Poll: Will Sandy and Jesse Divorce?

[Kath 153]

The more I hear about Jesse James, the more I wonder: What in creation did Sandra Bullock ever see in him? Didn't she see the same warning signs we all saw?

—Lovey, Austin, via the Answer B!tch inbox

 

Well, if she did, Sandra Bullock didn't exactly share them with the planet.

 

Long before Michelle "Bombshell" McGee blasted what appears to be an irreparable hole in their marriage, Jesse James and Bullock were celebrated by the media as an "unlikely" couple.

 

But if you dig deeper, you'll see that these two had more in common than you may think, including a few similarities that may surprise you...

 

Early in her relationship with James, Bullock wouldn't talk about the budding romance, instead telling People magazine that she wanted stories on her to focus on her work. "There's a reason they call it private life," she quipped.

 

But that eventually changed. Here's what she apparently saw in James, as well as some interesting commonalities:

 

• James, apparently, didn't try to remake Bullock or criticize her faults. "Thankfully I married someone who loves me just the way I am—and all the nuttiness that goes into me," Bullock told In Style.

 

• He made her reconsider her stance on kids. Again, per Bullock in In Style: "I haven't had children biologically. I had shut that off; then I met Jesse, and it turned on again. I was like, 'Oh, that's that feeling.' "

 

• He made her feel like she could let her guard down. "He takes care of her, which was really hard for her at first," Ann Lopez, wife of Bullock bud George Lopez, said in an interview. "She's so independent. Then here comes Mr. Macho: strong and yet sensitive, artistic, a businessman and all around a cool dude. I have never seen her so happy."

 

• They actually both like driving really fast on vehicles with wheels. Bullock loves to go off-roading on dirt bikes and cussing a lot. She once said, "I want to be a broad."

 

• James isn't the only one who seems very conscious of, um, race. Addressing a question about future children, Bullock told People, "If that's gonna happen, that's exactly the way things are supposed to be, and it would be amazing. And if it didn't happen, then I'd know that I was supposed to be right here with these three amazing, blond Aryan children. Everyone looks at me and goes, 'I know you ain't the mama!' I'm like, 'That's OK, I can put in some blond highlights!' "

 

• James himself isn't all guns and choppers. He admires Martha Stewart, for one. And they both consider themselves very stubborn.

 

• Most tellingly, Bullock seems to have believed that James's past was just that: his past. While shooting the film Premonition in a Shreveport, La., church, Bullock reportedly told the pastor, "He's gotten over the wildness and I'm the wild one now!"

 

Sadly, it looks like Bullock was wrong, at least, on that last count.

 

Read more: http://eonline.com/uberblog/ask_the_answer...l#ixzz0kTIAxdFQ

[Kath 153]

Jesse James Also Denies Sex Tape Reports

 

By Elizabeth Leonard

Wednesday April 07, 2010

 

Sandra Bullock and Jesse James can agree on at least one thing: They did not make any sex tapes together.

 

While Bullock denied an Internet report of such a sex tape, James has broadened the denial to also include an online story claiming he's in at least a dozen sex tapes with other women featuring Nazi-themed paraphernalia.

 

"The claims of sex tapes are untrue and completely fabricated," says a rep for James in an exclusive statement to PEOPLE.

 

James, 40, remains in a treatment facility while Bullock, 45, has stayed in virtual seclusion since reports of James' alleged infidelity surfaced last month.

[Kath 153]

On Sandra Bullock and Everywoman's heartbreak

 

The Good Woman, the Bad Boy and his Low-Rent Lovers: We care about Sandra Bullock because she’s a proxy for our own broken romantic dreams

 

Published on Thursday, Apr. 08, 2010 7:25PM EDT

 

When Sandra Bullock stepped on stage to accept the Best Actress Oscar for her role in The Blind Side, she was her perfectly calibrated, accessible self: the Miss Congeniality of the Hollywood beauty pageant.

 

Her long, dark hair sleek as an otter, her lips brightly red, she exuded the simple prettiness that endears her to female fans.

