Sometimes I wonder what’s going on with a couple we haven’t heard about in months or a year. Then things feel uncanny when I hear about said couple divorcing a few days later. It’s like a sixth coupley gossip sense. Or perhaps a sixth divorce sense. Very surreal. I was thinking about Giovanni Ribisi (40) and Agyness Deyn (31) last week. And the results are not either good or bad, depending on how you feel about Scientology.
In June of 2012, Giovanni and Agy surprised the world by eloping at the LA County Registrar’s office. Of course Giovanni is famous not only for his acting but also for his second-generation CO$ status. Agyness isn’t widely known stateside, but she was a big “It-girl” model in England about five years ago. No one even knew these two were dating, and the nuptials seemed very impulsive. I wondered if Agy, who was raised Catholic, even knew what she was wading into. A few months passed, and Star started printing, “Oh crap, I married a hardcore Scientologist” stories. These two stuck it out longer that I thought possible. Much of Agyness’ energies were devoted to retiring from modelling and trying to launch an acting career, so she may have been distracted.
TMZ reports that the grand romance is over, and Giovanni was the one who filed. This was Agyness’ first marriage and Giovanni’s second trip down the aisle. He was formerly married to actress Mariah O’Brien (also a Scientologist). You know, these CO$ members are eventually trained to move Xenu and Earth, but they can’t keep their marriages intact. Just ask Tom Cruise.
Giovanni and Agy separated in late December, which means they stayed married for about 2.5 years. That’s two years longer than I expected. Run, Agyness. Run!
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet & WENN
This is just my totally unprofessional, arm chair psychologist position on Hollywood marriages. I often feel stars get married because they are bored or looking for that next thing to do, which I guess isn’t all that unlike most people. However, in Hollywood, there are so few consequences for personal actions that it seems to remove any need to actually think before you act.
It’s really sad to see so many marriages come and go like fashion trends, but the families with children are the ones I really feel for.
True. It’s like they know divorce is just a joint press statement away so they never feel like they really have to work at it. Which is sad, because a marriage where both of you work at it and communicate can be so nice… I guess it’s harder when you only see that person for 3 months out of a year though…
I also wonder, if after years of acting and slipping in and out of character, do some of them just lose touch with reality and have no idea how they real them would behave?
Or maybe, because in movies romances are always so larger than life, they expect real life relationships to be the same?
“I guess it’s harder when you only see that person for 3 months out of a year though… ”
sure, but that is a choice! most celebs value money and fame more than their partner. most character actors value their work more than their marriage. so its no surprise it fails. why marry in the first place if you are traveling for most of the year? because you are so great that someone will totally wait all year for you?
as a movie star everyone bows down to your wishes, imagine you come home and suddenly someone wants you to change diapers.
they constantly get to meet new, interesting and very good looking people, how likely is that they will still value what they have at home? its a big difference turning down a guy flirting with you in a bar or turning down Colin Farrell after you made out with him in front of the camera.
but as i said its all a choice. its not generally smart to date actors and actresses.
another thing would be that they look after stability. i know how that sounds considering celebs, but they probably really look for that. they just dont get that a relationship isnt based on one person and thats a hard pill to swallow when your whole life people tell you how amazing you are.
if you are an actor you never know when you will work again. even the big shots have multiple projects lined up simply because so many movies are never made.
so generally i understand craving for something thats a basis in your life, thats there, some stability. but then the ego, the fame and all the negatives that come with being an actor come to play.
its quite ironic. actors and actress would probably need a stable relationship where they can be themselves and are supported more than most people in the world, but being an actor basically says “i will always be the more important one, i will be away for long periods of time, i will have the producers cast people i am sexually attracted to and then pretend to be in love with thousands of miles away from you, i will kiss and make out with them, i will dry hump therm, there will be lots of rumours about me being unfaithful, everyone in the world will judge your looks because you are my partner, you wont be seen as good enough if you are not pretty enough in their eyes”
so on one hand the profession craves for some stability but also is the biggest enemy of lasting love.
You can say all the same things about musicians. Trust. I used to date them exclusively when I was young and then I got a clue.
