Are you really surprised about this? People are conditioned (and have been for decades) to find the lives of celebrities (by which I mean, people who work in the public eye, like actors, sportspeople and politians) more desirable to their own. We’re supposed to think that they own better clothes, drive better cars, have nicer houses and (of course!) have much better sex than we do or ever could. Papers and magazines sell issues by making us believe that, it’s their modus operandi.

Then of course there’s the fact that at least some of us may at some point have entertained the idea of doing what these people do for a living, so there’s also the idea that x is actually us and so of course we want to know what they’re doing. That doesn’t really work for me and Marcus Trescothick, but hey.

Then there’s the fact that curiosity probably played a big part in our evolution…

and no I didn’t pull all this from an orifice. I’m related to a former meeja studies student, and know some other meeja studies students, so this came as a result of literally minutes of in-depth analysis.

There will be even more “Craving news of Trescothick” now that, instead of having the sense to keep quiet, he has come out with this nonsense about a virus being the reason he returned home. Absolutely no one will believe that story. He would have been better advised to remain silent.