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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Lifestyle
Jessie Thompson

Why are there no good celebrity couples anymore?

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There are many serious problems in today’s world, but one in particular is really very grave. Personally, I think it’s time we found the bravery to speak about this: why are there no good celebrity couples anymore? It’s beginning to feel as though we’re approaching crisis point. Think about it: Taylor Swift is supposedly going out with some American football player called Travis – right, OK? Emma Corrin is dating Rami Malek – snore. Timothee Chalamet and Kylie Jenner have been snogging indoors in matching sunglasses – zzz. I can’t even muster any enthusiasm for Sophie Turner and Joe Jonas’s rapidly toxifying divorce, even though she accused him of abducting their children (accusations he’s denied). And the less said about Mila Kunis and Ashton Kutcher, the better.

I know, I know – celebrities don’t owe us anything. These people are entitled to their privacy. I need to get a life. While these things are all true, I wonder if it’s really so much to ask that a few of them get married on a throne, or issue a statement to say they are “consciously uncoupling”, or even get married in Vegas and then have it annulled 72 hours later?

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