The year began with the announcement of the divorce of Kim Kardashian and Kanye West and ended with the news that Mario Vargas Llosa and Isabel Preysler had terminated eight years of courtship. This news came just a few weeks after that divorce that Kim and Kanye had made news 11 months ago became effective. In 2022 nothing has been easy. Certainly, if there is something that has defined these 52 weeks, it has been the way in which everything has become extremely long, we do not know if because we live in times of confusion and indecision, or simply because we have reached a point where it has been perfected to the point of perfection. paroxysm the art of stretching out more or less juicy news until it ends up resembling that half a dried lemon that any self-respecting fridge door should house. The latter can be confirmed by Rocío Carrasco, Olympic champion in the discipline of squeezing.
The fact that the season was opened and closed by four regulars from the tabloids of recent decades adds to the equation an element of familiarity with the protagonists of this universe of celebrities, something that has been the norm in recent years. The reasons lie in the fragmentation of fame, the disconnection of the younger segment of the public from what has been anything ascribed to the canon —from Picasso or Mozart to Paris Hilton or Paquirrín— and the lack of will on the part of the media traditional platforms -including streaming, young dinosaurs—to renew his speech and his squad of usual suspects. Ana Obregón and Ramón García are going to give the grapes (although this year separately).
In this context, Kim Kardashian has reigned once again. She has done so not only with their separation, but also with statements like the one in which (she) stated that people no longer like to work, losing a fortune with the collapse of cryptocurrencies and, above all, putting on that Marilyn dress Monroe at the Met Gala, in the painful and heartbreaking confirmation that half of her audience considers her the Marilyn of the 21st century and the other half hates her for believing just that. Competitive as she was, it was clear that Kim was not going to marry someone who didn’t understand Scrabble games anything less than Napoleon’s Russian campaign. So Kanye, sulking at the way she was putting him down, spent the fall spouting anti-Semitic remarks and flirting with a new presidential candidate. It was painful and ridiculous.
Another story that made headlines was the trial between Johnny Depp and Amber Heard, a gruesome spectacle that divided the public. Much better in terms of generational clashes and worldviews was the controversy surrounding the use of private planes that broke out when a list was made public with the celebrities who polluted the most, even going to buy bread on board their plane. jet. Taylor Swift won, Drake was angry, and when Mbappé was asked if his team, Paris St Germain, had not considered using the French high-speed train network to get around their away games, he had a fit of rage. laughter similar to those witnessed in some right-wing media gatherings when issues such as feminism or that gamousin called climate change are mentioned.
As usual for some time now, the year brought his great story of a middle-aged character who messes up on social networks. This time she touched Adam Levine. It was revealed that the Maroon 5 singer had been flirting on Instagram (often amateur) with some women, saying embarrassing things and even telling one that she was going to name her daughter after her. Every time you feel older when it’s time to update the mobile operating system, think that a successful 43-year-old singer manages all this matter with much less skill.
And the Queen of England died. But, with Camila and Carlos already amortized and waiting for what the offspring of Kate Middleton and Guillermo can give us —seeing Luis at official events today is like seeing Messi on the field in 2004—, once again Meghan and Enrique were the in charge of supplying us with stories. This time, yes, packaged and with a bow in the form of a documentary on Netflix, perhaps the worst exercise in image laundering and public relations since the elephant in Botswana. If we lived in another era we could say that these two characters are amortized, but in the background we hear the laughter of Rocío Carrasco. Better to be prudent.
In what would become the second division of all this, the year also gave us James Corden making a fuss over a poorly cooked French omelette at the famous Balthazar restaurant in New York, a scandal as from another century as ordering a French omelette in a restaurant deluxe. There was also blood, sweat and saliva in the promotion of the film Do not worry dear, by Olivia Wilde, with Harry Styles, Florence Pugh, Chris Pine and Wilde herself turning the Venice Film Festival into an awards ceremony for the best barbecue in Arkansas. Something similar happened with the acquisition of Twitter by Elon Musk, a character on the economy pages who also wants to be on the politics pages, but where he really fits in is on the society pages. Musk is the biggest crack in capitalism since the 2008 crisis.
In addition to the announcement of Kim and Kanye, the start of the year had as a great hit Will Smith’s punch to Chris Rock at the Oscars. Something that could confirm that there is no generational change in what is transversally pink —and that the old soirees, like the Oscars, survive on the basis of punches—, if it were not for the fact that the year ended with another attack: the one that happened in a nightclub in Madrid and in which Felipe Juan Froilán de Todos los Santos was more or less involved. Likewise, there is a generational change. And we have it closer than we thought.
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