So Lleyton Hewitt proposed marriage to Bec Cartwright (and she accepted) about six weeks after they started dating, four months after he broke off his engagement with Kim Clijsters and two months after she broke it off with Beau Brady. He is 23, she is 21. Their family and friends are [stupidly] "overjoyed". Cartwright is "really happy". Lleyton is "obviously the marrying kind".
Excuse me while I throw up.
Despite the fact that I've been with my partner for 17 years, we have a child, a home, several pets together, she runs her own business, we are in our 40s and know something about life, we have been legally designated not the marrying kind by John Howard's government (and the support of the ALP). Thank goodness Howard was out of the country or presumably he would have been at the Australian Open and also "overjoyed" that Lleyton and Bec have found true happiness together. (Not as overjoyed as we were when Lleyton lost to Marat Safin.)
[Any bets on how long they'll be together?]
Later: Apparently I'm not the only one who is sceptical about this "love match", though the pair "don't care what critics say".
Even later: Denise Cullen has a canny take on the pair.
Yes, I thought it all seemed a little premature. Perhaps his sponsors were putting pressure on him to get hitched, perhaps Channel 7 saw an opportunity for some cross-promotion and put the hard word on Lleyton to put the hard word on Bec. Whatever. It is more than a little pukesome how everyone is so 'overjoyed' when some of us who show real committment are discounted as freaks.
Posted by: Georg | Friday, February 04, 2005 at 07:08 PM
You really have to wonder sometimes what the hell is the rush! When you hear "news" like this all we mere mortals observers are going What the? Can his or her close friends and family really being encouraging such an apparently rash decision. Your situation with the law has made me really examine this country and its so-called democracry - who is permitted and who permits freedom of choice? It seems its okay for billionaire 20something tennis stars on the rebound and airhead soapie starlet singing chicks to marry but denied for responsible people like yourself and your partner - truly a mockery I agree. I also know if you could you would choose not to - but for you to be completey denied the choice is indeed ludicrous.
Posted by: Lushlife | Friday, February 04, 2005 at 08:58 PM
That's democracy - I wish I could spell check these things sometimes.
Posted by: Lushlife | Friday, February 04, 2005 at 08:59 PM
Georg, your comments made me wonder whether, if Lleyton had won the Open, he would have proposed to her from the court. It could well have been something Channel Seven would have encouraged. We watched a lot of the tennis and they constantly cut to close-ups of Bec in the audience and made references to her.
Posted by: susoz | Tuesday, February 08, 2005 at 10:14 AM
LLeyton is probably gay himself - hence the high profile lovematch - he has a constant male travelling companion who looks like Ben Affleck and is now supposed to be sharing his house with an AFL footballer who is far more of an oilpainting than his girlfriends!
Posted by: shan | Thursday, February 24, 2005 at 06:39 AM
hey
i think bec and lleyton are awsome and baby is the so cute so yes hope you all like them to
Posted by: Skye ryan | Friday, June 09, 2006 at 12:21 PM
lleyton is not gay
Posted by: Skye ryan | Friday, June 09, 2006 at 12:21 PM