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The days of Z lister hangers on coming to a end thanks to real Olympic role models?
Interesting news piece of Sky earlier. Someone from a UK magazine, not sure which one, said that the olympic success has triggered a new wave of celeb and that the days of reality stars being on the cover of magazines are coming to an end as people are now more interested in real inspirational stars such as Jessica Enis, Chris Mears, Gemma Gibbons and Jason Kenny.
What do we think? might the days of Peter Andre and Kerry Katona be over!
What do we think? might the days of Peter Andre and Kerry Katona be over!
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Hopefully.:D:D
CAN would never allow it.
So the magazines have to make do with the nobodies, like Peter Andre, Jordan, Big Brother contestants, X Factor rejects etc...and hype them in an effort to make them seem like they are actually newsworthy.
ROFL
As a horse, perhaps.
The discussion was about how suddenly readers of these magazines were more interested in the olympic stars than they were Katona etc and that since putting Olympic champs on their covers these past weeks sales have gone up.
They'll be back. Probably spent the least few weeks planning the next *exclusive*
They may put them on the covers. But they can put the Pope on the cover. It doesn't mean they'll have the same level of access to him or the Olympians that they have with the bottom feeders.
If the magazine has Jordan on the cover with a headline saying "Jordan Buys New Underwear" why are you buying it? Is it really THAT important to you? Sad bastards.
The Olympics will fill Britain with hope & passion for a few months but as soon as its X-Factor crunch time brain-dead sheep-like Britain will return back to their trash TV loving ways. I guarantee you a year or so from now people would have forgotten all about Victoria Pendleton, Mo'Farrah and Daley.
Absolutely. I can't even bring myself to read the covers of these crap magazines, never mind part with my money to buy one
Yep! Quite right!
This sounds really sad I know, but I've loved the Olympics all my life - for two weeks, every four years it kind of becomes me and I become completely engrossed in this other world. This Olympics has been the first one my little girl can remember and respond to (she's six) and it's really made me think about how I'm going to bring her up and what I want her to become.
My parents never really encouraged me to do anything sport wise or indeed, anything extra curricular but my little girl absolutely loves horses, cycling and archery (weirdly enough). I didn't think the Olympics would inspire me at the age of 29 but it really has made me think about what she's going to do and what I can do to help her become what she wants to be.
I'd love to think that it's the same for every parent/child/teenager out there but I know it's not. I think realistically we need to challenge the parents' ideals for things to change because it really will be a generational thing. But having said that, in Australia their swimmers are treated with the same respect and have the same level of fame as our footballers so it's not impossible.
Sorry for the soppy post...!!
its not a soppy post at all. Good for you and parents who are able to plan things for their children, I'm sure they would rather them look up to Jessica Ennis rather than Amy Childs, Tom Daley rather than Peter Andre. If the Olympics has taken the zelebs off the front pages for a few weeks then its brilliant, unfortunately they will be back on the front pages with their sob stories and "world exclusives" all too soon:yawn:
The next generation needs to be inspired and parents like yourself are the start of it. Good for you.
The sort of people who buy HEAT and Reveal probably wouldn't watch the olympics anyway, no doubt they'd be tuned to ITV2 or Big Brother. Sadly a couple of million people see Jordan getting drunk, a transexual doleite winning Big Brother and bitching at the X Factor as big things in their life. However, when I come to power, reality television, celeb mags and Simon Cowell will be made illegal.;)
You'll definitely get my vote Glenn :rolleyes:
The reason the Z-listers are famous is because they are nothing but a real life soap, they have replaced the declining viewership of soap operas in many ways. We love to gossip about them and usually condemn them, not admire them. They keep many amagazine and minor TV channel floating and it's in their interest to peddle the Z listers for all eternity.
I think they will die off because people are bored of them. Olympians and Z listers occupy different arenas in the world of entertainment and they both have their place.