 

Not quite a girl next door, Ms. Bullock is more Everywoman –someone who has had to work hard for everything she has. She took a hiatus from the film-making business when she was unhappy with a lack of challenge in the roles she was offered. . She finds celebrity “meaningless and empty.”

 

“It holds nothing for me, although it will hold a great table in a restaurant when you’re at your peak,” she once said.

 

She had her nose fixed – and it’s still not perky. She had a goofy-fringe and bad-highlights period of hair history.

 

Best of all, “if she puts on weight, forget it. Her prettiness goes,” observes Cooper Lawrence, a syndicated radio host in the United States and author of The Cult of Celebrity: What Our Fascination With the Stars Reveals About Us.

 

Gotta love our BFF Sandy!

 

It’s Sandra Bullock’s position as the avatar of average femininity that fuels the continuing tabloid frenzy about her marital woes in the wake of revelations that her motorcycle-enthusiast husband, Jesse James, cheated on her with Michelle “Bombshell” McGee, a Nazi-loving tattooed creature with a name that helps catapult the whole affair into a soap opera of archetypes.

 

There’s the Good Woman, her Bad-Boy Husband and his Low-Rent Lovers (four at latest count, and at least one with saggy stockings and a cheap-looking cone bra).

 

If there ever was a celebrity romance/breakup story that reveals the purpose of tabloid culture, this is it. (Though maybe it’s not quite as enduring as the ongoing Jennifer Aniston-Brad Pitt-Angelina Jolie triangle.)

 

We’re fascinated because they’re proxies for our broken romantic dreams. We don’t really care about them as individuals. And we wouldn’t bother with them if their troubles were over business deals or bad real-estate transactions. We pay attention because they play out our worst nightmares.

 

The human heart is one complicated universal muscle, and with celebrities we can theorize endlessly over the virtual garden fence about why the love didn’t last, who was to blame, and whether the wronged woman will come out of seclusion soon to put a brave face on her devastating humiliation.

 

“I don’t think there’s a woman out there who hasn’t had a romantic situation like Sandra Bullock has had,” comments Ms. Lawrence. “She does everything right, but things don’t work out for her.”

 

Ms. Bullock remained single until 2005, just before she turned 41, when she wed Mr. James. There had been boyfriends in her past, and all of them presented romantic complications – Matthew McConaughey (the eternal bachelor) and Ryan Gosling (a little too young for her). There was even an engagement to Tate Donovan, a little-known actor with whom she’d starred in a forgettable romcom.

 

“I don’t think it was that she was picky,” Ms. Lawrence says. “The perception was that men wouldn’t fall in love with her. She couldn’t find the right guy.”

 

Her marriage to Mr. James, five years her junior, cemented her image as America’s Sweetheart. She would reform him. His exes included a porn star, Janine Lindemulder: Ms. Bullock was his salvation. She was playing out a cliché script that never loses its punch.

 

“She pushes me to be a better person,” Mr. James told People magazine in 2006.

 

“No one knows what someone is like based on appearance,” Ms. Bullock was quoted as saying about their unlikely pairing.

 

”She never had the typical romance,” comments Bonnie Fuller, editor-in-chief of hollywoodlife.com. “It was as though she was seeing people for who they truly were. And with Jesse, people didn’t like him. Her friends didn’t like him. But they thought, ‘If Sandra likes him, then he must be okay.’ Everything about her was admirable. She was like the characters she played in films.”

 

Ms. Bullock was the ideal stepmom to Mr. James’s three children (never an easy task). She was actively involved in the custody battle for the youngest when Ms. Lindemulder was imprisoned for tax evasion. She even adopts handicapped canines from a local shelter.

 

She fawned over her monkey-suited bad boy at all the awards shows, gushing about her love for him, how hot he was, how much she wanted him, as the cameras panned to his mug, smiling in his goatee. We believed in their love.

 

So is it simply a schadenfreude thrill we get by witnessing her heartbreak, by refusing to let the story go ? Better her than us? A cautionary tale? Tsk, tsk, Sandy: Bad boys will always be bad?

