Sienna, Sienna...What a silly Moose you are
In the quality weekly magazine that is Grazia this week is a debate over whether Sienna was in the wrong to begin an affair with married man Balthazar (isn't that the best name you've ever heard?) Getty. Two women put across their arguments for and against Sienna (including the wonderful Barbara Ellen) but I feel some things were left unsaid. Whilst Ellen makes the good point that Sienna has done no wrong (she was not in a relationship whilst cavorting with Balthazar) and that really it should be Balthazar that faces the abuse the other columnist comments that Sienna is in fact letting down all of womankind. I believe the word 'sisterhood' is used.
I have to say that my main issues with Sienna/Balthazar gate are,
1) How can you be so dumb as to have an affair in the public eye? Regardless of whether Sienna wants to claim it was an invasion of her privacy she LOVES the pap attention most of the time. Can't have your cake and eat it!
2) Oh another high profile man Sienna? How original.
I realise that many of you will argue you about whether Sienna actually does love the pap attention. But as someone that regularly trawls through paparazzi images, it's rarely a day went by whilst Sienna was with Rhys when they were not papped outside their 'North London home.' She is not an especially good actor, she is very attractive although continually argues against being a model so can't really hold that up in her defence, and she also wears nice clothes. Occasionally. Again, this cannot come to her defense as she regularly tries to distance herself from her Boho roots and who wouldn't have nice clothes if they had a stylist and endless wardrobe?
All of this considered, Sienna is essentially only famous because she sells magazines. People like to see what she is up to whether it be dating Jude, prancing around in an oversized Moroccan belt or partying in LA with Rhys. Which brings me nicely on to my second point...
Siens (ha) originally emerged in to our celeb-filled lives due to her relationship with the ever-receding hairline Jude Law. (Whilst we're on the subject of Law, is Siens attempting to be the male version of him? poor acting career - tick, series of relationships - tick, high profile affair?! - TICK!) She appeared to be very much in love with Law who foolishly ended the relationship by having an affair with his child's Nanny. This was awful and the whole world seemed to be in Camp Sienna shaking their heads at Law for being such a dumb-ass.
Next Sienna was rumoured to be linked with Daniel Craig amongst others before dating super-cool Rhys Ifans. Now although Rhys Ifans may seem like an unusual choice to boost Sienna's career, Ifans is a strong holder of the cool card and generally accepted as a cool, chilled out guy. He is the life and soul of a party (I imagine) and loved by the awfully-named Primrose Hill set. Kate Moss initially hated Sienna for going out with Rhys knowing that she would mess the poor Welshman around. Rhys made Sienna cool again, he made her seem like she might be fun and not at all uptight. He essentially got rid of her jolly-hockey-sticks image and replaced it with a cool-girl with a pint card.
Clearly she had to mess this up because she was "too selfish to settle down". And the rest, well, you know the rest. If I were Sienna, I would be planning my next move very, very carefully. Time for acting lessons perhaps? An over publicised bit of charity work?
