With much debate this week over Madonna adopting baby David from Malawi it made me think about the amount of celebrities advocating for different causes. It made me ask, do they actually believe in what they say and do, or is it all one big publicity stunt?
Madonna has apparently splashed out £5000 on a rocking horse for David, but where would this money have a better effect - on toys for a baby boy, or being put towards the country or the orphanage?
This summer I attended the XVI AIDS conference in Toronto and the amount of celebrities outnumbered the political leadership. Why do celebrities feel the need to prove themselves?
Angelina Jolie is a United Nations goodwill ambassador and has done a lot of work helping those less fortunate. Somehow she feels the need to prove that she believes in the cause by starting up her own United Nations in her house, with a child from Asia, one from Africa, talk of another from somewhere else and her own child.
Even Bono, who constantly fights for world causes, is now in a court battle over his clothes. I knew U2's publishing had moved it's business to Holland to avoid new tax laws in Ireland , but I didn't know he was that short on money.
So are all these celebrities of today doing these things just for the publicity because if it is they are certainly getting a lot of it, Maybe I'm being too cynical about the whole thing, but just in case I'm not I am going to stop writing now, as I don't want them to receive any more publicity than they have already got!
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This article was written by Emmet Barr and edited by Gavin Leung. It was published on the Reach for the Sky website.
