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Tiger Woods Downward Spiral

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It seems that the Tiger Woods debacle is just getting worse and one has to imagine that all of the deity status that most had with Tiger are about to get majorly tarnished and that Tiger is human after all.

The trouble started last week when Tiger Woods wrecked his truck into a fire hydrant and then a tree where he then needed medical attention.  Tiger was taken to a hospital and treated for his injuries which also included “scratches on his face”.  What would seem like a self inflicted minor accident then started presenting red flags as Woods refused to speak to authorities to address their questioning for days after the accident.  Many were trying to assess the cause of the accident and then a rumor arose that it had something to do with an altercation between him and his wife Elin Nordegren over an affair with a New York Club Manager named Rachel Uchitel which possibly explained the scratches.

Rachel Uchitel - London Entertainment Photo

Rachel Uchitel denied the allegations that she was having an affair with Woods, but sources say that Uchitel frequently bragged about having an affair with not only Woods, but also Yankees players Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez, as well as actor David Boreanaz.  Being “overwhelmed” with all of the attention, Uchitel hired “lawyer to the stars” Gloria Allred to keep the wolves at bay which is really not working too well and only adds to the speculation that things are about to get really bad before they get better.

Meanwhile, Florida authorities had no choice but to subpoena certain traffic and hospital reports and aspects of the events to put the traffic part of the case to rest.  They ended up charging Tiger with a non-criminal charge which will cost Tiger $164 in fines (pocket change), but will also cost him 4 points on his drivers license.  As far as the authorities were concerned, the case was closed.

Then another “mistress” appeared out of the woodworks named Jaimee Grubbs, a cocktail waitress that he met in Las Vegas in 2007.  Not only was she not denying a relationship (excuse the double negative), but she also came to the party with text messages and even worse, voice mail recordings of Tiger pleading with her to remove her name from the cell phone ID because his wife was becoming highly suspicious.

Jaimee Grubbs - Photo from People.com

The voice recording is unmistakably Tiger’s voice pleading, “Hey, it’s Tiger. I need you to do me a huge favor. Can you please take your name off your phone? My wife went through my phone and may be calling you. So if you can, please take your name off that.  Just have it as a number on the voicemail. You got to do this for me. Huge. Quickly. Bye.”

Grubbs reported to a British tabloid The Sun that they had 20 sexual encounters spanning a 2 and half year time period with the first one being literally days before the birth of Tiger’s son.   She quoted Woods as telling her that “quietly and secretly we will always be together.”

As expected, with so much evidence verifying the allegations as truth, Tiger has had no choice but to try and come clean to some extent, but insisting that it’s a family matter with his statement on his site saying, “I am dealing with my behavior and personal failings behind closed doors with my family. Those feelings should be shared by us alone.”  Which in some cases is true, but he is a public figure, paid by the public (via tournaments and attendance), but even more damaging adored by the public both young and old.

Tiger Woods & Wife Elin Nordegren - Photo by Regina H. Boone / Detroit Free Press / AP

Tiger’s statements on his website do everything but admit to the affair which included statements such as:  “I have let my family down and I regret those transgressions with all of my heart. I have not been true to my values and the behavior my family deserves. I am not without faults and I am far short of perfect.” and then finally, “Personal sins should not require press releases and problems within a family shouldn’t have to mean public confessions… I will strive to be a better person and the husband and father that my family deserves. For all of those who have supported me over the years, I offer my profound apology.”

In closing, one would simply have to say that while, yes, this should be a private matter, he made it into a public matter by refusing to speak with authorities which caused all kinds of rumors and allegations to spawn from what started as a simple traffic violation.  One also has to be concerned that this may possibly be just the beginning of a slew of women that may come forth digging this hole deeper than it is now.  If there were two, there most likely are many more.

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Tom Arnold Gets Married…Again

Tom Arnold Gets MarriedIt has been confirmed that this past Saturday 50 year old actor Tom Arnold finally got hitched to long time girlfriend Ashley Groussman on the quaint little island of Maui.  That’s Hawaii for the geographically challenged.

