Sick of celebrities

I read Private Eye too. I’ve been a subscriber for decades.

jenpax

I detest the DM would not read it at any price! It embodies every political opinion I abhor so this is yet another reason to avoid like the plague!

You don't mind litter and paying for hospital Carparks, then? Both DM campaigns.
Amongst the celeb tat and some views you disagree with there are campaigns to right wrongs.

If you never read it, how do you know?

Ladyleftfieldlover

Germanshepherdsmum

Saying you would never have the DM in your house is surely very snobbish and superior. Why not just say you don’t read it?

Not snobbish and superior at all! I glimpse the odd headline on line and in newsagents, and realise it’s a right wing racist rag with an over-reliance on ‘slebs’. The ‘I’ is pretty well neutral and has some excellent articles. I read CNN on line as well as Fox News, so that’s a pretty good range of views. I also read the Sydney Morning Herald on line as I have several family members living in Australia. The DM, though is in entirely a class of its own. Just to rub up GSM a bit more - I was accidentally delivered a DM and put it straight in the outside bin.

It's like saying you once saw a headline in The Guardian and as a consequence wouldn't even use it to line the cat's litter tray.

It's like the No-platforming at universities, only allowing those you agree with to speak. Only reading articles you agree with leads to a closed mind.

I hate the cult of celebrity and if you have a famous parent success is guaranteed .
I know three people , who went to stage school and go to endless auditions and fail to get a small part because they aren't known .
Each of them resort to badly paid work in between auditions .

People here have to go overseas to become successful. Thinking Kylie Minogue. We cut down the tall poppies, it seems to be a nasty habit of ours.

Kate1949

Simon Reeve is adorable (in my opinion).

Yes, he’s the one I can watch!

I know Michael Palin is a lovely bloke and all that, but I’m sick of seeing him on TV - unfortunately dh will still watch anything with him in - if he’s aware that it’s on. I’m hoping he won’t twig about the Nigeria series. If he does, that’ll be me, escaping the sitting room PDQ.

JKR is pretty awesome.

I like Simon Reeve too, he really has a heart. He was on tv this w eek in Greece ( repeat) as the asylum seekers came in on boats, onto Kos I think, and after talking to them he had to wipe his eyes.
He didn’t have an easy start in life which is probably why he can empathise with others who have little.

I loathe the chat shows with celebs pushing their new film/book/play, especially on the BBC where there is supposed to be no advertising.

Yes I agree*Abcdfg*. And those celebs have often had ‘help’ in writing , whatever.

In their defence, celebrities are often contracted to promote films/TV on chat show appearances. I remember Hugh Grant in particular really moaning in some interview or other about having to tout the latest film around.