To really hate celebrities?

[MynameisWa]

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?

IMO An Audience With... needs a sharp, entertaining host. Otherwise they feel really cringe. I didn't watch the Adele show.

I hate the way they asked these totally off the cuff questions and Adele had a "funny anecdote" immediately to hand. And everyone roared with laughter at stuff it was hard to raise even a smile over. It's so completely fake. It all made me wonder if even her restarting the song was fake too. Oh look how normal Adele is. I really liked Adele, and I still admire her for her talent and achievements, but her coughing up her marriage woes to Oprah and then all that falseness.... I've lost patience with celebs.

Celebrities are only celebrities because the public make them so. I can’t stand all these Made in Chelsea, TOWIE, Real Housewives type shows - and especially the ‘two Orange nobodies get married’, ‘two orange nobodies have a baby’, ‘both orange nobodies build new lives after their divorce’ spin-offs - but someone must be watching them. Celebrity as a concept needs the oxygen of publicity - and we can all turn off our TVs, scroll onto the next article or unfollow on Instagram.

There are more than enough alternatives in the world for entertainment these days. If no one wet he’s ‘Sam Faiers’s Cousin Gets His Haemorrhoids Removed’ or similar, this drivel will eventually die.

Wet he’s?! Watches!

Yes, I definitely agree. I especially hate following them on Instagram as they all just use it to flog stuff! The amount I’ve unfollowed is ridiculous, to the point that most of my Instagram these days is just family and meme pages of my favourite comedies! 😣 As others have said, the sheer hypocrisy of lecturing us plebs on climate change whilst they sit in their 15 bedroom, 20 bathroom mansions, have endless kids and fly everywhere on their private jets… 🤬 It also gets my back up when I see or hear a multimillionaire celebrity begging us poor plebs to donate to the latest charity they’re promoting. FFS! 🙄😡

I really don’t have time for ‘celebrity ‘ anything. I’ve never watched a reality show and programmes like strictly, celebrity bake off etc are never watched in my house. I know about them because I heard colleagues talking about them .
If you’re an actor and you make a good movie I’ll pay to watch it but I have absolutely no interest whatsoever in who you’re shagging , how many children you have and with who etc etc
IMO Celebrity culture is akin to the hunger games.

Yet you're watching I'm a Celebrity @MynameisWa

I completely agree with the celeb culture is toe curling . What springs to mind it is Sam I think they are Sam . Anyway photos in the press of them sitting crying in the first lockdown or isolating or whatever . Sitting in a big garden outside a big house . WTF who gets their friend to take photos of them crying and then publishes them . Christ .

YANBU I think the pandemic has made people, including the celebrities themselves, struggle to see celebrities as important as they seemed before. Some of the attempts to stay relevant and in the public eye in the last two years have been embarrassing. They weren't around and we didn't really need them - it was nice to have some new films/dramas/music but we didn't need all the extra nonsense - the pap photos, the lifestyle reporting - nobody cared - everyone was just in their house.

See also : anyone who uses the word 'blessed' about themselves.
So a) you're religious now are you and b) you believe 'God' has taken a special interest in you and people who AREN'T blessed are fucked?

Yes, I don’t watch celebrity anything (jungles, “reality” shit, audiences with…). All full of people who need to remind you that hey are famous for being famous. The exception used to be a question of sport but I don’t watch that since they got rid of Sue Barker et al.
I also get the rage about overpaid celebrities getting honours for doing their job. Lord SuchnSuch, awarded for services to sport? He played cricket for 8 years! And was well paid for doing so.

@emmaliz

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

I always say I am preparing for the Zombie Apocolypse, a friend recently asked me how I was doing and I said I had switched and was preparing for Squid Games, as that is far more likely in today's society.

She didn't laugh at that one

Celebrity is vacuous and whilst it's a by product of certain jobs (acting, singing) it doesn't mean the job itself is anything special. Imagine if there was an equivalent to the BAFTAS in other professions, an annual love in for lawyers, teachers etc. People with little talent or skill who have pursued celebrity are usually pretty awful with a hugely distorted view of who they are.

Most celebrities (probably all) are hugely overpaid for the work that they do, and almost all of them are incredibly out of touch with what I would consider ‘real life.’

I saw quite recently that Kylie Kardashian had bought her child a school bus because the child ‘loves seeing the big yellow bus.’ Just stuff like that really - letting your child ‘play’ at poor public school child as if it’s another Instagram ‘aesthetic’ or a novelty and not just a trapping of real normal life for most American children. Reminded me a bit of when Paris and Nicole did that tv programme where they went round shrieking and acting horrified by normal people’s jobs and lives.

I don’t mean a little toy school bus by the way - it was an actual school bus. Although at the moment I’d guess that family has more to worry about than appearing in touch with the real world. But it’s stuff like that really. Bit like seeing the royal family during lockdown sympathising with how hard it was for families with children. Well, we’re in a small house with no real garden, just a tiny stone yard, and you’re in what’s basically a national trust day out with its own little lake, so not really the same Kate. Not really the same at all.

Agree entirely I could only watch part of it and I thought oh brilliant a room of self entitled people with inflated egos cheering on another inflated ego. Brill. I used to be a huge celeb fan but since moving to London and having interacted with a few (not stanning often through work) I just think they are self obsessed a holes honestly.

Agree, I don’t like any of it. It leaves a poor taste in my mouth. Adele is currently at a peak but this normally leads to a downturn as the public are fickle.

I agree. I've gone right off celebrities since the pandemic...I didn't watch the Adele thing - I dont get the hype, but have seen clips on tv since. I found it cringe tbh

Yanbu. They are over paid, not much if any talent and usually look so depressed and miserable. There's a few exceptions of course

I remember thinking during lockdown how to it really highlighted how pointless some of these people were. It became a sport between them to see who could get the most attention.

Adele is so overrated, just the same sad love/breakup songs everytime. Has she nothing else in her repertoire?

I get what you mean, but I think we have to address why people lap it up so readily. Admiring someone for their talent, or even their personality, is one thing, but being starstruck and buying into idolatry is another.

I feel like that after pandemic

More pointless - and over indulgent

@MynameisWa

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?

All of them? That's like saying you hate people, surely? Madonna David Attenborough Rose from Strictly Marcus Rashford Nigel Slater Russell Crowe Tom Cruise

All so similar.

They just live for likes.