A-Z list celebrities that drive you mad

[Brendan]

Brooking? Waterman? Alan Rickman? Alex James?

The only name I've recognised in the last few post has been Bono.

[Peckhamgatecrasher]

Alan Rickman - swoon. Sorry, wrong thread.

[david_carnell]

Peckhamgatecrasher Wrote:

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> Alan Rickman - swoon. Sorry, wrong thread.

Aye, but only as Hans Gruber.

[giggirl]

Celebrities are annoying but, more than that, celebrity culture is damaging, especially to young people.

Didn't "Role Model" used to mean someone you could look up to? It's important for young people to have role models and celebrity culture is about telling the lie that, somehow celebrity is better than "non-celebrity". "Four legs good, two legs bad". The real truth is that our own lives are what we choose to make them and celebrity is just airbrushing and PR spin (smoke and mirrors).

I'm going to pop down off my high-horse for a moment, just long enough to make a itsy bitsy confession. I would never dream of spending cash on OK, Heat, Whatever Magazine BUT ... when I'm at the hairdressers..... well, it all seems like game-on. I like to have a little look at the bitchy articles, the ones that show celebs having bad hair days. So there you are, I confess. It's a secret pleasure. I wonder why?

[*Bob*]

There's only so long you can spend in a pub discussing the on-set problems during the shoot of Apocalypse Now / which Martin Amis novel is the worst / the small print in the FT.

If Bono's hair provides a lighthearted means into a spot of lighthearted and frivolous banter about nothing in particular with a few laughs thrown in, just to pass the time, then I'm all for it.

Slebrity in nothing new, and half the new ones are no better or worse than half the old ones from the last few millenia: Gladiators (famous for killing people), Good-looking people (natural ability to be good-looking), Murderers (killing people), Saints (being fictitious. getting killed), Soldiers (killing people), Footballers (natural ability to kick ball), Royalty (being born into royalty / killing people).

[Annasfield]

James Blunt (6) Aptly named too.

[Jah Lush]

What? Blunt by name, blunt by nature? Oh!!...cockney rhymning slang. Right.

[giggirl]

I don't mind him too much actually (shock, gasp, horror). He did a half decent Pixies Cover - "Where is My Mind". Not keen on his own songs but I liked the Pixies cover.

[SimonM]

Jamie O'Liver - the notorious Irish offal chef - especially in the Sainsburys ads...