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Date: 20 February 2007 16:20:35
I read on Google News today that Kelly Osbourne, of the Ozzie & Sharon variety, has caused problems for her family. While compering at an Aids event in London she revealed that a "family" member had tested positive for HIV. Now papers are speculating on who the family member is. One has even listed the names of her 6 "immediate" family members.
Meanwhile the US comedienne/chat show host Rosie o'Donnell has said that Britney and other troubled female stars should "come and live with us". I take it that she is offering them an opportunity to learn how to live a public life to avoid damaging themselves, or their images, further.
I know that Rosie is an outspoken celeb and a Christian. Maybe they would be able to learn how to cope with the pressure that they're under. You're are hounded by the tabloids and news crews, far more in the US than the UK, and everything you do, including shaving your head or almost dropping your baby, becomes a major news story.
Celebrities do have to take some of the blame here. Their PR people are only to willing to tip off the media that so&so will be shopping here or having a restyle there; so its not always as intrusive as people make out. After all their careers need media exposure to generate publicity for their new film, single, album or leaked sex film.
Yet we, as consumers, are just as much to blame. We hoover up the stories that are aired or written. Maybe it makes our own lives seem more worthwhile, or their's more glamourous. Would the world end if we stopped buying the media hype that surrounds the? Are we really intererested in everything they do?
What business is it of ours to gloat over the news that someone has been diagnosed with Aids? Surely some things, even for a celeb, should remain private!!
Whichever member of the Osbourne family, whether immediate or extended, I wish you good luck. Don't feel that you need to tell us who you are. Cope with it in whatever way you feel happiest.