Exclusive: Beyonce Impregnated By Gossip Blogger!

By Ben Widdicombe Posted Mar 26th 2010 04:15PM

Being pregnant, like being dead, is an incontrovertible condition: one either is or isn't.

Yet despite this black-and-white distinction, pregnancy is one of the haziest gray areas in celebrity journalism. This week, Beyonce is the subject of rumors. Let's examine the facts, shall we?

It won't take long, because there are none: not even a paparazzi picture of Beyonce wearing a billowy top on a windy day with a big yellow arrow helpfully provided by some tabloid with the caption "Baby Bump!!" The origin of this week's speculation is this item on MediaTakeOut, which provides no facts other than the promise of having a "ROCK SOLID source."

In the gossip industry, MediaTakeOut has a poor reputation for accuracy. That doesn't mean they can't be right, but as a numbers game, it does mean they probably aren't.

Here's why: If you are a name-brand gossip columnist and you get a big story like this wrong, you have an editor who would gleefully decapitate you and then fire your headless body, ruining your reputation in the process. But a blog, with no-one to answer to, correctly figures the positive publicity a big scoop would generate is worth a hundred quickly-forgotten duds. In other words, you throw a lot of stuff against the wall and just see what sticks.

On the record, Beyonce's camp is not commenting. But off the record, they're placing denials with outlets like GossipCop, who credit "a source close to Beyonce" (translation: her rep who doesn't want to be quoted by name) saying she is "not pregnant."

To be fair to MediaTakeOut, there are three reasons why Beyonce's team might not want to tell the media the truth.

1) It is unwritten law in the celebrity industry that PR will deny a client's pregnancy for the first three months, generally to protect the woman in the event she loses the baby.

2) An exclusive interview with Beyonce announcing her pregnancy to the world would command the cover of a prestigious magazine. If the rep confirms her condition to anyone who asks beforehand, that publicity payoff is ruined.

3) Beyonce genuinely protects her privacy more than most other celebrities. In multiple face-to-face interviews with her over the years, I have found Beyonce to be friendly but Sphinx-like on personal details. On matters like her sister Solange's teenage pregnancy and her own marriage to Jay-Z, she could not have been more charming about telling me absolutely nothing.

So, is Beyonce pregnant? Of course it's a possibility, but the sourcing on the story is so weak as to be basically non-existent, so on balance I'm going to go with "probably not." Unless you want to help us out, Sasha Fierce, and get yourself one of those big yellow arrows that say "Baby Bump?"

Tags: baby, beyonce, Jay-Z

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Saturday 27 March

By marion

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i hope you give the same time and "wait a minute" analysis the next time the tabs and internet say that katie holmes is pregnant for the 57th time.

Friday 26 March

By Becky Payne

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All I got to say is, they keep talking about Beyonce, IT IS PUBLICITY she doesn't hafta pay for. Sweet, precious, BEAUTIFUL! Go see her at a Ronald McDonald House...SINCERE, caring...PRICELESS. I think our world is just a tad better because of her presence. Keep talking, you buncha idiots who have no real news to report!

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Sandra Bullock...STOP IT!!!!!! She is already going through enough hell. Let her recover!

By Dth8207

WHO CARES??? If she is, congratulations...if she isn't, better luck next time. This is probably just a publicity stunt because, as with most performers lately, the spotlight is dimming and she has not realized it is not forever....

By rachel

OMG Beyonce pregnant?! Do you think her ass will get big? LOL.

By dcnashinsc

She needs to have a baby with Jay Z. He is a brilliant business man and she is beautiful. Like the song Summer Time, "Your daddy's rich and your mama's good looking. Plus in this case mama is rich too. They need an heir. After the baby she could get her body back.

Monday 29 March

By leolux10

That's if her bodyguard doesn't knock-her-up first! A photo surfaced (not sure of the source, but it was in a magazine) of her hugged-up against her hulking muscle man. She held a state of surprise on her face, with a fresh kiss of lipstick on his equally surprised face.

Jay-Z was simply the best PROFESSIONAL candidate. You don't actually think they were wed out of "love", do you? Surely, you're smarter than that. I'd probably credit that decision to her father/manager, along with the agreements of her legal, financial, and publicity teams.

Vanity. One of the devil's sins.

By bstill

I like the way they are trying to justify this speculation. In that if the gossip columnist is wrong it's his head? Yeah right! These guys write anything about anyone w/out regard for any semblance to the truth.

I think she's just getting fatter, that's all! As in she's gonna end up a BULBOUS! Then she'll have to reign in that big fat head she already has. I just can't believe how great she thinks she is and how unappealing her arrogance is. Just sayin

Just BIGGER!

By kelly carine

being pregnant is a good thing so i believe she is cuss she is suppose to be

Ummm, "she is suppose to be"??? Says who? Why? What exactly are you on??? XD

Weirdos...

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