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Tabloid Melodrama
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When you're a celebrity, or become one overnight, tabloid stories will turn your personal life into a trashy melodrama. Try not to take it too seriously, even if they are pronouncing nuptials for you and some celebrity you merely had a friendly conversation with. Even if the tabloids' claims are false, they can cause real life harm, as the celebrity may get cancelled from a show or movie, or their marriage may be affected. Some tabloids start from a grain of truth and then spin a tale from it. For example, a paparazzi snaps a photo of celebrity leaving a drug clinic, and from this, they speculate that the person has an addiction (although in truth they may have simply been visiting a pal). Some tabloids and gossip sites may make stuff up, although this makes them liable to lawsuits. Truth in Television (but not in tabloids), especially applied to pop stars and Hollywood actresses and actors. For characters who work for such publications, see Paparazzi, the aggressive photographers who hound celebrities. Also see Lurid Tales of Doom. |
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What Price Hollywood?: The price of fame—being in tabloids, having your name turned into dirt by them, and people believing these scandalous lies— is something that Mary has to live with. | |
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A lot of Notting Hill revolves around trying to keep things from the tabloids. | |
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This happens in a lot of Miraculous Ladybug salt fics, where the Ladyblog turns into a trashy gossip column as a result of Alya blindly believing the resident Consummate Liar. Adrien uses this to his advantage in All's Fair in Love and War (And Turnabout's Fair Play). Specifically, he delivers a 'Shocking Interview' where he reveals that he's afraid of one of his classmates: Lila. While he doesn't name names, he lists off various horrible things she's done to try and get him under her thumb... and every last one of them is true. When a new Fox Heroine debuts in Burning Bridges, Building Confidence, Alya responds by quickly penning and posting a spiteful article accusing her of stealing the Fox miraculous. Ladybug soon calls her out on this, berating her for how she's filled the Ladyblog with gossip and wild, baseless speculation. In the Feralnette AU, Alya actually knows that Lila supposedly suffers from a "lying disease" that causes her to have spates where she spouts Blatant Lies. Yet she continues treating her as a "trusted source" of information for her Ladyblog, taking her claims at face value. Ladybug calls her out on this after Alya accidentally lets this slip out, declaring that she's blacklisting the Ladyblog until Alya can get her act together. LadyBugOut begins when Alya posts a photo of Ladybug and Chat Noir kissing to her Ladyblog while deliberately omitting context — mainly, that this was caused by them losing their memories to Oblivio. When confronted about this, Alya claims that this is simply the price of fame — that being a superheroine makes Ladybug a public figure who should just "get used to" being treated like this. Marinette/Ladybug disagrees, and starts her own blog to counter this blatant and deliberate misinformation. The One to Make It Stay sees Alya generously editing footage she secretly took of one of Chat Noir's Love Confessions, making it appear that Ladybug accepted it rather than gently turning him down. She then posted the results onto the Ladyblog. It's quickly made clear when Ladybug confronts her that she doesn't see anything wrong with this, and treats her punishment as Disproportionate Retribution. Alya's portrayal as this in various salt fics is given a Take That! in you turned out to be the best thing i never had. In one chapter, she ends up checking out the rival news blog "Miraculous Central" run by a classmate named Vin, which is far more tabloid-like with a particular focus on slandering Ladybug and treating Chat Noir as a "victim" of her abuse while also claiming she "owes" him her love. The first video she finds is one where Vin interviews Lila (who, in the fic's setting, transferred to his class and turned him and his friends against Bustier's class after her lies were exposed there) about how she was allegedly Rena Rouge, but was kicked off the team along with the other temp heroes when they stood up to Ladybug's alleged Bad Boss tendencies (in reality, the temp heroes ended up switching Miraculouses with each other after their identities were exposed to Hawk Moth). Alya herself is disgusted to read this and plans to warn the rest of her classmates about Lila's latest scheme. |
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In Double Homework, several tabloid stories come out over the course of the summer, all calling the protagonist the "Barbarossa mass murderer" on account of his role in the incident there. Exploited at times by Dennis to blackmail him after he finds out the ultimate secret regarding the protagonist and the tragedy. | |
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The HBO miniseries John Adams shows that this sort of thing is Older Than They Think. There is this dialogue between John Adams and his rather upset wife, who is reading The Federalist Papers, which has printed some rather absurd exaggerations and lies: | |
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In the Harry Potter series, Rita Skeeter is an immoral Paparazzi who really doesn't care who she hurts or whose reputation she ruins (or even if her information is exaggerated a little — or more than "a little") so long as she gets the dirt on a subject. As it turns out, she's using an illegal method to get her stories—she's an unlicensed Animagus who can turn herself into a beetle and listen in on any conversation like a fly on the wall, literally. | |
