Celebrity Gossip Whats The Attraction

Have you ever found yourself enthralled by what goes on in the personal lives of celebrities? Well, you arent alone. A huge percentage of people all over the world look forward to opening up their magazine of choice and reading about what the famous are up to. In what new ways has Tom Cruise embarrassed himself? Has Britney Spears given birth yet? Are Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie sleeping in separate beds? For some reason, many humans find these things to be interesting.Celebrity gossip is a huge business. The photographers can earn literally thousands of dollars just for taking a picture of a celebrity. The magazines scrape together every little bit of info the can to come up with the newest rumors. The magazines are released to grocery store checkouts across the nation, and are quickly snapped up by shoppers eager to hear the latest.

The Celebrity is really an interesting phenomenon. Society has idolized people who are hardly more good-looking or charismatic than the average person. And individuals have followed this trend, and begun to be interested by the celebrity gossip that is everywhere. But when put into perspective, few people can come up with the true reason they are interested by it. So, ask yourself why you really enjoy reading the gossip magazines. If you cant come up with any valid reason, perhaps its time to rethink your priorities.

Looking at how reality television reinforces gender roles – Part 5

I feel watching reality shows from Survivor to Apprentice there is some gender roles. First of all in each show there are diverse people from different back ground.

I feel women in each show does work hard to try to win the prize. If they are formed in teams than there has to be a leader and the followers. For example in Apprentice in the beginning the teams are men verses women. Usually depending on the task the women to win and raise enough money to be ahead of the men. It is intresting how women and men think differently to get the best results.

I think most of the time like in survivor and other shows women may get voted out because of something the viewers saw and the teammates seen that the task is not correct. In some situations women have a hard time to adapt especially with other women. Everyone treats each person as a friend and a enemy. They are all there to win.

Men have easier time to adapt to situation and make the most of it. When you put men together they have different type of compatition than women do. The men are wired differently than women.

Sometimes women lose for stupid reasons like fitting with there own teammates. They also tend to make little mistakes and that cost them to lose and get either voted out or not raise enough money.

Once they come over the differences with other women or teammates than I think the women tend to consentrate better and they win.

Men are more tolerable with situation and they often win because they are just there to win. There is no emotions envolved just win the game. Sometimes they are also calm and do not tend to stress out quickly. They consentrate on now and get everyone else to work with each other.

Also in some reality show men tend to make the task or challenge a fun thing to do. It is intresting how they come up with their answers and try to finsh first.

When women and men compete towards the end is the fun part because lot of the people got voted out. It gets intresting when the teams get smaller how they handle competition. When there is a larger group than there tend to be a lot of blame game on why they lost the task. For one thing in Apprentice I noticed in the celeberity competition women have more high contacts for there friends to come out and support their friend. Rasing money is not easy and selling products sometimes is not easy. Some shoppers are bargain hunters and do care of ghe cost of the product if they are not intrested in buying. In Survivor the competition is mostle out door in jungles and sometime the task they have to do is disgusting. For example eating worms or small bugs. In tihs situation women tend to say no way we rather starve than eat that and men will jump in and eat anything.

So I feel there is some gender roles in reality television. Both men and women does each challene differently and come up with results. There is only one winner and one loser in each task eith individually or as a team.

Where to get gossip on Paris Hilton

Next time you turn on the television, will Paris Hilton be there? Is there any doubt?

Google consistently ranks Paris Hilton in the top ten search terms. Celebrity can be it’s own hype machine, putting the starlet’s face in front of the audience so often it simulates it’s own buzz. Instead of journalists asking event based questions, now the normal procedure is to ask what is happening with our celebrity media darlings? What is Paris Hilton wearing? What is Paris Hilton doing? What is paris Hilton thinking?

The metamorphosis of entertainment media into a name dropping, celebrity centered industry was many years in the making. It is by no means a new phenomenon. TV Guide carried CHiPs photo spreads and in-depth news on Eric Estrada and that other guy for years, until Eric Estrada got deported. Any male child past puberty in the early eighties can relate to the Farrah Fawcett poster sensation. You either had the poster, or you didn’t have tennis elbow, there was no middle ground.

What has changed with the advent of celebrity status of Paris Hilton’s caliber and exposure is the abundance of information and photos on the celebrity in question. Fans can Google the subject of their desire and read every minute detail of their idols’ lives, from birth to modern day. In an age of information overload, celebrity privacy is nearly non-existent.

