Archive for October, 2008

David ‘Sex Addict’ Duchovny looks like getting divorced from his wife, and mother of his two children, Tia Leoni. The reason for the split seems to be David’s wandering eye, or more accurately his wandering hands, groin and other parts of his body, towards his tennis coach, 28-year-old Edit Parkay.

Edit has been a little contradictory on the whole affair (or reported affair) as she’d previously said she wouldn’t deny the reports of an affair between her and 48-year-old Duchovny, but has now claimed she’s not to blame for his divorce and that there is no romantic involvement between her and David.

We played tennis, and we were playing partners and friends. There is no romance, and we are just friends. No love, nothing. That is all I have to say.

Duchovny has even had his lawyer, Stanton Stein, speak up for him regarding the matter:

Edit Parkay met with me personally before this article came out and told me she never had a sexual or romantic relationship with David.

Meanwhile Duchovny’s wife, Tia, is reportedly sleeping with actor Billy Bob Thornton, co-star in her new film. Tia says about Billy Bob:

We have this incredible cast with Billy Bob Thornton, who is maybe my new favourite person in the world.

What a great couple David and Tia must have made.

Clive Bellmore

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When you’re getting divorced it can be very stressful. It’s always far worse when there are children involved too, as they’re often convinced that they’re the reason for the split. When you’re having to deal with teenage children however it can be even worse as they’re at an age where they understand part of the reasons for the divorce, but are not mature enough to deal with it.

There are some things you can do to help teenagers cope with a divorce.

Firstly, you should convince the teenager that the divorce isn’t their fault and the split has nothing to do with them. They’ll probably already blame themselves so you should stop them doing this as early as you can.

Be open about the divorce and talk to the teenager like an adult about how the split will affect them.

Always be positive about the other parents, as they are loved by the child as much as you. You shouldn’t openly disparage them in front of the teenager.

Ensure that you’re still willing to support the teenager financially, and that the other parent will as well. Education is important, and shouldn’t suffer as a result of a divorce.

Be involved with their life in order to make sure they understand that they haven’t been abandoned by either parent.

Don’t argue with your former partner in front of the teenager, it isn’t helpful.

If you follow these tips you’ll ensure that your teenage child will be better prepared to cope with the divorce.

Clive Bellmore

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What better way to forget your soon to be ex-wife than by going out on a boys’ night out with some serious heavyweight partiers. That’s just what filmmaker Guy Ritchie has done as he’s been spotted out on the lash with hell raisers Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law.

The three lads on the pull were seen at a private viewing of an exhibition of Sam Taylor-Wood’s work in the White Cube gallery in London. The three are currently working together in a big screen adaption of Sherlock Holmes, with Downey Jr playing Holmes, Law playing Watson and Ritchie helming the role.

With Guy Ritchie directing a Sherlock Holmes film, you can be sure there’ll be some cockney gangster element to it.

This was Guy’s first public appearance since news of his divorce from Madonna broke last week.
The artists Sam Taylor-Wood is also going through divorce from her husband of eleven years, Jay Jopling, though Jopling was at the exhibition, showing that not all divorces have to be petty, bitter affairs.

Clive Bellmore

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Evil blood sucker Heather Mills, who stole £24.3 million of Sir Paul McCartney’s hard earned money, has already frittered away half of that fortune, according to reports. She’s squandered almost £12 million in just seven months, which probably won’t surprise too many people.

The witch has spent the money on lavish holidays, wages for her entourage, and expensive houses for her to lounge around in. According to reports, she’s so concerned about her spending that she’s begged Paul to buy her a home in East Sussex, costing £4 million, as she can’t afford it!

A source close to Mills stated:

Heather has been moaning her money isn’t going as far as she thought, but she’s just burning her way through it. She reckons she has spent £10 million since the divorce and still doesn’t have a finished house to live in.

She’s spent a cool million renovating her home and having an outdoor pool fitted. She’s also spent money on her divorce lawyers and a bill from her former publicist Michele Elyzabeth. Her publicist said that Heather Mills was:

A calculating, pathological liar and the biggest bitch on the planet.

If only she’d worked to earn the money she has, like McCartney did, then she might have a better respect for it and an understanding of its worth.

Clive Bellmore

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As if the police don’t have enough to do in this world with all the crime, murder and corruption. Now they’re arresting people for killing video game characters!

A Japanese woman who had such a sad existence that she was ‘married’ in a video game to another character (sorry, her character was married, but I’m sure she didn’t see a difference) found one day that her virtual husband had left her character. The game was ‘Maple Story’, a popular Japanese role playing video game, and her character’s husband, another sad guy’s character, was controlled by a 33-year-old office worker. When his character divorced her character, she hacked into the game (by hacked, they probably mean guessed his piss obvious password) and deleted his character.

He then reported the ‘death’ of his year old character to police, who rather than call him an utter timewaster and arrest him, investigated the virtual killing. The woman was arrested for ‘murder’ and faces a possible jail term of up to five years!

The woman, a piano teacher, stated:

I was suddenly divorced, without a word of warning. That made me so angry.

The game has over 50 million players in Japan and allows people to buy items through the virtual shop.
Police said after the arrest:

The case surfaced after a 33-year-old office worker in Sapporo, northern Japan, complained to police about the loss of his avatar, which he had “raised” for more than a year.

