Confirmed: People Only Celeb Weekly To Have Heath Ledger Cover

As surmised in my earlier post, People magazine will be the only celebrity weekly to have a cover featuring actor Heath Ledger, whose death was discovered late yesterday afternoon — too late to feature on other celebrity weekly covers, whose editions closed on Monday night and which will now be on newsstands all week without mention of the sad news. Nat Ives at AdAge has more details, as well as the cover image which we've reproduced here.

Comments

[SouthJerseySteve]

08:27 PM on 01/25/2008

WRONG! I just received my Entertainment Weekly magazine in the mail today and guess who's picture is on the cover?

[Alvin4NY]

05:29 PM on 01/24/2008

Managing Editor Larry "Hack"et's biggest scoop yet...his Mom must be proud.

[wndrwrthg]

05:53 PM on 01/23/2008

Holy shit!! What a coup, being able to capitalize on a young mans death.

[tcagle]

02:53 PM on 01/23/2008

Maybe these guys can just team up with the government. Have them whacked, get the scoop.

[kipmartin]

01:38 PM on 01/23/2008

wow. thats incredible news! NOT. who the fvck cares? is this what HuffPo is about? tracking the media to see who wins the feeding frenzy over covering this guy's suicide?

the only thing worse than entertainment industry reporting on rich losers, is reporting on the reporting. im sick of britney, her sister, lindsey, amy, and even the writers strike. im sure ill be sick of heath's untimely demise by the end of the day.

if it was up to me, tmz, people, and all those other muckrakers would be relegated to the magazine rack at the cash register line where they originated.

come on HuffPo. stop supporting this tripe. you're better than that. right?

[ClaudiaJean]

01:21 PM on 01/23/2008

Wow. How FORTUITOUS that their deadline was Tuesday. How very lucky they were. And those 'friends' -- let's get them on the record, by name.