The only way to retain any vestige of privacy would be to completely sequester the celebrity from public view, in a tower in a distant land perhaps. Only those worthy of Paris Hilton’s attentions and affections on camera would be allowed to climb the rope spun and woven from her own back hair and enter the private chambers of Paris Hilton for an extravagant evening of wishing there was some food around instead of just hooch.

In any situation involving celebrity super stars like Paris Hilton, it would surely be wise to consider the ramifications of the overexposure endless gossip can bring. Being Google’s top search can be a curse, as Google is designed for use by stalkers, crazy people and Texans. Although, due to literacy problems, Texans are less of a threat. But the rest of the wackos can sometimes read and formulate basic sentences, such as ”Wanna cyber?” and ”A/S/L?”

The real issue with celebrity gossip about people with the celebrity power of Paris Hilton is just that; Gossip. It’s rarely true, and when it is, it’s never as hot as you hoped. We are still waiting for the Paris Hilton Celebrity Prison Sex movie. Or was that just gossip?

The trend in amateur celebrity news blogs – Part 1

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Amateur celebrity news blogs have the potential to be more interesting than regular celebrity news sources, in part because the blogger is under less pressure to meet journalistic standards and can embroider the truth to make it more interesting.

Bloggers are less likely to be sued by a celebrity, so they can give more thorough coverage of sightings and scandals, and not worry about holding back when giving personal opinions of a celebrity’s behavior. Major celebrity news magazine, in contrast, have to keep at least a neutral relationship with the big names, or risk getting scooped if the celebrity refuses to work with them.

If you have ever tried to read a celebrity news magazine, you’ll know that they are essentially monthly photo collages. The magazines have loads of interesting pictures, but the writing, even the feature articles, have the depth and information of a photo caption. When the cover of a magazine reads, ‘Jennifer Spills All About Her Relationship with Brad!’ upon purchasing the magazine you’ll be disappointed to discover that the article has maybe one publicized comment from Jennifer, and a long description of her outfit along with a list of her career choices since the split. Not exactly news.

The magazine covers are often the most interesting and informative writing in the whole magazine. The one exception I’d make to this description is Vanity Fair. Vanity Fair is stylish and well written, and they push the envelope in celebrity reporting, giving readers if not a balanced representation, then at least an interesting angle to a well known personality.

You get a bit more from the feature interviews in women’s magazines. Good Housekeeping, Fitness Magazine, these usually feature a celebrity article about once every issue, in between recipe’s and ‘Dressing Slim for Summer’ articles. These interviews don’t tend to be wildly revealing, as the magazine is doing it’s simpering best to kiss up to the celebrity and maintain a good relationship with them for future purposes, but at least you’ll get the occasional revealing comment within the context of the interview.

Blogs have a lot more freedom to say what they think. The author of a blog isn’t worrying so much about making the celebrity look good so that they can keep them coming back to give interviews. Blogs are more honest because the writer of the blog is usually volunteering. They don’t stand to make money from their reporting, and that’s the best thing that can happen to news.

But they also don’t have stringent journalistic standards to live up to, so they might be feeding their readers some fibs. The upside of this is that it makes for a very entertaining read. As I said earlier, amateur celebrity news blogs have the potential to be a lot more interesting than more conventional celebrity news outlets.

Why we care so much about celebrities – Part 6

Celebrities are simply people who are famous, or celebrated, for something. In modern times they tend more often than not to be involved in popular culture – this is a direct result of the increased ease of spreading information. People can become well known almost instantly through television and more importantly the internet. This has caused a shift in the dynamic of who becomes famous. Previously the people who had access to information were the privileged intellectuals who moved in certain circles, as a result the most famous people were those involved in authority (priests, politicians etc.)and academics. As information became easily available to all, those who were famous became those who appeal to regular people – usually entertainers.

In recent times we have arrived at a 24 hour information culture which enables more people to become well known. The blog culture and reality television mean that increasingly people with no expertise or talent can enter into the public domain. Intrinsically this is not a bad thing as it leads to a more democratic society, however with celebrity comes, in varying degrees, power and wealth. We are interested in celebrities, and always have been, to a certain degree due to jealousy at those who have what we want. In modern times this is coupled with the feeling that they do not truly deserve it. If someone can become famous just through random selection on a game show why can’t we.

This creates an atmosphere where we constantly watch celebrities with a mixture of awe and envy, we want to be like them but we also want to see them fail; partly to prove that they are no better than us and partly because every fallen celebrity increases the chance that we might be the next person to take their place – if we can just get our big break.

