Unload Your Favorite Petty Celebrity Grudge
Plus Dying for Sex, and Gayle King wants to know if we've been to space. (OBVIOUSLY NO.)
Last weekend, during the Masters, I discovered a new grudge. Well, technically, it’s a long-running grudge, but I wasn’t really aware that I was still tending to it until the subject of said grudge won the green jacket.
It appears I have never forgiven Rory McIlroy for calling off his engagement to Caroline Wozniacki the weekend they mailed their wedding invitations, via phone call, after which he put out a press release and apparently never spoke to her again. Yes, this happened more than a decade ago and Woz and McIlroy are both married to other people now and she at least seems happy — he filed for divorce on the eve of the PGA championship last year and then changed his mind the next month — but the north remembers. (In my mind, Serena Williams shares this grudge.) They might be over it, but not me!
Naturally, this got me curious about other people’s Petty Celebrity Grudges. I don’t mean, like, hating Harvey Weinstein or Bill Crosby for their behavior — that’s not holding a grudge. …