My candidate for the best news of the week is a report in the Spanish media today that Shakira is thinking of buying a house in Catalonia where her sister already lives.
The beautiful, talented, and engaging Columbian star is one of my favourite singers and dancers and it will be great to see more of her along with my regular visits to the Nou Camp. A real bonus would be her finding a house she likes in Sitges where I like to take my holidays and have many friends.
El Pais today mischivously suggests that Shakira’s house hunting in Catalonia may also be linked to her reported friendship with Barca’s Gerard Pique. I have no evidence one way or the other as to how central this excellent footballer has become in the singer’s life. But I wish Shakira and Pique each all the best for the future. Whichever way you look at it, this is a good news story, in stark contrast to the reported growing freeze in the relationship between Mourinho and Valdano over at Real Madrid. Loca, Loca, Loca!
This story adds spice to that infamous photograph that went around the world with Gerard Pique captured with Zlatan Ibrahimovic in a very “romantic pose”. Is the Shakira story just a cover up spun by Barça PR? Will Pique indeed buy a home in Sitges, the Nº 1 gay resort on the Iberian peninsular? Those of us living in Madrid will follow this closely, making the small tiff between Mou and Valdano rather boring compared to the Hello! goings on up on the Catalan coast. It certainly does look like a Mad, Mad, Mad world up there!