Jude’s Law: Love The One You’re With
In the immortal words of Sir Mick Jagger, ‘you can’t always get what you want’. So why is that we insist on peaking over our neighbours fences only to decide that their grass is a much better shade of green than ours? Elli Lewis asks whether a look at Jude Law’s infamous relationship with Sienna Miller can provide us with the answer.
There are few women who can outshine Sienna Miller, even in the hedonistic commune of Primrose Hill. Surely we all have a voodoo doll of the actress at the ready to make us feel better every time she steps out of the door looking effortlessly chic, yet we all scour our local shoe shops for those boots she wore in last month’s Vogue.
It was with little surprise therefore that we all accepted Jude Law’s attraction to Ms Miller upon meeting her on the set of 'Alfie' (2004), even if we later had to be talked down from various high ledges when we learned they were engaged to be married. The real shock came the next year when Law admitted to having conducted an affair with his children’s nanny, Daisy Wright.
Leaving aside our disappointment that even this Adonis of the screen could not resist one of the worst clichés in the book, there was one question that tainted the lips of every woman on the planet: if Sienna can’t hold onto a man, what chances do the rest of us have?
Yet, one look at the offending nanny (sorry Daisy) would tell you that it was not her beauty which tempted the wayward star. In fact, the instinct that drove Law to cheat is the same one that makes the rest of us to wish we had ordered what our friend did at dinner rather than our chosen dish. Put simply, we all want what we can’t have.
Add to that the excitement of the risk of getting caught and one reaches the conclusion that Law could just as easily have stolen chips off Sienna’s plate as having strayed from her. Yet the consequences for Law were much worse than a quick slap on the wrist.
Unwilling to be second place to an unworthy rival (seriously Daisy, nothing personal), Miller left the scoundrel to face the media alone, occasionally returning for a quick reunion just so that the Sun could run the story and remind Law of the incident once again.
Granted, no matter how seriously we take our food, few of us would compare hurting our loved ones with the theft of the occasional side dish, but the lesson is clear: we should appreciate the things we have. Otherwise, we might find ourselves with nothing at all.
Elli Lewis
There are few women who can outshine Sienna Miller, even in the hedonistic commune of Primrose Hill. Surely we all have a voodoo doll of the actress at the ready to make us feel better every time she steps out of the door looking effortlessly chic, yet we all scour our local shoe shops for those boots she wore in last month’s Vogue.
It was with little surprise therefore that we all accepted Jude Law’s attraction to Ms Miller upon meeting her on the set of 'Alfie' (2004), even if we later had to be talked down from various high ledges when we learned they were engaged to be married. The real shock came the next year when Law admitted to having conducted an affair with his children’s nanny, Daisy Wright.
Leaving aside our disappointment that even this Adonis of the screen could not resist one of the worst clichés in the book, there was one question that tainted the lips of every woman on the planet: if Sienna can’t hold onto a man, what chances do the rest of us have?
Yet, one look at the offending nanny (sorry Daisy) would tell you that it was not her beauty which tempted the wayward star. In fact, the instinct that drove Law to cheat is the same one that makes the rest of us to wish we had ordered what our friend did at dinner rather than our chosen dish. Put simply, we all want what we can’t have.
Add to that the excitement of the risk of getting caught and one reaches the conclusion that Law could just as easily have stolen chips off Sienna’s plate as having strayed from her. Yet the consequences for Law were much worse than a quick slap on the wrist.
Unwilling to be second place to an unworthy rival (seriously Daisy, nothing personal), Miller left the scoundrel to face the media alone, occasionally returning for a quick reunion just so that the Sun could run the story and remind Law of the incident once again.
Granted, no matter how seriously we take our food, few of us would compare hurting our loved ones with the theft of the occasional side dish, but the lesson is clear: we should appreciate the things we have. Otherwise, we might find ourselves with nothing at all.
Elli Lewis
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