Trashy Celebs

Okay, I will admit that I am just a teensy bit buzzed on a couple glasses of Charles Shaw merlot (Two-buck Chuck for the Trader Joe’s-savvy among you) but even so I am still thinking that America needs to get a collective hold of itself and stop being so gosh-darned emotionally invested in the romantic relationships of Hollywood celebrities. Or New York celebrities. Or local community theater/local news broadcast celebrities. Come on people! Don’t you have your own relationships to worry about?

From People magazine:

Ryan Gosling says his Notebook costar Rachel McAdams was “one of the great loves of my life” – but when the couple split several months ago, he ended up consoling fans.

“Women are mad at me,” Gosling, 26, tells GQ magazine in its November issue. “A girl came up to me on the street and she almost smacked me. Like, ‘How could you? How could you let a girl like that go?’”

Gosling, who has been mum about the split up until now, continues, “I feel like I want to give people hugs, they seem so sad. Rachel and I should be the ones getting hugs! Instead, we’re consoling everybody else.”

The actor and McAdams, 31, began dating shortly after wrapping the romantic film, which won them an MTV Movie Award for Best Kiss, but he says their relationship was not like the characters they portrayed.

“God bless The Notebook,” Gosling says. “It introduced me to one of the great loves of my life. But people do Rachel and me a disservice by assuming we were anything like the people in that movie. Rachel and my love story is a hell of a lot more romantic than that.”

Of their actual breakup, he will only say, “The only thing I remember is we both went down swingin’ and we called it a draw.”

Gosling, who was nominated for a Best Actor Oscar for his 2006 film Half Nelson, currently stars in the quirky comedy, Lars and the Real Girl.

There is just so much wrong with this I’m not sure where to start. First of all, these people are not your friends. You do not know them in real life. They are not calling you in the middle of the night when they are sad, they are not asking you to babysit them when they go out so they don’t end up drunk dialing the ex. They are not asking you to go with them for retail therapy. They are not asking you over to listen to Sade records and eat ice cream. They have actual friends for that. You do not know their lives!

And second of all, why is it that Mr. Gosling and Ms. McAdams are having to console YOU PEOPLE when THEY are the ones going through a breakup. That makes no sense! We’ve all been through breakups and what did we all want? We wanted our friends (emphasis on friends) to give us hugs and take us out and get us drunk and be our wingmen when we went out on the prowl again. Think about it: when your heart breaks you want someone to console YOU. So, even if in the furthest reaches of your imagination, you think that Gosling or McAdams are your friends and you have some right to comment on their relationship decisions, why would you make a comment that requires them to console you? They need your love and support right now. They need to you buy tickets to their movies! They need their space! They need you to stop questioning them on the street! (Unless you are hot and willing to be a rebound relationship.)

Besides, when most us break up with one of the “great loves of our lives,” we don’t have one of our first kisses on DVD for anyone to purchase at Best Buy, Target, WalMart, or Amazon.

Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, The Notebook, breakup