JLo and Marc Anthony getting divorced

I’m not sure why but I was always kind of rooting for them. :frowning:

That news took me by surprise, but I’ve got to say that my primary reaction has been to wonder how this will play out in gofugyourself.com’s continuing coverage of J.Lo.

Oh thank god I’m not the only one. I was so hoping they’d have a comment before taking their weekend hiatus.

Next up Ben Affleck divorces his wife, then we have something to go on

Hola, lovers!

Frankly I’m surprised anyone could/would put up with more than five minutes of her. She gives high-maintenance a whole new level of meaning.

There’s a lot of speculation that they’ve actually been separated for months now, and are both even in other relationships, but they wanted to wait until a Friday afternoon in mid-summer to announce. And she may be high maintenance, but he seems like a domineering control freak, so it evens out.

Gossip Rocks forum (the source of all truth, ha!) has mentioned that they finally announced it because a magazine was about to run a story on the split and they wanted to get in first. Also common rumours of him being allegedly very controlling and abusive, although how anyone would know that I have no idea.

Aren’t there like three celebrity marriages/relationships in all of history that have not ended in divorce? I always feel a sort of twinge when celebrities get married and have kids because I always think – well, there goes another child of divorce. Sad and pessimistic but apparently always true. I know that non-celebrities get divorced all the time, but celebrities literally almost never stay married. I know it’s a crazy lifestyle and blah blah blah but I just wish more of them could make it.

Just typing “long term celebrity marriages” into Google got this list. You’ll notice very few Most Beautiful people or models or Adonises (though there is a Bond girl on there).

I think that while being beautiful, high profile, and in demand seem like ‘problems’ we all wish we could have, they do put a lot of strain on a marriage - and it goes without saying that appearance-based marriages (celebrity and non) come with an expiry date.

You’ll notice that those celebrities who have a long reputation of being in love with themselves above all else don’t tend to stay married too long. Plus reality TV has given us so many “celebrities”, and they know that the only thing that sells more magazines than a wedding is a divorce.

There’s plenty of happily married low-profile actors/singers/whatever.

Both of them have been married/in long-term relationships before. This would be Marc’s third divorce, and he has 5 kids (1 from 1st, 2 from each later marriage).

BTW, Marc left a former Miss Universe (his second wife, Dayanara) and shortly after moved on to JLo. Granted, there had been rumors of him being after JLo before being with Dayanara.

The closest I got to see them was at the Puerto Rican parade four years ago. They were in different floats, and his was simpler and closer to the ground than hers, which looked more diva.

Granted I am not a fan of hers, quite the opposite in fact.

So I’m not surprised as since she’s a genuinely talented actress/singer and is (or was) regarded as one of the top ten most beautiful women in the world and being the very definition of pretentious diva, I can only imagine what an unpleasant, selfish, controlling, über-high maintenance, ah, cunt she must be. :smiley:

I’m surprised it lasted as long as it did, quite frankly.

I probably shouldn’t quote gossip mags but I remember one of them interviewing the father of the dancer she was married to before. At the time there were stories that he was suing J Lo for a lot of money and the father did the interview to say that wasn’t true, that all his son wanted was a quick end. He said that when J Lo was alone with family, she was sweet, respectful of elders and wanted to do things like cook for them. But get anybody else around, especially from show business, and it was J Lo, major star/diva.

Ha, me too. Hola, lovers!

I’ve heard more questionable things about him than I’ve heard about her. But hey, they’re all hearsay.

I’m kind of disappointed too.

To the extent I care at all, I am a teensy bit disappointed. I hope all marriages will be long and happy, but I’m never terribly surprised when a celebrity marriage doesn’t last.

I find each of them borderline repulsive seperately so they sort of deserved each other, even though I never detected a scintilla of chemistry between them. I too am looking forward to the Gofugyourself girls’ comments.

And, here we go…

So he’s going to hook up with Cleopatra now?

He probably made the mistake of saying the dress made her butt look small.

Oh happy butt, that bore the weight of Anthony.