to be angry about the vacuous interviews given in Sunday supplement magazines?

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An interview with some 19 year old starlet left me fuming. The interviewer was asking her all sorts of questions, about global economy, and she clearly didn't really understand them, and it left me thinking "I don't really care what you think, you're a fucking child!"

WHY? WHY are we giving 19 year old girls and boys a voice beyond the student union?

I KNOW they aren't all idiots - but let's face it, many are.

And yes, there are loads of 19 year olds and younger here, but you are all parents and therefore exempt from the normal laws of teenaged idiocy.

To be honest, a lot of the interviews with 35 year olds in those mags are vacuous bollocks too.

Just don't read it. If people don;t buy it, then they will stop printing it.

oh I don't buy them. My jmoher buys them and they enflame me every time I see them on her table.

Oh, those jmohers and their terrible taste in reading matter

arf

I subscribed to Marie Claire many years ago - to get the free gift. I have no clue how to cancel the subscription so I get this pile of crap every month now.

Their celebrity 'interviews' are an absolute farce. They are all exactly the same and go like this:

'With two Oscar nominations under her belt and Brad Pitt and George Clooney fighting for the chance to work with her you'd think that 'X' would be the typical aloof film star, but in fact she is refreshingly down to earth, turning up for the interview in jeans and tshirt, and stuffing herself with cake. She says 'I just hate all that size zero, celebrity party scene stuff. I'm just an actor'.....' etc etc, bullshit bullshit.

As if any of them are ever going to turn up and say 'I really think I'm the dogs bollocks. I love celebrity parties and I diet to stay slim'.

Patronising, insulting guff, the lot of it. They must think we are a bunch of simpletons, though maybe I am as I don't know how to cancel my subscription

YAdefinitelyNBU. I would rather listen to the ones who are still in the student union frankly - at least they have a modicum of political engagement and education.

I was looking over someone's shoulder on the train and some girly blonde celeb was quoted in her magazine saying 'I care deeply about my children. I care deeply about all children.'

I expect she cares more than everyone else because she's, you know, a sleb and they have special caring powers.

What amuses me, is when the nineteen year old give tips on how to stay looking young. Sorry, I use to drink and smoke like a trooper, stay out all night and still look great!

Now is a different story. Sob..

I have never understood why actors, singers, writers, athletes etc should be expected to know much about anything outside their particular skill area. Some, of course, may well do, but being pretty, or able to kick a ball or play a guitar doesn't make you a shrewd political analyst or any more knowledgeable about the environment than anyone else.
Also, both arts and sports often require a lot of dedication, practise and borderline obsession for a person to be successful: someone who has been practising their backhand/scales/double-somersault-headlock or whatever for 6 hours a day for 10 years probably doesn't read the paper much.
SO why do interviewers ask them this stuff? Why not just ask them how they got that medal/hairdo/fabulous middle 8?

The funniest things is when slebs get asked for their relationship advice, given that they are demonstrably worse at this than ordinary people.
For some reason the interviewer never says 'How do you make your relationships work, so I know what not to do?'

Yeah, but these days a nineteen year old starlet is normally someone like Jade Goody or Kerry Katona who practices 10 hours a day at getting their kids, tits and kebabs out in the weekly mags.

I can't bear to read the supplements anymore they are so banal there's rarely any interesting and engaging articles these days, just hot air and fluff. I read the new broadsheet and occassionally delve in the 'weekend' supplement of the Telegraph but usually if I see a happy, wholesome mid-class family beaming from the front page adorned in boden I just put it in the fire box...

oh and there was an article recently about Helen Mirram 'My ideal weekend' and it was all about which house she preferred to be at and frollicking on the beach - I mean who wants to know? Who? Who really cares?

mild mannered - i read that one as well - what a lot of utter shite it was.

here look awful!

Those articles are vomit inducing. I do find the Observer supplement ok though.

I mean do we want to here it.. dd's winging, been up since 6, am pottering in my stained dressing gown trying to catch up with the washing and the shopping after a week of uninthralling work.. the bathroom floor is leaking through to kitchen, I still haven't got a sink after 6 months of renovations do I really want to here about helen mirren's perfect life!! Do I?

'hear' i mean..

totally agreed - can anyone actually get through ES magazine? ALWAYS a model actor type on cover -son/daughter of titled people or Global rock stars being hailed as natural, refreshingly down to earth and in touch with reality. Funny that their projects are always "doing incredibly well" (with daddy's money to back it).

Isn't there a theory that now our perception of "normality" has been so fucked up by reading this sort of celeb rubbish that the "well off" see themselves as poor, and unattractive due to these distorting norms.

they are airbrushed too and spend thousands on cosmetic surgery! It's a twisted media world..

I absolutely loved Jackie Clunes in the Sunday Times mag about her triplets yesterday

Sample quot: "I?m pathologically tired. The boys battle constantly. It can?t be easy having a brother who looks just like you and who has the toy you want. I?ve tried to be a bit existential about it, but you still want to brain them. When I was pregnant they were all crunched together, nose to cheek, elbows sticking in each other?s bums, and they?re still like that ? they move in a huddle, battling like mad."

Bink- Jackie Clunes sounds like a woman after my own
heart.

jackie Clunes has triplets (may she rest in five minute's peace) and is therefore allowed to be as vacant as she wants. I admire her for being coherant.

LOL Bink, yes, that Jackie Clunes interview really cheered me up on Sunday. I was thrusting it under dh's nose going 'Look! Look! Her life is far worse than ours, she must be so tired!'