I know a lot of you are going to be like “who are these people?” when you read the headline. Even if you’re not familiar with singer/actress Christina Milian and her husband, producer The Dream, (and I only know them from gossip and event appearances) this is a very interesting story that now has a heartfelt apology and half-assed explanation attached. Here’s the background: Milian was married to The Dream (real name Terius Nash) in September, 2009. They had daughter Violet just this February. Then photos surfaced of Nash on vacation with his female personal assistant embracing and frolicking in the water. They weren’t just hanging out either, they were hanging on each other and in one photo the woman had her legs up around him. Nash and Milian then announced their separation less than a day later.

Now Nash is blogging his side of the story. He sounds very sorry and contrite, but he doesn’t say he was split up with Milian when he took up with his personal assistant. He says in a roundabout way that they were having problems and he fell out of love with her. So did the cheating start before or after they were having problems? Because of course you’re going to have problems at home when you’ve got something on the side. Did he fall out of love before or after he fell in love with another woman? He also adds that he was in despair and considered suicide. Again, was that before or after he started cheating on his wife and baby’s mother after just a few months? I appreciate how upfront and seemingly responsible he’s trying to sound. However, he might just be trying to paint himself as a good guy when it’s clear that he acted as anything but:

In My Own Words:

First I want to thank God for the trials of life, without them we can’t know purpose!

I would love to tell the truth as to why my relationship wasn’t successful, but today that is between me and Christina. Its easy to say that it’s because of another woman or a new relationship but truthfully, IT’S NOT.

I take FULL RESPONSIBILITY for misleading everyone into thinking everything was fine and okay when we knew problems existed for awhile! I wanted to speak up but we decided it wasn’t for anyone to know. I would NEVER intentionally hurt a soul and everyone around me knows that! There was so much going on in me and Christina’s personal world that I tried to deal with it as delicately as I could and tried to regain my footing. Instead of being direct in order not to cause even more hurt or hurt someone’s feelings, I carried the weight in secret!

I am Human and people fall in and out of Love all the time… This is Life. Nothing’s promised or perfect, neither am I. I am not proud that I lost something we once had…LOVE! I’ve always been a Loving Father, Hard Worker, Generous, Stern and Eager to prove myself. My faults are I can be irresponsible and an ass sometimes, but I HAVE NEVER and WILL NEVER be a malicious person or wish harm to anyone, especially those I love or the mother of my child. I’m sorry for the embarrassment to everyone involved! If there’s anyone to blame and you can’t fathom this happening, please blame me and me alone for not being upfront! Even though we were trying to overcome personal things between us, I was just simply scared and embarrassed to let everyone know we WERE FAILING and HAVE NOW FAILED!

This is not to justify anything, it’s true emotion! It’s a real thing that involves real people! I’ve cried about this for months, after interviews, after prayer and I’ve tried to take my own life at a point because of the failure that was looming.

But I was reminded by my MOTHER that I am not “Superman” and its okay to lose sometimes…

This too shall pass! And everything will be fine!

~ Terius Nash ~

[From The Dream's site via Bossip]

So he didn’t mean to be malicious, and he’s sorry for hurting people, but he didn’t say he didn’t cheat. In fact it sounds to me like he cheated instead of facing the problems in his very new marriage. He doesn’t say “he” failed or that he’s the one who screwed everything up, no it was “we” who failed. How is a relationship supposed to thrive when one person is cheating? As nice as it is to hear someone say they’re sorry and they take responsibility, again I get the sense that this is a guy who hates to look bad. One that avoided conflict so much that he took up with someone else and let his wife find out about it online. Sad.

I hate it when Perez Hilton breaks news, but every source is citing him in their coverage. Perez noticed that Kelly Osbourne and her fiancée Luke Worrall had gotten into some kind of Facebook war, which involved Kelly publicly claiming that Luke had cheated on her. Kelly and Luke have since deleted their messages, but Kelly did announce that they had split up. Sad!

Kelly Osbourne has split from her fiance Luke Worrall after two years together. The reality TV star, 25, and model, 20, have ended their engagement amid reports he had been cheating on her. The ex-couple entered into a war of words on their Facebook pages, before deleting their entries.

Osbourne has now swiftly changed her romantic Twitter backdrop of her and Worrall to one of her by herself.

Writing on her micro-blogging page today, she said: ‘Thank you all so much for your support but the matter is private and will not be commenting enough damage has already be done.’

Gossip blogger PerezHilton was the first to report the couple’s break-up after Osbourne ranted on her Facebook: ‘Luke Worrall makes me sick.’

