2007-02-27 21:19:13 · 14 answers · asked by curlyloxx 3 in Entertainment & Music ➔ Celebrities
10 years ago you actually had to do something to become a celebrity like be an actress or a singer or a TV presenter, nowadays there is so much reality TV that anybody can become a celebrity if their desperate enough - Jade Goody, Paris Hilton, Abi Titmus...unfortunately the list goes on.
2007-02-28 01:18:50 · answer #1 · answered by Jemma G 3 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Well ten years ago I would have been in total ore of a celebrity and excited also honered to meet one. They would be very talented and worked hard to get where they are however today celebrity has been devalued due to the endless reality shows and the wanna bees and also older celebrities using them as a boost to flagging career..
I have read many an autoboigraphy and have been in total admeration for how thye struggled to get where they are how an earth can you read/enjoy the story of somone who slept with so and so or been on a reality show to get where they are.
10 years ago they worked today they dont simple as that!
2007-02-28 08:16:04 · answer #2 · answered by momof3 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A 'celebrity' now is anyone who sleeps with somebody famous and sells the story (Abi Titmuss) has alcohol or drug addiction problems, is snapped snorting coke (Kerry Katona) and goes in and out of Hotel Rehab. No talent required (Jade Goody)
10 years ago we didn't have the gossip magazines or reality shows so a little more talent was required and the celebs then would have been the likes of Samantha Fox and the page 3 girls, super-models and Princess Diana.
2007-02-28 06:11:31 · answer #3 · answered by georgeygirl 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Celebrity 10 years ago - An individual who has earned the respect and affection of the general public through hard work and talent.
Celebrity now - Any fruit loop that spends ten minutes gurning into a TV camera during a reality show.
2007-02-28 05:32:49 · answer #4 · answered by Tish P 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm not sucking up here, but this is a good question.
(Let's go 25 years ago, because not that much has changed in the last 10 years.) 25 years ago, you had to have a skill to become a celeb. Or it helped. Now, you have to have done something, anything, that causes the media spotlight to fall on you.
Celeb 25 years ago... Orson Welles, Leonard Bernstein, Gore Vidal, Norman Mailer.
Celeb now... John Mark Karr, Anna Nicole Smith, Britney Spears
2007-02-28 05:25:21 · answer #5 · answered by A Wand'ring Minstrel I 2 · 2⤊ 0⤋
A Celebrity is a movie or TV star is a popular person who has lots of fans. Ten years ago the Media started going to far invading their lives. Today it is even worse than ten years ago.
2007-02-28 05:28:03 · answer #6 · answered by Lynnemarie 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
10 years ago, someone who got where they were through their own merit, ie talent with regards to presenting/ singing/ dancing. Nowadays, with cable TV channels, the internet, myspace and reality TV shows, people can get in the public eye for other reasons , not necessarily good orlinked with talent. They are just famous, and gossip magazins such as Heat etc label them as celebrities so they have something to write about.
2007-02-28 05:26:12 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
celebrity now - is a mundane affair, filled with talentless and pointless people and a vast proportion of them are only celebrity through 'bad' reality TV shows, their behaviour, courting the media, family backround, tell all tabloid stories etc etc (think Paris Hilton, Jade Goody and all the other shallow maggots!)
10 years ago - celebrity existed, but not in its current form, yes, there were still celebrity 'whores', party boys and girls, useless pop people and dull TV presenters, but luckily, we were not subjected to 'reality' TV shows, the way we are now, so the amount of 'celebrity' was limited!!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celebrity
2007-02-28 05:26:29 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 2⤊ 0⤋
having talent was an important part of becoming a celebrity ten years ago...
now.... talent is not even relevant......the more ridiculous or brash you are.... the better your chances of becoming a celebrity....which is good for the masses ..it means anyone now can be a celebrity.........
2007-02-28 05:45:00 · answer #9 · answered by LeftField360 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Celebrity now - stoned celebrity ten years ago - drunk
2007-02-28 11:06:37 · answer #10 · answered by gaviscon 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