Why do so many people care about celebrities and gossips associated with them? Why are there a dozen or more TV shows that are just devoted to celebrity gossip? Why are there so many magazines about stars? But while I am not much interested in celebrities, I am extremely interested in why other people are so interested in them. Here are some of my theories.
We love to read stories about stars and see them on the news when they started out as the boy or girl-next-door and have made big career. This gives us hope that it could happen for us some day. Perhaps a director or producer will pick us from the street while we are doing shopping and make us stars. In reality, we know that this is unlikely. But it’s just a daydream we like to dream about.
Gossip journalism has in recent years come to revolve more and more around the celebrity fails. Sheen's implosion comes on top of those of Britney Spears, Mel Gibson, Tiger Woods, and many more who have embarrassed themselves in the media spotlight. Seeing the rich and famous embarrased makes us feel superior, or at least not quite so inferior.PAPARAZZI
Paparazzi take photos of celebrities and sell them to magazines and tabloids. Basically it is a job to invade a famous person's life and take photos of them in compromising situations for entertainment purposes.
The word paparazzi came from the Italian word for mosquito or pest. The word now refers to cameramen who swarm around unsuspecting celebrities and annoy them - just like a mosquito that we all want to smack.
Here is a trailer of movie about teenage L.A paparazzi:
Most popular celebrity gossip websites:
www.tmz.com
Sources:
1. http://g1nbc.com/galaxy-of-the-stars/
2. http://content.clearchannel.com/cc-common/mlib/2019/10/2019_1350650935.jpg
3. http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=KUloD1Z379w
4. http://millionairecelebrities.blogspot.com/2012/02/why-are-we-so-interested-in-celebrities.html
5. http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/insight-is-2020/200907/celebrity-gossip-our-own-inner-boredom
I don't know why and I can't imagine why people like celebrities so much. Maybe it is because people are like small children, they like nice stories about kingdoms, princesses, richness, good luck and glory. I think that for many people social divisions is natural. Someone’s life is better then mine and that is what the world must be like. People prefer dream then their own unlike life situation and conditions, they need that untrue unique stories.
ReplyDeleteSometimes people are collecting knowledge about known people life. Many of use want to believe that reality can look like that and we are happy that this marvelous fame could happen to person similar to us. We are proud of that chosen one. People believe what they see usually it is fictitious version made by media
The best answer to the question why people follow news about celebrities so closely may be that they simply don't have more interesting things to do. It can also be connected with a kind of social pressure: 'everyone knows recent facts about those stars so I also should know not to come out to be ignorant'. In fact many ordinary people don't want to know anything about celebrities but they are being attacked by the gossips on a number of occasions: on TV, in magazines, each newspaper, adverts, even simple screens in Warsaw underground, trams or buses. It seems to be almost impossible to avoid them.
ReplyDeleteI guess there are 2 main reasons why people love gossips.
ReplyDeleteFirst - they are amazed by glamorous and wonderful life of rich, good-looking celebrities. They wish it was their life, so they are hungry for any news about them. They read that X has an affair with handsome Y, that Z earned 1 mln $ for a movie and lost 15 kg in 2 weeks.
And all those news leads to second reason. We are jealous and frustrated so we like even better to read about celebrities' problems, splits, weight gains, drug addiction and so on. What's more people feel anonymous in the internet so they often insult celebrities and write nasty comments. They want to unload their frustrations.
Gossip programs and online sites are the most viewed ones, it's kinda scary how easy it is for people to talk and often offend people they have never met.
I also asked myself a question : "Why do people care so much about celebrities?". And I have similar conclusions. I guess we just want to run away from our boring reality and see how it is to be pretty, famous and rich.
ReplyDeleteNowadays we have a very worrying phenomenon of "celebrity culture". Celebrities are everywhere: on TV, radio, newspapers, Internet. So even if we try very very hard, it's almost impossible to avoid them. So as they surround us, people will gossip about them. It's rally just a math.
I think there may be one different reason why we keep fallow celebrities. They are the trendsetters. So maybe there is a possibility that people want to check out what is trendy and popular right now? Celebrities show us what to wear or eat. That's very silly to imitate them but whatever works for people.
I really don’t know, why people are interested in celebrity and spend a lot of time watching news and reading articles about stars.
ReplyDeleteMaybe it’s due to our ordinary lifestyle. People need a beautiful story and dream about it. On the other hand they want to be stylish and dress like a celebrity, because they think, that they are for example more attractive.
In my opinion, following stars is a waste of time especially when we have less and less time for everything.
I don't think it is so amazing to observe celebrity gossips. I am not interested in doing it, but I know that a lot od people around me do it and sometimes it is the only way how they spend their leisure time. For them it is great to read that celebrities earn a lot of money and they are very wasteful. The things which they are doing are immortal, unwise and just a little silly. Ordinary people dream to have such big and well furnished houses. But what we are looking at isn't a real world with normal problems. Sometimes we realize that and this is one of the reason why people are interesting in it. They are lookong for something they will never find in their normal, gray, everyday world. World which will not be extraordinary. The most important thing is how many did the celebrity spend on her dress, how many kg did she/he lose or what did she/he do yesterday. People don't know the biography of celebrities. Sometimes people even don't know why she/he becomes a celebrity and what she/he is famous for. Nowadays there are so many people which are called celebrities.
ReplyDeleteFor me, the reason why we are interested in this kind of information, is the need to relax. It's like fairytales for grown-ups. As children, we were used to read and watch tales about totally abstract world of talking animals, fairies, kings and queens, and therefore escape from the real one. We need this as well in an adult life, so sometimes our brain just has to focus on something unbelievable and uncanny. Then we start dreaming about a different life, we wonder how would it be, if..? That makes this industry goes round. As long as it doesn't harm the people, I don't really care, as it stays clear, that this is a price for being famous. However, I absolutely don't get a point in feeding on someones fails or problems - unfortunately those are the 'best-sellers' in a gossip world...
