Millionaire Celebrities.

[Theland]

Don't millionaire celebrities get on your wick?
Pontificating about all and sundry, United Nations Ambassadors?
Knock me sick.
How about you?

[Mamyalynne]

I listened to lectures and sermons when I had to as a child in education etc - I can now as an adult chose when to change channel,turn the page or leave the auditorium.

[ladybirder]

I think anyone who makes a success of their life is to be applauded, be it financially or otherwise. I too hate to see people sneered at because they have done well in life. But I draw the line at them thinking it is OK to ram their politics down my throat at every opportunity. Emma Thompson is particularly prone to it.

[Vagus]

No. If I don’t like what someone says I ignore them. These people only get air time because the media believe that’s what people want to hear and it’s sells their papers etc.
As for being millionaires, they are so common these days, you only have to own a house in the south east. Nothing special about being a millionaire.

[woofgang]

Well I mind when they have more influence than the rest of us...eg Jamie flaming Oliver, but if they are just gobbing off in the meejer tehn I don't care.

[woofgang]

Ps, vagus, there are loads of us who wion houses in the south east and are way off being millionaires

[ichkeria]

Let’s face it: if we like the opinions we hear we think it’s great, if we don’t then it’s ‘off with their heads’ like the best opponents of free speech.
I can’t stand celebrity pundit Katie Hopkins for example, but I just ignore. I’d hate to think I want her silenced

[ladybirder]

But that's Katie Hopkins' job Ichkeria. The others mentioned are actors - so just act, I don't want or need to see or hear their political opinions, of whatever flavour they may be.

[Sqad]

I agree with ladybirder in that i admire success both financial and otherwise, but when they use their vehicle of success to demonstrate their socio-political views, then i take offence.
i.e the Democrat Thespians at the awards B.A.F.T.A ( I think) giving the president of the U.S a kicking.

[Peter Pedant]

// I listened to lectures and sermons when I had to as a child in education etc //
actually you were there but you had turned your brain off
( I have been up there trying to get the kids to turn their brains back on - usually unsuccessfully. Really unsuccessful is when a child leaves the lesson with a knowing smile on their face - having learnt that little bit less than anyone else - a triumphnant result which will last a lifetime)

Turn off - which makes me turn off the teevee
Nigel Farage and increasingly Fat luvva boy ( Boris )

and I almost had convulsion over the gap toothed kid singing the star spangled banner - syndicated over here as "American cute" - bleeeeuch ! [gag them all] the native indian girl - indians dont normally like th flag completely missed by the Beeb

[ummmm]

I admire wealth when it's earned. The people mentioned, they've earned it. I hope they enjoy their millinions.

[Peter Pedant]

// i.e the Democrat Thespians at the awards B.A.F.T.A ( I think) giving the president of the U.S a kicking.//

no that wasnt BAFTA - but the senate hearings on Brett Kavanaugh
ter-daaaah !

The lift scene was good - syndicated partout
Senator Daft taking on board the fact that something can happen that is unreported

[we were threatened wivva sawn off shot gun - and when twenty years later our police relatives asked - did you ring the police - we answered of course we didnt do you know where we live!]

hey yeah but - think black wrestler and I said
hi mickey is that a sawn off shot gun or are you pleased to see us?
and mickey grunted and it was obvious it WAS a gun and he wasnt pleased to see us! [ter daah again - note I dont let the truth interfere with a good story]

[Cloverjo]

One that annoys me is Jamie Oliver. I know he's done a lot of good - trying to get the nation to eat more healthily and providing jobs for disadvantaged people while losing money himself. But I remember a tv programme he was doing trying to help people buy better food. He accused one woman of being too tight to buy an organic chicken and so wrecking the lives of other wretched chickens. No, Jamie, she was too skint.

[Peter Pedant]

// I admire wealth when it's earned. The people mentioned, they've earned it. I hope they enjoy their millinions.//

Trump has the richest cabinet ever - and the tax cuts he made have made them even richer ! - multi millionaires to trulti-millionaires or whatever the word is to describe further glorious riches

you dont admire them or him do you ?

[Sqad]

PP.....no they were to separate incidents.
The one to which i was alluding was Meryl Streep, but you are correct, the verbal lashing given to the Democrat Senator in the lift who was going to vote with the Republicans was indeed pure "drama."

[Kathyan]

Cloverjo, I watched one of Jamie Oliver's shows once, where a woman was upset when she said she couldn't afford the food to cook from scratch, but she always had a cigarette on the go when she was on camera!

[ummmm]

I like Jamie Oliver.

I think many TV chefs are guilty of the same thing. They seem to think we all have cars and cash. I don't have a car (I don't really need one) so I can't get to the farm shop to but all my organic goods.

He's right when it comes to organic chicken though. I bought an organic chicken (about £12 which would feed 2 people) and it tasted like chicken we had as kids before they were mass produced and pumped full of water.

Back to the question....If celebs are supporting a good cause I'm all for it. Our youngsters pat attention to celebs so if they get them thinking it's never going to be a bad thing.

[ummmm]

*excuse my typos.

[woofgang]

ummm, he can be as right as you like but if you can't afford it, you can't have it. Its one thing to support a good cause, but another to interfere with people's choices. The sweetener thing hits me hard because to me all of them taste disgusting, including stevia and most of them give me upset stomach and/or headache or migraine. Considering the calorie count and sugar content of the recipes in his books and his restaurants, I think he is a hypocrit.....and when he sits there and says toot like "this is a tax of love" I want to smack him!

[hereIam]

Yuk Jamie Oliver, because of him the rudy government are doing away with all my favourite cold drinks and replacing them with no sugar ones! They just do not taste the same and I am an adult, I can decide for myself what I want to drink without the government 'nannying' me. Just because some parents are just too stupid or thick to monitor what their kids drink, we all have to pay the price - thanks JO !!!

I agree with lb and Squad on this thread.