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Does being on an MTV reality show really break you up, or are celebrities just stupid for even trying to be married? I mean, what's the average marriage length for a celebrity couple that ISN'T on MTV? Is it any better? Plus, each of the couple listed below, had at least one member who wasn't the sharpest tack.
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MTV Curse Meets the Barkers By Natalie Finn Tue Aug 8, 7:31 PM ET
This is getting serious.
Following in the footsteps of Nick Lachey & Jessica Simpson and Carmen Electra and Dave Navarro, Blink-182 drummer and MTV reality star Travis Barker is seeking a split from his wife of less than two years, former Miss USA Shanna Moakler, People magazine reported Tuesday.
Barker's rep, Dvora Vener, said that Barker filed for divorce Tuesday morning but declined to offer any other details behind the breakup.
Season two of the couple's reality series, Meet the Barkers, premiered in January, with the last episode celebrating the Christmas Eve birth of their daughter, Alabama. Barker and Moakler also have a two-year-old son, Landon, and Moakler has a seven-year-old daughter, Atiana, with ex-boyfriend Oscar De La Hoya.
All three kids were featured on Meet the Barkers, which, in the tradition of The Osbournes, set out to tell the tale of a rocker and his own madcap version of domesticity.
"My only concern right now is for the welfare and best interests of my children," Moakler said in a statement released by her publicist.
Barker and Moakler decided to part ways with their happy home--literally--early last month, putting the 12,000 square-foot Bel Air villa, where much of their show was filmed, on the market for $8.5 million.
The 2001 Playboy Playmate got hitched to her heavily tattooed hubby in a Nightmare Before Christmas-inspired ceremony on Halloween in 2004, which made perfect sense considering Barker popped the question while the duo were riding through Disneyland's Haunted Mansion.
Meet the Barkers now joins Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica and Carmen & Dave: Til Death Do Us Part in the MTV canon of series chronicling the charmed lifestyles of temporarily happy, but ultimately divorce-bound couples.
Before their relationship entered the postmortem phase, Barker and Moakler, who's set to compete on the third season of Dancing with the Stars later this year, guest-starred on an episode of CSI together.
After Blink-182 announced they were going on "indefinite hiatus" last year, Barker teamed up with guitarist and fellow Blink-mate Mark Hoppus to form Plus-44 (a reference to the international dialing code for the United Kingdom), which Hoppus has described as "punk rock meets '80s synth-rock." The band's first album, Little Death, is due out in October.
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loralei wrote:
well anyone that decides their relationship is exciting enough for public entertainment....
ego
or anyone that decides the possible benefits of exposure and money are more important than a private marriage.....
greedy
Or, y'know, they didn't come up with the premise of the show and it was, rather pitched to them.
And just because the privacy of marriage doesn't have a price to you, if someone came up to me and offered a few million to tape my relationship for a six-month period, I can't say I'd decline.
well anyone that decides their relationship is exciting enough for public entertainment....
ego
or anyone that decides the possible benefits of exposure and money are more important than a private marriage.....
greedy
Or, y'know, they didn't come up with the premise of the show and it was, rather pitched to them.
And just because the privacy of marriage doesn't have a price to you, if someone came up to me and offered a few million to tape my relationship for a six-month period, I can't say I'd decline.
Guess I'm greedy and egotistical, too.
you have to realize, it's probably not a good idea though
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jeremyvedder wrote:
aren't the osbournes still together?
Yes. I think the difference is this. The three couples who got divorced were at the start of their marraige, still in that honeymoon stage. I think the worst idea for a relationship in that stage is to have it taped and aired for all to see. It makes your marraige more about entertainment and you are more of an "acting duo" than husband and wife.
With the Osbournes, they have already been through years of success and failure and trials and tribulations, so to have a camera following them around is nothing compared to drug use, death, and infidelity.
It's sad really. I think that a couple of these marraiges would of been fine had they let their marraige take more of a normal and private course until they were comfortable enough in their new situation.
Also, I think anytime you exploit your marraige for money and fame, bad things will come of it.
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Yeah, except when you're just joining in the general "i hate celebrities, so they must all be stupid pretentious whores" mindset that exists among internet elitist.
Yeah, except when you're just joining in the general "i hate celebrities, so they must all be stupid pretentious whores" mindset that exists among internet elitist.
Uh. That's not even close to what I wrote. I just said they are "celebreties" and intended to say that they also display typical celebrety behaviour. What makes it worse in this case is that in my opinion the two of them came off as rather pretentious and also pretty shallow and plainly stupid. Well he came off as pretentious, she didn't even bother to pretend anything.
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