Everything comes at a Price

It couldn't be more far-removed from my life, but I would imagine being a high-profile celebrity can be as rewarding as it is soul-draining. I'm not talking about Julia Roberts, George Clooney et al, I'm talking about the kind of disposable, snap-happy chaps that radiate fake tan, failed livelihoods and a low-budget perfume from the pages of Now!, Star and Heat.
You know what they say - don't bite the hand that feeds you. Jade Goody literally sold her dying body to OK! magazine and was devoured by Britain in a pantomime-style finale before the curtains were drawn on her final performance. Then her family asked for privacy, and they were ignored.
The latest celebrity that is preparing to brace herself for the not-so-fabulous side of fame, aka the stomach-churning drop in the rollercoaster to use a tired metaphor, is Katie Price. I would say Peter Andre, but let's face it, he's never been as famous as his estranged wife and never will be.
She gave us her boobs, her kid's births, birthday parties, theme park trips, holidays, wedding vow renewals...and now her life has taken the most interesting turn of all, she wants privacy and has boarded a private jet to god-knows-where.
It doesn't work like that. Needless to say, despite such a heart-breaking time in her life, the public will be a little bit suspicious about all this. Remember the OK! cover earlier this year that featured a picture of her crying, her makeup running down her face, wedding-ring-less, above a headline that read "I caught Pete cheating"? Her fans grasped hold of the magazine as if it was her ring-less hand and hurried to buy it to devour the pages in concern at home...the worst has happened...what an awful thing! Only to get to the interview page and be greeted with confusing pictures of Katie and Peter happily cavorting on a bed with a blow-up doll. So, Pete had 'cheated' on his wife........with a blow-up doll. At a photoshoot. Great, yeah, fool me once, shame on you. But fool me twice, shame on me. If this divorce turns out to be a publicity stunt of the same design, people will not be best pleased.
If it turns out they are getting divorced so they can get re-married, or if they get back together by the end of the week, then a plague on both your houses!