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Raven Says: It’s Halloween this Friday. And you can be sure people will out clubbing in full force in all manners of costumes and getups.

Judging from previous 31 Oct parties, I’m a little bewildered. Where along the lines of ’scary’ did sexy nurses or flapper dancers occur? In the throes of prose woven by Poe, Wilde and others  frolicking in the gothic genre, how did I miss the part about Pamela Anderson-with-fangs? Or the crazy zombie stripper girls?

If Halloween dressing up is about scaring someone silly, then should it be about ghouls and demons and hooded creatures? Not sexy fishnet stockings and stiletto heels?

Fear in the times it’s most celebrated has always highlighted the subtle terrors of that most terrifying to the day. Dorian Gray focuses on the loss of youth, Dracula on the sensual and foreign, Frankenstein and Phantom of the Opera both exude the agony and effect of social and emotional ostracism in a time when it was most prevalent.

Perhaps this year, it’ll be different. If societal fears are indeed the fashion after which to mould our halloween horrors on, then this year, we should all dress up as house repossession letters, rejected credit card slips, or crashing stock market charts. Then again, Pamela Anderson with fangs would probably be less depressing.

Tell Us: What are you dressing up for Halloween this year? Will you be curbing your Halloween and year-end revelry in light of the looming recession?

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Raven Says: Madonna’s epic divorce from Guy Ritchie could leave the Lock Stock director with more than US$150 million but he’s said that he doesn’t want a cent of her money.

Yet, the split looks set to get ugly. Madonna’s lawyers plan to portray him as a cruel, selfish husband who often put her down and once said she was a “granny” compared to her backup dancers. Madonna has also launched her own attacks. Onstage during her ongoing tour, before singing her song Miles Away, she said: “This song is for the emotionally retarded. Maybe you know some people who fall into that category. God knows I do.”

So Mister Madonna is understandably annoyed. When you’re talented and famous in your own right, but married to the woman with the biggest shadow on the planet (rivalling Oprah?) what are you going to do? Stay there silently while she throws you punches in view of the whole world?

Even after you’ve created flop films around her and supported her forays into acting, to the detriment of your own career? Ouch. That’s gotta sting. Yes, he’s got his own money, but compared to Madonna’s billions, it seems paltry.

But are we surprised at this split? After all, how many men can stand having a wife who is more successful, more famous and owns more moolah than them?

Tell Us: Are you surprised at the Madonna-Guy Ritchie divorce? Can couples, where the wife is much more successful or rich than the man, survive such a power imbalance?

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Can the world’s most successful female artist, director, writer , entertainer ever maintain a matrimony. I doubt so. even in this so called new age world of the metrosexual, a man is a man and having a wife With such accolades will be tough or nearly impossible to live with and sustain a marriage,

Madonna has for 25 yrs enthralled, entertain and morph from singer/songwriter to even childrens book author. She has and will always be morphing and changing and seeking new challenges.

Raising Malawi is definitely one of her main concerns now and that brought us into the saga of David Banda, her recently adopted son. Definitely Guy Ritchie was hardly in this picture.

It would be almost a miracle for her at 50 now to even get the so called the man of her dreams. But she may still find her
most complementing life partner yet. Being a British and much younger then her by a decade, I too was nearly believing that this fairy tale marriage would last, further knowing that it was a chance planned meeting btw her and her Guy by Truddie/Sting at a private meeting.

Nevertheless she has been a mother and a wife, roles that we would have never thought of her to be more than 20 yrs ago.

But even by Industry standards her 8 yrs marriage is still a miracle, Not claiming to be a Madonna expert, judging from her romances And past relations , a short marriage to Sean Penn(another strong headed individual), a short affair with Carlos Leon(Lourdes Dad), another fairy tale affair with Warren Beatty (who took Anette Benning as a wife eventually), these are the major publicized affairs of her life, it seems to show that this well known control Chautesse is a woman of her own rights and calls her own shots.

In her own right Being who she is , MADONNA is indeed a truly challenge in itself. Any man who sought her should know she is larger…much larger in the real world, and needs to be who she is.
And this in itself will pose to be a big issue in her relationships.

