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Are actual celebrities becoming more private?

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TheOGCCL · 28/11/2022 17:56

I know shouldn't (and actually I might stop bothering as its increasingly uninteresting) but the Daily Mail's sidebar of shame is just full of people who I've never heard of or vaguely heard of but don't really want to know from Love Island or other reality shows having babies or getting married. I might as well hear about the people three streets over.

In amongst this, have this mob done the actual celebrities a favour? Are they able to get more privacy now there are all these decoys? You rarely hear about actual celebrities any more - Kylie, Keira Knightley, Hugh Grant, just picking a few at random. It's not like they ever needed to be doing anything in particular, the tabloids can make a story out of anything, so I don't think they are just not doing anything very interesting these days. Certainly no more or less interesting than the Z lists featured. Are the papers paying these people? Are the actual celebrities paying them? Or is it just if you have social media, the Fail and others can just use that material and be done with it.

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KurriKawari · 28/11/2022 17:57

I think that about Beyonce, career manages to do well, she wins awards, tops the chart, but I can't remember the last time I saw her being interviewed.

Keyansier · 28/11/2022 18:33

I assumed with the sidebar of shame and the likes of The Mirror, it was the people (more accurately, the agents) of the z list celebs paying the paper to feature them, not the other way around. And that's why the stories are never really about anything because they don't have anything to do. Remember that annoying period when they all kept featuring stories from that ex Big Brother contestant who kept getting "caught" in situations such as putting her bins out in her skimpy underwear and then her dressing gown "fell open". Every single DAY there was some nonsense story about her at one point.

Stories like this one: www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/lisa-appleton-humps-bollard-whips-14223546

KurriKawari · 28/11/2022 19:33

Pretty sure that paddy mcguinness wife is known for calling press to turn up where she is before she gets there. Whatever is after a z list celeb, that's her.

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