Celebrity Gossip Hounds: It's Time to Let Go

What is our fixation with celebrity gossip? I see it happening more often than not where paparazzi are actually taking pictures of celebrities getting gas at the pump. It's the most random thing to care what type of food a celebrity is eating or where they dispose of their garbage. In the 60's and 70's people like that were known as stalkers, today they are photographers.

There are a couple of points that I agree on, one being that celebrities are celebrities they are in a position to be hounded by photographers and to some extent should expect it. Two, if you do something stupid like carry a weapon onto an airplane or sell drugs to a minor, or sleep with a minor chances are you will make first page news and who can blame the newspapers! Celebrities are a festival of gossip from something as little as tripping on a crack in the street to the bigger ones like being caught with a loaded handgun in your backseat, you are free game. Today even people who have no talent whatsoever are considered celebrities simply for who their parents are.

Paris Hilton is the perfect example of a person who has no use other than being the daughter of the Hilton empire. She lacks any type of skill, trade, talent, or intellect and yet manages to make gossip and magazines by doing anything. Her biggest claim to fame by far is her sex tape made with ex-boyfriend Rick Salomon that managed to make its way into every household computer from here to Hong Kong. With the introduction of technologies like YouTube we are seeing more and more celebrities being caught in the act, case in point Michael Richards and his racist rant. Seems these days you can't sneeze without a camera phone, or camera in your face. Even Kate Moss has seen her fair share of unflattering camera shots of her sniffing cocaine at a party with some "friends." The simple act of letting down your guard can bring down your career in a matter of minutes.