Salon.com > Real Housewives of Beverly Hills http://www.salon.com Wed, 30 May 2012 06:12:34 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 The latest “Real Housewives” embarrassment http://www.salon.com/2012/01/03/the_latest_real_housewives_embarrassment/ http://www.salon.com/2012/01/03/the_latest_real_housewives_embarrassment/#comments Tue, 03 Jan 2012 22:00:00 +0000 http://www.origin.railrode.net/?p=11801371 Way to sell "traditional marriage," straight people! First, Sinead O'Connor followed up her December wedding in Las Vegas to Barry Herridge with a split just 18 days later. Not to be outdone, just as "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Brandi Glanville tweeted Monday that "I'm married again - suuuuuuck it!," her new groom, mixed-martial artist Darin Harvey tweeted that he "had a crazy Vegas moment. Getting annulled tomorrow." Marriage used to be considered a serious commitment. Now, nobody even wants to make it work for 72 days anymore.

The Glanville-Harvey nuptials were clearly never meant to be more than a lighthearted lark, some attention-getting fodder for the Twitter streams. In an interview on the Crooklyn's Corner blog, Harvey explained that alcohol was "some sort of a factor." "We were in Vegas, and we wanted to do the classic Vegas thing," he said. "On the way to the chapel, I'm reading on my iPad, doing a quick Google search on annulments in Nevada." Because if you can't have a marriage that lasts as long as a Woot! deal, what's the point of living in this country anyway?

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