How do you feel about celebrity news? I’m not a major fan myself.
It’s often banal beyond belief – a reporter I knew who joined a reporting agency in Hollywood told how on her first day she was rushed to a restaurant where Cameron Diaz had been seen… eating a salad.
And celeb news is often cruel and nasty which I’m also not a big fan of, unless it’s about a politician or an England football manager, or some WAGs who really get on my wick.
And the celeb news agenda has a really, really unhealthy obsession with weight.
The Daily Mail website today reported that Kate Garraway has “piled on the pounds” after returning to GMTV from her stint on Strictly Come Dancing.
The article features a picture of a very far from large Kate in which the “growth in the blonde presenter's girth” is hard to define. Especially compared to mine.
Anyway, for fun I entered the phrase “piling on the pounds” in the search box on the Mail’s website.
It seems to be a popular choice of phrase for the site’s headline writers.
Last Wednesday Kirstie Alley was revealed to be quitting as the face of a slimming firm after “piling on the pounds” AGAIN. The former Cheers star, 57, lost five stone in three years but her weight has ballooned again. Oh dear.
A couple of days prior to that, another daytime celeb was in the firing line.
“Hunky to chunky: Eamonn Holmes piles on the pounds” shouted the headline.
“As Eamonn approaches 50, it's not only age that appears to be catching up with him. The presenter was pictured out in London carrying excess weight and proving that TV really does pile on the pounds.” I don’t know.
Even the son’s of the famous get it in the neck – here’s the verdict on John Lennon’s lad from earlier this month…
“He is the walrus! As Sean Lennon tucks into a pie, it's clear he could do with going on a diet”.
Imagine that, John.
Uh, oh. No use hiding out on Radio Two as a January 30 story revealed “Why Michael Ball won't need a fat suit anymore”.
Michael Ball's last two stage roles have called for him to be a master of disguise – and don a fat suit – but now the singer appears to have piled on the pounds, and doesn’t appear to need the extra fake padding.
Losing weight is not good enough either. You can always be confronted with the tapemeasure of history, as seen in this festive charmer from Christmas Eve …”Little Britton: Fresh-faced Fern before she piled on the pounds”…
”TV star Fern Britton has famously dropped four stone from a size 20 to a size 14.But in newly-revealed photos taken in the 1980s, Fern is seen with a sensationally slim waist, after weekly work-outs in the gym.”
And for goodness sake, stay off the beach. That was a schoolgirl error in late November exposed in this story…”Holiday swim reveals Jennifer Love Hewitt has piled on the pounds.”
...”She was the inspiration behind former boyfriend John Mayer's hit 'Your Body Is A Wonderland,' but not even a famous muse like Jennifer Love Hewitt can escape a little weight gain.”
Not wishing to make a gag out of bulimia but stories like these just make me want to throw up.
