"they are in it foir self promotion, plain and simple"
Really? are you that well acquainted with them? Do you know for a fact that the fearsomely irritating Ms Cotton, Cole et al went to those hospitals, watched those babies having convulsions and thought "ah, this'll be good for my profile"?
Do you honestly believe that they are so different from the rest of us? Because if so, that's kind of like the different side of the coin to thinking that they're somehow more beautiful, more blessed, more charmed than the rest of us. They're not. They're just people, just like us, some of them will be arseholes, some of them will be exceptionally nice. Unless they are psychopaths, most of them will have been traumatised and moved by watching babies die, FFS. Fearne C may have fainted because she needed a good meal, or because watching a baby die is an unbelievably distressing, traumatising experience for any human being, particularly one from the cossetted West, to witness. Do you people who say they are only in it for self-promotion, honestly believe that these slebs are made of such different DNA to us, that they would respond differently to the way we would?
Oh and btw, it seems to me that people like Cheryl Cole have such a positive press, that she really doesn't need to put herself through the shit of climbing a mountain, to raise her profile. She could easily have simply offered to sing one of those mediocre songs she goes in for, for free, and she would have got rounds of applause. Her paparazzi appeal is high enough right now, not to need to climb a mountain. Same for that Take That bloke.