What exactly is the price of fame? We know that celebrities are very well paid.

Jennifer Aniston commanded a salary of $27 million last year. That's 843 times the average American's salary of around $32,000 a year. That's a pretty nice premium to get for being famous. But what should that increase pay for? Is it enough to cover the complete lack of privacy afforded famous folks today, the media scrutiny and sometimes the inability to drive to the gas station without the paparazzi tailgating their BMWs? Maybe it is. It's hard to put a price tag on privacy. We raise these questions after reading your comments in response to our post about the ethics involved in releasing Corey Haim's 911 call. Jojo posted: "Just because a person is a celebrity does not mean we should have access to EVERY part of their life. How sad that a mother's anguish can be played over and over for all the world to hear." Keith posted: "When you make money from celebrity, you cant deny celebrity... you go as you came in...." Samantha posted: "These people chose to have public lives when they went into showbiz. Are we just supposed to ignore them once they die? If they CHOSE the public life, it goes for in death too. Air the tapes. If you don't want to hear it... PLUG YOUR EARS!" Our commenters represent two sides of this quandary. Jojo and heaps of others say that the public should not be given access to every part of a famous person's life, but Keith and Samantha (and again, plenty of others) believe that celebrities sign those rights away when they start accepting fat paychecks. There is an argument that back in the good old days (before the Internet, a 24-hour celebrity news cycle and a variety of celebrity tabloid magazines), celebs were still able to exist in their pretty and famous bubbles without such enormous intrusion into their private lives. While that is true, it is also true that the rise of more celebrity news outlets has managed to create more celebrities. Oftentimes, there is a direct correlation between how often we hear about a certain actor, actress, singer or reality star and how much money they bring in at the box office, in album sales or through endorsements. The continued intrusion into their lives also serves to raise their salaries. Would 'Mr. and Mrs. Smith' have made $186 million at the box office if it hadn't been for speculation over Brad and Angie's romance? Would that same couple have been able to sell off pictures of their subsequent three offspring for tens of millions of dollars if it hadn't been for the celebrity media's interest in them? Would Paris Hilton ever have risen above the status of banquette dancing socialite if it hadn't been for all her gossip column coverage? It's give and take, plain and simple, but that doesn't mean it's always fair. Now we want to hear from you. Do you think celebrities sign away their privacy because of their big paychecks? Tell us in the comments what amount you would have to be paid to offer the public full access to all your personal garbage.

Cameron Diaz and her boyfriend, Justin Timberlake, were leaving a friends Hollywood Hills home in September when a photographer jumped out of the bushes and tried to take their picture. It didnt go well for either the photographer or the stars. Diaz filed a lawsuit accusing the photographer with assault with a deadly weapon, a vehicle. The photographer also is suing, accusing Diazs entourage of verbal and physical assault and entrapment when he tried to flee. The confrontation itself was unremarkable just the latest skirmish in the long- running battle over how far is too far when it comes to chronicling the lives of stars in pictures and in print. But it clearly illustrates the escalating nature of hostilities between the celebrities and those they consider threatening stalkers. While most Americans dont have a media horde following them every time they set foot outside the house and possibly even photographers crawling through the bushes when theyre home celebrities privacy is being eclipsed by the same technologies that are eating away at everyones ability to be left alone: long-lens cameras, listening devices, pretexting, etc. In some ways, stars can be considered the canaries in the privacy coal mine, feeling the effects of intrusions into their already-diminished private space well before the rest of us. High profile an invitation to crooks Because of their high profiles, for example, they may be more vulnerable to identity theft. Several years ago, a Brooklyn man used the information in an issue of Forbess "400 Richest People in America" to obtain financial info on a number of celebrities, including Steven Spielberg, Martha Stewart, Oprah Winfrey. (This case is chronicled in detail in the book "Your Evil Twin," by MSNBC.com's Bob Sullivan.) Golf legend Tiger Woods and other sports figures also have been hit by identity thieves in recent years. Perhaps more surprising, the celebrities arent above committing identity theft themselves. This year, Beverly Peele, a former top model from the 1990s, was convicted of identity theft after pleading guilty to buying $10,000 worth of merchandise with someone elses credit card. According to investigators, Peele who appeared on more than 250 magazine covers found a purse and returned it to the owner, but not before she copied down the credit card numbers and charged more than $10,000 worth of merchandise. She was sentenced in August to three years' probation and 300 of hours of commun ity service and ordered to pay $5,000 to the victim and American Express. While Hollywoods elite are occasionally victimized by a regular-joe sort of crime, however, their greatest privacy fear is unquestionably the ever-more-aggressive media. Its a central dilemma for the famous that to remain on the A-list, you have to be in the public eye. But increasingly, celebrities complain that in a world filled with online celebrity blogs and

