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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Lee Escobedo

Before Swift and Kelce’s algorithmic fairytale there was Electra and Rodman’s neon fever dream

Carmen Electra married in 1998 but the relationship did not last long.
Carmen Electra married in 1998 but the relationship did not last long. Photograph: Steve Granitz/WireImage

The internet is frothing. This time, over Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce’s engagement, a spectacle reminding us how celebrities function as wish machines. Us normies ride shotgun, living vicariously through the highest peaks and, at times, the lowest valleys, making up for our own grayscale lives.

But, while Taylor and Travis are about as mainstream as you can get, in the 1990s there was a celebrity couple who catered for the eccentrics, misfits, and outsiders.

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