Gwyneth Paltrow Is Newsstand Suicide

Paul @ Gone Hollywood | Thursday, July 23, 2009

If you have seen the new issue of Entertainment Weekly you would know that three stars from Iron Man 2 are on it, but noticeably missing is one of the stars: Gwyneth Paltrow .

Why would they not include Gwyneth when they include Robert Downey Jr.,Scarlett Johansson and Mickey Rourke?

Well the answer is pretty simple – editors feel she is “newsstand suicide” after her now infamous Vogue cover last summer flopped.

Condé Nast Publications confirmed that the May 2008 issue of the magazine with Gwyneth was the worst selling issue since 2001 after it only shifted around 310,000 copies.

Since sales in most publications have fallen due to people reading their news and gossip online – you can’t blame the editors for not putting Gwnyeth Paltrow on the cover, I wonder how Playboy would do if they put her on the cover.

For the best & worst selling magazine issues of last year follow the jump.

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