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Originally Posted by Margaret Pilkington
Eric, the media make these people into millionaires,. Advertisers want them to sell their products.....and I know it is a daft concept, but the ordinary folk who buy these products are then like their heroes(or at least that is what the advertisers hope we would believe).....So when these 'heroes' get grubby and the press find out about it, they want to let those who elevated these celebs to their hero status to know about it........Aah,but that would cost the 'hero'his purse........So if you are rich, then you can buy yourself a bit of the privacy you so willingly gave up in the pursuit of money.
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I agree. Not completely on the "willingly gave up" part; but I'm thinkin' about it.
But ... Sometimes I think that folks want their "heroes" to get grubby; makes them more human
Wasn't it Wilde who said something about
: The only thing worse than being talked about is not being talked about? And the British press
