Mrs Buzz was watching TV last night, and I glanced up to see Michael Buerk in a pinny - turns out it was Celebrity Master Chef.

Why do programme makers feel the need to have 'celebrities' in everything now?

The F-word used to have members of the public in it - now they all seem to be 'celebrities' (often in the vaguest sense - it was All Saints last time I saw it)

The Weakest Link has a 'celebrity' version every five minutes.

Mr & Mrs is now Celebrity Mr & Mrs - and the contestants aren't even married

Gladiators has a celebrity version - even Fat Club (changed to Fit Club at the insitence of Anne Widdicombe) had a celebrity version. Legend has it Paul Ross put on weight so he could be on it. That has to be as low as it gets - even Rik Waller walked out!

So why the obsession?

What do you think to the celebrification of everything?

Who is the least celebrated 'celebrity' you have seen on TV?

What programme would you most and least like to see a celebrity version of?

The trouble is the word 'celebrity' is such a misnomer in most cases. It's has beens or wannabes trying to kickstart their careers again. I've never heard of half of these people who feature in such programmes. Ditto with some of the celeb mags. Last time I was at GP's, I flicked through a Hello magazine, which was full of people I'd never heard of and unknown European royals.

What is the point in it all? Other than to make money of course.

My theory is that since the demise of our beloved Queen of Hearts, the media is still on the hunt for celebs to sell magazines and tabloids the way she did. She created a void which has been attempted to be filled with all this awful celeb watching.

I hate it.

i have to say the only thing i watch celebrity wise 'is i'm a clebrity get me out of here' and i love it but am amazed by the line up they are either old has beens or i haven't heard of them. i used to like celeb big brother but after last year it was a complete and utter disgrace

This is my point - they're not actually celebrities at all - you wouldn't get proper celebrities on BB.

The year the house mates include Michael Caine is the year I'll watch Celebrity BB

I just love the idea that making a 'celebrity' version of a programme somehow makes it more worth watching - it's not just Masterchef, it's *celebrity* Masterchef! Like real people, only better! You know, such as the estranged step-daughters of ex-footballers, ex-mistresses of ex-football managers and people who are famous for being on a different reality show BEFORE they were celebrities! Woo-hoo!

This is my point - they're not actually celebrities at all - you wouldn't get proper celebrities on BB.

The year the house mates include Michael Caine is the year I'll watch Celebrity BB

I'd watch if David Bowie, George Clooney & Daniel Craig made an appearance.

It's all part of the hideous dumbing down we have in today's society. TV stinks, I don't even bother to watch it anymore.

The famous-for-not-being famous celebrity is my favourite sort.

I'm talking about you Chanelle -I'm not Posh-Spice-Hayes and Chantelle - I was unknown even amongst the pepole on Celebrity BB - Houghton.

I'd love to see a special edition of "Celebrity Dwarf Tossing On Ice" featuring Brian Blessed, Alvin Stardust and The Bloke Out Of The Fugees Who Says "One Time" but I suspect I may be in a minority.

Actually, I must confess to being a fan of Dancing on Ice. Even then though, I've never heard of half of the 'celebs'. :suspect:

Is Mr O. Time a dwarf, or would you need to cut one of them down a bit?

I'm with you their Basil - I'd watch that. But that would be the only 'celebrity' anything I'd watch. This whole culture of Heat and other celebrity obsessed tat is completely lost on me - moronic springs to mind. While others sit and gossip about how people they don't know live their lives, I prefer to just live mine!

Actually, I must confess to being a fan of Dancing on Ice. Even then though, I've never heard of half of the 'celebs'. :suspect:

So wouldn't it be better if it was 'Normal' People With Some Depth Dancing on Ice?

Or 'People Who Actually Can Dance on Ice'?

So wouldn't it be better if it was 'Normal' People With Some Depth Dancing on Ice?

Or 'People Who Actually Can Dance on Ice'?

Yes it would and I would still watch it. I just love ice skating and it's amazing the watch them improve week on week.

A favourite tabloid story of mine refers to something the Sun newspaper did a while back to find out just how desperate some of these "celebrities" were to get themselves on TV.

The paper invited dozens of celebs to spend two weeks down a mine near Mansfield as part of a reality show called - drum roll - "Back To Mine".
They were to be paid £40,000 each, with the bonus that they could emerge as qualified miners.

Needless to say, there was no such show, but amongst those who fell for it and agreed to appear were Jodie Marsh, Razor Ruddock, Lionel Blair, Neil Hamilton, Emma Greenwood (who?) and Rik Waller (who?).

Some things are beyond parody.......

And that reminds me of the fake reality television program where they assembled a load of idiots on an island on the Thames and told them they were going to be on a reality TV show. Then the producers promptly left the island. Quite funny as they all thought that somehow they were going to be famous (for what?!) - it took them bloody ages to realise they'd been had, so then they thought about making their own show. Idiots doesn't even begin to describe it.

How about celebrity Russian Roulette? I'd most definitely watch that...

And that reminds me of the fake reality television program where they assembled a load of idiots on an island ... and told them they were going to be on a reality TV show. Then the producers promptly left the island.

That's pretty much what happened in Castaway 2000 (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Castaway_2000), but somehom Ben Fogle still got a career out of it.

How about celebrity Russian Roulette? I'd most definitely watch that...

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What is a celebrity?

An actor is an actor, a singer is a singer, a presenter is a presenter, an author is an author, a sportsperson is a sportsperson, a model is a model, the remaining people who clog up the headlines need a name, and it may be offensive to call them *********, therefore the title CELEBRITY was born.

How about celebrity Russian Roulette? I'd most definitely watch that...

Or here's a thought....

'Celebrity Minefield Football!'

22 D-list celebrities have a game of football on a minefield somewhere. The winner would be the only one with all of his/her limbs left at the end, with all the profit going to a charity of his/her choice.

This would not only be great entertainment, it would help organisations like the Red Cross etc... in their campaign to end the use of landmines, and it would rid the world of a handful of those pathetic non-entity 'celebrities' that we are all so sick of reading about every time we open our newspapers.

Celebrity Master Chef is on again - they can't even cook! 'Spoony' claims he hadn't cooked at all until 10 days before the programme, and some woman who apparently was in Bad Girls has just made tomatoes on toast...

This is The Hardly Known Who Can Barely Cook.

Arrgh! Andrew Castle has made an English Breakfast...

(goes off to shoot himself)

Celebrity Gladiators wasn't bad last week.

Eli Dingle off Emmerdale won it.

Celebrity dentistry is good. Each week a z list celeb treats somebody's teeth. This week Jordon performed a root canal operation and Mike Morris pulled someones teeth out by mistake.

Celebrity Master Chef is on again - they can't even cook! 'Spoony' claims he hadn't cooked at all until 10 days before the programme,

Why name yourself after a kitchen utensil if you have no experience of using one?

You know what they should do....Celebrity One Man and His Dog!!!! where the radio 1 DJ Westwood pits his wits against a flock of sheep with only a Border Collie!!!! "Rounding them up with a Big Dog!!"

"Celebrity Pimp My Nan" This week Jeremy Paxman's Nan gets a full pimp makeover!!!

"Celebrity Pimp My Nan" This week Jeremy Paxman's Nan gets a full pimp makeover!!!

Word is that ITV are bringing out a rip off show called "Celebrity Jazz Up My Poppadum". This week Bernard Cribbins' pickle tray becomes the envy of table 4!