LeAnn Rimes doesn’t make much of an impression in the gossip inches normally. That’s because she’s a boring person who does nothing wrong and only has two famous songs. She’s just someone who wanders over the horizon occasionally and then slopes back like Greyfriars Bobby looking for his dead owner.
However, lately, she’s been getting dragged over hot coals after she decided to have an affair with a chap called Eddie Cibrian.
This all sounds rather salacious doesn’t it? Sneaking around, illicit kisses and thriving in the thrill of the chase and the will to not get caught. But wait! What’s this? We shouldn’t rush to any kind of judgement?
So what’s the skinny? Has Rimes been banging her uglies with a series of men, and now she’s finally been caught and shown up to be the homewrecking black widow, obsessed by sex and what she can’t have?
We wish.
Rimes says:
“What happened is not who I am, period.”
“But I do know how much I love him. So I’ve always said I don’t live my life with regret. I can’t.”
See, you probably don’t know or particularly care, Rimes was married to someone called Deane Sheremet, but she met Cibrian while shooting a film called ‘Northern Lights’. Cibrian was raising two children with his wife, Brandi Glanville. But that didn’t stop them having lots of sex with each other. If you want it to be more exciting, you can assume that the pair did at least three sexual positions, including ‘The Testcular Castanet Cluster Finger’.
So what about this affair then?
“It happens every day to so many people. If I take away my album sales, my words … you have just another couple. You had two couples whose marriages didn’t work who really stumbled upon each other and fell in love. I can’t change critics’ minds. Nothing I’m going to say is going to change it. I do know that and I have accepted that.”
So the fact she’s had an affair makes her records bad? Are we reading that correctly? We always thought her records were bad in fairness.
Anyway, Dirty Cibrian chipped in…
“The truth is that we’re human beings. We make mistakes and we learn from them, but we’re human. We fell in love.
“We’re talking about something that’s over a year, year and-a-half old, really, and we’re still together, and we’re madly in love. I think people are finally seeing that, but it doesn’t mean that people will accept it or the tabloids will stop trying to print lies and try to tear us apart or tear us down.”
So there you have it. Two people fall in love even though they’re already married, just like loads of people do all the time who aren’t famous.
Gah.
Celebrities are really determined to make salacious stories as difficult to write as possible. Alas, it looks like we’ll have to go back to criticising the things they make as opposed to the things they do in private.
Or, in the case of LeAnn Rimes, repeatedly point out that, no matter what she does, she’ll always look a bit like a human/piglet hybrid.