Thursday, April 26, 2012

Toute La Famille


Oh how pro$persous Jessica becomes in expensive locations where Scott and Tesssa are competing.This is a woman who will recycle a costume (like her red strapless one) into the ground when there's no Scott connection - a woman who lodges in an economy hotel in off-season Paris when she's on a girls' trip  -  yet she can ship the whole family minus Veronique (presumably) to the ever so budget-friendly south of France for Worlds when Virtue and Moir are also present.

Jessica is not paying for this herself and neither is her family. I don't think I'm going out on a limb with this. And it ain't Scott.

I look forward to seeing la famille Dube' on film. All those Moirs - cousins included. And three auxillary Dubes! Why on film, it will look just like a gathering of skater families while to skating fans it'll be evidence of the couple, Scott and Jessica, and how their families are like family.

Ice Sweat and Tears is scheduled for broadcast on cbc-tv, which has a deal with Skate Canada. I wonder if Skate Canada commissioned and/or pitched this hard-hitting, no holds barred, warts-and-all exercise in documented truthiness and I'm also curious if the the truthiness of all relevant components was fully disclosed to the filmmakers.

I love how uncontrived this photo is. Everybody loves everybody! No matter how sleazy and sketchy and gross the Jessica/Scott spam has been, Tessa is cool with it - obviously. Come on Tessa, go all the way and throw an arm around Jessica! Give her a great big hug! Enough with the surrogates and buffers. I know the message is "no triangle", no "other woman", so get in there and give Scott's fake girlfriend a great big squeeze.

Sometimes I must say I wonder if Jessica's skating partners, all up in Tessa and Scott's grill as they necessarily become, don't feel a bit like Job in these situations. They've got Jessica. And they sit next to the overachieving, always cheery, completely reliable, supersonically competitive Tessa and think - why lord? Why Scott? Why did he get that partner? Why not me?


I know it's baby steps this year, but Tessa needs to pose one-on-one with Jessica, arms around like besties. That's what they were selling us after the Olympics - Scott's infamous any-girl-I-end-up-with-will-have-to-love-Tessa-as-much-as-I-do. Why does Tessa need a buffer?

I can sort of surmise what the reasoning might have been early on (i.e., half-baked as with everything SC) - but it unravels. In the beginning, Tessa made herself always scarce when Jessica and Scott were shamming, because... ? Other platonic partners hung out with their partner and their partner's SO at events, attended weddings, were on the same skater social circuit. It was a little weird that Tessa was never (photo-op speaking) at the weddings that Scott and Jessica attended "as a couple" (photo-op speaking) -  nor did Tessa join Scott and his posse when it was time to turn to stone watching Jessica and Bryce compete (a/k/a "watch paint dry."). Scott and Tessa never claimed to be enemies, just platonic. So why shouldn't she join Meryl, Charlie, Scott, etc. to watch a pairs comp? She watched the Shibs with Scott and D/W - why not Jessica/Bryce? Was she really trying to market the idea that as much as she cared for Scott, she was so desperate for "separate" time that Scott's presence at a given non-skating event was enough to keep her from attending herself?

Okay - so she's a high achiever and that includes a high achiever in leaving the impression of "separate lives." But what about Tessa and Jessica? Why did she avoid being photographed around Jessica or with Jessica? At banquets, galas, etc. she'd be photographed one on one with almost anyone except either Jessica or Scott. What was the deal with that? Was it fear that, just as Scott's inauthenticity reached out and choked the viewer when he posed with Jessica, Tessa would radiate "real love interest" if she stood next to the fake? It's not fair, really, for Scott's "SO" to love Tessa with the same intensity Scott loves Tessa, and Tessa not to love in return. So let's see it girls.

I hope Tessa has just not been giving herself a break that Scott never got until recently. He has had to paste on a grin, or a smarmy face, or a gross, cheesy expression. Tessa is, to say the least, all up in the drive behind the sham. A really easy way to kibosh fan confusion would have been for them to hang as a threesome or Tessa show how comfy she was with Scott's relationship by buddying up with Jessica for the camera. The fact that she always made herself scarce helped enable speculation that there were tense undercurrents and unresolved feelings in the mix, not to mention generated miles of real person fan fiction.

