Meanest Story nominee: Travolta baby autism shocker!

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 11 July 2011

The Enquirer continues their war on fat Scientologists with a story that Benjamin Travolta, the new baby of John Travolta and Kelly Preston, is autistic. Here are the headlines.

• Doctor tells all
• John and Kelly in marriage counseling
• All their secrets
  

This is a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.

Meanest Story nominee:Kelly Preston's $11 million tell-all book.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 7 February 2011

For anyone coming in on the middle of this story, understand that the National Enquirer in particular and most of the magazines published by AMI in general have it in for Scientology, and they pick on John Travolta and his family on a regular basis. This week, they have a mean cover story that Travolta's wife Kelly Preston is going to publish that favorite sacred text of the tabloids, the tell all book. Here are the details from the sub headlines.

• 19 years of secrets
• Baby Ben's medical crisis
• Truth about John's gay affairs
• What really happened the day their son Jett died

I have no love for Scientology, but I hate liars even more. Right now, the Travoltas are presenting a united family front and they have a new baby. If she wanted to write those things for money, she'd probably get more dough putting them in a bill of divorcement. Yet again, the Enquirer gets a nomination for Meanest Story of the Week for yet another salvo in their war against the Travoltas.

Co-Meanest Story of the Week:Travolta's fears for Baby Ben

photos from Woman's Day (Australia)
Publication: Star
Date: 31 January 2011

While Kelly Preston was pregnant, the AMI kennel told every possible story about her. She was having twins. She was having a miscarriage. She wasn't really pregnant, there was a secret surrogate. There was last minute drama, reported weeks before the baby arrived. The baby came from an egg donor.

Then the baby arrived and the Globe ran a story about the fears for her new son Benjamin. That was early December and now that story gets repeated in late January by the Globe.

Okay, AMI. We get it. You hate Scientologists. Personally, I don't care for the cult very much myself. But leave the baby alone, will ya?

I proclaim this story Co-Meanest Story of the Week.

Bundle of joy alert:Meet Benjamin Travolta

Publication: People
Date: 24 January 2011

The Travoltas have pictures of their new baby in People this week, though they were officially scooped by the British gossip rag Hello!, who ran pictures of parents and child last week, even with the same quote "He's brought us a new beginning."

Best wishes to the happy family.