Meanest Story nominee: Travolta's secret separation.

Publication: National Enquirer

Date: 29 August 2011



Yet again, the Enquirer's war on fat Scientologists continues unabated. According to some "pal" they talked to, John Travolta has left his wife Kelly Preston and their marriage is shattered. The same "pal" reports the quote "Kelly and I have become strangers."



This is a nominee for Meanest Story of the Week.

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.

Bun In The Oven Alert™: Kelly Preston is pregnant again.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 4 April 2011

If we are to believe the Flagship, and this is always a questionable decision, John Travolta's wife Kelly Preston is pregnant once again at age 49. This story is such a scoop, there is neither confirmation or denial online.

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.

On the rocks alert: John Travolta walks out on his family.

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 10 January 2011

The calendar may have changed, but not the Flagship's desire to destroy any happiness John Travolta might find in his life. The AMI kennel predicted every possible disaster for Kelly Preston's pregnancy, but now that it's over and mother and baby are doing fine, they tell us Dad has left the nest and is staying in a hotel.

On the rocks alert:Travolta marriage crisis

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 13 December 2010

For those of you just coming into this story in the middle, the AMI kennel, lead by the Enquirer and the Star, hate John Travolta and his wife Kelly Preston. They concocted multiple contradictory stories about her problems with her pregnancy (click on the Kelly Preston label to read them all), and accused him of having multiple gay lovers.

Now that the child is born and all is well according to reliable press accounts, the Enquirer is back to says the marriage is in trouble rather than the baby is in peril. It's my best guess that AMI has one or more informants, either ex-Scientologists or disgruntled moles, and they will continue to tell nasty stories of questionable truthiness about famous Scientologists for the foreseeable future.

Meanest Story nominee:Fears for Travolta's newborn son

Publication: Globe
Date: 13 December 2010

Without question, pregnancies involve risk for women over 40, but Kelly Preston gave birth last week without complications as far as we know. That's not good enough for the Globe, who have a short headline saying the baby's health is still at risk.

For the first time since I instituted the poll for Meanest Story of the Week, all three mean stories come from the same publication, and that lovely periodical is the Globe.

Breaking news:Kelly Preston gives birth

Publication: Associated Press (via Popeater. com)
Date: 24 November 2010

Kelly Preston has given birth to an 8 lb. 3 oz. (3.8 kg) baby boy Benjamin, and both are resting comfortably.

Bun In The Oven Alert™:Kelly Preston's egg donor shocker!

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 29 November 2010

The rabid dogs in the AMI kennel have been happy to publish any story that says the Kelly Preston pregnancy is not going well. This week, the lead rabid dog the Enquirer, which I also call The Flagship, says that Kelly is carrying the baby to term but a younger woman was the egg donor. Compare this to the Globe story from two weeks ago that said the pregnancy was fake and some other woman would be giving birth and that baby would be raised by the Travoltas as though it was Kelly's own.

The Enquirer then speculates as to the identity of the egg donor, assuming it must be a younger woman who is also a Scientologist. Possible choices put on the cover include Katie Holmes, Jenna Elfman and Lisa Marie Presley's daughter Danielle Riley Keough.

Bun In The Oven Alert™:Last minute drama in the Kelly Preston pregnancy

Publication: Star
Date: 22 November 2010

The Star, the most independent cur in the AMI kennel, fills up the front cover about Kelly Preston's dramatic delivery. Here are the details.

• Kelly's 48 and the pregnancy is high risk
• John had a grueling 22 hour flight home to be there
• How their new son is helping them heal
• John talks to Star about baby Benjamin

Wow, that's a lot of details. The only problem is that the Travoltas have denied all of them. Kelly hasn't delivered yet, so the long plane flight story is pure bunk. Except for calling her pregnancy high risk, which is valid, the story is pretty positive in its tone, it only fails because none of it is true.

Meanest Story nominee:Kelly Preston's fake pregnancy

Publication: Globe
Date: 15 November 2010

The AMI kennel is always ready to make the worst out of any situation, including pregnancy. This time it's the Globe, which hasn't picked on Kelly Preston previously, now prints a story that says she is not pregnant, but instead is wearing a pregnancy suit while the baby she will raise is being brought to term by a secret surrogate.

I don't like Scientology, but I think most of these stories are sourced by disgruntled ex-Scientologists who may have been able to retain their disregard for the truth even though they left the cult.

On the rocks alert:John Travolta caught cheating on tape!

