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Reading about the break-up of the 19-year marriage of Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban, I was interested in some comments from our old mate \u2018A. Source\u2019 about the possible cause. According to the Sun: \u2018Keith put a brave face on Nicole\u2019s raunchy screen roles and all the comments she\u2019d make about her sexuality.\u00a0But he didn\u2019t react well when people teased him about Nicole getting it on with hunky younger guys, albeit only on camera, and it was a sensitive topic that became a real issue as time wore on.\u2019<\/p>\n
It\u2019s true that Kidman \u2013 58 \u2013 has made a speciality in recent years of getting her kit off in order to engage in mutual mauling with men young enough to be her fourth husband \u2013 specifically in Babygirl in which she got up to all sorts with the gorgeous 29-year-old Harris Dickinson. It can\u2019t have done the 57-year-old Urban any favours to hear his wife protesting too much by saying stuff like: \u2018There were times when we were shooting where I was like, \u201cI don\u2019t want to orgasm any more\u201d.\u2019\u00a0Because we all say that after a hard day\u2019s work, don\u2019t we?<\/p>\n
Whatever the ins and outs (oops) of the situation, the phrase \u2018Nice work if you can get it\u2019 comes inevitably to mind. I recall a story that boys at my comp used to tell about the mythical Fake Kissing James Bond: that there was actually a man who was paid for the arduous task of snogging the Bond girls to make sure the lighting was right, Connery\/Moore being too special to hang about for hours. I\u2019m pretty sure it was an urban myth, but it was believed because of the way film stars are seen to have the jammiest lives imaginable. Not only do they get paid a fortune for playing Let\u2019s Pretend, but a lot of the time this entails being paid a fortune to simulate sex with the most attractive people on the planet.<\/p>\n
This being the case, I think we should actually congratulate our film star community on not being even more promiscuous than they are. Yes, there\u2019s the old thespian get-out clause that unfaithfulness to a primary partner D.C.O.L (Doesn\u2019t Count On Location) but, regrettably, one gets the feeling that this was a much bigger thing in the past. These days, with a far more po-faced attitude to doing the dirty deed prevalent among the young generation, the film stars among them are still likely to take up with their co-star at the drop of a non-binary knicker \u2013 but as they\u2019re dreary serial monogamists, they tend not to have much of the thrilling \u2018overlap\u2019 that made old Hollywood couplings and sunderings so sleazily sexy. Angelina (\u2018I don\u2019t sleep with my co-stars\u2019) Jolie was once an outrageous outlier in this department (Laura Dern said of Jolie\u2019s second marriage to Billy Bob Thornton: \u2018I left our home to work on a movie, and while I was away, my boyfriend got married, and I\u2019ve never heard from him again\u2019), but now that she\u2019s retired from the sexual battlefield \u2013 like a nectarous Napoleon being packed off to Elba \u2013 the newcomers just aren\u2019t the same. I can\u2019t get excited about Sabrina Carpenter nicking somebody called \u2018Joshua Bassett\u2019 off Olivia Rodrigo, or about Taylor Swift being bowled a googly by Denise Welch\u2019s son \u2013 mind you, as I\u2019m 66, it would be weird and pervy if I did.<\/p>\n
But I\u2019m pretty sure it isn\u2019t just my superannuated state which leads me to feel dismay at the tame sexual shenanigans of the new generation of stars; as with brilliant pop music, I really was blessed to live through a golden age of showbiz frolics. Liz Hurley ordering a new bed and very publicly and solemnly overseeing its delivery after Hugh Grant\u2019s capers his car! Pam and Tommy acting like they\u2019d invented sex! Madonna getting up to goodness knows what with practically every famous man around! Somehow, Robert Pattinson being \u2018kind of engaged\u2019 to FKA Twigs for three years doesn\u2019t have the \u2018erotic vagrancy\u2019 the Vatican condemned the eight-times-married Elizabeth Taylor for.<\/p>\n
Somehow, Robert Pattinson being \u2018kind of engaged\u2019 to FKA Twigs for three years doesn\u2019t have the \u2018erotic vagrancy\u2019 the Vatican condemned the eight-times-married Elizabeth Taylor for<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just me: celebrity couples are just far less interesting than they used to be. There are now so many of them, and they all seem to meet, date and eventually hate in the same way and with increasingly dizzying speed. These days couples meet on set; date, mate and possibly spawn; have tattoos of each other\u2019s names; get sick of each other \u2013 and then the lies start, not so much to each other as to the public who were previously sold every soppy, sickening detail of their private lives. We will be told that there is \u2018no third party involved\u2019 (especially not their sexy current co-star); that the suspect co-respondent is also a \u2018dear friend\u2019 of the dupe as well as the adulterer; that all three have the \u2018utmost respect\u2019 for each other \u2013 and then, after a solid six months or more of this arrant offal, come the first photos of the adulterers on a boat. Then the lawyers arrive, the tattoos come off and so do the gloves, and all merry hell breaks loose. And you just wonder why they bothered denying it for so long.<\/p>\n
Because of the timid times we live in, no one\u2019s willing to out themselves as a sex fiend any more (see Liz Taylor saying to a gossip columnist \u2018What do you expect me to do \u2013 sleep alone?\u2019 after she nabbed a married man off of his wife immediately after being widowed). J-Lo can always be counted on to wear her heart on her sleeve, but her grandiosity (Taylor could be down-to-earth) and her lack of humour (Taylor could be witty) makes her a figure of fun rather than envy. The massive failure of what\u00a0Variety\u00a0dubbed \u2018a self-financed $20 million three-part multimedia project examining Lopez\u2019s life as a serial romantic\u2019 with Ben Affleck was the cherry on the sickening sundae of self-promotion \u2013 especially when their long-delayed union went bust.<\/p>\n
Should we sympathise? Is it really harder to find and keep true love when you\u2019re surrounded by \u2018worldies\u2019 stripping off and climbing all over you? No one ever said that beauty was a guarantee of good sex (Marilyn: \u2018I don\u2019t think I do it properly\u2019), yet somehow we can\u2019t help assuming that it is. When I was young, I asked a smart boy of my acquaintance whether he would choose as a sex partner a beauty who wasn\u2019t impressed in bed or a plain girl who went wild with joy. He didn\u2019t miss a beat choosing the former.<\/p>\n
With the raising of the Hollywood sign, for the first time there was a place which acted as a magnet for millions of the most physically attractive people in the world \u2013 and Mexico, where a marriage could be ended just by waving a fistful of dollars, was just across the border. Hollywood razed monogamy, made it a museum piece, with the allowance of a level of promiscuity that would have got an alley cat stoned to death outside the city walls.<\/p>\n
Such a shame that changed. Now it\u2019s all got to be Problematic or you\u2019re not a Good Person. As Kidman bleated about being paid to romp with hot boys: \u2018There were parts that are now not in the film\u2026 it was exhausting, but it was also just emotionally disturbing to my body and my psyche, because I couldn\u2019t tell what was real and what wasn\u2019t.\u2019 Phwoar! So next time you\u2019re tempted to dismiss film stars as a bunch of flibbertigibbets, imagine for a moment that you are blessed with that level of physical beauty, and surrounded by it also \u2013 and quake at the depths of your own narrowly-avoided depravity.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n
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