What is a Celebrity?

One common theme throughout celebrity history is that all the big celebrities were marked out to be famous because they were part of a larger than life event. Some people are born into fame but find it hard to fill the shoes of there famous mothers or fathers. Other people become celebrities from starting out with nothing in life; you can include many famous people in this bracket from the likes of Mike Tyson to the great actor Robert De Niro.

Shakespeare became a celebrity in his own time because he wrote plays about universal themes that are true for all humanity, regardless of time period, gender, race, religion, or continent. It seems like our celebrity obsessed society cannot get enough of the daily lives of such star celebrities.

When celebrity marriages go wrong it can get ugly at least from a public perspective on the publicity side. One of the most high profile splits in recent celebrity history was actress Jennifer Aniston and actor Brad Pitt. Another huge celebrity divorce Michael Jordans from his wife of nearly 18 years, Chicago bank officer Juanita Vanoy, could end up as the most expensive in celebrity history, if his estranged spouse walks away with half his fortune.

The corridors of celebrity history are replete with cases of the young and rich having departed the rails by the time they reach maturity, I suppose it is an age old problem the confusion between celebrity and authority, sometimes fame can make people start to believe they are untouchable.

-Richard Heap

Celebrities I Hates

Tom Cruise

My wife is absolutely certain Tom Cruise is an evil cult member who brainwashed and destroyed Katie Holmes. It astounds me that somebody who can't stand the sight of the man can know so much about his personal life, but that's what reading People and US Weekly can do for you. She will tell me over and over that the Church of Scientology is a cult and that Tom Cruise is a crazy man. She won't say it, but the implication is that Katie Holmes was just a naive innocent who got sucked into his world and is now a Scientologist zombie with no decision-making abilities of her own. I actually find it amusing to bring them up every once in a while just to see how fast she says "EEEW!" It's way cool.

Brad Pitt

Somewhere along the way (possibly at the encouragement of the popular media) it became an established fact that Jennifer Aniston is the sweetest, most gentle, loving, innocent girl in the entire world. And Brad Pitt married her and then wouldn't have her babies, and ran off with that Jolie tramp because she was more exciting and sexual and less traditional than Jen. It helps that Aniston always plays a beautiful aimless confused girl with a heart of gold in every movie she plays, I guess. Anyway, it doesn't matter what Brad Pitt says. It doesn't matter what he does. It doesn't matter how hot his body is. He's an evil, devious cheater who broke Jennifer's heart, and he'll always elicit an "EEEW!" from my wife.

Angelina Jolie

In my wife's eyes, Brad Pitt may be evil, but Angelina is the Antichrist. Let's start with the simple reason: she stole Brad from Jennifer Aniston. Pretty little innocent wholesome Jennifer. Evil, exotic, evil Angelina. Then, throw in the fact that she's crazy, as exhibited by that whole Billy Bob and the blood thing, and you have yourself someone who's easy to hate.

Then, as an added bonus, she flies all over the world and brings attention to the plight of children in foreign lands. Does she help them? No, other than adopting one or two. Sheesh. Pure evil, I tell ya.