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Old 03-01-2017, 18:17
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This would disturb me.
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:28
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What's being famous got to do with someone being utterly ridiculous?
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:30
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I've always been glad that I am not famous. I cannot imagine anything worse.

I value my personal privacy above most things and find the pursuit of fame to be utterly baffling.
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:31
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What's being famous got to do with someone being utterly ridiculous?
I imagine they mean that the idea of someone creating a weird creepy shrine to you, just because you are well-known, is likely to be a little disturbing.
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:31
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What's being famous got to do with someone being utterly ridiculous?
If you're famous then your face is known and people can do what this man has done.
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Old 03-01-2017, 18:57
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What if they change the actor who plays Ben Mitchell yet again?
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:23
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I've always bei agreeen glad that I am not famous. I cannot imagine anything worse.

I value my personal privacy above most things and find the pursuit of fame to be utterly baffling.
I agree
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:47
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Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5iFrVmCZzWM
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:57
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I've always been glad that I am not famous. I cannot imagine anything worse.

I value my personal privacy above most things and find the pursuit of fame to be utterly baffling.
I agree that the pursuit of fame is utterly baffling, but there are also people out there who want to be good in their chosen field - be it music, art, acting, whatever - who aren't doing it to become famous, just successful at what they do. Earn a living at it, doing something they love.

Unfortunately one by-product of that success is the intrusion into their lives. Take, as a random example, Ryan Gosling. I've just looked online and there are papped photos of him filling his car with petrol and attending his mother's graduation in Canada, for example! Why would that even be of interest to anybody?

I think that, as much as what they do is for consumption for the public and obviously that entails courting some publicity for their craft, they should be entitled to a modicum of privacy at some point in their day when doing ordinary things like going to the supermarket.

I've said it before, though - I wonder what came first. The demand by the public to know more, or the media being more intrusive leading people to wanting to know more?
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Old 03-01-2017, 19:58
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What if they change the actor who plays Ben Mitchell yet again?
You mean, hire somebody who can actually act?
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:01
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Single and unemployed. Can't imagine why.

Gay too, apparently. That's important information that is.

No house valuation though, disappointingly.
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:02
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Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQTTA9raJU

Now, now, ladies of a certain age all scream at once!
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:10
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Reminds me of this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NvQTTA9raJU

Now, now, ladies of a certain age all scream at once!
I never saw the appeal

Mind you, I had a Donny Osmond cushion and I also had Starsky and Hutch all over my wall at one point, as well as one of the Mexican sweaters that Starsky used to wear all the time, although mine was from Mexico (well, his may have been too).
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:13
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I never saw the appeal

Mind you, I had a Donny Osmond cushion and I also had Starsky and Hutch all over my wall at one point, as well as one of the Mexican sweaters that Starsky used to wear all the time, although mine was from Mexico (well, his may have been too).
No, me either haha but they were super popular at one point.

And ahh Starsky and Hutch you like the more manly men!
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:14
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No, me either haha but they were super popular at one point.

And ahh Starsky and Hutch you like the more manly men!
Bros were a bit too pretty - or maybe I was just getting too old Donny Osmond was fairly pretty in his younger days too, as was David *swoon* Cassidy

David Soul was more my type though, in his younger days.
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:16
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Does no one have an Eric Pollard shrine?
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:17
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Bros were a bit too pretty - or maybe I was just getting too old Donny Osmond was fairly pretty in his younger days too, as was David *swoon* Cassidy
Yeah haha I forgot to put it's probably more like a "generally" that you like the more manly man! Not exclusive.

Because yep Donny was rather pretty and David. lol
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:20
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Does no one have an Eric Pollard shrine?
Would it include the porno movie he made?
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:22
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this is pretty disturbing
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:22
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Has anyone saw a paparazzi video on YouTube? Sometimes you see the pictures in the newspapers and think of it as harmless or even just mildly annoying but it's actually very uncomfortable sometimes seeing dozens of men crowding round celebrities and taking constant pictures and following them down streets and into airports etc.

When you remember that they get that every single day no matter where they go (plus get mobbed by fans at the same time as this) and it definitely puts you off the idea of fame. Imagine even just feeling a bit rubbish or having a headache and going outside to have people screaming your name, grabbing you, flashing cameras in your face and obstructing your journey? No way.
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:25
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Has anyone saw a paparazzi video on YouTube? Sometimes you see the pictures in the newspapers and think of it as harmless or even just mildly annoying but it's actually very uncomfortable sometimes seeing dozens of men crowding round celebrities and taking constant pictures and following them down streets and into airports etc.

When you remember that they get that every single day no matter where they go (plus get mobbed by fans at the same time as this) and it definitely puts you off the idea of fame. Imagine even just feeling a bit rubbish or having a headache and going outside to have people screaming your name, grabbing you, flashing cameras in your face and obstructing your journey? No way.
It makes me angry when some of them are out with their kids and there are hoards of paps sticking cameras in the kids faces, you see that especially when a celeb gets off their plane and they are carrying their child covering their faces because the press have no limit to what they will do to get a photo.
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:27
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None of the characters on Eastenders could afford to live in the real East End
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Old 03-01-2017, 20:47
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It's like that scene from I'm Alan Partridge, google it if you can be arsed.
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