aggressive tabloids that traffic in embarrassing candid shots and scandalous stories their privacy is being invaded in ways that were inconceivable even five years ago. Theres a level of familiarity with celebrities thats implied by this tabloid world, says Catherine Olim, a publicist with the PMK-HBH agency who represents such stars as Nicole Kidman and Glenn Close. Its very scary. And it can literally put celebrities lives in danger. No quarter from paparazzi Many observers believed the tragic death of Britains Princess Diana and two others in a 1997 car crash in a Paris tunnel while being chased by photographers would lead the paparazzi to back off. But there is no indication thats happening:
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Mayhem erupted learlier this month in the western Indian city of Pune when Brad Pitt, Angelina Jolie and their children fled in a motorized rickshaw to escape a media horde. A few days earlier, reporters and a photographer complained that they were manhandled by guards protecting Pitt and Jolie.

Jennifer Aniston last year sued a photographer who she said used invasive, intrusive and unlawful measures to take topless pictures of her in 2005 at her Hollywood Hills home. The suit was later settled.

A photographers minivan plowed into Lindsay Lohans Mercedez Benz in May 2005 when she made a U-turn while trying to escape pursuing paparazzi. Authorities said that the photographer was most likely driving carelessly but did not file charges.

The celebrities arent the only ones endangered by the medias aggressive behavior or the stars evasive measures: A photographer was charged with assault after allegedly hitting a 5-year-old girl with a camera and shoving two other people at Californias Disneyland in September 2005 when he tried to take pictures of Reese Witherspoon and her 6-year-old daughter. Britney Spears whose mother Lynne once tried to run over a gaggle of reporters and photographers drove off with her infant son in her lap in February after being surprised by paparazzi outside a Starbucks in Malibu, Calif. Those celebrity chroniclers who defend their aggressive coverage argue that stars make a Faustian pact in which they trade away their privacy for the perks of fame, then cry foul when they realize the price they have paid. And they reject the notion that in the good old days, celebrities were able to cavort and carry on without press scrutiny. As long as theres been a movie business, they say, writers and photographer have been feeding the publics fascination for the people who appear on the silver screens. That argument is partly true.

Early chroniclers worked with studios Movie magazines and gossip columns proliferated in the 1930s, but journalists worked hand-inhand with the studios to publicize stars through fawning coverage, promote ph ony romances and cover up scandals. And while early gossip columnists such as Hedda Hopper and Louella Parsons wielded astonishing influence, they were often doing the bidding of the studios. Like stern aunts, they often scolded the ones who violated the studios strict morality codes, packed on weight or dated someone the suits felt could damage their image. When the studio system collapsed in the mid -1950s, a new, aggressive style of celebrity reporting emerged, spearheaded by a salacious magazine called Confidential. It outed gay celebs (Liberaces theme song should be Mad About the Boy, chortled one headline), reported on extramarital affairs, drug use and interracial dating. After a number of stars sued the tabloid for libel, it was financially crippled and, for more than a decade, celebrity scandal went underground. It didnt resurface in a big way until The National Enquirer, a tabloid previously devoted mostly to blood and gore, refocused on celebrities in 1971 and quickly built one of largest circulations in the country. When Time Inc. launched People in 1974, it brought celebrity reporting back into the mainstream. Other publishers quickly followed. Television entered the fray in the late 1970s, first with segments and then entire shows d edicated to celebrity news. Greater reward leads to more risk The rapid growth of the market upped the ante for photographers and writers who suddenly discovered they could make a financial killing with an exclusive picture or a story about a soughtafter star. This led to more-aggressive pursuit on their part and increasing pressure on the stars privacy. In recent years, the issue of how much privacy celebrities have a right to expect has been further blurred by exhibitionistic stars like Paris Hilton, Anna Nicole Smith and Madonna and celebrity reality shows. Nicole Richie, for instance, has blamed her recent startling weight loss on anxiety provoked by the constant buzz of paparazzi, but she still continues to appear in a reality TV show. Some stars, including Britney Spears, argue for their right to privacy even as they set up Web sites featuring pictures of them at home and post tidbits about their supposedly private lives. Others have been known to publicly complain about their loss of privacy while simultaneously leaking their stories to the tabs.

Celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and Jodie Foster, on the other hand, routinely refuse to answer any questions about their personal lives. Nothing underscores the different tolerances for publicity among celebs more than weddings. Some stars go to great lengths to keep the press away, John F. Kennedy Jr.s super-secret nuptials to Carolyn Bessette being a famous example. Others invite the media, though usually with a price tag attached. Wrong rag bags nupti als When Catherine Zeta Jones and Michael Douglas sued UK celeb mag OK! for crashing their wedding and taking pics, the issue was exclusivity rather than privacy. The couple had sold exclusive rights to photograph the event to rival tab Hello! Some who invite the media behind closed doors later regret it. Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey have said that allowing the public to watch their marital spats whether real or staged during the reality show Newlyweds helped lead to the failure of their marriage. I learned it's a real premium to keep some of your personal life personal, Lachey said recently. When you're able to ... go home and have a life separate from your job, it's a real blessing. Whether burned by experience or simply turned off by the relentless hounding, other celebrities have tried to fight back, with mixed results. Sylvester Stallone attempted to organize a celebrity boycott of paparazzi. The photographers retaliated by refusing to take his picture when he appeared at press events. Actor George Clooney regularly assails the paparazzi and the tabloid media. Georges philosophy is simple: If it happens in public, then its fair game, explains his spokesman, Stan Rosenfield. But if it happens in private, its private. Clooney also has gone underground to fight the likes of Gawkerstalker.com (a celebrity-crazed Web site that reports tidbits such as: Faye Dunaway is shopping at Duane Reade at 57 th & Sixth right now") by encouraging others to send in fake sightings. The reason, Rosenfield explains, is that such reports can bring out the crazies. Pit stops ... in the soap opera of life Were talking about peoples lives here, he says. Beyond the issue of safety, some stars believe the wall-to-wall coverage of their personal lives can overshadow their on-screen characters. I think more and more people pay attention to actors private lives (and that) makes it difficult to suspend disbelief when you are going to watch their movie because really what you are thinking about is whatever you have read about them in a magazine rather than the performance they are giving, Ben Affleck said recently while promoting his movie Hollywoodland. The movies become incidental pit stops and commercial breaks in the soap opera of their life.

In an interview with National Public Radio, Affleck said that the tabloid hysteria surrounding Bennifer the nickname applied to his now-kaput romance with Jennifer Lopez reached a level that was deeply disturbing. (Strangers) know details about a relationship, he said. You can't believe other people know those sort of things about somebody else. It's like stuff I don't know about good friends of mine. Some who make their living covering celebrities and their foibles argue that such protests often are disingenuous, since the celebrities often seek the very publicity they end up criticizing. I respect celebrities who are consistent about issues of privacy, but its very disheartening to sit down with a star who announces, Ive just decided to stop talki ng about my private life, says celebrity profiler Degen Pener, who has interviewed some of the biggest names in Hollywood. Suddenly, My private life is sacred Its difficult when a celebrity whos in the news for a high profile relationship or break -up says, I just want to talk about my craft. There are celebrities all too happy to talk about their private lives when everything is going well, but the minute things start to sour, you hear, My private life is sacred. Those hired to look out for celebrities interests say such ruses are only natural, given the increasing assault on their privacy. Other stars are opting for tougher responses, hiring super-protective publicists to keep the press at bay and acting quickly to threaten and file lawsuits . And when conventional methods fail to keep snoopers away, some may resort to extreme methods. Security consultant Anthony Pellicano, known as private investigator to the stars as well as thug to the stars, reportedly was sometimes hired by celebrities who wanted to keep their troubles out of print. Earlier this year, Pellicano was indicted on 110 charges, including wiretapping, witness tampering, destruction of evidence, and racketeering. Prosecutors contend that Pellicano illegally tapped the phones of Hollywood stars such as Sylvester Stallone and bribed police officers to run the names of more than 60 people, including comedians Garry Shandling and Kevin Nealon, through government databases. First the cash, then the bat? One former associate also claimed that Pellicano would attempt to buy tabloid reporters notes and tapes before the stories appeared in print. If that didnt work, others said, he was not above threatening them, with one noting that he liked to brag that he kept a baseball bat in th e trunk of his car. Pellicano is currently jailed on different charges and scheduled to go on trial Feb. 13.

