Think about it:
- The much-hyped Lifetime movie, Northern Lights, starring LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian, was scheduled to air on Sunday, March 22 (last night).
- The new issue of Us Weekly comes out of nowhere with a story on their steamy affair a few days prior - with a surprising amount of detail for Us Weekly.
- Rimes issues a statement in which she doesn't confirm or deny anything. Cibrian does deny it, but an incriminating video surfaces about 7 seconds later.
- A mysterious, alleged cousin of Rimes' husband, Dean Sheremet, emerges from the woodwork to say that he's actually gay and LeAnn is just his beard.
Was this all a publicity stunt for their movie?
LeAnn Rimes and Eddie Cibrian: Caught in the act (of filming a movie)!
We've seen Adrienne Bailon's PR guy leak nude pics of her, and Britney Spears' manager Larry Rudolph hack the email of choreographer Sandip Soparrkar to propagate rumors that he was dating Spears. So nothing would surprise us.
Then again, maybe there's truth to these rumors after all.
With an epic line rivaling the cheesiness of even the greatest One Tree Hill quotes, LeAnn Rimes' Northern Lights character says to Eddie Cibrian's in the TV movie:
"Now that we've run out of things to say, do you want to have sex? You know, hot, wet, forget-all-of our-problems sex. It's basic, it's primal, and it's low in fat."
And... scene.
It's that kind of dialogue that makes you wonder ... if Rimes' supposed off-set affair with Cibrian (both of whom are married) was concocted based on their on-set chemistry, or of said chemistry is a product of a real-life tryst.
Does it matter? Not to Lifetime, which scored an estimated 4.5 million viewers last night, the network said. The movie is the network's biggest of the year.
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March 23rd, 2009 1:25 PM
For years LeAnn Rimes has been cultivating a new audience segment as her skirts got shorter, posters sexier, and videos more suggestive; all the while this Twisted Angel has encouraged her preteen admirers. Now that her sex image has exploded into full view, her impressive and yet subtle PR machine seems to want to backtrack but portraying her as a vulnerable woman in a difficult marriage won’t wash. A one night stand may be indicative of vulnerability but an international and interstate five month pursuit of another woman’s husband is not. It’s lust…tart time…it’s “black and white”.
Now her people may have chosen to surreptitiously promote or replant the gay factor. Miss Rimes gave her vows to a man…gay or not. She also chose to ride the cross-town Cibrian express eating Eddie Finger Sandwiches while the mother of his preschool children was enjoying yet another kid’s value meal. In a desperate and last ditch effort to impress the judges, is Miss Rimes attempting a gold medal vault where by she steers the bus with one hand and throws her husband under it with the other? This run-away wreck began less than sixty days after Miss Rimes and her husband moved into their multimillion dollar dream home and thirty days after she declared her undying devotion at a Napa Valley extravaganza celebrating their seventh wedding anniversary.
Yet, there is great opportunity to be found in the promotion of the moment. In her latest inspirational work entitled “What I Can Not Change”, her husband might be first on the list; followed by the destruction of an innocent woman’s family and then by her lover’s complete lack of character. Chart topping to say the least. Nature bestowed on Miss Rimes all the gifts that produced the abundance of pearls in the oyster that is her world and yet why has it come to this? The answer may be found in nature as well. Her father stole seven million dollars from her. Perhaps when it comes to loyalty, honesty, and trust, the apple doesn’t fall far from the tree.
What a Waste!!!!
March 24th, 2009 12:45 AM
For the longest time I've wondered why Eddie Cibrian hasn't done anything serious since his awesome work on INVASION (and the incredible THIRD WATCH). What the Hell happened to this man's career? An endless string of guest spots on mostly forgettable short-lived tv series' combined with central roles in dumb tv romances like THIS God-awful piece of crap... I just couldn't sit still long enough to watch straight through, it was so brain-numbingly silly and dull. Ridiculous story, horrible acting from everyone but Arquette (who's been much better in everything else in which she's ever been associated). I really can't believe the guy whom I often wanted to punch as Jimmy Doherty wound up HERE. What exactly is his manager's job, anyway? To send him out for yet ANOTHER bare-chested sex-scene, for crying out loud?
And now, when what Cibrian really needs is a great central role in an excellent story with serious production values (sigh of exasperation) , he goes and gets himself caught in someone else's mess of a marriage. And is she someone of note? No. She's a marginally appealing, has-been country-singer who, evidently, is so dumb she has no clue she's married to a gay man (or, if she does know, why the "marriage" is just nuts). At any rate, I could care less about HER career or whether this thing is merely a stunt designed to draw viewers to their... project. My concern is Cibrian's string of choices which are, at best, regrettable and, at worst, ruining what was once a promising career.
In the end, as someone who's followed Cibrian's career, hoping for much better things (like the whack-job role on Criminal Minds), I'm so disappointed in the direction his career has taken now. If he wanted out of his marriage he should have just gotten out - quietly. This is just a damaging mess. What a waste.