And today, the Star admits that this was yet another front page story that wasn't actually true:
On 16th December 2010 we published an article on our front page and pages 4 and 5, making a suggestion that immediately after Amir Khan’s successful WBA world champion fight against Marcos Maidana in Las Vegas on 11th December 2010, Amir Kahn was joined by Katie Price for dinner and subsequently in his suite.
At that point, Katie Price had not become estranged from her husband Alex Reid. In fact, Amir Khan did not meet with Katie Price whilst in Las Vegas and has never, as alleged, sent indecent photographs of himself to Katie Price.
We apologise to Amir Khan for any distress or embarrassment our story may have caused.
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"We apologise to Amir Khan for any distress or embarrassment". But not to Katie Price - haha! Presumably she either supplied the story or is immune to embarrassment...
ReplyDelete'Presumably she either supplied the story or is immune to embarrassment...'
ReplyDeleteas rich peppiatt mentioned on twitter recently the daily star share the same PR form with jordan.
Everyone knows that these stories are made up. Presumably the Star earn more from sales on the back of these stories than any damages they end up liable for. Fantastic business model. They don't actually need any journalists - just someone with a vivid imagination and google.
ReplyDeleteI presume that, as with so many of the Jordan stories, this came from her "people", and that it's Khan who's p*ssed off; hence he gets apology, she doesn't.
ReplyDeleteIf the Star had bought private eyes with dodgy police contacts like the NoW did, it wouldn't have to make up sensational stories...cheaper, though!
ReplyDeleteMore made up celebrity rubbish in a publication that classes itself...no, sorry...is allowed to classify and promote itself as a newspaper.
ReplyDeleteInsult to journalism.
I don't understand. If "Amir Khan did not meet with Katie Price whilst in Las Vegas and has never, as alleged, sent indecent photographs of himself to Katie Price" why did they say he had?
ReplyDeleteDid someone tell them this and they foolishly believed it or did they just make it up?
"Did someone tell them this and they foolishly believed it or did they just make it up?"
ReplyDeleteI think the penny has dropped...
They made it up, Anonymous at 15:20. Quite possibly with the blessing of Katie or Jordan or whatever the hell her name is. The unfortunate Amir Khan, meanwhile, will have to live for some time having his name linked with hers in connection with a fictional drunken night's cavorting, apology or no apology.
ReplyDeleteIf you do a google search for Jordan and Amir Khan it throws up 58 pages of results which means the story has featured on 1000 websites. The tabloid watch story turns up on page 56. So even though the Star has admitted that the story is untrue it will remain there in cyber space for quite awhile. This could well impact on any sponsorship deals Khan may be offered in the future especially if companies are looking for some one with a clean cut image to promote their brand.
ReplyDeleteProving once again that 'celebrities' don't really exist in the everyday sense.
ReplyDeleteThere is a character, variously referred to as 'Katie Price' or 'Jordan', and there is an actress who plays and owns the rights to this character, and whose real name may or may not be Katie Price.
Then there are the 'journalists' who invent stories around this character.
But there is no 'real' Jordan any more than there is a real Edna Everage.
Would two people drinking together on a date really be that shameful anyway?
ReplyDeleteProbably not so much the drinking as the alleged cavorting in her suite.
ReplyDeleteI wonder what the so-called "shocking pictures inside" were, given that the paper admitted Khan did not even meet Price in Vegas?
Tom - if one of them was Jordan, then yes.
ReplyDeleteRe: Tom. As a practising Muslim it might be more damaging for Amir Khan than most other people to have accusations of him spending 'drunken nights' with anyone all over the front of the tabloids.
ReplyDelete"Everyone knows that these stories are made up."
ReplyDeleteIf only. Trite celebrity BS may not be widely harmful, but these rags are still "newspapers" and there are still people who read them and believe them to be at least a partially accurate representation of current events. They should take this seriously and report responsibly, ensuring that they don't publish something that they don't believe to be true. It's even more important on the rare occasions that they run stories that aren't about Jordan.
I can well understand why wanting the media to report truth rather than trash will be seen as naive, but that doesn't mean it shouldn't happen.
It's not just the inane celebrity stories that the Star should be careful about. In the grand scheme of things these do relatively little harm to the general public (apart from some very silly people who are borderline obsessive with the celeb culture). It's of course terrible for the likes of Amir Kahn when the star makes things up about him and I really hope he takes action, but he won't, level headed celebs are too scared to take on the tabloids in case they lose the case. Tommy Sheridan went for it and lost and the next day the Sun had several pages really laying into him, some pretty horrible stuff was written about him, even I sympathised and I can't stand the man!
ReplyDeleteThe main problem is where it is a non celebrity story, this is when this vile publication becomes dangerous. The made up and heavily spun stories about Muslims, Immigrants or other vulnerable sections of society are the thing that really must be tackled. The same people who are taken in by whatever the hell the Star claims Jordan and Pete are up to are also taken in by the "Muslims attack British boy" stories.
This papers aim is to create a "Them and Us" culture and it's working. As demeaning as it sounds, people who read these papers often do not think for themselves. They are knee jerk reactionaries and as far as they are concerned that 20p rag is the most important news in the world that day without question. People who read broadsheets are far more likely to be level headed and seek out a range of news sources for balance. You won't find many Guardian, Telegraph or FT readers on an EDL march, just as you won't find many EDL members reading those papers! Desmond should be ashamed that he is preying on these people, but he's not as all they are to him are giant £ signs.