"Celebrities"

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I wish I knew...  

Once upon a time, you could be an athlete, a gifted artist, an author or even a brilliant wit to get fame and adulation.

Now all you have to do is either sit in front of four record company execs, who decide what the market is going to listen to (not the other way round) and if you've got the right "look" everything else can be worked on (Girls Aloud et al).  Or you can go into the Big Brother house, be as thick as pig sh!t and end up a mulit-millionaire (Jade Goody).  

Failing the above, you can just be photographed half-cut getting out of a limo sans pants with your skirt round your ears (Paris Hilton, why?).  

Society today seems to reward mediocrity or even borderline retardedness at the expense of those who have something interesting to say.  Personally, I just turn off my TV set during the endless text-vote-TV shows and ignore the screaming headlines in Nuts magazine showing the latest airbrushed media starlet in her undercrackers.  My TV seems to be spending more and more time switched off lately.

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Haha, agreed!

All you need to be famous is either a crap singing voice, ridiculous plastic tits, an IQ of seven, a footballing spouse or even a blend of the above (step forward Victoria Beckham, can't sing, thick, a face like a slapped arse and an eating disorder).  

But then the majority of the public is obsessed with the above, for the life of me I cannot understand why.  Do I care if Paris Hilton's beaver is on show when she gets out of a car?  Nope, although it's arguably her most intelligent feature.  However, for some reason this constitutes news.

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It's best expressed thus:

I have no problem with anyone who happens to be gay on my TV, I also have no problem with anyone who finds camp humour funny.

But I do have an issue with folk who behave like they're the only people ever to have exited the closet and act faux camp because they think it's outrageous (think early Graham Norton, Alan Carr).  It isn't, it gets right up my nose.  Both Paul O'Grady and Julian Clary incorporated campness into their acts a decade ago and were a damn sight funnier.  In the case of the latter, he's got a very finely honed wit which is used to devastating effect and obv an intellectual.  No problem here.

Matt Lucas (who's gay himself) satirises the above bad examples perfectly with his OTT Dafyd character.  
 

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Karlos wrote:
The problem is that we live in an age where we celebrate idiocy, greed, shallowness and so on. It's not cool to be intelligent or have depth and you don't warrant respect if you don't have cash to squander on meaningless tat.

It wasn't always so.

Amen to that!  It's so true.

That's why we have Now magazine full of Jade Goody, Paris Hilton, Victoria Beckham and other wastes of carbon.