Celebrities

There are ever more TV programmes featuring celebrities. Most of the celebrities on these shows I have never even heard of.
There are so many celebrities that I reckon there are now more celebrity chefs than there were celebrities of all types when I was growing up in days gone by.

We now see celebrities dancing, skating, cooking, baking, eating worms in the jungle, taking part in quizzes, making journeys around the world and more.

It seems that celebrity TV shows are ever popular with producers and with the public. We only have to look at the viewing figures for Strictly and for the Celebrity Traitors. The celebrities themselves seem to be keen to participate, as this can boost their careers, whether as singers, actors or even politicians.

I expect agents are constantly telling TV companies of the merits of their “celebrity” clients, in the hope of a place in one of the popular shows.

In early human history we looked up to heroes, like Perseus or Achilles. Then we have venerated saints and later admired philosophers and scientists. After the industrial revolution some men became rich and became much admired philanthropists. In the last century we saw the arrival of film stars.
In our present age, which I call “the Screen Age”, fame is all important: the more often one can appear on a screen the better. We all now have to admire celebrities and even have to hear about their children and their grannies.
The celebrity tide cannot be turned back, but I think that there should be an annual celebrity tax for all those who appear as a celebrity on TV shows. There are so many celebrities that it would surely cover the TV Licence fee revenue, and we could all watch TV for free. Celebrities would become even more popular.

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