While not endorsing such tactics, power publicist Olim says its understandable that celebrities are lashing out against the unrelenting intrusions they are subjected to. More and more, Im seeing stars who are refusing to be photographed in their homes, who absolutely do not want their children photographed, she says. And what of those who say that the loss of privacy is the price of fame? Ive always resented this notion that people are fair game, she counters. Theyre not public servants. Theyre in the entertainment business. Movie stars should be allowed to have private lives. That doesnt seem too much to ask, does it?

Why paparazzi are wrong

PRIVACY

Ken Sunshine, a publicist who represents Hollywood stars Ben Affleck, Justin Timberlake and Leonardo DiCaprio, says the paparazzi obsession with his clients is out of control and "It's got to stop." Sunshine sat down with "CNN Presents" to discuss his view of the paparazzi as part of a documentary "Chasing Angelina: Paparazzi and Celebrity Obsession." (Read a defense of paparazzi from Frank Griffin by clicking here. ) QUESTION: Are the paparazzi going too far? SUNSHINE: They're totally out of control. It is crazy to have packs of people, whose full -time, quote, job, is to get the most embarrassing photo they can of a celebrity. How would you like to have a camera two inches away fro m your face, where the ... the stalkerazzi is daring you to push ... be pushed away? ... Somebody's going to get seriously injured or killed in a car accident unless something is done about these car chases. That is the single worst thing about the abuse o f these stalkerazzis, and it's got to stop. Can you imagine driving up or down the Hollywood Hills and having a team of ... desperate lunatics, one behind you, one in front of you, who are cutting you off purposely, playing chicken on the Hollywood Hills? It's dangerous. ... Lindsay Lohan almost did get killed by some lunatic that purposely rammed her car. I mean, what kind of behavior is that? Q: Are the paparazzi invading celebrities' privacy? SUNSHINE: There is just something weird about a human being wh ose livelihood, quote unquote, means living in the trees outside a celebrity's house. ... I think that the lack of respect for any degree of privacy that nobody in the public would want to tolerate in terms of the behavior of photographers, the behavior of press people ... those basic journalistic standards, is something that society should be reacting against. ... There are some obvious examples out there of celebrities who crave that attention, that want to be covered. That's their right, go for it. And t hese paparazzis can make as much money if they want. But there are a lot of celebrities that don't. And they should have the right to be protected from absolutely abusive behavior. Q: Should celebrities' children be off limits? SUNSHINE: You're dealing with very personal parts of people's lives, where I think there ought to be some right to privacy at some level, particularly if it involves children. To me, I draw that line in the firmest way possible. Q: Overall thoughts on the paparazzi? SUNSHINE: There's something weird about somebody whose livelihood involves hiding in bathroom stalls. There's something weird about somebody whose living involves causing a ruckus at a shopping mall. ... There's something weird about literally playing chicken driving up or down the Hollywood Hills. ... There's something outrageous, illegal and immoral about all of that.

