Comments on: The problem with Celebrity Masterchef (UK)…

By: sourkraut

sourkraut — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 10:55:19 +0000

I suppose i should change my alias to sourgrapes!
Certainly sports people have an extremely high level of skill, but someone that waddles around a lawn and swats little white balls occasionally for megabucks does tend to make me a tad envious. At least with a tennis player you can pour them off the court into a bucket at the end of a game so I guess they’ve earned their dough, as well as most of them of both sexes (no I’m not bi) are eye candy (Elena D )

By: Injera

Injera — Fri, 22 Jan 2010 08:05:41 +0000

Don’t sell yourself short, Sourkraut – I think you’d be well above the Z list!

You’re right, though, about celebs. I guess I’m still in the mindset of linking that word “celebrity” to the related one, “celebrated”, and so I tend to look for the reason that they’re celebrated. I’m clearly very judgemental, since I don’t think being purty or having a clever record producer are achievements worthy of the tag.

Sportspeople are a bit more problematic for me, as they have a level of skill that I can’t imagine approaching (most of them, anyway. I still love Sue-Ann Post’s discussion of how hammer throwers are really just those who keep having a crack at it).

By: sourkraut

sourkraut — Thu, 21 Jan 2010 11:24:54 +0000

So how does one define a celebrity, and how are they graded? a person who wanks off is pretending therefore the term wanker. how many celebs fit that category? What about lottery winners? What about media whores? As much as i like TV etc i still think they are all overpaid underworked clowns and as much as i love watching sport i include them as well!
As I am a legend in my own mind does that make me at least a Z minus celeb?

By: Injera

Injera — Tue, 19 Jan 2010 06:06:38 +0000

I’m so glad it wasn’t just me being out of the loop with the current crop of UK celebs! I watch as much Graham Norton as the next guy (or more, if the next guy doesn’t watch the GN show on ABC, Comedy and UKTV) so I was a bit surprised at how anonymous these people were.

Having said that I’ll delete it from the recorder, I am currently watching the semi final…!

By: Jackie

Jackie — Mon, 18 Jan 2010 09:44:11 +0000

I was watching a UK MasterChef marathon at my mum’s place over Christmas (I don’t have Foxtel) and it took me about three episodes to figure out it was the celebrity version. And I love my trashy celebrities…