Spinning The Spin

What is the_spun?
It's a community for celebrity obsessed media whores.

And what happens here?
We dissect, deconstruct and diss the latest big celeb news, looking for the real stories behind their publicist's spin. We also speculate on what the hapless celebs will do next. It's a blog version of Popbitch without all the wanky industry in-jokes, very much in the spirit of Television Without Pity.

And what doesn't happen here?
Slagging off celebrities just for the sake of it - they have to earn it. the_spun is about the pr machine behind celebrities just as much as it is about the celebrities themselves. We're not just about taking cheap potshots but trying to make sense of the spun media world we're living in. You'll soon get the hang of it.

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Because a lot of the posts are of a libellous nature. For that reason, please don't post information gleaned in this community elsewhere on LJ or the interpipe.

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Nothing can spoil my schadenfraudey delight in the Bennifer break-up.
After all, this was a relationship that only started as a re-branding exercise after J-Lo's people ran some focus groups and found that Joe and Joanna Public were put off by her diva shtick. Ben was part of her Jenny From The Block reinvention and he stood to gain by acquiring a girlfriend who could propel him into the A-List. How many front pages did he get before he started dating her? And now he has first-name only status too just like his ex, Gwynnie!
How can I be so mean about the King and Queen of Bling? Just watch me, baby! All those sports cars and private jets only prove that you can take Jenny away from the block but... Swap Beverly Hills for a sink estate in South London and she's just another label-hungry girl with two failed marriages behind her and one soon-to-be failed marriage in front of her. He's the jack-the-lad who can't settle down. And he might have an Oscar for the screenplay he wrote with Matt but let's not forget that this is also the man who stuck his hand up his ex-girlfriend's Tudor gown during a fitting for Shakespeare In Love and to her immense embarassment, cooed, "Oh, Gwyneth, you have the finest growler." So if they were doleys from Bermondsey, all their neighbours would laugh at them behind their back and have a book going on how long it will last. You can dress it up with a $10 million private island and a few baubles from Cartier, but it's pretty much the same.
Now of course what really split them up was the whole Gigli fiasco because it hit them where it hurts; their careers. What's the point of a merger if it's not going to make big bucks at the box office but also destroy the shaky hold they still have on theircredibility?
The stripper scandal was just a PR tactic to get out of the relationship. Ben acquires kudos as one of the lads; a red-blooded, All-American boy who just couldn't help himself and J-Lo gets to play the wronged woman and garner sympathy. It's perfect. And it's true. Let's think about what they were doing on the day they were due to pledge their hearts to each other in holy matrimony. Ben was photographed coming out of the Hustler Casino with a mysterious brunette. And poor Jenny? Why, she was so upset that she took all leave of her senses and was shuttered on a public beach with only a Louis Vuitton beach towel to protect her from the riff-raff. And can it be any coincidence that the Vera Wang gown she was going to be married in, was replaced with an equally bridal white broderie anglaise bikini? You do the math...
And now what? La Lopez needs to get a record out sharpish and forget the film thing for a while. Mindful of all the 'Beyonce is the new J-Lo' column inches, she'll start going out with a young, black rapper and try to get The Neptunes to work with her.
Ben will return to his boy buds and will be seen out on the town with Matt Damon and his soon-to-be-new-best-friend, Colin Farrell. He'll 'date' a few, busty blonde stripper types but , more importantly, make time to do a very independent, very arthouse movie in order to snatch back some crediblity. A year from now he'll start dating a very corn-fed, blue-eyed ingenue.
And we'll laugh. Oh, we'll laugh...