After Sienna Miller admitted that she ended her relationship with Rhys Ifans via a phone call, we got to thinking and realised that celebrities really show their class when it comes to breaking off the loves of their last five minutes lives. Here is our rundown of some of the best...
In no particular order here are the most humiliating 'dumps' we could think of.
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1. Phil Collins and second wife Jill Tavelman carried out much of their mid 90s separation via fax.
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2. TV presenter Liz Fuller called off her relationship with Paul McKenna live on air.
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3. Square-jawed non actor Matt Damon told Oprah Winfrey on her chat show that he was no longer dating Minnie Driver, which apparently came as a bit of a shock to the actress.
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4. Chantelle and Preston opted to reveal the end of their publicity-stunt marriage in Heat magazine, which was appropriate as its editors were the only people who cared about the train crash of a relationship anyway.
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5. Alesha Dixon and So Solid's Harvey spilt after Harvey was caught in a rather compromising position with singer Javine. Cue much bitching and recriminations on all parties' MySpace pages.
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6. The first hint that Laura Dern had that her relationship with Billy Bob Thornton was on the rocks was when the craggy-faced actor married Angelina Jolie.
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7. Billie Piper informed then boyfriend Rich from 5ive over the phone that they were no longer dating. She neglected to tell him that she was already sort of seeing ginger-headed gurning fool Chris Evans during the call.
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8. Smug actor Daniel Day-Lewis allegedly sent a fax to his French girlfriend, Isabelle Adjani, letting her know he was leaving, even though she was seven months pregnant at the time. Allegedly!
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9. Charlie Sheen left Denise Richards in little doubt their marriage was finished when he emailed her the following message: "You are a pig. A sad, jobless pig who is sad and talentless and, um, oh yeah, sad and jobless and evil and a bad mom." Nice.
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10. A HM staffer admitted this morning that he was forced to use a sanitary towel to wipe his arse when the office bogs ran out of loo paper.
We're surprised that the last one only made it to numer ten to be honest.