 

Sure – at least partly. But as weeks go by, and the scandal remains on the covers of the tabloids, darker theories are emerging.

 

Ms. Bullock, who has a squeaky-clean, sex-tapeless Hollywood image, is reportedly reluctant to divorce Mr. James. Some have speculated that she is worried about his erratic behaviour. He has publicly (as well as through his attorney) pleaded for her forgiveness; she has remained silent.

 

“She doesn’t want to send him over the edge,” one anonymous “friend” was quoted as saying, shoring up the übermaternal rescuer-of-lost-souls image.

 

More troubling is the notion that perhaps Ms. Bullock is fearful that if she divorces him, he will sell stories that could ruin her image. Could it be that America’s Sweetheart – an image she has certainly done her best to uphold – has some marital secrets that could make her Miss Nasty, not Miss Congeniality?

 

“Look, maybe you don’t know that your hubby is having sex with some floozy when he goes to his office, but don’t tell me you don’t know that he has a Nazi room full of stuff,” opines Ms. Lawrence, who worked in Hollywood as an assistant to celebrities before becoming an author.

 

“She must have known,” she says of Mr. James’s rumoured interest in neo-Nazism.

 

Stay tuned. We are all not what we seem.

Edited April 9, 2010 by Kath

[Kath 153]

We’re trapped in sex-scandal hell

It used to be that crime sold newspapers – 'If it bleeds, it leads.' Now we’re on to 'If he cheats, it tweets.' The whole world is reeling from TMI

 

Published on Thursday, Apr. 08, 2010 3:51PM EDT

 

Here’s a headline I hope not to read any time soon: “Sandra Bullock reveals all.” Poor Oscar-winning Sandra – gorgeous, accomplished, likeable and now, of course, the heartbroken betrayed wife of that tattooed motorcycle guy whose name never fails to confuse me.

 

I keep hoping “Jesse James” will go back in my mind to being a handsome Wild West outlaw from the 1800s instead of an allegedly Nazi-saluting, sexually harassing, sex-addicted (yeah, right) creep who nicknamed himself the “vanilla gorilla” because of his qualities as a sex partner.

 

Sex, sex, sex. We’re trapped in sex-scandal hell, and the story of Sandra Bullock – who has, as the cliché goes, “remained tight-lipped” about her troubles even as she’s mobbed everywhere by concerned citizens – is the latest manifestation.

 

The Internet has turned these private and painful tales of sexual betrayal into a multi-platform nightmare: blogs, voice mails, pictures, texts. The cycle starts with whispers and revelations, proceeds to widespread shock and outrage, and ends up with late-show jokes and op-eds in The New York Times .

 

We say, “No, we’re better than this,” but we don’t really mean it.

 

Tiger Woods, anyone? On the eve of his Masters comeback, Vanity Fair magazine was hoping that our appetite for disgusting details and cheesy photos was, well, bottomless, as it released a 14-page spread featuring four of Tiger’s “mistresses.” One story involves a quickie in a parking lot and a used tampon, and prompted this online comment from one disgusted reader: “There is more dumbing of America in this issue than the Jersey Shore and Tea Baggers put together.”

 

It may be dumb, yes, but we are all addicted to sex these days, and increasingly not our own. It’s everyone else’s half-literate sexts and breathy voice mails that have us panting for more.

 

I participated in a live chat this week about Tiger Woods in which most of us – writers and readers alike – fervidly agreed we were “Tigered out” when it came to his monster sex scandal. Okay, if we really mean that, the Vanity Fair issue won’t be a newsstand blockbuster. And how likely is that?

 

It used to be that crime sold newspapers – “If it bleeds, it leads.” Now we’re on to “If he cheats, it tweets.” The problem is the whole world is reeling from TMI.

 

One day soon, given the saturation coverage of every public penis that goes wandering, we’re going to have to decide whether sexual infidelity involving celebrities is necessarily a big story. Is this really what we want? Is this who we are?

