i just don't get it

I think these people just need something to do apart from the mundane worthless things they are doing like work, raising brats or whatever. I personally don't give a whack about celebrities' lives. It's their life and I have no business in it. I like a lot of celebrities for their talents, but I don't think I need to know all about them. When I watch the news and they have this section about celebrities lives, I switch to a different channel. In the papers I skip the celebrity buzz section. It's not just about celebrities you know. That why I don't have much activity on facebook. If I did, I couldn't get any work done at all if I had 200 friends to be meddling with. I'm not that rude or insensitive either, when I see the headlines that some actress just had a baby boy, that's enough for me. I just think to myself congratulations on your having a baby, I don't bother to read the details. It's also like that wrestling thing on tv. Pretty much fake and all scripted, I used to do a lot of martial arts and when I kick someone in the face they stay down and they go to the hospital. But I guess people just need something to watch even if they know it's fake. In a nutshell, it's all just publicity done by the networks, papers, movie producers and whatever to get their business going and yes a lot of people fall for that, which is good for their business. If makers of the iphone say, there's an app for that. I say, there's a sucker for this gimmick.

I think it is just a matter of preference. I'm a Johnny Depp fan. I'm not really into reading about him though, but I know my daughter is. My daughter loves reading about all of her favorite stars. Not that she wants to be like them, but because she is just interested in what they are doing.. what's important to them, who they love etc. After all, celebrities are people too. Some have trouble with weight gain. Kirstie Ally got up to over 300 pounds, I think.. from what the tabloids said... and she lost weight AGAIN... which reminds me of so many of us that have issues with weight. They aren't royalty.. they are just people who people think of as a type of royalty.. but in reality they are just people who were fortunate enough to have a career in show business. Almost everyone likes to gossip, or look into other people's lives.. it's no different with celebs.

Often we are attracted at something or with someone because the unconscious recognizes the thing or that person we are attracted to have the qualities we seek in our selves.

The few reasons i can think of why those people like to read stuff like this is because either they have idle minds that like to read about all those gossips printed in this type of magazines, or they are just incapable of reading more in depth and academic type of prints that require higher personal intellectual ability other than magazine that gossip about royalty and celebrity. Or it can be just a very simple reason that due to lower level of intelligence, this type of readers get attracted to royal or celebrity gossip magazine is that it doesn't require plenty of brain cell inside a reader to understand its content and it is simple n easy enough to follow through from page to page. You are right, this type of magazine is making a big profit out of these people, i guess those readers have too much $$ and time in hand to spend and waste on it, it is just difficult to understand how the mind of fools work in reality.

I think there's a bit of a voyeurism element to it, there are some people who just like to be nosy and know what everyone is up to. They follow celebrities because their lives are the ones most out in the open. I guess there are people who idolize certain celebrities and want to do whatever they're doing. Then there are people who I think just want to be critical of celebrities and question their every move and stick them under a microscope and try to imagine what they're thinking. I don't follow celebrities either... I honestly could care less! But I know there are just natural gossips in the world who want to talk about other people, follow other people, or be critical of other people, and so they choose celebrities.

I feel so left out whenever I hear my friends talk about celebrities. I don't watch celebrity news nor read magazines that's why I'm not that updated. Others find every little bit of their lives to be intriguing. Perhaps they just want to have something to talk about? When people talk about the celebrities, it's the same as gossiping about their next door neighbor.

I don't get it either, I find nothing entertaining about it at all and I don't even want to her the name kardasian, those people certainly know how to make money that is for sure.

I used to buy STAR magazine but don't anymore. Everything is at my fingertips with the computer. I am not sure what the appeal is, though I just fell in love with Prince William and Catherine, especially because they made their first trip abroad to Canada. I so wanted to be her. I still like to know what's going on, with all the royals really. And there are some celebrities I like to know about. I think the real reason is because I can see that these people are just normal human beings like everyone else. Hey, I liked Tom Cruise back in the day. He lost me when he broke up his marriage to Nicole Kidman for Penelope Cruz. When a celeb does something I don't like, then I am turned off. So I would rather know who they are than to worship the image and not be blinded as to the human beings that they really are.

Hi Suebee, I almost kind of can understand it. I have read autobiographys on people that are famous and I find them very interesting. I read Valerie Bertinelli's autobigoraphy and I found it fascinating having been a fan of her shows and movies as well as her ex-husband Eddie vanhalen. I am currently reading Steven Tyler's biography that was given to me by my grandson. I've been a fan off and on of his music since he first hit it big. I live in the area he grew up and he has a strong resemblence to a long lost cousin of mine who ironicly grew up in Sunapee and wanted to be a rock star. My brother and cousin have spent a lot of time trying to prove that he is in fact our cousin. ...I honestly could care less. Still, I find him very interesting. I don't watch ET on tv and I do not follow the Papparazzi magazines etc. It's not an obession with me at all.

I think people like to follow celebrites because they wish their lives where like that! I also think some people do it because they have nothing better to do!I don't do it alot but I love hearing bad news of certain celebrites I hate,like Tom Cruise! I do form time to time follow the Britsh Royals. I have since Prince Charles wed Diana in 1981. They are a fasinating family! A very dysfunctional family but still very interesting!

I think it is because we see and/or hear these people all the time ... in the movies, on television, on the radio, etc. ... so we start to feel like we know them. I think it is like a neighbor or local store clerk you see all the time, and you exchange niceties with them (ask how they are, how their family is doing, etc.) and feel that you know them at least a little. In the case of a celebrity, you can't ask them directly, so you read about them to find these things out.

i agree with you about people wasting money and time while reading/watching or following celebs for nothing. Then I think over it and try to reach to a decision about it. there should be some reason, yes there is. This is the desire people always wanted to be as famous and rich. Since they could not become like them, they read and visualize to be like them by reading, following and watching. Cheers. A little money spent is the cost of it.

I personally don't know as I find is useless and annoying. I was listening to the radio this morning well I leave it on for Marco at night. For an hour they talked about Brad Pitt and his life, divorced, and crap. I was too lazy to get up and change the channel but it was getting pretty irritating.

Hello Suebee I've never understood this mentality either. It seems like such a waste. All the more, I don't understand when people are treated as heroes just for making lots of money (and if they are actors, just for being effective liars.) I'll never understand it. Peace

When I was teenager I sometimes bought those magazines, because I wanted to get the lastest news and the new pictures of my favourite celebrities, but as an adult I find the magazines that only write about celebrities very boring. I don't care who got married, who got divorced or what kind of clothes they wore last time they went to a party. My mother-in-law buys two of those magazines every week and sometimes I flip through the magazines when I visit her, but I would never buy them simply because I don't find them interesting. I don't buy many magazines, but when I buy a magazine I avoid the ones that only write about celebrities.

Hi Suebee, I too find it strange that people want to read all that stuff and help them and the magazines make more money.I guess most people are stressed out with the daily life and want to fantasise about the celebrities who they think are leading great lives, but the truth is far from it ...

I don't buy magazines just for reading those stuffs. Well, it is true that people likes to read about those stuffs and wasting their money for those magazines..and not just ordinary magazines but costly ones.

I don't spend time or money on those kinds of magazines, either. I think some people try to live vicariously through others. I think some people thrive on gossip but it all seems incredibly shallow to me. I couldn't imagine being in the "spotlight" like a lot of celebrities because giving up my privacy would be a major sacrifice.

hello suebee, this is very good subject , why people crazy about celebrities life ... the main difference is money and famous... but every ordinary people should know almost every celebrity stand there from ordinary life.. this is not a magic but its true... and don't underestimate to yourself....