There's no business quite like it

Friends have been prodding me for months to start a blog, using my years of working with tv personalities as justification for passing judgement on today's celebrities. Never one to be without an opinion, I guess it's probably time I had a go. Besides, whether anyone choses to follow this or not, at least I now have a place to vent my advice to those who will never give me a call. And I'm used to giving out pearls of wisdom that go unheeded anyway.

I guess the first issue has to be celebrity marriages. So many are falling apart right now, I'd love to have a few of the victims on my couch and ask them what the hell is going on. I fell in love with Sandra Bullock watching her at the Oscars, thinking now that's a real woman. Funny, clever, talented, beautiful etc etc. What a lucky husband...and then, oh my God, suddenly a tattooed thing appears on the scene and Sandra's perfect life falls apart at the drop of an Oscar.

Is the man blind? Why does that happen? When you have everything, why is that never enough? This is what my blog intends to be about. What is celebrity and why do we aspire to something that ultimately is so destructive? What really goes on behind the scenes? I've been there, watching people self-destruct, behaving no different from any drug addict or alcoholic - which of course they can be too. Fame is a dangerous game. Now I don't want this to become a polemic and I'd like it to be a fun read but this is my first attempt, so bear with me. Anyway, that's all for tonight. I'll gather my thoughts for my first patient tomorrow.