Monday, May 25, 2026

LOL re Beyonce-Jay Z “Divorce”: The Tabloid Non Story of Summer 2014

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Well, the Beyonce- Jay Z tour called On the Run is done. It was a big success. Now the New York Post says the couple, which they’ve insisted has a crumbling marriage and imminent divorce, are hiding out “together” at Gywneth Paltrow’s house in Los Angeles.

The Post wants it both ways: Bey and Jay are together and apart. They’re divorcing but are staying together. Which is it? Because except in fantasies, couples who don’t like each other and are done usually just split. With the tour over, there’s nothing to keep Beyonce Knowles and Shawn Carter in the same house.

Their Paris dates– September 12 and 13– are pretty well sold, too. They could just meet there, do the shows, and call it a day. Sonny and Cher worked together on national TV after their divorce. It’s been done.

Except for one thing– that, as I said weeks ago, there is no story. There’s no divorce. The whole thing was made up by tabloid writers desperate for copy. Beyonce and Jay Z are the non story of the summer of 2014.

Yeah, Beyonce’s sister Solange was upset about something in that elevator back in May. Was that staged, too? Maybe. You see, Beyonce and Jay Z are like a happily married couple on a soap opera. They are boring. So they needed a storyline to shake things up, get fans to buy tickets and gossip about them. And it worked like a charm.

But now? Now what? Sources say they will take trips, together and apart, they’ll be photographed, together and apart. Just like other people. But Jay won’t run off with Rihanna. Life will go on. But it was fun while it lasted.

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Roger Friedman
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Roger Friedman is the founder and editor-in-chief of Showbiz411. He wrote the FOX411 column on FoxNews.com from 1999 to 2009 and previously edited Fame magazine and wrote the "Intelligencer" column at New York magazine. His bylines have appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, the New York Daily News, the New York Post, Vogue, Details, and the Miami Herald. He is a voting member of the Critics Choice Awards (Film and Television branches), and his movie reviews are tracked by Rotten Tomatoes. is articles have appeared in dozens of publications over the years including New York Magazine, where he wrote the Intelligencer column in the mid 90s and covered the OJ Simpson trial, and Fox News (when it wasn't so crazy) where he covered Michael Jackson. With D.A. Pennebaker and Chris Hegedus, he co-produced the 2002 documentary "Only the Strong Survive," which screened at Directors' Fortnight at the Cannes Film Festival.

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