All celebrities should be slapped?

[Seabedsurfer]

Does anyone else think celebrity culture is the most uninteresting, moronic and injust thing on planet Earth or am I a lonely person on this one and about to get ripped to shreads? I mean you walk in front of a camera once in your life and suddenly you're a celebrity who the public suddenly consider wiser and more talented than us unfamous plebs. And this celebrity gets a haircut or a new outfit and it takes precedent in the news over hundreds dying in some horrible incident or something culturally or morally challenging! They're almost like modern-day aristocracy where we assume they are more important than everyone else (people worship Hollywood stars) and have a right to be stinkingly rich e.g. I mean so many people work hard and are very skilled at their profession but don't get a fraction of what Julia roberts -who is a good actress- gets; $20million per film.        

[soozmac]

yes, I've always wondered why actors and actresses get quite so much per movie. I mean, surely once you have a couple of million, you're set, as the interest will provide enough to live on. They get free dresses for ceremonies, where they are then handed free goodie bags with a value of more than my monthly salary. I mean, why pay them quite that much? What do they need all that cash for??

As for the cult of celebrity, I think it's not the general public who catapaults them to some kind of iconic status, it's the media - magazines like Heat, for example, who will hold the front page if Victoria Beckham gets a new hair cut. I personally don't care about any of these people, but with the constant media coverage, it's almost as if I do, as if I am personally demanding to be kept up to date with these trivial matters. If the current pile of celebrity-based magazines stopped printing tomorrow, my life would not change one iota.

[themodgrover]

Yes! I agree with you totally. Im glad there's someone who feels the same, i was starting to think it was being me being a sour git (well not really, as i know im right on this). Its pure vanity and most of these celebs are utterly without worth, they pursue their own ends exclusively, at least sportspeople and politicians have to work. The number of celeb mag's that clog up my work's smoking room and the amount of times i see GROWN UP's reading about some spoilt brat or narassicist's latest expliot's makes me very depressed and leave me seeving with contempt (bad).

Why dont people read? i mean proper books, not blooming harry potter, which is a children's book however one dresses it up, but novels that are great and transforming and show you life in a different light? The nation's collective head seems to be full of trivial, preposteous crap that has spoonfed with the aid of garish and/or pornographic pics of school children (im thinking charlotte Church). It makes me blooming despair, and im only 22.

In the final, i totally concur with you. Lets do summat about it. Do you think satire is the answer, or is modern 'popular' culture beyond that? i dont know, im only 22. gggggrrrrrr!

[ICEMANSAV]

Women who read heat and OK really annoy me, why does pointless celebrity gossip sell so well?

[jno]

movie stars make millions for the same reason as football stars do: because they're worth it, or their employers think they are. The idea is that they will make more money than they cost. But you're only as good as your last film; a few flops and you won't be a movie star any more. Remember Alicia Silverstone?

And the good news about Oscar ceremony goodie bags: they may not be free. Apparently the tax people have suddenly decided they need to be declared and tax paid (which will also be more than my salary).

But more generally... yes, I know what you mean Seabedsurfer, it's not the people with talent but the no-hopers who go on Big Brother etc just because they want celebrity... and they get it. I can only say that I don't watch it and therefore don't know who they are. But the fact that other people lap it all up mystifies me.

[spudqueen]

Agree with you completely I never buy womens magazine and just skip over any celebrity stuff in the newspapers, I just couldn't care less what they're up to and who they're going out with.

Still, my team only got 4 points on the picture quiz at the local pub quiz last night as the only one on our team who does know who celebritys are wasn't there!

[netibiza]

They are only paid so much because the public make such heroes of them!!! I'd much rather meet a clever,kind or brave person than a film star (excepting Barry Manilow of course - but we all have our faults)

[delilahcat]

Can only agree with everyone else about this - why anyone would be interested in the boring details of z list 'celebrities' is a complete mystery to me.

In particular, programmes like Big Brother - did you know that some people actually watch a group of nonentities asleep!! I really think some people need to get a life!

[Litchick]

TOTALLY AGREE!  I've always said, "These people live in their own world..."  Take the fact that Demi is dating Ashton and they HANG OUT WITH HER EX - Bruce Willis...where else????????? And, yes, who gives a flip whether Mary Kate had something to eat?  Must admit, though, I do like to see what everyone is wearing on Oscar night...my guilty pleasure!

[Dark Angel]

Yes, I agree Seabedsurfer. I would hate to be a celebrity - they say the daftest things to the media and think its OK just because they are important. They wear the most hideous clothes, and think its OK for the same reason.

They disclose all sorts of things about their personal lives, that should be left personal - what their wives wear in bed, etc and all this becomes newsworthy. 

 Finally, what someone said about Demi and Ashton hanging out with Demi's ex Bruce, that's something that celebrities usually do. They attend their exes weddings, baby showers, christenings and make comments to the media about these events - which to me seems extraordinary! 

[Dagman]

I agree also, many are overpaid, attention seeking, demanding exhibitionists. A bit like spoilt children.The thing that makes me laugh tho' is all the wingeing they do about people pirating dvd's and cd's while raking in obscene amounts of money. Yes there are no doubt some celebs who have struggled to get where they are and are genuinely nice people but as you say they aren't doctors saving lives, soldiers fighting for peoples freedom, voluntary aid workers etc etc who are far more deserving! I'm no hero myself, but I work hard at my job as it's very physical and technical, ot being big-headed about it but I probably work hard to the best of my ability as any celeb do at theirs! What's that, four hours in makeup? how awful for you! 16 hours without a break, gosh! working away from your luxury home.... er..no! 3 million in the bank.....er...right!    

[mslovely]

i totally agree with all of you!!!! they get way too much money when the money could be going to more useful things.

[Ujjalseo]

Absolutely right. I am totally agree with you. Most of the time they are over paid though this money can be used in some good work. In personal life also some of them do not give us the right example that we must follow. You can log on to http://www.celefeeds.com/. Here you can see that there are many celebrities who are related with that activity that we should not follow in our life at all.