The ceremony was held in front of 75 close friends and family and Tom’s best man was actor Dax Shepard.   This is Tom’s 4th marriage and one of which was to that crazy Rosanne Barr who has since furrowed somewhere to all of our collective relief.  I mean really, thank God.  Ashley really can’t blame him for waiting for so long to recover from that.

The couple met through a mutual friend and then at Tom’s birthday party, he proposed to her with a wedding ring that was designed by her sister.  He said, “I knew that if I could get Ashley to fall in love with me, I’d never have to worry about anything else as long as I lived,” to which Ashley replied, “I’m the luckiest girl in the world.”

Besides the fact that Ashley Arnold has a much better ring to it.

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9 Types of Women Guys Encounter

So I read this blog post at http://www.twirlit.com/2009/09/14/7-types-of-men-single-women-encounter that was essentially a synopsis of men and the types of men that women come across.   It’s a Cliff Notes version of Bushnell’s Sex and The Single Girl book that was released back in 1962.  So, I decided to do the reverse and talk about the women that guys encounter.

business_womanThe Professionals

These women are totally focused on their profession and they are so wrapped up in their job that they carry Blackberries everywhere and are attached 24/7 to their work.  It’s not that they don’t want a relationship or something deeper, but they’ve gotten so into the habit of work, that they simply cant break free of the almost ritualistic tasks of the day which always involved work. Whether it’s email, conference calls, reports, or spreadsheets, you will always be number two.  And even she doesn’t want you to be number two, but she can’t help it because she’s stuck.  In some cases it’s not even her.  Her work has begun to have certain performance expectations so she can’t stop in fear of losing her job or being replaced.  So she has to settle on the relationship of the moment until she can find a guy who is equally engulfed in his work and understands her plight.  And sometimes they never come….

grindingSkanks

These are the ladies that you see in the clubs in short skirts dancing to the latest sexually charged song with their hands on the floor and butts in the air showing everyone what God gave them.  While some ladies write this off as “just having a good time”, we’ll call your bluff here.  A good time is dancing.  Dancing with your panties in plain view for all to see,  letting a complete stranger come up behind you and grind your privates with only a thin layer of fabric separating it from qualifying as intercourse is another level entirely.  While guys like to go out and find girls like this, we have no desire to be in a relationship with you because you’ve already displayed to us what “having a good time” means to you and that’s simply booty call material, not marriage or relationship material.

psychotic-girlCrazies

These are the women that have been repeatedly hurt and stomped on by men and are paranoid about every relationship.  They get into a relationship and every night he doesn’t call or says something a tad off the beaten path is received as threatening to her sanity. Everything must be in perfect line to not upset her delicate balance. If another woman calls you on the phone, even if it’s a coworker wondering where your report is, she loses it, and goes into the grand questioning.  Her entire stability rests on the guy being totally normal, which we aren’t.

girlfriendsChicks Before Di***

These girls love to hang out with their friends far more than they do with you.  All women have a group of friends, but in these cases they take priority over you months and even years into the relationship.  If you want some alone time and the girls want to go to the movies, you lose.  But yet she can’t figure out why there’s not a guy that will just go to the house, make her dinner and hang out waiting for her while she’s out getting her drink on with the girls. Guys do the same thing in reverse? Absolutely.  And that’s why neither one of them can find themselves in a good relationship.

loveHello, I Love You

This girl is ready to jump and ready to jump quick.  Date for a month and she’s already looking at engagement rings or even worse figuring out how she can move in.  And before you know it, they drop the L word.  There’s nothing wrong with the L word, it’s just that these women have to realize that guys can’t jump into the wagon that fast.   It’s a dangerous word because whoever says it first could be perceived as needy or speedy and both aren’t good.  But when a woman jumps too fast, it’s a sign of desperation and it’s not pretty.  Guys run to the nearest exit.