In previous times people were famous for what they did and were judged as such, now they are famous because of a cycle of supply and demanded fueled by the reader and the writer; the public and the media, an ever-increasing mass of irrelevant detail of other peoples lives allowing us, if only briefly to forget our own, and the drudgery of a normal existence with mortgages, bills, monogamy and mundaneness.

The Exclusive Haunts of London’s Elite

It’s not uncommon to see famous faces walking through the streets of London, with the city long being a hot bed of celebrity sightings and activity, particularly the exclusive clubs and bars that are scattered across the city.

Indeed, many bars in London’s more fashionable areas boast an almost exclusively celebrity clientele. Bungalow 8 for example, located in the Covent Garden area of London, is a regular haunt of many famous people. The brainchild of popular New York hostess Amy Sacco, Bungalow 8 is a fashionable, subterranean with regular guests including Kelly Osbourne, Kate Moss, Damien Hurst and top designer Christopher Kane, who held his Dazed and Confused Fashion Week after party in the club. With bottles of water alone costing £10 though, you’d better be ready to spend like a celebrity as you rub shoulders with them.

Maddox is another upmarket establishment. A top members-only bar situated in the Mayfair area, this bar was designed by renowned designer Sammy Chams, who created a minimal space with room for a bar, boutique club area and an Italian restaurant with the main focal point being the glass encased DJ booth at the top of a staircase. Playing a mix of funky house, R ‘n B and chart hits, Maddox has a wide range of cocktails and food on offer, sure to please even the most discerning of London clubbers, with top names seen at the club including P Diddy and Keira Knightley.

Arguably the hottest West End late night haunt is Maya in the Soho area, decorated in stunning colours with walls clad with transparent screens etched in a mosaic effect, which alternate through a spectrum of vivid fluorescent colours during the night. With most nights in Maya packed full of upbeat and friendly club goers the atmosphere is always vibrant, with table service being provided by a fleet of waitresses clad in bright yellow hotpant-length playsuits. With a music policy ranging from current rock acts to 70’s cheese, the dancefloor is busy all night long helping to sustain a tremendous atmosphere.

Of course it’s not just pubs and clubs where London’s social elite can be found. Many spas in London, particularly establishments in the Notting Hill, Chelsea and Mayfair area of the city, generally count at least a few famous faces as customers, eager to look their best for the next big social function. With services ranging from facials, manicures and pedicures to the use of facilities such as saunas, swimming pools and gyms, London spas offer members of the public the chance to look and feel as good as their favourite celebs.

Of course, you don’t have to spend like a celebrity to live like one. Plenty of London establishments, be they bars, clubs or spas, offer great services at reasonable prices and, with a little research, they’re not too hard to find.

Why we care so much about celebrities – Part 17

I call reading celebrity gossip “dessert reading” because it functions much like dessert and other kinds of comfort food. You eat it or read it, and you feel better. Right?

I have a degree in English and I am an avid reader of various genres but I do not consider myself above reading celebrity gossip. In fact I believe it can be an important and therapeutic vacation for the mind.

A friend of mine was picking up “Us” magazine so often at newsstands that her boyfriend insisted she breakdown and buy a subscription to the gossip magazine, in order to save money. This friend of mine is an intelligent educated individual with a respectable career and many intellectual and cultural interests. Despite popular belief, the reading of celebrity gossip (although admittedly not very intellectual) plays an important role in escaping from the chaos of everyday life. It seems our lives have become so crazy that we seek solace in reading about the lives of others that have even crazier lives than our own. If you feel like your life is spinning out of control, all you have to do is read an article on poor Lindsay Lohan and you rest easier knowing that at least someone’s life is worse off. If that is the case, if we are reading celebrity gossip to make ourselves feel better about our own lives, then reading celebrity gossip is not the problem in itself but the symptom of a greater problem. I would be so bold to suggest that the greater problem is a collective sense of being overwhelmed with personal and societal problems that in turn make us feel hopeless. When we feel hopeless we no longer are compelled to actively pursue solving important problems and addressing crucial issues because we feel that they cannot be fixed or changed anyway. By reading celebrity gossip one is able to escape from deep emotional and intellectual commitments such as work and relationships and thereby create a therapeutic effect that prevents one from becoming overwhelmed with the pressures of modern life. Do we really care where Paris Hilton went shopping or the details of Britney Spears’ custody battle? I believe the answer is yes, but only because we are either escaping our own lives or making ourselves feel better because somebody else’s life is more complicated and confusing than our own.

