Secret Celeb Gossip #12

[Handerton]

In addition to money for the sale of the magazine the company will get lots of income from advertising, normally more than they get from the actual sale of the magazine.

The advertising income will be a lot less than in the 90s or 00s but still it will be quite hefty as a 1 page advert will be in the thousands.

Ish... some extra revenue, but not much these days.

You can get a 30 second tv ad on a channel like E4 during something like CGD for 1500 now, audience of maybe 400,000 as opposed to a magazine print ad in a glossy which reaches a third of that audience. Print ads are far less likely to end in a purchase too. They still sell, but I’m sure a lot of the one page ads are purchased by the fashion/perfume houses in bulk at the start of the tax year for very reduced rates. The Sun has the highest circulation of any paper in the UK and likely charges the highest rate for ads and the scope is wider - supermarkets, shops having sales, DIY etc but they are still losing tens of millions a year. DM is the biggest news website and is covered in advertising, and is still losing money too. I suppose the main thing to consider is would a company like D&G look at their marketing strategy and decide that spending anything more than £1000 on a one page ad in a magazine featuring Lydia Bright on the cover increase their sales or profile at all?

There was a brilliant number on the story about Bieber and Grande’s charity record being at no1 in the US today. Streaming totals were over 20m, but actual sales were only just over 100k downloads. In a country of 250m people! Back in the 90s B*Witched were selling more copies than that in the UK when they had a hit! And the allegation is the record company paid for 60k of those downloads to ensure the song was successful

 

[vikka]

Remember when Martine Mccutcheon was bridesmaid at Liza Minnelli's wedding!!! Seemed a weird choice.

Well, that whole wedding party looks weird! Martine doesn't make much of a dent in the weirdness factor!

 

[TillyMiffin]

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Didn’t she leave him at one point for a decorator woman?

That was Vic Reeves first wife I thought? Xx

 

[Raininvain]

I cant really see Prince William having loads of affairs, hes absolutely hideous.

 

[121212]

He’s heir to the throne, that’s extremely attractive to some folk.

 

[Prince fan 1999]

And there was me thinking you were a fan of prince aka the symbol

I am

 

[Handerton]

He’s heir to the throne, that’s extremely attractive to some folk.

It’s like the old joke about Will Carling pulling out his royal wedding tea towel and saying to the lads “I’ve had her”

 

[AngryBird101]

I cant really see Prince William having loads of affairs, hes absolutely hideous.

I would be gutted if Oor Wullie cheats on Kate! I like her

 

[Reraciara]

William isn’t as innocent as he looks. Look at his grandfather and fathers history to see what he has learnt.

Catherine will never leave him though. It’s her job for life.

All of Carol's hard work wasted if she divorces him!

 

[Blurp]

Is he the one in the Diana tapes who forced himself on a male servant??? I could imagine he would purely for power

He was absolutely loathed in the navy. I remember being on board a ship for a party when he was an officer on board and no one had a good word about him (though in a similar situation Tim Laurence was considered a good bloke). The naval base workers were of the same opinion.

I also remember it being said at the time of all the insinuations about Edward being interested in working in theatre that there was a gay bloke in the RF and it wasn't Edward - who seems to have settled down quite happily with his own family. I heard somewhere that Sophie is so popular with her MiL that her widowed father also gets invited along for Christmas.

 

[Raininvain]

I think Edward is gay, the rumours years ago were that he was kicked out of the navy because he was caught having sex with a man in the shower?. If prince Andrew(I nearly wrote Prince Albert then lol) has had loads of men how come none of them have sold their story?

 

[Puddinpie]

Love this page i know its only gosdip but cple things i want clarity as much as u can have with gossip!!!

* so does prince A have hiv then?
* WHY WHY WHY is prince A the queens favourite... ???? He's vile, a cheater, an abuser and by all accounts a rude bastard.
* Why dont camilla n Charles like each other when they qere so deeply in love for do many yrs?????
*so has charles had affairs and fathered children since he married camilla???
*actuslly cant see charles suporting labour when by all accounts he doesnt wipe his own arse or tie shoelaces!!

Help me find claruty!!!

 

[vikka]

Because without a wedding ring, nobody knows he’s married...?

Right.


BIB, not so apparently. But you are right that members of the royal family are not excluded.
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Indeed some are barred from voting, at least though it makes sense in these cases and some of them are only barred for a number of years.

