by Jeffrey Wright

Created on: November 04, 2010   Last Updated: November 05, 2010

Celebrities fill the news at every possible moment.  It seems that these days if they sneeze, it somehow means that they’ve gotten embroiled in some sort of life changing divorce or marriage, and the media is right there hiding in the shadows ready to cover the story and reveal it to the world!  And sadly these so called “child stars” have to contend with this just as much as adults!  I have to ask, why?

What is so special about the life of the celebrity that we can leave them alone?  I understand that announcing the movie they will be in next, the next big song, TV series and so forth is inevitable. But why do we insist on going beyond that and delving into their private life?  These celebrity magazines paper the news stands from Walmart to Circle K to five and dime store down the street!  Are they really necessary?


Look at what these types of magazines have done to their lives!  They sometimes publish false information.  When the information is true it causes much embarrassment.  They end up with no private lives. Some people who publish these magazines as well as the people who read them are sometimes quoted as saying that they gave up their right to have a private life when they chose become a celebrity!  With that idea we had the creation of the paparazzi known for what is known to the rest of the world as stalking, just to get that one mother of all snapshot of any given celebrity in a compromising position to report on.  But why?  What about children?  Did their parents forfeit their right to a normal childhood too?


No they didn’t give up their right to a private life.  Celebrity magazines, paparazzi and anyone that reads them and keeps them going, they are the ones that forced celebrities to give up the right to their private life.  They are just doing a job they love like most anybody else.  These people are not living a life different from everyone else.  They work, hard to earn their money.  They have problems just like you and I.   


I want to know something.  I have all kinds of problems, just like they do!  My problems range from my love life to my finances.  Basically they have all the same problems that I do.  Where’s my magazine?  Why don’t I have people clamoring over me trying to take snapshots of me in compromising situations?  As far as I’m concerned we should know as much about their private lives as they do about ours.  It's just respect and common sense.

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