The woman was charged with illegal access onto a computer and manipulating electronic data.

What a total waste of police time!

Clive Bellmore

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A recent scientific study has shown that couples who have children suffering from ADHD (also known as attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, are more likely to get divorced. In fact they’re almost twice as likely to split as other couples by the time the child is eight-years-old.

In addition to that, marriages where couples had children suffering from ADHD ended in divorce much sooner than marriages between couples whose children didn’t have ADHD.

William E. Pelham, Jr., Ph.D. conducted the study into the effects of children with ADHD on divorce rates.

We believe this is the first study to find that both parent and child factors individually predict the rate and time of divorce. Moreover, this is the only study to demonstrate that the severity of the child’s disruptive behaviour, specifically those with ODD or CD, increases the risk of divorce.

Certainly we are not suggesting that having a child with ADHD is the only reason these marriages end in divorce. Disruptive child behaviour likely interacts over time with other existing stress in the family to spark conflict in a marriage and, ultimately, divorce.” Wymbs’ research documents that when parents interact with an ADHD child, they are more distressed, argue with one another more and view one another as less supportive, compared to when they interact with a child without ADHD.

This shows that the stress of coping with a troubled child can lead to the breakdown of a relationship.

Clive Bellmore

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Divorce isn’t the usual subject for a movie, except when it’s a soppy romantic comedy starring Jennifer Anniston or a glum TV movie starring Jane Seymour where she’s losing her children (you know the sort of crap) yet Miramax are going to change all that. The studio, more known for its gangster films than anything else, is producing a movie about a guy who finds out he was part of a study on divorced children. The man discovers this when he’s wanted for a follow up to the study which covered his parent’s divorce some fifteen years ago.

The movie is said to be a satire titled “A.C.O.D. (Adult Children of Divorce).”

The screenplay has been written by Ben Karlin and is being directed by Stu Zicherman. The pair said about the project:

We’re very glad to get the validation from Miramax, especially since we’ve been working on the script longer than any of our parents were married.

Clive Bellmore

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It’s been on the cards for months now and finally it’s out in the open; Madonna and her 1 trick pony filmmaking husband, Guy Ritchie, are heading for the divorce courts. Furthermore, it’s going to be a very public and messy divorce as the two are making constant jibes about each other in public, and have massive personal fortunes to fight over.

Well, Guy Ritchie’s personal fortune is big (after films like Snatch and Lock Stock) but Madonna’s is huge. She’s been at the top of the charts for over 20 years, constantly reinventing herself. She’s loaded, and her divorce is going to cost her more than it’ll cost him (which is a rare thing in the UK divorce courts).

To signal their intent for a good public dust-up they’ve hired two of the best known and most cutthroat divorce lawyer gunslingers in the business. Madge has teamed up with Fiona Shackleton, the blood sucking vampire who represented Sir Paul McCartney in his split from the evil Heather Mills. Meanwhile, Guy Ritchie has hired Helen Ward, the woman who secured £48 million for Beverley Charman when she divorced her husband John in 2006.

It’s all shaping up for a very messy tussle.

Clive Bellmore

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Divorces rarely run smoothly, in fact when couples divorce they tend to be very bitter arguments where divorce lawyers are the only winners.

This trend was never highlighted so perfectly, and publically, than the divorce between Sir Paul McCartney and Heather Mills. As a result of the constant stream of bitter, acrimonious divorces, a leading high court judge has called for an end to the trend.

Mr Justice Coleridge commented that as recently as five years ago the number of lawyers in the UK using the American styled ‘collaborative-law’ was very low. However now as many as 1,250 lawyers across the UK are using the approach, which avoids the conflict seen in many divorce cases.

The judge was speaking in front of 100 lawyers, who’d gathered together to celebrate the five years since the new approach has been used in the UK.

He commented:

We lawyers are by nature and training adversarial and sometimes aggressive.

That was in a way inevitable because clients wanted support and to be told “they will come out all right, that they will win,” he said.

But although separation and divorce were “always horrendously stressful — some say worse than the death of a spouse”, to use the new process to ensure the minimum of distress was “hugely rewarding and a great deal more worthwhile than battering the other side into submission or fighting to conclusion”.

Clive Bellmore

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If ever there was a great reason to get divorced, clearing space in the bathroom is as good as any. Women, particularly wives, have a nasty habit of taking up loads of space on the sink and in the bathroom cabinet. Little bottles of perfume, face-packs, bath salts, anti ageing cream, wax and various other bottles and cartons of junk are liberally sprinkled around the room.

Surely all you need is bogroll, toothpaste and a shaver? You can’t possibly need anything else!

Seriously though, it’s incredible how bare a bathroom can look after divorce, and I don’t mean that in a depressing, self destructive sort of way. I genuinely mean how nice it is that you can get in the shower and use it without first having to carefully relocate countless amounts of crap and to pull down the bra and tights set that are always hanging from the shower rail.

Of course the lack of waiting for the bathroom is also an important factor, as is the lack of nagging that is usually associated with a fair amount of water sprinkled on the bathroom floor after using the shower. Does it really harm anyone? I don’t think so.

And towels are supposed to be hung on the floor!

Clive Bellmore

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