chameleonThe Chameleon Charmer

This woman has an exact view of what a man should be, how he should act, what he should say, how he should present himself, and what he should wear.  Essentially a virtual checklist.  Yet this woman can’t figure out why a man won’t commit to her.  Probably because he can’t be who he is.  Women have to stop “training” their man to conform to their vision.  We’re not animals, we’re human (sometimes).  Secondly, guys have a problem with being wrong all of the time.  We have egos.  When they get slapped on the wrist because of how they rinse off a plate, you’re pretty much pushing them away.  When even the smallest things are called into correction, it gets to be too much.

cougarThe Cougars

They may be married, they may be divorced, or even widowed.  It doesn’t matter.  They have one thing in mind and that’s to get their groove on and scratch the itch.  Typically women from 45 and up can qualify as Cougars.  They most likely have kids that are either in high school or college and they have more free time on their hands then they’d like to admit.  Either way, the empty nest syndrome is translated as the need for companionship.  They’re women that have an insatiable appetite for sex from a source that will just do it and go away…until they call again.  A perfect situation for a married man that’s looking the same thing.

unicornThe Perfect Woman

File under unicorns and fairies.  When you do find her, IF you find her, you have to be the perfect man.  You have to be good looking, live right, never married, never had kids, straight teeth, and be willing to wait on her hand and foot.  But considering that both the perfect woman and the perfect man are mythological creatures, these beings end up in the American Standard category.

American Standard

stepfordThese are the girls who graduated from high school, went to college but never finished, and have always had a perception of the princess stories and how that would translate in real life.  Their vision is that they would meet the perfect guy, fall in love, get married, have babies, become a housewife, have an affair with the pool man,  find the hotel receipts from her husbands affairs, pretend like everything is okay, grow old, retire, and watch the grandchildren start rolling in.  This the sad American reality.

The Settle For Lessers

These women have been in a long relationship and most of the time are divorced with kids.  Their options are slim because guys are jerks and some prefer not to have ready made families.  It’s a tough spot to be in because the ex got to walk away and pretend that he’s single and she got stuck raising the kids and doesn’t get a lot of time to live her life.  So she settles for someone less than what she really wants.  Maybe it’s a guy that’s got a heart of gold, but is butt ugly.  Or maybe he’s good looking, but has some major flaws.  So she settles.  And she plays off being happy very well, but you can see the scream for help in her eyes.

Now while it may seem that I’m being relentless in my categorizations, but the categories of men displayed in the aforementioned post are no better.  Women have made men bashing an art form, but guys are supposed to sit back and simply take it.  We may be a tough nut to crack, but the single ladies are slim pickings as well, so stop waving your hate flag.

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Renee Zellweger Officially Engaged

renee-zellweger-bradley-cooperRenee Zellweger, 40 and Bradley Cooper 34 have been spotted in several occasions (outside of the United States) spending quality time together in various locales including Barcelona, Spain recently.  The couple who are appearing together in a horror movie called Case 39 have been doing everything to cover up their romance and keep it private, but reports from Glamorati indicate that Bradley took Renee up to his hometown in Pennsylvania to introduce her to his parents and that the engagement is very real.

Zellweger was also seen wearing an engagement ring, but managed to take it off when she appeared on Late Night with David Letterman on August 20th.  As for picking out any wedding dresses, the couple still isn’t talking even though a source close to the couple indicates that it’s indeed true.

This will be Renee’s second marriage.  She was married to country music star Kenny Chesney from May to December of 2005.  He also had the “under one year” marriage to actress Jennifer Esposito from December of 2006 to April 2007 and was officially divorced as of November of 2007.

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Top 5 Celebrity Wedding Rumors

Of course, Mr. Christopher at it again with some wedding rumors that I’m seeing floating around on the web this month and here are the most popular.  Well, they sound ridiculous, but some are actually true and some we just have to assume are true because the celebs aren’t denying it.  Well, you decide.  It’s something fun to do instead of wedding planning.

