I'm Famous! Gimme Gimme!!

Let's play a game. It's called "What could cost 26,000 dollars?"

A. 2 and a half years at my alma mater
B. A well-equipt car
C. 667 nights at a Motel 6
D. 8 week long caribbean cruise
E. the estimated retail value of the gift baskets given to "attending celebrities and talent" at the MTV Music Awards
F. All of the above


The correct answer is F-- for what the Fuck?
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050828/nysu011.html?.v=24

The bags include a solid gold eyelash curler and a set of 100% mink fake eyelashes, a 350 dollar Vanessa Handbag, couture active wear, and who knows what else. I can't find a list. I'm assuming that to cost 26K, there's probably a genuine oompa loompa crammed in there.


Even if that estimate is off-- lets look at LAST years gifts-- "23 different bath and body products, four pieces of jewelry, three bottles of perfume and cologne, two pairs of sunglasses and one full-scale, milk-chocolate replica of a Moonman trophy. Throw in free stays at hotels and resorts, a few handbags and accessories and various gift certificates." That's from Vh1, and that bag was valued at $16,000 and was actually a box since it was so heavy. It had to be delivered to the celeb's homes.

I left a comment in http://lowtalker.blogspot.com/, because she posted about celeb demands backstage. No wonder I stopped watching MTV, the bloated egos are interrupting my love of actual music. Do the celebs really need to be bribed to be there or what? Why else would there need to be a gigantic ass-kissing box o' expensive things to lure them there? Who told Ashlee Simpson she was talented? Sorry, that slipped out. Really, though, who lied to her?

A little bit of this irritation is of the green-eyed kind, because I can't afford that and I know it. Let me put it this way-- at my last job I made about 12K in a year. So in one night, they get a gift that costs more than 2 years of my labor.

Why do we put celebrities on such pedestals? They have bad morning breath, pick wedgies and get mood swings like the rest of us. What's so awesome about them that they get rewarded for simply being themselves? I know lots of genuinely nice people that could use a reward just for being who they are-- but they don't expect it.

I'm sure a lot of them are chill, cool people and are truly nice and down-to-earth...but I just don't get the whole celebrity-worship thing.

Couldn't this money be put to better use improving the lives of people who actually need it, rather than stroking the egos of the A-listers?



PS-- Someone should tell Gwen Stefani that her clothes are ugly and that she should eat a cheeseburger.