Trashy Celebs

What do Heath Ledger and our dog Muriel have in common? Well, yes, they are both cute, but that’s not what I am talking about. And no, it’s not that they have both made out with Jake Gyllenhaal. Apparently, at times, they are both sort of smelly.

Heath Ledger disgusted fellow subway passengers in New York at the weekend with his “unwashed” stench, it has been claimed.

The ‘Brokeback Mountain’ star was spotted carrying his two-year-old daughter Matilda through a station during Thanksgiving weekend, and commuters who crossed his path insist he was giving off an unpleasant smell.

One onlooker said: “He was pushing past the crowds on a staircase and I got quite a whiff. He smelled pretty unwashed!”

Heath - who split from Matilda’s mother Michelle Williams in the summer - was wearing red-framed sunglasses, an oversize lilac knitted hat and a fleece-lined jacket, which passengers also claim needed a good wash.

The witness added to America’s OK! magazine: “His jacket has clearly never seen the inside of a washing machine. He seemed to be going for the hobo-chic look!”

Wow, that is harsh. I mean, it’s been awhile since I have been on a New York City subway, but from my limited experience, I can say that there are lots of interesting smells in the stations so how do we know that it was actually Heath Ledger fouling the place up? It could have been the guy standing behind him. It could have been the person who was there previously. It could have just been the damn subway car itself.

(But this leads me to a thought I haven’t been able to shake since reading/waching Brokeback Mountain: here are a couple of cowboys who spent the entire summer camping out in the wilderness without the benefit of anything more than the occasional sponge bath. Maybe I am just a prissy girl, but I can’t imagine having any wild nights in a tent with someone who hasn’t had a shower in a few months. Just sayin’.)

Anyway, back to Stinky Heath and Stinky Muriel. I wonder how Heath got stinky? With Muriel, it can be the obvious: we haven’t bathed her in a while. But she also gets stinky when she’s be outside in hot weather or when she is scared of something (that is a strange smell that seems to come from her butt) or when we have spilled something like onions or broccoli on the kitchen floor and she eats it. I wonder if Heath has the same problems? I mean, obviously, not of us smell good if we haven’t bathed in a while, but maybe he is like Muriel and gets stinky if he is scared of something. Or maybe certain foods don’t agree with him and cause certain odors. Or maybe he spends so much time doting on his little daughter that he doesn’t get around to doing laundry.

Or maybe, both Heath Ledger and Muriel are just creatures that, while cute, are just always sort of stinky, through no real fault of their own. And hey, maybe we’ve hit upon a reason why Heath’s relationship with Michelle Williams didn’t work out? I don’t know, I’m just saying. Phew!

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