Could it get worse than being outed as a drunk with a penchant for anti-Semitic rants? Well, yes.
Woman's Day this week reveals that Mel Gibson's shameful escapades have landed him in even deeper trouble than we realised. The Aussie-born actor and film-maker (what a relief that for once an Australian-linked Hollywood bad boy's has no connection whatsoever with us in NZ!) is now battling to save his marriage.
Putting aside any notion of not kicking a man while he's down, the Day goes big with pictures of Mel leering and smooching on the night he landed in trouble with the law and the Jewish community.
Turns out that before the LA Sheriff's Department caught up with him driving drunk and blaming Jews for all the wars in the world, Mel spent the night boozing at Malibu's Moonshadows Restaurant where he enjoyed the, ahem, attention of local ladies.
For Robyn "The Rock" Gibson, long-suffering wife of said boozer, the photos were too much, according to a "source".
"She has been humiliated too many times and embarrassed by his drunken nights in bars with other women," the Day's source says.
It also quotes Robyn giving Mel an ultimatum: "I'm not going through this any more, Mel ... Get into rehab or you're out." Thus, the "Divorce shock" promo line on the Day's cover is justified.
The NZ Woman's Weekly cover reveals "Why I've banned boys", a pledge from our Nicky (Watson). Inside, she tells how "the only men in my life have to have four legs or go to pre-school". That's one hell of a challenge for potential suitors ...
The interview, in which she tells all about THAT tell-all interview to TV a couple of weeks back, has some insightful, thought-provoking stuff.
For instance: "Had I not had hair extensions and fake boobs ... would that make me a better person?" Hmmm. That's an interesting question and one, surely, that will be troubling theologians as they flick through the Weekly over morning tea today.
The Weekly's other big exclusive is about dumped NZ Idol contender Georgina Patea, who reveals that having made it through a prison sentence thanks only to her love of music, she's been delivered a devastating blow.
When producers told her she couldn't carry on in the programme because of her being pregnant to an ex serving time inside, they shattered her dreams.
Both the Weekly and the Day bring us charming pictures from the wedding of Pamela Anderson and Kid Rock.
The "busty bride" wore white, but it was no traditional wedding. Pam did a lap dance on photographer David LaChapelle - her "maid of honour" - which, according to the Day "left little to the imagination" (just like her wedding attire).
Quite some way to mark the day you became Mrs Rock.
<i>In the women's mags:</i> Meet the rocks - Robyn and Pamela
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