Journalism is a field of work that requires an individual to balance the ethical aspects of invading another persons privacy with getting the information they need to cover a specific story. It is becoming increasingly common to find out what a certain celebrity has said or done yesterday in todays newspaper and magazine tabloids. Our society has become so fixated in watching and reading about others, that sometimes we forget that celebrities should have some privacy of their own. Stories in the headlines can range from what a certain celebrity orders from a fast food restaurant to information concerning a divorce settlement between a couple. Every solitary move a famous individual makes in his or her life is documented in a photograph, editorial, or headline on a TV show dedicated to exposing their life. If famous celebrities cannot receive any amount of privacy, why should individuals like ourselves be guaranteed that our personal lives are not exposed to the world? Should not all human beings be able to keep certain aspects of their life personal? Journalists and photographers should realize that celebrities are human beings that would like to keep certain parts of their lives to themselves, and not have their lives consumed with photographs and editorials devoted to exposing all details of their life, good or bad. Although numerous individuals think that being famous means being in the public eye on a daily basis, people do not understand how far some photographers and journalists will go to get a juicy story. Being famous does come with life altering changes that celebrities have to learn to accept no matter how drastic. Celebrities start to become familiar with people watching their every move from the minute they wake up to the time they will go back to bed. Journalists and photographers will literally stalk famou s individuals down to simply get a juicy story or photograph that they can write about in the next editorial. Photographers seem to be the worst people when it comes to stalking celebrities with their cameras. Simply going out to run errands can turn into the biggest nightmare for celebrities. For instance, in a picture found on the NPR website about stalking celebrities, the caption for the photograph reads, Ben Affleck hides his face from paparazzi as he enters the CNN building in Los Angeles for an appearance on Larry King Live (Brand). As a result of being bombarded with cameras, the actor was forced to hide his face with his jacket and hands blocking the photographers from taking pictures of him. What some individuals fail to realize is that interview s and appearances are actual jobs for celebrities. In an interview about paparazzi, a celebrity publicist, Ken Sunshine, says, It is crazy to have packs of people, whose full-time, quote, job, is to get the most embarrassing photo they can of a celebrity. How would you like to have a camera two inches away from your face, where the...the stalkerazzi is daring you to push...be pushed away (Why Paparazzi Are Wrong). How would anyone feel if when going to work they were surrounded with cameras and light-bulb flashes constantly? With the amount of attention numerous celebrities receive from the media, invading their privacy is just another part of a journalists job description. Such actions as going through another individuals trash can lead to the next big headline on tomorrows magazine. Some journalists will ultimately dedicate their life to exposing someone elses in magazine editorials and articles. The media is certainly abusing the rights they are given by exposing details of famous individuals lives. Anything from celebrity scandals and breakups to private matters like divorce are always shown on TV shows featured on E News, which show the latest and most up to date stories. These shows will provide viewers with hard evidence including paper documents and photographs that depict a certain story. Stories dealing with breakups, for instance, the popular divorce between Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston after seven years of marriage, are sold to specific magazines for a large amount of money. In an article from ABC News about celebrity media going out of control, the authors make a valid argument when stating ...beyond the personal tragedy of one couple's struggles lies an industry poised to reap hundreds of millions of dollars from misfortunes such as theirs (Tapper and Morris). Even though paparazzi are most famous for selling juicy photographs to TV shows and magazines for thousands of dollars, celebrities can sometimes benefit from the situation as well. Tabloids are probably most famous for exposing the dirty secrets and scandals of celebrities, true or not. This fast-paced industry has had a major influence on what the media shows to our society. The tactics used in more authoritative newspapers such as the New York Times are extremely different from the tactics used in celebrity gossip magazines like Star Magazine or the National Enquirer. Facts written in highly regarded newspapers are checked multiple times for credibility, whereas tabloids will say just about anything to get a juicy story. In an informative website about tabloids, the author explains the way tabloid writers come up with the material for articles and headlines as, The key to tabloid story writing is that something doesnt have to be true to printsomeone just has to have said it was true (Grabianowski). In essence, almost anything can be written about celebrities' as long as someone has said it is true. Although some stories and headlines may