I do believe that there’s a strong boredom factor when it comes to treating celebrity gossip as well. Personally that’s the only time that I read celebrity gossip but once again that is just another form of distraction. Whether it is a distraction from the boredom in your life, or the over stimulation in your life, celebrity gossip can be a beneficial means to keeping your mind distracted and providing an escape to an otherwise overwhelming life.

Until we are better able to deal with all of our own personal problems and the larger societal problems, people will continue craving celebrity gossip and use it to ease their symptoms of hopelessness. For some people celebrity gossip acts just the same way and probably more effectively than Prozac, and if it is socially acceptable for people to take medication into their bodies as a way to ease the stirrings of their minds, why not take celebrity gossip in if it functions similarly for some? On the other hand, whether or not overzealous and excessive media coverage is harmful to celebrities, though important, is a discussion for another article.

Evaluating reality TV – Part 1

Entertainment is a huge industry in the United States. People in the United States are constantly looking for sources of entertainment through media based sources. The television is something you can find in near every household in the United States. In an average United States home a television is on seven hours and twelve minutes a day. That is a lot of television. But what kind of show is on during those seven hours and twelve minutes a day that the television is on? Pretty much every time you flip through the channels on your television, you can find at least one reality show on, remember I say at least. Reality shows seem to be taking over in a real bad way. It’s something always on television and always reran and millions of Americans are watching these awful shows. Reality television shows are dehumanizing and watched way too much. Reality TV, in spite of how much it draws in viewers, is bad and has a negative affect on its viewers.

Is reality TV even reality? If you have ever watched a reality TV show, you will notice that many of the people starring on the shows are not your typical average Joe walking down the street. Many reality TV stars actually fall into the category of deviants. They do not follow the norms of most people. They lack the morals and values of the majority of people.

Let’s look at marriage. In the United States, marriage is considered to be for two people who love each other and commit to spending the rest of their lives together because they’re in love. Reality TV trivializes marriage. It violates the sanctity of marriage. Look at shows like The Bachelor and The Bachelorette, these shows expect a person to decide who they’re going to marry from a selected group of women/men that the producers have hand selected. Do they even really get to know them in that time frame of the show? Are they honestly presented the opportunity to fall in love with one another? Or are they forced to pick on what they can know in a short time like what a person looks like? In an article entitled “Four Christian Women Examine the Impact of Reality Marriage Shows,” one woman observed “On many of these shows, marriage is something women win. They earn it. They’re good enough for it. I think that sends a damaging message to singles. It communicates, If you aren’t married, you haven’t won; you’ve lost.” I agree that this is a bad message people could be receiving from these particular reality shows.

Reality TV has become very sexually exposing.

Suicide: the Final Straw

Some of them are lucky enough to survive suicide and drug overdose: singer Courtney Love (oxycontin), character actor Gary Busey (cocaine), young actress Lindsay Lohan (cocaine and pain killers), and just recently, comedian Owen Wilson (sleeping pills) and rock babe Amy Winehouse (mixture of heroin, cocaine, ecstasy, ketamine and booze).

But others succumbed to their desperation and no one was able to snatch them from the claws of death. Remember the legendary King of Rock & Roll Elvis Presley, screen goddess Marilyn Monroe, musician Jimi Hendrix (barbiturates) and very recently, bombshell Anna Nicole Smith (chloral hydrate, benzodiazepines).

What has driven these celebrities to take their own lives by way of suicide and drug overdose? Aren’t fame and fortune more than enough to make a person happy and contented?

People end their lives or attempt suicide to escape feelings of rejection, hurt, or loss. Or it could be anger, shame and guilt that forced them to believe that life is not getting any better for them. Still others might feel being worthless and a burden that dying seemed to be the only way out.

Everyone feels overwhelmed by difficult emotions or situations at some point in their lives. While most people can pull through their problems with determination and hope, some would simply resort to suicide or drug overdose. Some people are more resilient and better able to deal with life’s setbacks and difficulties. Others are more prone to wallow in depression and self-defeating thoughts.

Most people who commit suicide or overdose may be suffering from depression. Depression is a condition that leads people to focus on their failures and disappointments in order to understate their own capabilities or self-worth. People with severe depression have forgotten to look at their blessings. Instead, they wallow in self-pity and could not see through the possibility of overcoming their problems, desperately believing that things will never go right for them again.

