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To think the slebs on most of comic relief are a bunch of self promoting arseholes?

160 replies

ssd · 13/03/2009 08:13

they are just doing it to get on the telly - AGAIN

that lot on the apprentice last night
Jonathon Ross
Carol Voderman etc etc

is there anything they wouldn't do?

bet most of them give hee haw to charity the rest of the year

wish there was another way to put forward this cause without making it an ego trip for all the eegits

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GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 09:46

YABU. I think the celebs who climbed Killimanjaro did a great job. I certainly don't think that they did it for teh publicity - as if Cheryl Cole needs her profile raising fgs.

Chris Moyles always does a great deal for Comic Relief, and his show has been full of what the money does, how malaria destroys lives etc, and I think he has done a great job in getting this across to the target audience of young kids.

Well done I think for all of them for getting to the top.

By the way, it is entirely normal for porters to carry all your stuff up the mountain. You can go on holiday to climb Kilimanjaro, or you can do it for one of those charity fundraising companies, and you will have porters on those trips, it is not the BBC being indulgent with the celebs and giving them special treatment.

VinegarTitsCoveredinChocolate · 13/03/2009 09:47

And as for people moaning saying 'oh i wish i could get the same opportunity as a celeb to do a climb' even if you did, you wouldnt rasie as much money, because nobody would want to watch it because your a nobody

the reasons celebs raise so much is because people enjoy watching them in real life situations, i enjoy watching them suffer and get into arguments with each other

GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 09:49

Plus the porters are paid well, get tipped at the end, are looked after. They are not exploited (a friend climbed Kilimanjaro and said the friendliness and encoragement of the porters is what got her to the top).

GetOrfMoiLand · 13/03/2009 09:51

However YANBU about The Apprentice. What a bunch of normans (apart from Patsy Palmer and Fiona Phillips).

Carol Vordermand and Ruby Waz were cringeworthy.

And Jonathan Ross has lost it. What an insufferable, self-obsessed and unfunny prat.

VinegarTitsCoveredinChocolate · 13/03/2009 09:53

i think a lot of the bitterness towards celebs getting the opportunity to do things like the this for charity comes down to envy

And you might think comic relief was better in the early days, but it was still started by a celeb (lenyn henry) and broadcast by celebs, only difference now is they raise much more money than they used to

VinegarTitsCoveredinChocolate · 13/03/2009 09:54

I havent watched the Apprentice yet, i sky +ed it, going to watch it later

basic · 13/03/2009 09:56

YANBU I couldnt have put it better myself. They are all jumping on these bandwagons and have no shame.

wannaBe · 13/03/2009 10:01

"They could all just write a cheque if they care that much". Oh yes, let the rich bastards write cheques for charity so the rest of us can remain oblivious to the real suffering going on around the world.

Do you think you could raise £1.5 m by climbing a mountain? I think not.

Perhaps you would rather the celebs didn't get involved at all then you could slag them off for doing nothing.

DandyLioness · 13/03/2009 10:01

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Idrankthechristmasspirits · 13/03/2009 10:01

YABU. Cos of everything wot vinegartits said.

georgimama · 13/03/2009 10:02

My point is that they could all just write a cheque and raise the same amount of money, if they cared that much. Cheryl Cole's husband earns in six weeks what Sir Fred Godwin is going to get for a year's pension, and we think the pension was obscene. These people are fabulously wealthy.

There are loads of celebrities quietly doing charity work all the time - older celebs like Roger Moore whose entire lives consist of charity work now. Those are the people I choose to admire.

georgimama · 13/03/2009 10:04

I don't want to slag them off for doing nothing for charity - why would I?

I'm not oblvious to suffering and I just don't need Girls Aloud crying pretty staged tears over orphans in front of the cameras, then going home and forgetting all about them, to make me aware.

wannaBe · 13/03/2009 10:08

But how do we know they don't write cheques for other charities.

Would you rather not see comic relief at all is that it? Is it that people would rather not know about what goes on around the world and that seeing it on television makes them uncomfortable? So if the rich celebs gave the money the rest of us wouldn't have to?

