I read the papersI know what these celebrity parties are like. Everyone's doing coke off Fiona Bruce while Sophie Ellis-Bexter is hosting a gangbang in the corner and William Rees-Mogg stares in through the window forlornly as the snow starts to fall.
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Fri 16 Oct 2009, 19:32,
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YOU WEREN'T THERE MAN!YOU WEREN'T THERE!
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Redsushi! Whoop! Whoop! Yes, that one!,
Fri 16 Oct 2009, 19:45,
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Yeah, but it's a social contract innit?Being included in sweeping generalisations that stop just short of people saying you were bummed to death and deserved it is part of the price they pay for fame.
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Fri 16 Oct 2009, 19:47,
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That does raise an interesting debate.Does one, by virtue of being famous, which, up until recently meant you were "good" at something, preclude the right to privacy? And myself, as a member of the public from having privacy from their some times sordid antics?
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Fri 16 Oct 2009, 19:51,
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Oh I'm all in favour of privacy.But I think we have the right to make sweeping generalisations about celebrities. It's different when you start targeting individual celebrities. I'd say it's okay for me to say they're all snorting coke 24/7. It's not okay for me to say that Connie Huq is snorting coke 24/7. You see the difference.
It comes down to the whole 'rock star' mythos. I don't want to live in a world where there aren't some people living a wild coke-fueled life at celebrity parties, even though it's not a lifestyle I'd want to live. But I don't need to know the identities of the individuals involved. It's enough comfort to know that, in a gloomy world of recession and such, someone is having a rollocking good time somewhere, even if it's not me. To me, that's their social function.
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Fri 16 Oct 2009, 20:02,
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It comes down to the whole 'rock star' mythos. I don't want to live in a world where there aren't some people living a wild coke-fueled life at celebrity parties, even though it's not a lifestyle I'd want to live. But I don't need to know the identities of the individuals involved. It's enough comfort to know that, in a gloomy world of recession and such, someone is having a rollocking good time somewhere, even if it's not me. To me, that's their social function.