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Pill made idol fodder for scandal sheet (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

tabloid

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'sheet' is the definition.
(I know that sheet can be written as tabloid)

'pill made idol fodder for scandal' is the wordplay.
I cannot quite see how this works, but
an anagram of 'idol' is 'loid' which is located in the answer.
The remaining letters 'tab' is a valid word which might be clued in a way I don't understand.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for tabloid that I've seen before include "Cheap newspaper" , "Small size newspaper" , "Newspaper with smaller pages and popular content" , "daily, perhaps" , "Populist newspaper" .)

I've seen this clue in the Sydney Morning Herald.
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