Breakdowns, break-ups and bankrupts

High-profile drug deaths, marital break-ups, musical satire and aeroplane misdeeds, 2010 will certainly be remembered as a year of celebrity meltdown, writes Richie Taylor

IT was a year of weddings, deaths, celebrity splits, costly back operations, rumbles in Ranelagh, tales of cocaine madness and expensive trips to Morocco.

But first out of the celebrity scandal traps in January was famous curmudgeon Van Morrison when a posting on his official website claimed that Van had become a father again — but not with his wife, former Miss Ireland Michelle Rocca.