Mayo 7, 2020

"The Best Celebrity Couple Has Broken Up."

At teaser on the front page of New York Magazine.

You know they're not really "the best celebrity couple" or we'd be seeing their names. I won't be conned in to clicking through to see who is supposedly the best.

Or... okay, I will do it for you, so you don't have to: "Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson Broke Up?" The only reason given for their being the best is that they, at first, "hid" their relationships "from the paparazzi," and that they call each other "squish."

If that's the best, why can't we have better celebrities?

38 komento:

MountainMan ayon kay ...

Never heard of them.

gilbar ayon kay ...

umm, if They Were, "The Best"; wouldn't we have to Know, or Care, who the hell they were?

Oso Negro ayon kay ...

Cute gay and lesbian couples are passe. Heteronormativity is in again. You can thank this here pandemic.

Xmas ayon kay ...

Neil Gaiman and Amanda Palmer have also broken up. Which is sad cuz they have a young kid.

Sebastian ayon kay ...

"why can't we have better celebrities?"

First, you'd need a better audience.

Crimso ayon kay ...

To Hell with celebrities. Why can't we have better intellectuals?

mezzrow ayon kay ...

We'll have better celebrities when we have better people.

rehajm ayon kay ...

If that's the best, why can't we have better celebrities?

Do we choose celebrity or is it thrust upon us? Key to the first is the answer to the second...

Rory ayon kay ...

Ironically, the best celebrities pass unnoticed.

Steve from Wyo ayon kay ...

Who??

rehajm ayon kay ...

I read all the way to sex bench (shudder...)

MayBee ayon kay ...

I have no idea who Ashley Benson is and now I'm going to have to google her.

When I lived in London, Cara was doing a modeling job right down the street. When I was walking past, she let out a blood curdling scream and I turned around to see that- she had slipped off a curb (kerb). So I have written her off as a drama queen.

RMc ayon kay ...

A related article asks, "Should You Buy Cara Delevingne’s Sex Bench?"

Well, since Cara doesn't seem to need it these days...

Temujin ayon kay ...

We deserve the celebrities we get.

David Begley ayon kay ...

Maybe one of them switched teams and got tired of using the Sex Bench with the separately purchased accessory.

gspencer ayon kay ...

The best couple has broken up?

I'm devastated. I gonna eat both of those Haagen-Dazs Rum Raisins right now.

Hindi-nagpakilala ayon kay ...

Never heard of either of them. Sigh.

tim maguire ayon kay ...

Maybe they're the best celebrity couple because I've never heard of either one of them. Being unknown makes them unique in the celebrity world.

Big Mike ayon kay ...

why can't we have better celebrities?

Well as long as you keep looking to the Times, the Post, and the New Yorker to pick them for you, you won’t.

Linda ayon kay ...

I had to click - because I didn’t know who they were and thought (incorrectly) that seeing their photo would help. Nope - don’t know them. Don’t care, but I did see in the article that after 2 years their relationship had runs its course. How sad . . . 2 years! LOL

Meade ayon kay ...

Cel-ebrate good celebrities, come on!

Fernandinande ayon kay ...

Cara Delevingne and Ashley Benson

The best celebrities are those you've never heard of.

The Tangerine Tornado ayon kay ...

Because of the people who decide who is a celebrity.

wendybar ayon kay ...

Who???? Never heard of them.

Lurker21 ayon kay ...

This is the one time a year when you will be allowed to talk about "shoving their homosexuality down our throats" without being an idiot.

Cara Delevingne comes from English money going back over a century. The clip of her sulking when Good Morning Sacramento introduced her as "Carla" is probably on YouTube.

Ashley Benson was the "dumb but sweet" one on Pretty Little Liars. As far as "dumb" or "sweet" goes, the show set a pretty low bar.

Lucien ayon kay ...

I thought the best celebrity couple was Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, did I miss something?

Danno ayon kay ...

They certainly don't look look very happy in the picture at the link. Never heard of either of them, but I'm not into celebrity culture.

Ralph L ayon kay ...

I thought the best celebrity couple was Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman, did I miss something?

Allegedly, that was a double beard. Makes you wonder if these two are real Lesbians or if they just had bad experiences with men when young.

Whiskeybum ayon kay ...

I've noticed that even Fox News front page articles are now using this 'click-bait' technique in some of their headlines, leaving out a key piece of information that summarizes the story so that you have to click it to find out what it's really about. Fictitious example: "This State is the Worst for Coronavirus Patients". It reads like a tabloid.

Leland ayon kay ...

So my daughter is getting married, and she's hid that from the paparazzi, but I'm not seeing how that makes her a celebrity. Anyway, for a head line like that, a click through ought to reveal Andrew and Meghan, but as noted, if it was Andrew and Meghan, their names would have headlined.

Ice Nine ayon kay ...

Cara Delevingne? Ashley Benson? Broke up. Right...

I honestly can't believe that this subject elicited a single comment.

William ayon kay ...

It's not so much that we have worse celebrities but rather we have worse press agents. I'm afraid that this problem will only get worse until more people of talent and energy go into that maligned profession.

Bilwick ayon kay ...

Disillusioned, I lost interest in celebrity couples when the Ernest Borgnine/Ethel Merman marriage terminated.

Sam L. ayon kay ...

I'd ask "who are they" if I cared to know, but i don't care, not one little itsy-bitsy bit.

Anthony ayon kay ...

It's because they're both super hot.

hombre ayon kay ...

“If that's the best, why can't we have better celebrities?” No tall poppies allowed, only mediocrities.

Jesus and Trump are better celebrities, although not comparable. And look what’s happened to them.

Marc in Eugene ayon kay ...

The Daily Mail almost always has an article featuring Cara D. and I've never understood why (who is she?), but Lurker21 explained it. And the Good Morning Sacramento woman telling her to go take a nap or drink a Red Bull (since Cara was obviously not 'into' the interview) is amusing.

I still don't know if Mr Trump was good at baseball; am just not interested in keeping up these days.

Bunkypotatohead ayon kay ...

Now they're celibaties.
Be best.

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