Get Jenny off the box

Did you know that Jennifer Lopez and Ben Affleck have split up? More importantly, did you want to know? I didn't, and yet somehow that knowledge has become indelibly lodged in my brain. The media is obsessed with their relationship to the point that it's unavoidable. I've lost count of the number of times I've come across a headline to detailing the various ups and downs of their relationship in various newspapers, news web sites and tv reports. I'm sure if I listened to the radio I'd have heard it there as well.

And I really don't care.

I have nothing against either of them - I'm sure they are perfectly nice people, but I don't understand why the world is so preoccupied with them. It does make me wonder if they've courted this publicity or whether it's been showered upon them against of their wishes. If it's the former then I can only suppose they've reaped what they've sown, if it's the latter then I feel sorry for them - especially given the sort of vitriol that seems to be aimed in their direction.

Regardless, can someone make them go away so we can have some real news instead?

Please?