The Times tells us today that "outlandish celebrity marriages, like overblown corporate mergers, are one of the most reliable indicators of economic optimism."
Maybe. They are certainly a reliable indicator of a serious paper finding a reason to use a glamorous celebrity picture, in this case of millionaire model Gisele Bündchen and millionaire American football star Tom Brady.
The couple were married this week in Costa Rica and we learn that the wedding "wasn't just any old ceremony, either. It was a proper like-the-crash-never-happened affair, guarded by a private army of security guards."
The paparazzi know all about that because, in trying to snatch pictures of the ceremony, they claim they were shot at. According to a HuffingtonPost report, Agence France-Presse photographer Yuri Cortes and Rolando Aviles of Costa Rican newspaper Al Dia accused the bodyguards of trying to seize their cameras' memory cards and then firing on their car as they drove off.
Police are said to be investigating. But nobody was hurt. All it tends to indicate is that, despite the recession, nothing changes for the privileged or the paparazzi.
