There’s buzz of a new media power couple from Broadway to the Beltway, we hear.
Sources tell Page Six that Vanity Fair’s new top editor, Mark Guiducci, is dating the New York Times White House correspondent Shawn McCreesh.
We haven’t had a good media power couple in a while!
The dashing duo was seen schmoozing with a number of elite guests who’ve arrived in Paris, France, for the luxe wedding this weekend of Instagram exec Charles Porch and Robert Denning, the youngest member of the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Board of Trustees.
According to Town & Country magazine, the lavish multiday affair for 400-plus guests will include festivities at the Musée Rodin, Château de Villette and Hôtel de la Marine.
The events have been planned by upscale Lanza & Baucina, the outfit that also organized Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sanchez’s opulent Italy wedding.
We hear Guiducci — the former creative editorial director of Vogue before he took the helm at VF as global editorial director in July — is friends with the chic couple.
The media pair’s romance began in the spring: A source tells us Guiducci and McCreesh started dating in May after meeting at a cocktail party on the Upper East Side.
McCreesh is a well-liked figure on the media scene who first made a splash working at the Times under Maureen Dowd. He then had a stint at New York Magazine before heading back to the Gray Lady.
A NYT memo sent to staffers when McCreesh rejoined the paper praised his “aggressiveness in breaking, analyzing, investigating, exposing and reporting the news, fast and fearlessly,” along with the “stylishness” of his prose.
The power pair are coming together at a time when there is renewed interest in how politics shapes pop culture.
This week Semafor reported that Giuducci had floated the possibility of putting First Lady Melania Trump on the cover of the Vanity Fair — allegedly then causing one staffer to threaten to walk out, according to a follow up by the Daily Mail.
“If [Guiducci] puts Melania on the cover, half of the editorial staff will walk out, I guarantee it,” an editor told the UK outlet. “I will walk out the motherf–king door, and half my staff will follow me… If I have to work bagging groceries at Trader Joe’s, I’ll do it… It sickens me,” the staffer reportedly huffed.
But a source told Page Six the mag ain’t going right wing, and is just interested in covering the corridors of conservative culture. (The Post reported that Trump already rejected the offer.)
Guiducci — who took over VF from former editor Radhika Jones — has been busy trying to make his mark on the iconic mag, with a source telling us that he has repeatedly told staff that one topic he’s interested in exploring is “MAGA culture.”
A source tells us he wants coverage on what he’s dubbed, “The Real Housewives of Mar-a-Lago.”
Another source noted to Page Six Republican culture is “the biggest, juiciest story right now,” and pointed out how many media outlets are covering the trend.
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