I
was thinking earlier on this week about how different things are today than
they were in say, the 1980’s or even the 1880’s, (from what I've heard of these
eras as I didn't exist in either!). There seems to be a new type of ‘idol’ that
has become popular in recent years, the type of idol who actually has no reason
to be an idol, the type of idol who doesn't really poses any talent or skill at
all, the type of idol that their only real contribution to anything is on their
twitter feed - Celebrities. I think that the younger generation (not all of
them) of today admire the wrong people, when the right people aren't too far
away, and they have probably heard of them, but are unaware of anything these
people have done!
What
are the reasons for ‘celeb culture?’
·
Because technology has given every one of us the internet and a
smartphone, this has caused something called “going viral” a thing.
·
Because it is easier than knowing and understanding what people who
make a real contribution do.
·
Materialistic celebrities seem exciting to younger people especially if
these people haven’t had every luxury handed to them in life
·
Schools fail to give children idols and role models that are suitable
from an early age.
·
Careers advice is NOT good enough (in the UK) from my experience.
I googled ‘talentless celebrities’ and a link
to posh24.com’s top 7 talentless celebs stood out to me, I decided to have a
look and see firstly how many of these celebs I knew of and secondly if I agreed
with all of the people who had made it on to this list.
Here
is the list…
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| The Kardashians |
1. Kevin Federline:
It is true what
posh24 have said, ‘K-Fed’ is mainly famous for marrying Britney, he has carved
out a celebrity status from the shadow of another celebrity. Kevin has been a backup
dancer for Michael Jackson and Justin Timberlake.
2. The
Kardashians: Well
if you exclude failed attempts to break the internet and a poor reality T.V.
show the Kardashian don’t seem to have much to brag about talent wise. The article
stated that they didn’t understand why the Kardashians were famous and many
people have made this comment whilst taking about the family. After a little
bit of internet searching I found that Daddy Kardashian was a friend of O.J Simpson
and defended him in his controversial court case for double murder, so that’s one
mystery solved anyway.
3. Katie Price: AKA or better known as
Jordan, the page 3 model rocketed to success after a breast enlargement, after
reality T.V. got its claws into her with I’m a Celebrity and then Katie and
Peter, she has become a household name.
4. Jesse James: Jesse James was married to
Sandra Bullock between 2005-2010, this may have got peoples backs up against
the West Coast Choppers CEO. But as an entrepreneur who started a custom
motorcycle manufacturer from his mother’s garage in 1992 I fail to see how he
is talentless. In my opinion they got this one wrong!
5. Jersey Shore
Cast: Jersey
Shore ran for a tedious 6 series, it is hard to believe, I totally agree with
this one, the cast have done nothing but been followed around by a camera.
6. Paris Hilton: Heiress to the Hilton
fortune Paris was unfortunate to be the feature of a leaked sex tape that she
claimed was filmed in confidence with somebody she loved. Paris is made out to
be a complete air head, mainly by her own doing in reality T.V. shows, although
there is a business woman tucked away in there somewhere, but as all good
business people do, she knows what sells!
7. David
Hasselhoff: What!?
Do the people at posh24.com not know that The Hoff took down the Berlin Wall?
David Hasselhoff’s career makes for impressive reading, the star of knight
rider - after the car obviously, and Baywatch, added with his music and film
career the Hoff is far from talentless!
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| Josie Cunningham |
In
the U.K we have a new strand of talentless celeb, the kind that gets boob jobs
on the NHS, the kind that tries to sell tickets to her child birth, the kind
that offers to ‘get rid’ of her unborn child in order to go on reality T.V. and
the kind that offered to disappear as long as she got to sleep with Keith
Lemon. Yes, I am talking Josie Cunningham. Literally the most talentless celeb
that has ever walked this earth.
But
why are people fixated on the lives of these people and not real contributors?
In
the past, people with real talent and skill were praised and held highly in the
hearts of the population. I am talking about the likes of Charles Darwin, Isombard
Kingdom Brunel, Matthew Boulton and James Watt, Albert Einstein and Marie
Curie. These are the types of people we want our children to admire, and who
they should aspire to be like.
My
Top 8 Celebs that deserve gratification:
- Prof Stephen Hawking
- Richard Branson
- Gordon Ramsay
- Steven Fry
- Bill Gates
- David Beckham
- Alan Sugar
- Prof Brian Cox
| One of the great minds of our time Dr. Stephen Hawking |
I will explain why these 8 celebrities in particular ion another post to come soon.
Seriously
research some of these people as some of the things they have done for
humanity, their field or just businesses they have ran are truly remarkable.
In
my opinion, people who change our lives and knowledge of the world everyday such
as engineers, doctors, roboticists, physicists and inventors should be held in
higher regards than the before mentioned people who constantly clutter our newspapers.
Here is the link to the page I took the list from:
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