The romance and, as of last Saturday, marriage of French President Nicolas Sarkozy and model-singer Carla Bruni has bored the French to death. “DO NOT WANT!” we are told they scream, put off by the tabloid coverage, or Sarkozy’s willingness to open his life up as if the tabloids care.
But somebody must care. How else to explain the rushed delivery of two Bruni biographies, which hit bookstores yesterday, with a third one coming out Feb. 14? And: How else to explain the free publicity that airline Ryanair hoped to get out of the couple, by using a photo of them in an advertisement without their permission, only to have to pay nearly $90,000 in damages?
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French President Nicolas Sarkozy and his GF Carla Bruni were the subject of a fawning profile in the Sunday Styles this weekend. But it turns out, the two might also be worthy of a vows video feature. French papers are reporting that the two may have married at Elysee palace last week.
Some may say the fact that the French paparazzi care about the possible marriage of their president while our paparazzi care about the very real mental deterioration of a former teen idol makes them better than us. But we think we’re just more honest.