Top celebrity editor, Dan Wakeford, launches newsletter

One of the most experienced celebrity journalists in the biz has launched a newsletter.

Dan Wakeford — who has been the boss at People, Us Weekly, and In Touch and Life & Style, as well as the much-discussed Messenger — is going it alone with Celebrity Intelligence.

The first issue, out Tuesday, offers an analysis of stars in the Epstein files plus goss about the new iteration of the “Real Housewives of New York City,” the “Golden Life.”

“After working for the biggest mass-market brands in media for nearly three decades, I’m excited to be my own brand for the first time and I’m really enjoying having complete freedom to explore stories that I am interested in and say what I want,” Wakeford told us, “I think there’s a gap in the market for smart takeaways and perspectives from the celebrity world but there will also be scoops, interviews and a lot of fun along the way.

Wakeford started his career on the Sun and Heat magazine in the UK, and went on to helm pretty much all of the celebrity weeklies in the US.

Most recently he led Us Weekly.

Before that he was part of Jimmy Finkelstein’s ambitious misadventure, The Messenger, which shut down after less than a year.

Wakeford joins a raft of veteran journalists who have launched newsletters.

We’re told Celebrity Intelligence will be a weekly publication.