January Jones trolls tabloid over ‘desperate bikini pictures’ claim
Actor’s Instagram feed has been a funny and surreal highlight of quarantine
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Your support makes all the difference.January Jones has trolled the US tabloid The National Enquirer over their apparent plans to declare her a “desperate attention-seeker” in a forthcoming story.
The Mad Men star has become a breakout star of the Covid-19 pandemic, thanks to her funny and often surreal Instagram feed lamenting life in quarantine.
Highlights have included a video in which she dances while wearing a light-up therapy mask and drinking beer from a can.
Another involved a staged fight between action figures of Jones’s Mad Men character Betty Draper and Emma Frost, her character in X-Men: First Class.
On Wednesday (9 December), Jones posted a screenshot of an email which declares that the National Enquirer is planning to write a story about her Instagram feed, and how it has “worried” her friends.
“The National Enquirer is preparing to publish a story which reports January Jones has worried friends with her series of attention-grabbing bikini pictures and social media posts,” the email reads.
“Sources claim her content smacks of a ‘desperate cry for attention’ and note how her acting work appears to have dried up before then [sic] pandemic took hold.”
The email added that Jones could contact the editor of The National Enquirer with comment if she wished.
In a caption of the screenshot, Jones joked: “S***. They’ve discovered my secret. Consider this my public apology to my ‘friends’.”
In a second Instagram photo, Jones posted a selfie of herself in a bikini, along with the caption: “Had to do it. #DESPERATE”
Jones’s posts were met with joyous reaction from her friends and co-stars.
“It was me. I’m worried!!!!!!!” wrote Chrissy Teigen. “F*** yeah!!!” commented Jones’s former Mad Men co-star Alison Brie.
The Chilling Adventures of Sabrina star Kiernan Shipka, who played Jones’s on-screen daughter Sally Draper on Mad Men, added: “We love to see it”, alongside a middle-finger emoji.
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