seem like they are true, almost anything can be made up to get people to buy and believe what the media is showing. Why should celebrities' be the target of tabloids? Why not expose regular individual's secrets to the world instead? Our society is not interested in everyday people's lives because they put celebrities' on a pedestal, desiring to know about their favorite celebrities daily actions through magazines, photographs, TV shows, etc. Photography is a subcategory under journalism that focuses on the visual aspects of informing others about a specific story in the news. Many photographers will often stalk celebrities down on a daily basis by hiding out somewhere nearby and keeping a very close watch to their every move. I some extreme cases, some photographers will be so aggressive with celebrities that it often results in verbal abuse, car accidents, and ultimately death. The most famous example of violent photographers in action is the accident of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed. Jason Fraser, a prominent press photographer remains acknowledged for his attempts of getting images of Princess Diana and her newfound lover when the relationship first began. However, when things got out of control one night in the tunnel of Pont dAlma, one selfish act to get photographs of the couple turned out to be the night that ended their lives forever. It is said that the photographer, Fraser, is reported to have earned more than [pound]1m from a series of pictures taken this time (Brown). Paparazzi must realize that even though pictures can be worth such an extreme amount of money, celebrities are people too, and such extreme cases like death can become reality if the situation becomes dangerous enough. With fame comes its share of attention, no matter how much in amount or in what form exactly. All celebrities understand that when he or she becomes famous, people will become dedicated to watching their every move throughout their daily lives. Although celebrities expect what comes with fame, every single detail of their life should not be exposed in the next tabloid or magazine article. Celebrities should be able to keep some of their private information to themselves and not have to read it or hear about it the next day. However, what does that ultimately say about our society in itself? Our society is so interested in reading and watching about others that we forget that they should have some privacy of their own. Human beings should be guaranteed some limit of privacy no matter how famous they are. After all, if every solitary detail of our lives as regular individuals was exposed in the next magazine article published worldwide, no one would ever be happy.

Celebrity Culture
The celebrity culture refers to the culture of popularizing certain people who have certain attributes that society deem exceptional. In this modern era, these attributes may or may not be genuine. Back in the days of actors, actresses, singers, authors, producers, artists, sports people and dancers and so forth, people needed to have certain talents and virtues to be known throughout society. Now it is common for people to be we llknown and in television talk shows and celebrity magazines due to their unethical behavior or belligerent self-promotion. People sometimes attempt at becoming famous by various means such as entering reality TV or dating someone of high status. The glorification of people who seek stardom has made the celebrity culture based on infamy not fame. That is the main reason why many people dislike celebrities. Unfortunately the celebrity culture has and always will have an influence on society. As they are constantly in the media, they have become role models for adolescents and teenagers. Interest in celebrities makes for a multi billion dollar business in celeb sites. This has raised a number of issues, many of them controversial and causes major debates concerning the influence of these famed people. For example, the appeal of drug and alcohol abuse has increased due to images of intoxicated celebriti es spread across magazines and television. Furthermore casual celebrity sexappears to be the norm amongst the youth. Unfortunately nothing can be done to monitor who does or doesnt become famous as the power in is in the hands of the media. They are able to control what our children see. Unfortunately sex, drugs, rock and roll and any form of controversy is where the money lies.

Teenagers today look up to celebrities for their everyday fashion tips, movies or albums and even their bodies. But what happens when you take looking up to someone to a whole different level. And sometimes very tragic things can happen. When teenagers turn on their televisions and seeLindsay Lohan or Nicole Richie in photos looking frail with all their bones sticking out, that sends out a powerful message. Teens think, "look how beautiful she looks and she's skinny as a stick." They think that just because they are celebs and get comments that they can go and starve themselves to death just to look like them. Knowingly there's a lot of pressure out there for these Hollywood Starlets to stay thin because they think it's in and the fact that they are getting paid major bucks to grace the pages of Elle and Maxim magazine with the hottest bodies on earth. What teens don't reconize is that their bodies take a lot of work and crash dieting to look like that, it's certainly not naturally, we all know that if you want to look hot you have to have work, dedication and pressure which is why some starlets begin to fall downward turning toward eating disorders. Anorexia is a when you starve yourself in order to lose, or maintain your weight. Symptoms include osteoporosis at a young age, frail bones. Bulimia is when a person eats a huge amount of food in one sitting and then either vomiting or using laxatives to get rid of the food. Signs are clear teeth instead of white teeth, scars on ones knuckles from the acid in the vomit. Drug use is another common problem those goes along with the image of celebrities. Paris Hilton smoking pot, Nicole Richie arrested for drugs and Supermodel Kate Moss for her cocaine addiction . This is all a sign to teens that it's cool to do drugs. People who look up to their idles think they can do no wrong so when they hear about their favorite celeb getting high and in drug rehad, they want to do it also.
Not to mention that they make it look pretty glamourous and they don't talk about all the side effects that these people go through just like any other human being on the planet. I have heard girls say that they wanted to do drugs just because a celebrity did it, and it was cool. It's the same thing as peer pressure except there's more power than you can see. Celebrities influence a lot in our culture, they way they act, what they wear and what they do can say a lot to young girls out there who need really good role models out there for them to look up to. It's best to keep images clean-cut so that our children have positive images in magazines and on newstands they can count on.

