An ever increasing phenomenon

[deannawol]

So, who else is completely bored of all these B-Z list celebrities popping up on our screens, making complete fools of themselves in an attempt to regain that thin grasp of fame they once had.  I tuned in to the end of "I'm a celebrity get me out of here" last night and watched it with about as much interest as I generally hold for something not very important.  Now, if you're claustophobic (enclosed spaces), arachnophobic (spiders), hydrophobic (water) and have never swum in your life, why would you inflict a task on yourself that involves you being trapped under a thin sheet of glass underwater with all the local wildlife, crocodiles and snakes in the hopes of grabbing a tiny yellow plastic starfish?  Surely obscurity is better than inflicting all your worse fears on yourself.  Of course, they don't know the task in advance and the viewers choose who to send out to accomplish the task, but surely before signing up, you would have done some research or at least watched an episode or two...  Surely?  If you had, you would have noticed the sheer amount of bugs, spiders, local wildlife and general ickiness that is out there.  You would have noticed the backstabbing, the infighting, the hunger if you fail your challenge...  Surely fame isn't worth starving in the jungle and being made a mockery of. 

And that's only one of them... 
Celebrity Love Island - score with some famous person's son or daughter or an obscure celeb who no one's heard of
Celebrity Hell's Kitchen - get shouted at by a master chef and made to feel two inches tall
Celebrity Big Brother - or how to lose you constituency in six weeks or your money back
Cirque du Celebrité - or see what Ruby Wax's corset looks like this week

Can we please stop with these pseudo-celeb shows?  It's getting tired and boring, mainly cause the same people keep ending up on them.  Sophie Anderton, I'm looking at you!  You're supposed to be a model.  Shouldn't you be doing some sort of photoshoot or catwalk thing?  Shouldn't we have heard of you before seeing you throwing a strop on national television?

Right, I'll admit to liking Cirque du Celebrité but for one reason.  It's a show where they actually have to work.  They have to practice hard to perfect a skill that it's taken circus performers years to master.  Okay, perfect is a bit of an overstatement but some of them are really good and put in a lot of practice.  Of course, the ones that do that haven't got a lot to do.  One's a page three girl and the other is an ex-Big Brother contestant. 

*sigh*  Possibly the only way to get these shows off tv is to stop watching them and that's about the only thing that people won't do.  For some reason we seem to like watching celebs make fools of themselves. 

Comments

[rayvanna.livejournal.com]

It's like people watching a car accident. I can honestly say that I've watched maybe an episode of each of these. They make my stomach churn. Eventually people might get bored with them, unfortunately people watch them for the same reason as they read Now magazine and that ilk. For some reason they are fascinated with z-list celebs.

[deannawol.livejournal.com]

Yup, that fantastic human nature that we all got saddled with. *sigh* If we could all just overcome that, it would be great, but I doubt it will happen.

*grin* So you been thinking about your Mage character?