Depression is like a dark cloud that veils a person’s mind, thus, affecting the way a person thinks and feels about the situation he or she is in. It distorts the thinking process. This is the reason why people who feel suicidal may not even realize thay they are depressed. They do not recognize that it is the depression, not the situation, that influences them to see things negatively.

Like most celebrities, people with alcohol and drug problems are at high risk for suicidal thinking and behavior due to the substances depressive effects on the brain. Celebrities are prone to substance abuse because of their environment and lifestyle. Abuse of these substances can definitely bring on serious depression.

The problem is, when people are depressed (and sometimes they are not aware of it), they turn to alcohol to drown out their problems or hook on drugs to have an escape without realizing that the depressive effects of alcohol and drugs have on the brain will only intensify their depression even more.

Alcohol and drugs can also alter a person’s rational judgment by interfering with their ability to assess risk, make good choices, and come up with solutions to problems. That is why most suicides happen when people are under the influence of alcohol and/or drugs, or caused by drug overdose.

There are people who plan and orchestrate a suicide in advance. They even write letters or notes to say their last words. However, there are many cases when suicide attempts happen impulsively without notice. Situations such as a breakup, a big fight with a parent, an unintended pregnancy, or being victimized (rape, sexual abuse) in any way can make someone feel desperately upset. Such eventuality, on top of an existing depression, could serve as the final straw.

Some people who attempt suicide really intend to die. But not all. Suicide attempt is just a way to attract attention; a cry for help; a way to express deep emotional pain. They can’t say how they feel, so, for them, attempting suicide feels like the only way to get their message across. Unfortunately, many people who really didn’t mean to kill themselves end up dead or severely damaged.

Consulting professional counselors and therapists for advice can provide emotional support and can help build coping skills in dealing with problems. Joining a support group with people who are going through the same problems can help provide a caring environment where one can talk freely about problems with people who share the same concerns.

Once depression is lifted due to proper therapy or treatment, the distorted thinking is cleared. The person is ready to face life once more in a new perspective and can find pleasure, energy, and hope once again.

Top celebrity comeback predictions in 2008 – Part 1

“Sightings of Elvis Presley in Budgewoi”

Thursday 17 January 2008…People from all around the world, who predicted Elvis was alive, will have their minds, dreams and thoughts finally put to rest and fruition!

It has been reported to the local media, by a number of age groups visiting their local Friday night hangout “The Halekulani Bowling Club”, (where impersonating acts perform regularly), that the real Elvis Presley appeared at 10:40pm that evening.

“This has been an amazing shock to the local community, to see him in real life, after all these years”, said James, aged 48, from Toukley.

It was rumored, a local physic named Jenny predicted two days earlier, that Elvis would be appearing late into that evening. Taking note of her strong vibes and gut feelings, she brought a pocket sized lie detector, which she ended up attaching to the King’s tongue, turning it gold when the truth was told.

The crowd was silenced and shocked. As Elvis began to address the audience, club members were unable to close their mouths in disbelief. Some ladies lay motionless on the club floor.

The King asked all of us to reflect and just imagine for a minute if we all changed places with him, how we would cope and deal with the paparazzi always hounding us? What would it be like having to be with one of his minders, every minute of the day? Having so many women chasing and wanting you? Not being able to walk down the street in your local town, without being touched, prodded or crushed. Your lifestyle demanding that you are up late every night? Having to experience irregular sleeping patterns because of an oversupply and consumption of so many sleeping pills, antidepressants, mixed as a champagne cocktail. Seriously is it any life at all?

Kimberley Saull, aged 18, who was visiting from the Hornsby area said, she could see the pain in and around Elvis as he explained how deeply depressed he felt, as his body and state of mind slipped away from his personal control. His life was spiraling downwards and he just wanted to be free and had an urgent desire to be anonymous. “Faking his death was the only way out!”

In order to keep his family in an environment they were accustom too and wanted to still please his millions of fans with a piece of his life history, song and legend, he chose to open and continue with the operation of the Graceland property and memorabilia; “opening it to the public”, he said, was like sharing his life with us all, so the separation of his legend, wasn’t so harsh to the world!

“The King” believed he had waited long enough and enjoyed his life as a single man, out of the spotlight to finally reappear and prove how easy it was to fool the world and to say his final goodbyes, as he grasped for breath, his heart stopped beating, he died on stage, being struck by the hand of god above for lying and faking his death.

The body laid stone cold straight on centre stage, no one moved, the only sounds to fill the air, were the sounds of the poker machines calling out for you to be fair and play.

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