News of their split comes a week after they were spotted looking tense together on a night out in London. The former pop star and blond model started dating in May 2008 after meeting through friends. After months of rumours, the couple officially announced their engagement in March 2009 shortly after Kelly spent time in rehab for her addiction to painkillers. But despite becoming engaged, they repeatedly insisted they were in no rush to wed, with her parents Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne advising the young couple to wait.

Sharon said last year: ‘Well, I do think they’re too young to get married. I keep telling them, “Don’t rush. Wait. You’ve made a commitment, you want to reserve each other, but you’ve got to enjoy acting your age.”‘

Earlier this year, Kelly said we wanted to wait until Luke was legally old enough to drink alcohol in the U.S.

She said: ‘Luke and I are engaged and we’ll get married when I want to. But he isn’t even 21 yet, so he can’t drink in America, so what’s the point in getting married until he can.’

[From The Daily Mail]

It’s funny that Sharon Osbourne is like this insane voice of reason. She completely supported Kelly getting engaged, but she still pulled the mom thing and suggested that they wait to marry. Good move, Mom! Because as rotten as Kelly feels now, she would feel worse if she and Whats-His-Guts Cheater McGee was actually her husband. I’m not trying to minimize it at all, because I’m sure Kelly is hurting. I’m just saying, it’s good to know the dude is a douche before you actually walk down the aisle.

File photos of Kelly and the cheater from WENN.

For the four people who care, Bachelorette Jillian from last season and the guy she picked from among a group of famewhores, Ed, are not going to walk off into the sunset together. They broke up, but unlike the last Bachelor couple they’re not talking smack about each other to the press yet.

Jillian Harris and Ed Swiderski, who proposed on The Bachelorette, have called off their engagement, the new issue of Us Weekly reports.

“I love him and I’m really sad, but I have to look out for me,” Harris, 29, tells Us.

Adds Swiderski, 30, “We’re both kind of resetting. Jillian isn’t happy and I’m definitely sad about the whole thing, but we’ve got to work through some things on our own if we decide to move forward.”

Last August, Us exclusively revealed that Swiderski juggled two girlfriends while wooing Harris on the fifth season of the ABC show (and even slept with one after proposing to Harris, but before the finale aired).

“There’s bumps on the road, and we don’t always deal with them properly,” Harris told Us in early June. “Our life is not always perfect.”

[From US Weekly]

It sounds like both of them are taking the high road and speaking in vague terms about their problems without giving details. Good for them and I hope they keep it that way. We don’t need another tearful blaming televised argument to see how a TV courtship went bad. I’m sure that ABC would love it though. The more scandals that come out of the dysfunctional relationships they arrange, the more ratings go up.

The track record for all the Bachelor and Bachelorette shows is now 1/19 with only Trista and Ryan remaining together. There is one other pairing that’s lasted - Jason Mesnick dumped the woman he chose in the final and then married runner up Molly Malaney.

Contestants have a better chance at finding lasting love on The Biggest Loser than The Bachelor or Bachelorette.

For those of you who watched this show, did you expect this couple to last? If Ed was working two women on the side when he was on the show I’m sure it didn’t take him long to cheat again.

CB and I had a much too long conversation about “model”/professional girlfriend Amber Rose yesterday. Like, I maybe it was because yesterday’s news was so slow? I don’t know. But for some reason CB and I sat here and shot the breeze for way too long, theorizing about whether Kanye West and Amber had broken up, and whether she was just trying to get attention or if she was now boning Reggie Bush. It all started when Bossip had this story about Amber and Reggie looking really friendly at some event over the weekend. Reggie, having recovered from dating Kim Kardashian, seemed to be eyeing up the ladies at the party, and Amber caught his attention (photo here). This seemed weird to me, because as far as I could remember, Kanye and Amber hadn’t officially declared they were over. Now Us Weekly has a source who claims that Kanye dumped Amber - because he needed to concentrate on his art. So Amber’s looking for a new player.

Kanye West and his model-girlfriend Amber Rose are taking a break, a source close to the rapper, 33, tells UsMagazine.com.

“They are still good friends,” the source tells Us. “Kanye is consumed with recording his comeback record in Hawaii and had to shut it all off. When he’s in work mode, he can’t handle a relationship. He told Amber he needs to devote everything right now to his craft.”

Rose, 27, isn’t sulking.

Over the Fourth of July weekend, she was spotted making out with Kim Kardashian’s ex Reggie Bush at Axe Lounge in NYC’s The Hamptons — as West’s hit “Flashing Lights” blared from the speakers.

