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To really hate celebrities?

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MynameisWa · 22/11/2021 18:19

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?

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AliceAldridge · 25/11/2021 17:32

I can imagine the Billy Connolly one being good fun but also don't think it's representative.

AliceAldridge · 25/11/2021 17:33

I never liked the Sooty show either!

the80sweregreat · 25/11/2021 17:40

Sweep liked her bling though ( is sweep a she ? I'm not sure !)
She / they had the diva attitude long before Adele.

madisonbridges · 25/11/2021 17:49

Sue was a she, sooty was his male friend.

the80sweregreat · 25/11/2021 17:50

Sweep was male then ?

DrSbaitso · 25/11/2021 17:53

@the80sweregreat

Sweep was male then ?
Definitely.
JudgeJ · 25/11/2021 18:45

I agree with this esp the influencer part

I've never really understood what an 'influencer' is, are people really stupid enough to be 'influenced' by some nonentity? The internet has a lot to answer for!
There is a large swathe of 'celebs' who have done nothing except promote themselves, I still don't know what those Kardie women do, except get their visages on screens.

googlegoode · 25/11/2021 19:12

are people really stupid enough to be 'influenced' by some nonentity?

Yes

willstarttomorrow · 25/11/2021 19:19

Totally agree OP. Even if you do not actively follow 'celebs' they bloody encroach on everything now. I feel really old saying this, but most these days are no such thing. It used to be something that happened BECAUSE of your main job in the public eye, not something people actively aimed for.

I know times move on but we only had glimpses of celeb lives growing through Smash hit interviews or talk shows. They were obviously only human beings but there was a bit of glamour. Times that by 100% for stars of the 40s and 50s. Now their partners and kids have an instagram account and 3 book deal.

Whilst I can see the appeal of using their voice to help the disadvantaged, unless they back this up with actions most every day people will be left cold. You are not more important than Doris the dinner lady who has fostered 500 children and undoubtedly will leave the world having made greater difference than you ever will.

knittingaddict · 26/11/2021 08:14

I don't hate them and I don't hate their products, for the most part, but I do hate celebrity culture. I'm not remotely interested in their home life or what diet they are on or what award they have won, so I avoid award shows, interview shows and all magazines.

If you hate celebrity culture so much why watch an award show? That's the most perplexing thing about this thread. Confused

knittingaddict · 26/11/2021 08:16

@the80sweregreat

Sweep was male then ?
Of course Sweep was male.
knittingaddict · 26/11/2021 08:22

It does seem from reading the posts on here that many watch the things that you claim to hate. Genuine question - why?

Pyewackect · 26/11/2021 08:25

I used to enjoy Steve Allen ripping the shit out of celebrities but he’s obviously been warned off by Global’s lawyers and doesn’t even give any of them a mention anymore. Pity, use to make me laugh.

WildFlowerBees · 26/11/2021 08:28

YANBU, I can't stand that they call themselves celebrities Hmm

youvemademyshitlist · 26/11/2021 08:41

I don't mind the ones who have talent. They're famous because of the nature of their job. If you make good music, I'll buy your albums/go and see you in concert. If you write good books, I'll buy them, if you act well, I'll watch your film or tv show.

What I can't stand is when they get a bit of fame and then think they're an expert on everything and start expecting the rest of us to revere their opinion.

Or they have a kid and suddenly they're the worlds greatest expert on parenting and have written a book telling us plebs how to do it.
Or they're a mediocre tv presenter but suddenly they've "designed" a range of homeware or "created" a perfume.
"Please help us make poverty history" said Bono (who then spent about a grand flying his hat to Italy because he'd forgotten it).
Fuck off, you know about as much as I do about design or perfumery or charity. Stay in your lane and stop lecturing the rest of us.

TomPinch · 26/11/2021 08:55

@knittingaddict

It does seem from reading the posts on here that many watch the things that you claim to hate. Genuine question - why?
I don't watch them. I'm really not interested in slebs. But I do like to read the news and I can't avoid it being announced that a sleb famous for had said . Most of them know no more about what they're opining about than the rest of us.

And it shows how vacuous things have become considering that Boris Johnson is really just a sleb of sorts.

Wouldn't it be better if we got our moral steer on things from politicians, trade unionists, clerics, philosophers, community activists and community leaders like we used to? People who know what they're talking about.

I listened to a programme on Freddy Mercury recently. A number of people said just got little was known about his background, that he was gay, and a Parsi, and from Zanzibar. And yet he was a massive star. People liked him for his music. They didn't expect to him to tell than what to think. Unthinkable now.

TomPinch · 26/11/2021 08:59

Someone mentioned Marcus Rashford, a sleb, further up the thread.

Rashford did a worthy thing and certainly gets my respect. But the better question is why has the public elected a government whose policy is so fragile that it can be forced into a U-turn by someone whose chief talent is kicking a ball. Ie, everything is dumbed down to sleb level.

Sweetpeasaremadeforbees · 26/11/2021 09:22

See I don't really like Marcus Rashford either. He runs a campaign to help poor kids get school meals whilst building a property portfolio charging rents which as we know from people describing their experiences on here, often means people can't afford to feed their kids. So many celebs are hypocrites.

thecatsthecats · 26/11/2021 09:55

You know what gets me? Awards season.

Now, I know that it's nice to celebrate good work. But an entire SEASON of going from event to event to celebrate the same films/music etc? And then people are like, oooohhhh they won an Oscar. Blah.

It's an industry celebrating itself, rather than just, you know, people enjoying what they enjoy and the industry getting the success repeatedly praised.

Floogal · 26/11/2021 10:46

Oh, and don't get me started on the tone deaf (in both senses of the term) rendition of Imagine, led by Gal Gadot! Arrgggghh. So cringey

ILoveHuskies · 26/11/2021 11:30

@Sweetpeasaremadeforbees

See I don't really like Marcus Rashford either. He runs a campaign to help poor kids get school meals whilst building a property portfolio charging rents which as we know from people describing their experiences on here, often means people can't afford to feed their kids. So many celebs are hypocrites.
Totally agree

It's hypocritical

DrSbaitso · 26/11/2021 14:29

It's an industry celebrating itself, rather than just, you know, people enjoying what they enjoy and the industry getting the success repeatedly praised.

This is true of all industries. Most of them aren't televised or quite so wonderful to look at, but all industries have awards and special events to celebrate themselves and their best and brightest.

ufucoffee · 26/11/2021 19:59

"I listened to a programme on Freddy Mercury recently. A number of people said just got little was known about his background, that he was gay, and a Parsi, and from Zanzibar. And yet he was a massive star. People liked him for his music. They didn't expect to him to tell than what to think. Unthinkable now."

Exactly

derxa · 26/11/2021 21:13

@MarshaBradyo

I feel like that after pandemic

More pointless - and over indulgent

Spot on.
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MynameisWa · 26/11/2021 21:29

I have found my people.

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