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The Labours of Hercules: Hercule Poirot is asked to prevent a tabloid from leaking sensitive information (the fact that a previous Prime Minister was as corrupt as they come). He does this by getting the tabloid to publish pictures of the ex-PM's daughter in the company of a Latin Lover along with the accusations of embezzlement, and during the subsequent lawsuit for slander, produces the model used in the photos (a woman who looks a lot like her and makes it clear the photos were staged). The tabloid's defense (that they only received the photos instead of deliberately trying to make the daughter to be a boozing drug-addict nymphomaniac) convinces no one, and the ex-PM and his daughter come out completely clean. Poirot makes it clear he wouldn't have bothered, if not that he judged the PM's successor to be the man Britain needed. | |
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In Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race, Mega Man has often been the subject of tabloid scrutiny, but this trope really takes effect in the interlude to Episode 14, where Tiesel Bonne gives footage of Mega and Kalinka's kiss to the Conduit, opening Mega Man and Kalinka up to tabloid scrutiny like never before should the footage be leaked. | |
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On Rocko's Modern Life, Rocko is tempted to read Filburt's private diary, sitting on his coffee table. He decides to watch some TV in hopes of taking his mind off it. He turns on the TV, and the first Show Within a Show that comes on is some celebrity gossip show called Celebrities' Private Secrets. | |
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Averted in Melody. Even as the title character's star rises, there's no indication of what the tabloids are saying, or even that they're saying anything at all, about her life. | |
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Jessica Jones (2015): In season 2, Trish's dating life is the subject of tabloid gossip for a period of time, beginning when Jessica calls the Paparazzi on Trish claiming she and her boyfriend Griffin are having relationship troubles (as a ploy to keep Trish grounded while Jessica goes to a meeting with someone from IGH). Trish has Malcolm assist her in sneaking past the Paparazzi, though despite their best efforts, they are noticed and photographs are taken of them together when they catch up to Jessica just as her meeting with the fake Dr. Leslie Hansen (actually her presumed-deceased mother) turns violent. Subsequently, a photo of Trish and Malcolm is plastered on the tabloids, forcing Trish to make clear to the press she's still dating Griffin. One episode later, she's dumping Griffin after he tries to proposing to her as a Grand Romantic Gesture...which also gets plastered in the tabloids. | |
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One episode of Absolutely Fabulous had Patsy locked in a steamy affair with an important man (possibly a cabinet minister), leading the tabloids to hound her and refer to her as a "flash fash slag." | |
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The Harry Potter films went for this angle, in addition to Rita Skeeter's appearances in the fourth and seventh movies, as opposed to the books, where the Daily Prophet was far more subtle in its criticism of Albus Dumbledore and Harry Potter and their supporters, despite being part of a large smear campaign. The paper in the movies throws subtlety out the window. | |
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Harry & Meghan: This is the major theme of the documentary series, with Prince Harry recounting early memories of his family being hounded by the press and his belief the tabloids were responsible for his mother's death. His horror at seeing the tabloids turn on his wife, with the added toxicity of racism, motivates him to want to escape. | |
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When a new Fox Heroine debuts in Burning Bridges, Building Confidence, Alya responds by quickly penning and posting a spiteful article accusing her of stealing the Fox miraculous. Ladybug soon calls her out on this, berating her for how she's filled the Ladyblog with gossip and wild, baseless speculation. | |
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Batman Beyond: The episode "Sneak Peak". Ian Peek runs a popular celebrity gossip show that seems like the typical one, but the difference is, he will use any method, no matter how immoral, to get the dirt on celebrities. As it turns out, he has murdered a Wayne Enterprises scientist in order to steal a device that can make him intangible, letting him spy on and record conversations that most Paparazzi can't access. A Smug Snake to the extreme, he even dares to publically expose a mobster who turned informant on other crime bosses, and not only discovers Terry's identity as the current Batman, but Bruce Wayne's identity as the original one. However, right before he plans to air that secret in what he hopes will be his biggest hit ever, he discovers he is losing control of the device, and it is making him intangible against his will. He postpones the airing, and then calls Bruce, pleading with him for help. Unfortunately, it is far too late for Bruce to do anything. As Terry arrives and a fight broke out, Ian completely lost control of it, and plummets downward, unable to even stand on solid ground, eventually vanishing through the basement floor. He hasn't been seen since, but Bruce theorized that he will probably keep falling until he reaches the center of the Earth, so it's not surprising. | |