So now maybe they're clued in that making Tessa disappear didn't enhance the Jessica/Scott authenticity, so Tessa is now showing up, but she still sticks a body between herself and Jessica. Even in that group shot Tessa's body was in the same plane as Scott and Patrick, not with Jessica. She really needs to step it up. I know there's a division of labor, but perhaps it would be helpful if she had to pose a la I-Love-Jessica too, bff-division. See exactly how comfortable it is.

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  1. lol If you look at Jeff Buttle's twitter, he has a picture of Scott holding up his middle finger.

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  2. I don't care what kind of sham is going on, how can any normal gf be comfortable with her man kissing Jessica and then acting like she loves Jessica and are besties? This is sick, twisted, almost psychotic. You have to wonder what is in Tessa's mind to make her think this is ok.

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  3. "perhaps it would be helpful if she had to pose a la I-Love-Jessica too, bff-division. See exactly how comfortable it is."


    Well, I for one have no interest in now being hit with "Jessica-Scott-Tessa" or "Jessica-Tessa" photo spams.
    These guys have reacted to different things from the blog - I hope they don't try this suggestion! Any positioning of Jessica next to Scott and/or Tessa is such a travesty.

    And how disappointing is it that I wouldn't be surprised that the few photos we've already seen this season of Tessa-Jessica in the same frame has been an attempt to do just what this entry taunts them to do...make things look more "normal." So instead of coming clean, they keep trying to make this work.

    Don't they have better things to do with their time and energy? Such as get themselves a competent PR and management team and start working on raking in the endorsements we all thought they would be swimming in by now?

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  4. Whatever happened to Jessica's solo skating career? Wasn't Barb tweeting at last year's Challenge that she was the next great thing in women's skating for Canada? What about Jessica's reasons for splitting with Bryce? (Ooops, I guess she was mistaken about the new found love for single's skating and school.)

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    1. This is an example of Skate Canada's arrogant idiocy. They facilitated the Jessica/Bryce press conference discussing their split, and let Jessica's blood-curdling self-absorbtion take center stage. Never once did she say an encouraging word about Bryce's recovery, nor express empathy for his experience. She framed her remarks in terms of Bryce's injury being beneficial to her, to help her realize she loved singles and wanted to pull the plug on D&D. Did these ill-advised remarks sail over the brilliant Barb's head? I think so. Barb spends most of her time thinking about Barb. When there was blowback, Skatebuzz wrote a piece thanking D&D's sponsors, and presented it as coming from Jessica and Bryce. Then they hastened to give Bryce a ton of publicity about how well his transition was going, saying more than once that he was "retired" when he explicitly said himself he had not made that decision. I guess he ultimately got the hint. Then when the 2011-2012 season began in earnest SC got the memo out about how the split with Bryce ought to be framed. Jessica was cast as a sage, hard-working champion, Sebastien as a loose-ends former junior never expecting the phone to ring (did Annie and Jessica text him from across the rink)?

      A poster on datalounge offered what they claimed was valid gossip - which is worth nothing on datalounge, but, unusually for that place, had nothing to do with sex or triangles. This poster claimed Bryce had been unhappy with Jessica's weight gain (described as slight, but enough to be felt) and was unhappy lifting her, and said some things he regretted. This lead to her boinking his best friend (oh Dylan, how could you!). While I think the last is easy to dismiss, this was the first datalounge post in ages that came at D&D as a couple long after she supposedly started dating Scott, and it's the first to note that Jessica does not keep in fighting trim. She's in great shape for a show skater, but not for an eligible skater. Look at her body in 2006 in the short program - seems like approximately the same weight as now, but her arms are cut. Now they're not. If you're not tight, you're going to feel looser up there in a lift.

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    2. oh Dylan, how could you! lol bryce/dylan have the most epic bromance. love them. that is interesting though.

