Showing posts with label Hunter Biden. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hunter Biden. Show all posts

Monday, April 6, 2020

The Guessing Game - Updated

What will be on the cover of People this week? My guesses:

The Cuomo Brothers: Older brother Andrew, the governor of New York, and younger brother Chris, a CNN anchor who has COVID 19, have become a double act on television (read more here)
Hunter Biden: His son was born (read more here)
The Queen: A rare and moving address to citizens of the U.K., seen by people around the world
Peter Beard: The famed photographer, artist and writer, age 82 and suffering from dementia, disappeared from his home a week ago
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend: Her daughter Maeve and grandson Gideon died after a canoe accident last week; I wrote about it here. As of Monday evening, Maeve's body has been found; the search for Gideon's body will continue tomorrow
Kobe Bryant: Selected for the Hall of Fame
Channing Tatum: After a brief reconciliation, he and his wife are splitting up again
Joanna Gaines: Her new lifestyle channel, named Magnolia, will debut in October
Michelle Money: Her daughter had a brutal accident while skateboarding, she's been in a coma for over a week with brain trauma and a skull fracture. (Who's Michelle Money? She competed on The Bachelor in 2011, on Brad Womack's season, then went on to win Season 1 of Bachelor In Paradise)
Duffy: The Welsh singer tells a harrowing tale of abduction and rape
Modern Family: After 11 seasons, the final episode airs April 8
Celebrities Who Have COVID 19:
--Andrew Parker Bowles: Camilla's ex-husband has the coronavirus at age 80
--Boris Johnson:The British Prime Minister has been hospitalized due to COVID 19; earlier today he was moved to the intensive care unit
--Colton Underwood: Colton appears to have recovered; his new book is out but because of social distancing, he's not able to do much to promote it. Read more here
--Navy Captain Brent Crozier: Captain Crozier was fired by the Navy for writing a letter asking for medical help for the sailors on his ship, he's now been diagnosed with the virus
--Ali Wentworth: She has the virus, husband George Stephanopoulos has been hosting Good Morning, America from home

Stories that appear on the new cover will be highlighted in green.

Wednesday morning update: Tiger King. On last week's Guessing Game list, I said, regarding Tiger King, "I don't even know what this is, but all of a sudden, it's everywhere." Now I know. It's "Netflix's wild hit docuseries" and apparently it rates a People cover. I admit I don't care too much about the blonde man in the picture, but the tiger is spectacular. No green this week. 

Issue dated April 20, 2020: Tiger King
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Last year at this time: Issue dated April 22, 2020


Thursday, December 12, 2019

Sleaze, Low And High

Jonathan Chiat, writing at New York magazine, lays out Joe Biden's Burisma problem:

In the waning years of the Obama administration, Hunter Biden, whose life was in a downward spiral, took a job with the Ukrainian energy company Burisma, which was transparently attempting to gain influence with Hunter’s father. The maneuver was unsuccessful for Burisma (which received no favorable treatment from the vice-president), fairly successful for Hunter (who received a hefty paycheck for minimal work), and has left a residue of low-grade sleaze that Joe Biden’s campaign has proven unable to scrape away. The dilemma this poses for Biden, and his party, is what — if anything — they can do about this problem.

So far, Biden’s responses to questioning on his son’s role, which range from challenging his interlocutor to a push-up contest to trailing off awkwardly, have hardly allayed the concern. But it’s difficult to think of a better response, since a true answer is extremely difficult for a politician to communicate. And the true answer is: Yeah, I screwed up, but it’s actually not that big of a deal.

Biden’s error is that he created what used to be called “the appearance of impropriety,” a phrase that was common back before actual impropriety rendered it into a quaint anachronism. The appearance of impropriety is that Hunter Biden made money from Burisma, a Ukrainian firm, at a time when Joe Biden was directing the administration’s Ukraine policy, creating the appearance that Burisma bought Joe Biden’s favor. Indeed, President Trump has relentlessly charged that Burisma did in fact buy Biden’s favor. This is false. Biden demanded the firing of notoriously ineffectual prosecutor Viktor Shokin, who, at the time, was not investigating Burisma.

