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Twilight Wedding Story Needs to be Left at the Altar

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6:10 pm, September 16th, 2009

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If Gossip Cop looks exhausted it’s because we spent the afternoon feeling sick after reading OK! magazine’s cover story.

Three is definitely not the charm for the weekly, which for the third consecutive week delivers an absurd, manipulative “Twilight” cover. Today’s bait-and-switch features a photo of a smiling Robert Pattinson and Kristin Stewart, with the headline, “Wedding of the Year,” along with the bullet points: “The vintage satin dress and sentimental ring,” Moonlit garden reception at the family home,” “Thousands of roses,” “Best man and bridesmaid,” Spectacular wedding cake,” “Exotic honeymoon.”

(Ooh, we’re getting queasy again.)

Of course, when you turn to the article, it explains that is has “the scoop on the big-screen ceremony, plus what to expect when Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson really tie the knot.”

Then the mag writes, “what’s remarkable about the sizzling relationship between Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart – aka Twilight’s Edward Cullen and Bella Swan – is that each stage of the twosome’s love story mirrors Stephenie Meyer’s cult vampire saga.” Yes, according to OK!, the  “art-life parallels are downright eerie.”

No, what’s eerie is how often OK! tries to peddle outright nonsense as news.

Nevertheless, the rag says the first book, “Twilight,” is about “unrequited love,” and reports that Pattinson had the hots for Stewart while she was dating Michael Angarano. In “New Moon,“ the couple drifts apart when she’s out of town. OK! claims that happened in real life, too, this summer, when Pattinson and Stewart were on opposite coasts working on different films. In “Eclipse,” Bella and Edward get engaged, and in “Breaking Dawn” they get married and have a child.

Here are a few problems already: The magazine already said they are “engaged,” which they are not! Also, the magazine goes on and on describing what the “Twilight Saga” wedding looks like. But the wedding takes place in “Breaking Dawn,” not “Eclipse,” the installment they are currently shooting. So how is it possible that they have the “scoop on the big-screen ceremony?”

And after OK! describes the film’s traditional and ornate wedding, it says, “As for Rob and Kris, this time they might depart from the script.” How can they? What about all the “art-life parallels [that] are downright eerie?” And how their “love story mirrors” the novels? It’s all hot air, including how Nikki Reed and Dakota Fanning will be Stewart’s bridesmaids for her non-traditional wedding.

OK! Once again, so not OK.

  • Maguilita

    *deep sigh*

    If only, please, just if only OK next published something like “Dakota Fanning said ‘This might hurt just a little’ (-quoting New moon-) at Rob and Kris’ wed”… hahahahhahahahahha… Certainly they have way too much time in their hands!!!!! Incredible how they can mix characters and actors with words! Soon enough Robert will read minds… *o* …

    I think they’re… /sarcasm/ a bit, just a LITTLE bit /ends sarcasm/ confused… Am I the only one thinking that ‘big OK boss’ made one of the subordinated ppl read the books and he/she was typing like at 4am?

    Tho I’ll give them one… FINALLY!… You used a different picture! :D … *buzz* … Tho you’re quite out of mark… Pic is VERY old… Oh, but they’re confused… then, no problem… I guess… as the time line is not the same one for OK and for us…

    NEXT!

    GC, THANK YOU SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH FOR THE HARD WORK!!!!!!!!! *thumbs REALLY up*

  • http://www.gossipcop.com Michael Lewittes

    Maguilita, it is SO funny that you suspect the boss at OK! made her subordinates read the books, and that they were then typing at 4 a.m. I had the same thought (not the 4 a.m. part) that they were quickly reading the books, typing the plots, and then trying to find whatever connection they could to Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart.

    The article reads like a Freshman’s first paper with the recapping of the plot, and then drawing conclusions.

    And no need to thank us. We are grateful for our devoted audience. Please spread the word about Gossip Cop!

