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Jesse James and Sandra Bullock celebrate her Oscar win. Hey, they seem happy. Credit: Michael Buckner/WireImage/Getty Images
Sandra Bullock has moved out of the home she shares with husband Jesse James, allegedly because she found out he was cheating on her. Bullock has also pulled out of the London premiere of "The Blind Side," due to "unforeseen personal reasons."
Uh oh. That doesn't sound good.
While most Hollywood marriages seem to come stamped with expiration dates, something about Bullock and James' relationship seemed more solid, more "normal" than the typical Tinseltown union. Maybe because they seemed like such an unlikely pair.
Hollywood loves a good opposites-attract story and, obviously, so do we, the movie-ticket-buying public. So the union of a silver-screen sweetheart and a motorcycle-riding bad boy was incredibly intriguing, especially given their past relationships. Bullock had dated pretty-boy movie stars like Matthew McConaughey and Ryan Gosling, and James seemed to prefer heavily-tattooed porn stars like Jenna Jameson and Janine Lindemulder.
Part of Bullock and James' appeal was that, despite their fame, they weren't paparazzi magnets or gossip-magazine fixtures. We didn't see them sipping Dom on an Italian designer's yacht or overly preening on the red carpet.
They seemed like any other couple dealing with the same problems that our friends and family and we ourselves have, like divorce and kids and custody disputes. Last December, Bullock and James were awarded custody of James' daughter Sunny after a very public court battle with his ex-wife, Lindemulder. The custody fight included Bullock accusing Lindemulder of drug abuse and Lindemulder saying that Bullock wanted Sunny because the Hollywood darling couldn't have biological children herself.
Would Bullock really engage in such a hurtful battle if she didn't truly care about her husband and his daughter? I'd rather think that she was doing this out of love, instead of some alternative agenda.
Now it seems that the Bullock-James marriage has taken a turn for the cliché. James allegedly had an affair with a "tattoo model" (whatever that is) -- a tattoo model whose nickname is "Bombshell," no less.
When a celebrity couple breaks up, it's usually not surprising. When a "normal" couple breaks up, it's jarring. And the Bullock-James pairing seemed, well, normal. It's hard not to wonder: If they can't make it, who can? Can my relationship make it?
And, much like any broken relationship, it's even more tragic when there's a child involved.
All we can do is wish them well and hope for the best. After all, Hope Floats.
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ReaderComments (Page 1 of 1)
3-18-2010 @ 8:04PM
mary3e said...we are all so sad cuz she waited til she was 40 to get married just got custody of his daughter ..and she just thanked him in public cuz he always had her back..the man is pond scum..
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3-18-2010 @ 9:42PM
Sandy said...I am so supportive of whatever Ms Bullock determines she wants to do. I thought she had a one in a million marriage but perhaps they just don't exist. Jesse ought to be in movies also cause when she pointed to him in the Oscar's audience and said he had her back, he had tears in his eyes while cutting the floor out from under her.
What an absolute failure of integrity. He even had a woman who helped raise his kids but no, none of this was good enough. A tatooed woman who has as many as he, hope he gets a woman who is an extension of himself in more than tatooes and she burns the floor out from under him one day real soon. Everyone thought she could have done so much better, turns out we were RIGHT jerk.
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6-26-2010 @ 4:48PM
Irish said...I wasn't so much sad to see them break up, as I was to see Sandra Bullock heart-broken, in such a nasty way, and so publicly. She deserves so much better.
Having said that, the quote from the above article: "Hollywood loves a good opposites-attract story and, obviously, so do we, the movie-ticket-buying public." Jesse James in NO way influenced Ms. Bullock's success (certainly not my decision as a movie-ticket-buying public). She was a success long before this cad came along and will continue to be a success both on the movie screen and in her private life.
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