Firing Shokin was a unified demand of the pro-democratic world, and if anything, increased the legal jeopardy faced by Burisma. It would have been suspicious and potentially corrupt if Biden had not endorsed Shokin’s firing. His error was allowing his son to cash in on the false perception that he could sell access to his father. And by all accounts, Biden was too distracted by his job and distraught by the death of his other son to intervene in Hunter’s actions. It’s not nothing, but it is a small thing.

Democrats have bitter experience with this sort of flaw. Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server as secretary of State is an eerily similar precursor. It was a small error borne of neglect — Clinton was a technophobe in search of an easy way to keep track of her work-related devices, and ignored proper security protocol for handling State Department email by using a private server. And Trump turned the small error into a gigantic scandal, accusing her of heinous crimes and ludicrously insisting she ought to be imprisoned over them.
 

Later in the article, Chiat points out that the ranks of Trump officials who used private email to conduct official business include Jared Kushner, Ivanka Trump, Stephen Miller, Gary Cohn, Steve Bannon, K.T. McFarland, and Reince Priebus. Since then, Nikki Haley has been found to have done the same.

And of course, Trump’s most blatant security breaches make the use of a private server look trivial. Trump has routinely used a cell phone to communicate and opened himself up to private espionage — like in the now-famous case in which he talked via cell phone to Gordon Sondland, who was in Kiev, in a call almost certainly intercepted by Russia. Most of Trump’s lax security protocol is both far more serious than Clinton’s snafu, and still not on anybody’s list of the 100 worst things Trump has done in office.
 (Click here to read the entire article.) 

Monday, December 2, 2019

The Guessing Game - Updated

What will be on the cover of People this week? My guesses:

Lunden Roberts: The mother of Hunter Biden's baby. When it was reported that she was living and going to school in Washington D.C., I figured perhaps she and Hunter had been introduced by friends of the family, but apparently not. Page Six is reporting that she worked at a D.C. area strip club that Hunter was "known to frequent," stage name "Dallas." (Read more here)
Virginia Giuffre: The woman who says Jeffrey Epstein forced her to have sex with Prince Andrew. Her BBC interview airs tonight (Read more here)
Hoda Kotb: Engaged
Hannah Brown: Won Dancing With The Stars
Sadie Robertson: The Duck Dynasty family member got married
Gabrielle Union, A dispute with NBC about working conditions on the America's Got Talent set
Savannah Guthrie: An eye injury when her son threw a toy
Josh Duggar: His wife gave birth to their 6th child
Bekkah Martinez: The Bachelor alum is expecting her second child
Caitlyn Jenner: Participating on a reality show called I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out of Here, she's been commenting on the Kardashians
Shelley Morrison: The Will & Grace star died at age 83
Taylor Swift: Her new movie, Cats, opens December 20; Jennifer Hudson, Judi Densch, Idris Elba, Rebel Wilson and Ian McKellen also star
Jed Wyatt: A new girlfriend
Brad Pitt: A new girlfriend? Is Brad dating Arrested Development actress Alia Shawkat?

Stories that appear on the new cover will be highlighted in green.

Update: Prince Charles. Younger brother Andrew is in the spotlight, not in a good way, and Charles is said to be the one who made sure Andrew was "de-royaled." People could do a "king-in-waiting" story about the P.O.W.

Update #2: Click here to see the four "People of the Year" covers featuring Michelle Obama, Jennifer Aniston, Jennifer Lopez and Taylor Swift.

Sunday, December 1, 2019

When AJ Met Jason... Episode 13: Three Years Later

Three years after their dating relationship, and just shy of 2 1/2 years since their mutual son was born, AJ Delgado and Jason Miller are still fighting about child support and visitation. Are you watching, Hunter Biden? This is what not to do:












Note: In this tweet, I think she meant to say that Jason used to call Donald sleazy:


















































Monday, October 14, 2019

The Guessing Game - Updated

What will be on the cover of People this week? My guesses:

