Wednesday, September 16, 2026

Brat Goes Splat! Charli XCX Falls from Vanity Fair Cover to Playboy (They Still Exist!) In Less Than One Year, “Written” By Kylie Jenner!

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Just less than a year ago, pop Brat Charli XCX was on the cover of Vanity Fair.

She was heralded as the future of Hollywood by the fading celebrity magazine.

And now?

Charli, who did not turn out to be the future of anything, is on the cover of a magazine no thinks is still being published.

I do mean, Playboy!

I really thought I’d done the time warp when I got a press release about the magazine. My first instinct was to print it out and out it under my bed!

And it gets better! Noted journalist and social philosopher Kylie Jenner wrote the piece about Charli XCX.

She’s Kylie XOX!

This is all actually happening.

It seems Playboy still has a website, and is published four times a year for those who need to hold it in one hand.

According to semrush.com, the website’s traffic might be somewhat less than a million visits a month. There is scant actual information.

My favorite article headline on the site: “Please Don’t Skip a Shower Before Your Date, Guys.”

Always good advice.

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Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman
Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009, where he covered Michael Jackson, and previously wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine in the mid-1990s, where he covered the O.J. Simpson trial. He also edited Fame magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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