As Guy said, he seeks a homely down to earth marriage and family , and he is married to the World’s most Famous woman.
He should have thought better.No…I mean he should have known better.

The fight for her millions will be a careful orchestra between their High profile Divorce Lawyers. We can only watch in disbelief the course it is going to take. One more go for the tabloids.

Anis Ishin

Raven Says: The Sex And The City movie was shockingly and severely disappointing. Not only was it a jaw-droppingly materialistic, 2.5 hour advertisement for highly priced fashionable trash, but the insultingly blatant product placement actually got in the way of the story.

The loveable characters were all there with a few fabulous extras like Jennifer Hudson (DreamGirls) but the pitiable brand obsession buzzed in your face incessantly like a pesky bug that won’t take a hint, and dragged everyone down into the gullible realm of sad, shallow and sloppy. It looked like the same stylist who had wooed us with her brilliant flair throughout the TV show, Patricia Field, had suffered from some complete collapse of judgement, so the only thread left to keep us from walking out was the amazing friendship the woman shared.

This the creators obviously knew, because they rounded up the show with even more product placements, but this time, the product was friendship. So, if you want a movie with amazing fashion and a feel-good after-buzz, watch The Devil Wears Prada. If you want reassurance that it’s okay to be a simple self obsessed, brand-hoarding narcissist, then Sex And The City is definitely the movie for you.

Tell Us: Do you think movies like Sex And The City encourage “brand-hoarding” narcissism? Did you like or dislike the movie?

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Precisely! At last, there’s someone who shares my views!

I was actually looking forward to watching the movie Sex And The City, even though I’ve never catch a single episode of its series before on TV.

There’s just something about it and its trailer which showed off and convinced me that it was going to be worth every cent of buying a ridiculously $10 movie ticket.

However, when I finally got down to watch the movie, I yawned halfway through. It is, yes, disappointing and I agree on the endless display of high-end fashion labels.

For a moment, I found myself gawking and admiring the gorgeous outfits donned by the 4 main actresses, especially by Sarah Jessica Parker (SJP), that I actually forgot to concentrate on the movie plot for a while! How distracting!

There’s even this one scene when SJP kept showing off different wedding gowns and she was as though being photographed as a model.

It’s alright to boast fashion for a few parts of the movie, but I’m afraid too much of it is nauseating.

I feel that a really good storyline and witty dialogues in a movie script are the key in producing an awesome movie. They are way more important than product placements! Talk about having advertisements even during the movie itself!

And what’s embarrassing is that even a movie that is acted by a panda and its other animal friends, is way better and caused the audience to have a lot more laughing fits! I should have just spent my money on the latter movie.

Nurul Syuhaida

i have seen sex and the city last week.i didn’t expect it to be a good movie.but i really love it.i can say it’s one of the best movie i have watch.i love it when high-end labels and fashion are featured in the movie.All the high-end labels are super nice.i dont find the movie disappointing.besides,high-end labels and fashion.it also shows us the meaning of friendship between this four girls.they share ups and downs,sorrow and happiness together.you can see the girls were crying when sarah’s soon to be husband didn’t arrived.they did everything together.they were there for each other.it shows how they treasure their friendship.its more to friendship thanhigh-end label and fashion.the movie is superb.

Rushda

Raven Says: From the creators of the high quality site TheCoolHunter.net comes a shocking new site called Dear-God.net. On the site, netizens post confessions, share their feelings or ask soul-searching questions about life.

But the popularity of the site raises the question of whether humans are getting more in touch with religion, or do they just need an anonymous listener to share their load with in order to cope with life.

In a modern society so detached and alone in its crowded madness, we all seem to have lost touch with not only each other but ourselves as well. In using cyberspace as our medium for relief, do we acknowledge only a comfort taken in the unknown, or does it simply highlight that we’re really just looking for friends under guises?

I wonder how much of this concept is a support system and how much is a collective cry for help in the insanity of today’s society. If we spent less time in front of our computers and more with our peers, would there be any need for a website such as this?

Tell Us: Would you share your feelings on a site like Dear-God.net? What do you think of it?

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The baring of one’s heart and soul to a trusted someone in the veils of secrecy and confidentiality was perhaps popularized by the confession boxes in the movies since a long time ago. It has allowed the protagonists a safe platform to reveal his inner-most feelings and concerns in an unobtrusive manner, thereby allowing him to attain some sort of comfort and solace.

