Deborah Hobson
Girls, we all know what happens when a celebrity marriage or love union ends. If you're A list actress Demi Moore, former wife of Hollywood action man Bruce Willis or actress turned fashion designer Sadie Frost, divorced from film star Jude Law, you have a head-to-toe makeover, furnish yourself with a succession of younger lovers and get photographed at the most exclusive nightspots in London and New York. For ladies without a luxury lifestyle to cushion the pain of a busted relationship, here are The-Latest's essential tips to get you out of "heartbreak hotel";
1. Ensure your break-up happens on a Friday so that you've got the weekend to recover.
2. Stock up on necessary provisions-chocolates, ice cream, popcorn and all the other feel good foods. You're going to need them.
3. Have an ample supply of tissues.
4. Do phone your best friend at least five times a day, she'll understand.
5. Keep telling yourself 'he was rat, a two-timing scum bag and you're better off without him' at least 10 times a day.
6. Play all your favourite CDs, especially I Will Survive and not the songs you enjoyed together.
7. Don't tell your mum, she'll only say "I told you so".
8. Don't answer the phone immediately if it rings. It might be him. You're best friend knows the code- three rings then you'll call her back.
9. Don't watch any romantic films on TV. Love Story might be on for the 15th time, check the schedules.
10. "You didn't love him. He wasn't the best thing that happened to you, you were the best thing that happened to him". Chant this 20 times a day.
Girls, we all know what happens when a celebrity marriage or love union ends. If you're A list actress Demi Moore, former wife of Hollywood action man Bruce Willis or actress turned fashion designer Sadie Frost, divorced from film star Jude Law, you have a head-to-toe makeover, furnish yourself with a succession of younger lovers and get photographed at the most exclusive nightspots in London and New York. For ladies without a luxury lifestyle to cushion the pain of a busted relationship, here are The-Latest's essential tips to get you out of "heartbreak hotel";
1. Ensure your break-up happens on a Friday so that you've got the weekend to recover.
2. Stock up on necessary provisions-chocolates, ice cream, popcorn and all the other feel good foods. You're going to need them.
3. Have an ample supply of tissues.
4. Do phone your best friend at least five times a day, she'll understand.
5. Keep telling yourself 'he was rat, a two-timing scum bag and you're better off without him' at least 10 times a day.
6. Play all your favourite CDs, especially I Will Survive and not the songs you enjoyed together.
7. Don't tell your mum, she'll only say "I told you so".
8. Don't answer the phone immediately if it rings. It might be him. You're best friend knows the code- three rings then you'll call her back.
9. Don't watch any romantic films on TV. Love Story might be on for the 15th time, check the schedules.
10. "You didn't love him. He wasn't the best thing that happened to you, you were the best thing that happened to him". Chant this 20 times a day.
Thomas L. Blair is a sociologist and political blogger on the Chronicleworld 'for creative renewal in Black Britain and Afro-Europe'. His work is honoured in the British Library's archive of "social, historic and culturally significant web-based material from the UK domain". He won top prize in the blogging competition on The-Latest.
Sumantra Maitra is a freelance journalist from Mumbai, India. He is a correspondent for All Sports magazine, and a foreign affairs blogger for the Washington Examiner. He has written articles for news website Merinews.com and other regional publications. Sumantra runs a blog at DailyWorldWatch.wordpress.com. He provided exclusive eyewitness reports for The-Latest on the Mumbai bombings of 2008.
Brian Usher is photography consultant for The-Latest.Com. He is a highly experienced editorial and commercial photographer whose work has been published throughout the world, appearing in many well known magazines and newspapers. Brian has featured in several books and has been a writer for the Royal Photographic Society magazine.
Heidi Kingstone has spent time in Afghanistan reporting for a number of publications. Her work has appeared in the Financial Times, The Spectator, The Sunday Times and other international journals. She has also reported from places like Iraq, Rwanda, Lebanon, Sudan, Democratic Republic of Congo, and Kenya. Heidi is The-Latest's Editor at large.
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