Whose a celebrity whose popularity mystifies you? by reginaroadie

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Whose a celebrity whose popularity mystifies you?

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 10:01 AM

Here's another actors thread you can jump onto. Whose is a celebrity (be it actor, singer, figure in the public eye, etc.) whose fame you can't understand. Someone who when you see, you think to yourself "Why the Hell are they famous."

I know I can go with the obvious ones, but for me, one person whose popularity I can't understand is Ryan Reynolds. Why the Hell is this guy considered funny. I see him in a movie and I can only think to myself that he's kind of a poor man's Jason Lee. If you look closely, Jason and Ryan have a lot of the same characteristics. The same verbal tics and body language and such. But Lee just have that extra thing. That little bit of subversive attitude that makes him who he is. He plays dicks, but you can't help but like them.

On the other hand, when Ryan plays a dick, he's a dick and no amount of mugging or whatever the Hell he does can change that.

Please tell me I'm not alone in this.

So whose a celebrity whose fame mystifies you?

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 10:15 AM

COPILOT

Julie fracking Roberts! No idea why people still watch her movies. I love pretty women but since then it seems like she just gave up after that.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 10:18 AM

KHYRON

Pretty much any A-list celebrity who can't act, which is almost all of them.

Other people can occasionally be useful, especially as minions. I want lots of minions.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 10:20 AM

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Ashlee Simpson...need I say more?

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 10:49 AM

COPILOT

I reread the original post and I laughed my ass off. I totally missed the Jason Lee part.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:11 AM

JOSSISAGOD

I'm going with one that is a little more obvious. Britney Spears, as Wash would say,"How did (her) brain even learn human speech!"

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:19 AM

PERSEPHONE736

I totally agree on that one. I'm still wondering why anyone let her star in her own movie!

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:30 AM

PENGUIN

There's the obvious one....Paris Hilton.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:35 AM

JOSSISAGOD

Agreed!

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:50 AM

EMBERS

Quote:
Originally posted by Penguin:
There's the obvious one....Paris Hilton.

yeah, that is my pick too...
she can't act
she has no talent for anything

South Park did a whole show about the fact that she is only famous for being a stupid wh*re

not to be all judgemental, but it kills me to see her on TV all the time. Nothing makes me change the channel faster...
well, also Donald Trump...I change the channel when I see him too.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 11:55 AM

FOLLOWMAL

I'm afraid I'm gonna have to jump on the Paris Hilton bandwagon here. That is the first person who lept to mind when this was posted.

Then Britney Spears is a close second.

And for me.. Jessica Simpson is third.

Not to be totally female-centric in my answer too, Tom Cruise gets my vote. Sorry, just don't see it, nuh uh.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 12:02 PM

SERYN

Simon Cowell.

Odious, noxious, superfluous little man.

His fame is based entirely on sitting ther with his trousers cutting off his brething at the neck, insulting people too damn stupid and pathetic for it to be anything but shameful that a grown man has nothing better to do. His insults ain't even entertaining, funny or witty. My 5 year old niece can make more cutting remarks than he does. (not that she feels the need to make herself look superior to the cretins that audition for shows like that by making fun of them)

And lets face it, has the music he's introduced to the world made it a better place by even one iota?

oh, he also stands as living testament to the shameful fact that some women will

anything with a bit of money and 'power'.

oh, yeah, and Paris Hilton. Oxygen Thief.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 12:05 PM

SIMONWHO

We seem to have a glut of them in the UK: Jordan, Chantelle, Kerry Katona. All talentless, all famous. They're not even good looking.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 12:26 PM

ACRAZYIVAN

Got a lot of women on the list - how about Ashton Kutcher. He was kinda funny in That 70's show, but he really needed to have ended there.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 12:38 PM

JADEHAND

Quote:
Originally posted by seryn:
Oxygen Thief.

HA! yes, I feel the same way about 95% of the craptastic 'artists' they play on the radio. And 80% of the Actors/actresses. Some truely fugly ones that everyone thinks are cute. All with no talent to boot.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 12:42 PM

CITIZEN

It would probably be quicker to list who's popularity doesn't mystify me...

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 12:52 PM

REGINAROADIE

Not to make this thread totally negative (I was aiming for slightly funny), I'd like to say the obvious in that most of our pop culture is a celebration of mediocrity. Now, the good news it that sooner or later, people realize said mediocrity and give them their cultural walking papers. Time is normally the best judge of that.