Simone Biles: Broke the all-time record, male or female, for medals at the gymnastics World Championships
Anne Sacoolas: The American wife of a diplomat serving in the U.K., Sacoolas is accused of hitting and killing a British teenager while driving on the wrong side of the road. Claiming diplomatic immunity, she returned to the U.S. The dead boy's distraught parents are insisting immunity be waived
Hunter Biden: Still in the news. ABC interviewed him over the week-end, it will air on several ABC shows beginning tomorrow
Peter Weber: The next Bachelor was injured while golfing on an off day in Costa Rica. Question: who carries two cocktail glasses while climbing into a golf cart?
Matt Lauer, Brook Nevils and/or Ronan Farrow: Farrow's new book includes a claim from Nevils that Lauer raped her during the Sochi Olympics. Lauer claims their sexual encounters were consensual
Marie Osmond and the Osmond Brothers: The original 4 will perform for the final time on today's episode of The Talk
Coleen Rooney: A bizarre feud on Twitter, did Rebekah Vardy give false stories to a tabloid. based  on items in Rooney's personal Instagram account? (Who are these people? They're the wives of big-deal soccer players in England.) (Read more here)
Shep Smith: In a surprise on Friday, Smith announced he was leaving Fox News. Was he fired or did he resign?
Carson King: Donated over $3 million dollars to a children's hospital after his "need money for beer" sign went viral
James Middleton: Kate's brother is engaged
Tyler Skaggs: A Los Angeles Angels employee claims to have provided Skaggs with the drugs that killed him
Coco Gauff: The 15-year-old phenom won her first Singles title and is now ranked in the Top 100
Joe Giudice: Released by ICE and now in Italy, Giudice will continue to fight extradition

Sexiest Man: Not for this week, but it's time to start thinking about the 2019 Sexiest Man. People usually announces the newly-crowned winner in early November. Right now I have no guesses for who it might be this year; here are the previous winners:

1985 Mel Gibson
1986 Mark Harmon
1987 Harry Hamlin
1988 John Kennedy, Jr.
1989 Sean Connery
1990 Tom Cruise
1991 Patrick Swayze
1992 Nick Nolte
1993 Sexiest Couple: Richard Gere and Cindy Crawford
1995 Brad Pitt
1996 Denzel Washington
1997 George Clooney
1998 Harrison Ford
1999 Richard Gere
2000 Brad Pitt
2001 Pierce Brosnan
2002 Ben Affleck
2003 Johnny Depp
2004 Jude Law
2005 Matthew McConaughey
2006 George Clooney
2007 Matt Damon
2008 Hugh Jackman
2009 Johnny Depp
2010 Ryan Reynolds
2011 Bradley Cooper
2012 Channing Tatum
2013 Adam Levine
2014 Chris Hemsworth
2015 David Beckham
2016 Dwayne Johnson
2017 Blake Shelton
2018 Idris Elba

Stories that appear on the new cover will be highlighted in green.

Update: William and Kate: A "complex" visit to Pakistan.

And one more thing. Remember this?:

Image result for rudy giuliani on cover of People magazine

It's from 18 years ago, when Rudy Giuliani was in the process of dumping his second wife and taking up with his third. (Read the cover story, dated May 28, 2001, here.) I don't really think People will put Rudy on the cover this week, but if they want to, all they have to do is swap out the pictures and change a few words because history is repeating itself. (Wow, is it possible that Rudy isn't a very nice man?) Rudy is done with wife number three, as explained by the Washington Post in an article titled "Third time was not the charm: Rudy Giuliani's latest divorce is bitter, expensive and very public"

It starts with this:

In the “What on earth happened to Rudy Giuliani?” sweepstakes, there are plenty of entries but no winners. Everyone wants to know why “America’s Mayor” became President Trump’s favorite consigliere.

Here’s one factor: He’s in the midst of a very bitter, very expensive, very public divorce. (A moment of silence, please, for the death of romance — especially when there’s no prenuptial.) Perhaps the contentious end of his third marriage is a distraction?


... includes this:

Giuliani, 75, is leaving this marriage the same way he entered it: with blaring headlines, tabloid updates and so much drama.

“He digs it,” says Ken Frydman, spokesman for his 1993 mayoral campaign. “He loves the attention. It’s sport for him — and a lack of judgment.”

In May 2000, New York’s two-term mayor called a news conference and announced a separation from his second wife, television anchor Donna Hanover. It was also a public acknowledgment of his year-long relationship with Judith Nathan, whom he praised as a “very, very fine woman.” The separation, however, was allegedly a surprise to his wife, who said she found out her 16-year marriage was ending by watching television.

A surprise, but also not surprising: Hanover started dating Giuliani when he was married to his first wife, Regina Peruggi. An eternal mystery: When the mistress becomes the wife, why is she shocked when another mistress enters the scene? (“Job opening,” goes the old joke.)


