Will & Jada Were “Faking” Split Rumor to Boost HawThoRNe Ratings.

In a piece titled, “Faking Their Break,” Star magazine now claims that (erroneous) split rumors involving Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith were nothing more than “a publicity ruse intended to breathe new life in Jada’s show, HawthoRNe.”


The show, not too long afterwards, was canceled.


Regardless, the tabloid maintains, “Boosting HawthoRNe isn’t the only reason Mr. and Mrs. Smith may have spread the rumor.”


According to one of Star‘s sources, the split story was floated because “Jada’s been complaining that she and Will are starting to look like the Brady Bunch, with all the kids now stepping into the spotlight as well.


Adds the source, Jada feels she and her husband are viewed as “too family-friendly” and “too boring.”


Then why not leak a sex tape or rob a bank?


The answer is because those scenarios are just as preposterous as Star‘s theory about “faking” marital strife to “breathe new life” into a TV show.