Entertainment & Music Celebrity Obsession

[GreyCrow]

There is discussion about Celebrity and if obsession is good or bad or when does it need to be dialled back. Is there an age you should leave these behind?

Is it ok to 'love' Tay Tay over your partner? Can you walk past a newsagent without picking up the ''latest on Brad' ? Should you have a hidden folder of Sarah Michelle Gellar pics in the Buffy?

I am interested in the gossip like most of us but I dont seek every scrap of news about the people I am interested in

Are you happy to admit your level of stalkiness?

 

[Kurve]

There is discussion about Celebrity and if obsession is good or bad or when does it need to be dialled back. Is there an age you should leave these behind?

Is it ok to 'love' Tay Tay over your partner? Can you walk past a newsagent without picking up the ''latest on Brad' ? Should you have a hidden folder of Sarah Michelle Gellar pics in the Buffy?

I am interested in the gossip like most of us but I dont seek every scrap of news about the people I am interested in

Are you happy to admit your level of stalkiness?

I didn't even know who Kim Kardashian was until my niece brought one of her handbags. Then I was unfriended on facebook because I said a pic of her big bare butt sitting on a champagne glass streaming across my newsfeed was gross.

 

[perthblue]

Pathetic behaviour and one of my petty dealbreakers

 

[Richard Cranium]

Should you have a hidden folder of Sarah Michelle Gellar pics in the Buffy?

Suspiciously out of date example...

 

[GreyCrow]

Is dressing up as a KISS character once every 2 years for a concert over the top?

Or is there an age limit there?

 

[Gough]

I once walked three blocks out of my way because Monfries was walking in front of me and he was wearing tight trousers. That's as close I've ever got to stalking.

 

[Scotland]

There is discussion about Celebrity and if obsession is good or bad or when does it need to be dialled back. Is there an age you should leave these behind?

Age 12 seems about right.

 

[Plugger35]

Michael Jackson was staying in a hotel just down the road from where I worked in London and there was a group of hardcore fans camped outside the whole time he was there just hoping to get a glimpse of him. I couldn't imagine being that obsessed with a celebrity I'd stake out their hotel for days on end.

 

[Silent Alarm]

It's basically the domain for the NQR and the alone.

There's no point ragging too hard on them. It's a way to personify someone and it's almost like having an imaginary friend.

Fandom in particular can give borderline nuffies a sense of power. I remember seeing Radiohead and this mental woman was barking instructions at strangers and security about how to line up, as she'd been there since 3am. I was looking online later and someone mentioned she worked at Tesco but went to every single European show they did, always doing the same thing. Weird. Ultimately they're great for artists or actors though, because these are the people who buy every single thing, defend them blindly, piss the money they don't have away on tickets, and eat up their public persona in a way most other people would be cynical of.

 

[Scotland]

I stayed in the same hotel as FC Barcelona on a pre-season tour once, by pure coincidence. Would have been cool to say hello to Thierry Henry or Leo Messi but there were armed security personnel everywhere and I've got better things to do with my time than join a mob of thousands of Chinese people holding phones hoping to get a glimpse from a distance. Plus if it was actually as easy as walking up to them at a hotel bar/restaurant surely they would rather just be left alone.

 

[Jobe Watson]

Those weirdos in South Korea take it to a whole new level. There was a story the other week about how 2 fangirls bought first-class airplane tickets to fly to another country because they found out that their favourite band was going to be on the flight. They saw a glimpse of their boyband, started harassing them, and then wanted to get off the plane before it departed. The whole plane had to disembark and the flight was delayed for hours. Idiots. And that's before you even get in to the legitimate psychopathic behaviour of some K-pop superfans who would commit serious criminal acts just to get closer to their idols.

 

[Better Loosen Up]

I couldn't give a fat rats klacker about celebrities. In fact, I couldn't tell you who most of them are or what they are famous for.

 

[Scotland]

I get celebrity interest/obsession/worship even though it's not really my thing, but I'll never understand "celebrity" worship.

Who honestly gives a **** what the ex wife of an above average West Coast player of the 2000s thinks?

 

[Shell]

Look I'll put my hand up and admit I kinda like news stories on the Royals. And yes, i will watch the Royal weddings.


Im not like nuts over them or anything, and i cgaf re. Kardashians etc- have seen maybe 3 or 4 eps of their show and they are mind numblingly boring.

 

[RelaxMax]

I once walked three blocks out of my way because Monfries was walking in front of me and he was wearing tight trousers. That's as close I've ever got to stalking.

Because it was Monfries arse or a particularly nice arse

Asking for a friend

 

[Gough]

Because it was Monfries arse or a particularly nice arse

Asking for a friend

Like a ripe peach.

 

[Silent Alarm]

I get celebrity interest/obsession/worship even though it's not really my thing, but I'll never understand "celebrity" worship.

Who honestly gives a **** what the ex wife of an above average West Coast player of the 2000s thinks?

People who fawn over Australian domestic 'celebs' are weird. Very weird. Most normal people went to school with a half-successful AFL footballer. And staring at some prissy newsreader is only going to fuel their ego – which they don't deserve. Usually those people are incredibly disappointing in person too... bad dressers, not any real energy, no sense of charisma.

I guess if I saw Harry Kewell circa 2002 in Sydney it'd be novel but even then, eh. It's not like Brad Pitt spilling your drink at a bar in Arkansas.

 

[Run n Spread]

Follow as much as anyone. Will go to footy/cricket/whatever else and be up to date on the stats. But that's it. CGAF what they do in their private lives/what they had for breakfast/what they think of current events. And if I see them in the street out of context probably wouldn't recognise.

 

[Scotland]

I've met a few Perthonalities (urgh I cringe typing that) and most of them are just normal people. I know family of Daniel Ricciardo and even he is just a kid that grew up in Perth to them and he's a ****ing Formula 1 driver and there's only 20 of them in the World at any one time. He's even won a few races too. People caring about what contestants from Big Brother and The Bachelor are up to is just weird.

 

[norway blue]

The powerful media put celebrities in the news. It’s junk news and for a reason .


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[Spongebob]

Michael Jackson was staying in a hotel just down the road from where I worked in London and there was a group of hardcore fans camped outside the whole time he was there just hoping to get a glimpse of him. I couldn't imagine being that obsessed with a celebrity I'd stake out their hotel for days on end.

Did he throw them a baby?

 

[Shell]

I've met a few Perthonalities rd.

 

[MiPiG]

Once upon a time I was in the Rails pub in Byron Bay and in walked Robert Plant (was on his No Quarter tour many mooons ago). I dumbly stood next to him at the bar and said hello. Then I got my beer and returned to my table, dicussed it excitedly with my friends, then forgot all about him. Thats the extent of my celebrity stalkiness.

 

[Mooshoobuca]

some people are so blindly obsessed to blank out their mundane lives i guess.personally got over the celebrity thing once i hit about sixteen and stopped buying the magazines like dolly etc.

 

[Gasometer]

Depends if you feel there is a personal connection in what that Artist brought to your life

I saw 90’s singer Toni Childs a few years back. Her album Union contained some songs that became tied to events in my life and in gave me some solace. Anyway she was signing albums afterwards and I got the chance to meet her, get a autograph and tell her to keep doing what she was doing. It was a highlight.

Same could be said for Springsteen. Missed seeing him in 85 and it chewed me up because he really didn’t tour until 2003 and that gig was meh. Comes back in 2014, 15 and 17. I saw him 4 tines in that time and twice got front row. The 2017 gig he sang Glory Days 2 metres away from me... I will remember that til the day I die

Other than that and North players, celebrity is meh