Jon Gosselin’s ex-girlfriend Hailey Glassman is trying to ruin the octodad’s Valentine’s Day in a way that every man on earth fears — by mocking his manhood in an exclusive interview with Steppin’ Out magazine. She goes into lurid detail about Mr. Gosselin’s size (or lack of, according to her), but there’s just one problem: Class and tact aside, the magazine cover makes her look even more ridiculous than anything she could possibly say about Gosselin. Sorry, Miss Glassman, but our disapproval is after the jump >>>.


The Steppin’ Out cover is essentially what Maxim would look like if fourth graders with a half-day of Photoshop training ran the publication. They were going for sexy, but what they got was absurd. Glassman, in a leopard-print top and pink underwear, stares blankly at the camera as if she knows what a horrible idea this was. If what they were going for was lingerie chic, what they got is Village People raunch.

For reasons unexplained, Glassman is also sporting fingerless pleather gloves — complete with a huge costume jewelry ring on her right ring finger, naturally. And, just for good measure, there’s a gold snake armband enveloping her right bicep.

Photograph and wardrobe aside, Steppin’ Out should probably be on the hunt for a new graphic designer and copywriter. “Judge This Haters!” blares the headline, with a big fat arrow pointing to Hailey. She’s the only person on the cover, yet they point to her as if readers would be distracted by someone else. We’d like to think Steppin’ Out readers have the bandwidth to figure out that a headline next to the person on the cover is actually about that person. Also, there should be a comma after “this,” but correcting grammar on a cover of this caliber just seems silly.

Glassman’s facial expression says it all: Get me out of this ridiculous situation. Her deadpan face screams “What the hell did I get myself into?” and in a sense, we kind of felt bad for her … that is, until we got past the cover and saw how she went about her revenge on Jon.

“I would tell him to his face, ‘I don’t think you would cheat on me because you’re so small.’ I would tell him that all the time,” Glassman says of their relationship and Jon’s nether regions. So, you’re seeking sympathy from the world by bragging about how you berated and mocked your ex? Honey, class always tops crass, and you’ve certainly gone for the latter here.

Hailey, if you’re looking to come out on top in the public’s perception, perhaps you should take a break from the bitter and petty insults in less-than-reputable magazines. Also, never let a blind stripper dress you for a magazine cover shoot.

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They are four men and four women, thrown together in a New Jersey beach house for one acrimonious summer. Loud, foul-mouthed, hyper-groomed, spray-tanned and constantly looking for sex, they appear to come straight from central casting for reality television.

But Snooki, the Situation, Vinny, DJ Pauly D, Ronnie, Angelina, Sammi and J-WOWW - the stars of MTV’s new reality show, Jersey Shore - are distinguished by a common factor that has provoked controversy unusual even by the standards of the genre: they are Italian-American. Worse, they are self-styled “guidos” and “guidettes”.

“I love guidos! I love Italian boys with muscles,” screeched Angelina soon after the start of the first episode of a series that has gained notoriety almost overnight. “I want to find the hottest guido and take him home,” chimed in J-WOWW, real name Jenni, who gained her nickname apparently because when she walks into a bar the guys yell “J-WOWW!”

The problem is that “guido” - slang for a working-class urban Italian-American - is widely perceived by Italian-Americans as a pejorative word, like “spic” or “wop”, and the stereotype is unflattering. In its promotion for the series, which went on air last month, MTV said it had gathered the “hottest, tannest, craziest guidos” and assembled them in Seaside Heights, a popular beach resort.

But if the channel expected applause from the Italian-American community, it had a rude awakening. Three Italian-American groups cried foul, including Unico National, the largest Italian community organisation in New Jersey. Its president, Andrew DiMino, said: “It’s a term used to insult us, implying we are all uneducated people without social graces.” New Jersey state senator Joseph Vitale has called on MTV’s parent corporation, Viacom, to take the show off the air. “It promotes hatred and insults women of this state,” he said. “If this were the same with African-American or Hispanic or Polish kids, there would be hell to pay.”

Seaside Heights council is regretting its decision to host the show, putting out a statement last week clarifying that it does not condone it.

An official, John Camera, said: “We’re getting a lot of calls from residents and property owners saying that they’re offended and they don’t know why the town did it.”

DiMino accepted that the “G-word” is used by some Italian-Americans - not least the eight cast members of Jersey Shore - as a self-description, but he said that didn’t make such “self-loathing” right and likened it to black Americans calling themselves by the N-word.

MTV has been showered with complaints. The New York Post’s Linda Stasi waded in with a fiery column in which she accused MTV of stereotyping her ethnic group as “gel-haired, thuggish ignoramuses with fake tans, no manners, no diction, no taste, no education, no sexual discretion, no hairdressers (for sure), no real knowledge of Italian culture and no ambition”.

MTV responded with a statement insisting that the show depicts just one slice of youth culture. “Our intention was never to stereotype, discriminate or offend,” it said.

The frustration for protesters is that controversy is life blood to any reality show. Jersey Shore’s ratings doubled to 2.1 million in the second episode, in rough proportion to the stink that it created.

In one respect, though, MTV may be vulnerable. Advertisers are becoming nervous about appearing during the broadcast. Domino’s Pizza pulled all its commercials, and other brands are thought to be quietly shunning the show. That helps explain MTV’s increasingly cautious approach. It no longer uses the terms “guido” and “guidettes” in its marketing material, and in the last episode it edited out a shocking scene in which one of the four women, Snooki, is punched in the face at a nightclub by a man who was later revealed to be a New York PE teacher.

Even before the episode was shown, the clip of the fight went viral on the internet (www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe7V85lA-bI) and such was the fallout that MTV decided to cut it.

New Jersey’s 1.5 million Italian-Americans - the highest number in the US outside New York - are already bruised by what they see as their negative portrayal on TV in The Sopranos. “We do not say ‘fuhgeddabouddit’ nor are we in waste management,” fumed Linda Stasi.

For all that, it’s a safe bet that Jersey Shore will do well, as its cast continues to fist-pump, fight and fornicate their way up the ratings. And the cast’s reaction has been predictably robust. “I just have one thing to say to Domino’s, Dell, Unico and all the other haters out there,” Snooki (real name Nicole Polizzi) told Steppin’ Out magazine. “Fuck you! If you don’t want to watch, don’t watch. Just shut the hell up! I’m serious… Fuck you!”

The Sopranos (pictured)

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Reports that Britney Spears’ agent-boyfriend Jason Trawick left the country after rejecting her wedding proposal are “100 percent absolutely false,” a source close to the couple tells PEOPLE. “There was no proposal and they were never engaged.” When Trawick headed back to L.A. instead of spending the holidays with Spears, buzz surrounding the couple’s relationship went into high gear. But there is nothing to worry about. “Jason spent more time in Australia than originally planned,” says the source. “They are very happy.”

Over the weekend, OK! Magazine released its new cover story, claiming that Spears was engaged. “Britney said she does not have a doubt in her mind that she wants to spend the rest of her life with Jason,” a source close to the couple told OK!. “She has already discussed marriage with him, and they are both excited about a romantic wedding.”

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We already got a peek at Britney Spears Sunday night out in LA, but apparently once inside the club, she met up with her old friend Lindsay Lohan. The starlets were close a few years ago before each one went through some personal issues. They were all smiles during their evening out though, and according to Life & Style, they danced and chatted at the Grand Star Jazz Club until 3 a.m. LL was out celebrating her new role, while Britney was just enjoying time at home before she’s off again on the next leg of her Circus tour.

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