celebrities who need to wash their linen in public

Don't watch Loose Women either!
As for Ms Nolan's marriage problems .... NFI

Yes of course it was Coleen Rooney I was thinking of. These 'slebs' all blend into one dreary bunch.

Vulgar programme full of screeching women. I have never understood the fascination that many ( usually women) have with the alleged real lives of so called celebrities, but going by the number of magazines pandering to this, it is a huge market.

I'm totally with you PaddyAnn. Private, private, private all the time. I do also believe this you lady is supposedly an agony aunt? 'Nuff sed! There is an unfortunate ego arena with celebrities who think those of us who enjoy their particular talent would also like to know more about their private lives. Certainly not me BUT....... I do do see that some of we so called fans feed the celebrity ego by
adulating them out of all proportion to their ability. The number of times these days I see 'celebrities' listed or appearing and people asking 'who are they?' or 'what do they do?' is constant. I see it as a kind of cult club and they feed off each other. Once they go out of fashion they start to appear in the desperate reality stuff. Talent will out indeed.

I agree with you all. I really hate all things celebrity. Who really cares if they're having a crisis here or a drama there. We all have these in our lives and oddly enough just get on with sorting it out one way or another.

Good point, Legs, about the media reaction. I'd been thinking that it's in the worst taste to openly discuss your marriage breakdown on the box. I still do, but hadn't considered it from that angle.
I'm not going to watch, listen or read about it, although I hope they make a go of their marriage. Not much chance now though.

A lot of very snobby comments here girls....just saying!

I saw that chat with Coleen. My first thought was I bet her husband will be furious.

Whats snobby about these comments?

Yes I don't understand the ' snobby ' comment either

Paddyanne I could not agree more. It seems as though youngsters want to live their lives via Facebook these days. They want the world to know where they are, what they are doing every minute of the day.

Why they think we want to know all the intimate details of their marriage I do not know. She certainly was not thinking of the embarrassment to her daughter when she went public with her marriage problems.

Imo Loose women is one of the worst shows on tv. Who really wants to know? Get a life! Keep it private.

Nice to know we are mostly in agreement

I do find these 'celebrities' almost tragic; they expose every area of their lives, however private, painful, embarrassing or vulgar and unfortunately there must be people whose own lives are so empty of interest that this is where they find entertainment. Katie Price is the epitome of the 'cult of celebrity', and...where are her talents? She is very rich, so this just shows how many people out there want to follow her life and read endless autobiographies written by someone in their thirties. I have never set out to watch her, but put the TV on one evening and there she was in a car with someone who I now know to be her ex husband, a man called Pete Andre (what does he do?) and they were getting nasty and talking about divorce. Unbelievable - would you invite a camera crew along? And don't get me started on startling photos and sex lives - I thought sex was a beautiful and private matter between two people, and 'private parts' are called that because they should be. Sorry - rant over. Merry Christmas!

'Snobby' surely you mean 'snobbish'! Just off to pedants corner.

No 'self respecting' man or woman would air their linen in public unless it brings in the money

That is what it is all about.

I am another one who knows who few of the new set of celebrities are - I didn't even know who many of the Strictly people were to start with! Many of them all look the same to me - and what is it with this fashion of trying to curl straight hair which then has those bad ends because normally the person has a 'club cut' sort of style that hangs beautifully?

I've watched a bit of it occasionally and agree wholeheartedly with most of you, especially Christinefrance. These harpies give women and feminism a bad, bad name.
I imagine the people who enjoy it also enjoy that terrible Jeremy Kyle programme.
Why isn't private life private any more? Nowadays it seems everybody is fascinated by the seedy sordid side of everything.
I was dismayed to read that Robbie Williams wife (Ayda?) has joined this coven of witches.

These comments are not snobby/snobbish, they are exactly what my grandparents (neither lot in the least snobbish) would have said.

Nothing is sacred now where money is concerned.

Then people wonder why everything is such a mess.

Watch Loose Women? - I'd rather watch paint dry. That goes for all the other celeb based rubbish on TV. However I confess to loving Strictly Come Dancing

I feel sorry for anyone struggling to deal with marital or other family/friendship problems, but do agree that it is not for outsiders to take sides. However, would point out that, being honest, we at GN are somewhat prone to give advice based on one side of a family rift. R2 Saturday Graham Norton show has an agony aunt slot where people rush in with well-meaning advice and it makes me see red!

Sorry folks - several references to people/things being "vulgar" - actually the kind of thing I can hear my own mother saying about women celebrities...I'm afraid I do find it a snobbish sort of attitude. Sorry, I'll keep quiet in future...

I occasionally watch loose women and find it entertaining. Yes it's celebs created by the media, but if it wasn't getting viewers it would be scrapped. I find it amusing and chatty.its like having a group of girls together for a gossip,very cleverly done as they make money and the production team make money.Men appear on it willingly usually to have a laugh. It's not a serious journalistic program it's just a magazine program really. It deals with current issues and society not our era, that would be called 'All our yesterday's ! And what harm has Coleen Nolan done to deserve this vitriol ? She is who she is and its her way of dealing with stuff, who are we to criticise

So agree, your marriage problems should stay , private , I certainly wouldn't be going on TV and telling the world about.

Don't think it could be classed as vitriol Chrishappy, and if people choose to put themselves out there then they have to expect candid comments good or bad.