CELEBRITIES — love them or hate them — they seem to be everywhere.

Every time we turn the TV on, there they are, grinning and looking perfect.

And every little detail of their lives takes up inches and inches and inches of column space — both in newspapers and all over the internet.

From what they had for breakfast, what they scoffed for lunch and what they munched on for tea — we get to read about it all.

Although I would say, based on the size of some of the ladies — stick thin is being kind — I don't believe they put anything in their mouth other than water.

But when something “big” happens — marriage, children, divorce — it suddenly becomes not just column inches, but front page news.

The “conscious uncoupling” of Gwyneth Paltrow and Chris Martin recently is a perfect example.

Like most people on the globe I had no idea what ”conscious uncoupling” was until that fateful day when the golden couple announced that's what they were doing.

Quite why they couldn't just say they were getting divorced is beyond me.

But no, everyone favourite macrobiotic couple, famed for giving their children utterly stupid names (school is hard enough Gwynie and Chrisy, your babies do not need it to be made harder by having completely insane names), had to not only invent a new phrase to describe what they were going through but also give us a full statement as to how they had reached this decision.

Don't get me wrong, it's very sad that a couple who had been married for a decade decided to call it a day, especially when there are little 'uns involved.

It’s still sad even when they themselves seem to be the ones turning it into a circus.

But really, is it front page news? Does it actually deserve a spot on the 10 o'clock news?

I think the resounding answer is — NO!

And this isn't a new thing. Remember when Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman broke up and THAT picture of the red-headed Aussie Nic made headlines around the world, cheering because her divorce papers had finally come through?

Or when Katie Holmes finally filed for divorce from the aforementioned devout Scientologist?

And the hysteria when Twilight stars Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart finally called time on their angst-ridden relationship caused Twitter to go into meltdown.

Not only were there hours and hours of news devoted to this “non-news”, but there were pages and pages and pages of conspiracy theories as to why the break ups had happened.

Admittedly I've just spent several hundred words labouring the point that this REALLY isn't news (or even vaguely interesting, in my opinion), but surely people there are more important things going on in the world than who is breaking up with who?

Especially when it involves celebrities who seem to get married at the drop of a hat and quite clearly view it as a life failure if they haven't had at least 15 “serious partners” (someone they've been for more than one drink with).

Let's hope, one day very soon, it's no longer viewed as news — and simply just something sad (or happy) that happens to other people.