[PATREON PREVIEW] US Weekly July 27, 2009

This week, we dissect Nancy Jo Sales’ lesser-known (but no less fabulous) October 19, 2009 Vanity Fair article, The Unreal Rise of Jon and Kate Gosselin. "How did two average parents from rural Pennsylvania with an outsize brood rise to such dizzying heights of stardom and tabloid infamy? The auth…

Today we're flipping through a couple teen fan magazines: Teen Beat from May 2000 and Tiger Beat, Nov 2008! In this issue: our favorite teen fan mags, the Jonas Brothers, O'Town, Miley Cyrus, Melissa Joan Hart gives fan advice, our horoscopes, "Which TV Show Are You?", "What's Your Scarf Style?", …

To see the Candie's ads as we dissect them, watch this episode exclusively on Patreon! Troy McEady and Dara Laine get into Jenny McCarthy and her toilets, Hayden Panettiere - the Candie's queen, Britney Spears' ad campaign with pictures by Terry Richardson, the David LaChapelle of it all, the evol…

This week, we're covering the September 2025 article from The Cut: ⁠What Happened at Wondermind?⁠ Selena Gomez and her mother, Mandy Teefey, flipped their mental-health journeys into a buzzy start-up. It all fell apart. By Angelina Chapin "Wondermind was supposed to build a world of mental-heal…