... Nathan and Giuliani met in 1999 at Club Macanudo, an East Side cigar bar. Nathan, divorced from her second husband, was a hospital sales rep and a trained nurse. Across the room: Mayor Giuliani. Sparks flew.

“It was the thunderbolt,’’ he told the New York Times. “Our attraction was instantaneous. There was almost something mystical about the feeling.’’

Soon, the two were inseparable, except for the quality time he spent with his wife and two children.

The affair was not, shall we say, discreet. Nathan accompanied the mayor to a number of official functions and stayed at his side during his treatment for prostate cancer, which led to his divorce lawyer’s TMI revelation in 2001 that the cancer had rendered Giuliani impotent and the two had not had sex for a year. They were not ones to let the marriage of true minds admit impediments, so love flourished.


... and ends with this:

Judith Giuliani, 64, receives $42,000 a month in alimony, an amount she claims is peanuts compared with the $230,000 per month they spent as a couple, according to the New York Times. Her lawyer, Bernard Clair, reported that Giuliani earned millions working at the law firm Greenberg Traurig: Almost $8 million in 2016 and $9 million in 2017. He also claims that by working pro bono for Trump, his client’s husband is deliberately concealing income and working with people who will have to “reimburse him” at a later date.

Giuliani, on the other hand, is pleading poverty. Because he is working for free and paying his own expenses, his lawyer says he can’t afford to support his wife in the lifestyle to which she became accustomed and had to borrow money to pay taxes.

“My reason for working for President Trump for free is wholly and entirely patriotic, and also because he is my friend,” he told the New York Post.

Meanwhile, they’re reportedly fighting over everything: money, Christmas decorations, remote controls and who gets to hang out in which of the private clubs to which they belong.

Judge Michael Katz told the couple: “It is beyond me why either party in this case would have an interest in having all of this done publicly.” Settling, he said, “would treat their relationship and marriage with more respect than divulging all our dirty laundry out for public consumption.”

That’s not happening. There is some chatter in New York that Judith Giuliani is writing a book — or it might be a savvy negotiating tactic for someone with no prenuptial and a good memory.

The Giulianis’ next court date is scheduled for January.
(Read the entire article here.) 

Update #2. See the new cover, featuring Michael Douglas and his son Cameron, here

Thursday, June 20, 2019

More Trouble For Hunter Biden - Updated

It's now been a week since Hunter's quickie marriage became public and the bride and groom have been staying out of the spotlight. I've googled them a couple of times, out of curiosity, wondering, for example, where will they live? Is there a picture of them together? Has Melissa met Joe and Jill yet? There's been no info on any of that, but things might be getting more complicated for Hunter. The following was posted by Page Six a couple of hours ago, under a headline that says "Hunter Biden accused of fathering child with Arkansas woman:"

An Arkansas woman claims Hunter Biden is the father of her child — and she’s suing to prove it.

Lunden Alexis Roberts, 28, filed a petition for paternity and child support against Joe Biden’s lawyer son, saying she gave birth to his kid, “Baby Doe,” in August 2018, according to court papers.

The two-page suit was filed in Independence County, Arkansas, on May 28 — nearly two weeks after Hunter tied the knot with a South African woman named Melissa Cohen.

Roberts wants a court to establish that the 49-year-old father of three is her baby’s biological dad. She is also seeking child support and for him to provide health insurance for the now-10-month-old infant. All out-of-pocket expenses would be split between the two parents, the filing said.

The petition does not say how Roberts and Hunter met or how long they were together.

But the birth of the child came while Hunter was in a relationship with Hallie Biden, his late brother Beau’s wife. The former in-laws started dating in 2017 and split in April, Page Six exclusively reported.

Roberts’ attorney Clint Lancaster said his client “values her privacy.”

“She really does not want this to be a media spectacle. She does not want this to affect Joe Biden’s campaign,” Lancaster told the Arkansas Democrat Gazette. “She just wants this baby to get financial support from the baby’s father.”

The lawyer said they haven’t been able to serve Hunter with the legal papers so far.

“We have been in contact with Hunter Biden’s attorney. We have attempted to work with Hunter and his attorney to settle this issue but that has not been successful,” Lancaster said. “We are attempting to serve Mr. Biden.”