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    3. My takeaway from this datalounge post was however embellished, the story is Jessica had put on a few pounds (and read from that it wasn't muscle), Bryce commented, she reacted, and it informed her decision to split, and each feels betrayed by the other, per this poster.

      The "slept with his best friend" piece of it didn't mean Scott - that was clear from this poster too. I of course don't think it means Dylan either. I just think there's something about Jessica that inspires that sort of embellishment. But, I was interested that this post even happened. Skating teams clash all the time. But only with a couple would "I will get back at you by sleeping with "X" be a valid way to get back at somebody, and I also suspect this poster had hold of something real, weightwise, because Jessica's condition is noticable to anyone who understands pairs. She is not at peak form. Even during the 2009-2010 Olympic year, she didn't drop an ounce of body "fat", nor, more pointedly, acquire an ounce of muscle. She was "soft" for a pairs skater, throughout that season. It's not about size or weight, but condition.

      Honestly, if Eric Radford bitched about Megean's weight (her weight is fine, this is hypothetical) what would her boinking his best friend accomplish? He wouldn't give a shit.

      That type of maneuver is only rumored if someone believes the pair in question is a couple. And that was what I found interesting about the data lounge post - it was an outlier in the thread and seemed to pivot off the understanding D&D were together. Essentially, I've always seen Jessica's weight as an extension of her lakadaisical work ethic (elite skater-wise). When I watched her and Sebastien's early efforts, I saw Sebastien go through a fairly rote set-up for lifts. But Jessica needed more than that. She needed Bryce's brand of compensation, because although her positions are fine, she's not tight and she doesn't carry herself like either Megan or Kirsten. But I must say, I hadn't considered that this would piss off Bryce. I thought he looked at the situation holistically, and knew they needed different coaching, versus the enabling environment of Barabe.

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  5. I'm wondering what your thoughts are regarding the whole "OMG I HATE THIS EVENT" muttering by Scott? I'm actually awaiting that!

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    1. I did answer this in another post but here I'll say that Scott doesn't say anything with any camera near, nor do anything with a camera near, that isn't meant to be seen or heard. That's not to say his pda with Tessa isn't genuine - it's real - but he wants people to notice it. And he wanted that remark overheard. Not that it was calculated, but he knows what cameras can pick up as well as anyone on the planet. He can play it off as something meant for only Tessa's ears and still get his opinion out there.

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  6. Anon 8:08

    Blogger already answered your question. Check the comments in the entry "The Merry Month of May."

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  7. Where did you find this Jessica photo with her family?
    Its really interesting- did somwone saw Jess and Scott in Nice? And did you saw Jessica-Scott photos together from Nice?
    And what do you think about Scott ring? I think he start wear it after OG, but i didnt see it anymore since WCh in Nice.

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    1. The photo is from Jonathan Dube's Facebook. I haven't seen any photos of Jessica/Scott from Nice nor did anyone ever mention seeing them together. It was reported that Scott had dinner with Tessa and her sister and that Tessa and Scott were seen together outside the arena but no mention of Jess. She was probably too busy finding more flowers to toss around.

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    2. Werid, because Scott and Jess were seen at TEB, GPF together.... Maybe Tessa-Scott want to play in "love game", because this will be good for there on-ice image and thats why they try to go out together at WCh?

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    3. ...or Tessa and Scott are living the in "love game" and are finally letting the guard down. Both Jess and Scott have new Fb pictures w/o the other.

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    4. Hm.... Could they broke-up? Thats why he didnt wear ring anymore? And this must happened in short time, even if we look at banquet photos from 4CC look like Scott and Jessica are together. But all could happened - who knows? I hope Scott will look happie again

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    5. I think Scott looks pretty happy lately, with Tessa. I agree with anon at 2:15...I think they're living the in "love game". Whether it's a recent thing or not, I don't know but I do think that Jess and Scott are dunzo. (Please, don't give me the line that they were never together in the first place!)

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    6. I have seen him with his ring..and Tessa had a matching one...look for the small medal ceremony at worlds.

