You are too nice, PA. I would love your take on GT, if and when you have the time. I've been disgusted with her since that whole Staged tweet thing. Have you seen MS's latest PR Twitter pic? It's him with his new family on the beach. I feel so sorry for LS. I can't believe that AL and GT are making me former fans of their men. David has no spine and Michael has no heart.
On LS, I truly, truly hope LS and him are ok and he’s not just pretending the family overseas doesn’t exist in favour of making this one work. I want to think that even if LS was still upset about how he handled the situation with them, he never stops trying. It’s a horrible feeling, to see one of your parents erase their entire life with you to pursue something else.
I was about to reply that I hadn’t seen it the picture, but the this anon popped up and I had to check.
I have done something I’d never thought I’d do, I silenced MS's alerts. I thought of unfollowing but I’m still nor ready for that. BUt I can’t lie to myself although I will lie to many of my twitter moots, but I’m feeling so down and so disappointed in someone I’ve adored for a year. I thought him...different, if not better. I don't recognise him as the man I started following last year. But I wanted to ask you, from my disappointed heart, what do you think this is happening, or why now? I don't mind admitting that I've discarded PW's calls on PR stunts as bitchiness for over a year now, but I can't
justify or make sense of this. He has gone from ignoring his partner for an entire year, avoiding talking about her, avoiding any mentioning, any social media posts, walking apart and in a disengaged manner, going out of his way to do this when hosts asked. And now post-Staged, its a downpour of AL, everywhere. This pic of him showing them in the beach? I can’t see it as a lovely family picture only. He's been in lockdown, in the same house, blogging and vlogging from his garden, while AL and Lyra were there with him for MONTHS, even next to him while AL posted on IG. And now he interrupts
charity events to show her on cam? And his parents have a family picture precisely in between them when on camera, and GT, and the DM...I almost feel like apologising to you and PW for having been so stupidly blind for such a long time. The comments on twitter just make me more depressed...and you know what makes me even more sad, PA? This 51 year old, respected actor, offering a selfie that panders to his more exclusive than ever fandom and wearing the damned red/orange hoodie we’re all now talking and making memes about, and showing that massively staged pose with “two angels”.
It’s just so depressing and we’re talking about this in some gcs or private dms but no one wants to say anything outside of them. So here we are liking and rt and feeling like we lost someone we knew and loved and in his place is this understudy who tries too hard to keep his exclusive stan circle engaged. Thank you PA for leaving your asks open for us to vent. We would really like to hear your thoughts on this but understand if you don’t.
I honestly don’t know what to say, anon, you have said most of it yourself.
Like I’ve said before, I’m not very aware of the PR celebrity world outside my own job-related PR, so I can only offer what it looks like to me, with no authority on the matter whatsoever.
Why now, you ask, after a year.
Dunno. Perhaps he feels that the difficult/gross/uncomfortable first year has passed. I’ve said before, lockdown has worked wonders for AL and her family planning (...) and he might’ve now fallen into a comfortable family man role after so many months being one. You are absolutely right, he’s been in lockdown with no one else around, sometimes with IG pics without him being involved directly, both taking turns showing bb. Tons of photo ops for him and them in their garden. I wonder too, I just have no idea why.
Perhaps he or his PR team or both, feel that the “50yo celebrity impregnates 24yo aspiring actress he knew for a month after a few shags in NY” could be finally replaced by “family man with baby and talented actress/model/IGmom/whatevergurl with credits like Staged and Be SuperGood videobomb partner are the new Tennants”.
They’ve waited a year, perhaps they think it’s now time for her to finally being known and start her career, who remembers how she got there anyway! She(he) has thousands of adoring fans because she’s so pretty and a goddess and now also funny, after a year of tweaking her persona until is acceptable to ‘offer her up’ to the world without the stigma or the embarrassment he seemed to be feeling last year.
Part of me wouldn’t be surprised to see a GT-like of career coming up, though. Don’t see her being very upset about it either. She’s sorted for life, having bagged a highly sought after celebrity. IG followers set. GT sisterhood set. Her job is done here. BB is also older, after pandemic is over they’ll finally be able to get a nanny 10h a day so they can focus on getting her in things and see if she can have some sort of career. If she’s not good enough, they can always slot her in things MS does anyway.
And worst case scenario, there’s always bb #2 somewhere down the road. Plan B also sorted.
Mm, not really, just worded abrasively perhaps, but am I wrong? Probably, time will tell. Haven’t been wrong with this girl so far.
Whatever the reason behind the change, the fact is that the change is visible and quite in the open out there, too much of a U turn to not be noticed.
I know what you mean about feeling he’s been replaced by someone not quite as real and wonderful as he was. You’re technically mourning. Many of his long time fans feel the same. They even feel that they’re now outsiders, fans who don’t count because it’s now all about memes and pfps and cursed tweets and godknowswhat. And that’s what he seems to be into now. But that’s another story for another day.
I hope you feel better, dear anon. I think not having the anticipation of waiting for his alerts and rushing to twitter every time he’s on will help. Talking with others you feel safe to talk to will help. Pretending and rt things that are hurting you won’t. I know it’s hard to wean ourselves from something as intense as standom, just try to perhaps not check his tl directly for a day or two.
Hope you and those in your position feel better soon. You’re always welcome to share your thoughts and feelings here.
PS. Michael, darling, angels go on the other shoulder. Just...yeah.