Hunter could not be immediately reached.
(This is the article in its entirety.)

Sounds like Hunter Biden has a DNA test in his future. Can this story be true? Maybe. A posting at the website of a newspaper called the Arkansas Democrat Gazette has more details, read it here. You can read my post about Hunter's recent marriage here.

Update: I admit I had been wondering if Hunter Biden had really had a relationship with a woman living in Arkansas. Then I saw an article titled "Lunden Roberts: Five Fast Facts You Need To Know," which included this:

Roberts was living in Washington D.C. two years ago studying crime scene investigation in graduate school and working with the FBI, according to a family member’s Facebook post. It is not clear what school she was attending to get her master’s degree. Public records show she was living in D.C. and Virginia from 2015 to 2018. (Read the article here.)

The petition for paternity and child support includes an August, 2018 birth date for the baby, meaning conception happened sometime in November-December, 2017, when Roberts was living in the D.C./Virginia area, which also happens to be where Hunter Biden lives. Now things look a bit clearer. In an article last week reporting on Hunter's secret May marriage, the Washington Post referred to his "messy personal life." Things just got a lot messier. 

Thursday, June 13, 2019

Hunter Biden's Messy Personal Life - Updated

When I watched the funeral of then-Vice President Joe Biden's first born son, Beau, in 2015, I found myself feeling some sympathy for second son Hunter. Beau was eulogized, by President Obama and others, as a paragon among men, probably the next governor of Delaware and possibly a future president. I remember thinking that it couldn't be easy to be the younger brother of such a man, especially when Hunter's life had been far less successful than Beau's.

For example, in a particularly public screw-up, Hunter was given an "administrative" discharge from the Naval Reserves in 2013 after testing positive for cocaine. I remember reading about it at the time but given that his father was the VP, the story didn't get as much news coverage as I would have expected. This is how CNN covered it:

The Navy Reserve discharged Vice President Joe Biden's son Hunter this year after he tested positive for cocaine, U.S. officials confirmed.

The discharge of Biden, a 44-year-old lawyer and managing partner at an investment firm, was first reported by the Wall Street Journal on Thursday. He confirmed the report in a statement to CNN.


"It was the honor of my life to serve in the U.S. Navy, and I deeply regret and am embarrassed that my actions led to my administrative discharge. I respect the Navy's decision. With the love and support of my family, I'm moving forward," he said.
(Read more here.) 

Then the funeral was over and I didn't think about Hunter for a couple of years, until I saw a news report saying that he was going through a contentious divorce and oh, by-the-way, he was now romantically involved with his former sister-in-law, Beau's widow Hallie. (I wonder what a good shrink would have said about that.) That was in 2017 and apparently Hunter and Hallie were together until just a few weeks ago:

Hunter Biden has split from Hallie Biden — the widow of his late brother, Beau — Page Six has exclusively learned. The breakup comes two years after we first reported that the former in-laws were dating in 2017.

The son of presidential candidate Joe Biden, Hunter found love with Hallie following Beau’s tragic death from brain cancer at age 46 in 2015. However, it is believed they have now broken up. When contacted, Hallie told us, “No comment.” A source close to the family said it’s a private matter. It’s unclear why the pair parted ways, but sources further told us that the situation is “amicable.”
(From Page Six in an article dated April 30, 2019, read it here.) 

Now Hunter is back in the news again, having tied the knot with a women he barely knows. (Page Six says they knew each other for 10 days before getting married, read that here.) In a story headlined "Hunter Biden's messy personal lie is back in the news. Will it cause political headaches for his dad?" and dated yesterday, the Washington Post said this: 

Presidential candidate Joe Biden’s son Hunter recently married a Los Angeles woman, according to the bride’s mother. Hunter’s surprise marriage to Melissa Cohen, who has South African roots, once again landed him in gossip columns and reinforced his reputation as an unpredictable character in father’s political narrative.

TMZ and Page Six on Wednesday revealed the unexpected nuptials of 49-year-old Hunter, whose love life has previously been the subject of tabloid-worthy drama: In 2017 he divorced his wife of more than 20 years, Kathleen Biden, after a messy split in which she accused him of blowing money on drugs and strip clubs.

Hunter had long lived in the shadow of his older brother, Beau, who was attorney general of Delaware, a military veteran and encouraged to run for higher office. Hunter, an attorney, was discharged from the Navy in 2014 after failing a drug test.