No, obvs people know he's married, regardless some women won't recognize him and a lack of ring is always helpful.
Just his many weekends away, some which have leaked, like a hunting trip, or the trip to the snowy mountains when he danced with women and the press made fun of him for his "dad dancing".
A ring is more a reminder to him in the end, than it is to women.
Phil, back in the 1940s when he married Liz, married her at a time when it was more socially the norm to not wear a wedding ring as a man, yet he did, in spite of his alleged philandering.

In the end as others wrote, Kate will never leave him, she tried everything to be perfect for him and bring him back whenever he left, she was a great doormat before marriage and will now never ever vacate her hard fought for status, remaining a doormat forever. That's a reason why Will kept going back, no other woman would put up with him. In their case it's "What Will wants, Will gets".

Will's RPOs allegedly called Kate back in the day "the mattress".

 

[HaloGirl]

Sorry for the random question and it’s really irrelevant but does anyone know why Geri Halliwell wears white all the time. The photos on her insta are all of her in white pretty much?

I think it is because she believes it is classy and elegant and expensive to wear white. A few threads back I said Geri is very classy as she constantly hung around Red Bull to entice Christian Horner who had a long term partner Bev . They had an affair while Bev was pregnant and Christian left Bev when their baby Olivia was six months pregnant. So much for female solidarity

 

[Goodgolly]

Love this page i know its only gosdip but cple things i want clarity as much as u can have with gossip!!!

* so does prince A have hiv then?
* WHY WHY WHY is prince A the queens favourite... ???? He's vile, a cheater, an abuser and by all accounts a rude bastard.
* Why dont camilla n Charles like each other when they qere so deeply in love for do many yrs?????
*so has charles had affairs and fathered children since he married camilla???
*actuslly cant see charles suporting labour when by all accounts he doesnt wipe his own arse or tie shoelaces!!

Help me find claruty!!!

Always thought it’s because he was her ‘second chance. First 2 were born when she was very young and with 5 years she was queen. By the time Andrew came along in 1960, she was older and settled in her role - so was able to enjoy him more, didn’t have Edward until 1964, so time with him and the at least Charles away at boarding school. Not sure where Anne went to school.

 

[Calimero]

I have never heard her being called that. I don’t think that’s true.

My comment was to Vikka

 

[Ohflogoff]

I think it is because she believes it is classy and elegant and expensive to wear white. A few threads back I said Geri is very classy as she constantly hung around Red Bull to entice Christian Horner who had a long term partner Bev . They had an affair while Bev was pregnant and Christian left Bev when their baby Olivia was six months pregnant. So much for female solidarity

Strong girls club

 

[vikka]

Andrew is allegedly Liz's fave because he was born "just to her/them", not an heir, not a spare, not an obligation, but just a child she/they wanted. Some say also because she and Phil were more settled in their roles, so things were just different.

I think Ed has so many gay rumours about him because he's perceived as "soft", he's into the arts and isn't at all for military stuff, this was the 1980s, not like today where you're more free to choose a job and not have stereotypes associated with it.
Andy was a "war hero", so couldn't be gay, Charles was also into acting, but did his military service, so that was balanced out. Then Ed, into the arts, quit the navy, so obvs he must be gay...
Such rumours at the time wouldn't have stuck with Andy and in spite of all the leaks and all we know, the Windsors still get a tonne to go away, never to be published (at least not as long as the relevant parties are alive and revelations could do damage to them).
They are also masters at the good old clean-up and image change.

I've only ever read here that Charles and Camilla can't stand each other and that's one rumour I can't believe, for the life of me. They don't appear to hate each other and they do too much together for that to be the case.

There are some wild rumours, like Diana catching Charles with I-forgot-who (in any case, a man) in bed together.

I think Chuck is too old to have done any fathering since marrying Camilla.
No philandering rumours that I know of since C&C married.

Some insist Kanga's child is his, but I don't know.

 

[Anasnake]

Anne went to Benenden

 

[vikka]

I have never heard her being called that. I don’t think that’s true.

My comment was to Vikka

To me the C+C hate each other rumour is totally wild... Never heard that one, except here. And I've read and heard some batshit stuff about them, all kind of crazy theories and whatnot, but never that C+C hate each other..