Celebrities and privacy

I was reading my newsfeeds this morning, and came across a headline that bugged me.  Now, these days A LOT of headlines bother me, but this one seemed to just smack of hypocrisy:

Private drama plagues Oscar winner Sandra Bullock (AP)

Now this headline just got me angry, because once the media got involved in this story, about rumors of Bullock's husband, Jesse James potential infidelities, it was no longer a private drama.  Instead it's splashed on the pages of every rag and tabloid from here to Taiwan(to be fair, the Taiwanese are more fans of Renee Zellweger...not sure why...).  I know that celebrities are out there for the world to see, and that they make their money by being seen and recognized, and admired for their talent and their glamour, but at some point, we just have to say enough is enough.

I am immeasurably tired of the Tiger Woods story.  Yeah, I get it, he was unfaithful...A LOT, but how does that affect my life?  Unless you know anyone directly involved(i.e. Woods, his wife, and the 15 whores Edit: women of questionable integrity that he was banging), you don't have any stake in this story.  If Tiger Woods was just some guy who played at the local country club, or, hell, the local garbage man for that matter, no one other than family and friends would give a crap what he did in/out of his marriage.  The only reason this became a big deal was the media attention that this story garnered.  I'm perfectly willing to admit that I sometimes get sucked up into the tabloid journalism...You know, EVERY story about Paris Hilton, Lindsay Lohan, and those wastes of oxygen from Jersey Shore, but from the very beginning, the Tiger story didn't really matter to me.  I see all these sponsors dropping him, and fans crucifying him for his extramarital activities.  While I don't condone his cheating, his actions don't affect my impression of him as a golfer...he's still going to go out at the Masters and show why he's one of the best Golfers to ever pick up a driver.

Ultimately, he's a celebrity, and I expect celebrities to do stupid, selfish, destructive things to themselves and the people around them.  I've seen way too many entitled celebs get themselves into so many different, ridiculous situations, that when I hear that Tiger had 15+ mistresses, I can hardly raise an eyebrow in surprise.

In closing, Hey Media...leave these poor people struggling with life to their own private lives.  It is hard enough to navigate the world without a dozen cameras in your face when you go to Nobu for dinner!  Let's try  to get back some of that common decency that we've lost, and leave these people to pick up the pieces of their lives!