Breakups and Hookups
The two sides of the Celebrity Lust Spectrum! Plus, what's up with Zach Levi?!
Old-School A-List Movie Star Reese Witherspoon pulled off a classic Old-School A-List Movie Star trick this past weekend, sliding the news of her divorce from Jim Toth into the late Friday afternoon news cycle via your typical statement1 about how they “are moving forward with deep love, kindness and mutual respect for everything [they] have created together.” It’s very mean to do this to the staffers at People and Page Six who were getting ready to pack up their stuff and head out to the wine bar, and who instead had to text their friends that they had to work. Especially because this divorce — although presumably at least slightly sad for Reese and Jim — is very boring. There’s nothing scandalous here at all (at least, not yet)2. If you’ve just grown apart like a couple of boring normals, at least have the decency to let the press know on a Thursday. You live by People, let people live.
Despite the apparent lack of dramz in this breakup, Reese’s PR is working overtime to massage the me…