"So, your saying that is is a staged marketing relationship? Maybe a bit of paranoia there mate."
First, you might like to look up paranoia in the dictionary, since there's no question of my being persecuted at all. Second: where have you been? The showmance is obvious to everybody who isn't either a romance-magazine-reading fangirl or some guy who fantasizes about having Shakira. Piqué hardly even fakes it when he's with her, and the big effort -- at least for the photographers' benefit -- comes from her. Her hysterical behavior in the stands at the Camp Nou, her extravagant shoutouts to him at her performances, etc. are so artificial. His affections are otherwise engaged (as, probably, are hers -- given her "temporary" break from her longtime novio), and it could hardly be more obvious.