 

The fact that a self-proclaimed serious person would click on a news item on a respected news site about “Jennifer Aniston’s bush” suggests we’ve all become hard-wired for dirty details – any and all, no matter how squirm-inducing, no matter how banal.

 

In fact, as a society we’ve become “banal retentive.”

 

Witness Vanity Fair’s promotional video of writer Mark Seal smirking about how enjoyable it was to spend time with Tiger Woods’s women, proclaiming that he learned from this that (ta da!) “temptation is all around us.” Oh, shut up.

 

That’s not to say there aren’t important sex scandals – ones that we need to talk about.

 

In a far more dangerous and damaging sexual landscape, the Vatican is trying desperately to keep the Pope away from the enveloping stench of a priestly sexual abuse scandal that appears to be engulfing the globe. Now, there’s a sex scandal we shouldn’t let out of our sights – or off our sites, for that matter. It demands both moral outrage and more digging – not for dirt, but for truth.

 

On Monday, the U.S. Pulitzer Prizes will be announced and it will be instructive to see whether the National Enquirer gets a nod for breaking the news of former presidential hopeful John Edwards’s scandalous affair, complete with dying wife, New Age mistress and little love child, not to mention persistent news of a sex tape.

 

For the first time, the nominations committee ruled that the tabloid was eligible for consideration after being the first to report this politically explosive and significant story. I say it was significant with no irony – there’s no question, it mattered. Imagine if the Democrats had gone ahead and chosen Mr. Edwards as their nominee, and then … Rielle!

 

In these sex-saturated times, we need to make decisions constantly about what really matters as we wade through the muck.

 

Of course, some people take the high road and just decline to notice or discuss these tawdry tales.

 

But most of us are only human. After all, “temptation is all around us.”

 

That’s why I hope Sandra Bullock continues on her dignified, discreet way, firmly rejecting the notion that we the people need to be any more deeply informed about her marital nightmare.

 

Because, of course, if the headline “Sandra Bullock reveals all” appears, I will have to read the story, and I’ll be back here again, stuck in sex-scandal hell.

[Kath 153]

Jesse James Had Affair with Fifth Mistress

Published : Friday, 09 Apr 2010, 12:20 PM EDT

 

(The New York Post) - Make it mistress No. Five for Jesse James, the New York Post reported Friday.

 

A new mistress has been found by a celebrity website -- and unlike the women who have spoken publicly of their flings with Sandra Bullock’s cheating hubby, this gal pal was in such "a serious relationship" with the bad boy biker that he even got her a house and paid her rent.

 

Four women -- who included two strippers and a fetish model -- had revealed they had steamy romances with James, 40, while yet another woman hired celebrity lawyer Gloria Allred last month but never publicly came forward.

 

RadarOnline reported Friday that it has discovered a fifth woman and "Jesse was in love with her."

 

"She had a full-on relationship with Jesse," a good friend told RadarOnline of the mistress who wishes to remain unidentified. "After a while, Jesse became obsessed with her and she couldn't handle it anymore.

 

"If he couldn't get a hold of her for some reason he'd go over to her house looking for her," the source added.

 

Finally, "she got kind of scared of him and broke it off."

 

RadarOnline reported Thursday that James spent "several hundred thousands of dollars" on his mistresses over the years -- using private jets to fly them around California and spending several days a week at strip clubs.

 

A source said Friday that James even paid rent for mistress No. Five.

 

"Jesse got a house for this woman and she said he paid the rent on it every month," the source told RadarOnline. "She said he only stopped paying for it once she broke up with him."

 

James is currently attending a sex rehab clinic in Arizona in a bid to save his marriage.

 

Meanwhile, Bullock, the 45-year-old Academy Award-winning actress, is hiding out at her Hollywood Hills home while she decides whether to file divorce papers.

 

Bullock won an Oscar last month for best actress for her role in "The Blind Side."

 

Source: The New York Post

[sanlee 49]

Jesse James' rep: 'There are no sex tapes'

 

 

A rep for Jesse James has dismissed reports the disgraced TV mechanic filmed more than a dozen homemade sex tapes, including a clip with his estranged wife Sandra bullock.

