undeserving celebrities

[Hank Scorpion]

As a general rule, anyone who is recognised for something beyond their own work

Call me naive, but the ability to sing, act or look pretty is something you are born with, and should not be praised to the extent that some people are.

Those celebrities, such as athletes, who come to fame off of the back of practice and persistence are the ones that should be admired.

 

[Scotland]

I find it odd when people complain about the celebrity status of One Direction or Miley Cyrus or any other shit pop act of the day. I mean I think One Direction are complete arse, but I'm not a teenage girl - and many millions of them buy their albums and drive them to celebrity status. To me they're a run of the mill bubble gum pop act who will disappear off the radar when the next big thing comes along only to be seen in a decade or so for a reunion tour trying to cash in on nostalgia - but at the end of the day they sell albums and make teenage girls squeal now.

Undeserved celebrity status for mine applies to 'celebrities' who aren't actually famous for anything. Kim Kardashian, Paris Hilton - the usual suspects. Sure they try to act and sing and make perfumes with their name on them etc. but they're only doing this to cash in on the celebrity status they already have. I mean the 'where the bloody hell are you?' campaign was 8 years ago and Lara Bingle is apparently still newsworthy because she promotes public pictures of herself on instagram and complains that she doesn't get any privacy... it's really an indictment on society that anyone cares, which they do otherwise the media wouldn't keep publishing this sort of shit.

 

[Roobs321]

Seem to be a lot of women coming up, which is fair. I think the male gaze of the media (which women also participate in) is still alive in some ways, creating this issue.

Women tend to be more opportunistic with less-deserving celebrity (i.e. red carpets, parties, etc.), and the pretty ones live off one or two 15 minutes of fame they had several years back.

 

[JHF1870]

Seem to be a lot of women coming up, which is fair. I think the male gaze of the media (which women also participate in) is still alive in some ways, creating this issue.

Women tend to be more opportunistic with less-deserving celebrity (i.e. red carpets, parties, etc.), and the pretty ones live off one or two 15 minutes of fame they had several years back.

Thats cos women get places just by being pretty. I guess this shows how vain society is.

 

[HBF]

Brynne Edelsten

Was wondering who was going to be the first to get her name in here.

 

[JUBJUB]

Schapelle will be on dancing with the stars soon


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Only if Bali have a version of it
Now Mercedes on the other hand can come to Australia to do it.......or worse - MUM

 

[Natho]

Paris Hilton really sticks out in this thread

 

[checkraiseulite]

We shall fight them on the beaches.

well they let you off one beach and never ever planned on taking it to another

We shall fight them in the air(with american petrol)
We shall fight the on the sea(with american ships)
we shal never surrender(thanks to american money that took 60 years to pay back)

Kill yourself.

 

[TheKanga]

Nicki Minaj


IWHI though

 

[kfc1]

Monica Lewinski

Would bang / 10

Edit: trying to post this i got the message "you must wait 2 seconds to perform this action" hahaha thats what she said

 

[courtjester]

Curtis Stone, Michelle Bridges, Steven Bradbury, Lance Armstrong

 

[Sub_Zero]

Paris Hilton owns this thread

 

[SHAKESPEARE]

Steven Bradbury

He is so undeserving of fame that he deserves it.

 

[Catfish Alley]

Nah, Bradbury was a 4 time Olympian who worked his arse off.

 

[courtjester]

He is so undeserving of fame that he deserves it.

I like the story, but he's a pain in the arse on tv as a commentator/host!

 

[courtjester]

Nah, Bradbury was a 4 time Olympian who worked his arse off.

Who no one would remember if all the others hadn't fallen over.

Hence, "undeserving".

 

[Catfish Alley]

Who no one would remember if all the others hadn't fallen over.

Hence, "undeserving".

He raced better than anyone else. Keeping your feet is a fairly critical skill.

 

[courtjester]

He raced better than anyone else. Keeping your feet is a fairly critical skill.

I couldn't really care less, but the amount that he was behind the others was ridiculous. Sure, keeping your feet is a skill, but really….

 

[Catfish Alley]

We'll just disagree then

 

[courtjester]

He won the race, but I disagree that he "raced better than anyone else". Basically like someone winning the 100 metres at the Olympics with a 15 second time because everyone else did a hammy.

 

[Catfish Alley]

I still think undeserving is harsh. Making 4 Olympics and also winning another bronze is no easy feat.

 

[courtjester]

I still think undeserving is harsh. Making 4 Olympics and also winning another bronze is no easy feat.

Alright. Unexpected celebrity status then.

If those guys hadn't fallen over, most people would have no idea who he is.

 

[TassieEagle]

Bradbury's tactic was to be as far behind as he was, he knew he couldn't match it with them and hoped a couple might fall over as is prone to happen in short track. He was able to get closer but then he would have risked getting into any tangles as well. He knew the other 4 were gunning for gold and silver would have been failure so therefor I think he outraced them all, sure he had a lot of luck but that's part of sport too.

 

[Gough]

Nah, Bradbury was a 4 time Olympian who worked his arse off.

To Bradbury is now in the Macquarie Dictionary. To have a phrase coined after you and enshrined in the dictionary is pretty cool as well.

 

[Scotland]

Stephen Bradbury is a dual Winter Olympic medallist.

He's definitely milked every last drop out of his story to maintain celebrity status, but he's famous for a reason.

The sporting public loves winners, athletes with some kind of back story/secondary talent and controversy. If you combine two or more of those you've hit sporting media gold. Bradbury won a rare winter gold in comical circumstances, Torah Bright won gold and is hot, Begg-Smith won gold and silver and only competed for us because he is a spam-merchant and Canada made him train too much etc. These are the stories people lap up.

The ultimate is of course Cathy Freeman in 2000. Won gold in a blue ribbon track and field event (very rare), had the build up with Mare Jose-Perec and flew the Aboriginal flag etc.