Like when Joaquin Phoenix was acting like a complete weirdo years ago, and it turned out to be a big media stunt?
Some article brought that up, asking if it was a joke/prank of some sort.
Always a possibility. Would make sense because the other thing - those two dating - is just...weird.
I know unlikely people are drawn together sometimes - that alien lizard, James Carville, and his ideologically-opposite wife Mary Matalin have somehow made it work. But I think they're among the exceptions. He's obviously got some sort of intergalactic reptilian mind control hold over her, bless her heart, but we don't like to talk about that.
I'm not in the UK, so I have no idea what the Daily Mail is like.