TMZ: the celebrity gossip site that crashed the royal wedding
TMZ originally stood for Thirty-Mile Zone, a swath of Los Angeles covering the entertainment industry, but now the abbreviation means something else and is prompting howls 5,000 miles away in Buckingham Palace. TMZ.com took its name from the cartographic reference, but the news website is in the business of getting global clicks through scoops on celebrities, athletes, tycoons – and royalty. Its clout was on neon-flashing display this week with a series of exclusives about whether Meghan Markle’s father, Thomas Markle, would attend her marriage to Prince Harry at Windsor Castle on Saturday. Six royal weddings in one to mark Harry and Meghan"s big day - video The will-he-won’t-he saga (conclusion: he won’t ) gripped readers, upended the British royal family’s choreographed preparations and sent other media outlets scrambling to follow up TMZ’s daily updates. The House of Windsor and the hounds of Fleet Street, humbled by an operation based at a ...