Making Celebs out of .. uh .. Celebs

[digitS']

Why do we pay any attention to people who make cooking shows . outside . the . cooking . show?!

Nigella Lawson Admits Cocaine Use

Okay, I can understand why the British would pay a little attention to her. Nigella is the daughter of a former Chancellor of the Exchequer. Now these officials have included people like John Major and Gordon Brown. Familiar names? Well, her father didn't go on to be Prime Minister.

Also, Nigella's "servants" cheated her out of nearly $2million!! Good Heavens! Where does she get pen money like that??

"Not knowing how to roll a marijuana cigarette, she asked others in the well-staffed household to do it for her."

Oh, please!

Steve

 

[Jared77]

I agree. I don't care what celebrities do on their own time. Or what their politics are or any other nonsense they feel the need to report on. I don't care what a Sir Paul McCartney thinks about gay marriage, or what a Bobby Flay thinks about illegal immigration. Or if Nigella Lawson sends her entire fortune up her nose. (Actually that would be a shame because I find her quite attractive but that's beside the point. It's her money, and her nose so she can do with both of them it as she sees fit)

Always kills me that somehow their opinion is somehow more important because they are famous. If I change the channel it's because I'm just not in a "Hey Jude" or a spicy mango chutney kind of mood. Another interesting tidbit is there was someone else in the car with actor Paul Walker when he crashed his sports car killing both of them. Anybody making a fuss over that persons passing? Absolutely not but everybody is saddened by Paul Walker's passing. In 2009 there were 30,797 people who died in a car accident. Yet people are all upset at the loss of 1 person who didn't even die alone?

How about everybody just does what they are supposed to do? How about this? Mr McCartney you do your musician thing, Mr Flay you do your culinary thing, and Ill keep doing my Paramedic thing. We'll all keep our opinions and our hands to ourselves. Deal?

 

[Ridgerunner]

Jared, I recognized McCartney. If it wasnt for that car wreck being all over the national news I would have no idea who Walker was. Who are the others? (Dont answer, please)

For a lark, my wife, son, and I were walk-ons in a movie filmed in New Orleans. The star had great charisma but I could never be anywhere close to as arrogant as he and his hangers-on were. Its not in my character. The local authorities protected them and even offered a public apology when a business owner tried to make some of the entourage follow the law. A lot of the people working on that movie were good basic hardworking people, but some of the celebrities among them were generally the type you might want to spend a wild weekend in Cancun with but no way would you bring them home to meet your Mama.

Steve, I dont know why so many people put these characters up on a pedestal like that. I generally respect them for the talent they have but I really dont know why people expect them to have any great wisdom or knowledge beyond that talent. Maybe it comes from these people being so powerful. They dont wait in line, if they flout the law public officials protect them, people publically worship them and many young ladies will literally do anything for them, and they have all kinds of bling. I dont know if that hero worship comes from their star-power or charisma or if people dream of having that power. Probably some of both.

 

[897tgigvib]

I have a Neanderthal question...

HOWZCOM CELEBRETIES ARE CELEBRITIES BUT ME AND YOU AREN'T???

I vote for all the newspapers, rags and magazines to stop discussing celebrities and start discussing real people.

Yea! Never mind that Leonardo di somethingerother, check out Marshall Smyth on the dock at fashionable Lake Pillsbury. see the circle on the photo of Mildred Synosky pinching his butt!

Lol! That'd sell millions of copies of people magazine! Billions!

 

[digitS']

No Marshall, I think Ridgerunner has it right.

I don't think that it is "beside the point" that Jared finds Nigella attractive. After she claimed to be a "domestic diva" and the British found out who she was, she was golden. Oh, to be like Nigella . . . .

And then you were talking about all of us using 3 names - Bobby Sue and Billy Bob . . . It is just a step deeper into obscurity.

