By Meenakshi Rohatgi
Teenage success – success before maturity – could be disastrous. Just look at what happened to the Harry Potter trio – Radcliffe and Emma and Grint – who captured global imagination without really trying hard for it. Worse still was the case of Culkin, the hero of Home Alone episode. At 22, Culkin divorced his wife, actress Rachel Miner, whom he married at 18 and separated from at 20!
Then Culkin began dating actress Mila Kunis and postponed a possible engagement in 2006. And as late as January 2011, we are told the couple broke off but it was an amicable split. He had a stint in prison for drug abuse, considered normal for celebrities.
Fortunately, Radcliffe did not take to drugs because he preferred alcohol. Radcliff and Emma were just nine when Christopher Joseph Columbus, the Producer-Director of Home Alone, spotted them. Grint, the third of the trio, was eleven. Today Radcliff is worth £48m, and is starring on Broadway in How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.
Emulating the lifestyles of the rich and the famous has given nightmares to Radcliffe, who is struggling to come out of it. Emma the innocent is no more innocent. She allows her body to be photographed semi-nude or near-nude for a fortune! Who knows the good times may end sooner than expected. Grint shies away from the media, and very little of his darker sides are known.
J k Rowling, the Queen of Magic, has invented the three little stars, who basking in her glory, made it to the Fortune’s list of millionaires. The single mother that she was when she started writing her 7-volume Harry Potter, is now married with three children – that magic three (children) who made her famous. Celebrated among all the trains is King’s Cross train from
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