Any tabloid speak you dislike?

[LaMarschallin]

For me it's:
Adorable for anything that's quite nice
Stepping out - doesn't anybody just "go out" any more?
Blasting/Slamming - maybe just disagreeing with?
Flaunting

I know they're all normal words/expressions but, given journalists work with words, it all seems a bit cliched/lazy to me.

The flip from degrees C to degrees F in late spring to describe anything pleasantly warm.

Ah but they need to demonstrate the scorcher choppin how would we know if it isn't 70 f

Just read the Gavin and Stacy filming is being plagued by chaos! People are watching filming

Showcasing- showcasing their baby bump/curves/new hair.

Boffin for someone intelligent
Ooh this!
When younger daughter's nursery was visited by a local paper, she was chosen to be photographed for the piece.
The headline was about "baby boffins"; the photographer - after posing her with a world globe dragged out from some cupboard - stuck another child's pair of spectacles on her in an attempt to make her look more...boffiny, I suppose.

Sadly, her geography (like mine) remains rubbish.

Common law wife/husband

I spent many years writing for a local paper and have used most of these at some point.

My personal fave is:

“In a bid to”

Which is never said by anyone in RL.

My paper also used to love this kind of thing:

“Councillors should ban women from pubs on a Friday night.*
That’s according to Arsey McArseface, spokesman for the Far Right pressure group Men Without Hats.” Etc etc

• or add any other outrageous/inflammatory sentence you can think of.

Papers put people’s ages in mainly for identification purposes, if anyone’s interested. So you don’t think Jane Smith, 32, up for murder in court is the same Jane Smith, 74, who lives on your street.

I was thinking more about articles about anyone, e.g actors, popstars.
No Helen Mirrens, Gemma Artertons or Liz Hurleys in this street.

"Crafty fag"

“Hailed a hero” which is trotted out for literally any remotely good deed

“Pal” the ‘credible’ source for any piece of salacious made up information about a random celebrity

I was going to start this thread tonight!!

'Showcasing her enviable figure- I.e. wearing clothes
'Struggled to contain her ample assets' - wearing tighter clothes
'Slammed' - made a mild complaint

Flaunts her pins - wears a skirt/shorts

Clad her leggy frame - wears clothes of any sort

Styled her glossy tresses - has hair.

Reveals her curves - fat woman is photographed

Shows off her toned physique - thin woman is photographed

Oozes daytime glamour - wears a dress

Sported a glossy lip - wears lipstick

Looks incredible/stunning/sensational - we want an exclusive interview

Looks dowdy/down beat/ past it - they turned down our exclusive interview

Flaunting and parading. Usually accompanying photos of women going about their daily lives, albeit, and shamelessly, not covered from head to toe.

Sources close to the couple say...

He/she is denying the rumour that...

X claims...

'His/her weight ballooned to.....'
'Hard working families/tax payer'.
'Hand outs' (when talking about benefits,particularly sick/disability benefits).
'Basking' (when talking about hot weather).

"Gay actor John Smith..." Is that relevant?

Or "Actor John Smith (56)..." for the same reason. They rarely seem to do it when talking about sports people despite it sometimes being important. I'd like to know if the player my team are thinking of signing is 18 or 36.

Something-or-other gate.
It was called Watergate because it was a place name.
It wasn't a scandal about water.

The word "lag" for prisoner. I've never heard anybody use it in real life!

Amble bosom or putting on a busty display 🤮

(Woman's name) goes make-up free

I hate it when a pregnant woman is described as "showing off her bump". She has just left the house pregnant. Where is she supposed to put her bump?

"bedded" and "romped" - no one uses these words in real life.

BBC and the Guardian for this one - "child prostitute".

"chaos" to describe a crowded train station or problems with a train service. It can be used to describe completely unchaotic situations, eg. long queues.

Not read whole thread but “jetted”.

Celebrities never go on holiday, they always jet off somewhere

Sounds so stupid.

I also hate random valuations of people’s homes. Totally irrelevant to most stories.

also “Brits to sizzle” whenever the temperature is predicted to be over 20 degrees
I need to stop reading my Apple news!

“Partied up a storm/flirted up a storm” = someone went to a public event/spoke to someone. Looking at you Daily Mail...

Taut visage.... ugh