So celebrity hook ups are interesting because, well let’s face it, celebrities are interesting, and hook ups are interesting – put the two together and they’re even more interesting. But what makes this particular story so newsworthy is the amount of stuff that’s gone on, online about it. With anything like this you’ll get the internet all in atwitter, but this one takes the cake – the Nikki Sixx (bassist of Motley Crue if you’re to young to know/care) and Kat Von D (ex Miami Ink/now LA ink tattooist/reality tv star) hook up, that is.
This ‘relationship’ is interesting for a lot of reasons. First of all there’s the age difference – Mr Sixx is 49 while Miss D is 26, but hey what’s a couple of decades between friends. Second of all is the exes – last I and everyone else heard Kat was embroiled in an uber public affair with ‘Orbi’ (Roy Orbison’s son) who she was all mushy-eyed over until five minutes ago, and whom she has like a lot of tattoos for/with on her body (her and Nikki also got bro tats, and she has a picture of previous husband ‘Oliver Peck’ tattooed on her thigh – oh and she somehow dated Jackass’s Steve O somewhere all in the middle of this). Nikki was married to a playboy playmate until last year and has since said, “This time around I’ll take the bimbo list and burn it. Let’s take the strippers and get rid of that list too. I’ll never make those mistakes again.” Haha, funny! But even more interesting is the three ring circus fuelled by media that this has all become.
I mean their relationship is just so Myspace. Nikki and Kat apparently ‘went public’ with their relationship by posting pics of each other with captions like “MY OTHER HALF, I LOVE THIS WOMAN….,” “Never thought I’d fall in love like THIS. He OWNS my heart,” and under a photo of them together on Nikki’s profile: “NEVER SAW IT COMING, BUT IT MOWED US DOWN LIKE A FREIGHT TRAIN… HELL YEAHHHH, LOVE IS IN THE AIR…” Wow you know you’ve made it big when you feel you should make announcements like this on your Myspace pages for all the world to see… and in capital letters no less. Fuck press releases, why not just post a bulletin? And so they did. Kat Von D’s bulletins are truly awesome pieces of work to read, I just had to quote her so that you can understand the situation on her terms: “Nikki’s been my friend before I met Orbi, remained that way during our relationship, and didn’t unexpectedly turn into something more, until after Orbi and I had already split. Everyone’s entitled to their opinions, this I know – but without sounding like an asshole, some people need to chill the fuck out and learn to be happy for others! No point in exhausting yourself with all that bad energy… ON THAT NOTE! I am truly happy with Nikki, and the feeling’s mutual. Nothing feels more amazing then making a connection so deep with someone who understands you, inspires you, supports you, and truly loves you AND what you do.” Amazing, she even posted a blog about it (www.myspace.com/katvond if you actually give a fuck).
After all the Myspacing about it and the following coverage in magazines, on talk shows and in various other internet blog type places, it seems that instead of just ‘chilling the fuck out’ everyone has preferred instead to add their two cents, like this guy who left a wonderful comment on blabbermouth:
“Wow, fantastic age difference. Nikki Sixx was banging chicks while Kat Von D was being born.” – mankvill
Or this dude:
3/7/2008 7:03:36 PM She is so F’n HOT! What does she see in him? There’s no room left on him for her to tattoo. She’ll lose interest soon.” – rycheskull
You know, these weird internet dudes with stupid names probably do have a point. I mean, who knows, maybe they are each other’s tattooed soulmates and ‘other halves’ and I’d almost like to think that was true. But the journalist and ex-media studies student in me just sees a relationship cooked up for the cameras by a team of $500 an hour PR and marketing people (as much as I’d like to say to the happy couple – fire your publicist, who needs them when you’ve got Myspace – I’m pretty much unconvinced they came up with this advertising gold themselves, what with a rumoured new Motley Crue record suspiciously timed to come out soon and all it’s just all a little too perfect). Will they stay together and slowly have their bodies turn into one giant canvas for tattooed portraits of each other whilst Kat kickstarts Nikki’s heart forever, or will she turn out to be just another one of those girls girls girls who is too young to fall in love? (Yes I’m sorry I had to write that, it’s Motley Crue, cheese is what sells records…and terribly trashy celeb hook up stories that really only belong on the E! channel. You’re just going to have to deal). No one really knows, but one thing’s for sure, whatever happens, it’s going to be all over Myspace.