MTV's Wedding Curse: Three Celebrity Couples Bite the Dust

I could write an article about how MTV constantly ruins lives. People waste 17% of their lives watching MTV, time that could be spent curing cancer, bike riding, building birdfeeders or doing jumping jacks. This is science; I read it in a science book. Don't even get me started about the countless humans they've brainwashed through reality TV. You could go on and on, you could write your college thesis on the matter; the bottom line is this: MTV is evil.

I don't want to talk about all those things though. I'd like to look at the destructive nature of MTV by peering into the microscope of celebrity marriage divorce. MTV has been directly responsible for the break up of three marriages in the last year alone, and by celebrity I mean: people who were famous (or at least semi-famous) before they got a show on MTV. If I counted all the people who broke up after meeting on Singled Out, well, we'd be here all day.

JESSICA SIMPSON AND NICK LACHEY

This is obviously the most famous MTV-related divorce casualty, but what really went wrong? The tabloids have speculated, maybe you have too, maybe you speculated on line with your mute infant baby while reading a tabloid at the supermarket. Did Nick have a wondering eye? Was it a Dukes of Hazzard affair with Johnny Knoxville that did the trick? Most people want to believe that those two crazy kids were happily married and some other external factor had to have been at work to break up TV's most happiestly married couple, like, ever. It's not like saying MTV had a hand in the breakup is going out on a limb or anything. I'm sure everyone assumes that the strain of a public, televised relationship played at least some part in the divorce, but is it the only reason? Of course it was, and it's not even totally MTV's fault. It was Jessica and Nick's fault too. They didn't like each other. Think about it. Getting married, doing Newlyweds and then divorcing was the best career move ever. What, you think Lachey was banking on the 98 Degrees Reunion Tour? Give me a break.

CARMEN ELEKTRA AND DAVE NAVARRO