Alt: Hopefully they'll all disappear into thin air and then people will have no choice but to pay more attention to ME.
Alternatively I second Col Dracula's point - it would be nice if the "celebrity culture" would die a death this year, or at least be whittled back to people who were famous for being good at something, rather than the current legions of mumbling, slack-jawed, mouth-breathing, knuckle-dragging cretins who will fight tooth and nail to be famous just for the sake of being famous and/or bill and coo over the intimate minutiae of every other vacous australopithecine non-entity who is famous for the sake of being famous.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:02, 1 reply, 15 years ago)

It would be lovely, but it'll never happen
Lowest common denominator will always win, plus there's too much money to be made by the media by creating and exploiting celebrities, especially the talentless wankstains that see fame as an easy route to money for doing fuck all.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:07, Reply)

How can we change it?
There must be some way that we can turn the tide of popular opinion so that people realise that someone like Katie Price is famous for nothing more than being a crass, pneumatic-breasted gobshite who made a living by removing clothes for money and developed her career into one in which she gets paid for airing her increasingly pathetic filthy laundry to whichever magazine bids highest and milking it as the ultimate tragedy-porn.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:11, Reply)

Yeah but she just split up with her husband, we should feel sorry for her
Poor lamb. Still, it'll provide enough material for another 'book'.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:15, Reply)

we should take bets on which moron she will marry next

( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:20, Reply)

Channelling all my psychic senses
I see a muscular, orange idiot.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:21, Reply)

Carrot Top?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:40, Reply)

Oh man, that would be totally awesome!

(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:49, Reply)

I'm putting a fiver on Chompy

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:22, Reply)

I'm going with Wee Jimmy Krankie.
The ultimate celebrity marriage.
( Davros' Granddad a voice of calm reason in a world of spastics., Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:49, Reply)

I often thought, "Who reads those fucking things?"
Then I saw an advert for Robbie "So fucking smug I'm like a Northern version of University Challenge" Williams' most recent "book" with the subtitle "Exclusive to Tesco."

That pretty much answered it for me.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:21, Reply)

These people:
www.life.com/image/93176265

Who, as I'm sure you'll agree, all look like paragons of good taste and intellect.
(BelladonnaAnodyne Melissa's gonna wet herself, I swear..., Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:24, Reply)

I honestly don't know if we ever can
The money/gossip making formula works. The only thing I can think of would be the total, unanimous slating of all talentless celebrities by the media as a whole. If every paper, blog and tv show lambasts everybody on reality tv and talent shows, maybe it'd sway public opinion over to also seeing these wannabe celebs as being vacuous and attention-seeking.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:20, Reply)

The simultaneous deaths of Piers Morgan, Rebekah Wade and Simon Cowell
would help this cause a great deal.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:22, Reply)

Whilst it would help
There'll always be more waiting to take up their places.
( Labia Majora You keep on talking but it makes no sense at all, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:24, Reply)

And I suppose we're all guilty of it to some extent.
I, for example, have never actually seen any of Christina Hendricks' work, and can therefore not assess the quality of her acting, but that doesn't stop me occasionally doing a google image search and wishing could I have just one squeeze of those magnificent breasts.
(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:31, Reply)

She's superb in Firefly, even if she was a little smaller then

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:40, Reply)

Christina Hendricks is amazing
/envies
( Amberl was stripey and dominated Europe, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:57, Reply)

She does have a rather cracking pair of...erm...assets?

( Agnostic Antichrist Baltimora, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 16:59, Reply)

I would
I'm not even remotely gay, but I still would.
(berk, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 17:16, Reply)

Well, that makes three of us...I like where this is going...

(LongJohnBaldry, Tue 11 Jan 2011, 17:23, Reply)