Would you take advice from these people?

Advice from celebrities should be taken with a grain of salt. How realistic can your world-view be when you live your life in a bubble? Still, many have written self-help and how-to books. None of them will likely ever come close to rivaling the highest-grossing advice book of all time. But there's clearly a market for them, even if they leave us scratching our heads.

Politicians and celebrities have enough notoriety without pesky brothers and sisters getting in the way. Or perhaps they benefit from the diversion. The Baldwin brothers trade bad headlines, and Brandi Favre distracted from brother Brett's recent punishment.

Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry have gone from a seemingly amicable break-up to a goddamn bare-knuckle brawl this week after the two reached a heated point in arranging visitation with their daughter Nahla and immediately lawyered up. They’ve now taken to the always productive press fight starting with Halle accusing Gabriel of putting their daughter in danger forcing him to respond that this all a matter of Halle losing a movie role and having nothing better to do.

It’s getting easier to be thoughtful on Valentine’s Day. A Seattle-based startup, Thoughtful offers ideas from local retailers and keeps track of important dates.