It's not a newspaper, it's a rag with no credibility whatsoever.
But apparently that's not your problem. On the contrary, if you can lie to satisfy your perverse fantasies about people's private lives, then you're scum.
You're trash.
This is too british for me. I don't know this idiom or colloquialism. I can only assume this is Cockney rhyming like a Hoof - poof thing. But the dropping the rhyming word part always trips me up.