Rumor 1
LeAnn Rimes is Having an Affair with her Northern Lights Co Star

leann-rimes-eddie-cibrian-affair-northern-lights-lifetimeRumors started flying when a restaurant camera caught country singer/actress LeAnn Rimes holding hands and kissing Northern Lights co-star Eddie Cibrian.  Eddie Cibrian quickly (2 days later quickly) denied the rumor saying, “It is a fabricated story that is using random snapshots as connective tissue to create a scandalous relationship”.   Unfortunately, the cover was blown because LeAnn personally posted on her website, “This is a difficult time for me and my loved ones, but I appreciate all your continued support,” she writes. “I would like to assure all of you that this is a place for you to hear things directly from me and as you all know, not everything in our lives is always black and white.”  That is definitely not a “No, it didn’t happen”.   So Cibrian and Rimes will need to get their story straight and go into damage control, but we’re going to say that:

This Rumor is: True. And will just get juicier and juicier.  Unfortunate. But Juicy.  So juicy that we dedicated a blog post to it.


Rumor 2
nick-cannon-mariah-careyNick Cannon is Going Broke Paying for Mariah Carey’s Ring

This rumor started as reports started surfacing that the jeweler that sold Nick Mariah’s wedding ring was not getting the payments remaining on her ring which carries a balance of around $500,000.  MTV broke the report stating that bloggers were spreading the rumor which prompted Nick to defend himself on his own blog against the allegations that Mariah’s rock was financially devastating the actor/comedian.  Nick fired back, “it was this craziness on the oh so credible, BOSSIP about me being broke and being sued by my jeweler! Ridiculous! I just got like 3 new major multi-million dollar deals in the last 2 months. And I ain’t even finish yet… But now I’m broke, okay!“  So basically, even for all of his continued rambling, he never denies that he owes the jeweler money.  It’s the amount that appears to be under denial and apparently, even under Nick’s admission, the rumors are too low.  “First off, I wish my wife’s ring did only cost $500,000, that would have been a deal!“, Nick alleges.  It just seems to me that with as much money as Cannon has made, he should be set for life now, but I guess you continue to live beyond your means.  Silly celebs.

This Rumor is: True. Although details on the actual amount are sketchy.


bruce-willis-emma-hemingbruce-willis-emma-hemingRumor 3
Bruce Willis and model Emma Hemin Are Getting Married
This Week
Well, one thing is for sure. We’ll know the truth to this rumor in less than a week.  What sparked this rumor is that his ex Demi Moore and her hubby Ashton Kutcher flew into the island of Turks & Caicos where Willis has a home.  The rumor is that they are having a private ceremony with only close friends and family.  What further adds fuel to that rumor is the large block of rooms and villas that have been booked by Willis for friends.  The only thing that could possibly derail this rumor is the fact that Bruce’s 54th birthday is also coming up.  But 54 is pretty much a lame number, so that seems overkill for a 54th party.  Maybe a 60 or a 55, but not 54.  We’ll buy into this possibility that this is going down as rumored, but we’ll just say that…

This Rumor is: True. Update! This update comes now AFTER the wedding has already happened.  Ah, don’t you love it when we’re right? They are hitched.


bruce-willis-emma-hemingRumor 4
Chris Brown and Rihanna Will Be Getting Married
chris-brown-rihannaGod help us all if this is true, but we’re sure that it’s not.  Chris Brown’s PR people have been in major damage control mode since the incident with him and Rihanna when photos of Rihanna surfaced from LAPD showing her badly beaten and bruised supposedly at the hands of Chris Brown.  Chris Brown never said that he caused the bruises and contusions, but he definitely never denied it.  Since then the two have been seen at P Diddy’s house jet skiing in Miami and Rihanna is now out and about on the town getting her groove on now that her scars are healed.  As for where this rumor started, we’re going to cry foul on this trashy rumor because first, battered women around the world would go nuts if Rihanna married Chris and she knows it.  Secondly and again, Chris Brown is still in damage control and experiencing atrocious record sales that have dipped to about 10% of what he was originally selling.  People don’t even want to be seen buying his music and for good reason.

