In today’s WTF news, we’ve seen photos of Michelle Rodriguez – she of Lost and The Fast And The Furious and all its billion sequels’ fame – and Zac Efron – he of High School Musical and a bunch of other films that have been about half as culturally important as his inclusion on Lindsay Lohan’s sex list – together, as a couple.
Yep, a real life couple, sitting about on a boat and snogging each other as they enjoy themselves on a holiday in Sardinia. In case we weren’t sure what this meant, there are even photos of daredevil Michelle climbing her way up the mast of the boat – risky shaft metaphor, anyone?
Why this is such WTF-ery is quite obvious. Michelle, who was going out with 21-year-old Cara Delevingne earlier this year, is now going out with 26-year-old Zac. Now, it’s nothing to do with the age or the fact many online commenters are calling 35-year-old Michelle ‘greedy’ for shagging people of both sexes.
It’s actually weird to us because here we all were assuming that Michelle’s amped-up social media presence, including selfies of her lip-syncing to bad songs was something to do with her heartbreak, while Cara went around play-kissing friends and colleagues in her Instagram.
But actually, it turns out that Michelle is totally fine – we mean, who *wouldn’t *want Zac Efron on their sun-dappled arm?
And yeah, it might be a shock to people – both gay and straight – who believed that because Michelle went out with Cara it made her fully gay so she couldn’t end up going out with a man afterwards. But that is sort of how bisexuality works.
Plus, after years of rumours, Michelle came out last year as bisexual, and we sort of think she might just be attracted to scampish sorts with brilliantly beautiful eyes and heavy eyebrows. If that’s a sexuality that includes both Cara and Zac then we can’t really mock it.
And what of Cara? Well, she seemed to be having way too much fun hanging out with Ellie Goulding at the McBusted gig yesterday to notice. That said, holidays used to be such a thing for her and Michelle – their own relationship confirmed by pap photos of the pair snogging on holiday in Mexico– so we can’t definitely attest to her happiness about this latest development.
But she did recently say of her sexuality: ‘I’m young, I’m having fun’, and maybe Michelle’s just proving that having fun carries on way past your twenties.
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.