Are the words celebrity, national treasure, and star bandied around too easily?

Don't forget the Legends we have??? They used to refer to deceased people, but now some are nowhere being deceased!! I do agree, people do often little to earn these tittles.

National treasures- people like Julie Walters, Joanna Lumley, Judi Dench to name but three. Really?

Oh, and don’t forget ‘icons’!

Lots of people seem to be icons nowadays.

I’ve never heard of most of these people, but I don’t watch TV or read gossip mags and the like. I get the impression many of them are just ‘famous for being famous’.

Someone on Mumsnet said Prince Philip was 'the nation's grandpa'

Stephen Fry isn’t my idea of a National Treasure, but I’ve been watching various Attenborough programmes since I was a child, so, to me , he certainly qualifies.

Everything is exaggerated these days, people are famous for going on a TV reality show which does not make you a celebrity.

Maybe I should have asked who should not be called by these names !!

In this country we tend to home in on someone, and then over expose them, to the point of they are never off the tv, papers internet, and then they go out of fashion, and they stalk/home in on someone else.

I have watched some celebrity quiz shows and don't know any of them. Obviously not celebrated enough.
When I was young there were only people who most people knew who were called stars.

Don’t have a ‘who’ but Piers Morgan would be a ‘NOT’.

I was called a "star" for posting a letter for my neighbour last week. Does that count?

One of my sons often says ‘Mum you’re a legend’. When I’ve helped out with something.
Well actually it’s ‘Mum you’re a ledge’. Perhaps I was being presumptuous and he just thinks of me as a shelf to lean on.
Yes I do agree that words like star, legend, national treasure and celebrity are bandied about without true meaning.
In my opinion the Queen is a national treasure.
Boudicca is a legend.
Celebrity is anyone who can celebrate unique talent, so not many.
A star is any massive self-luminous, celestial body of gas, so probably all of them.

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I hope I never get called a treasure. It puts me in mind of someone/ something having been dug up.

Lovebeigecardigan1955and Blossoming you summed it up.
For me a celebrity is someone I’ve not only heard of, but I can name when I see them. There’s not very many-and some of them are not stars because they aren’t very bright.
A national treasure is something everyone could potentially enjoy, like the Lake District.
Florida12 that’s true.
EllenVannin ??

EllanVannin

I hope I never get called a treasure. It puts me in mind of someone/ something having been dug up.

? and kept in a museum ?

Someone on Mumsnet said Prince Philip was 'the nation's grandpa'

I'd better not tell DH, one of our DC and a DGC are very blonde and blue-eyed, nothing like either of us!
DB suggested the milkman's involvement but we had a milkwoman at the time.