Publications: In Touch, Weekly Life & Style, OK!, Us Weekly
Date: 3 May 2010
Four different supermarket mags this week devote valuable front cover space to the story that Kim Kardashian is romantically linked to Portuguese born soccer superstar Cristiano Ronaldo. Ronaldo spent several years playing for Manchester United and his contract was sold in 2009 to Real Madrid. He is the highest paid footballer in the world, and if I may make a comment as a heterosexual male, he looks awfully damn good without a shirt. Here are the tabloid headlines.
In Touch: Kim's dangerous new man
Weekly Life & Style: Kim's dangerous new love
OK!: Kim's revenge romance
Us Weekly: Kim K.'s hot new fling
For my American readers, let me clarify some things about Cristiano Ronaldo. Not that dangerous. He's a young single man with a lot of money and fame, and the British tabloid press wrote a lot of trash about him when he played for Man U. He doesn't smoke because he's an athlete with a lick of sense. He doesn't drink because his father died young from the effects of alcoholism. If you look at
his Wikipedia page, you'll see that no one has taken the time to repeat all the nasty things that have been written about him, and that in Europe, his reputation among the fans has made him a very valuable endorser of products. He is now replacing David Beckham in the Armani ads for underwear. Becks is 34 and Cristiano is 25.
For American sports fans, let me put it in terms easy to understand. Cristiano Ronaldo is not Ben Roethlisberger. He's not even Alex Rodriguez on the bad boy scale. He's probably nearer to the level of Derek Jeter, a good looking guy who is single and rich and enjoying himself.
The Kim-Cristiano romance could just be the work of publicists. On the other hand, if it is the work of mad scientists intent on producing a race of impossibly attractive people, you could do a lot worse than start with these two, 'cos they are Supa Foine!
Publication: Weekly Life & Style