A lot of those celebs go and film on location and what they see there isn't pretty. And when you go to Uganda and film a baby dying of malaria you are just another person. They've never heard of Fern cotton or Denise van Outen or whoever else goes to these places to highlight what really goes on there. They go there as nobodies, and come back as well-known people able to bring the message across to those over here who recognize them. You or I could not have the same effect on the millions who give money to comic relief every year.

traceybath · 13/03/2009 10:10

It was jason donovan - apperently he was going to also do it originally but had to pull out for work reasons. Well thats what chris moyles said this morning - unless he was joking.

wannaBe · 13/03/2009 10:11

"I just don't need Girls Aloud crying pretty staged tears over orphans in front of the cameras," how do you know they're staged? Does being a celebrity make them incapable of real emotion then? Do you think that someone can go and watch all that goes on in some of these countries and stage emotion just because they're a celeb?

georgimama · 13/03/2009 10:15

You're incredibly angry about this wannabe. I don't know they don't write cheques, I don't know that the tears are staged; I just find this sort of programme really really vom inducing. So yes, I would rather not have Comic Relief on TV. Children in Need makes me feel exactly the same. Both charities do good work all year round - mostly by nobodies who get elbowed out of the way when C list celeb hoves into view with a camera crew. I support the work they do I just find the tv programmes repugnant.

You can get as narky as you like, it's just my opinion.

Pheebe · 13/03/2009 10:20

What a ridiculous thread! Why aren't you getting self-righteous over the injustice of the millions of people who suffer and die from malaria and other preventable/treatable diseases every year and the economic inequalities in the world the perpetuate the situation. At least they ARE getting up and doing something.

Get a grip and get a life!

Wigglesworth · 13/03/2009 10:24

I kind of agree and disagree with you TBH. Yes they have not stopped banging on about the big climb, I ususally like Chris Moyles but Jesus he has got some fucking milage out of it on his radio show, please Chris just play some bloody records now. However it is for charidy and I bet it was really hard going so good on em. Comic relief will all be over after tonight so hopefully we won't have to listen to them harping on anymore. Especially that Fearne friggin Cotton, I really despise her what a talentless sack of crap. Is it wrong I was secretly hoping she would come a cropper on that mountain?

VinegarTitsCoveredinChocolate · 13/03/2009 10:24

i dont think wannabe is narky, she is just trying to put her point across and i completely agree with her

wannaBe · 13/03/2009 10:25

no I'm not angry, I just don't get the notion that because someone is a celeb they are somehow not human beings like the rest of us, which is what is being implied.

And the suggestion that they should just write a cheque does suggest that the rich should fund these charities while the rest of us shouldn't have to know about it or acknowledge what goes on elsewhere. Kind of like wanting to live in denial.

At the end of the day, people don't have to watch the tv programmes, but without them comic relief wouldn't raise nearly as much money as they do.

zanz1bar · 13/03/2009 10:29

YANBU

Its not the celeb work for chariteeee that irritates, or the money for good causes only once a year angle, or the getting of your arse to do something stuff.

Its just that its not very funny!

Watching some minor celeb sitting in a bath full of baked beans with a red nose on his face just doesn't make me cackle hysterically, it just makes me feel a bit embarassed, sad and bored.

So bah humbug i will be watching a DVD box set tonight.

I have sent the dc into school with the contents of my wallet and wearing most of my posh frocks[for a laugh]so i am not a total kill joy.

VinegarTitsCoveredinChocolate · 13/03/2009 10:34

'Watching some minor celeb sitting in a bath full of baked beans with a red nose '

when was the last time you watched comic relief? i think your thinking of Tiswas or summit

zanz1bar · 13/03/2009 10:38

baked beans in the 80's lame comic songs in the 90's and dancing on mountains now, its still not very funny, and its not educating me about world poverty any better than the red cross/msf/oxfam do every other day of the year,

zanz1bar · 13/03/2009 10:40

And while i'm on a rant, i really don't like all the merchadising, just becuase i haven't bought the tshirt doesn't mean i am not engaged with the issue.

zanz1bar · 13/03/2009 10:42

but these smilies are quite cute.