But all I gotta say is this. If this is a society where true talent is rewarded and idolized, then the paparrazzi would have spilt more ink over the nuptuals and new baby of Maggie Gyllenhall and Peter Sarsgaard than fucking Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes. Over two people who can not only act but act incredibly well. Whose names are synonymous with quality.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 1:25 PM

THUNDAR

Ashton Kutcher

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 1:37 PM

GIXXER

Carol Vorderman. (Librarian on a Hen Night)

Loyd "Irritable Vowel Syndrome" Grossman. (Unspeakable)

Ainsley Harriott. (Cringe.)

Any Osborne except Ozzy. (Please come in. Your 15 minutes are up)

Howard the Twat from the Halifax ads. (Soul of Whiteness)

The new face of the Halifax. Unmemorable twat in cowboy duds. (Arrgh! I'm going to set Barry Scott on him. "Bang! And your nose is broken.")

Jeremy Bloody Spake.

Maureen Worst Driver.

Tony "Getting it so right" Blair

Dan Brown. (Writing style stinks worse than a dead skunk) No prejudice, here. I have read his stuff, and driven past a dead skunk, and I know of what I speak.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 2:03 PM

CHINDI

ALL of the above...

Hilton (Why?) Roberts (don't get it) Cruise (ditto)

really.. most of those the stalkarazzi go after leave me wondering huh? Why?

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 2:18 PM

KESSIE

The ones said before, Hilton, Cruise and Holmes.

Also for me Jim Carrey - so not funny in my opinion.

In general all those "I´m famous because I´m so rich girls" like Nicole Richie, Paris Hilton etc etc
What have they done in life that should make them famous?

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 2:27 PM

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Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt. Idiot actors if I've ever seen 'em.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 2:57 PM

STEAMER

I just do not get Britney Spears. Gorram slut can't sing her way out of a wet paper bag, and she's completely disgusting at just about everything else she's ever tried, so where's it writ that we have to drop everything and fawn and google and ooh and ahh when she reproduces?

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 3:21 PM

DARKJESTER

Ryan Seacrest. 'nuff said.

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Sunday, May 7, 2006 9:26 PM

SERYN

oh, credit to dan brown though. His writing may suck and his work may be hanging around like a fart in a spacesuit, but he has got the church and all these historians and academics so riled up and self righteously flustered over one little paperback bit of fluf that every time I see one of them, I just have to laugh my little ass off.

I'm sorry, I did aim for humor, but I find It very hard to see the funny when it come to Mr Highpants.

Apart from his hair - road kill, its the worse hair since donald trump. You just want to offer both of them (the 'do's) some food and water. That makes me giggle.

the last one was Catherine Zeta Jones. I've never found her particularly remarkable, looks or talent or other wise (oh she's good looking, but blandly so) she only seened to make it major league when she started boinking the old dude.

Have you seen the Pink vidoe for 'stupid girls' thats funny.

Though what you were saying misses the point very slightly. These people are all famouse, the press go after them and their babys, because the 'celebs' are attention whores and make it really easy for them. Actors like Maggie are very private about their lives basically cause beyond the exhibitionism inherant in almost all actors, they are normal people. They go to premiers and press junkets as part of their jobs, then they go home and be normal.

Paris Hilton doesn't have a job, Simon cowells was nearly so interesting, Toms was in decline (after all the scientology madness dented his popularity) (mind you, he hasn't really helped that, but TomKat got him through to the opening of MI:3) so being papped is pretty much all they have.We set up a culture where useless oiks hang around like the aformentioned farts because the people we are really interested in don't whore themselves out for us, and the human mind thrives on new information and gossip.

Though whoever said tom and brad were crap - one exception - i liked them both in Interview (Kirsten acted them out of the room, but they were still good in their own right) and both of them used to be the very epitome of 'star quality' - they were there when that was what was needed.

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Monday, May 8, 2006 5:15 AM

TAYEATRA

99.9% of all UK 'celebrities'.

Jordan, Chantelle, Jodie Marsh, Tara P-T, Simon Cowell, Every 'big brother' retard, Chris Martin, Kerry Katona, etc... etc... etc...

The whole concept of celebrity completely astounds me. I mean, Jade Goody became famous for being an idiot on big-brother. She didn't even win but then she did celebrity wife swap and now Jeff Brazier as an extention is apparantly a celebrity... They broke up... He doesn't have a job... The only TV he's done is on celebrity versions of reality shows... How does that work???

