Comedy blog
Go Fug Yourself
is a
comedy
blog
devoted to
fashion
gossip.
Creators
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The authors and owners of the blog are writers Jessica Morgan and Heather Cocks, who met when they were working as recappers for the website
Television Without Pity
, then known as Mighty Big TV.
[1]
Morgan and Cocks initially created the site as a diversion for themselves and their friends, but it quickly became popular and well known.
Fug Madness
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Each March, in an homage to the
NCAA "March Madness"
basketball tournament, Morgan and Cocks present a tournament featuring those celebrities deemed to have made the worst fashion faux pas in the previous calendar year. Each match-up is presented as a poll in which readers can vote on which celebrity has made "fuglier" fashion choices. The inaugural 2008 tournament was won by
Bai Ling
, who defeated
Victoria Beckham
in the final match. Subsequent winners have included
Aubrey O'Day
(2009),
Amber Rose
(2010),
Taylor Momsen
(2011),
Vanessa Hudgens
(2012),
Justin Bieber
(2013),
Miley Cyrus
(2014),
Kim Kardashian
(2015, 2016),
Keke Palmer
(2017),
Bella Thorne
(2018),
Rita Ora
(2019), and
Dascha Polanco
(2020).
The Fug Awards
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Morgan and Cocks co-authored
The Fug Awards
, which features a number of "honors" offered to the worst offenders in celebrity fashion, along with commentary similar to that found on the site. The book was released on February 6, 2008.
Media
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Go Fug Yourself was named one of
Entertainment Weekly
'
s 25 favorite entertainment sites in its June 23, 2006, issue. In 2005 it was named one of the 50 Coolest Websites by
Time
magazine and one of the Top 100 Best Things of the Year by
CBC
. It was named one of the 50 Most Powerful Blogs by
The Guardian
in March 2008.
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It has also been mentioned in
Vanity Fair
,
Elle
,
Business Week
,
Harper's Bazaar
, the
Chicago Tribune
, and
Newsweek
, among others.
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The authors also blogged regularly as "The Fug Girls" in
New York
,
[4]
and regularly contribute to
Cosmopolitan
. The Fug Girls also appeared on Season Three, Episode Five of
All on the Line
, a Sundance channel series,
[5]
offering feedback to struggling fashion designer Brooke Rodd.
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References
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- ^
"The Fug Girls Interview"
,
Television Without Pity
, March 6, 2008. Accessed March 7, 2008.
- ^
"The world's 50 most powerful blogs"
.
The Guardian
. March 9, 2008
. Retrieved
October 25,
2015
.
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Presskit
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dead link
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- ^
"Archived copy"
. Archived from
the original
on November 16, 2018
. Retrieved
February 18,
2020
.
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All on the line
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dead link
]
- ^
"All on the Line: Brooke Rodd | Tom & Lorenzo"
. Archived from
the original
on October 14, 2012
. Retrieved
November 2,
2012
.
External links
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