Is Nicole Richie Sabatoging Ben’s Love Life?
Louise Barnsley
We have been following this cute foursome for some time. Nicole and Paris are BFF’s that love to hate each other, and love to love each other. They can’t decide how close they are so we’ve almost given up on them as BFFs. Then we have Nicole with her boyfriend Joel Madden with whom she has baby Harlowe, so they seem to be one of the more solid Hollywood couples as we haven’t heard anything about relationship strife between these two. Enter Paris and Benji, Joel’s brother and a couple that was touted as heading for the aisle one day. Of course we know that Paris and Benji didn’t quite make it that far, in fact, she never even got the ring on her finger, and they split up in what is sounding like a rather ugly split. And from the other side of the camp, Nicole can’t seem to decide if she is relieved that Benji is out of Paris’s life, or if she wants them back together, so much so that she is currently sabotaging any chances Benji is taking to ‘move on’. At a recent party at the L.A. Ecco Ultra Lounge, Joel Madden was DJ’ing, and Nicole was doing the supportive girlfriend baby mama thing. Benji Madden was doing the supportive twin brother thing and was also in attendance at the party. Of course, Benji was sans Paris and was seemingly enjoying the single life until Nicole got involved. As Benji and Nicole were chatting it up, a busty blonde in some kind of pletherette ensemble tried to divert his attention towards her, and Benji was all over that like stink on a pig. And onlookers described the entire event like this:
Benji was approached by dozens of ladies. Girls were trying to flirt with him… but Nicole kept getting in the way. She stopped every girl trying to take a photo of him [and] dragged him by the arm [away from the girls.
Of course Nicole had to rush off to Le Deux later that evening to meet up with Paris and give her the full low down, and you can only imagine how thrilled Paris was over that situation. And given that Paris has been known to be stalking Benji and not handling the breakup all that well, I wonder what kind of cat claws towards her ex are going to come out now. Or maybe just maybe, Paris will wise up and realize that yes, there is nothing wrong with simply moving on, and getting over it. And we all just wish she would.
