After 7½ of years of marriage, the couple of which have been filled with speculation from the outside that it would end in divorce, it appears that 40-year-old director Guy Ritchie and 50-year-old Madonna are finally divorcing.

The couple, which have three children: Lourdes, 12 (not Ritchie’s biologically), Rocco, 8 and David, 3 (adopted from Malawi in 2006) released a statement on Wednesday confirming the rumors that read:

“Madonna and Guy Ritchie have agreed to divorce after 7½ years of marriage, their representatives confirmed today. They have both requested that the media maintain respect for their family at this difficult time.”

According to reports, the marriage was doomed about three years ago on Madonna’s 47th birthday, when she fell off a horse and broke four ribs, her collarbone, her scapula and a knuckle in her left hand, and later called the accident “the most painful event of my life”.

A “family friend” said Madonna expected Guy Ritchie to drop everything to be by her side. Ritchie, though, “approached the whole thing in what [Madonna] called ‘a very British way’: instead of smothering her with sympathy, he said, ‘Come on, darling, you’re a tough bird – you’ll be back on the horse in no time;” the friend was quoted as saying.

Madonna was apparently so pissed off by her husband’s lack of sympathy that she told him their marriage was a mistake, and that he was not her “soul mate” after all.

If you believe the rumors, which some in the media do, it is clear that Madonna’s behavior had an emasculating effect on Ritchie. Combine that with the fact that Ritchie’s movies since the marriage were unsuccessful in some part because of her. “Swept Away” for example which starred Madonna as a spoiled socialite was ridiculed.

There is no doubt that Guy Ritchie, a ‘public-school’ (where rich people in England go to school as opposed to “state-school”) ‘geezer’ (British slang for cool dude) in all likelihood suffered from the image that being second fiddle to Madonna gave him.

So now, with Ritchie’s movie “RockNRolla” (starring Gerard Butler) releasing across North America on October 31st (currently the film is in limited release in select cities) and receiving very good reviews, and Madonna in the midst of her succesful world tour called “Sticky and Sweet” (she’s currently in Toronto and the tour ends December 21st in Sao Paulo, Brazil) there seems like no better time for the power-couple to split publicly.

So, naturally the question arises as to who will fare better in life after the marriage is dissolved. Did the up-and-coming London born director and is this the last and final curtain for the Kabbalah-loving Queen of Pop? Or will the time that Ritchie and Madonna spent together seem inconsequential for the the talented couple in the future as was the case when Madonna split from her first ex-husband Sean Penn?

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The 10 Best Videos of the year (2007) according to Gawker:

The list is good and in line with both BOPsy and FHM’s top video lists (but notice no repeats from the Forbes list interestingly enough.) Gawker was nice enough though to provide a montage available at this link

10. Weeping ‘Forbes’ Editor Deprived of BlackBerry

9. Local Newscaster Gets Frank Opinion

8. Don’t Tase Me Bro

7. Patrice Oneal Explains “Donkey-Punching” On Fox News

6. Pink Polos, Popped Collars, and Ponies at the Belmont Stakes

5. CNBC’s Jim Cramer Flips Wig Over Mortgage Rates Or Something

4. Couch-Humping Masterpiece Inspires Blog-Related Homage

3. “Thriller” performed by Asian prisoners

2. Chris Crocker, an emotional Fan Defends Britney Spears

1. Times Square Still Extremely Unsafe For Children

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Forbes compiled this year’s list by looking at a “Web Celeb” as a person famous primarily for creating or appearing in Internet-based content, and for being highly recognizable to a Web-based audience. From the candidate list of 200 Web celebrities each candidate was ranked in five areas:
1. Web references as calculated by Google
2. traffic ranking of their home page as calculated by Alexa
3. Technorati rank of their primary Web site or blog
4. TV/radio mentions and press clips compiled from Factiva
5. bonus points if ‘Web Celeb’ regularly published their own videoblog or podcast

The Web Celeb 25
1. Perez Hilton (real name “Mario Lavandeira”)
2. Michael Arrington
3. Mark Frauenfelder
4. Seth Godin
5. Cory Doctorow
6. Matt Drudge
7. Gina Trapani
8. Mark Zuckerberg
9. Harry Knowles
10. Robert Scoble
11. Frank Warren
12. Om Malik
13. Will Leitch
14. Jeff Jarvis
15. Kevin Rose
16. Kathy Sierra
17. Fake Steve Jobs
18. Markos Moulitsas
19. Xeni Jardin
20. Ryan Block
21. Glenn Reynolds
22. Pete Cashmore
23. Steve Rubel
24. Heather Armstrong
25. Darren Rowse

BOPsy’s 2007 Web Celebrity of the Year was formulated by the following scientific formula:
1. How many emails we got during the year from our friends that featured said online persona
2. The very nature of the content – funny, stupid, sick, perverse or really gross

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If my Dilbert calendar speaks the truth, we’ve finally reached DECEMBER. No mere bullshit month like April or (SPIT!) September, December’s the month when friends and family get together to share laughs and good times, experiment sexually under the mistletoe, tip back some eggnog, light a few insurance fires, run the ethnic types out of town and make non-specific wintertime MERRY as it pleases ye pagan gods of olde and Jesus alike. It’s also the time of year when we at BOPsy headquarters roll up our sleeves, tie off with a length of rubber tubing and shoot a sweet fix of end-of-year pop culture nostalgia (cut with a little baby laxative and Dran-o, ‘natch), VH1 styley.

