The One Way Relationship Train

Kate Gilhool
Associate Editor

I hope it isn’t just me, but I feel like I have special relationships with celebrities even if I’ve never met them. When my girl Kim K filed for divorce a few weeks ago, I was in shock because I had just celebrated her wedding 72 days before. When I say that I celebrated her wedding to Kris Humpries, I mean that I spent 3 hours on the Dr. Pit couch in our living room watching her 3 part wedding special on E! News.

I felt, and still feel like I was part of her family, and that I should be just as devastated as them. If the topic of her wedding being ‘fake’ comes up in conversation, I immediately jump to her defense. “You guys don’t even know Kim. She loved Kris, it just didn’t work and her late father told her to always do what felt right to her.”

I know, it’s really sad that I think I’m besties with celebrities even though I’ve only watched them on tv or read about them in the news and tabloids. And, if I were given the opportunity to be friends with them I would turn it down, because what kind of a person lets their personal life be filmed and broadcasted on national television for the world to see?

Still, it feels so real. Even if it’s a character they play on a show I’m convinced that I know them on a personal level. I’m a huge Entourage fan, so when ‘E’ from Entourage happened to sit a few rows behind me at a Rangers vs. Islanders game, I felt tempted to go up to him, slap his hand and ask if he wanted to meet up with Drama, Turtle, and Vince after the game… as if the Entourage crew really existed outside of their airtime on Sunday nights on HBO. Of course, I still went up to him at half time when everyone was milling around in our section to say hi, and totally blew all chances of being cool by confessing what a huge fan I was and asked if I could take a picture. (Note to self: work on self-control while around
celebrities.) Maybe I feel this way because I am a typical kid from my generation that watches way too much TV and reads People magazine more than the New York Times. But I like to blame it on the reality show stars for putting themselves on national TV for everyone to watch rather than blaming myself, because let’s be honest, who likes to blame themselves for having a one way friendship with someone they’ll never meet?

I also believe that Facebook is at blame for this flaw. I have nearly a thousand ‘friends’ but what are the odds that we’re actually friends? Facebook should be changed to the ‘stalking-book’. Interaction on Facebook was the main reason for joining facebook in eighth grade, but often times I find myself being a stalka, not a talka. Forming friendships online and rarely seeing my so called ‘friends’ but seeing and knowing their recent whereabouts, what they did over the weekend, and everything else a self respecting girl should not admit to having seen or knowing based on their ‘profile’, I feel as if I get their sense of humor and know them just as well as I know a good friend of mine. So I’d like to thank you Facebook and the celebs for making me feel like a dope for thinking that I really know people that I’ve never met or barely know. But then again, it could just be me for getting too involved with everything that I read and watch.

Fun Fact: Graphics were made by me and that is actually me
and Kevin Connolly. Unfortunately, that is not me and Kim K.