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    7. O, i missed this moment - he really had this ring at small medals ceremony at WCh - just re-watched video. :) So i think he still with Jessica and they acting at WCh in couple off ice. I remeber Davis talking about this- she and White didnt need to play in off ice couple, like some others :))))))))))))))

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    8. I really don't think you need to save them from themselves, anon 2:31. He never was with Jessica.

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  8. O, i mean T-S play at WCh in off-ice couple :)

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  9. Hey Oy Canada, I'm really interested in your take on the current Facebook profile photos. It doesn't fit their past behaviour at all. Nothing to say? I would have thought that as soon as Jess switched to timeline, a big ol' photo of her and Scott would be front and center as the cover photo.

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    1. Maybe they didnt want people pay so many attention to there relationships? Even if this on distance relationships durinf 4 years look werid :)

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    2. I think they have a family, and belatedly realize the Jessica/Scott photos are on the web forever, and aren't going away. So they're trying to normalize it by bringing Tessa in and by using Eric Radford for a Jessica profile pic. See, it's not craven and disgusting - everybody's friends! Arm around doesn't mean boyfriend and girlfriend - it's just an arm around! We're not revolting people, marketing wise!

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    3. Eric Radford is gay :) They look good friends with Tessa at WCh gala practice.
      Look like Jessica and Scott wish to play with there facebo pages :))))))))))))))

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    4. Jessica and Scott were never together in the first place. Another site is best to discuss theories about their nonexistent relationship and nonexistent speculative break-up of same as this blog is premised on my knowing for a fact Scott and Jessica were never a couple.

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    5. anon at 6:22 a.m. Eric has not come out so his sexual orientation can only be speculation. That caveat out of the way, I don't think Jessica is pretending to sham with Eric in her profile pic. I think it's the same image-messaging that SC tried to convey with Sebastien's arm around the back of Tessa's chair and Tessa leaning in towards him. They're trying to sanitize the stench of the sham photos as most of those were a la Sebastien/Tessa and a la Jessica/Eric. Nobody thinks Jessica/Eric are together, nor do people think Sebastien/Tessa are together, but this type of pose is new and I suspect meant to retroactively normalize the revolting Scott and Jessica crap.

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    6. ^ I really buy into what this blog says...like the whole picture...but I sometimes do wonder about how the specific control Skate Canada has works - like is Barb there saying, Sebastian put your arm around Tessa ?? Occasionally it goes into far-fetched territory, that being said I think ample evidence has been presented to suggest they really are that weird/paranoid/over-bearing/stupid/short-sighted. I mean the Olympic moment with JD shows they do set this stuff up. I'm still curious about how those conversations actually go though!!

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    7. I wonder as well, because I don't have the blow-by-blow re Skate Canada. But I love watching everybody just burrow deeper, because that's predictably what everybody does once an idea with their name on it turns out to suck or backfires - they dig deeper, trying to salvage it, or, if not salvage it, hoping denial carries the day. For the SC trio of Barb, Bill and Debbi, I think they're playing for time til after Sochi, then all 3 will do their utmost to leverage SC experience into a post SC career as consultants, seminar speakers, etc. The problem is they obviously alienated an impressive roster of mainstream sponsors - I wonder how many organizations will be willing to pay for what they sell. Some of what Barb was trying to publicize months ago was inane. An intern in business development would already know the elementary stuff she was pitching.

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  10. how do virtue and moir pay for all of this? how much does stars on ice pay? im sure the russian coaches are pretty expensive. i know virtue's dad bankrolled them for a while. but as olympic champs, did they make any money? are they that head in the clouds? thats too much pda though. it makes no sense. its genuine sure but it seems they are way way way too codependent. i guess it was the way they were raised.

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    1. "thats too much pda though. it makes no sense. its genuine sure but it seems they are way way way too codependent."

      I cannot agree with your opinion.

      I know some couples who show lots of pda even after many years of marriage. It's very sweet and in no way related to codependency.

      I do not personally know V/M but IMO it's not too much pda nor is it indicative of a problem.

