Hollywood PR Relationships often become noisier with articles, staged paparazzi shots, and public "soft launches" just before the breakup or as a project concludes, creating a crescendo of publicity.
This "performance" ensures maximum attention before the partnership ends, often using intense social media activity or coordinated tabloid headlines to fuel speculation.
... as the PR campaign ends, the public "performance" often hits a peak to gain final, maximum media attention.
While the lead-up is noisy, the actual breakup is usually handled with a quiet, polite, and calculated statement.
The Saga of Alejandra/Sebastian - Part 9: What Was the Point?
So the biggest question that we’ve ALL been wondering and asking has been “What was the point?” Why were they doing all this PR fakery nonsense since last year? Well readers, we here at Badfauxmance had been asking that very same question, which led us to starting this blog in the first place. And here’s what we’ve more or less come up with after reflecting on this matter for 10 months now. This was a big reason why I put off doing this particular part as long as possible. It’s a lot of things to think about. A lot of things happened to take into consideration before I could write this.
So before I continue, please note that this is going to be mostly serious though I’ll be throwing in sarcasm where suitable. Also I should put out this basic disclaimer. Some of the things I will bring up are more speculation on my part based on the limited information I’m working with. I want to emphasize I DO NOT have any insider knowledge nor do I have hard evidence with some of the things about to say. If you disagree, fair enough. Nothing I’m writing here is meant to be the total truth of the situation because none of us here at Badfauxmance will ever truly know what the truth is. So this is our own guess. Anyways if you’ve been following our blog for a long time now, what you’re about to read is stuff you’re already aware of.
So let’s start off with why did Alejandra do all this? I’m starting with Alejandra because she’s the most straightforward. It’s well established at this point she’s a complete nobody in Hollywood. She’s an actress/model in Spain. She has some acting credits, but she hasn’t been in anything major that’s gotten her accolades in Spain. She’s also had a history of doing pap walks and try to get attention with past boyfriends, but she’s never gotten huge recognition. She’s probably at best a C-lister in Europe? Taking that into consideration why wouldn’t she want to jump at the chance to get more attention by being seen with a Hollywood actor whose a million times bigger than her? It’s almost too obvious NOT to do such a thing if you were in her position.
As for Sebastian, this is the really big question. Why did he agree to do this? As I’ve discussed in some Answers in the past, there’s 3 probable reasons.
The biggest reason is that he was “forced” to do it by CAA. CAA has a history of doing suspicious things in the name of getting their clients gigs. This literally included sending actresses to see Harvey Weinstein while ignoring past complaints about what happened to past actresses after those meetings. Why should anyone assume that this was the only time they ever got involved in sketchy things? Cade Hudson, a CAA agent, has been accused of sexual harassment. Whether you believe Rose McGowan or not, she has straight up said that CAA is complicit with sketchy behavior that practically pimped people to studio executives. So then you might be wondering, why in the world would anyone want to sign up with an agency this sketchy? It’s because they’re a powerful agency with connections in Hollywood. If you’re told or asked to do certain things to “prove” you’re willing to do what it takes to get further, you’ll probably do it. This could include doing a fake PR relationship with a woman no one in the US has ever heard of.
Considering how work wasn’t really happening in 2020 due to the pandemic shutdowns, being paid to be some rich woman’s fake celebrity boyfriend, probably seemed like a convenient way to get some money. It honestly wouldn’t be surprising if a lot of money was exchanged and as his agency, CAA would be getting a good cut of the money. It’s in essence the same thing as if Sebastian got booked for a movie role and his agents get a cut of his earnings. They’re basically representing him in this transaction. However by being the ones instigating this (on his end), they're likely putting a degree of pressure on him as I pointed out in #1. A newly signed talent who isn’t a famous A-lister would be the kind who is more likely to get pushed into fake relationships like this.
As I previously said with the pandemic causing production shutdowns, Sebastian needs to get attention in general just to stay relevant and on people’s minds. PR relationships like this are a classic strategy. Clearly CAA and the rest of the team decided to just stick with a strategy they know. I mean it’s not like anyone is going to care or look hard into any of this... am I right you guys?
I kept this relatively brief because a lot of the stuff I wrote above is more or less what we’ve been saying for the past 8 months. All I’ve done is just compiled in a slightly more organized way for you to read.
