Define perfect. Define the perfect romance. Define the perfect couple. One person’s perception of ‘perfect’ differs largely from the next in a world that becomes persistently shallower every single day. Define Fame, fortune and all the excess that comes along with it. Yet again, there’s too many perceptions there to even fit onto the World Wide Web. You might wonder what I’m getting at, and if I were the reading this, I would too-I think I’d worry for my sanity more than anything. But that aside, I want you to think what happens when you put the perfect couple into the equation with fame. What do you come up with? Justin and Britney? Posh n’Becks? Brad and Jen? They smile a lot, give us ample toilet paper for our puppy dogs in the form of gossip columns and full-page feature sell out pages to the trendiest ‘Hello’ magazine reporter in town. But all we see is the light bouncing off their faces, the flashes doing double overtime and burning out before they step on the red carpet of the hottest new bar, awards ceremony or world movie premier. Sure, people try and press them for new information, such as-is Britney’s mouth a virgin? Is Jen pregnant? But when they answer does it really reflect their high profile relationship in any way, shape or form? Are they secretly all miserable and clawing at their Ralph Lauren wallpaper, wailing in misery at how Justin’s demand for head every night is making her tongue ache?

I’m sure it’s safe to say that there are bunches of good, healthy relationship’s that have managed to withstand the media pressures coming in from all angles, but it wouldn’t be anything new to find out they’d been lying to us, that it was all publicity to help (or in most cases hinder) their career to be able to move to the next Hollywood, or Orlando plateau. We know relationships hit ruts, rough spots, and times of crisis when the lawyers are on standby to pull their strings and automate responses but what when it’s more than that? There’s a problem someone doesn’t want to get out of, they stay with their partner because they love them and totally convince themselves that it’ll all be all right in the end? How many famous couples resort to tactics normally reserved for every Tom, Dick and Harry who lives on Cherry Tree Way? What if someone was so blinded by love that they put themselves through the pain and torment of a stressful, media controlled relationship? What do you think it does to them to have asked the same question again and again, the same dirty man with a cigarette come up to you in the street saying he loved your work and then harass you to be his new best friend? It has to be self destructing to the masses-but there are those that jump through the hoop without touching the sides.

Granted they technically ask for it, they want the lifestyle, the job and the high profile relationship-you get the media and the whole world thrown in it for free, if you want to get into London’s trendy Met bar, you have to have at least a chart topper on your arm and a bunch of photographers trying to chase you inside. But they are normal, just like us, just as ugly inside and just as confused. The spotlight tends to disorientate even the most controlled and stable of people but when you fuse two people of the opposite sex, in the same spotlight and in the same merry-go-round of cheesy smiles and strategic poses- that’s when you start to become the most vulnerable and unstable person of all.