One thing for sure, celebrities have been plaguing the platform of commoners’ trades… The profession which traditionally require 2-4 years of college training, sometimes a master degree, instilled with code of hard work ethics from the time of apprenticeship for $8 an hour, to years of polishing their craft until aged and refined.
For someone like Lauren Conrad, who made a household name as a reality tv girl, to pen a lackluster book based on her synthetic fame and chimes to a NYTimes Bestseller, thanks to the countless number of dumb citizens who buy white washed literature. This is a down-hill manifestation enough to temp the certifiably prestigious, but struggling, writers to slit their wrist. Certifiably.
They loot just about every industry that pays: fashion design, politics, prostitution (you heard me), modeling, children’s book and more books. When finding out The Asymmetrical Tory Spelling has a new children’s book at a store near you, I feared the planet must have spun in an opposite direction.. I’ve been working on a picture book title for over a year, crafting the character, reediting, soliciting second third opinions, drafting, sketches… This is what I paid my 4 years of college for, to publish my creativity. Only to be bypassed by a has-been TV gal who hijacked the commoner’s dream, my dream. Ugh.
Jerry Seinfeld has recruited his amped up celebrity friends to counsel the everyday dysfunctional couples on his new show. Heck, why not. These celebs check in and out of rehab like it’s a drive through. Therefore, their experience and credibility must be sound and plausible enough to be a therapist every Thursday night… I adore Jerry and somewhere deep in his subconscious mind he is aware that these same celebs are drowning in their personal demons so toxic and unrepairable. Their dysfunctions make our problems look like Pre-K.
They come, loot, regurgitate, repackage and the quality is contradicting and manufactured. Their new found trade is always short lived.