Last updated 15:59, Wednesday, 16 July 2008

THERE’S been loads of speculation about the state of Madonna and Guy Richie’s marriage recently.

I usually don’t have an ounce of sympathy for celebrities and their “woe is me’’ lifestyles. In answer to the ‘why don’t people leave us alone?’ pleas I want to scream ‘because then you would be a nobody and that would probably finish you off quicker, you self-indulgenced, deluded fool.’

However, I find myself feeling a considerable amount of pity for Madonna and Guy. A photograph of them apparently rowing was published alongside the words “how long do you give it?’’ It was a telling image simply because it made the couple seem normal.

Madonna had the look of a woman who had been to work all day, followed by a trip to the supermarket only to come home and find a pile of dirty washing on the stairs.

Guy, had the look of a man who had been watching football for a couple of hours while supping his lager, and hadn’t realised the dirty washing on the stairs needed put in the machine.

However, the fact they were getting a bit stroppy with each other is hardly indicative of a bad marriage. If you haven’t snapped at your partner in public then you obviously haven’t been together long enough.

I’m also pleased Katie Price and Peter Andre have won ‘substantial’ damages following newspaper allegations of bad parenting from their former nanny. An unconventional lifestyle doesn’t equal poor parenting.

For the rest of us it’s probably best not to judge others, celebrities or otherwise, how they behave with their spouses and kids when we are all far from perfect ourselves.