It’s busy work keeping up with the Smiths. Hollywood supercouple Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith have spent several years showering the public with candid insights into their relationship. There were reports of an “open” marriage. Jada’s “entanglement” with country singer August Alsina. Details of Will and Jada’s sex life. Now, her recent claim that the pair have been secretly separated for seven years – but are working on reconciliation. To say they’ve laid their cards on the table is an understatement: they’ve put down an entire deck each, enough for a whole canasta game of tabloid gossip.
Inevitably, this penchant for oversharing has sometimes proved too much for people. It starts to take on the feeling of a years-long publicity tour, where the only thing they’re promoting is their own eccentric relationship. Many of us claim to have heard quite enough from Mr and Mrs Smith; some truths are best left unaired, they say. But between Jada’s new memoir Worthy, her frank podcast Red Table Talk, and now the suggestion that the duo may soon be writing a book together, it doesn’t sound like they’re shutting up any time soon. This is nothing to be irked by, however. The fact is, the Will and Jada Honesty Roadshow is a radical – and refreshing – departure from celebrity norms.