Following a battle with brain cancer, Beau died in 2015 at age 46 — leaving his family devastated. His grieving father wrestled with whether to run for president in 2016, ultimately deciding to wait out the race. The former vice president has cited Beau as an inspiration for his 2020 bid.

At the same time, Hunter’s tumultuous personal life has played out in public. Following his divorce from Kathleen, with whom he has three daughters, the Biden family acknowledged he was dating Hallie Biden, Beau’s widow and mother of Hunter’s niece and nephew.

Joe and Jill Biden maintained a unified front with Hunter in light of questions about the unusual romance, releasing a supportive statement to Page Six in 2017: “We are all lucky that Hunter and Hallie found each other as they were putting their lives together again after such sadness. They have mine and Jill’s full and complete support and we are happy for them.”
(Read the story here.) 

TMZ says the wedding took place on May 16, read that story here. Hunter's youngest daughter Maisy graduated from high school Sunday, there was no sign of the new Mrs. Biden in pictures posted by Jill Biden the next day:



Did Hunter's parents know, when these pictures were taken, that their son was newly married? Did his daughters know?

Hunter Biden is a private citizen and he can do whatever he wants. From a common sense point of view, however, marrying a woman you've known for approximately two weeks, very shortly after breaking up with your previous partner, who just happened to be your brother's widow, is almost certainly not a recipe for marital stability.

When Kim Kardashian and Kanye West got married in 2014 I gave it two years. I've now been proven wrong about that. Five years later Kimye is still a thing. Will Hunter Biden and Melissa Cohen be together in 2024? Almost certainly not. I give it two years.

Update: Hunter's not the only one whose personal life is messy. Page Six just posted an article that starts with this:

Pals of Melissa Cohen were stunned that she married Hunter Biden — because they said she was in a long-term relationship with someone else just weeks earlier.

We’re told that South African beauty started dating Malibu real estate developer Rob Mendez on July 4, 2017, and that they were living together until April of this year. After they split, the pair continued to “hang out” into May.

So when the news about her wedding to Biden broke, there was a flurry of emails between friends of the former couple, sharing the story. “Wow,” said one, “She just broke up with Rob!” They added, “So I’m quite shocked by this being so sudden after their breakup.”

Biden — the son of 2020 Democrat frontrunning, [sic] Joe Biden — was, until recently, dating his brother Beau’s widow, Hallie. Cohen was also previously married in 2011.

Cohen and Hunter married on May 16 after knowing each other for 10 days.
(Read the article here.) 

This story is getting stranger by the minute. The more I learn the more convinced I am that happily ever after is not in the cards for Hunter and Melissa. 

Update #2 on Friday morning. Hunter Biden's new father-in-law, mother-in-law and brother-in-law, a.k.a. the bride's father, mother and brother, have all commented positively about the marriage. (Read about it here and here.) On the other hand, other than one word, "yes," from Joe Biden in answer to the obvious question (see video below,) there's been no comment from anyone in the Biden family. No good wishes, nothing warm and pleasant about their new daughter-in-law, no "we can't wait to meet her," etc. Is it possible Joe and Jill are not thrilled about Hunter's quickie marriage? My guess? Yes.



Update #3 on Saturday morning. Confession: I'm still thinking about Hunter Biden and his strange, secret marriage. I tried to be tactful when I wrote the original post above; here's what I really think: Marrying a woman you've known for two weeks is a really stupid thing to do, signaling a lack of emotional maturity and extremely poor judgment. (It's also a clear example of bad decision-making by an addict, which by his own admission, Hunter Biden is.) In addition, at the age of 32, the bride is 17 years younger than the groom and only 8 years older than his oldest daughter. A 17-year age gap isn't necessarily a deal-breaker, but in this situation I'd say it's a red flag.

I can't help wondering, what was the rush? Why not just date for a while? (If I was in a position to talk to someone considering getting married after two weeks, this is what I'd say: "What are you afraid of? What do you think will happen if you don't get married right away?") I'm also struck by the on-going silence from the Biden family. I'm now convinced of two things. One, there's more to this story, and two, the marriage won't last. I said above that I give it two years, but that was probably too optimistic. Frankly, I'd be surprised if Hunter and Melissa are still together at Christmas.