-Jude Law
What constitues a celebrity these days? I asked myself this existential question when casting my eyes upon the line up of one of the never ending celebrity reality TV shows that seem to forever be on rotation on terrestrial channels. I understand that its a question of supply and demand and that, due to that demand there is a need for 'filler', which means that TV producers inevitably cast their collective reel into the world of the content creator and influencer.
I always thought of a content creator to be a writer who fills a book with words and an influencer as a hypnotist, but that was then and this is now.
Being good at something, that most other people couldn’t do was the minimum requirement for celebrity status. Being interesting, funny, erudite and desirable were just some of the intangibles that created an appetite, that along with salacious gossip.
We've seen takes on the world of celebrity from Fellini's La Dolce Vita and Andy Warhol's famous quote. We've seen Dennis Pennis and Ali G pricking the balloon of celebrity pomposity but still they endure as figures whose role, it seems, is to provide opium for the masses
Now it seems that simply being seen or heard by others is enough to have have an agent, a brand and a following that equates to income.
One must, of course, move with the times but I suspect we are about to reach saturation point of celebrity culture; if you can call it culture.
Will the public gorge themselves like Mr Creosote, to bursting point on celebrity or will an "enough is enough" sensibility prevail. I doubt there will ever be a time when the fascination wanes, I don't think we are near a tipping point when peole start to realse that all that glitters is not, in fact gold; far from it, if anything its generally plastic.
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