Is it just me in this country who's not interested in celebrities. Don't know who most of them are, wouldn't recognise them if I saw them, Don't want to see them. I wish that the newspapers and news would stop spending so much time on them.

None of them have got much talent. The best musiscians are all dead

Rant over..

What does anyone else think. Is anyone on my side?

im on your side what really gets on my tits is the big brother celebrity there worse than the others ahhhhhhhhhhhhh:rant: :rant: :rant:

Originally posted by muddycoffee
Is it just me in this country who's not interested in celebrities. Don't know who most of them are, wouldn't recognise them if I saw them, Don't want to see them. I wish that the newspapers and news would stop spending so much time on them.

None of them have got much talent. The best musiscians are all dead

Rant over..

What does anyone else think. Is anyone on my side?
But your post kinda contradicts what you are ranting about. You are interested enough to say your not interested. If you really weren't interested then you would just forget them and not even comment on them??
By starting this thread you have used some of your time on them..albeit indirectly.

I'd never want to be a celebrity, i'd hate everyone knowing who I am and not being able to walk down the street like a normal guy.

I dont obsess over any celebrity. I admire certain ones for things they've done, but then I also admire my friends and family for things they've done.

What it is,
is I was in the barbers last week and there are loads of magazines. And so I picked them up and they are full of adverts for watches/ aftershave and pictures of people who I have honestly never heard of who appear on tv programmes I have never heard of. I really feel sorry for anyone who had spent the best part of a fiver on one of these gents lifestyle magazines, it's like paying to be advertised to.
The tabloid newspapers are full of people I have never heard of. I was flicking through one at a friends yesterday, and couldn't find anything which I wanted to read or look at at all in there, apart from the crossword.

I was obliged to watch celebrity in the jungle when I was visiting a friend. and I have never seen a bigger load of drivel in my life. I have never watched or heard of any of them apart from Jordan, who with her comedy boobs has been on the front of almost every magazine in the country.

I don't mind celebrities who have been around for a few years or those newcomers who have some talent. Unfortunately there are absolutely loads of so called celebrities who are famous [if that's the right word] for a matter of weeks possibly months, these are the 'celebrities' i detest and I really don't want to see their ugly little faces on the Tv every time I turn it on for the few weeks that they are part of the in crowd before sinking back into obscurity.

A good few years ago a 'celebrity' politician was elevated to the House of Lords. He went out to a restaurant with a gang of his cronies to celebrate. At the end of the meal he tipped the head waiter £50 for not making too much of a fuss of him (remembering the new found fame and honour etc). The waiter pocketed the £50 and said the immortal line - "That's quite alright sir - who are you?" Nice one son!

Maybe I'm not up with the latest Jargon.


Seems to me that Celebrity means,



Formerly Well Known But Now Unemployed Person

If they still worked, they would still be described as Pop Singer or Chat Show Host or Actor or Politician

Its a positive feedback loop.

A celebrity is literally someone who is celebrated (ie spoken about a lot). So the fact they are spoken about a lot, means that they are celebrities which means that they warrant being spoken about.

So they are celebrities because they are celebrities. Being worthwhile or worthy members of society has got nothing to do with it.

saw kylie and french boyfriend last year on giant peace march in London.
just ordinary people.
saw lesley dunlop in homefirth in summer, she was shopping.

most celeb stuff hyped up rubbish.

Yodameister thanks for that information. I like it. Especially your derivation of the word celebrity.

Seems to me that they're a self perpetuating feedback loop. I don't hear anyone in the pub/work/college EVER talking about celebrities, as real life is more interesting.

One of the problems with positive feedback is it fails. Ultimately you get distortion, where there is just noise and no useful content left in the message.

Originally posted by tara
saw kylie and french boyfriend last year on giant peace march in London.
just ordinary people.
saw lesley dunlop in homefirth in summer, she was shopping.

most celeb stuff hyped up rubbish. Lesley who ?.
I agree the celebrity thing is a load of comercialising rubbish.
I went up stairs last night and watched the other side which was Lesley Garrett seeking her family tree which was far more interesting and an A list celeb.

What kind of name is French Boyfriend?

Sounds like a Gay Vaudeville dancer!

Never heard of Lesley Dunlop. Is this a man, a woman or a kind of tyre?

