Why Celebrities Annoy Me

This post is merely a recycled entry from my other blog. However, I feel like it is a lot more relevant on this blog, and also, it is still very relevant to my feelings on what still goes on in our celebrity feeled world. Enjoy.

“A celebrity is a person who works hard all his life to become well known, then wears dark glasses to avoid being recognized”

I think that with the end of Celebrity Big Brother, it is only fitting that I address the world of celebrities, and explain exactly what is wrong with it.
We all love gossip, and hearing rumors about famous people, there’s nothing wrong with that. But why do we care about the lives of people that are just like anybody else? Who cares about Katie Price? What makes her life so exciting, because I just don’t get it. They make so much money from pointless interviews and guest appearances, and half the time nobody wants to see them!

However, despite all that, they remain celebrities, and make so much money from doing practically nothing except selling their soul to journalists, and even more depressingly- appearing on game shows.

I am a big fan of game shows. However, I HATE celebrity game shows. I find it much more exciting to see a ‘regular person’ fighting for everything, using the very limits of their (usually) small brain. Instead we have the air heads we call celebs having a bit of a laugh (among themselves) with not much of a care when it comes to winning or not.
What I really don’t understand is the charity part of the shows. They’re basically saying that if a celebrity can’t get through some hole in a wall, or get a multiple-choice question right, then their charity doesn’t get money. WTF?! That’s insane, has any produce actually ever stopped for a second and think about what they’re basically showing to the public? They’re deciding how much they donate to charity through the abilities of an idiotic celebrity. WHY? They should just give the money to the charity; they’re not going to do much else with it. Otherwise you’re just teasing the charities.

Next time you watch a celeb on a game show playing for their charity and fail, just take a few seconds to absorb it, and you’ll see just how ridiculous it is. Half the time they applaud afterwards! And then say the classic “well I had fun”. Give me a break! I’ve had enough of talentless celebrities having an easy ride through life, making so much money from random stupid TV appearances.

I respect those that truly deserve fame and fortune, and I congratulate them. Those are the ones that don’t resort to appearing on I’m a celebrity or Hole in the Wall. But for those that just try to tag along and to claw their way into the starlight, move out of my way, because I want to watch the real stars, not your plastic face!

“A celebrity is known by many people they are glad they don't know.”

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Return of the Gameshow blog - What gameshow would you go on?

I'm sure everybody's thought about going on a tv gameshow, it's just one of those things that wed love to experience, the adrenaline, the excitement, the potential. Of course, we never picture ourselves losing, only winning. Although, we quite often see people come crashing down, defeated on tv gameshows, but we don't really pay too much attention to it, our focus is placed on the winner.

We've seen a lot of great gameshows pass us by - Bullseye, Catchphrase, Supermarket Sweep, Playour cards right, blankety blank and so many more.
Once great shows like Who Wants to be a Millionaire and Family Fortunes are now just a shadow of thier original self.
Now we're left with pretty poor excuses for gameshows, and as i expressed in my previous gameshow blog(click here to read it) the gameshows we have now are normally crawling with celebrities trying to continue thier grasp on fame.

However, we have seen a slow progression into more physical gameshows such as The Cube and Total Wipeout(if you can call that a gameshow?). But are they as good as 'It's a Knockout' or 'The Generation Game'? I personally don't think they are.

Anyway, back onto the topic of this blog. I was just wondering what gameshow would be the best gameshow to go on. I mean obviously we all have preferences, some of us would prefer a more question based show, whilst others would like a more physical challenge. But pushing all that aside, if physicality and intelligence werent big factors, what would be the best gameshow to go on if you wanted the best chance of walking away with a decent prize?

Immediatly something like Who wants to be a Millionaire jumps to mind, you just have to answer a few questions then you can safely walk away with a decent amount of money, although, if you on a role, it's hard to just take the money, you just want to keep going and going and maybe even take some risks.
The harder shows are clearly things like Eggheads where you're competing with very intelligent people for (usually) quite a small amount of money which you would have to split between a group of you.

I guess it's hard to decide really, i'd assume we'd each base our choice on what we think our strengths are. I know that my dad is very good at catchphrase, and if that gameshow was still running, i would bet a lot of money on my dad winning.
We all know what we're good at, and what we can suceed in. I wouldn't like to go on a gameshow like Goldenballs or Deal or No Deal where it's mainly about luck, and where you have to rely on other contestants for you to suceed.
I'd prefer to win or lose based on my own decisions and ability. I suppose it's the taking part that counts, but when it comes to television glory and great prizes, is that really true?

Note- While writing this blog i've been talking to people ont twitter and gradual started thinking about all my favourite 90's shows. Gosh how i miss the 90's! Nostalgia..... =/

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