Third World Warne

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The ongoing saga of Shane and Simone Warne’s marriage break up continues…

Simone Warne was on television national news bulletins tonight featuring at a press conference advertising a new insurance provider (homesite.com.au). It seemed the media were far more interested in how her relationship with Shane was holding up than the price of third party insurance….

Everything Shane Warne has done in the past aside, I think it feels as though Simone is banking in on the exposure she has received from the marriage break up. At one stage she said: “I feel like I have a chance now of achieving some of the dreams I had wanted to achieve”.

The Herald Sun reported:

SIMONE Warne says she'll continue sharing a home with her spin bowling husband for the sake of their children, as the couple heads down the road to divorce."It's nice to have him there for the kids," she told journalists today as she and Shane Warne prepare to legally end their marriage.

Not to say that Shane Warne isn’t banking in either on his affairs, becoming the face of a text message company…

The question is whether these issues should stay in the private sphere. Wouldn’t it be fairer to their children not to comment on these issues? Simone Warne was not there to promote family values and a family trying to stick by their children. She was there to get her face on television – make money from an insurance provider, and let Australia’s television audience become familiar with her before she has a dance off with Molly Meldrum on Dancing With the Stars.

The Daily Telegraph reported:

SIMONE Warne is forging a new life for herself and it includes a
good old fashioned case of out with the old and in with the new. In a
wide-ranging interview from renovation tips to kitchen sinks, Ms Warne said she
was taking her new life without the cricketing legend as a day by day process.
"I'm living day by day, that's all I can do," she said. "Trying to make the most
of what comes my way."

Another perspective on how she has reacted to her marriage break up is that Simone might serve as an inspiration to people who have been hurt and scarred by relationship break downs. By her ‘starting’ anew, might she serve as a role model for other women or men to move on and be empowered by the circumstances?

Either way, when both Shane Warne and Simone Warne offer their perspectives publicly on their family situation, it seems they both agree the most important thing at stake is their children. If they could do anything to help their children, they would stop drawing attention to the debacles their family have faced in the past in the public sphere, and work it out privately, for the children’s sake.

What do you think?