
The star forgets to thank him in her award acceptance speech.

"Rocker" is the word most often used to describe the husband.Īs in, " Liv Tyler's rocker husband Royston Langdon." Or " Kate Hudson's rocker husband Chris Robinson." When magazines don't even bother to write down, let alone research, the name of a celebrity's husband's band, elimination of his name altogether can't be too far behind, as in, "Liv Tyler, with son Milo, and some guy she's married to." Or "Kate Hudson with the guy she's leaving for Owen Wilson."Ĥ. But then again, he wasn't the one questioning the nature of tuna.ģ. Or subjected the world to something as awful as What's Left of Me without it. And Lachey probably wouldn't have cried in front of a reporter from Rolling Stone without it. Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey may not have become as famous without Newlyweds: Nick and Jessica, but they also probably wouldn't be divorced without it. Still, no matter where the idea originated, once the ink dries on that contract with MTV, and the cameras move into the home, the countdown to divorce (and celebrity husband loserdom) has officially begun. Granted, if a famous person is involved in a reality show, they're probably not all that famous to begin with, but in some instances (like, say, with Britney And Kevin: Chaotic) you have to wonder whose idea it was to sell home movies to a production company. This is the biggest sign that a female celebrity is married to a loser.

The gravitational (and tabloid) pull of these relationships is even stronger when the husband in question is, by all accounts, a total loser. Couples like Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes, the original Bennifer ( Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck), and, for the time-being, anyway, Jennifer Aniston and Vince Vaughn (Vaughniston) fall into this category.īut when a female star is married or engaged to someone who is significantly less famous than she is - or even (gasp!) not famous at all - the result can be a black hole, a swirling vortex of career guilt, awful side projects and countless break-up countdowns. When two stars get married or engaged, the result can be a supernova: A celebrity couple whose halves separately are reasonably well known, but who together form a bright explosion of fame - a fiery celebrity galaxy that fuels countless rumors, magazine covers, and gossip stories simply with its mere existence.
