Thursday, September 12, 2013

Pinoy celeb break ups: From I do's to I sue

After marching in the aisle, they are now marching in and out of the courtrooms for custody rights and to eventually annul their marriage. What made their fairy tale love story turned into bitter sweet, and come to its end?

Celebrity marriages fail for the same reasons that normal people do. The difference is that it is given emphasis by media. And because it is given emphasis , every celebrity couple break up is sensationalize. Issues starts to unfold and reach to the point of filing charges against each other. usually the first to throw is the wife.


For example  the two most known couple in show business, Sunshine Cruz and Cesar Montano, Raymart Santiago and Claudine Barretto, both couples were confirmed to part ways this year 2013. The reason for the split up of Sunshine and Cesar is because of third party, Cesar having an alleged affair with model-actress Krista Miller. The case of Raymart and Claudine being different, as Claudine files abuse charges against his estranged husband Raymart.



After seven years of being together Raymart and Claudine was confirmed to be separated because of claims that Raymart is abusing Claudine physicaly. In a photo posted by her in photo sharing website Instagram, it is seen that in her right cheek seems to have bruise, which alarms the netizens that she might have experiencing domestic violence. The photo was immediately deleted that same day. Consequently, after the rumor Claudine filed a petition for a temporary protection order (TPO) against Raymart, this would prevent her estranged husband from getting within 300 meters of her and their two children. 

Contrary to that Raymart denied the accusations, in an interview with him in 24 oras, Santiago said he cannot do something like what was his wife is accusing of him, he said that he cannot hurt any member of his family.


Another celebrity married couple that has made a sound on their recent separation is Cesar Montano and his wife Sunshine Cruz. The two had some previous family issues because of Cesar being involved o his co-workers in show business, but the couple denied separating issues. Unfortunately, months after the controversy that Cesar is having an affair with his co-worker Krista Miller in their indie movie,“The Turning Cradle: The Untold Story of Alfredo Lim” Sunshine announced that two of them separated, although it is noted that Cesar is exerting an effort to reconcile and to preserve their matrimony. In an interview, Sunshine said that she had enough of Cesar's womanizing activities, and 13 years is enough. In a like manner, Cesar also denied the complaint by his wife that he employed physical violence and marital raped.


Like any other married couples with irreconcilable differences, what made celebrity couples different is that they are public figure, although issues like separations are personal matters, people wants to know about the details, that is why even though there are normal couple that have the same case as them that reach to the point of filing charges against each other, it is being sensationalize when it comes to celebrities like them since they are public figures.


It is normal for a couple when they are unhappy in their married life, to find grounds for them to have their marriage annulled, and it needs to have court proceedings. On the other hand, celebrity marriages that are separating are calling attention to the people because of charges that the other party is accusing to the other party. People find it interesting that their personal matters are being emphasize by the media, and being a celebrity, they like the attention. The he said, she said, back and forth interviews just shows that they too wants the people to know the details, instead of them having it in a private procedures.


Looking back to all the celebrity married couples, their beginning were all about proclaiming about their love for each other and how they would want to spend their whole life with each other, now, they throwing back and forth words just to get back to each other. One factor that might have been made a huge contributions to their failed marriage is that everything about them is publicized, they do not have privacy anymore. From the beginning they were just dating to the time being that they got married was all open to the public that is why even their separation is known and is sensationalized. Problems are getting worse when many wants to butt their way in.


In this incident, the most affected are their children, they have no idea what is happening, they are just in the middle of two bumping walls. This can have big effect on their psychological and emotional status as a child, because they are in the midst of a chaotic situation their family is experiencing.


In the light of this issue we can conclude that media, also has a big role in sensationalized celebrity couple break ups here in the Philippines, because they give emphasis on this events, and people starts to make a big fuss about it.

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