to be appalled by "celebrity" ; pregnancies

sorry I disagree Diana courted and manipulated the press NOT for her "good works" they in themselves were part of the PR exercise ,she wanted the celebrity in fact she craved it.Maybe because HER life wasn't how she thought it would be or just sheer bloody mindedness to show the rest of the disfunctional family she was part of that she was the one the public wanted to see.The mass mourning when she died showed that her tactic had in some measure worked..but it was largely people who had" dull lives" who said they loved this woman who they had never met...my cousin insisted it was because Diana came from nothing ,she hadn't a penny to her name ...she was just like us ...and thats exactly how she was marketed in the beginning ..and of course it wasn't true she came from a very privileged background ...but she wasn't the STAR there and she made sure she was in and after her marriage

Surely the word 'celebrity' was coined to describe someone who was 'celebrated' for their achievements. Now that, like 'star', has been over-used so much to describe anyone who has had a few minutes on a tv show I can't think what word the media can now use for 'real' celebrities. Come to think of it - are there any people on our screens worthy of the definition? These mainly talentless people use every aspect of their lives to try and gain attention and having elaborate weddings and producing offspring seems guaranteed to get them attention from the editors of waiting-room magazines. The Beckhams paved the way for the odious Osbournes and Kardashians.

The other day I saw a headline plus photos saying that small dogs that can be carried along with a handbag are the latest celebrity accessory. But obviously that "so last week"!

Whilst watching "Diana: 7 Days" last night, I was thinking about the cult of celebrity and how Diana courted the newspapers to promote her good works and then found she couldn't prevent them and the vulture-like paparazzi who were making money out of her from selling her pictures plus news/gossip about her.

"Journalists" and photgraphers wouldn't feed us with gossip and glamour pictures of actresses and other celebrities who get well paid for featuring in these magazines or in tabloids if people weren't interested enough and more than willing to spend money on them.

Like day6, I often don't know who these "celebrities" are. For example, I noticed that with this year's "Strictly Come Dancing" line up - I hardly know any of them. It may be because I don't watch "Eastenders" or "Casualty", etc as I am bored with all the recycled story lines I have seen when I used to watch soaps.

Without wishing to sound pompous (but I will!), perhaps the obsessive interest in celebrities is because so many people have dull lives. To return to the OP, I hope that's not why the actresses mentioned are having babies. Maybe they genuinely want a family despite their other issues.

The day I gave birth to my daughter 40 years ago I made the conscious decision not to have these ' bits of waste paper' in my home. I did not want her exposed to such awful ...banal...useless people and useless,bigoted, sexist crap. Ditto now with my five year old granddaughter. Do NOT expose your beautiful children or grandchildren to pscho-babbel...sexist...dogma. Same goes for my son and grandson. I would no sooner expose them to this clap-trap than I would to religion!! It's all abuse.

Actually I think some of these women are being exploited by magazines and other news outlets. I think it is rather sad that people who sometimes appear to be emotionally or mentally disturbed are encouraged to reveal all their hang ups, addictive behaviour, disastrous relationships, etc. etc. to all and sundry.

I do agree that the outlook for children born into such circumstances is not ideal - but I suppose the same could be said of some non-celebrities who may also be too immature and emotionally ill-equipped to have children.

I always have a laugh with the lady in our newsagent's when they have some of the celeb magazines on the counter. We've never heard of the girls, or their boyfriend/husband/ fiance/ex or whatever and if they are soap "stars" we've never heard of the characters they play. I wonder what happens to the babies when they get too old to be an accessory and develop ideas of their own?

Do you remember the days when a 'celebrity' was fairly rare, and someone special, with talent ? They tended to lead quiet lives too.

We've moved on but I get the feeling we could all be celebrities if only we'd have lip implants, don bikinis, show lots of cleavage and snog an orange muscle-bound hunk then sell the kiss and tell tale.

Well - if we were considerably younger that is!"!!

The sad thing is, although most of us haven't heard of any of today's so called celebrities (they seem to be created ten-a-minute) most of the under 35s do!

The rise and rise of the awful cheap reality show is making idiotic, fame-hungry plastic people into rich individuals who adore having every aspect of their lives written about in trashy magazines.

The news stands are full of them and I see the pics and haven't a clue who these vacuous people are.

Just the covers of these magazines have headlines about looks, figures, diets, broken relationships, being loved-up and (unknown?) reality show couples welcoming babies into the world. I agree with eddiecat. I worry about the people who read these awful magazines and lap it all up. We have to stop making these (stupid it would seem) people famous.

It's a weird world.

It's really sad that many young people aspire to look and be like these slebs.

Ha ha - just realised ...it IS called Pointless Celebrities - well, Auntie BeeB got that right then

I'm hunting in the back of the wardrobe for my rollers.

DH and I often have a little chuckle when 'Celebrity Pointless' comes on - quite rare if we have ever heard of one or two of them even - should e called ' Pointless Celebrities!

Love it!

I liked this!

Imperfect expressed my views perfectly. Have recently been exposed to 'celebrity big brother' and it appeared that they all looked as if a plastic bucket had been melted over their features. They barely looked human, apart from Helen Lederer, who looked knackered out!

Yes absolutely agreeeddiecat78, when you look back at what earlier generations had to cope with it makes me so cross that we seemed to have recently reared a feckless generation who don't take responsibility for anything especially birth control. And don't get me started on programmes such as the one where the choose a partner by their body parts, Love Island and everything else that denigrates taking responsibility & takes the love out of making love !!! ?

I am just 'appalled' by the concept of celebrity - fullstop.

Don't beleive everything you read.

Hint. Don't read the mags then you won't get in a flap about it.

Why did you put "actress" in quotes? She either is or isn't, unless you were making a statement regarding gender roles, in which case actor is the accepted term ...

I don't know, never read sleb mags and haven't a clue who most so-called celebrities are. I expect that if such magazines just printed sensible stuff the "young women" wouldn't read them.