Still in love with an Uptown Girl?
Christie Brinkley and Peter Cook have seen better days. Like this one above in 2003, when husband and wife traveled on the last commercial flight of the Concorde.
Today though, Brinkley's in divorce court in New York, the start of what figures to be an emotional and media-infested hearing over who will end up with custody of their two kids: Sports Illustrated bathing beauty Christie (who wants full custody) ... or the guy who cheated on her with his teenage assistant (who'd like to share custody).
"I'd hoped with all my heart we could have settled this out of court," she told assembled reporters, according to the New York Daily News.
Aw, why settle out of court, when you go into a public hearing and tell everyone your husband spends $3,000 a month on porn? Click here if you really want to know more.
Until the mud dries, please enjoy the video of the song that broken-hearted, 80s hero, former husband and all-around good guy Billy Joel swears he'll never sing again.
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Billy and Christie made this top 10 lists of celebrity breakups: http://www.toptenz.net/top-10-celebrity-breakups-we-cheered.php She is at it again.
Posted by: Top 10 Lists | July 08, 2008 at 04:57 PM
Finally, gossip about people I've actually heard of. Thanks for the laugh John Hays.
Posted by: Simon | July 02, 2008 at 07:48 PM
Hey, Steve, I wasn't busting your chops for taking sides
(whether you did or not). Divorce isn't always a 50-50 thing.
A lot of times it's pretty clear that one person's offense is
that they reacted.
Sometimes it's a case of somebody else starting "it."
Posted by: Rick | July 02, 2008 at 01:28 PM
She means Stewart Copeland, aka that other guy sitting far behind the vastly more-talented Sting. (JOKE! Don't kill!)
We don't all need to vote on who's responsible for the latest celeb divorce. Just put it up for a little FYI. And because I really hate the song "Uptown Girl."
Posted by: Spears | July 02, 2008 at 01:17 PM
Stewart? Please God don't let that be Rod Stewart. *throws up a little in mouth*
Posted by: John Hays | July 02, 2008 at 01:10 PM
I had a ridiculous thing for Billy Joel in the '80s (not as ridiculous as my thing for Stewart, but then again, nothing can compare to that...) and played "An Innocent Man" to death. Even went dressed as Uptown Girl Christie to more than one MTV-themed fraternity social.
This divorce is gonna get sticky, from what I've read. In US Weekly, natch.
Posted by: jane | July 02, 2008 at 01:07 PM
Remember Billy Joel cheated on her also.
Posted by: kayanne | July 02, 2008 at 01:03 PM
Hey maybe Billy can drive Peter to the courthouse!
Posted by: John Hays | July 02, 2008 at 12:57 PM
I like a little 80s celebrity gossip mixed in with my sad-sack stories of teenage angst.
I'm not blaming either party. Just having some fun at someone else's expense -- for a change.
Posted by: Spears | July 02, 2008 at 12:54 PM
Did anybody else out there watch 46664-Nelson's 90th Birthday Bash? Did anyone else think SIMPLE MINDS sounded a little weary? & that QUEEN with frontman Paul Rodgers killed? Altho Q drummer Roger now looks like Luke on General Hospital or Wolf Blitzer & I really wasn't sure it was in fact one of them sittin it.
Posted by: jo | July 02, 2008 at 12:17 PM
Both Christi and Billy are serial divorcees, so it's hard for me
to place blame on either one: seems both must be hell to live with!
Still, it says a lot that Joel won't play probably his biggest hit
because of her.
Posted by: Rick in Scottsdale | July 02, 2008 at 12:00 PM
Gossip time on Stuck in the 80s!! Are you reading US Weekly right now,Steve?
Posted by: Miguel | July 02, 2008 at 11:38 AM