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The movie Paparazzi does this as the whole excuse for the film's plot. | |
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In the Harry Potter AU 3 Slytherin Marauders, it seems the staff of the Daily Prophet has nothing better to do than stalk an 11-year old boy. | |
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This played a major role in the backstory of Osaragi in Kaguya-sama: Love Is War, whose parents were in show business and ended up being the subject of mockery by her classmates when an article about her mother having an affair was published in a tabloid. Lacking the social skills to deal with it, she ended up going from the outgoing Child Popstar she was in her youth to a cynical introvert. | |
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In Love Over Gold, tabloids are fascinated by the romance between Diane and Katrien, two field hockey players who will be competing against each other in the Olympics. Journalists accuse both of them of sharing team secrets with each other, with one journalist comparing Katrien to Mata Hari. Journalists even harass Diane's parents. | |
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The One to Make It Stay sees Alya generously editing footage she secretly took of one of Chat Noir's Love Confessions, making it appear that Ladybug accepted it rather than gently turning him down. She then posted the results onto the Ladyblog. It's quickly made clear when Ladybug confronts her that she doesn't see anything wrong with this, and treats her punishment as Disproportionate Retribution. | |
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Sabrina Down Under has Sabrina trying to invoke this. While the resort actually captured a real merman and the news crews have swarmed the scene to capture the story, Sabrina passes it off as the tabloids exaggerating a story about them rediscovering a species of fish thought to be extinct. | |
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Every major event in Small World (Tabitha King novel) seems to be ironically chronicled by V.I.P., an in-universe tabloid covering D.C. gossip and social life. Since Dolly is the daughter of a former President and a major drama queen, V.I.P. adores her and gleefully covers all her comings-and-goings. | |
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In the Shadowchasers Series, Jalal Stormbringer claims to have been a victim of trash like this "ever since the printed periodical replaced the town crier". (Given how old he is, that is likely true.) He mostly ignores it these days. | |
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In the Death Note AU Ragnarok (Skeptikitten), much to Light's dismay, the tabloids become interested in "the pretty boy cop" that teen idol Misa Amane hangs out with and write up a trashy article about him which concludes that if he and Misa aren't a couple then he must be gay. | |
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A two-part episode of Dream On reversed the gender roles when Martin Tupper began an affair with a woman who turned out to be the wife (Teri Garr) of a prominent politician (George Hamilton). In the ensuing tabloid uproar, cameo roles went to people like Rita Jenrette, Gennifer Flowers and Jessica Hahn, all of whom had experience with the phenomenon in real life. | |
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Genie in the House has an episode where Sophie wishes she got more recognition for her accomplishments. Adil being the incompetent genie he is, grants said wish, and it results in Sophie becoming a worldwide celebrity. A jealous Amy starts blabbing some of her private secrets to the tabloids, and Sophie wakes up to a headline about "Sophie's Spanish Romance" (exaggerating a story about a boy she had a crush on in Spain). These tabloids are pretty incompetent, not realising that Sophie has a sister, and instead printing that she has a brother. Who is called Amy. | |
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In Tintin: The Castafiore Emerald, Paris-Flash's cover promises the wedding of Castafiore to Captain Haddock (who can't stand her voice), and she tells him not to take it too seriously, as she's been linked to hundreds of other men in the past. She later gets upset about the Tempo di Roma's unauthorized expose on "La diva ed il pappagallo". | |
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The Partridge Family: In "I Am a Curious Partridge," Danny publishes a two-part article full of made-up lurid details about Keith and Shirley's sex lives, causing them both to be incessantly harassed by fans taking advice from the article. Keith gets revenge by publishing an article that claims the miserly Danny loves giving away money, causing him to be harassed by charitable organizations. | |
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Spider-Man: The webslinger once has to deal with a rather vile Paparazzi (and the biggest sleazeball you'd ever meet) named Nick Katzenburg, a Fat Slob with absolutely no morals, who gained a high position at the Daily Bugle because J. Jonah Jameson had been replaced by the Chameleon, making the Bugle's attacks against Spider-Man into outright slander. When the real Jonah returns, Nick's claws are clipped a little, due to Jonah having some morals as a newsman, and then severely grounded when Thomas Fireheart becomes the owner in a hostile takeover, turning the Bugle's coverage towards him positive in order to repay a debt he felt he owed (which, sadly, was just as biased, only in reverse). Nick's slanderous ways finally come to a head when he takes incriminating pictures of the Rose and published them with Peter Parker's name to protect himself; once the truth comes out, he is the target of both the underworld and the police, and an attempt on his life leads to a heart attack and his eventual death from lung cancer. In another instance, the Daily Bugle was bought out by a man who turned it into a celebrity gossip rag. Peter was initially on board, since he was given a big raise and the people being slandered by the paper were "just" celebrities, but after receiving What the Hell, Hero? responses for taking pictures of a child star from basically everyone he knew he had a change of heart. |
