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| The former Coronation Street star Denise Welch has forced Woman’s Own to print a front-page correction after the magazine made false claims about her without any evidence, in a move that could have repercussions for other glossy gossip publications. | The former Coronation Street star Denise Welch has forced Woman’s Own to print a front-page correction after the magazine made false claims about her without any evidence, in a move that could have repercussions for other glossy gossip publications. |
| Woman’s Own quoted a single anonymous “source close to the star” describing the actor’s “diva demands” after she returned to the ITV panel show Loose Women after a five-year break. | Woman’s Own quoted a single anonymous “source close to the star” describing the actor’s “diva demands” after she returned to the ITV panel show Loose Women after a five-year break. |
| Welch took the unusual decision to complain to the press regulator Ipso, forcing the magazine into a climbdown. She hopes other celebrities will now follow suit rather than accept what gossip magazines write about them. | Welch took the unusual decision to complain to the press regulator Ipso, forcing the magazine into a climbdown. She hopes other celebrities will now follow suit rather than accept what gossip magazines write about them. |
| “There have been far worse things written about me but often they were true,” Welch said. “When they are true you have to suck it and take it on the chin.” | “There have been far worse things written about me but often they were true,” Welch said. “When they are true you have to suck it and take it on the chin.” |
| In this instance the article was written “purely to humiliate, degrade and embarrass me and I couldn’t let it go,” she said. | In this instance the article was written “purely to humiliate, degrade and embarrass me and I couldn’t let it go,” she said. |
| The story appeared on the front page of Woman’s Own earlier this year, trailing two pages of coverage inside the magazine. The article set out a series of supposedly extraordinary demands made by the star and suggested her fellow panellists “don’t even want her back full-time”. | The story appeared on the front page of Woman’s Own earlier this year, trailing two pages of coverage inside the magazine. The article set out a series of supposedly extraordinary demands made by the star and suggested her fellow panellists “don’t even want her back full-time”. |
| The magazine did not approach Welch for comment before publication, and later told Ipso it had felt no need to do so as the source had been accurate in the past. | The magazine did not approach Welch for comment before publication, and later told Ipso it had felt no need to do so as the source had been accurate in the past. |
| It offered to publish a correction on page three of a future edition but the press regulator’s complaints panel ordered that it print a message on the front page in the same font size as the original headline. | It offered to publish a correction on page three of a future edition but the press regulator’s complaints panel ordered that it print a message on the front page in the same font size as the original headline. |
| “We may not have a right to privacy in the way other people do but we have a right that a source cannot wake up one day and make up two pages of lies which is trailed on the front page,” Welch said, urging fellow celebrities to complain about inaccurate coverage. | “We may not have a right to privacy in the way other people do but we have a right that a source cannot wake up one day and make up two pages of lies which is trailed on the front page,” Welch said, urging fellow celebrities to complain about inaccurate coverage. |
| “Covers have a ripple effect. When you’re at the Sainsbury’s till those covers are in people’s faces and seen by people who in a million years would never buy Woman’s Own. It goes into people’s subconscious.” | “Covers have a ripple effect. When you’re at the Sainsbury’s till those covers are in people’s faces and seen by people who in a million years would never buy Woman’s Own. It goes into people’s subconscious.” |
| She said she had insisted on pushing for the maximum penalty as the magazine had apologised for printing an inaccurate story about her on a previous occasion. “I thought: fuck you, I’m going to take this to the end. There was no concern about how this article of complete lies had impacted on me or my family. | She said she had insisted on pushing for the maximum penalty as the magazine had apologised for printing an inaccurate story about her on a previous occasion. “I thought: fuck you, I’m going to take this to the end. There was no concern about how this article of complete lies had impacted on me or my family. |
| “I really hope that this case makes a huge difference … Even the News of the World had the integrity to phone you on a Saturday night.” | “I really hope that this case makes a huge difference … Even the News of the World had the integrity to phone you on a Saturday night.” |
| The move could have ramifications for the world of celebrity magazines, which often rely on hearsay from anonymous sources in the belief that celebrities are unlikely to challenge the material. | The move could have ramifications for the world of celebrity magazines, which often rely on hearsay from anonymous sources in the belief that celebrities are unlikely to challenge the material. |
| Welch criticised the broader industry of celebrity magazines and said her son Matty Healy, the frontman of the band The 1975, has never received comparable coverage. “Even Matthew, with the international fame he has, never has people writing two entire pages of complete lies having never talked to him, having never met him,” she said | Welch criticised the broader industry of celebrity magazines and said her son Matty Healy, the frontman of the band The 1975, has never received comparable coverage. “Even Matthew, with the international fame he has, never has people writing two entire pages of complete lies having never talked to him, having never met him,” she said |
| “If I see my picture on a magazine, I literally don’t even read it any more. I’m so used to seeing myself with 84 chins on the cover of a magazine. I couldn’t put on Twitter: ‘Molly Smith, the editor of Woman’s Own, was found shagging her gardener behind the local pub on Sunday’ and say: ‘Sorry, a source told me.’ | “If I see my picture on a magazine, I literally don’t even read it any more. I’m so used to seeing myself with 84 chins on the cover of a magazine. I couldn’t put on Twitter: ‘Molly Smith, the editor of Woman’s Own, was found shagging her gardener behind the local pub on Sunday’ and say: ‘Sorry, a source told me.’ |
| “These magazines call themselves women’s magazines. All they do every week is tear women down.” | “These magazines call themselves women’s magazines. All they do every week is tear women down.” |
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