Translating this concept into the virtual arena, we see the proliferation of sites such as Dear-God.Net (DGN). And for the uninitiated, DGN actually claims to be “totally independent and non-denominational” and is “not a religious or spiritual/new-age organization”. In fact, God is only a mere representation of the different higher beings that its seekers believe in, on the site. Hence, I wouldn’t think that there are really religious overtones in play for the popularity of such sites.

Then this brings us to the question – “Will such virtual support systems actually be non-existential if we can share our problems with our peers in reality?” And I believe this answer is really unimportant as long it serves to provide an alternative platform to air their thoughts and obtain sincere advice from others. And it is even more consoling and connecting when others who are facing similar problems can identify with your problems and share “first-hand” advice and experiences (granted they are sound).

Look no further than at home - we already have a local online youth peer support portal by youths for youths called the Audible Hearts http://audiblehearts.yah.sg/. They were initiated with the same rationale and “hopes to supplement current help-lines as an additional avenue for young people to seek advice anonymously through the Internet.”

Ultimately, we have to recognize that not everyone is comfortable with admitting to the fact to they are facing problems and subsequently sharing them on a face-to-face setting or even over the phone. It could be for reasons of not wanting to be perceived as weak or to burden the people around them. Then it could also be that some people are just more pensive in nature and prefer to consolidate their thoughts in writing rather than speech.

Therefore if we try to understand the existence of such virtual support systems from such premises, we realize they are really just like our old and trusted “confession boxes” coupled with an Intel inside, where words are communicated with a sleek keyboard and a nifty little mouse.

Benjamin Loh

Raven Says: Somewhere, at some point, it was decided that people were generally stupid and lazy and had to be treated like donkeys.

So, in order to get them to work, a carrot was dangled in front of people’s noses and they were rewarded according to the amount of work that they did.

Some people figured out that if they could do things that other people could not do, they could get more carrots. And so society evolved to the point that we’re at now, where most of us still work for carrots despite the fact that we hate the work that we’re doing.

Freud said: “No other technique for the conduct of life attaches the individual so firmly to reality as laying emphasis on work; for his work at least gives him a secure place in a portion of reality, in the human community.”

It does tempt the question that each of us needs ask ourselves: Are we merely donkeys chasing carrots, or do we run free busying ourselves with activities that are worth the passing hours of our life? Is money really all that matters?

Tell Us: Can you genuinely say you’re happy with your job? Do you think you’ve been rewarded according to the work you put in? And does money really rule over passion?

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 Letters Via E-Mail

Cost of living is spiralling upwards at very constant and speedy rate but wages are never increased at the same rate. Hence, the need to stay on your hated job is inevitable especially so when you realise that you will never get the same if not higher salary when you switch jobs. Though I am working in a specialised industry, I am indeed not happy with the salary because it does not commensurate with the responsibilities borne. But to switch jobs is the most dangerous act to do primarily due to my secondary education though I have bags of experience in this industry. So we are not donkeys per se but realistic and pragmatic persons.

Paul Antony Fernandez

Of course money matters. Otherwise why are we working? Passion is also a drive of motivation, but usually work presides over passion. Especially if the industry is a creative one. For example, being in the media industry myself, clients often demand to do the work their way. Overtime, our creativity dies with the client input and along with it our passion. Am I happy? This question really depends on whether we adequately paid? If there is no passion in the job, the money have to be enough to balance out our emotions attached to a job. Other factors can also motivate us beside money and passion, however these are secondary.

Catherine Ching

I have been working for nearly 10 years. And I’ve job hopped, never staying for long in any particular company. However that changed when I joined my current company in January 2006. It was truly a blessing in disguise, because, before I went for the interview for this job, I was offered a position at a prestigious law firm, but somehow, my job offer was retracted by that law firm and I was back to being jobless again.

With this job, I am very blessed because I truly love what I do, and I have a very good working relationship with my superior and colleague. After encountering (and unwittingly) being part of office politics in my previous jobs, I am grateful that I enjoy a very harmonious relationship with my co workers in my current job. I would actually prefer to work in a good conducive working environment with lesser pay, than being highly paid but miserable at work. Perhaps money doesn’t really motivate me.