I've heard of Kylie though. She's on the Nick cave Murder Ballads Album, and Michale Hutchence used to go out with her. The song "Suicide blonde" is about her hair dye (She's a ginger really!)

Also why do so many women hate her for being Gorgeous?
Gorgeous! I like my women to look like women not tiny little boys there's a sexier lamp post outside, It's got more meat on it.

what part of the words french boyfriend didn't you understand.
hes her boyfriend and he's from france.
I never said i hate her because shes gorgeous .
But its time some of you men woke up .have you seen some of these so called gorgeous celebs without make up ? you'd think twice then.
And imagine some of them without their plastic surgery.

Lesley Dunlop is an actress whose been around a lot of years.
shes been in lots of plays and also where the heart is.

Along with Lesley ash.

although im not a fan of this drama.

Some of the most irritating celebrities are the so-called "Soap" stars, in other words, actors who star in Coronation Street, Eastenders etc. I stopped watching both of these fatuous, unrealistic [nothing like modern day Salford or the East End] programmes a while ago. However, I sat through the Soap Awards recently. What a lot of self-important, sugary, affected creeps they all are. There are too many award shows like this one, and they pander to the vanity of the egotistic, third-rate celebrities who produce such ephemeral dross. Two of the worst examples are Georgia Taylor ["Toyah Battersby"] and Sarah Lancashire [Raquel Wolstenholme], who have left the world of "Soap" to commit atrocities in the name of "acting" further afield. Georgia Taylor can play only one role; that of indignant , neurotic who, in less than a minute, reaches a crescendo of hysterics. I groan inwardly whenever I hear the phrase "...played by Sarah Lancashire". Another example of a very, very limited actress we see far too much of. Never convincing in any role she plays ["Raquel" was a pantomime version of a northern barmaid with a heart of gold, and fit to be seen only in a pantomime], she is in demand only because of her former "Soap" success. Bah! I loathe them all!

I have heard that Dean Gaffney (some nobody actor who was in Eastenders) says that "celebrity is being devalued" because the people on I'm a celebrity...... are not famous enough!

Well he obviously knows whereof he speaks! (or thinks he does)

Another celeb I cannot stand the sight of is Sir Cliff Richard. He just will not go away and die quietly, will he? Every Xmas, the same old sugary, saccharine form of evangelical Christianity put to some insipid tune by a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith, and the toothsome "Peter Pan of Pop" is off again. The familiar phrases roll, about "the saviour", "love and peace on earth", blah, blah, mistletoe and whine etc. The man is so conceited too. I saw him on tv last week bragging about how he'd "won the first fifty years of pop" because educationally-subnormal peasants, thumb-sucking retards and tasteless, tone-deaf morons had voted him into some "academy of fame" or other. Won the first fifty years?! Who, with any musical taste and cultural awareness would consider his terrible output worthy of honour? Perhaps the very worst record he has made is "Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha". Who does he think he's kidding?! More like, "Goodbye Sam, Hello Gervais". The sad thing is, he genuinely considers himself a "rock and roll" pioneer and innovator. His ludicrous attempt to ape Elvis in the late fifties was no more than a bad impression by a bad impressionist. He cannot possibly be proud of a single recording he has made. When I hear of a new recording, a terrible dread is born.
Still, one has to admire his ability to "turn the other cheek" [of course, no cheap sexual allusion is implied here] in the face of cruel rumours about his alleged homosexuality, colostomy bag, zimmer frame, even that he was born of indeterminate sex as Napthali Catterpong in a treehouse in Jelong.

Aw, Timo - take it you won't be at the front of the box office queue with your sleeping bag and flask..? Wise, very wise.

