>>475 You say that, Couch Potato, but it's not what I've seen, here or elsewhere. People accept a speculative premise and then run with it, and by the time they've done talking everyone is acting like it's the absolute truth. It's an echo chamber effect.

For example, your premise that this is a PR disaster. No it's not. The vast majority of people simply don't care that much, will only have vaguely seen a story about the two of them dating and won't even realise that she was engaged. It's only the very small number of gossip-site obsessives (I include myself in that) who will be following all this.

I joked to my friends who I go to the theatre with that we must be dating becuase we had dinner together afterwards, and they didn't have a clue what I was on about. They hadn't even seen the mainstream press coverage, and when I explained didn't even know there was a third Olsen sister!