Celebrities: do you love them or loath them?

dublindude wrote:

Personally, I hate celebs. When I see J-Lo on TV I want to suicide bomb her: attention seeker, completely out of touch with the real world, thinks she is intelligent, thinks she is important etc etc.

I really hate this. She is just a singer/actress. A bin man has a more important job.

And when I hear about celebs buying a watch for half a million or something...I mean for ****s sake, half a million could do so many great things in a poor country. NO ONE needs a half a million watch.

So, my question is this: do you love celebs, or like me will you be happy when the celeb assassin starts snipering them one by one...

i think you have too much time on your hands, and should probably worry a bit more about yourself, rather than being jealous of other people.

dublindude wrote:

Don't be a smartass. Your post was an attempt to bring my topic down a level to personal insults.

Why do you always have to do this? Can you not just stay on topic?

you put up a post about celebraties. i question your reasons for the opinion. how is that taking it off topic?

youre just sore cos i smacked your arse on the work forum.

ah, the righteous indignation of the outclassed.

anyway...... i bet you will open up my posts just to read then anyway.

by the way, i dont have a problem with celebs. but then again, i dont watch a whole lot of tv, or mtv or whatever the yuff of today watch, so i dont get too much exposure.

although, i do find thr humour in black r&B singing about gouchi, and bentleys, and rolls royces, and all the good stuff that us whities have had for years. i mean seriously, who gives a monkeys what sort of sheets you have, or what car you drive. youve got crap music, and far too much cheap looking gold jewlery on to be taken seriously.

seamus wrote:

I don't hate celebrities - they're just being the best they can be at what they do, no more than any of the rest of us.

I hate the people who swoon over celebrities.

Sensible attitude. The 'celebrity' culture is just a media-drive, money making racket.

I admire anyone who has a genuine talent and uses it well, be they actors, singers, writers or sports people. The very best don't need to use the media to get attention. They get on with their careers and produce performances/art/literature that stands on its own.

But what does it matter to anyone else what goes on in their private lives? Most of the peole who are feted by the media seem to live lives that are a very poor example to the poor sods who read the likes of 'Hello' and 'Now'.

If more people got on with living their own lives as best as possible, and not trying to live vicariously through theavid following of the exploits of attention-seeking wannabes, there would be a much smaller market for 'celeb' mags and tv shows.