Originally posted by timo
Another celeb I cannot stand the sight of is Sir Cliff Richard. He just will not go away and die quietly, will he? Every Xmas, the same old sugary, saccharine form of evangelical Christianity put to some insipid tune by a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith, and the toothsome "Peter Pan of Pop" is off again. The familiar phrases roll, about "the saviour", "love and peace on earth", blah, blah, mistletoe and whine etc. The man is so conceited too. I saw him on tv last week bragging about how he'd "won the first fifty years of pop" because educationally-subnormal peasants, thumb-sucking retards and tasteless, tone-deaf morons had voted him into some "academy of fame" or other. Won the first fifty years?! Who, with any musical taste and cultural awareness would consider his terrible output worthy of honour? Perhaps the very worst record he has made is "Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha". Who does he think he's kidding?! More like, "Goodbye Sam, Hello Gervais". The sad thing is, he genuinely considers himself a "rock and roll" pioneer and innovator. His ludicrous attempt to ape Elvis in the late fifties was no more than a bad impression by a bad impressionist. He cannot possibly be proud of a single recording he has made. When I hear of a new recording, a terrible dread is born.
Still, one has to admire his ability to "turn the other cheek" [of course, no cheap sexual allusion is implied here] in the face of cruel rumours about his alleged homosexuality, colostomy bag, zimmer frame, even that he was born of indeterminate sex as Napthali Catterpong in a treehouse in Jelong.

Cliff rules.

Of course I am obliged to say so because Mum's a rather big fan and it's more than my life's worth to bag the bloke.... :lol:

Seriously though he''s not that bad, there are worse and less talented pop "stars" out there, Will Young anyone?

Originally posted by timo
Another celeb I cannot stand the sight of is Sir Cliff Richard. He just will not go away and die quietly, will he? Every Xmas, the same old sugary, saccharine form of evangelical Christianity put to some insipid tune by a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith, and the toothsome "Peter Pan of Pop" is off again. The familiar phrases roll, about "the saviour", "love and peace on earth", blah, blah, mistletoe and whine etc. The man is so conceited too. I saw him on tv last week bragging about how he'd "won the first fifty years of pop" because educationally-subnormal peasants, thumb-sucking retards and tasteless, tone-deaf morons had voted him into some "academy of fame" or other. Won the first fifty years?! Who, with any musical taste and cultural awareness would consider his terrible output worthy of honour? Perhaps the very worst record he has made is "Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha". Who does he think he's kidding?! More like, "Goodbye Sam, Hello Gervais". The sad thing is, he genuinely considers himself a "rock and roll" pioneer and innovator. His ludicrous attempt to ape Elvis in the late fifties was no more than a bad impression by a bad impressionist. He cannot possibly be proud of a single recording he has made. When I hear of a new recording, a terrible dread is born.
Still, one has to admire his ability to "turn the other cheek" [of course, no cheap sexual allusion is implied here] in the face of cruel rumours about his alleged homosexuality, colostomy bag, zimmer frame, even that he was born of indeterminate sex as Napthali Catterpong in a treehouse in Jelong.

Hmmmm Timmy. What about "Carrie" and "Wired for Sound" - they rock...!

Anyway. Didn't he play a concert at your school??????

Bless him.

Also, lets not forget "Batchelor Boy". A song (and also a particularly fine dance routine) to warm the cockles.

To Quote Rick from the young ones (rick mayall's character)

"I'll bet Cliff Richard didn't have a clean bottom when he wrote devil woman"

To be honest I don't think he writes much at all. !

Originally posted by timo
Another celeb I cannot stand the sight of is Sir Cliff Richard. He just will not go away and die quietly, will he? Every Xmas, the same old sugary, saccharine form of evangelical Christianity put to some insipid tune by a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith, and the toothsome "Peter Pan of Pop" is off again. The familiar phrases roll, about "the saviour", "love and peace on earth", blah, blah, mistletoe and whine etc. The man is so conceited too. I saw him on tv last week bragging about how he'd "won the first fifty years of pop" because educationally-subnormal peasants, thumb-sucking retards and tasteless, tone-deaf morons had voted him into some "academy of fame" or other. Won the first fifty years?! Who, with any musical taste and cultural awareness would consider his terrible output worthy of honour? Perhaps the very worst record he has made is "Goodbye Sam, Hello Samantha". Who does he think he's kidding?! More like, "Goodbye Sam, Hello Gervais". The sad thing is, he genuinely considers himself a "rock and roll" pioneer and innovator. His ludicrous attempt to ape Elvis in the late fifties was no more than a bad impression by a bad impressionist. He cannot possibly be proud of a single recording he has made. When I hear of a new recording, a terrible dread is born.
Still, one has to admire his ability to "turn the other cheek" [of course, no cheap sexual allusion is implied here] in the face of cruel rumours about his alleged homosexuality, colostomy bag, zimmer frame, even that he was born of indeterminate sex as Napthali Catterpong in a treehouse in Jelong.

post of the month - gotta be!

