. And I don’t feel like it’s fair to put that pressure on people,” she previously told Carson Daly on the TODAY show.

    Aniston’s fiancé, Justin Theroux, recently admitted to feeling the pressure surrounding his engagement to the 45-year-old actor. According to Hello, Theroux said in a recent interview with Australia’s TV Weekly, “There is this hum of pressure that – I can’t stress enough – I don’t pay any attention to. But I am not going to let a tabloid tell me what to do… I’m not going to watch them tap their watch…. We’re just doing our own thing. We are completely happy, obviously, but were not on anyone else’s timeframe.”

    Aniston and Theroux are reportedly busy with their respective projects, her with the second installment of Horrible Bosses and him with his HBO series The Leftovers. Rumors have circulated that Aniston was involved in a reunion project with Friends co-stars Lisa Kudrow and Courteney Cox in the works, but Cox has shot that down, according to E! News.

    “No, there’s no truth to that. No. I wish! How fun. We have dinner, like, every month or so, and we have the best time. I will bring it up next dinner, for sure!” said Cox.

  • George Clooney Not Impressed With Tabloid’s Apology

    George Clooney isn’t impressed in the least with the apology he received on behalf of The Daily Mail for an article they published stating his fiancee’s mother wasn’t behind her daughter’s marriage to the actor because of religious reasons. Clooney called the article “at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous.”

    The article claimed that Baria Alamuddin was “telling ‘half of Beirut’ that she’s against the wedding” for religious reasons, Clooney explained earlier this week in a rare statement about his personal life. The piece also joked, he added, about the death of the bride in cases where a member of a Druze family–which Amal Alamuddin is not–marries outside of the faith.

    After George Clooney said the article was all lies, the tabloid removed it from its website and issued an apology, along with a statement made to E!, in which they said they had “accepted Mr. Clooney’s assurance” that the story wasn’t true. However, the statement also said the piece was “not a fabrication but supplied in good faith by a reputable and trusted freelance journalist” who had based her story on conversations with “senior members of the Lebanese community in the U.K. and the Druze in Beirut.”

    George Clooney doesn’t buy that for a minute.

    “The problem is that none of that is true,” he said in a statement to USA Today. “The original story never cites that source, but instead goes out of its way to insist on four different occasions that ‘a family friend’ spoke directly to the Mail. A ‘family friend’ was the source. So either they were lying originally or they’re lying now.”

    Clooney explained that he knows the tabloid was well aware there was no truth to their story because they published an article back in April saying his future father-in-law, Ramzi Alamuddin, married outside the Druze faith.

    Today’s world is already rife with fighting over religion. Just take a look at what is happening in Israel right now. George Clooney is well within his means for calling out The Daily Mail on their false statements and even more so for not accepting their trite apology.

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