To Ginger : The stripper who jumped out of birthday cake in the movie “Under Siege” had the great line when Steven Seagal’s character handed her a gun : “I have one rule in life – I don’t kill people. OK, two rules, I don’t kill people and I don’t date musicians”
Unfortunately it’s not limited to just actors, there are people in all walks of life who don’t take it seriously, divorce after a short time, etc. I would imagine an actor’s lifestyle, with the fame and attention and travel, would add pressure to it though.
Or my favourite trot-out: “I wanted the fairy tale.” Then they jump ship when they realize they didn’t marry a cartoon prince/princess, but an actual three-dimensional person and relationships are full of ups and down. So often people think a commitment only needs to last as long as it’s fun and easy.
She reminds me so much of Tea Leoni
She does!
But I truly think Tea is more beautiful!
Huh, I thought they’d gotten married much longer ago than two years. It’s funny how some celebrity gossip seems like it happened just yesterday while other gossip seems almost vintage after a couple of years have passed.
Anyway, that’s a shame for them but not surprising.
I feel this way (in reverse) about the Mandy Moore/ Ryan Adams marriage. I remember them splitting, him issuing a douchebag statement, and then them getting back together very clearly, but it was apparently six years ago.
She was a real ‘it’ girl in the UK, sort of the Alexa Chung or Sienna Miller of her news cycle. The fashion and gossip magazines loved her look, her wardrobe, etc. – she could do no wrong. Maybe she found breaking into Hollywood harder than she expected. Maybe she thought Giovanni could help and his suggestion was….try Scientology.
She wasn’t an Alexa Chung/Sienna Miller type of PR ‘IT’ girl nonsense. She was a proper model, with proper contracts. Was she part of the party scene? Yes, but you can’t say that means she wasn’t a proper model.
Perez Hilton absolutely loved her over here. And she was an incredibly successful model, but I thought she felt very ‘of the moment’ and not necessarily built for longevity over time (which could have also been because she was clearly shaving a good chunk of years off her age).
That puppy is everything.
Cute little scruffy thing.
I’m worried for the puppy. Can I have custody?
Yes thank you. I would name him “Cubby”!
On a more shallow note, she’s beautiful, and I always found him cute, especially in Saving private Ryan.
I have always found GR to be a fantastic actor! Was surprised when I learned he was a Scientologist. I just can’t hate on him for some reason. Maybe because he is pretty quiet about it…Not the least surprised these two broke up. I think it was the Johnny Depp/Amber Heard thing, on a smaller scale. “This guy can make me a STAR!!” Didn’t happen to Deyn, and I hope it doesn’t happen for that talentless Amber Heard! Men are fools!
In France,WE have a quote who says ” the love/passion lasts 3 years” like in their case
True, French!
I had no idea he was into Scientology, damn. He’s a great actor though.
Maybe he tried to Katie Holmes her into Scientology and it backfired.
I have read that most Scientology adherents leave after 2 years. That’s when the auditing gets more intense and the true craziness of upper Levels becomes apparent. RUN, AGYNESS, RUN!!!
$cientology is a strange strange world. I have a childhood friend who grew up as a $cientologist and left it in her 20s. She’s come a long way since, although from what I can tell, I do not think her father is in her life anymore (he was a HARDCORE $cientologist).
I would bet that part of why they are divorcing is because Deyn doesn’t like the Co$ part of their marriage. And I have to add, he’s a good actor, but there has always been something that seems a little “off” to me about Ribisi.
This. I disagree with the ‘celebrity marriage’ comments above when this seems so much more about Scientology marriages.
Fie upon Giovanni for trying to make an “it girl” into a “basic bitch.”
They look like twins in that top photo.
His sister is (or was- not sure if they divorced or not) married to Beck!
Chan Marshall’s/Cat Power’s last album was pretty much about her break up from GR as he was getting together with AD. I think he kind of screwed her over in the break up, or at least she took it very hard. He seems like another moody self consumed person that women make the mistake of falling for.
I didn’t know he was a scientologist!!! I really like him as an actor, so dissapointing…
I wonder if cat power is feeling cheerful today?