The fame and fortune

It seems to me that our society is becoming a little obsessed with people we call 'celebrities'. Obviously celebrities have been followed around and loved by the public for many decades, yet recently it seems to have gone to the extreme. We are constantly bombarded by the media with stories of no real relevance to us. Celebrities hair cuts...their recent shopping extravaganzas

Go Fug Yourself

Skinny girl....aka founder of the skinny website came close to losing her long-held title of being my favourite blogger. After coming across the super critical site 'Go Fug Yourself' it became clear that even skinnygirl isn't as concerned with the activities of celebrities than the founder of this site.
With the most recent titles being 'Fugtown girl' and 'Fug Stone', celebrities are rinsed and mocked for the outfits they wear, expressions they pull, or basically every little thing thats wrong with them. The reason for this? Is the author of such blogs merely amusing herself and others with these people's faults? Or is she insecure about her own looks and life? So insecure that she feels better about herself by pointing other's imperfections? The style of the writing is light-hearted, funny, yet incredibly blunt; in my opinion it seems that this is merely for a laugh, not for more serisous, personal reasons.
The question of whether this is real journalism....is a very simple one. This is not real news, or at least, I don't personally see this as real news: What people are wearing, or new pictures of someone looking fat is not serisously going to affect anyone's lives like real news does.
The recurring theme on this website- imperfections and mocking them, raises the point that girls, women and especially teenagers are obsessed with looking perfect, and we wonder where this image of perfection and this need comes from? Look no further, websites mocking even the most beautiful people in the world and their faults isn't the most sensible thing to show an insecure teenage girl......

Should she go to rehab??

After her 'lacklustre' performance given at the MTV awards last week, Amy Winehouse has received more bad press and has been slated for wining the artists choice award, yet claims her mumbly performance was all down to exhaustion.

She was quoted saying, "I'm knackered after my own gigs in Europe and was back in London chilling out when I got the call asking me to do MTV. My family are so important to me that I agreed to do it for them" After touring around Europe and getting into trouble in Norway with drugs, it's not surprising she needs another rest, is it?

But with her father freely giving away new information on her, its easy to think that all her hard work isn't as appreciated as she thinks it is. Earlier this week he told the press that Amy has been suffering from Bulimia and substance abuse. He also added that she can no longer travel to America due to the fact she was arrested and charged for having cannabis in her possession in Norway.
So how can Amy move on with her life and get over her drug addictions if her own father is blabbing her every little secret?? He says she needs to receive help with her problems, yet if she can't even trust her own father with her deepest secrets, how can she be expected to confide in a complete stranger? We just hope that she receives all the help she needs before it's too late.