To really hate celebrities?

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Or perhaps just celebrity culture.

Watching Adele last night and seeing the faces in the crowd made me recoil.

Don’t get me wrong. Adele was great. It was just seeing all the overpaid, often pretentious and mainly hypocritical celebs bolstering one another’s egos in their little clique made me think I’d not care if I ever saw (most) of them again.

So, am I? Am I being unreasonable for taking a collective dislike to these people and their ways?

That's harsh because they're famous because society places an interest/value in what they do. If no one ever watches a film again but decide they want to pay (for example) £20 a time to watch a mechanic change a tyre or a lollipop person get kids across the road then we'd be treated to a whole new load of celebs. I don't doubt lots of them are egotistical and pretentious but they are paid huge sums of money and often fawned over so its no surprise they can be a bit out of touch with reality.

I felt exactly the same. And I know it's irrational and I'm being unreasonable. Emma Watson esp grated on me.

Agreed - I can’t stand celebrity culture. They sit in their huge houses, with massive cars and jet set life-styles preaching about how we should all be more environmentally aware - give all our money to the poor etc. The majority of them are huge hypocrites. The people who should be appreciated and paid properly (carers, nurses etc) are not but most celebrities are paid for posing in front of cameras all day.

Some of their behaviour is well cringe. I suppose that's what happens when you spend all your time with people kissing your arse.

It was so cringy, like a huge competitive love-in. Why were they so special? My opinion of Adele joining in the big suck up plummeted.

They’re fine until they fly in on a private jet to tell the rest of us turn off the lights and live in a cave. Or when they pretend to care about social causes and get involved in politics advance their media career. Or when they force their less than mediocre, talentless kids into the limelight in crass displays of nepotism. Or when they lecture people about how ‘ordinary’ they are in a bid to be relatable.
Other than that they’re fine.

YANBU to dislike the idea of celebrity generally.

YABU to 'really hate' a bunch of people you don't know, to the point you're 'recoiling' when you see their faces on television. I know plenty of cliquey, pretentious, hypocritical people in real life, and plenty of nice ones. I'm sure there are plenty of lovely celebrities as there are arseholes. Just so happens these ones happen to have jobs that mean they're in the public eye.

Why are they overpaid, en masse?

If they have a talent that hundreds of thousands of people are willing to pay to see, why shouldn’t they get the proceeds?

If they can make a film more successful by being in it, why shouldn’t they get a sizeable cut?

I felt like An Audience with Adele was lovely and that, but at the same time it was just a gathering of the rich and famous enjoying yet another perk of being rich and famous. And laughing and smiling and giggling while the rest of us can't afford heating and are terrified of getting ill and have to be stuck outside hospital in an ambulance for hour upon hour. I dunno. I mean, I know one thing has nothing to do with the other, but the times we're living in now I just feel like, there's not a lot to celebrate. Things are so bleak. It's not like the 90s when we all had shit loads of credit and housed were affordable and everything was OK so we could enjoy slebs without feeling like they were just on a completely and utterly different planet to everyone else. Nowadays there is so, so SO much suffering unless you really are super privileged. And I know I'm saying this from a council estate in a very deprived part of the North, so I'm probably feeling shittier about stuff than most, but yeah. It was just like, were all OK thanks, and now we're going to have a fucking brilliant time and you can all watch us.
Reading too much shitness into things? Meh, probably...

Its like the capitol on the hunger games, only half joking

@Heavymetaldetector

I felt like An Audience with Adele was lovely and that, but at the same time it was just a gathering of the rich and famous enjoying yet another perk of being rich and famous. And laughing and smiling and giggling while the rest of us can't afford heating and are terrified of getting ill and have to be stuck outside hospital in an ambulance for hour upon hour. I dunno. I mean, I know one thing has nothing to do with the other, but the times we're living in now I just feel like, there's not a lot to celebrate. Things are so bleak. It's not like the 90s when we all had shit loads of credit and housed were affordable and everything was OK so we could enjoy slebs without feeling like they were just on a completely and utterly different planet to everyone else. Nowadays there is so, so SO much suffering unless you really are super privileged. And I know I'm saying this from a council estate in a very deprived part of the North, so I'm probably feeling shittier about stuff than most, but yeah. It was just like, were all OK thanks, and now we're going to have a fucking brilliant time and you can all watch us. Reading too much shitness into things? Meh, probably...

I know what you mean

You don't have to look at them! I wouldn't know Adele if she was behind me in Argos.

Adele has become so massively overrated and irritating and self-obsessed in a very LA way.

I properly cringed at Emma Thompson asking 'who was your favourite teacher' as if she was intensely probing one of our finest minds about the inner workings of the earth. They are so very used to their most banal utterances being treated as special I suppose.

@emmaliz yes! All the way through reading this thread I'm thinking it's like the capitol on the hunger games. Celebs eating massive amounts of food and then making themselves sick so they can eat more whilst the rest of us plebs starve

What were they doing that prompted this reaction?

I agree. Sick of them in particular weighing in on issues they clearly know fuck all about and tweeting their ill informed opinions at us lesser mortals. Most recently Mark Ruffalo with his ‘RIP JoJo’ about Joseph Rosenbaum who was shot by Kyle Rittenhouse and who turned out to be a paedophile who raped little boys.

I just don't get Adele, let alone all the luvvie hero worshipping.

She's a good enough singer but there's nothing else there. Bland samey flat sounding songs with a boring performance. She's hardly Madonna is she?

@emmaliz

Its like the capitol on the hunger games, only half joking

This hit home more than it should

What struck me was that the celebrities had the best seats in the house and got to ask the questions whereas the fans were in the rafters and asked no questions. I think it was the wrong way round. The fans should have been at the front asking the questions. I am surprised Adele didn't question this- or maybe she did.

I don't like these shows where the celebrities have pride of place. But Adele was great.

Celebrities on panel shows give me the hebies. I squirm inside and cannot wait to change the channel. It’s grim.

I feel this way about Rebel Wilson’s endless beach holiday photos. She’s right to be proud of her weight loss - it’s a big achievement- but there’s something distasteful about posting all these photos of her swanning about in luxury while ordinary people been having such a tough time. I find it a bit crass.

@HarryHarryHarry3 yes yes yes - I have been thinking exactly the same about Rebel. Seriously behave yourself

@LagneyandCasey

I just don't get Adele, let alone all the luvvie hero worshipping.

She's a good enough singer but there's nothing else there. Bland samey flat sounding songs with a boring performance. She's hardly Madonna is she?

Well Madonna has pissed me off this week by boasting about the people who worked for free on her latest project. She's a multi millionaire, she can afford to pay people

You're not unreasonable at all. I find it all very annoying. Especially since the pandemic. Maybe I've just become much grumpier than I was.