Bun in the oven alert™: Maci Bookout expecting a second kid.

Publication: In Touch

Date: 12 Sept. 2011



We got a week's respite from Teen Mom last week, but of course that didn't last. According to In Touch, Maci Bookout is pregnant with Baby #2. She is now 20, so technically no longer a Teen Mom.

Just one Teen Mom story this week. Which is still one too many.

Publication: Us Weekly

Date: 29 August 2011



Fresh trash on Thursdays! Us Weekly brings us a story about Maci Bookout of Teen Mom infamy being tortured by her ex. The sub headline reads "Fighting about custody, at war with his mom, haunted by her secret feelings - why Maci can't let Ryan go, and how it's hurting her family."



With any luck, the interest in this show will burn out like interest in the Gosselins did.



But it could take years, which is stunning to me, since my interest in this burned out as soon as I heard the show's premise.

Getting the Teen Mom stuff out of the way for 22 August.

Publication: OK!

Date: 22 August 2011



I whine every time there's another Teen Mom story and not without cause. As of today, there have been more Teen Mom stories than there are about any other TV show I have a label for, with 39 since the beginning of the year, more than one a week.



This means more weeks with Teen Mom headline stories in 2011 so far than Kim Kardashian cover stories over the same time frame.



Pathetic on more levels than I can count.



In any case, there are pictures of Maci Bookout and Amber Portwood with the headline "Splits, drugs and money trouble".



I think I hate Teen Mom more than I hate Andrew Breitbart, but I'll admit the difference isn't great.

All this week's Teen Mom crap.

Publications: Weekly Life & Style, Us Weekly
Date: 15 August 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays!

I keep waiting for the Teen Mom stories to end.

Luckily, I am not holding my breath while waiting, because that would be fatal. Here are the headlines, sadly plural:

• Weekly Life & Style: Teen Mom Farrah love after loss
• Us Weekly: Maci fires back: Ryan won't destroy us

I don't want any of them destroyed. I just want all of them ignored.

Is that too much to ask?

(Don't answer that. It's a rhetorical question.)

Least interesting cover story of the week: Maci betrayed by Ryan's nude scandal

Publication: OK!
Date: 8 August 2011

It's always a treat when there is no Teen Mom story on the covers of The Only Ten Magazines That Matter, which was the case last week. This week is almost as good, since there is only one story and it has no artwork associated, a headline about Maci and Ryan and some nude scandal, though it sounds like he's nekkid instead of her, which is slightly unusual in these cases.

I feel about Teen Mom the way Jan Brady felt about Marcia.

Publications: In Touch, OK!
Date: 25 July 2011

Fresh trash on Thursdays! Teen Mom nonsense abides. I report with no further comment.

• OK!: Maci & Kyle Split: She's still in loved with Ryan
• In Touch: Teen Mom dating disasters!
  In love with cheaters, druggies and a killer!
  Leah: Since Corey left, she's hooking up with three different guys!
  Farrah: Can't stop crying over new violent bad boy
  Maci: Wedding on hold! Why her ex Ryan is to blame