With the number of celebrity gossip magazines on the increase has the right to privacy become a thing of the past? Children's Express reporter Brian Smyth thinks so.
Many magazines, newspapers and television shows invade the privacy of celebrities to create stories. These articles cover important issues such as losing or gaining weight, forming or ending relationships, or things as trivial as disputes between celebrities and their wardrobes.
This form of "entertainment" is extremely invasive and in certain ways twisted. It is clear what motivates a professional photographer to follow a young celebrity couple, but why have the public become so obsessed with wanting to delve into the lives of the rich and famous?
It may be the most entertaining thing on TV or in the newspaper for people of limited intelligence, but how would these people feel if their personal lives were displayed for all to see in their favourite magazine?
I'm sure they wouldn't enjoy gossip as much if every magazine they read had an embarrassing picture of them accompanied with a revealing story.
Personally I believe that following the lives of celebrities is obsessive and sick. Although I don't know any celebrities I am sure they'll agree being followed by photographers all day is disturbing, especially as the resulting pictures are likely to provide "entertainment " for those warped individuals who thrive on celebrity gossip!
If people spent half as much time focusing on their own problems and their own family as they spend on the problems of celebrities we would all be much better off.
Celebrity gossip is a waste of good paper that could be put to much better use, toilet roll for example!!
About the team
This story was written by Brian Smyth and edited by Rebecca Burns. It was published by Reach for the Sky website.