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    2. http://www.financialpost.com/todays-paper/Virtue+Moir+sharing+experience+anonymity/6571700/story.html

      Former Girlfriend?

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    3. There now, the so-called sham is over, and hence no reason for this piss poor blog to exist anymore. At least, we can hope....

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    4. Oh but the sham includes claiming they're not a couple and platonic.

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  11. Former girlfriend, biotches!

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    1. Now we wait for the news that Tessa is "single" again.

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    2. When did she become "not single"? She never said she was dating anyone.

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    3. Anon 4:30

      Exactly.

      And as far as I can tell, there is not a single indication that Tessa is supposed to be dating someone (other than Scott). You would think by now people would know not to take any "report" from FSU as truth, especially when it's not backed up with facts.

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  12. seriously how do virtue moir pay for their lifestyle? i love them. they have what lots of people dream of, sorry it's true, a lifelong love and you know what, no one but a few can get it. it's rare, it's special, they know it, and will do whatever they can to protect it. have they gone over the line. yes, but that's what you do when you are a teenager or in your early 20s. you are an idiot. yes, they have acted in idiotic ways to protect themselves. it is a sword they may fall on. but they dont care. and i would not. if i had something so bizarre -bc regardless of davis/white being together just as long as TS- their lives are totally different, DW are a partnership of convenience. ts are different they are that one love story that people will always fantasize about. both gorgeous and talented and the BEST. i keep looking at the worlds and davis/white free dance,yes they are fast and they have good lifts and twizzles, but they have NO footwork, they just glide from one lift to one twizzle, and are totally boring. if the jessica dube thing was a total sham, thats nuts. but a kid and secret marrriage? that's a bit more nuts. also, these are kids. she's 22 and he is 24 and all this nonsense with dube started when he was 20. i dont know about you, im a pretty successful professional, and i was a total idiot at that age. this may be buyers remorse. this article seems like a sign of maturity and sign that --which is really refereshing in sports- that we will not whore relationship out. they really have not benefited $$$$. at least from what i see. minor endorsements. does skate canada pay their bills? tessa looks like a fashionista and scott looks like a small town boy pleasing his homecoming queen girlfriend. it's complete-they have accepted it. they are for each other and nooone else. i am sure dube tried to get him to like her for real instead for fake. maybe he did. maybe there is more youthful drama behind the scenes. and maybe a lot of regret for trying to protect themselves thru deceit or half-ass relationships. i do think dube came with some benefits that included more than just making out for scott-he is still a man/boy with serious hormones and machismo. i think tessa waited it out. was patient good girl. some episodes with other men bc she's human, to get scott jealous, and to figure herself out.

    is it so contemptuous if they did participate in a farce forced on them -or at least suggested- by older people in canada skating organization that they trusted b/c of their youth, naivete etc? doesnt it look, from their performances/comments that they- THEY- are now taking control of their life? that they are wising up?

    look at their extremely unique almost bizarre childhood and teenage years, how it worked out that they grew to be a perfect "pair"- and just appreciate it? that something like that, that we all dream about, having someone by your side who is yours entirely since youth? i think its rare, and they appreciate how lucky they have been. i dont think they are contemptuous. i think they are grateful and happy that all this good luck amidst struggle and intense hard work brought them a love story. a real one, a rare one.

    at then end of the day you have yourself, and hopefully someone else, who will never leave you. theyre lucky, and good for them for acknowledging it. everyone on this site and their fans wishes same. thats why we write and think about them. not bc we want to be ice dancers but bc we want to find or have that person who is enough and forever. i hope they win the next olympics bc they deserve it. and i hope they get married and live happily ever after, bc we need to see that. i know i do. every generation needs a love story.

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    1. "thats why we write and think about them. not bc we want to be ice dancers but bc we want to find or have that person who is enough and forever. i hope they win the next olympics bc they deserve it. and i hope they get married and live happily ever after, bc we need to see that. i know i do. every generation needs a love story."

      beautiful :)

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    2. They intend to be together forever and ever and the married part is already true. When you'll get to "see"" it depends on them.

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