Question by .: How come we care so much about Celebrities?Why do we look up to them? some of them are not even educated .i mean.. if Brad pitt was at one hotel and George Bush in an hotel adjacent to it .. who would you go to meet..(considering that there was some kind of charity/or other event.) Best answer:

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I dont look up to celebs,but I do find them fascinating. Know better? Leave your own answer in the comments!

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Celebrity culture 2

Gossip magazines are extremely popular in the UK and around the world

This is World Xtra from the BBC. In this series we look at various ideas that you may hear about in the news and current affairs programmes. John talks to an expert in every programme, who can tell us all about the topic. Todays topic is obsession with celebrities. John: Hello. Today, we meet Fiona Prior, the BBCs entertainment reporter, to find out why people like to know about the lives of famous people. Why we like celebrities and why were obsessed with celebrity culture. World Xtra from the BBC John: In this edition, youll hear Fiona talking about escapism. Thats a word to describe what people do to forget the reality of everyday life. They escape from real life by watching a celebrity on the television for example. Fiona also mentions gossip magazines. These are mag azines that include stories about the personal lives of celebrities. These include what people are saying about celebrities, what people are gossiping about. And Fiona says people often look up to celebrities in Britain, they admire them. So, why do you think so many people are obsessed with celebrities?
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Fiona: I think the main reason some people are obsessed with celebrities is because of escapism. I think when you leave the office at night, or youve just put the kids to bed, diving into the latest gossip magazine or switching on the latest reality TV show, it allows you 30 minutes of forgetting exactly whats going on in your own life. I think in Britain, particularly, a lot of people look up to the celebrity. You know, the way they look, what they spend their money on. Perhaps its a way of trying to live their lives through their favourite celebrity and kind of imagining Oh, if I had their money, and if I had their looks and their fame, thats what I would do. John: Celebrity culture has become an obsession for some people and there has been some discussion about ordinary people living their lives through their favourite celebrity. In other words some people spend a lot of time reading about or watching films and television programmes about their favourite celebrity and forget about the reality of their own lives. Fiona says these people need a reality check. They need to think more about the reality of their own lives and not celebrity lives. Fiona: I dont think . theres nothing wrong with having a little bit of an interest, it can be seen as a bit of fun, but I think when you start really living your life for that celebrity, I think perhaps thats when you kind of need a bit of a reality check. World Xtra from the BBC There has been some discussion about ordinary people living their lives through their favourite celebrity.
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So, do you enjoy reading celebrity gossip?

Lets look again at some of the words we heard John and Fiona use. They talked about people having an obsession with celebrity culture an obsession means something you think about a lot and cant stop reading about and being interested in. Gossip magazines are extremely popular in the UK and around the world they tell you what celebrities are doing in their personal lives. This might include big events such as a marriage or birth of a child, but gossip magazines are also interested in mundane or ordinary details, such as where a celebrity has been spotted shopping or having lunch. They often also include many photographs of celebrities, especially unflattering ones that means ones where the celebrity doesnt look very attractive. Fiona said that an interest in the lives of famous people is a kind of escapism. This means a way to escape your own boring life, or from your problems, by reading about someone elses life and problems. Fiona also said that some people who become obsessed with celebrities need a reality check they need to look more carefully at their own real lives. Todays programme was about obsession with celebrity culture.