Are Hollywood Stars’ 🌟 Romantic Relationships Real Or Fake?
"PROmances" - celebrity pairings that are less about love and more about profile 🤩 - are nothing new.
Watching celebrities, like Taylor Swift and Tom Hiddleston back in 2016, make out around the world 🌎 is like watching a fruit rotting in time lapse. The accelerated grossness is fascinating 🤨, and it teaches us something both literal and metaphorical about the world around us.
On the surface, the pair made a lot of sense: Swift, the most successful pop 🎤 star on the planet and tall, and Hiddleston, a tall and very British actor in a very successful franchise. Neither of them can dance, but the very public way in which they have played out their romance so far - kissing on a beach 🏖 in front of the paparazzi, meeting each other's parents in front of the paparazzi, touring Rome in front of the paparazzi, celebrating the 4th of July in front of the paparazzi - has led everyone from their respective fanbases to Phillip Schofield, an English television 📺 presenter, to call nonsense on the whole spectacle.
However, celebrities end up in fake 🥸 relationships (if it indeed is a fake relationship) all the time, for many reasons. Usually it is just good old-fashioned, dead-eyed cynical ambition. As proved by genuine couples as far back as Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbank and up to the current-day mainstays such as the Beckhams, the Knowles-Carters, the Kardashian-Wests 🕶, and the Jolie-Pitts, two celebrities are better than one in terms of earning power and brand recognition. For the rich 💰 and famous, it makes sense to date other rich and famous people, strategically speaking.
Sometimes, this kind of pairing turns into a spectacular controversy 🤯. Kaley Cuoco, star of inexplicably long-running, award-winning canned laughter show The Big Bang Theory, and Henry Cavill, the guy who got the role of Superman, were represented by the same PR company and completely coincidentally began dating 💘 in 2013 around the release of Man of Steel. Their grocery 🛒 shopping outings struggled to make anyone believe the two were doing anything more than holding hands the second a camera lens pointed their way, and the "relationship" was almost comically brief. Now, they have the dubious honour of being at the top of every "TOP TEN CELEBRITY RELATIONSHIPS THAT WERE TOTALLY FAKE!!" list ever published.
On the other hand, relationships forged in a marketing boardroom can occasionally blossom 🌼 into something more genuine. It seems likely that Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart, as the stars of one of the biggest teen movie franchises in the world, were encouraged toward replicating their onscreen romance off-screen to further sell in the idea 💡 of true, unending vampire love to Twilight fans. Their relationship, never properly confirmed, but told through long lenses 📸 and red carpet appearances, may have begun as work. However, four years down the line appeared to be very real. By the time Stewart was caught cheating on Pattinson with the director of her movie The Huntsman, they had moved in 🏠 together, gotten pets, and were more relaxed about talking about their romance.
Ever thought if your favourite celebrity couple was arranged? Let us know which celebrity couple you think may be fake in the comments below 👇👇👇😎.
Reference:
Medford, G. 2016, July 11. Why Celebrities Fake Relationships to Help Their Careers. Vice.
