Samantha Mumba

funk-you

Now people before we start- all respect to the woman i have absolutely nothing against her.
But.........
Why exactly is she a celebrity?
-as far as i know she had 1 successful song she didnt write
-had a go at acting not too sucessfully
-someone let her design a denim jacket if memory serves.
i know this is a bit trivial but why is she still classed as a celebrity? just noticed her mentioned on another thread a couple of times.
is it that she's from a different ethnic backround and she's irish or have i just missed her having a very sucessful career?
Thoughts?

butters scotch

she is also the face of newbridge jewellery's new diva line, but still dont know why she is famous it stumps me...

tman

she's had a couple of fairly successful albums afaik.
plus she's hot.

Mossy Monk

Samantha Mumba? old news imo

what does someone need to do to be branded a 'celebrity' these days. there is so many of them now they will surely outnumber the great unwashed in a few years time

monkeyfudge

I think she had a couple of successful songs that she didn't write.... I vaguely recall a Stevie Wonder track being bastardised.

Although.. in fairness to her.. I didn't think she was too bad in The Time Machine... I was certainly expecting alot worse...

Now.. what ever happened to Keri Anne?

Mossy Monk

oh lest we not forget. TV3 extended her career in the limelight with her recent court appearance

all it did really was solidify my opinion that TV3's news output is tabloid trash

Kingsize

Doesn't one of her songs feature in the stoopid "3 dead in this car " advert???
shes a twat IMO but what about her "lil big man" brother who managed to appear on a cd called "the history of IRISH POP" without ever having bothered the top 40 at all ????

I loved pat kenny perving over her on the late late show though , great TV - i think he had to take an unscheduled commercial break to go & have a ****

spudington16

She's a celebrity the same way Troy Mc Clure is a celebrity. You'll be expected to remember her from such quality films as "Time Machine" (load of crap, by the way) but no-one really will remember her in a few year's time.

SparkyLarks

Keri Ann, brings me back

I tried a google couldn't find anything.

Gurgle

funk-you wrote:

Why exactly is she a celebrity?

Even allowing for the fact that she can't sing or act, she's still a hot black babe with a dublin accent.
Novelty factor alone will keep her in the spotlight.

Kare Bear

I think see married some american rapper.

Kingsize

What i find fascinating about samantha mumba is that she's really fuelling her career on the fumes of her marginal success several years ago yet the papers seem to lap it up!!Poor old stephen gately wouldnt make the front page if he found a cure for cancer.
(well maybe he would but you know what i mean)
its annoying to hear louis walsh talking about how she "will be huge" when all she seems to do is wear nice dresses & avoid paying motor insurance.

Deadwing

tman wrote:

she's had a couple of fairly successful albums afaik.
plus she's hot.

Yeah that mustache of hers does it for me every time

Kingsize

have to say i agree deadwing shes an ugly munter - never in a million years!!

joejoem

More importantly why do all women hate her? Its like she has a hate-feremone. I feel pretty sorry for her to be honest, she did her best to become famous and all people do is slate her. I know someone will write back that "why feel sorry for her she has loads of money" or something along those lines, but what good is that to her when everyone so freely express's there hate for her. On any occasion that I have heard people seeing her out or meeting her she has taken abuse of some begrudging wánker.

Im not particularaly partial to the girl but I do think give her a break, she on the border of being an A/B celebrity, so what? Leave her be! She isnt hurting anyone, she might be a spa but she is doing no harm.

Kingsize

"she might be a spa but she is doing no harm"

youre dead right there BUT I think the problem with some of these "manufactured" celebs is that they start to believe their own hype rather than keeping their mouths shut & smiling when asked.People see Samantha Mumba in this category,cos she plays the game & therefore comes off as arrogant.
From what ive heard shes a nice enough girl & she certainly wasnt behaving like a DIVA when i last saw her,helping her mother with the shopping in tesco in Santry.
For me its That little sour faced Cnut from westlife (KIAN?) who i'd like to punch, but for the life of me i cant really rationalise my hatred.
on the other hand Keith Duffy is an absolute spanner with no singing ability & a modicum of success at playing himself in corrie.Somehow i cant help but like him - maybe its cos he's honest? or maybe its cos he seems to know his place.(youre never gonna hear him talk about how he "wants to do shakespeare darling" are you??)