 

"The Blind Side" star walked out on James and left the couple's marital home in March when allegations of his infidelities first surfaced.

 

On Tuesday, Bullock's aides spoke out against claims that James possesses a graphic sex tape featuring the actress, which he could possibly use as leverage in a divorce case.

 

Now James' rep has cleared up internet reports which suggest he's recorded several tapes with mistresses featuring Nazi-themed paraphernalia.

 

A rep for James tells People.com, "The claims of sex tapes are untrue and completely fabricated."

 

James, believed to be receiving treatment in an Arizona facility, was shamed last month by the online leak of a photo in which he poses as Adolf Hitler.

 

 

source: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/dailyd...8#ixzz0koY5DFu5

[Freckles 79]

KLASSY!

 

Jesse James affair girl Michelle McGee also had fling with Pink's husband Carey Hart

 

* From: The Daily Telegraph

* April 12, 2010 12:51PM

 

 

Pink and Carey Hart are now happily reunited... unlike Sandra Bullock and errant husband Jesse James.

 

THE ex-husband of the mistress who tempted Sandra Bullock's husband to cheat has also hooked up with Pink's husband, it has been revealed.

 

Before her affair with Sandra Bullock's husband Jesse James, Michelle "Bombshell" McGee bedded rocker Pink’s motocross racer husband Carey Hart, RadarOnline.com has learned exclusively.

 

“I knew about her fling with Carey Hart, Michelle told me that she had slept with him," McGee’s former husband Shane Modica told RadarOnline.com.

 

"She flew out to Las Vegas to see him but she was upset that they never got to spend as much time together as she expected too."

 

A source close to Pink and Hart confirmed to RadarOnline.com that Hart and McGee met at the ASR convention in San Diego in September 2008, hooking up at a private house afterwards.

 

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Modica also alleged that Hart - who was estranged from wife Pink at the time - visited McGee's strip club in San Diego to watch her dance.

 

“One of her female friends was friendly with Carey also and Michelle got angry that things did not pan out as they expected," Modica added.

 

“This was before her time with Jesse James. It is so typical of Michelle because she always goes for the guy who she thinks has the deepest pockets. It’s horrible because she sleeps with anybody who she believes can help her out.”

[Kath 153]

from Aweful Truth:

 

Dear Ted:

You've already told us that Sandra Bullock has been a B.V. My question is: Did Jesse James appear as a named character in it?

–StellsBells

 

Dear Determined:

The Blind was double-sided, yes.

 

Read more: http://ca.eonline.com/uberblog/the_awful_t...l#ixzz0ku3LBXRJ

[princess 1,712]

Page Six

 

Sandra Bullock actually once met the woman who settled a sexual harassment suit with Jesse James, according to TMZ.com.

 

Merilee Gerth settled a suit for $725,000 with James and reportedly met Bullock at the Long Beach Grand Prix, when James invited Gerth to sit in his viewing box.

 

Sources told TMZ that Bullock and Gerth spoke to each other, about James, and that their meeting took place at the same time Gerth claims James was sexually harassing her at work.

[Kath 153]

From Answer Bitch, April 13th

 

Will the Bombshell McGee/Nazi/other nasty ladies scandal kill Jesse James' career? I would think so.

—Jennifer D., via Facebook

 

You would think wrong.

 

Yes, Jesse James has posed for photos while festooned in Nazi wear and seems to have a pretty obvious problem with gay people. And he's cheated on Sandra Bullock with women more tackily decorated than Neverland Ranch.

 

And true, James has no TV career right now—his latest show, Jesse James Is a Dead Man, went away a while ago—and some magazine has branded him the most hated man in the country. But don't count on him crawling off into a hole just yet...

 

Remember, Jesse James has a core audience—yes, really, he still does have one of those—that is very, very different from his wife's. (As of this hour, yes, James also still has a wife.)

