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Catherine Townsend
A sex and dating columnist, Catherine Townsend published her first novel Sleeping Around: Secrets of a Sexual Adventuress in 2007, and followed up with Breaking The Rules: Confessions of a Bad Girl in 2008. She also appeared in How To Have Sex After Marriage on Five, and is now writing a third book. Born in Arkansas, Catherine was a gossip columnist for New York Magazine before moving to London in 2003, since when she has had a very interesting - and pretty public - private life...
A judge has ruled against Richard Batista, the guy who sued his wife for $1.5 million, the value of his donated kidney, according to the New York Post (Which had one of the best ever opening sentences with 'It was kidney failure'). After his wife broke his heart and left him for another man, Batista wanted his organ back. He sought to classify the kidney as a marital asset in his divorce proceeding, which could have set a very dangerous precedent.
But the judge saw sense, ruled that the kidney was a gift and even suggested that the doctor could have committed a crime by trying to get money for a bodily organ.
Hopefully this will be the final nail in the coffin of the sorry saga - though somehow, I doubt it. This guy is really pissed off, and I can smell an appeal coming.
After reading about Gordon Ramsay's alleged seven-year affair in the News of the World, I couldn't help wondering why, in this day and age, anyone would choose to base their business around a family man image? The British public can forgive sexual dalliances and crazy behaviour from our chefs - hell, we practically expect it - but we hate allegations of hypocrisy.
Ramsay has made several claims of fidelity to Tana, his wife of 12 years. He has described her as “the only woman who can turn me on... Tana is my wife, my lover and the person I want in my bed and in my arms every night.”
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Ramsay has made several claims of fidelity to Tana, his wife of 12 years. He has described her as “the only woman who can turn me on... Tana is my wife, my lover and the person I want in my bed and in my arms every night.”
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So Jennifer Aniston has finally aired her feelings about her former love rival by simply saying "What Angelina did was very uncool".The Daily Mail calls the quote, from an upcoming interview in US Vogue, a "searing condemnation of her notorious nemesis", but I can't help wondering, who cares? The whole "Team Anison vs. Team Jolie" feud was so long ago, and Brad and Angelina have been together for years now and are raising a family rapidly approaching the size of a football team.
The question is: when do relationships that began on allegedly shady (or adulterous) ground begin to gain acceptance? Is it after the two new partners marry? Have children? After the ex finds someone else and moves on? Or never?