Dades

Kingsize wrote:

Poor old stephen gately wouldnt make the front page if he found a cure for cancer.

LOL

I thought she was good in the Time Machine.

BTW this thread is only fueling that Celebrity Culture the OP hates...

Dellgirl

More importantly why do all women hate her? Its like

I dont agree. I think girls have alot more sympathy for her than guys. Lads attitude seems to be (quick and pointless survey done in office!) "Id do her, tell all my mates and then run like hell". Whereas the girls say shes tried and maybe failed but at least she tried. And she was never an airhead like Glaenda Gleeson...Think thats her name.....model with very arched eyebrows.

Id better do some work.

irlirishkev

tman wrote:

plus she's hot.

She's not hot IMO.

I see her up in Westwood gym occasionally. She doesn't stand out at all. I wouldn't have noticed her when I first saw her had it not been for a few lads around the place constantly glancing over at her.

K.

eyebrows

jesus I never knew so many people hated her. Did she do anything really bad or is it just people dont like her in general

anyway: entertainer + famous = celeb

joejoem

Kingsize wrote:

For me its That little sour faced Cnut from westlife (KIAN?) who i'd like to punch, but for the life of me i cant really rationalise my hatred.

Agreed, but in saying that I would like to punch all current and ex members of that band. Ok, ok brian McFathead I would punch a few times. Each time I did punch I would be singing "thats not real to meeeeeeeee" with my teeth clenched.

Kingsize

eyebrows wrote:

anyway: entertainer + famous = celeb

NOT ANY MORE!!! New system explained thus: famous = celeb

e.g Jade Goody, paul burrell, lizzy from fukkin wifeswap etc etc

Wez

In fairness, when her songs first came out, they were all the rage, if she released more then there's a good chance they'll be all the rage too. I've met them a few times, and they're always pretty sound.

joejoem

Wez wrote:

In fairness, when her songs first came out, they were all the rage, if she released more then there's a good chance they'll be all the rage too. I've met them a few times, and they're always pretty sound.

explain?

JackieChan

She did a cover of David Bowie's 'Ashes to Ashes'.
Love DB and I did like her version.....I think this was one of the songs that was on the car safty ad campaign a few years back.

Tobias Greeshman

JoeJoem wrote:

Agreed, but in saying that I would like to punch all current and ex members of that band. Ok, ok brian McFathead I would punch a few times. Each time I did punch I would be singing "thats not real to meeeeeeeee" with my teeth clenched.

That Cian muppet apparantly got the s**t kicked outta him in a chippers in Sligo a few years back!

fischerspooner

The only reason she's famous is because she's black, AND Irish. Black AND Irish!!! The media seem to spray their trousers when a black AND Irish person comes in the limelight. I think her face is monkeyesque. I remember a few years ago the front page of some rag was "OMEO (or whatever her little brother's name is): THE NEW JACKO?". Yeah right he's the new jacko, he's nothing, just because he's an ethnic minority with an irish accent doesn't mean they have to be famous. Maybe that's why you see so many ugly inner city birds with black babies, it's pretty much a dead cert that the media will go crazy because they're black AND irish, netting them a few quid. I saw Mumba at my gym once, her arse is pretty big.

monkeyfudge

SparkyLarks wrote:

Keri Ann, brings me back

I tried a google couldn't find anything.

Yeah... I couldn't find a damn thing either and I just wanted to get the correct spelling for her name.

She was Louis Walsh's first big attempt at a female solo pop singer.

'Do-do-do-do-do you love me boy?'

SparkyLarks

Kerri-ann is the correct spelling i believe

found some stuff on google .

remember the rumour that her and Stephen Gatley were dating

marshmallow

I don't see why everyone is dissing her and her bro. She made it to the charts and just did what she wanted to do - sing. I never saw the Time Machine so I can't comment on her acting skills..

What's everyones problem with her? The media are just trying to get over the fact that the Irish have a 'somewhat' successful black singer/actress..