 

And you can take some wisdom from a man who would know:

 

James Cruz, marketing wizard behind names as diverse as Sean Combs and the Ultimate Fighting Championship. He says that not only could James make a comeback, but also he could make one soon. Like in a few months, if he wanted to. In front of millions of people even.

 

Why? Because James' people don't really care about cheating.

 

"At the end of the day," Cruz tells me, "Jesse James' core fans are car guys, and the people who are really taking the scandal to heart are married women or single women who have been cheated on."

 

In other words, if Jesse James had a show on the Food Network or a daytime talk empire instead of a business called West Coast Choppers and reality projects based on stunts and wheels, James would be in major trouble right now careerwise.

 

But, Cruz says, he's not. He's just not.

 

"This is always going to be a part of his luggage," Cruz notes, "but three, six months from now...he'll be able to move forward—it will be however long it takes until people start to forget. Until the next superstar cheats on his wife."

 

And speaking of wives, don't worry about Sandy, either.

 

Despite her husband's taste in entertainment, she's holding the sympathy card right now, especially via her core audience of women, Cruz says. "Women are going to understand that kind of pain that she's going through," Cruz explains.

 

Which leads me to my elevator pitch for a new reality show. It's part road trip, part docuseries: Jesse James Gets Slapped by Women Across America.

[Hihomumio 168]

Totally agree with the assessment of Jesse James' career. The people he caters to won't care at all.

[Hoyaheel 1,874]

Totally agree with the assessment of Jesse James' career. The people he caters to won't care at all.

Although it might make it more difficult to get a new television show, or find "mainstream" sponsors, I agree that his core demographic isn't going to care in a few months....

[Baby Doll 77]

No, his core audience will mostly stay with him, but he'll lose all the mainstream fans he gained in the past year or so, and he won't get the same positive mass exposure again. He'll still sell bikes, but I don't know that the mid-westerners who were buying his work clothes in Walmart will still be around.

[Kath 153]

His core followers is well and good but it's the mass following that makes him the serious money. Selling made in China sweatshirts at wallmart require much less work and give a much higher margin than custom-built bikes, I'm betting.

[akua123 0]

I would think so (re: money margins), though again maybe it's the skeptic in me (I'm in the right place!), as much as people like Sandy and are upset with him, I still tend to think this will blow over and he won't be too affected either way in the long run. How many have come out with stories like this and are "forgiven"? I would think that even the people buying his clothing may have a different viewpoint, and/or just like so they'd buy it anyway. I guess we'll see.

 

As for Sandy, I can certainly understand the pull of the children, especially if you didn't give birth, there's a fear there that they won't be taken care of properly/have the right support if you are the primary caregiver and you know the spouse isn't going to do the same kind of job you are. That said, of course, it's usually best in the long run for them not to see that kind of relationship (if it's dysfunctional) as a good thing.

[Hoyaheel 1,874]

Isn't it just the youngest child who belongs to the former porn star? I thought someone posted in one of these threads that the older kids have a mother very much in the picture....And not a mother just out of prison or drug rehab, either....I don't think there's concern that they will be ok. And they're older anyway.

[Kath 153]

Yes, the 2 elder kids belong to a woman who sounds somewhat sane and is on okay terms with Sandra. Iremember reading somewhere that Sandra & Jesse took the older kids AND THEIR MOM on holiday with them once, so that makes it sound as though they're civil with each other, but who knows what the truth is. I'm not even sure that the kids are currently with Sandra - maybe that's just more speculation than fact.

 

Isn't it amazing how many famous couples are splitting these days? Something in the driking water!

[Hoyaheel 1,874]

Isn't it amazing how many famous couples are splitting these days? Something in the driking water!

I don't think there are any more right now than there usually are.....A handful of divorces a year, that's about normal....

[Kath 153]

In the past month or so there's been Sandra & Jesse, Tiki Barber & his wife, Melissa & Tammy and Jim Carrey and Jenny McCarthy. Doesn't that seem like a lot of fairly Established coupls (not Paris hilton and her boy of the month, for example), compared with an average month?

