Britain's Daily Mail, the same paper that repeatedly chastised size 16 beauty pageant contestant Chloe Marshall, compares single friends George Clooney and Renee Zellweger, calling him "Hollywood's most eligible heart-throb," and her a "singleton" who might never escape "the Bridget Jones curse."
He is feted as Hollywood's most eligible heart-throb. She is famous as Tinseltown's most famous singleton.
George Clooney's is the more flattering mantle of the two, suggestive of a man who has women falling at his feet, single by choice and not for want of opportunity.
The word singleton, by contrast, implies a desperate woman of a certain age who will settle down with whoever will have her.
In fact, as every lonely year passes, Renee Zellweger must rue the day she agreed to play Helen Fielding's Bridget Jones - and become for ever compared with the character.
This week, Clooney and Zellweger were in London for the premiere of the film Leatherheads. Clooney, more suave than ever in his all-black ensemble, lived up to his reputation by surrounding himself with glamorous women - Jemima Khan, Elle Macpherson, actress Natascha McElhone and Thandie Newton - at a dinner held in his honour at a West End restaurant.
Zellweger played her singleton role to perfection, too. Posing on the red carpet in her plum-coloured Marchesa strapless frock for the Leicester Square premiere, she was demure and pretty. Hours later she was plastered.
And we couldn't read beyond that for fear of inflicting harm upon our very expensive computer.
The saddest part? We read enough to see the byline: a woman.
Let us know how it ends?
[Daily Mail: Can Renee ever escape the Bridget Jones curse?]
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