So this Lindsay Lohan stuff is like... y'know?

Sorry for the title, and yes it annoyed ME to write it but see here's the thing...

Let's leave the girl alone for a while, OK? Granted, she's in the public eye, granted she's a celebrity and it's their "job" to be photographed and hounded and treated like everyone's property...

I hope you all understand I'm being facetious there.

However, being a random person with an opinion that obviously others can comment on and say "YOU SUCK!" or "YOU'RE RIGHT!" or more visceral and damning hyperbolic versions of those phrases, I just wanted to chime in my two cents (two pence in the UK).

I have a love-hate relationship with tabloid newspapers. The thing that I love about them is that they're reading material. That's it though. You can read them.

Otherwise I hate the fact they made up stuff based on quotes from friends of friends who HAVE NO BEARING ON WHAT IS ACTUALLY GOING ON*

(*disclaimer: this may or may not be true)

So the fact that we've heard that Sam and Lindsay have been spotted at a club is fine. Once or twice. The fact that they've been spotted for the thirteenth time at a club is dull. It's pointless. Do we care? Don't we already have the impression that Lindsay goes clubbing? That she's a party girl? Isn't that the image she's been plastered with for so long?

And this break-up. This melodramatic, played-out-in-the-papers-to-death break-up that involves shouting, screaming, Nicole Richie saying: "ugh", friends jumping ship, restraining orders... how much of this is true and why do we need to know? I swear sometimes these poor people get treated like meat and are thrown to the lions. You know what happens when lions get meat? They eat it, digest it and either throw it back up again or it comes out the other end.

Sounds like journalism to me.

I should know. I studied it for three years.

I don't think her appearance on Ellen DeGenererenenenerenerenes's show recently will make anyone think differently about her. People already have their opinions on her. She's a celebrity, of course they do. It's like every celebrity; people love them, people hate them, people have wildly conflicting opinions on them. That sounds a lot like normal life to me, only with more hyperbole and extremities thrown in.

Feel free to think of her as you like. That's what opinions are for. I'm not trying to foist my opinion of her on you and to be perfectly honest, neither should the tabloids.

Cos it's like... y'know... so trashy and stuff.

That was painful to write.