[l1zz1e 0]

don't forget larry king

[Kath 153]

don't forget larry king

Ah, yes. Larry, whose supposedly sleeping with his wife's sister. That guy must keep the Viagra company in business!

 

And... Jesse James turns 41 today:

 

Today is Jesse James' Birthday (from thehollywoodgossip.com)

April 19th, 2010 12:49 PM

Jesse James, you blew it man. Happy birthday, we guess. After the stuff you pulled the past few years, you don't deserve a cake, except maybe one to the face.

 

Here we thought Sandra Bullock's husband was a good guy. Sure, they came from different backgrounds, but they made it work and we were happy for them. Until he decided to eff things up by getting Michelle Bombshell nude while Sandra was filming The Blind Side. Not just once either. Three times in a day. Sick.

 

The Jesse James cheating scandal didn't stop there. Brigitte Daguerre, Melissa Smith, Merilee Gerth and Lord only knows who else followed. Just deplorable.

 

Jesse James ... quite the despicable catch! Yeah, We hope your 41st birthday sucks, loser. Whatever divorce deal you work out can't come soon enough.

[princess 1,712]

Gesine Bullock-Prado (left) and Sandra Bullock, in 2009

 

 

Bullock's Sister Sets Record Straight on Sandra's Whereabouts

By Stephen M. Silverman

 

Sunday April 18, 2010 02:45 PM EDT

people.com

 

As the old song lyric goes, "Lord help the mister/Who comes between me and my sister" – except in this case, make that Lord help the tabloid who doesn't get it right about Sandra Bullock and her protective sister, Gesine Bullock-Prado.

 

Gesine is rising to her older sister's defense to dispel published stories that purported to chart the Oscar winner's Easter whereabouts as she deals with problems in her marriage to Jesse James.

 

Writing on her blog Confections of a (Closet) Master Baker, Bullock-Prado, who runs a bakery in Vermont, is shooting down rumors that Sandra spent the holiday with her sibling in the New England state.

 

Impossible, says Bullock-Prado, who was celebrating Easter and her own wedding anniversary with husband Ray "with poached eggs and crepes at Yolk on South Michigan Avenue" in Chicago, she writes.

 

"But wait," she adds, "apparently I'm able to time travel," given the tales that "reported that my husband of eleven years and I took my sister to some inn (which shall remain nameless because they've gotten enough free publicity from lying up to now) for Easter dinner."

 

Deadly Serious

Bullock-Prado says she's speaking out – and for once not focusing on food in her blog – because she's "deadly serious about my family, their privacy and even the most benign fictions printed about them."

 

As the proof of the pudding, as it were, Bullock-Prado produces physical evidence: her Chicago airline tickets.

 

"So to set the record completely straight, if the post on Easter about gorging my way through Chicago doesn't convince you to my whereabouts and only my whereabouts, then let my reservations on the lovely United Airlines be a true and honest testament to what I ate for Easter dinner and with whom, and it wasn't with my lovely family at some nameless Vermont inn I've never set eyes upon," she writes.

 

"That night I ate alone and I ate airline food. And who the hell would lie about that?"

[Freckles 79]

I think it's lame that the sister went on a rant about where she was at Easter. Who gives a *$(# ? Considering all that her sister has experienced this past month, I'd hope she'd have a bit of perspective on what's important and what's not important.

[Maxiemom 623]

I think it's lame that the sister went on a rant about where she was at Easter. Who gives a *$(# ? Considering all that her sister has experienced this past month, I'd hope she'd have a bit of perspective on what's important and what's not important.

I think her point was more about where Sandra wasn't at Easter.

[Freckles 79]

Yeah. I guess that's her point. But after all the horrible things that have been said about her sis Sandra this past month - maybe she's a Nazi! maybe her marriage was a total sham! maybe she's in the closet! - I feel it's petty to rant about the "where we spent Easter" issue. If Gesine's going to angrily set the record straight, I'd hope it would be about something substantive. And if Gesine's choosing to be quiet on the big points, I'd think she should remain quiet on the smaller benign fictions, too. JMHO