How much can bad decisions cost?
When a regular guy screws up with his wife, it might cost him some flowers or a fancy dinner. When a male celebrity does something wrong - especially any sort of sexual indiscretion - the apology cost can be astronomical. Of course when a normal fellow wrongs his significant other - whether it's forgetting to call when he's going to be home late or something more egregious like having an affair - it does not end up getting splashed across the media. If a famous guy makes a mistake it gets reported on TMZ , shows up on the front page of tabloids, fills TV, and starts trending across social media. Bad behavior can can cost a regular guy, but do something wrong if you are a famous man and you will pay for it in real dollars.
As the author of 50 Things Every Guy Should Know How To Do, I have learned a few things about women (a precious few, my wife would say). But it does not require writing a book of advice for men to know that your wife won't like it if you brag about previous sexual conquests on a radio show.
That's good general advice but it goes doubly if you plan to brag about sleeping with Kim Kardashian. Nick Cannon - who is married to Mariah Carey - apparently never learned that particular lesson and he paid dearly for it. The America's Got Talent host went on New York's Power 106 and told host Big Boy (not to be confused with Outkast's Big Boi) that before he met Carey he had bedded Christina Milian, Nicole Scherzinger, Selita Ebanks, and Kardashian. "It's L.A.! That's the whole purpose, you have sex with actresses, singers, models," Cannon told the host.
That may be true but the bragging likely cost Cannon, who smoothed things over at home two days later with what the New York Daily News called a "huge diamond bracelet". "Nick surprised me for 3/27 with a stellar diamond bracelet encrusted with 3 floating butterflies!" Carey posted on Twitter. Though the price of Cannon's apology/birthday present for his wife has not been revealed it's a drop in the bucket compared to what some stars have paid after wronging their spouses. (excerpt from The Motley Fool)
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