In the celebrity obsessed world we live in, who better to focus this blog entry on!! Everywhere you look there are celebrity scandals splashed all over magazines and newspapers. You watch big brother and there are wannabes who think they look like a celeb, or just want to get famous. Walking through town, you are faced with loads of people waiting to be discovered, or dressed up like their favourite celebrity. If you ask a child what they want to be when they grow up, the answer is more often than not a footballer, a pop star, or just famous!! WHY?? People follow celebrities and some go as far as to centre their lives around them.
This module is called being bad, where we are looking at bad behaviour. The majority of the themes we are covering can be seen all over the newspapers nearly every day. The celebrities that people
worship, especially children who look up to these people, are just as bad as the rest of us!!! You have premiership footballers who commit adultery (Ashley), pop stars who abuse drugs (Robbie, Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse), multi billionaires such as Paris Hilton who is always up on driving charges, Winona Ryder who shoplifted...the list is endless!I personally don't go in for the celebrity worship. There are certain comedians, singers or actors I like, but I don't devour every bit of information that I can about them! I was thinking of the topics we have covered so far, and amazingly, every topic we have covered has been featured quite widely in top newspapers lately.
I think a lot of bad behaviour does stem from what we learn from celebs, especially when it comes down to kids. They are very easily led and tend to look up to these people, and they do imitate their behaviour.
Don't get me wrong, I haven't got a downer on celebs at all. I think that because bad behaviour does sell papers and magazines, this is what features the most, and a lot of it is hyped up by the media to get the sales. Look through a newspaper such as the sun and see how many articles about celebs doing good things feature. A lot of celebrities do loads for charity but this do
esn't get a mention. Perhaps if the media changed the way that it published these articles so freely, and maybe included some of the good things that celebs do, maybe kids wouldn't be as unruly as they are now, or trying to grow up too quickly.Can anyone else think of any celebs that behave badly??!!
I've also got to add, the amount of bad behaviour on the soaps this week has been shocking! In Neighbours you have kids pretending to be older and then going out on a date with a teacher, who wasn't aware that the pupil was a pupil as she lied about her age!
In Home & Away you have escaped convicts, HIV, Teen Pregnancy and lying !
In Hollyoaks you have cheating, lying, teenagers beating up and mugging an adult, heroin use amongst school kids, a teenage mom who had her daughter at 14 lying to the village and saying her daughter has leukemia, and then cashing in on the money donated for her daughter!
In Eastenders, you have cheating, lying, fake marriages, and a cheating husband being buried alive!!
In Coronation Street, you have much of the same: cheating, violence......
Not that I'm much of a soap fan or anything!!!!!!!!!!! The daft thing is though, all of this bad behaviour was all in a days work for some of the soaps!!
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