ReplyDeleteI don't really care about such information. It is irrelevant for me in life. In my opinion, people like such news because of either boredom and fantasies if gossip is bringing positive information, or disdain and feeling of superiority (moral, intelectual or any other) if it gives negative information about celebrities.
ReplyDeleteWhat is keeping people interested? I don't know and don't care to know. It can be surprising, but even celebrities are people (:P) so their right to privacy should be upholded and paparazzi should recieve more punishment then repriment from official of some silly fine equal to small fraction of what they earned while breaching privacy of some celebrity.
Famous people life doesn’t interest me and I thing that all the gossip sites are unnecessary but I now that many people can’t live without them. In my opinion people have a boring life and interested at famous people life full of scandals, beautiful women and men, numerous banquets and party to have some kind of entertainment. For other people celebrities are idols and they try to imitate their.
ReplyDeleteCelebrities have a privet life but very often it is disturbed by paparazzi who looking for opportunities to do compromising pictures. Sometimes paparazzi arrange awkward situations for stars what is shameful.
People follow news about celebrities because they are not fully satisfied with their own lives, which may be boring or annoying. In my opinion people who are happy with their life and appreciate it don't have time or are just not willing to follow gossips connected to the strangers.
ReplyDeleteStars, especially those top ones, don't have privet life. The more people are interested in gossip the demand for awkward pics of celebrities is bigger.
I also agree with the previous speakers that the main reason why people are so interested in celebrities and gossips is that it is for them a kind of escape from everyday life. They see a fabulous and luxury life and they may dream about it. But in fact, star's lifes are not so beautiful as we see in magazines. A lot of information that we can find in magazines and gossip websites are faked. Authors only want to create a sensation. In my opinion rumors are detrimental to the stars, they strip them from privacy. On the other hand, there are those celebrities who specially arrange with the paparazzi, to have a good picture. They want just to get them told. I personally don't like to read about celebrities. I don't care about their lives, it doesn't matter to me.
ReplyDeleteThe gossip are for enjoy, sometimes for funny and for go away from the reality. People are very intrested in celebrities life. Perhaps sometimes they are jalous. They want have clothes from the best designer, have big house for 2mln dollars and have also a problem like what dress put on this evening. But on the other hand life of celebrites often isn't the same as many magasines or photos in a gosspip portal show. We should taking it easy.
ReplyDeleteThe reason why people intrested in celebrities is beacuse their life is diffrent from our. People are not satisfied with their life. People like dreaming about that some day their life can change and can look like some celebrities. If you like the actor you also like to follow his life to know what is going on with him. You read magazines and viewing pages which often tell untruth.
ReplyDeleteIf think, that in this time, people very like celebrity gossip. For lot of them, it's a good way for, for example, spending evening. They are interested in everything that is going on in the lives of their favourite actors, singers. I think a lot of people enjoy them because in this day and age it common to see how celebrites live and to those people its normal.
ReplyDeleteI have to say that I put no interest In celebrities and so on. I think I don’t even know most of the present-day famous people. So it will be very difficult to me to understand why people take care about persons ‘famous because of being famous’. Maybe people need to watch other people life and compare it with their own ones. I think that especially we like to hear about celebrity fails and that’s why the gossip journalism is so popular.
ReplyDeleteTo be honest I must say that all that celebrity shows in TV are pathetic. I really don't understand how any people may be interested in celebrities lifes. I always when I see a program with those pop-stats in TV I'm wondering who want to watch it? And why there is no more programs where guests are some scientist or professor from some a university. At this moment I don't know who is the best TV superstar, and who is top one at hit-parade, and i don't care about it. I have more porblems on my head, and in my opinion following famous people life is unnecessary, it won't help me in the future. I prefer to read some book or even watch some program on Discovery instead of reading about other peoples life.
ReplyDeleteI don't interested in celebrities and gossip. that’s kind of information are for an interesting people. i think job like gossip journalist and paparazzi is a horrible and immoral. They are destroy the career of celebrities.
ReplyDeleteSometimes that famous people want to be in that kind of rubbish media. byt in my opinion is a stupid and an interesting
As it comes to topic of celebritiy gossips everyone is always very surprised about popularity of portals like Pudelek.pl. Everyone says that it's "pathetic" and that she/he is absolutely not interested in such foolish entertainment - so where are these hundreds of people who visit Pudelek.pl everyday? I think that if we want to understand why gossip portals are so popular we shouldn't try to look at this phenomenon from distance - we should look honestly into ourselves and find an answer deep in human nature. As all great phenomenons, which are involving hundreds of people, also this need of voyeurism can't be explained just by stupidity of "others" - it's the easiest solution and also one of most ignorant. I also have mixed feelings about this "celebrity phenomenon" in our times, but the roots of it are for me quite obvious - it's just our nature and we shouldn't blame anything else, but just ourselves.
ReplyDeleteI don't give a damn about celebrities life at all. More important is for me what's going on in my family members' and friends' lifes, what problem they have to deal with, because... I don't know... First of all - I know them, right? And they are really important to me. And secondly - this is something what I can really do something about. F.ex. how cool is the information that Britney cut her hair? Or that Maciej Stuhr is moving out from his place. 'Is his marriage over...?!' Not your f*cking bussiness!!! And finally, if I were a celebrity and paparazzi were taking photos all the time wherever I go... Well, let's say I'm not suprised that sometimes celebrities kick their asses. And I'm not sorry for them.
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