Sunday, April 16, 2006

Lasting love often elusive for celebrities

The Chicago Sun-Times reports:
Tom and Katie, it doesn't look good.

What the tabloids and celebrity magazines are telling us every week appears to be true: Hollywood stars are really more unlucky in love than the rest of us.

That's the finding of a Sun-Times survey of the top 200 most popular Hollywood celebrities (as rated by the Internet Movie Database) who have tied the knot at least once.

Half of those celebs have already been divorced at least once -- while for the rest of us who have been married, that figure is 31 percent.

And as celebs grow older, the marital picture gets even bleaker.

Of stars in their 60s, an exceptionally high 93 percent had been through a divorce. Of the six celebs in the survey 70 and older, all of them had been divorced, versus 19 percent for the same age group in the total population.
Some of the numbers in the article are very interesting.