  • inkspot

    They didn’t use a *different* picture – they photoshopped one. *sigh*

    I hope a lot of the genuine fans now recognise the crap being spewed by OK and other rags of their ilk. It’s those poor girls who pass this trash on the news stands and read the headlines without knowing any better, or pick it up to glance through while they’re at the beauty salon or hairdressers I feel sorry for. They’re the gullible ones who believe it, which is so frustrating.

    Keep going, GC! One story at a time. It’s all you can do.

  • dmsm24

    ditto, to inkspot’s post

  • Cleo

    Hi Michael. I won’t say great job, as this really wasn’t anything I’d suspect the fans or Rob & Kris would hit the ceiling over – the cover itself, tells you what’s being referred to is the wedding. OK keeps coming back to the romantic Robsten stories, obviously because they sell and because there is a substantial demographic/market share that voraciously WANTS to read about these two people in love. You might want to think about that when you insist on posting stories to negate a real life romance/love story (again GC, neither you, nor a source would be able to definitively tell you two people are not engaged, and yet you insist on posing that they are not as if stewart or pattinson called you up themselves and told you). You’re starting to play loose with the facts – a slippery slope indeed that could lead you into becoming somewhat like that which you’re trying to eradicate.

    Here’s my advice: Me and the significant ‘Robsten’ fandom I belong to (which has contributed to Gossipcop in the way of research and info in the past), have a fairly steadfast rule: there ARE harmful, nasty, hurtful (even almost slanderous) rumors out there regarding celebs every week, your time is best spent NOT exhausting yourselves trying to disprove or negate a real life love story that fans adore. I can tell you myself I’ve pretty much stopped checking in since I’ve found this underlying need in Michael’s commentary to always emphasize and negate engagemnt. I expect it from jealous tween girls, not grown men – though there are many out there who would love to be Kstew themselves. ;) Not that I think this is Michael L.’s issue. A few more strident posts in this same vein (knocking the positive romantic love stories that infer life long committment) and I may have to re-think just where you may be coming from each week.

  • Cleo

    to clarify…I meant to write: “the cover itself tells you what’s being referred to is the wedding in THE MOVIE.” So shy the need to deconstruct and negate anything? That is all.

  • Maguilita

    @Michael…
    As they say… great minds think alike! LOL… Important thing is that seriously, no one is buying their words… so… wasting time OK, wasting time….
    And totally spreading around the word about GC! It’s about time the contra part to tabloids gets in the picture!

    @inkspot
    Oh, what I meant is that they finally used another picture… they had been using the same one from the Teen Choice (photoshopped, flipped, and so) in the last 3 covers… So, it’s always good to see something else, if not new…
    And agree with what you say… they’re taking advantage of ppl who just pass by and make assumptions… Shame on them…

    @cleo
    I don’t agree with you in some parts of what you say, but I’m not stirring it up… just want to say that if you take into account what ‘inkspot’ said and the only “Wedding of the year” you would read, then probably it is not so-evidently-clear that they are in fact referring to the movie (which script is not even done yet, so I don’t understand how can that be the wedding of the YEAR if it’s September already)… and I still think OK takes advantage of that… and still think that’s a shame…

    Final note… Who cares about their private lives? Stick to the movies… pls, do not mix any of that… ;)

  • Mello_84

    I post this comment nearly everytime I read a Robert Pattinson & Kristin Stewart story on Gossip Cop… I wish the press/media would leave these to alone and stop making up stories just to sell more magazines/papers/whatever.

  • Aghast by stupidity

    The cover is designed to make it look like a real wedding, not a wedding in a movie they are making. It’s deliberately misleading, but not a surprise, since this is what they do every week. I’m glad GC does this kind of debunking because too many people are gullible and believe everything they see, no matter how stupid it is. No one on the set of BD is anywhere near close to getting engaged much less married. When will this stupidity stop? Friends with benefits is not the same as true love.

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