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The Problem with Wanting Lady Gaga and Bradley Cooper to Be Together
Unless you’d want your friends to cheer on your spouse to leave you for someone else
Bradley Cooper and Irina Shayk, the model he had been seeing and living with since 2015, and with whom he has a 2-year-old daughter, are splitting up, we recently learned. Well, duh, say fans. Anyone who saw him and Lady Gaga perform “Shallow” — the Oscar-winning song from A Star is Born — at this year’s Academy Awards ceremony suspected it was only a matter of time.
Fans have wanted them to be together — or thought they already were together — ever since. Not only were fans OK with that, but they encouraged it, supported it, hoped for it — even though Cooper was already deep into a relationship with the mother of his child.Considering how so many people think and say horrible things about people who divorce — especially if they have children, especially if they split to be with someone new — it’s rather surprising that fans were willing to throw that out the window for the sake of the chemistry they perceived between the actors in the movie itself and at the Oscars.
They belong together! Nothing — not partners, not children — should keep them apart!