I look forward going to work each day, and I’ll actually miss my colleagues when I’m not at work! I guess after so many years, I’ve met many good and bad people alike, who have somehow influenced me that what matters most is your happiness and mental health. Money can always be earned.

Your happiness and mental stability should always be a first priority. As for getting rewarded for the work I’ve put in, well, I’ll give it more time and see how I can progress and grow with my company.

Sarah Rae

Raven Says: By now, I’m sure you may have heard of The Game, the best-selling book by Neil Strauss which teaches you how to go from “average frustrated chump” to “master pickup artist”.

But is it really just a loser’s guide to getting laid, or is it less cretinous than initial impressions lead you to believe? The book arouses your curiosity as the story follows a ‘geek’ into a remarkable world of insecure boys who spend years trying to find their confidence and manhood through the pickup of depthless women in nightclubs. These guys have no confidence, no charm and really nothing going for them at all, so they have to fake it and that is their game.

The book was featured on the New York Times Bestseller List for two months after its release in September 2005 and it will soon be adapted into a film. This just highlights how many tepid and clueless men there really are out there.

But behind the psychologically juvenile methods and strange sad stories recounted, there is some pretty amazing writing. Strauss guides you through the full bodied recollection of a traveled vein with the hand of a master, deft and confident. Though some people revere this book as the ‘bible of picking up club sluts’, I argue that the real mastery in this book lays in the art of penmanship, not physical prowess.

Tell Us: Have you read The Game? Do you like it? And do you think a book can actually teach you how to seduce the opposite sex?

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It is too simplistic to think that there is a set of method that can seduce the girls. I’m sure even under heavy intoxication our girls are more sophisticated than that. I think that this book is rather degrading to the girls but boost the males ego making them think that there is a simple solution to “getting the girls” in the club. Moreover, western culture differ from local culture quite abit.

Tan Kian Chong

Raven Says: As times roll on, I feel an impending sense of doom.

Not about my career or future, but about my face, my skin and my body in general. I feel like I’m slowly turning into a wrinkly potato and there’s nothing I can do about it. Maybe it’s my industry, famed for magnifying beauty until it’s burned out, but that aside, there’s very few of us who are immune to the emotional sadness of aging, no matter how little vanity we think we have.

The stretch of our waists and wrinkle of our once-taunt skin is a constant reminder of our time running out, and this in an age where many of us spend our days in isolation behind our computers, hoping we’re getting the best out of life while secretly knowing and ignoring the fact that we’re living the farthest thing from fulfillment. Time passes and we’re way past our prime, living in the minds that we owned 10 years ago and horrified at the realization that only our outside has changed, and people’s perceptions of us with it.

I find myself wanting to scramble to lose the pounds gained, to fit into those clothes and styles that I was once able to, to not be able to notice the lines quietly etching into my brow. More than anything, I want to have known then what I know now but be able to bask in all the innocent fabulousness of youth, sans spots, droop or cellulite.

As Rita Rudner says, “I don’t plan to grow old gracefully; I plan to have facelifts until my ears meet.” And, as the wrinkles begin to smile in the mirror, I find myself starting to agree with her.

Tell Us: How far would you go in the name of vanity to prevent yourself from aging?

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Raven Says: So, they have a fat girl in the Miss England competition. Chloe Marshall has become the first “plus-sized” girl to make it to the finals of the UK’s national beauty contest.

I know that calling her a ‘fat girl’ makes me sound anti-curves but that’s just too bad. It’s what she is, with a BMI six points over her 5’10” optimal at the young age of 17. Don’t get me wrong, it’s fine to be full figured and curvaceous; we totally adore fatties Crystal Renn, Nigella Lawson and Sophie Dahl - I’m a happy size 12 myself, but I am quite aware that society seems to be embracing fatness with arms a little too widely open.

It’s worrying that people are accepting being a bigger size when they are NOT NATURALLY THAT SIZE… if you eat more vegetables than anything else, eat only as much as you need and get out of breath exercising three times a week and you are still a size 12 then congratulations, that’s your natural size. If you are sitting on your lazy ass, placing your job before your health and eating deep fried food all over the place, then you’re just a disgusting lazy fat ass who doesn’t deserve the right to complain about your size.

