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Daily Mail, do celebs pay to be on their site ?
KittenParty
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There is 3 maybe 4 articles on the Karadashians every day, LeAnn Rimes popping up every second day and a piece on Victoria Beckham which always has a good slant, and comments praising her always reach number one.
Do you think their PR people pay for this publicity ?
Do you think their PR people pay for this publicity ?
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So true z-leb fame is a vicious circle of making money and spending it to stay relevant.
Left side anti porn, Right side full of soft porn.
Great observation, post that in the Daily Mails comment section and you will be downvoted to hell.
My guess is that pr firms writes them pays for the exposure. I think they also write neg stories on their clients 'rivals' to make their client appear better which always is an epic fail.
Same with dodgy mostly altered pap pics to make celeb appear chubby or sometimes frail.
To this end, if everybody stopped looking at the DM online from now, it will not exist in a week.
But you cannot help yourselves......
and Samia Ghadie lately
There's no think about it.:D It's a revolving door of scratch my back and I'll scratch your's.
Sites like the DM buy the pics because it's easy spacefiller, and because they bring a lot of traffic, even if it is just people complaining 'What is the purpose of Peaches Geldof/Kim Kardashian/Gwyneth Paltrow/Kelly Brook/whoever?'
Some bloggers/vloggers/authors may pay them though, they run articles that are basically adverts.
There have been a few questionable articles with celebrities clearly in articles promoting products that have no connection to them lately - bit of bought product placement for sure.
I also think the Honey Boo Boo family might pay for coverage too. They barely mean anything to the US audience, let alone the rest of the world, but have been featured a really disproportional amount.
Yes, the zelebs don't have a career other than being papped, they will wear designers clothes....on the proviso they get photographed in them, or even holding a certain bottle of water or diet pills. Check who gets the credits on the photos, you see it's always the same few on the uk zelebs especially.
I remember in Abi Titmuss's book she explained she would be offered a few thousand to go on holiday if she let them take pics of her in a bikini so they could sell them on. Some would get excited and blow the money they were given on first class flights, but she would travel economy and save the money which seems much more sensible!
Note how many 'proper' stars get papped, not many, they don't need to as they actually have talent!
They are also raging homophobes yet dedicate positive, slobbering articles to people like Anderson Cooper and his boyfriends.
It really is a vile rag, but hysterical in its hypocrisy.
I agree. I notice that when certain artists have a new record/film/book out they suddenly get lots of mentions. Alexandra Burke is a case in point -never on their radar until her record did badly-then she was photographed daily on the beach in a bikini :rolleyes: