Hi! I live on the outskirts of London and I'm a professional singer. I'm promoting my own solo caree...
Hi! I live on the outskirts of London and I'm a professional singer. I'm promoting my own solo career, and I'm also part of a girl trio!! If there are any A&R guys out there please feel free to leave me a message!! LOL!
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Are our lives really so empty that we feel we have to fill the void by reading about "celebrities'" lifestyles?
Today I have been unfortunate enough to have been given a copy of Hello! magazine (there is no way on this earth I would buy it). Still - there is one good thing to come from it - an opportunity to write an opinion for Ciao.
Hello! magazine is a glossy mag full of pictures of celebrities arriving at parties, celebrities at award ceremonies, celebrities relaxing in their 10 acre mansions; oh, yes, and let us not forget the frequent articles on the Royal Family and anyone even remotely connected with the Royals.
In this article I have here in front of me;
dated March 6 2001; there are features on all of the above. What I cannot believe is that there is a 20-page (yes 20 pages!!!) feature on Celine Dion and her "miracle" new baby. Celine and her husband, Rene have been trying for a baby for 6 years, and after some fertility treatment, Celine finally became pregnant. So that is the "miracle".
I am sure Celine and her husband are very nice and all that, and I wish them well; but so called "miracle" babies are born to hundreds of couples all over the world every day. So many people have trouble conceiving but they don't have huge bank accounts and massive Florida mansions - they are just people. Just like you and me. Because Celine has celebrity status, this story is emblazoned over page upon glossy page; pictures of baby with Celine, pictures of baby with Dad; pictures of baby in lovely frilly crib, etc etc..
Another article this week - Leonardo di Caprio's fiancee, catwalk model Giselle, "relaxes" at home with the people she loves most. Oh, please. How can she be relaxing when there is quite obviously a pack of photographers with her? I have no wish to see Giselle, sprawling all over a haystack; or a desire to see pictures of her family and I find it hard to believe that anyone else wants to see it either.
What I am trying to say is that these "Celebrities" - although they lead glamorous lifestyles - are just ordinary human beings; they go through the same trials and tribulations as the rest of us, I'm sure they get spots like the rest of us; fall ill like the rest of us and need to go to the toilet like the rest of us....so why does this magazine portray their lives as some kind of wonderful phenomena? I have a full time job trying to live my own life and I really do not need to gain an insight into the lives of celebrities.
Is it something to do with the decline of religious beliefs in the modern world? Although we don't go to church so much any more, do we still feel we need role models to look up to? Is this magazine cashing in on that? Why is Hello! giving celebrities some kind of God-like status?
Along with the rest of the media, this magazine is trying to tell us that this is the kind of life we should aspire to have; perfect houses; perfect families; perfect size 8 figures and perfect smiling babies? No wonder so many people are so unhappy in this world, it seems we are all striving for things we can never have, and don't really need.
Hello! tries to bring itself a modicum of credibility in the "Panorama" section, where pictures of worldwide news happenings, (such as Sarah Payne's parents coming face to face with their daughter's killer) are displayed with a few lines of text explaining the story. I feel that stories such as this can not be properly told in just one paragraph, and they should leave this serious stuff well alone, as Hello! magazine is not capable of producing a decent factual article about real issues.
The only useful thing I can see in it is the TV section, and even that isn't much good as it does not give complete information on all the programmes listed. Its not my kind of magazine, but; if you like looking at pictures of Stars and their lives, it might be your thing.
I find it quite sickening that Hello! magazine exists and I would never pay good money for it. But it must appeal to somebody, otherwise they would not be producing it. I am not one of them.
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hey, you made me laugh out loud and that's worth a VH - you are of course right, but it won't stop me reading it when I have the opportunity, if only to marvel at the strange facet of human nature you describe.
rosieR 16.03.2001 16:21
Have to admit that I don't like this magazine either as I much prefer to read stories and articles rather than see what the latest celebrity has been getting up to. Spot on review!!
elspeth334 15.03.2001 10:26
I have never bought this magazine but admit to reading it at the DR surgery it passes a mindless half hour Cheers Elspeth
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