The Prince’s Trust Cheryl’s Trust Centre is a collaboration between the Prince’s Trust and Cheryl’s Trust, which aims to build on the work which the Prince’s Trust does in Newcastle, boost employment opportunities for young people and support school pupils who are at risk of being excluded.

It also pledges to “totally transform the lives of thousands of young people across the North East every year, giving them the confidence, skills and support they need to build successful, happy lives”.

All in all, it sounds an incredibly worthy endeavour – and far more important than Cheryl’s romantic status. But, then again, our society has proven time and time again that women are put on this planet to be judged on the basis of their personal lives (see the recent Twitter storm about Jennifer Aniston if you don’t believe us).

The questions are always the same: how great a guy did she manage to ‘ensnare’ into marrying her? How good is she as a baby machine? Is her relationship still intact? Is she on track to be married by 30 – or 35 at the very latest? Do her kids do well at school? Does she run an efficient household? And so on and on and on, forever, until the end of time.

Yes, a quote from Cheryl about Payne will probably sell more magazines – but they peddle a tired old narrative, one which is incredibly damaging to our society.

So what can we do about it?

Well, as Aniston stated in her now infamous open letter to the HuffPost: “Tabloid practices, however dangerous, will not change, at least not any time soon. What can change is our awareness and reaction to the toxic messages buried within these seemingly harmless stories served up as truth and shaping our ideas of who we are.

“We get to decide how much we buy into what’s being served up, and maybe someday the tabloids will be forced to see the world through a different, more humanised lens because consumers have just stopped buying the bulls**t.”

Amen.

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