Sarky

She's still around? I thought she'd have been reduced to living on the streets giving head to drunken hobos for her next fix ages ago...

shakaman

fischerspooner wrote:

I think her face is monkeyesque...... Maybe that's why you see so many ugly inner city birds with black babies.......

Wanna take that white KKK hat off your head and reveal you true identity?.....ya muppet

shakaman

fischerspooner wrote:

I think her face is monkeyesque...... Maybe that's why you see so many ugly inner city birds with black babies.......

Wanna take that white KKK hat off your head and reveal your true identity?.....ya muppet

Dades

Sarky wrote:

She's still around? I thought she'd have been reduced to living on the streets giving head to drunken hobos for her next fix ages ago...

Rest easy - she's not encroaching on your turf yet. :eek:

Sarky

I have been zinged and it hurts.

Dellgirl

I thought her first song was good.....donwanna love you if you donlove me...lalallallaa....need you too.......something something.

Fischerspooner......thats just nasty.

Kingsize

gately looks like a monkey is that racist?
or homophobic?
or just true.

Shabadu

Sarky wrote:

I have been zinged and it hurts.

*cuddles*

I remember Mike Murphy saying something completely racist to her when she was spinning the wheel on Lucky Streak. It went along the lines of "So, would you consider yourself as being Black, or Irish?"

Just in case any of you were looking for another reason to hate Mike Murphy.

monkeyfudge

Kingsize wrote:

gately looks like a monkey is that racist?
or homophobic?
or just true.

Stop being so offensive to monkeys!!!

fischerspooner

what, she does look like a monkey to me anyway, like one of the ape-chicks from Planet of the Apes. How is that a racist comment? And what's racist about saying I see lots of fat ugly inner city birds with black babies? Jesus christ can you even say the word "black" now without being branded a racist?

aodh_rua

monkeyfudge wrote:

Yeah... I couldn't find a damn thing either and I just wanted to get the correct spelling for her name.

She was Louis Walsh's first big attempt at a female solo pop singer.

'Do-do-do-do-do you love me boy?'

I think Linda Martin gets that 'honour'.

Dades

Kingsize wrote:

gately looks like a monkey is that racist?
or homophobic?
or just true.

My missis calls me racist when I say Venus Williams looks a bit like a gorilla.

That's not racist it's an opinion. Generalisations are what makes racism.

My mates ex-girlfriend looked like a cat, but it wasn't racist to say that of course....

MooShop

silas wrote:

That Cian muppet apparantly got the s**t kicked outta him in a chippers in Sligo a few years back!

yes, yes he did

im from Sligo, nobody in the town likes him, the other two guys from Sligo Shane and Mark are really sound and down to earth but he's just up himself, loves himself so much. walks around like he owns the place. fcuking tosser.

well at least Samantha Mumba had a few albums and a film there are plenty of pointless 'celebrities' out there who havent done anything like Jade Goody or Abi Titmuss

Kare Bear

I remember Mike Murphy saying something completely racist to her when she was spinning the wheel on Lucky Streak. It went along the lines of "So, would you consider yourself as being Black, or Irish?"

Just in case any of you were looking for another reason to hate Mike Murphy.

Thats a reason to like him.

MooShop

The Atheist wrote:

My missis calls me racist when I say Venus Williams looks a bit like a gorilla.

id be inclined to agree with you there, great tennis player, but does look like some sort of monkey!!!! and your not being racist imo

Kingsize

That doesnt sound like Mike Murphy
it'd be more Pat Kenny's style...
gimme kerri Ann any day...
jsut look at the way she works that armchair

Shabadu

Kare Bear wrote:

Thats a reason to like him.

OMGLOL Mike Murphy is a racist- I like him now /

monkeyfudge

But Samantha Mumba doesn't actually look like a monkey...

and believe me... I know monkeys!

Sarky

She looks much like any other pop tart that sold her soul for short-lived fame and glory among the tone deaf masses.

Kingsize

"My mates ex-girlfriend looked like a cat, but it wasn't racist to say that of course...."

not unless she was siamese

Kare Bear

OMGLOL Mike Murphy is a racist- I like him now /