Nevertheless, a second source tells Us: “I wouldn’t say it’s over for good” for West and Rose. “It’s always off-and-on when it’s convenient for these two. He doesn’t go out anymore and she loves it, so he lets her. I wouldn’t be surprised if they are seen together again next week.”

[From Us Weekly]

I was never really sure whether I could buy Amber and Kanye’s relationship, so hearing that they broke up isn’t that big. I always thought it was more performance art on Kanye’s part. Or the desire to just have a steady girlfriend, a “muse” that he could have on his arm. Or maybe it was true love and Kanye just needed to put his art first. I don’t know. But I’m glad I finally have an answer to my question about whether Amber was getting her Reggie Bush freak on behind Kanye’s back.

Amber & Kanye, 2009-2010. All photos courtesy of WENN.

Melissa Etheridge’s estranged partner, Tammy Lynn Michaels, maintains a blog and has posted a few entries making it clear that their breakup was not mutual. According to Michaels, it was Etheridge who chose to end things after emotionally withdrawing from the relationship. In our last story on one of Michael’s posts detailing her side of the split, I wrote that she should really try to keep her personal business offline. Etheridge has talked about the breakup while promoting her album but has been vague about the circumstances, simply saying that they drifted apart and that it didn’t happen overnight. Michaels made it clear that it was much more sudden in her experience and that Etheridge is glossing over her role in the split.

Now Etheridge has filed to legally end the partnership and is trying to ensure that Michaels is not awarded support. (They did not marry in the window of time before Prop 8 passed, but had a traditional-type wedding ceremony in 2003). She is seeking joint custody of their three year-old twins, boy Miller and daughter Johnnie. Michaels wants us to know that she was blindsided by the filing and that Etheridge promised her she wouldn’t file until the fall. She also writes that she gave up her career to raise their kids, and that she is currently so broke she has to borrow money from friends and family to pay for food and gas:

i am wondering if it’s an art

gentle waves
no noise for awhile
or maybe gentle voices

and

SMACK!!!!!!!!!!!!
FILE FOR DIVORCE!!!!!!
even though we both promised
agreed
handshook
pinkyswore

no filing until after tour
in the fall

her broken promises
told to me by
headlines….

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“you know what?” i said. “do you want me to take a year off? take care of the kids? i can be here when you’re gone, get them at school, bake for them, do the school stuff, and just catch them when you’re not here. want me to do that?”

her face lit up like i was giving her a present she wanted but could never name. “would you do that??? you would do that???”

“sure! i’ve always wanted to make a home anyway! i’ll make a home for you and me and the kids, and you go and do your thang with your guitar!”

we laughed and hugged, and she said it was perfect, and it was what she had always wanted anyways, but didn’t want to ask anybody to do it for her….. make her a home…. etc. and that night was perfect. sitting on the porch, under the stars, back when we lived on the house on Mandeville canyon, near the ocean.

i gave up my managers, agents, contacts, all that good stuff, because i stepped directly into potty training a small boy, and carrying around a small girl on my hip. both excellent souls. and i was a very huge part in raising them for many many years while She with the Guitar focused on her Guitar.

i was always the house wife after that. the only thing i hated about it was not bringing in money- i have made my own money since i started babysitting at 10, and having a newspaper route at 11. having no steady paycheck killed me for those years with her. and now it’s really killing me. the other week i had to borrow money from a friend. two weeks ago i had to scrape together $1.25 to pay for gas. i know she doesn’t want to give me money. trust. i’m borrowing cash left and right from people to get through this summer, and feed my kids, with a stomach full of ulcers, thank you. no stress here.

[From two different entries on HollywoodFarmGirl.Blogspot.com]

In May I wrote that didn’t think that Michaels should air her personal business online. It’s more the way that Michaels is expressing herself rather than the fact that she’s telling us. It’s deplorable that Etheridge is not taking care of her children’s mother. She’s a millionaire and could easy make sure Michaels can pay her bills. This is just too raw and personal to be put out there like this, though. Michaels could earn just as much if not more sympathy will some carefully leaked stories to the press. Look at how Shania Twain told People Magazine that her husband was cheating on her with her best friend. She did it by attributing the news to “sources” through one of the most respected celebrity outlets. (Although that’s questionable given how much attention they’ve been paying to cheesy reality stars lately.)

Michaels could be a little more media savvy about all this, but I can’t begrudge her saying her peace piece. This is just another example of why it should be legal for same sex couples to marry. They need just as many rights when they get divorced, too.