The other day I was reminded of the time I got into an argument with my stepfather and he told me I was "meaner than a junk yard dog". You know - as in the song. I was probably around 10 years old and we were probably arguing about why I was not comfortable having him ask my sleepover guests if they could pitch in with yard work. (You want to go to your friend's house to eat pizza and watch movies, not cut their hedges and mow their lawn). My point is he wasn't exactly the most eloquent guy. Not so quick on his feet and not entirely self-aware. For example, he thought it was appropriate to wear stained sweat pants out to dinner. Once when I went to visit him in the hospital he left his makeshift bedpan on his hospital tray for view. I suppose you could say he didn't have much sense of how he appeared to others. In fact I am not sure he cared at all.
I think Marc Anthony has a similar sense of the world. In his mind he is an international Latin singing superstar with an unbelievable sense of sex appeal and star power. Does the rest of the world agree with this picture? When I think of him I think of a mambo singer with the body of a small child. I think of someone who was unwilling to have his wife have any part of the spotlight without having him four steps behind. How many times did you see Jennifer Lopez conduct an interview without him in the last few years? Does your husband want to follow you everywhere? Don't they have better things to do? I am not sure how comfortable he was playing the lesser star in his relationship.
I bring this up because Marc is now addressing his recent split from Lopez, which seems a few weeks too late. Maybe he couldn't get his PR team to return his calls? Too busy playing Parcheesi? In the course of the last six weeks his ex-wife has been on the cover of Vanity Fair and US Weekly explaining her reason for leaving him all the while he remained silent. PR and life lesson #54: Don’t let someone else tell your story.
So he finally granted an exclusive interview to ABC's Nightline and unsurprisingly doesn't exactly come across well. Let’s just say sincerity is not really his forte.
On the end of his marriage
I’ll tell you it wasn’t some sensationalistic happening.
Interviewer: infidelity?
No, absolutely not. Nothing sensationalistic…
It was a realization on both our parts, so. It wasn’t shocking. These things happen. These things happen.
Interviewer: There was a flight attendant?
There was a flight attendant. There was a pilot I heard. There was this guy sitting next to me in a rehab in Houston. I’ve heard it all.
Celebrity watching and speculation is almost like a sport.
Not exactly a denial of an affair, no? I also enjoy his response that celebrity watching is a sport. If it is then he has been a willing participant. He may have even been a medal contender. How can you complain about celebrity watching when you let your kids appear in Gucci advertisements, you promote yourself in Kohl’s commercials, and you insist on being interviewed on red carpets?
-Kate Casey
Kate Casey is a Pop Culture Lover. PR Pro. New mom. Comedy nerd. Celebrity gossip fan. Follow her on Twitter
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