You can make a strong case that it’s because of the pandemic making me kind of bored that is the cause of this. I’ve learned way more about Celebrity PR and celebrity gossip in the past 4 months than I knew for ten years. It’s weirdly fascinating and kind of disturbing at how far Hollywood goes to make their clients keep relevant and get attention. They even use PR stunts to distract people from knowing about things. I think it’s particular sad PR romances.
Yes couples dating even getting married and HAVING CHILDREN TOGETHER can be artificially planned for the benefit of one or both celebs participating in this “relationship.” Honestly, learning how manipulative it all is makes me way more suspicious of celebrity couples than I used to be. I’m getting way too interested in figuring out whether people are legit a couple or faking it for some reason at this point.
Sebastian Stan is giving fans a rare glimpse into his love life. The "Pam & Tommy" star has been dating actress Alejandra Onieva since last year. https://www.instagram.com/p/B86P8oDotH3/ RELATED: Sebastian Stan Reveals Why Marvel Paired Him With Anthony Mackie On Press Tours Stan took to Instagram this week to celebrate his stunning girlfriend's birthday in a…
Well she finally got the attention she’s been wanting for almost a year. You know as bigger entertainment sites start mentioning her, I’m literally waiting for comments sections to start spamming with the fact she’s a cultural appropriator and social media to try canceling him again because of it. People who were already upset with this undoubtedly still have some of those pictures of her around. You can’t truly delete things from the internet after all. Or who knows maybe people will ignore the racism issue again.
If this thing between Seb & Ale continues past summer, do you think any of you will revise your opinions then?
If that happened, the only opinion that would change is our belief in Sebastian’s intelligence that he’d agree to extend a contract on this Titanic level disaster they call a romance.
In case anyone was wondering or needs reminding, that as the admin of this group blog, I happen to be Asian American. So no I don’t dislike Alejandra because “she’s dating Sebastian.” I dislike her because she’s a yellowface wearing rich girl who doesn’t care there’s a pandemic going on while I have to quarantine at home for over a year and I lost two relatives to this virus. She should go back to Spain and stay there.
The New (Maybe Paid for?) Article for Our “Lovebirds”
Just when you think things would quiet down, something new crops up. Maybe we’re just getting tired of this so we’re slacking off a bit. But none of us are completely surprised something new was going to come up. There’s just been a lot of blitzing of articles and gossip about Sebastian and Alejandra recently, which you know at this point is spearheaded by Team Alejandra because it feels like Sebastian isn’t the only sick and tired of her. It’s like Team Sebastian as a whole want to chisel off this barnacle clinging to this SS.
So you might be wondering what do we here at Badfauxmance think of this new gossip article from an Italian site. Well dear readers, wait no more. You’re about to read what we here think of this.
It’s come to our attention that linking the article would affect (i.e. improve) their results listing on sites like Google, so instead of linking it I’ll just let you guys know that if you HAVEN’T read it by now, it’s on a site called “Donna Glamour.” It’s all in Italian so unless you’re fluent in it you’re going to need translate it and OH BOY is that where the biggest source of the fuss is coming from. So let me break down things a bit further here.
When you read the article over all, it’s basically a general, mostly factual profile of Sebastian you’d see in pretty much any entertainment site. It should be a pretty straightforward PR friendly article for the actor. No idea who paid for this one, but it’s possibly Team Alejandra based on info we here at Badfauxmance got from one of our Italian readers. (Grazie!) The info we got from our Italian reader is that this particular website is a gossip website on the same caliber as sites like The Sun in the UK. Not sure how likely Team Sebastian would bother or be aware of this site to even pay for an article. It’s always possible this site may have had the initiative to write this just for the purposes of getting attention on their website because of how big Marvel is. If this article was being paid for, then it’s more likely Team Alejandra.
Some interesting info we saw posted on our good friend @wtfishappening20’s website is that actors associated with a certain Spanish network and a certain Italian one will sometimes work in productions in the others’ country. Apparently Alejandra is one such actor that has done this. This would explain why her past pap walks were noted in Italian gossip/entertainment sites like some of our Italian readers have mentioned in past Asks! Like I said, it’s hard to be certain if this was actually paid for or not, but figured I’d throw out some possibilities. Now what’s the deal with this controversy stirred up by this article? It’s because of translation.
