AIBU to be sick of the celebrity culture

Please, as others have already asked, what is TOWIE? I know nothing...

Article in today's Telegraph by Radhika Sanghani about female celebrity public nakedness.

Totally fed up with celebrities (a term I use loosely) being on everything from TV programmes to adverts. I am also not interested in WAGS or what they're wearing, doing etc.

Glad I'm not only one HandyNan, utterly disinterested in so-called celebrities, who court attention at any opportunity AND get paid for it too I assume!
Think many of them on the way down/out and get desperate to be in any media, rather depressing really.

As I don't watch soaps or TOWIE I'm usually totally in the dark when I see the headlines on magazine covers or on yahoo about some celeb being too fat/skinny, falling out with boyfriend etc but that's what seems to sell magazines.

I know I'm turning into a grumpy old woman but there's too much "reality" TV these days because it's cheaper to produce than good drama or documentaries - no need to pay actors or scriptwriters if you can get someone off the street who thinks it will make them a "celebrity".

How many school leavers become 'celebrities'? and how many school leavers are there each year? So the chances of becoming a celebrity are, Guess, 1 in 50,000?

Given the odds, even working in a minimum wage job is likely to be more lucrative. Unemployment among those trained as actors and trying to make a living out of it is over 90%, which is why DD doesn't know of a single person in her year at drama school who are still in the acting profession.

'Celebrities only became 'celebrities' because the public put them in that position, I suppose . I didn't put them there though (I never know who anyone is)!
What/who is Towie?

I never watch TV programmes about z list celebrities but I am amazed at how many of my intelligent friends do. Perhaps it is the fascination at how far people can debase themselves that attracts them

Do the teenagers of today grow up though?
I am trying to remember when mine were teens a decade ago.
The celebrity stuff might not have been quite as entensive as it is now, but I would have thought that it was pretty close.
I think their mates have buckled down and work hard or reasonably hard.
Perhaps our area is not into celebrity as much as some?

The celebrity culture seems to breed a sense of entitlement - "if he/she can get all that 'blingy stuff' without having to work for it, why can't I!!"

I thought TOWIE meant Coronation Street . Maybe they could do a programme about gransnetters and we could all become rich and famous [light bulb moment].

I have no interest in the celebrity culture either. Some celebrities are good at their jobs, others are just celebrities for various obscure or infamous reasons.

Hello Magazine is about all that is available in my hairdressers, and I look at it but I hardly ever know who they are talking about.

I also worry about the effects of this "obsession" about striving after fame does nothing to help children to develop more sensible and worthwhile aspirations in life.

I hate it. The first person I ever met who was a celebrity-lover is actually my mother-in-law. I couldn't understand it. I think she felt that if she met famous people, some of the glamour and luck and fame would rub off on her.

Now I watch DBH glow with pride when he sees that yet another famous name in the fields that he likes is following him. I find that equally odd. I don't care what people do for a living as long as they are nice and we get along.

Yes TriciaF I think you are right. I watched 5 minutes of the Jungle Celebrity crap programme the other evening and asked my DD who the moaning blonde was...she was from Towie. Now I really know that entertainment is eating itself, when a person is selected to appear on a celebrity programme due to their celebrity on another celebrity programme........and so on and around it goes. It is surreal.

It's all part of a dastardly campaign on the part of the ruling classes to turn the rest of us into mindless zombies

No alex57currie it certainly was not a posh school ! I will not mention it by name (in case it still exists) but it was the school where the first teachers strike happened and the head was picketted by the staff. I was there after the strike.

I think it all started with longer television hours and the need for cheap programmes to fill them. Mind you, I can't complain as I obsessively watch Made in Chelsea .

I agree. The worst aspect of celebrity culture is those who have been propelled into the fame arena for being on a reality tv show. I can put up with real genuine talent earning loads of dosh, but I do have a problem with people who are earning mega bucks for starring in something like Towie and then you find out they can't tell the time, have no idea where say Africa is and think Ebola is a rock band!

tiggypro you must have taught at a posh school. We girls were taught how to 1. Wash white servant's gloves, and 2. How to polish shoes properly.

It is very sad isn't it. Most of them are going to come down to earth with a huge bump.
Your post reminded me of when I was trying to teach Home Management and all that entailed in the 70's. Try as I might I could not get them to see that a cocktail cabinet was not a necessity !