Just Saying | So love is dead after the Brangelina break-up? Get a life
Yonden Lhatoo marvels at the non-existent personal connections people are making with Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie upon news of their divorce
Omg! The world is running out of weeping emojis. Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie are getting divorced.
I usually couldn’t give a hoot about celebrity romances and the inevitable break-ups that follow, but there’s no escaping the global hysteria over “Brangelina”.
Even a senior colleague, who normally comes across as one of the most level-headed editors I’ve met in the news business, was swooning over a line she read in Vogue magazine: “Today shall go down as the day love died.”
Puh-lease. If you combined all the world’s exploding Samsung phones into one mega blast, it would still be extinguished by the “love is dead”-themed cry fest that has waterlogged the internet and social media platforms.
Most of the reactions project shock and despair. “Honestly, how do people expect me to still believe in love after this?”; “How is there hope for anyone else? There is no love in this world”; “I don’t know what to believe in any more”; “If love fails them there is no hope for us muggles”.