We need to remember that while no size is ‘bad’ or ‘good’, it is wrong to lie to ourselves about our true size and it is right to treat our bodies as they deserve to be treated, no matter what size.

Tell Us: Is big necessarily beautiful?

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This question made me have two thoughts, beautiful or not beautiful. To me, as a guy, I would not want to criticise the girls who are big in size as that might affect their conscience. However,I would not mind Chloe Marshall winning this competition because I believe she won it with her excellent personality and a little on appearance because she is one of the beautiful big-sized ladies. As said by many, never judge a book by its cover. She may be fat, but she may have done several good deeds behind our backs.

Being fat is not really a healthy sign. According to the health bulletins, obesity tend to result in health problems such as high blood pressure and Arthritis. I hope that these girls will control their daily meal intakes to have a balanced diet.

Therefore, this makes me difficult to tell whether being fat is beautiful or not, but I can surely tell whether it is healthy or not. So, just let everything be natural.

Joel Ong

Big is beautiful if only you feel confident about it yourself, and that usually only goes to people who are naturally born big.

If binging and lazy is the reason that makes you big, people will find you unacceptable.

I know this better than anyone because i used to be big size girl.

Being big size not only makes me out casted by friends, but also crushed my dreams.

So, 7 months ago i took the first step to losing weight and say bye-bye to the 60 KG big girl.

Now i am a 45kg girl, and i get better treatments where ever i go.

After all, this is a realistic world.

Wendy Chong

The thing is, regardless of whether you are overweight because you binge, or you are lazy, or you have a genetic or medical problem or you are naturally towards the larger side, the society at large will still find you unacceptable. Sadly, thinness is the norm in Singapore and anyone who deviates from this norm is termed unacceptable.

How many times have overweight people been stopped in the streets by complete strangers who rudely shove pamphlets of get-thin-quick schemes and slimming products regardless of the place you are at and company you are with?

I don’t believe these ‘ambassadors’ of thinness are doing people like me a favour, I think they are ultimately insensitive and must be given at least a crash course in proper social etiquette. Somehow the general attitude towards big people in Singapore is that 1) they are slobs, 2) they are not active, 3) they eat a lot, 4) they are unattractive and 5) they most probably are not successful.

This myopic view of overweight people is indeed immature as it shows how narrow-minded people really are. I don’t think I have to list the thousands of individuals you and I may know who are overweight AND successful in their lives! We talk about equal human rights and egalitarian beliefs in Singapore but I strongly believe that such rights do not belong to people who are simply overweight in this country.

Forget the fact that the overweight person could be an educated, eloquent or talented person by all means, that does not really matter because the person’s BMI is not within the healthy range. Yes we agree we are unhealthy by all means.

Perhaps we are even burdening the health system in Singapore by being a breeding ground to numerous chronic or acute illnesses that could affect us due to our weight. But it seems as if the addicted smoker gets a more glamourized treatment than an overweight person who may not have any habits like smoking or drinking! At least they don’t have numerous pamphlets shoved at their faces or taxi-drivers and market uncles telling them how to stop smoking effectively. Overweight people are discriminated and there exists a stereotypical view of big people and no one can possibly deny that. The government encourages Singapore to be a gracious society, especially since the country is gaining popularity amongst the foreign crowd.

Perhaps, Singaporeans can start with being gracious to people who are simply different in size than the average person you bump into. Yes appearances influence first impressions, but if the entire world were to operate only on first impressions, we most probably would not have gotten this far. Learn to be sensitive to another person’s feelings, for being overweight is NOT a crime. Sensitivity ought to be the first signs of a civilized society, but are we even close to achieving that?

And yes, big can be beautiful, and no, it is not a way to justify being overweight.

Renuga d/o Konasegaran

Raven Says: In some ways, it must be hard for Sarah Jessica Parker.

She shot to stardom as the super fashionable and loveable Carrie Bradshaw, lead chick of Sex and The City. Carrie was sweet, pensive and unerringly uber stylish, thanks to the heavy-handed genius of costume designer Patricia Field.