But for the moment let’s shift our attention AWAY from the world of cinema and the celebutarded skanks whose tales of “high” adventure normally fuel our editorial fires. Today I’d like to look at the world wide internet stars who, via the robot-age socio-technological phenomena of “viral video” (hey, it’s like Herpes!), found their way to our in-boxes… and into our hearts. I’ve selected six (well, technically seven) such iCons who — like Brian Atene and that adorable pixie Little Superstar in 2006 — managed to extend their Warhol-allotted 15 minutes of celebrity into… fuck… 16, maybe 17 minutes? Though they share our amour in equal parts, this is America, baby, and America’s about being # 1. So we leave it up to YOU, loyal BOPSy readers, to sort the boss from the dross and pick our 2007 Web Celeb of the Year.

This year’s nominees:

Shakes the Fuck-Bear

Entered the Zeitgeist: January 2007/again in December 2007

Pornography and bear hunting — both are wonderful in their own unique way. But who would’ve known these two great tastes would taste great together like chocolate and peanut butter, butt-sex and epilepsy, flare guns and PCP?

Well apparently someone did, as is evidenced in the internet video linked below (NSFW or NOT SAFE FOR WORK).

www.shakethatbear.com

Don’t feel sorry for Shakes. Once a pitiful woodland creature whose meaningless days were spent foraging for grubs, whose destiny was to fall off a cliff or die of bear-AIDS like some old regular bear, Shakes — like Peter North’s prodigious money-shot or Ron Jeremy’s prodigious fat-fold cheese – is now the stuff of Pornography Legend. A fact which I’m sure makes all those stupid alive-bears greeeen with envy.

Rick Astley

Entered the Zeitgeist: March 2007

Though the British blue-eyed soulster’s “Never Gonna Give You Up” topped charts in 1988, earning him a Grammy nom and the distinction of being mistaken for a gay black man by the majority of casual listeners, we’d all assumed Rick’s career had taken the heroin highway to one-hit-wonder heaven along with Jesus Jones and the Fine Young Cannibals. Not so apparently, as Zombie Astley rose from the ashes of World of Warcraft’s message boards to become the ubiquitous pwnage known as the RICKROLL.

Tay Zonday

Entered the Zeitgeist: July 2007

Born Adam Nyerere Bahner, but given the name Tay Zonday by an old Indian chief after he slayed an entire village of Saquatches — armed only with a bag of Skittles and his enormous, uncircumsized cock –- this YouTube crooner rose to prominance via 4Chan and went on to seduce the nation with his new age nu-jack soul hit “Chocolate Rain.” Nevermind that he looks and sounds like a beige version of Our Gang’s Froggy or that he has some sort of partial-paralysis thing going on in the face; Zonday’s the real deal.

Chris Crocker (aka Leave Britney Alone Guy)

Entered the Zeitgeist: September 2007

After the botched abortion that was Britney Spears’ attempted comeback on the 2007 VMA’s, the obese abusive mom was met with near unanimous ridicule from those big meanies in the press and blog communities (read our commentary here). Yet one lone drag-queen had the COURAGE to stand up and say ENOUGH IS ENOUGH. That drag-queen was Chris Crocker, whose “Leave Britney Alone” video-apostrophe ironically made him a bigger star than his baby-neglecting idol.

2 Girls 1 Cup

Entered the Zeitgeist: November 2007

36-year old Brazilian auteur Marco Fiorito had a dream. That dream was to bring scat porn and vomit porn together and thrust them into the mainstream with a film that was beautiful shot, edited and scored. Though he met resistance along the way, he kept going because, as the voices in his head would often tell him, “if you build it, they will cum.” And cum they did. 2 Girls 1 Cup deserves an Oscar for the score alone. But the real heroes of the film are the girls themselves (and to a lesser extent, the cup) who were willing sacrifice their last remaining vestiges of human dignity for the sake of art.

Internet video linked below (and in case you don’t know, extreme-NSFW)

www.2girls1cup.com

Pearl

Entered the Zeitgeist: April 2007

When SNL-alums and Ron Burgundy creator-collaborators Adam McKay and Will Ferrell tricked a bunch of venture capitalists into giving them the money to start a website, they knew they’d have to kick it off with something decidedly “out of the box.” And so they gave us “The Landlord,” which turned McKay’s 2-year old daughter Pearl into a superstar overnight.

Because child abuse is only funny when it’s videotaped. Okay, that’s a lie, child abuse is ALWAYS funny, but it’s FUNNIEST when it’s videotaped.

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