We'll just have to keep looking for that perfect romantic love story, because it looks like Lily Allen and Jay Jopling - the art dealer who was in the running to be the Annette Vallon of the Myspace generation - aren't about to start living happily ever after.
Indeed, today's press reports are that they've split over their age difference, which would seem odd since it can't exactly have been breaking news to either of them, what with him being a friend of her dad and everything. More likely, they've split over the fact that they were never very much together in the first place.
They had a sort of holiday fling: nice for him because she's young and (I keep saying this) engaging and chatty; nice for her because he's sophisticated and rich. They were caught on film in its midst. They're not going to drag it out any more, so the tabloids have been tipped off that it's all over.
So: which celeb pairing do we think is the most likely to get together and stay together for more than, say, six weeks in 2009?
On a quite different note, can I congratulate Kate Winslet on a really excellent bout of tears at the Golden Globes?