Originally posted by Bedhead
post of the month - gotta be!

here here! lol

Thankyou, thankyou my loyal public. Special thanks, of course, to the gorgeous, lissom and fragrant Boroughgal.
Someone mentioned Will Young. Another perfectly dreadful "musical entertainer". At least Cliff Richard is reasonably attractive for an octagenarian of indeterminate sex. Will Young has the pathetic ugliness of a circus clown and the voice of a corncrake. Correctly harnessed, his worst efforts could be used to cut sheet metal. There is something other- worldly about Will too. Look closely at his horrible face, and you might notice a resemblance to the creepy villain, The Riddler of Batman fame. He is actually a medical miracle in the flesh- being the only person alive having been born anatomically male to have undergone gender reassignment, only to decide to revert back again to a male identity. In his brief period as a "woman", Will lewdly desported himself in charming auganza dresses, pearls and a diamonte collared necklace, calling himself "Eunice".

Originally posted by timo
He is actually a medical miracle in the flesh- being the only person alive having been born anatomically male to have undergone gender reassignment, only to decide to revert back again to a male identity. In his brief period as a "woman", Will lewdly desported himself in charming auganza dresses, pearls and a diamonte collared necklace, calling himself "Eunice".

Come Come Timo,
another person with links to sheffield United must have slipped your mind. Sam Haman who Later Became Samantha Kayne, now back to male assignment, Called something Like Dave Cockles or something? Haven't you seen the recent documetory? he/she has had More surgery than a bus full of bangkok Ladyboys.

Back to the main point I think you have to be at least 63 to understand why cliff richard and the shadows were brought into being. Ask some older people. In 1959 the sound of the "shads" sounded like Metallica does to us. There had been few guitar groups in those days, and they were certainly one of the first british lot. I'm 30 years to young, they all sound incredibly lame and a little ludicrous to me. The manufactured Pop Idol of the 1960s

Muddycoffee,
We "greasy chip butty"- eaters of the Lane do not care to be reminded of how near our beloved club came to being associated with the grotesque, multi-gendered person you mention. Had the demented lady-boy succeeded in his ambition, I hope that the BBC would have "tuned him in" to the idea of relocating to Hillsborough's "Premiership Team in Waiting", where his "talents" might be more appreciated, i.e, belly-dancing to that wretched band .

That's not very neighbourly Timo.
It's just like clearing up your dog's poo of your grass and throwing it into next door's garden

Timo..

Am I right in saying that lissom means pliable?

Heh heh, you're SOOOO right!

Boroughgal,
"lissom", when applied to a beautiful woman like yourself, means lithe, supple and agile...

Originally posted by timo
Another celeb I cannot stand the sight of is Sir Cliff Richard. He just will not go away and die quietly, will he? Every Xmas, the same old sugary, saccharine form of evangelical Christianity put to some insipid tune by a Tin Pan Alley tunesmith, and the toothsome "Peter Pan of Pop" is off again. The familiar phrases roll, about "the saviour", "love and peace on earth", blah, blah, mistletoe and whine etc. The man is so conceited too.

Was it on breakfast box today I heard that Cliff Richard records are played by clever landlords to clear the bar after 'time' is called.

Actually, despite my loathing of the man, millions do like his music, and not just the anorak-wearing guitarists that hang around Christian Unions and the Evangelical Churches. I genuinely cannot see his appeal, although I acknowledge what Muddycoffee said re the initial impact of rock and rock as played by The Shadows. Re the dark whisperings that surround celebs like Cliff, Jimmy Saville etc. I personally think that in Cliff's case people would be very disappointed if they had a secret "fly on the wall" view of his life. I think he IS sincere in his beliefs, I just think there is nothing of merit in his dreadful music, and his interpretation of Christianity [i.e, we should never judge others, and jump up and down for Jesus etc] is unattractive. I also sense that underneath the veneer of "niceness", there lies a rather vain, conceited man who feels he has never received his full dues. Watch him in interviews, and the air of bitterness comes across quite clearly.