My friend K has helped me to accept the guilty pleasure that is celebrity gossip. Technically, I know that I have no business spending any of my time pondering the train wrecks that are Britney Spears and Lindsay Lohan. Or wondering if Sarah Michelle Gellar is pregnant. Or hoping that Katie Holmes manages to break free from her captors. They aren't people that I know, so it's none of my concern what they do with their lives, and maybe SMG just wore a slightly loose top one day, that doesn't exactly make her pregnant.
And yet, I find it good fun to read about the latest exploits of Brad, Angelina, and their gorgeous children, or to make jokes about Alec Baldwin's parenting skills, or to marvel at the freakishly skinny shoulder blades of Posh Spice Beckham.
Anyway, I've lately been thinking about celebrity relationships, and I'll tell you, some of them seem kind of fake to me. Like these people weren't all so much in love than they were looking for publicity. Their relationships seem almost political. Consider who some of them have dated.
Ben Affleck dated Gwyneth Paltrow back in the day. Does she have anything at all in common with Ben's later girlfriends (and wife) Jennifer Lopez or Jennifer Garner? Can you imagine those three women having anything in common?
Or take Jennifer Lopez herself. She dated PuffyDaddyDiddy, then Ben, then Skeletor/Marc Anthony. Really? Those three guys seem completely different. Would they all really be interested in the same woman, other than for her hotness?
It's funny how they loop together, too. Gwyneth Paltrow, who seems incompatible with Ben Affleck seems equally incompatible with Brad Pitt. And how did the guy who dated her also wind up with Jennifer Aniston and then Angelina Jolie?
They're like arranged marriages, I think?
Finally, I am upset to an unreasonable degree about the fact that John Mayer is dating Jessica Simpson. John Mayer is a talented singer-songwriter. He's also really funny and has written great stuff for Esquire. Why oh why is he with an empty-headed girl with big boobs?
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As one confessed celebrity gossip hound to another, you must check out "What Would Tyler Durden Do," wwtdd.com/
And in answer to your John Mayer question...because he can, Betsy, because he can.
I never got the switch from Jennifer Aniston to Angelina Jolie either. I mean, isn't that like trading up to the 400th degree? And after this fails there's no one else for Brad to trade up to.
Oh, I'm sorry... was that bitchy?
I'm glad I was able to get you hooked on the crack addition that is sweeping the nation - cult of celebrity. I find myself totally annoyed by People magazine now because they have all these articles on regular people. Duh! Who cares about that? I want to know about Tom and Katie. I think I need to switch to Us.
P.S. Has the Buffy pregnancy been confirmed yet?
I, too, am horrified by the John Mayer-Jessica Simpson thing. It seems like something dreamed up by publicists on crack. I can hope, anyway.
So are you as hooked as I am on Celebrity Baby Blog, Go Fug Yourself, and the like?
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