Best Celebrity Scoop

Did you know that Madonna and Guy Ritchie are getting divorced? It would be hard to miss this startling revelation screaming out at us in every tabloid, or semi-tabloid publication in the world. This story is being amply displayed in grocery stores, promising exciting revelations on just how screwed up their relationship was.

The original statement announcing their divorce was unintentionally amusing. Madonna’s spokespeople asked the media to respect her privacy. Yeah, right. It’s like throwing a juicy piece of meat into a kennel of dogs and asking them to ignore it. Celebrities of Madonna’s caliber don’t get to shut out the media when they’re going through a rough patch.

Even though we don’t really have a choice in the matter in this case, many of would seek this story out even if it weren’t so readily available. We love seeing big dramatic events such as this. We enjoy witnessing the carnage in its wake. Besides, it’s an unwritten law that celebrities have to share their life with us, especially the bad moments.

We also love seeing the answer to the mystery. We’ve speculated for years on just how anyone could handle being married to Madonna. We wonder how anything healthy could occur in the home of a pop star, especially someone as self-obsessed as Madge.

We’re jealous of celebrities. It’s understandable. They’re rich. They’re successful. They seem to have many of things that most of us don’t have. Who doesn’t want to live such a life?

But we also secretly hope for their destruction. Maybe, part of it is jealousy, but I think there’s a sense that what they have cannot possibly be real. So when we see their lives fall apart, our lives become validated.

All of that larger-than-life glamour is revealed as what we’ve always suspected–her life is unrealistic. Madonna likes to pretend that it’s possible to be a super successful sex symbol, with an exotic artist’s life, full of wealth and privilege. But we know the truth. Even her so-called spiritual side is thrown in question when we see all of the spiteful behavior that they’re exhibiting.

But when we see her entire life falling apart, we see that it was all a show. The sad fact is that the reality makes a better show than what she contrived.