This Rumor is: FALSE. No way in Hates is this going to happen within the next 5 years.  Everything is still way too raw and even if they did decide to hitch the wagon, their PR reps would have a conniption fit and it would spell utter doom to their professional careers to the tune of Whitney and Bobby.  Those silly Browns.


bruce-willis-emma-hemingbritney-spears-kevin-federlineRumor 5
Britney Spears and Kevin Federline Are Getting Back Together
The rumor came to fruition as Kevin agreed to let their children go on tour with Britney as a result of Britney staying clean thanks to a court order keeping those old manager sleazebags away from her.  She’s looking great, getting back to her old self and appears to be on the right track to recovery.  But during the visitation swaps, sources say that Kevin and Britney have been very flirty and there has even been kissing going on.  An insider says that they never really fell out of love and that Kevin is even gushing to his mother that she’s back to the old Britney that he fell in love with.   That being the case, we’ll have to say that….

This Rumor is: In a “Could Become True” Mode. Let’s face it.  The two lovebirds have children together and the real fallout came from Britney’s drug use and bizarre behavior. Now that that is a thing of the past, there could very well be a reuniting of these two.  Although the press has had a field day with Kevin, he has proven that he is way beyond just a “baby daddy”.


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So those are the hottest rumors this month.  Make sure that you subscribe to the RSS feed for the next issue when we put to rest some of the worst of the rumors we’re hearing and give you our guess on what’s true based on what we’ve seen and read when we’re not in the middle of wedding planning or watching the latest episode of Get Married on Lifetime.

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LeAnn Rimes Admits to Affair with Cibrian

leann-rimes-affairThe rumor started when a restaurant camera caught LeAnn Rimes and her Northern Lights costar Eddie Cibrian kissing.  The photo (shown right) shows Eddie standing up and leaning over the table for a passionate kiss with the superstar country singer.  Then the video was released by Us Magazine that additionally shows the couple holding hands and cuddling.  Two days went by without word from either camp until within 24 hours of each other,  Cibrian released a statement saying to Access Hollywood that, “It is a fabricated story that is using random snapshots as connective tissue to create a scandalous relationship.”

Seemed like the rumor would be dead in the water and people would just have to believe what they wanted and leave it at that.  But how exciting could that possibly be?  Obviously LeAnn Rimes people didn’t talk with Cibrians’ camp because LeAnn then admitted to the affair.   She stated on her website for her fans to “Have faith…. This is a difficult time for me and my loved ones, but I appreciate all your continued support,” she writes. “I would like to assure all of you that this is a place for you to hear things directly from me and as you all know, not everything in our lives is always black and white.”   which essentially admits to the affair, because a “No it didn’t happen” means “No it didn’t happen“.  The statement she actually released could be translated as, “Yes, it happened, but its a little more detailed than what you know and I can’t talk about this right now.”

While we all love LeAnn, things do happen.  LeAnn is married to her backup dancer Dean Sheremet in Dallas, Texas in February 2002.  And Cibrian is married to Brandi Glanville and has two sons (Mason who is 5 and Jake who is almost 2).   Cibrian stands a lot to lose with his up and coming stardom and children to boot.  So this is not good.

So what do you think?  Was this just a “thing” that was a mistake of the moment? Does anyone buy into that?  Or could it possibly a false rumor that the network fabricated to boost ratings for the show?  Regardless, everyone can check out the controversial couple on the Northern Lights film they were shooting starting March 21st on Lifetime.  Check your local listings to see if you can spot the sparks.  And while you’re waiting, you can check out Lifetime’s morning programming at 7:30am EST Monday through Friday to watch great episodes of Get Married for the best in wedding tips, wedding planning, and all things that are NOT related to this fiasco.

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