Candy Shocker!

Exclusively in CM Weekly!

CM Weekly proudly brings you this scoopalicious scandal from our Sister Publication, Candy MAGIC Magazine!  We sat down with the staff of Candy Magic to find out just what happened last week that has them all so shaken by SCANDAL!

Read on for our extended coverage!

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CM Weekly:  What happened, Candy Magic Staff?  What's the Drama 4-1-1?

Candy Magic:  Joe Atmore, the real life mentalist who looks just like Candy Mentalist Candy Joe Atmore from the Candy Mentalists Gallery at Cindythings, has one great goal in life--to convince us to give him our cover!  He just wants to control our cover!  He doesn't care what's on it, as long as he gets to decide it, and that's so scary!  Whenever he has a story in our pages, he always tries.  "Can I have the cover, Candy Stan?  Come on, Candy Stan!"  "No," our editor Candy Stan says firmly.  Nowadays Joe just has to call and say, "Candy Stan--I have a question!" and Candy Stan says, "No, you can't have the cover, Joe!"  He has been very consistent and firm with Joe, to no avail.

This latest DRAMA all started, Cindy, when you were making the Candy Magicians!  It seems Joe had a new, dastardly idea...

 This is the nefarious photo which he somehow sent to Candy Magic with all your other photos!  Notice the blank space at the top, where the title Candy MAGIC could fit perfectly, and the vertical cropping?  It was titled "Cover Idea" in a blatant renewed attempt to decide what goes on our cover.  But it didn't work.  Our alert staffers caught on to the attempt and notified the proper magazine cover authorities.

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The Shocking Photo!

We never expected that after that he would dare try again, but he did.  Just look at the next photo that showed up in our offices, this one sent by courier.  The red flag for us was the label on it, entitled "Cover Idea 2, Okayed by Candy STanN."  We knew right then there was something fishy about it, it looked vaguely familiar, and sure enough, after we called in experts at great expense to investigate, it was determined to be yet another Candy fraud perpetrated by Joe!

So Shocking!!!

Well, we made it clear to Joe at that point we didn't want any of his covers and told him to stay away from us.  He said he was sorry and sent us some chocolate cupcakes and we ate them, never dreaming it was a trick.

But it was soon obvious what Joe really wanted.  Because the next thing we knew, he said, "Candy Stan asked me to give you this.  He's too busy to tell you, but this is the cover photo for your next issue!"

  Well, we knew something just wasn't right about it, but we just couldn't figure out what it was.  It looked real and we had no reason to doubt him, so we sent it to the layout-the-cover department.  It wasn't until Candy Stan came back from lunch and someone mentioned it, that we found out it was all a trick--another attempt by Joe to get our cover, this time more brazen than ever!  His most shocking ploy ever was trying to get Candy Joe Atmore on the cover of Candy Magic--a Candy Mentalist!  That was so appalling and shocking we were all quite shaken and had to go home for the rest of the day.

But first we demanded he take his pictures and his cupcake crumbs and leave, and he did.  But the next thing we knew, the very next day, a series of mysterious photos arrived from a new photo agency we had never heard of.  It said on the attached label, "Here are the fabulous cover photos you paid handsomely for for the cover of your next issue, featuring...

America's Next Top Candy Cover Model...

Jeo Amorte, Cover Guy!"

He will stop at nothing!

For a few hours we didn't realize this was a trick, because the modeling was so amazing and the photos were so professional.  Thousands of dollars were wasted laying out the cover yet again with one of these photos before someone from America's Next Top Candy Cover Model dropped by the office's and happened to see it, said this guy wasn't their winner, and we realized that, indeed, Joe had done it again!  He had tricked us into almost giving him our cover!

CM Weekly:  Good grief!  That's shocking!  What drama!  What scandal!  So what happened?

Candy Magic:  We told him, leave us alone!  Just leave us alone, for the love of humanity just stop trying to get our cover under your nefarious control!  Stop asking, stop tricking, just stop stop stop!  And please send more chocolate cupcakes, they were delicious.

The next day, these photos arrived, with a note saying, "Dear Candy STanN:  I am the one who made all the Candy Magicians, not Cindy, and here is my proof!"

Joe was quickly reported to the Magazine Fraud Squad and is now in magazine cover ambition rehab.  He is expected to be released in six months and is ordered to stay at least 200 yards away from Cindythings Headquarters and stop visiting the offices of Candy Magic Magazine except to deliver chocolate cupcakes.  Our reliable inside sources say he doesn't want to be in or on the covers of any more magazines, and when he gets out he plans to sell his story about that to Candy OK Magazine for $1 million, and he's hoping to be on the cover!

CM Weekly:  Thank you for sharing that with us!  Now we just want to know, can Joe bounce back from this latest Candy meltdown and stay strong, or is he beyond help?  See CM Weekly next week to find out the latest in this huge drama!

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