ya dengus

If I could impart any wisdom at all from 10 years of working in TV and Film, it would be that literally none of your faves are who you think they are. You don’t know a single celebrity beyond the facade and the performance they put out into the world. Even those candid interviews are crafted and designed to maintain a certain image for the benefit of their career. And none of this is to say that your fave is secretly a complete arsehole, but this weird obsession that so many people have with acting like they personally know and therefore love certain celebrities is incredibly weird to me, not to mention dangerous. So many people, particularly young people, have these bizarrely obsessive online presences dedicated around their favourite celebrities, where they spend hours and hours just tweeting about that person and getting into harassment campaigns on their behalf, and it’s like… your fave literally has no idea who you are. Your fave once sent someone a shitty email because they tried to charge £900 of room service to a production credit card and the production said no. Your fave once tried to make someone else pick up their dog’s shit and nearly set a hotel room on fire. Your fave once trashed their luxury penthouse apartment that they stayed in for free with dirty nappies and rusty nails and refused to pay to have it cleaned. Your fave is just a finite sack of meat, blood and bone. You really, really don’t need to idolise them. You love a persona, not a person, and exalting that just isn’t worth so much of your time and energy.

A few people have added comments and tags on this to the effect of ‘OP clearly made this post just to dunk on those few celebrities that wronged her’ so I would just like to make it clear that sometimes celebrities are different in a good way!! I once worked with a celeb whose entire public image was that they were a super serious filmmaker, very sedate and aloof and untouchable, and all of their Twitter stans love them because they’re so SOLEMN and ARTISTIC, but in real life they kept giving me M&Ms and drew me a really awful picture of a dog on the back of an old envelope and talked almost constantly about astronauts… the point of this post isn’t ‘celebrities are shite’, just ‘you literally have no idea what they’re like when they’re not being paid to be there.’