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In Singin' in the Rain, Monumental Pictures' publicity plays up Don Lockwood and Lina Lamont as an off-screen couple to the point where tabloids and radio are spreading rumors of their impending marriage. From Don's point of view, these are "banana oil"; as he tells Lina, "There is nothing between us. There has never been anything between us. Just air." He has to tell the redoubtable Ms. Lamont this, incidentally, because she has started to believe her own publicity. | |
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In Rewind (Terry England), the Rewound Children become instant celebrities and are hit full-force by this, the unwilling center of a media circus. At one point, a tabloid prints nude photographs taken of all seventeen by the government. This does not go over well, to say the least. Rewind generally takes a very dim view of the media. | |
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G Idle: In "Nxde", a movie star is the subject of scandal for appearing in a film called Nude, headlines declaring "Ruined Loreley", "Hollywood Troublemaker", "She's a Liar", and "She's so sexy but stupid!" | |
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In The Greatest Showman, the newspapers all print a photo of P.T. Barnum and Jenny Lind kissing, which nearly destroys P.T.'s marriage and his business. In this case, the victim of the tabloids actually takes it as a Heel Realization; he got into this situation because he sought fame at the expense of his family and real friends. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Diper Överlöde: Greg discusses avoiding this at the top of the book as a key reason he'd rather not be famous. But if someone like Rowley were to become famous and Greg rides his coattails, the latter will gladly take advantage of it to sell gossip about the former to the press! This is one reason Greg goes along with becoming the band's roadie. | |
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Queen: "Scandal" was written in response to the tabloids trying pry into the private lives of Freddie Mercury as he was battling HIV/AIDS and Brian May as he was going through a painful divorce. Appropriately, the song depicts tabloid reporters as predatory and exploitative, airing the narrator's dirty laundry for cheap entertainment. The music video additionally depicts the band performing on a soundstage littered with giant, sensationalist mastheads and headlines, intercut with footage of paparazzi snapping photos. | |
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LadyBugOut begins when Alya posts a photo of Ladybug and Chat Noir kissing to her Ladyblog while deliberately omitting context — mainly, that this was caused by them losing their memories to Oblivio. When confronted about this, Alya claims that this is simply the price of fame — that being a superheroine makes Ladybug a public figure who should just "get used to" being treated like this. Marinette/Ladybug disagrees, and starts her own blog to counter this blatant and deliberate misinformation. | |
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Astro City: Inside Scoop magazine loves to do this to Astra Furst, taking every innocent and mundane aspect of her life and twisting it into breathless drama. They're so relentless that they pay her boyfriend to record their prom night activities, with a million-dollar bonus if he can get a sex tape out of it. When Astra breaks up with him over this, they turn it into scandal fodder within minutes. | |
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The Eminem Show is a Concept Album released at the peak of Eminem's fame about the trashy soap opera the tabloids had turned his life into, embracing the Ax-Crazy, pistol-whipping, sexually-dysfunctional, suicidal trainwreck persona assigned to him, and airing out his dirty laundry (or perhaps cleanin' out his closet). Due to the fact most tabloid attention was on his chaotic familial relationships with his mother and ex-wife, the album contains a lot of Muse Abuse. | |
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In Diaries of a Madman, Navarone gets his revenge on Celestia by getting her caught up in a tabloid scandal. | |
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In Fantastic Four #275, a Paparazzi photographs She-Hulk sunbathing topless. Fortunately for Jen, the guy's editor airbrushes the photo, making her skin look flesh-colored instead of green (likely a routine editing job by someone who doesn't realize that she's supposed to be green). The rag's readers never realize that the woman in the picture is her. | |
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In the Feralnette AU, Alya actually knows that Lila supposedly suffers from a "lying disease" that causes her to have spates where she spouts Blatant Lies. Yet she continues treating her as a "trusted source" of information for her Ladyblog, taking her claims at face value. Ladybug calls her out on this after Alya accidentally lets this slip out, declaring that she's blacklisting the Ladyblog until Alya can get her act together. | |
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