Why do so many wives of famous men suck it up and stand grimly by, like a prop for the photo op, as the hubby spills his guilty guts for the cameras? 

Silda Spitzer looked like she might have had a gun at her back, but there she was nonetheless, “at his side,” as the saying goes.

Girlfriend, he was [allegedly] whooping it up with a hooker named Kristen! Stick with the marriage if that’s what you want, by all means — but let him twist in the wind alone. Just once, as the husband takes his place at the confessional microphone, I’d like to see a wronged wife walk onstage with him — and just keep on walking, suitcase in hand, exit stage right.

YouTube has scored nearly a half-million hits for the recent video of a well-known Chinese broadcaster crashing a big Beijing Olympics press conference and, in front of those five big symbolic rings, accusing her husband — an even better-known Chinese broadcaster — of having an affair. She dodges and weaves like a champion welterweight, ducking and shaking off the musclemen who try to hustle her offstage, and manages to say her piece in front of the world’s press.