| Helena's Dating Rant
Helena Christensen has decided to pipe up. She's chatting up a romantical storm... And raining all over the rumour mill's parade. She's blasted the chat that she's been seeing Heath Ledger clear outta the water. So mind what you say - because if she catches you uttering such things we reckon she'll have your guts for garters. But quite frankly we can think of worse things than being linked to top celeb hotties. Yet it really rubs Helena up the wrong way. She told People: "It is so annoying. "I can't even tell you. "The funny thing is that they write, 'just out of a relationship with Josh (Hartnett) and now with Heath (Ledger)'. "Josh is one of my dearest friends.
Three matchmakers try to help, but Mr. Wrong leads her to Mr. Wow
Lisa Ronis is sitting in a coffee shop with her French hound, Stella, leaving a sparkling message: "I've found the man for you. His name is John. He's hilarious, sexy, and I've given him your number. Let's chat!" For most people this would be a social call, but Ronis is hard at work. She is a professional matchmaker, a member of a booming nationwide industry. There are more than 1,000 private matchmakers in the United States today, according to Marketdata Enterprises, a research group in Florida. And there's even a school to train them: The Matchmaking Institute in New York City molds novice meddlers into professional love brokers. "It's all about efficiency," says Rachel Greenwald, a professional matchmaker in Colorado. "If, say, you're a busy executive, a third-party setup saves you the time it takes to slog through all the dating arenas — spending hours at a crowded party only to go home having met no one." Since it's one thing to hear about the wonders of matchmaking from those who sell the service and quite another to experience it yourself, I decided to test the viability of this venerable institution by asking three matchmakers to work their magic on me.
Nadine's Bad Boy Chat
Ladies, gents, Nadine Coyle fans, we'd like to introduce Nadine's ideal man. But there's only one teensy problemo. At this stage he's just a description, or rather let's think of him as a figment of words. Why? Well, Nadine told the Sunday Mirror: "My ideal man is someone dark and mysterious. Someone with a bit of an edge, a bit of a bad boy. "The whole game - as I think of dating - is you want to take someone who's a wee bit wild and a wee bit unruly, then have a nice relationship and for them to show their sensitive side - but for them to still have that bad boy edge to them." My, but doesn't all of the above sound like a certain hunk she used to date, in the form of Jesse Metcalfe? The pair broke up earlier this year, but seem to have remained friends, and have been photographed out and about a couple of times of late.
Hax: Dating woes might be a bigger problem
Carolyn: I find myself in another futureless relationship, just passing the time until being single seems more enticing than dating this person. At which point, we'll break up. A month or two later, I'll start the cycle again. Yuck. Is this what dating has become? How do I get off the Dating Hamster Wheel of Despair (DHWD)?Passing TimeThis is what dating has become for you. Making it a universal problem is a quick way to make it seem too vast to repair.So, as just one hamster on just one wheel, you have just one question to answer — why do you keep getting back on? Thinking like a hamster, I'd have to guess you're bored with your cage.In other words, if relationship catatonia is more enticing than being single, you need to make being single more enticing. Get off the wheel (now, please), and commit yourself to a ruthless inventory of your day-to-day life.
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