Why do celebrities even bother to get married?

OPINION: It rained this week when Miley Cyrus and Liam Hemsworth announced their surprise separation.

Well, not quite, but there was a gust of melancholy wind, a whiff of separation that made the hope of lasting love between one of Hollywood's hottest pop unions.

Over the past decade, the couple has had a back-to-back relationship, a Taylor-Burton of modern times (though Liz Taylor had released an album entitled Bangerz, and if Richard Burton had played a paraplegic surfer on Neighbors).

The two men met for the first time in 2009 on the set of Nicholas Sparks weepie. The last songwere engaged in 2012, broke up in 2015 and were harnessed in December 2018 after their home was burned down during the California wildfires last year (people are doing weird things when they are stressed). That's a lot of engagement rings for a 20-year-old couple.

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Personally, I see little importance in marriage. To prove to others that you are not alone? Throw money at an expensive party with horrible cakes? To remind you not to spend all your weekly wages on lager?

Celebrity weddings, however, are even more confusing. What's the point?

Take Liam and Miley, for example. Two young, attractive and highly coveted personalities, rooted in a workplace and staff where they are always surrounded by similar types.

They could enjoy the beautiful years of their celebrity from twenty or so years, flirting with, for example, Zendaya and Timothy Chalamet, and similar starlets in Hollywood. Instead, they go through a messy separation and a potential divorce as a depressive couple of middle age.

Why do not all celebrities live like Leonardo DiCaprio – or whoever is Leonardo DiCaprio's female counterpart, a romance (early Taylor Swift? Kate Hudson in the mid-period?) – surpasses me.

Hollywood is overflowing with examples of celebrity weddings that suddenly went awry, whose lifespan was much shorter than that of the union of Miley and Liam, which has lasted for eight months. And it's not just a matter of "hectic millennium": Ethel Merman and Ernest Borgnine lasted 32 days in 1964, paving the way for briefcase groups like Drew Barrymore, Pamela Anderson and Nicholas Cage.

Who do celebrities think anyway that they are cheating on their "marriage"? What may be a strange inclination to turn their bizarre schedule into something that looks like "normal life" – the steady routine of "work, dinner, dinner" that many of us take for granted – usually ends up being something else. thing.

Between long concerts abroad and advertising tours, married celebrities almost never meet in one place. If you do not quarrel every day to find out who will tidy the cutlery or replace the roll of toilet paper, is it really a wedding? (Boo! [wiggles fingers] I am the ghost of Rodney Dangerfield.)

It may also be a low blow for the relevance of the press, an attempt to stay at the top of the daily news cycle. The number of headlines sparked by the shocking marriage of Miley and Liam last December was shattered by the headlines about their sudden breakup this week.

"Please, respect their procedure and their privacy," Cyrus representatives wrote in a statement to the media, even as photos of Miley kissing a girlfriend in Italy were stuck on social media. There is no doubt that the next cycle of albums will be devoted to "lost love", "newfound freedom" or a practical angle.

It may be too cynical. Who am I to make fun of celebrity attempts to find a love match of a lifetime and watch this love be based in front of the whole world? As Hemsworth emotionally expressed to a pesky tabloid reporter this week: "You do not understand what it looks like."

No, we do not. And Leonardo DiCaprio either. I think there is a lesson somewhere.