No I'm a Sleb thread?

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Re: No I'm a Sleb thread?

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The thing that gets me about 'celebrity' shows is that they are totally devoid of people I would consider 'celebrities' lol. Where is Ginger Rogers, Gene kelly, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Al Jolson, Cyd Charrise, Fred Astaire? THEY were 'celebrities'. :D :D :D
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And they're no longer around to participate in such shows even if they wanted to. :wink:
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Rob Houghton wrote:The thing that gets me about 'celebrity' shows is that they are totally devoid of people I would consider 'celebrities' lol. Where is Ginger Rogers, Gene kelly, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Al Jolson, Cyd Charrise, Fred Astaire? THEY were 'celebrities'. :D :D :D
     I think some of them are said to be famous for being famous - which seems to be an allusion to that.

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Rob Houghton wrote:The thing that gets me about 'celebrity' shows is that they are totally devoid of people I would consider 'celebrities' lol. Where is Ginger Rogers, Gene kelly, Clark Gable, Errol Flynn, Al Jolson, Cyd Charrise, Fred Astaire? THEY were 'celebrities'. :D :D :D
The trouble with those Rob, is that they aren't exactly in a fit state to partake!
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Re: No I'm a Sleb thread?

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Precisely my point, lol! We have no 'celebrities' now!! ;-) generally people who take part in 'I'm A Celebrity' are washed-up or unknown!!
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I suspect that Toff will do very well out of this year's though .. she's ultimately made herself famous (I know she was on some show or other before this but I doubt many people had heard of her) by winning this
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