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A Trampire Is Born: Kristen Stewart's Cheating Breeds New Tabloid Phrase
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Jen Chung
Published Jul 26, 2012
Modified Jul 26, 2012
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Fine—there's something frivolous besides East River "monsters and Elle Woods-inspired State Senate candidates: The drama between "Twilight" stars and lovers Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson. Stewart made an unusual public apology for cheating on Pattinson, after she was caught by paparazzi kissing her married "Snow White And The Huntsman" director Rupert Sanders. And thanks to this infidelity, we now have the term "trampire."
The Daily News uses "TRAMPIRE" on its front page today while the Post simply went with "Vamp Tramp." But the Post has better details, with a source claiming that Stewart begged the photographer not to publish the pictures but then realized she had to confess, "Rob is deeply in love with Kristen and is very jealous when other men hit on her. This will crush him."
Hollywood Gossip posted photos of Us Weekly's story showing the trampire and director making out in public, which really seems bizarre since they could have, you know, gotten a room or pretended they were meeting at an office for a project.
Stewart is rumored to be writing an apology letter to Sanders' wife Liberty Ross, who played her mother in the "Snow White" movie.
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Jen Chung is a former WNYC and Gothamist editor.
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