Wednesday, October 10, 2018

Lady GaGa

Issue dated October 22, 2018: Lady GaGa
This week's PEOPLE cover

Lady GaGa was on the Guessing Game list last week, along with co-star Bradley Cooper, and they were featured on last week's cover in a sidebar headline. This week GaGa gets the cover all to herself, although it doesn't look as though People actually interviewed her for this story. The teaser article at People.com includes a couple of quotes that are identified as something she "recently told People" (read it here,) but the new cover doesn't scream "People Exclusive" or "The People Interview." Now that A Star Is Born is a monster hit, it appears that People dipped into the archives to put together a main cover story about a suddenly hot topic.

Barbara Bush's wedding is also featured this week.

Last year at this time: Issue dated October 23, 2017


And one more thing: Start thinking about who might be the next so-called Sexiest Man Alive. If People's pattern holds, the 2018 title-holder will be announced five weeks from today. To get you in the mood, here's the list of past winners, and note that Lady GaGa's co-star was the winner back in 2011:

1985 Mel Gibson
1986 Mark Harmon
1987 Harry Hamlin
1988 John Kennedy, Jr.
1989 Sean Connery
1990 Tom Cruise
1991 Patrick Swayze
1992 Nick Nolte
1993 Sexiest Couple: Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford
1995 Brad Pitt
1996 Denzel Washington
1997 George Clooney
1998 Harrison Ford
1999 Richard Gere
2000 Brad Pitt
2001 Pierce Brosnan
2002 Ben Affleck
2003 Johnny Depp
2004 Jude Law
2005 Matthew McConaughey
2006 George Clooney
2007 Matt Damon
2008 Hugh Jackman
2009 Johnny Depp
2010 Ryan Reynolds
2011 Bradley Cooper
2012 Channing Tatum
2013 Adam Levine
2014 Chris Hemsworth
2015 David Beckham
2016 Dwayne Johnson
2017 Blake Shelton
2018 ????

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