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Celeb love lessons (not!)
By Amy Keyishian

Go ahead and copy celebs’ clothing styles and adopt their pet causes. But when it comes to relationships, think twice before following in these famous folks’ footsteps.

Whether you like it or not, celebrities spearhead lots of trends these days, from the sublime (rallying for Africa) to the slightly ridiculous (toting around rodent-size pooches). But when it comes to love, perhaps we’d all be better off not taking notes from the stars. Why? Well, lately it seems as if they are unraveling in the relationship department. We came up with a don’t-do-this primer—a collection of some really wrong moves we saw in 2005 that we hope you don’t emulate.

Move to avoid #1: Not being clear on each other’s long-term relationship plans before getting in too deep
When Renée Zellweger and Kenny Chesney filed for an annulment after just a few months of marriage, they explained that they hadn’t realized the differing “objectives” each had for the union. Our advice: Talk about your definition of couplehood way before words anywhere close to “Will you marry me?” are uttered.

Move to avoid #2: Refusing to acknowledge a relationship everyone knows you’re having
Um, hello, Brangelina?

Move to avoid #3: Declaring your love too loudly
This is now officially known as “jumping the couch” after Tom Cruise’s furniture-hopping and exulting about his love for Katie Holmes. It’s fine to be in love and feel like shouting it from the rooftops, but, hey, you don’t actually have to do so. Because somehow, the louder you holler, the less people believe you.

Move to avoid #4: Going too far to prove you’re not cheating
Last June, when Russell Crowe couldn't get through to his wife in Australia from his New York hotel, he hurled the phone at a concierge in anger. “I'm trying to fulfill my basic obligations to my wife who needs to know I'm in bed, and that I'm alone,” Crowe explained in his defense on Late Show with David Letterman. “She wants to know and I try to respect that.” Letterman’s retort: “I would think in this case being in prison probably put her mind at ease.” Sure, do your best to make a call or send a message if you’re in that sort of “check in with me” relationship, but — please — don’t get violent.

Move to avoid #5: Giving in to temptation and cheating with someone very close to home
If a guy’s going to cheat on his fiancée, doing so with a member of the household — as Jude Law did with nanny Daisy Wright — ramps things up to a new level of deceit. In Law’s case, the evidence was so strong he was forced to fess up to fiancée Sienna Miller last July. Not exactly a great way to move your engagement ahead, now is it?

Move to avoid #6: Trying to keep up a front that nobody can possibly believe
Pervasive rumors put Nick Lachey at the center of a wild bachelor party. The couple said everything was fine. More rumors linked Jessica Simpson to bad boy Bam Margera. The couple said everything was fine. Page Six reported the kids had signed divorce papers. Nick went on TV, saying everything was fine... Finally, Nick and Jess announced their separation on November 23. Hey, we’re all for keeping the private things private and putting a brave face on a tragic split, but when speculation spills over from a whisper to a scream, you start to look a little... crazy. So if your love life isn’t going the way you’d hoped, no point keeping up a sham. We say, let the truth be told.

Amy Keyishian is a freelance writer living in New York City who's written for nerve.com, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, and saltmag.com. She subsists on a steady diet of celebrity-gossip hors d'oeuvres and scandal cocktails.

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D is very proud of the fact that she is probably the only woman between the ages of 25 and 35 who has never seen an episode of Sex in the City and is even more proud of the fact that the mere sight of Sarah Jessica Parker makes her itch and want to rip her eyeballs out. Hell, let's face it, D is very proud of not really giving a sh*t about celebrity romances...well, until Karl Urban comes a knocking at her door, but that won't happen, so it's safe so say she doesn't give a sh*t.