But when time came to design her own fashion line for Steve & Barry’s stores, SJP proved to the world that her character was merely that: a character. From the unfortunate name, Bitten, to the taste-tragic collections, the line was a unanimous flop, disappointing and confusing millions of women and fans worldwide.

Now SJP has earned the title of “Unsexiest Actresses” in Maxim magazine and once again oscillated annoyingly; she admirably quips; “I never thought I was sexy, either” and then later has a pathetic whine about the judgement and how traumatic it was.

You can only wonder when or if she’ll ever figure out that a two-faced public image is probably a large part of what earned her the title in the first place.

Tell Us: Do you agree that Sarah Jessica Parker is the “Unsexiest Actress” in Hollywood? If not, who do you think deserves that title more than her?

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Unsexy Parker? I doubt so. I was astonished by Maxim magazine classifying her under the Unsexiest in Hollywood. To me, this statement is false as she is not a bad celebrity and I believe this has got to be a gossip. I have many reasons why she is not the unsexiest.

Parker has become very influential in the world of fashion. I recalled one event that impressed me the most. In 2000, I watched her hosting the MTV Movie awards and she appeared in no fewer than 15 different costumes throughout the show. She has also become the face of many of the world’s biggest fashion brands. She was also not left out in movies after winning numerous awards.

Since 1999, she had won more than 10 Emmy awards, mainly being the outstanding actress, and several achievements in Golen Globe awards. Thus, calling her an unsexy girl is absolutely an insult to me and her fans. Maxim has got to take note of its words. Jessica Parker is the coolest and most attractive celebrity as compared to others.

If I were to classify celebs under the unsexiest, I would only place Madonna due to her self-righteous bellyaching and rapid postnuptial deterioration. No way for Jessica Parker to be in that group.

Joel Ong

Raven Says: My favourite nightingale, British singer-songwriter Corinne Bailey Rae, lost her husband recently in what looks to be a shattering tragedy for the angelic starlet.

Married since 2001, she’s frequently spoken out about how her husband inspires her songwriting and how lucky she is to have found someone who she wants to spend the rest of her life with. With a super clean-cut image and such critical acclaim that’s unusual for the industry, the news of her husband’s possible death from a drug overdoes must surely be salt on the wound.

My heart goes out to her and her family - she who has done so well and stayed so strong in a shark-filled industry, only to suffer this incredible blow.

But Heath Ledger, Britney on the edge, and now this? It really does make me wonder - is the entertainment industry cursed?

Tell Us: What price must be paid for fame? For Hollywood celebrities, does having fame mean you must sacrifice a part of your personal life?

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LETTERS VIA E-MAIL

People associate fame with wealth – a famous person must be swimming with ridiculously stinking money, and of course there’s some truth to it but there’s a lot more than meets the eye. The pressure, for one. Your life is under a microscope for all to see and it can be overwhelming for some.

I wouldn’t go to such extreme as calling ‘being in a limelight a curse’, after all, it depends on the individual in how they’re dealing with the stress. Guess what, commoner like me has stress too, you know, and whereas I can’t compare my stress with a public figure’s stress, it’s a stress nevertheless and each of us has our own problems to deal with.

Jason Rae died of a drug overdose, and it’s a sad news. But on daily basis people die for a whole number of reasons, so what, are we all cursed? At the end of the day, it goes to show that even public figures are human beings as well, and they’re prone to earthly emotions too, just like the rest of us.

Maybe instead of focusing on the bad side of fame, we should hand it to them. They’re just trying to live their lives, and doing so while we are all sitting on the edge of our seats, ready to judge and criticize their latest misdoings, is pretty damn tough.

Christina Thung

Of course, Hollywood is cursed. When you are in an industry where everything you do or every mistake you make is magnified, naturally it’ll seem as though everybody will have skeletons in the closet.

The truth is, nobody’s perfect. The difference is that ordinary people like you and me could get away with little sins but not celebrities.

But not celebrities. That is why even seemingly goody two shoes celebrities like Corinne Bailey Rae eventually fall prey to the curse.

Is it fair? No, it isn’t. But unfortunately, that is the price that celebrities have to pay for having fame and fortune.

Lisa