Curse, shmurse. Sandra Bullock's marriage wasn't jinxed by Oscar, it was undone by the well-oiled zipper on her hubby's motorcycle pants.
The Oscar curse boogeyman has been trotted out this week after news that two more Academy Award best-actress winners have seen their marriages go down the toilet, following in a long line of similar Oscar losers in love.
First came the surprising announcement this week that Kate Winslet was splitting from her husband of seven years, director Sam Mendes, just a year after she took home her lovely statuette and gushed about the love of her life.
And now comes the shocking news that Bullock has moved out of the digs she shared with bad boy hubby Jesse James after she was blindsided by claims in a tabloid magazine that he's been cheating with a tattoo model/stripper.
The ink-loving motorcycle shop owner issued an apology late Thursday insisting that while "the vast majority" of the allegations were untrue, he'd displayed "poor judgment" and was solely responsible.
"There is only one person to blame for this whole situation, and that is me," mea-culpaed Bullock's 40-year-old husband of five years.
"This has caused my wife and kids pain and embarrassment beyond comprehension and I am extremely saddened to have brought this on them," he said in a statement to People magazine. "I am truly very sorry for the grief I have caused them. I hope one day they can find it in their hearts to forgive me."
Good luck.
Talk about humiliation. Bullock, 45, spent the entire awards season effusively thanking her husband for having her back and making her a better actress. Just 10 days ago, she acknowledged him again on the Oscar stage and when the camera panned to the star of the cancelled Monster Garage TV series, there was a touching tear sliding down his cheek.
Looks like he's a pretty good actor, too.
According to Michelle "Bombshell" McGee, she had a steamy 11-month affair with James while his wife was away filming The Blind Side last year. And she told In Touch Weekly that she has the sextings to prove it.
"I would never have hooked up with him if I thought he was a married man," McGee insisted in her kiss-and-tell to the supermarket tabloid. "He gave me the impression they were separated."
The way the buxom "bombshell" tells it, she and the scoundrel were even in bed together when he turned on the MTV Awards last May and watched his wife walk the red carpet.
It was all hot and heavy, she says. She called him "Vanilla Gorilla" because he's so, um, well-packaged. He called her -- at least according to a text message from Jesse J -- "hot babe."
While you're upchucking your cornflakes, can we pause for a moment?
Take a gander at Tattoo Girl. Now one at beautiful Sandy.
Is the guy insane?
But then this is the same biker dude whose second marriage was to a much-inked porn star. It seems America's sweetheart made that age-old mistake of thinking that she could change her man.
Instead, just days after emotionally thanking her husband on Oscar night in front of billions of people, her unfaithful scumbag was still supposedly texting his mistress: "Just think'n bout u this morning."
Honestly, haven't these cheaters learned anything from the Tiger Woods' implosion?
Tattoo Girl's sordid story went from tabloid fodder to legitimate rumour when Bullock suddenly cancelled her appearance at the London premiere of The Blind Side, citing "unforeseen personal reasons," and People magazine reported the actress had moved out of the couple's Long Beach home.
Cue the Academy Awards jinx.
Over the last 11 years, seven of the best actress winners have split from their lovers following the big win: Kate Winslet (won for 2008), Reese Witherspoon (2005), Hilary Swank (1999, 2005), Charlize Theron (2003), Halle Berry (2001), Julia Roberts (2000) and Gwyneth Paltrow (1998).
So can poor Sandy blame the Oscar curse or just the Hollywood one?
We in the Academy of Public Opinion vote for the latter. After all, marital fidelity is about as rare as real breasts in LaLa Land.