The average newspaper boy in Pittsburgh knows more about the universe than did Galileo, Aristotle, Leonardo, or any of those other guys who were so smart they only needed one name. ~ Daniel Gilbert

Steve

 

[Jared77]

She is a good looking woman, but so is the women at one of the local hospitals. The only difference is one is an English tabloid generator, and the other is a pharmacy tech. Both are very attractive but honestly I could care less about the daily activities of either of these good looking women. I don't care who they are dating, or what they name their kids, or if they are a racist or anything else anybody had to say about them.

I don't support causes just because some movie star does. I don't use certain products because certain athletes or famous people use them.

I actually met a movie star. Was filming a movie and one of the movie techs fell & was injured their leg. We responded, and treated the person. It wasn't life threatening and as we're immobilizing the leg this up walks this big time actor. He waited till we were getting ready to transport the injured person and he stopped us. He shook our hands and thanked us for the job we do. He was a real class act and it's always nice to be appreciated. But after that he's still just a person.

I never understood why anybody cares about all these intimate details of their lives. That's where it begins and ends for me. If Nigella had a trick for poaching eggs I'm all ears. Just like if Paul McCartney has a new song again Im all ears. But if Sir Paul McCartney wants to try to tell me about blood diamonds in the Congo, or someone publishes an article about Nigella Lawson having an inappropriate relationship with a zebra I'll pass thank you.

 

[digitS']

Well, I would too, Jared!

But, somebody is buying these tabloid papers. And . . . the morning news programs have turned into exactly the same things! Think of the number of viewers! I don't understand it.

No one would pay any attention to Nigella's home life, never would she have millions of 's and she would likely pass unnoticed on the streets if she didn't look the way she does & come from the family she comes from. Believe it or not, I "knew of" her sister before I realized that they were related.

Steve
oh and the only trick i know of is to hold a large spoon and spoon the water over the egg several times while it is cooking

 

[Ridgerunner]

A bit off topic, but maybe not.. I dont think it is just women, though I notice the ladies on this forum are remarkable quiet on this topic.

When I was working with men stationed on the offshore oil and gas platforms for two weeks at a time, 12 hours on and 12 hours off, many became addicted to the daytime soap operas. They would work through emergencies and all that, but they had a 12 hour shift to perform certain regular tasks. Theyd often schedule their timed breaks to allow them to watch The Young and the Restless or maybe Days of our Lives. You learned which platform watched which soap and did not call them when that soap was on if you wanted cooperation and help. Some of those men were really attached to those soaps.

I think that if you watch a TV program (comedy, drama, or reality) you identify with those characters, even if they are fictional. You want to know what is going on in their lives. Same with characters in a good book. Maybe this Celebrity Watching is something like that. You kind of get into the characters and wonder what is this idiot a.. a.. person going to do next.

 

[canesisters]

Well, this particular woman hasn't commented (though I have been reading) because I don't have a useful opinion to add.
That being said...
I couldn't care LESS what the 'stars' do in their personal lives. I think that it's a shame that so many people have no 'real' heroes in their lives to look up to and that they can be swayed into following every (often manufactured) detail of the 'stars' lives. I have little trouble finding real people - in my own circle of friends and acquaintances (some on here) - to admire, look up to, and try to emulate. So I can't understand why anyone would care one wit about the stuff that is taken as entertainment news these days.

 

[digitS']

I honestly hadn't thought to bring this story up but I've just read a good synopsis of it in the German newspaper, Der Spiegel. (Thoughtfully, they have an English language website .)

Tabloid Espionage: Trial (link)

I have been following this story for years and am now following the trial of 2 of the former newspaper editors and their "alleged" accomplices. The internet is great for this and the scheduling fits well with my own early rising schedule. Everything in London has just about been completed for the day by the time I've had my 2nd cup of morning coffee .

Now - this - is a scandal that I am interested in . . . but not before the British people realized that it involved the murder of a teenage girl and the exploitation of that story by people in the highest ranks of journalism and government.

Steve