Celebrity Endorsements

I am so out of touch with celebrity culture that I probably wouldn't recognise the person as such, and would just assume they were a "normal" model.

If it is likely something I particularly need, then I would buy it anyway, but not because I am influenced one way or the other by the face of the advert

I refuse to endorse celebrities in any way. I certainly wouldn't buy anything because some so called celebrity uses it or buys it.

Like several other posters, we record anything that looks interesting and then watch the recordings when convenient - and it is is rewarding to spin through the five minutes plus of ads that keep popping up in every programme. A one hour drama is usually about forty five minutes! So - the expensive advertising is wasted on us, and on many others it seems.

Widow Twankey coats! LOL!

I love George Clooney but his Nespresso ads made me cringe.

Same applies to me, because I am not certain what is, or what makes, a celebrity. Perhaps someone can enlighten me.

Also, what about the crass adverts on television all flashing lights and noise, do you not think?

Scones me too

Gabrielle56 - it sounds as if you were an influencer in the day ! I wonder if you’ve toned down your taste in apparel or if you’re still as wild in your taste in clothes ? ?

GeorgyGirl

No, not influenced by celebrities at all, very few of them believe in what they advertise anyway.

I remember someone spilling beans about Michael Jackson not drinking pepsi on camera, it was water. Also Madonna as featured her chomping a big Mac which she spat out off camera cos she's veggie!! ???

Oh jeannelefol I did laugh at your post! Hilarioy to see so called slebs as widow twankies??? so true. I'm same I'd a sleb likes something-i don't! I'm quite off piste when it comes to my preferences, always have been. Used to sport bright slime green tights with a red jumper and black skirt for work at 16 a trend that continues...... I detest the idea that these people think they are an I fluence on sane people!

I record everything, so fast-forward for the adverts.

No, not influenced by celebrities at all, very few of them believe in what they advertise anyway.

I read previous comments about not being influenced by celebrities to purchase perfumes, hair dyes etc., and thought that I agree that I am not influenced to buy those particular products. But then I had a thought ? bubble for Claudia winkleman and Head and shoulders and if I did have dandruff (‘I don’t’?) I’m fairly certain that I would buy some. I guess we’re all influenced to buy things in one way or another. Advertising is such a lucrative business, it must work

I'm not interested in anything connected to or being endorsed by a so-called celebtrity. I have my own style so don't need help from someone I don't know or who doesn't know me.
There are so many 'celebrities' on game shows too, 99% of them I've never heard of.

I’m another one who has no idea who most of these supposed celebrities are. I must be an advertiser’s nightmare as I rarely take any notice of adverts, endorsed or otherwise. I regularly get YouGov surveys which will ask whether I have seen recent ads from various companies and the answer is generally ‘no idea’!

Most of the celebrity names bandied about now mean absolutely nothing to me - possibly because the majority gain transient fame from reality shows which I don't watch. I have aways disliked the trend for putting the designer's name onto clothing - it seems insane to pay a great deal and then give free advertising. I saw a celebrity name scrawled right across the window of a local store just a few days ago, announcing her collection was within. OH wondered how much she had had to do with the designing and production.

Definitely not. If anything, it puts me off buying anything that is endorsed by a (very rich overrated) celebrity.

No, of course not.

We're all immune.

Well the old subliminal messages don’t seem to be getting through to anyone on this thread!

Gosh, I wonder why all these companies spend all this time, money and effort on advertising when there are so many clever people who just ignore it all?

I wonder if they know something we don't?

theconversation.com/how-advertisers-seduce-our-subconscious-60578

Scones

I've got to the stage where I barely know who the celebrities are so they are wasted on me anyway. I'm not even influenced by adverts whether they feature a celebrity or not.

Same here, Scones. Not long ago I picked up some Hello! type mag someone had left lying around, and honestly hadn’t a clue who 90% of them were. I did ask a dd who one bloke was - he could have been either a footballer or a pop star for all I knew.
‘Mum! Even you must have heard of him!’
Er, no.
Still blissfully ignorant of most of them.

Absolutely not!! Quite the opposite. They are paid so much to endorse and will obviously do whatever they are told to say or do. I find it hard to believe that anyone would fall for so called celebrity endorsement. It is also very boring and predictable.

It has the opposite effect on me I wouldn't buy anything endorsed by a celebrity

Celebrity endorsements annoy me intensely! Are they experts? Is their taste so impeccable? Who CARES what they think-just act, sing or whatever else they do! Don’t try to sell me anything! ( must add that the Natalie Portman perfume ad, I think it is, had one pleasant side effect for me: the music is ‘Cry Baby’ by the great Janis Joplin and it prompted me to start listening to her music again- fantastic!).

Ditto Scones, so many z-listers around nowadays who once maybe bared all in a rubbish TV programme.

I have no idea who some of these celebrities are! Seems a shame to me that so many young people aspire to be celebrities or famous.

I have to admit if it says celebrity anywhere in the title I don’t watch it and would certainly not be influenced to buy anything they are being paid to advertise.

Same with influencers! Having said that, I ignore most advertising!!