Jay And Aliona

[andy-hughes]

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-3368232/Strictly-winner-Jay-insists-dance-partner-Aliona-just-friends-husband-make-pictures-leaving-party.html

The Mail stirs it again!

They say - about three quarters of the way down their gossip-mongering puff piece, that there is 'so suggestion that Aliana and her husband are on the rocks' - but that's not thanks to them publishing just one picture of her with her husband, as against the 24 (!) of her with Alex.

It is possible for people to have tactile loving relationships with people other than their partners - but never let the Mail lose an opportunity to rub its hands with its usual 'Heavens to Betsy' shock and awe, and scatter rumours around like fairy dust in a grotto.

That's not news - it's nasty rumour and gossip.

[fiction-factory]

Yes- although I think you meant Jay rather than Alex.

[Cloverjo]

There was a similar item in the Sunday Mirror about Zoe Ball kissing a man who wasn't her husband. She went home and told him about it, and he was ok with it, but the DM still thought it was worth a page of newsprint.

[andy-hughes]

It's ludicrous!

If magazines like Heat! and similar gossip rags want to devote reams of print to tittering-behind-hands gossip, then that's their raison d'etre, and their given demographic, but the Mail is supposed to be a 'serious' 'newspaper' - and this sort of guff should be well beneath them.

[andy-hughes]

F-F - // Yes- although I think you meant Jay rather than Alex. //

You're right - I was so full of ire, I got my names mixed up.

[Zacs-Master]

'nasty rumour and gossip' from the DM? Surely not!

[fiction-factory]

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/showbiz/tv/6814747/Strictly-star-Georgia-May-Foote-in-love-tangle.html
The Sun have been coming up with stories too.
They must know a lot of people like to read this stuff so it's no surprise

[viv41]

The pics of Jay and Aliona certainly look intimate !

[andy-hughes]

I think if they really were having a relationship - giving that they are both pretty media savvy people, they would be careful to look prim and proper in public.

It may be that they are just (gasp!) good friends like they say they are.

[andy-hughes]

divebuddy - //Every year strictly spawns a host of "who is bonking who" stories. Sometimes they turn out to be true and sometimes they don't. So what. //

Absolutely!

My beef is that a 'respectable' paper like the Mail, the bastion of Middle England breakfast tables, should be getting into this sort of pointless tosh.

[Zacs-Master]

'getting into'????

They have a Phd in it, gained over decades.

[MargoTester]

^ you didn't have to read it or indeed post about it.

[viv41]

I don't hold hands with my male friend, nuzzle into him and and gaze adoringly into his eyes !

[Canary42]

Anyone who regards the tabloids as respectable is a bit naive.

[Sqad]

Oi! oi!.

I respect your opinion, but cheers me up to read a bit of salacious gossip with my breakfast.

Distribution of over 2 million copies a day, suggests that many others take my view..

[andy-hughes]

Canary - //Anyone who regards the tabloids as respectable is a bit naive. //

I don't regard them as respectable, but the Mail does not see itself as a tabloid, and does think it is respectable - hence my post.

[andy-hughes]

Margo - // you didn't have to read it or indeed post about it. //

That argument applies to absolutely everything posted on here!

No one 'has to' post on here - we do because we choose to.

If you don't want to get involved, you 'don't have to' post on here - that would chime with your viewpoint

[Zacs-Master]

Andy, a delusional management printing inflammatory articles for delusional readers then.

[viv41]

Why do folk call the Mail so much, it baffles me. It's just a paper, read it don't read it - who cares ?