Saturday 3 December 2011

Jada Pinkett and Will Smith Deny Break-up Rumors


At some point yesterday, entertainment headlines started blaring that Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith, one of the few allegedly successful Hollywood couples, were breaking up. That carried on throughout the day, until the following joint statement was issued by Will and Jada via Access Hollywood:

"Although we are reluctant to respond to these types of press reports, the rumors circulating about our relationship are completely false. We are still together, and our marriage is intact."

And while it would be very easy to dismiss the whole episode as a result of overzealous and erroneous reporting on the part of the entertainment media - specifically InTouch Weekly - it's probably best to simply put the notion of a Smith break-up on the shelf for now. No one's going to convince me that InTouch Weekly should be trusted on the merits of their journalistic integrity, but digging up gossip on celebrities is their entire reason for existence. So, in that sense, I give them the benefit of the doubt that they uncovered something very tangible and very convincing, which suggested that the Smith marriage was finished.

Perhaps publishing the headline was premature, and that would appear to be the case given the joint statement denial. But I'm still betting that there was something uncovered that would lead a reasonable person to assume that the Smith marriage is in big trouble. Maybe the story goes away entirely, but I'm betting that we hear more about this at some point in the next year or two, possibly sooner.

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