Ricki Lake is a lovely sod isn’t she? Even if her particular brand of cheeriness and optimism grates, you can’t truly hate her can you? Of course you can. She’s a celebrity. You can hate them all you want.
Despite being considerably more wealthy than you, her successes don’t mean she’s not prone to massive thickery.
See, Ricki is just as stupid as anyone else and can totally be duped by people online. She was all ready to marry a man from England who she’s found via online dating and, remarkably, it transpired that he was a “user and liar”.
There are a whole host of people who live out some bizarre fantasy online. Seriously. They sit in their festering pits surrounded by drained bottles of cheap wine, spouting off to the world about their invented achievements and plough through stolen jokes and borrowed anecdotes and nostalgia, wooing the lonely and neglected.
Of course, this two-way neediness is a lesson in abject misery for anyone unlucky enough to catch on to it.
So, if you’re pretending to be a kind, sensitive soul… possibly with a few problems (great if you’re the kind of person who attracts the kind of people who want to ‘fix’ broken, troubled minds) like a wounded wanker, then you’ll probably have a decent success rate when luring the fragile into something of a relationship, which you can then contort into whatever nefarious direction you like!
GREAT!
And Ricki Lake was no exception as she became “infatuated” with a Brit she met on the web. Talking to Newsweek, she said:
“When I was single two years ago, I decided I wanted a boyfriend for my birthday. My friends thought I was crazy for online dating.”
The relationship progressed very quickly (surprise!) and she even met with immigration lawyers so she could marry this sneaky bozo!
“I found this narcissist online and started a whirlwind relationship where I was delusional. I was with a guy who was a total user and liar. He was English and considered himself a poet.
She should’ve ran a mile at ‘poet’. Other professions to avoid are ‘musician’, ‘writer’, ‘celebrity gossip blogger’, ‘painter’ and absolutely anyone who says they’ve served in the armed forces.
“He was more charismatic than physically beautiful but I became infatuated with him very quickly. I was out of my mind in some ways. I wanted it so badly I lost all clarity… I was going to marry him so he could get a green card. I even went to England with him and met his mother. He was such a bad guy. I was the only one who didn’t see the signs… I found out from my housekeeper that he would be nice to my children in front of my face but would cringe about them behind my back.”
The bastard!
“After six weeks, I looked in the mirror and didn’t recognise myself. I had lost all sense of who I was. I realised it was not working. As soon as I saw the light, it was over. I didn’t cry a tear about this guy. I dumped him.”
HURRAY!
And now, Ricki Lake has found love with some bloke called Christian Evans but we don’t care about that really. All we want to do is shout…
GO RICKI! GO RICKI! GO RICKI! GO RICKI!
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