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 25 October 2010

I can't say much nice about the National Enquirer and nobody should. But I will say one thing. They are tenacious. There have been several celebrities they have decided to hate and they keep going after them, even if nearly no other gossip rag thinks the story is worth pursuing. This year, we've seen the Flagship given this kind of treatment to Al Gore, Whitney Houston and John Edwards. Now they have John Travolta in their sights. The details this time include:

• Sleazy hotel hookers
• what's on a shocking video tape
• his pregnant wife Kelly humiliated weeks before giving birth

The level of hatred they show is remarkable. It should be noted that back in July, the Enquirer had a headline that made it look like Kelly Preston had a miscarriage, which was a complete lie.

The Enquirer has had some successes in the past decade, most notably uncovering the secret lives of Rush Limbaugh and John Edwards, but they also go off half cocked a lot and their headline writers often make sensational claims the stories on the inside of the magazine cannot back up.

On the Rocks Alert with an oblique hairdresser reference:John Travolta living a lie

Publication: Star
Date: 11 October 2010

This story is playing out in a strange way. Last week, it was the National Enquirer who had the six secret lovers story. This week, it's the Star. The cover headline reads as follows.

John caught in cheating scandal
LIVING A LIE
The bombshell charge that John had multiple secret lovers is just the latest blow to the Travolta marriage. With her baby due in weeks, will Kelly be able to keep up the charade?

So this same story has been the headline for two weeks, but only on the Enquirer website to they come right out and say John's lovers are men. Nowhere on either cover was the word "gay" mentioned, but it is on the Flagship's website this week.

This is very odd. The Enquirer has printed nine Hairdresser Alerts™ this year, about one a month. Why they would be coy about using the word on their cover when their animosity towards Travolta is already completely obvious is beyond me. It's also a little odd for the Star to pick up the scraps off the Enquirer's table. They are owned by the same company, but it's more common for stories from The Flagship to be followed up by the Globe or the low rent Examiner.

Bun In The Oven Alert™:Kelly Preston says "We're so excited!"

Publication: People
Date: 4 October 2010

While the Enquirer is talking hearsay trash about John Travolta, People is doing what they do best, getting celebrities to talk on the record about their lives. Kelly Preston is waiting with excitement for the happy day.

Meanest story nominee:John Travolta's six secret lovers

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 4 October 2010

It's not a secret. The Enquirer flat out hates John Travolta. It's probably an anti-Scientology thing, but it's no excuse for the viciousness of the stories. They had a headline in July about a miscarriage drama for Kelly Preston that doesn't seem to have had any basis in fact, and now that she is nearly due, they print a story that her husband has six secret lovers.

Can you hate both Scientology and the National Enquirer? Yes, you can and I'm living proof.

Surprisingly nice headline of the week:Kelly Preston has a baby shower

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 30 August 2010

The Flagship, who just last month ran a headline reading KELLY PRESTON MISCARRIAGE DRAMA, now has a headline reading "Travolta's Wife Baby Shower". There was no nasty sub-headline, though it was slightly insulting to Kelly Preston to have to call her "Travolta's Wife".

A pregnant woman having a baby shower. Seems like a pretty nice and normal event, doesn't it? This headline would fit OK!, the nicest of the supermarket rags, much better than it fits the Enquirer, one of the Three Wicked Step Sister tabloids.

National Enquirer's big fail this year:Lying about a pregnant woman

Publication: National Enquirer
Date: 12 July 2010

There is almost nothing I hate more than Scientology. Given that, I have no love for John Travolta and little for his wife Kelly Preston.

But I hate the liars at the National Enquirer even more.

There is a published account that says the couple are concerned about miscarriage. Given that Ms. Preston is 47, that is a reasonable concern. But the Enquirer has the headline KELLY PRESTON MISCARRIAGE DRAMA! with the sub-headline "Save My Baby!" based on no evidence at all.

If I had my druthers, the headline writers for the Enquirer would be serving jail time instead of Lindsay Lohan. I don't believe in hell, but when I think about these smug safe bastards, understand the appeal of believing in eternal punishment for the worst people in the world.

UPDATE: I have started a new label, The Meanest Story of the Week, and the Enquirer is this week's winner.

Bun(s) In The Oven Alert™:Kelly Preston to have twins

Publications: National Enquirer, Star magazine

Both Star and the Enquirer have stories on the cover about Kelly Preston expecting twins. The Flagship puts a negative spin on the story with "John Travolta's unborn twins in danger", while Star just says "Twins for Travoltas".

The family has denied the story about twins. Since Kelly is supposed to be three months pregnant, the story will be confirmable before the end of the year.