A minor tea item
Some time ago I posted a claim I found at one of the gossip sites that said all the rumors about DT's strange marriage were the work of a group of fangirls who've been obsessed with him since his Doctor days and refuse to accept Georgia. I can't say I outright believed it, but it struck me as feasible. If even one person were determined enough to put in the effort over a number of years, it wouldn't be that hard to establish a canon across all the gossip sites, which all quote one another anyway. But the other day I was searching for more tea and came across a reference to that infamous issue of Popbitch that DT had suppressed. I've heard that Popbitch emails their stuff to subscribers before publishing it online, and this was a post from one such subscriber. I quote:
IMO he was right to take legal action with Popbitch. I have a copy of that issue in my email folder and the story about their marriage is really nasty and libellous. (The issue was sent to subscribers but pulled from the PB website, it's the only back issue not available online.) X
It's not much, but it does confirm that a) there was a source of DT gossip other than the alleged fangirls, b) the issue did end up in people's mailboxes, thus providing an easy way for the tea to become "common knowledge in London circles" as previously claimed, c) the tea was about his marriage, and d) it was bad enough to warrant legal action. The tabloids have gossiped about DT since forever, and the only time I know him to have sued was when his phone was hacked – i.e., when what was published had a basis in reality. I am now very much inclined to believe that the marriage story is true.