There’s a section in the article that mentions Alejandra even though the article is mostly about Sebastian. I’ll highlight if for you in particular in case you don’t want to read the original article.
Sebastian Stan è fidanzato con Alejandra Onieva, un’attrice spagnola. La loro storia d’amore è nata nel 2020 ed è venuta allo scoperto a luglio, quando i due sono stati paparazzati in vacanza insieme in Spagna.
Now this paragraph basically tries to imply that this relationship started before July because the second sentence translates as “Their love story began in 2020 and came out in the open in July, when the two were paparazzi on vacation together in Spain.“ However where things get REALLY problematic is that particular word I’ve bolded for you readers.
I have been informed by said Italian reader I mentioned earlier that when you use Google translate it uses the word “ENGAGED.” However she has explained to us here at Badfauxmance that it’s a poorly selected choice by Google and that there’s some more complexity to the word. Those of you who are polyglots (bilingual, etc.) are very much aware of how languages have subtleties that aren’t always captured in direct translations and that Google Translate is good, but not a perfect translator. In this case, this is potentially causing confusion to people who are using Google Translate because they don’t KNOW ITALIAN.
Our new Italian friend has explained that “fidanzato” actually is used to mean “BOYFRIEND” or “FIANCE.” They explained the term indicates that this relationship is a serious one and not a fling, hence it allows the usage for both serious romantic relationship OR an engagement. When you take into account this translation as noted by our reader friend, the tone of this more or less sounds like the dozens of other articles that Team Alejandra has been paying for to state that she and Sebastian are dating and they are actually boyfriend/girlfriend and not some fling.
So for those of you out there who have been freaking out about this article, I’m basically here to let you guys know that you need to relax because this is basically the same PR nonsense we’ve been watching since July. Literally the only thing different about this article is that it’s not written in English or Spanish this time.
At this point we just have to keep our eyes out for the next bunch of articles, which will no doubt be coming. It’s obvious this is going to amp up until the inevitable breakup because of the long distance or busy schedules (Sebastian’s more like!) keeping our “lovebirds” apart. More like when the contract ends and we can try to ignore this woman FOREVER.
This is Admin and that’s my Ted-Talk explanation. Ciao!
So remember earlier this month Elite Daily posted about all of Seb’s previous relationships? If not, take a look here. They went through all his known relationships from Leighton to CB herself, but the funny thing was that they mention that CB and Seb seemed to end in 2020. They started talking about how Seb seemed to be with Daisy Edgar Jones, which we all know isn’t really the case. This article was posted on April 8th.
Well today, Elite Daily posted another article about Seb. Talking about what kind of romantic partner he would be. See it here! Now while the beginning seems to be another fluff Seb piece, the thing that seemed to catch my eye was this quote: “While we don't know if Stan is currently coupled up — there have been reports that maybe sparks are flying with his Fresh co-star Daisy Edgar-Jones — we can get some insight into what kind of partner he may be based on his zodiac sign.”
It’s pretty interesting that all the Pro-Ale articles are in Spanish an/or Italian, where Ale is more known. For those of you who are not aware, Ale was on a Spanish Netflix show as well as an Italian show previously. Every article that comes from those places talk about how in love the couple are, and about his “cute” IG comments on her pictures 🤮. There is even a new article that talks about her recent post promoting “Monday” like a supportive girlfriend.
However, 99% of the articles in English, are basically saying that it seems like Seb is single, and that if he dated CB, it ended back in 2020, which we wish it had. The funny thing is, this latest article doesn’t even mention the barnacle. Man her team must be spitting nails.
The question seems to be, is Seb’s team trying to push the narrative that this is either coming to an end? What are your thoughts? Anyone else tired of the same boring articles that seem to come out pro Ale? Same story, different language.
I’ve read this article that the anon mentioned and it definitely describes S&A.
Anon 2: This article? metro*co*uk/2019/07/26/hollywood-publicist-exposes-fake-romances-love-contracts-legally-bind-famous-couples-together-least-year-10465755/
Anon 3: 'hollywood publicist exposes fake romance love contracts that legally bind famous couples together for at least one year' Is the title of the article about pr romances in Hollywood. Think the site it's posted on is called metro-smth.
Thanks! This was pretty interesting. Obviously he can’t name names, but worth reading if you guys are interested in this sort of thing!
