Gossip hacks: We can't even spell skitzorfrenick

You can't have missed the big news yesterday... that's right, "the fairytale between 3am and Peter Andre is over for good". "For good!" no less after the popular tabloid figure put his foot down about how the press would be writing about him, including a clause in a written contract that no photos or any mention of ex-wife Jordan could accompany a puff piece about him turning up for a promo slot in a Costa coffee shop (he gets all the big gigs).

It seems Andre's inability to jettison the baggage - so to speak - of his failed marriage is, understandably, something of a sore point.

(Quick catch-up for the unitiated: 3am, and its spin off 3am.co.uk, where this story appeared - is the Mirror's celebrity gossip brand and Peter Andre had a couple of chart hits back in the nineties. Now he is more famous for marrying and then acrimoniously divorcing an orange-hued, surgically 'enhanced' glamour model called Jordan who confusingly also goes by the name of 'Katie'. Together they were an unwitting sociological experiment in just how far it is possible to go with very little discernible talent, fuelled only by the inane fascination of hacks writing things like, well, the Mirror's 3am pages.) 

But then in the spirit of our enemy's enemy is our friend, 3am reports that Jordan is quite literally "pissing herself" over the whole debacle, citing a 'source' (which you may presume is tabloid speak for 'we just made this bit up', I know I did). 3am wrote:

"...it's good to know we can rely on someone to have a sense of humour over this. Perhaps now that we're bosom buddies, Katie would like to meet up for a gossip some time?"

Maybe. And while discussing the goings-on at Davos, or relief missions to Haiti, Jordan may pause to bring up this story from the Mirror today:

"Jordan was yesterday named the most hated woman in Britain. Jordan, real name Katie Price, topped the survey after bad-mouthing husband Peter Andre during their bitter split last year..."

Comments

[Rob Leigh]

You're obviously very unfamiliar with the product you're writing about. 3am.co.uk rip it out of 'sources' more than anyone else.

[Will]

Cheers for the pointer Rob and thanks for taking the time to comment.

I confess I'm not a daily reader of 3am but I will make the effort now though and will definitely look out for their dissection of gossip's over-reliance on undisclosed "sources".

Thanks again.

[James]

So Rob - you're saying the Mirror *did* make up their 'source'? And the whole piece is a kind of post-ironic send-up of the tabloid media's use of 'sources'?

Or you're saying they write the same trite shit as other gossip hacks but cry foul every now and again when somebody else gets a story from a 'source' that they hadn't thought of and they claim it sets them apart and makes them biting?