She's won a couple of shiny statues for straddling that masculine/feminine line but will always be Steve Sanders's unwed-mother girlfriend in our minds. And he got a couple of slightly-less-important statues for pretending to have AIDS on Life Goes On, but we can't think about him without wondering if he's got a hidden copy of his brother's teen-twiddling tape. The really sad thing about the separation of Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe is that the previous two sentences were the most interesting things we could say about them. Welcome to Hollywood's most boring breakup.
Seriously, the only reason anyone even knew that Hilary and Chad were married was because she forgot to thank him in her Oscar acceptance speech for Boys Don't Cry while he flamboyantly proved that boys do indeed cry. Other than that, theirs has been the least eventful Hollywood marriage since Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson. So why do we care that they're breaking up? We don't, really, but we have an obligation to you, our perverts, to announce any new entry into the celebrity dating pool and to remind you that she has been caught naked on film. Details on the split are sparse, but Swank's manager, Troy Nankin, released this statement: "Hilary and Chad have decided to separate, but they are hopeful they'll be able to get through this tough time." If word is released that this split was initiated by Lowe, it might start a Hollywood house-husband revolt, with Ryan Phillippe and Danny Moder burning piles of their wives' movies and insisting that they can pay the cable bill all by themselves and otherwise grasping at their last shreds of masculinity.
Did we mention Hilary Swank naked? Yes indeedy. Check it at MrSkin.com.
Hilary Swank and Chad Lowe Still Boring, Newly Single
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