Well, one thing to note is that oryx is wrong, factually; the nature of celebrity being what it is, it is hard to work out what exactly elevates one above the other. Cheryl Cole, for example, is about as well-known as a pop star as her husband is as a left-back. Victoria Beckham was probably more famous than David Beckham until about 1994. Louise Nurding had her own career as a singer and model before meeting Jamie Redknapp, and God knows which of them might now be more famous. I would say that Redknapp was more talented in his field, but then I like football, and he had certain flaws as a player that Louise did not have as a starlet. Jamelia, the British R&B singer, is married to a footballer at, I believe, Peterborough United who is considerably less successful than she. Arguably the original WAG, Karren Brady, has arguably achieved far more in business than her husband, Paul Peschisolido, did on the football field.
1994 was, er, 14 years ago by my reckoning. So while Victoria Beckham may well have been more famous than her husband before they got married, it's true to say that the only reason she's still famous is because of her marriage to him - in fact, by being, precisely, a footballers wife. Indeed, her efforts in the Spice Girls have been entirely overshadowed for the whole of the rest of her adult life by her position as British uberWAG.
Cheryl Cole is an exception that proves the rule, its true, but what about Abigail Clancy and Colleen McLaughlin? Again, famous for what they wear and who they're in a relationship with.
Louise Redknapp had a short-lived career as a pop star that she has not sustained in married life. Mind you, she's done well to keep herself out of the tabloid snake-pit, so good for her.
And while I agree that women are held up to scrutiny to the nth degree at the best of times, and more so if they are married to a man in the public eye (remember the drubbing Cherie Blair got?) there is also a difference between the trophy WAGs of British footballers and successful women who happen to be married to successful men. Unless you think that there is a category of women who are photographed by the paparazzi, and that in itself is enough to create a commonality between them?
Point is, I'm hardly "wrong" - but I'll make sure next time I make every second sentence an explanation of the previous one, just to avoid any confusion. :-) |
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