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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
World
Emily Phillips

Depp v Heard: The verdict is in ... and we’re all guilty

Drunken antics. Abusive dynamics. A mixed bag of lust and cruel intentions boiling over into heated sex and what you later realise is egregious, coercive behaviour. There are fingers (severed) and some not-for-the-faint-hearted bodily fluids. And then your ex-girlfriend joins in to ease the proceedings for you.

So far, so sex tape. And yet, instead of watching these salacious images of two hot A-listers on the internet alone in a darkened room, in 2022 when we want our pound of celebrity flesh we can watch live on courtroom TV (or even queue to sit in) as their most intimate details are spilled to the floor. Our new obsession with celebrity court cases has held the news cycle while war and economic crisis battled on behind it. It’s the realest reality TV.

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