Sorry people, I guess I got carried away... Sore topic!

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Monday, May 8, 2006 1:01 PM

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Heh, heh. She said "Brazier"...

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Ah, UK Celebs. The inherent contradiction in terms says it all, really.

Jodie Marsh. Wow. Memorable Self-Destruct horror in front of literally dozens of Big Brother viewers.

Baffling, given her line of work. I assume you are supposed to look at her body, but I don't mind admitting that I was utterly transfixed by her nose.

I mean What. The. Hell? I've not seen the like since the last repeat of Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.

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Monday, May 8, 2006 2:57 PM

KAYNA

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I'm going to chime in here with a few people who aren't that big any more but who used to be huge. I'm widening the topic to anyone whose celebrity has ever baffled you.

Kevin Costner. I just never understood it. How did this man win any Oscars. Not only can he not act, he can't even do an english accent, not of any kind (his Robin Hood had me gagging).

Hillary Duff. Thank god she seems to have fallen of the face of the Earth into those stupid "liquid ice" commercials. Mediocre singer, mediocre actress, unmemorable cookie cutter barbie doll. Her fame really upset me and made me fear for humanity. For that matter, so do most of the most of the folks named on this thread.

Jerry Seinfeld. I'm sure that many people will disagree with me and I'm not looking to start an argument, but I never found him or his show to be funny. More like painfully stupid and often boring.

William Hung.
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Just why! This one actually made me want to stab someone in the face. What I could never figure out was why he was singled out to laugh at. Yes he was horrible and faintly amusing in a sad, disturbing kind of way. But so are a lot of the people that try out for that show. From what I've seen of American Idol (which isn't much) he wasn't anything special as far as the horrid and the embarassing go. Now we're not only celebrating mediocre talent but mediocre suckage as well. What does that say about our culture?

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Monday, May 8, 2006 3:17 PM

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I have to agree about Seinfeld. Cannot stand his show; its reruns are near the top of my must-miss TV list.

How-some-ever....the very first name that popped into my mind was Tom Cruise. Why does hollywood insist on runing good movies by casting him in them?

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 7:06 AM

SICKDUDE

Gonna come out of left field with this one, but: Richard Dreyfuss. Horrible and over-rated. IMO.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 7:27 AM

ARCADIA

Ryan Reynolds :-(
The fact that he and Alanis Morrissette are engaged makes me want to

I really don't get Kate Hudson at all. How to lose a guy in 10 days was ridiculously dumb. I guess there was Almost Famous, which was a good film, but not because of her. I really wouldn't have minded another actress in the role at all. Kirsten Dunst was considered, and I think she would have been much better.

Tom Cruise. I don't like him, I just don't like him. Even before it was popular to not like him, I didn't like him. I don't like Top Gun. Risky Bussiness annoys me. Arrg. I hate Tom Cruise.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 7:37 AM

COPILOT

Here is where I say Dominique Swain is a godess and site says who?
Exactly my point!

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 7:41 AM

CORNCOBB

The only aforementioned person I disagree with is Brad Pitt. He can act - he's one of my favourite actorasin fact. The other people that have been mentioned here are all stupid useless wastes of skin with over-inflated egos.
And I'd like to add the Beckhams. And Christina Aguilera. oh, and Eminem. And Halle Berry (terrible, terrible actress, ruined storm, hate her so much

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 4:24 PM

GIXXER

The present day Steve Martin. Utter abnegation of past greatness and hero status.

Gene Wilder. Tics are not funny.

Jim Carrey. Tics ibid.

Lee Evans. Massive tics, and he's really not funny.

Norman Wisdom. Maybe I'm not Czech enough.

Screamy bloke in a dress from The 5th Element.

Madonna acting.

Jennifer Lopez.

The Desperate Housewives. Bony horrors.

Jeffrey Archer. Appalling fellow.

Ray Romano. Not everyone.

Anna-Nicole Smith

The entire cast of Will and Grace, except Karen and Minnie.

Gordon "I'm the next Prime Minister, me" Brown. How I will laugh if he gets scuppered at the last minute. Again.

Dairmud Gavin. We'll jost puth op a concrate aircraft hanger on the lawn, so we will.

Carol Thatcher. Wholly inexplicable.

Ant and Dec.

Remakers of very long self-evident, suspenseless films. The boat sinks. The monkey falls off the Empire State.

David Blaine. My American chums, where were you with the beer cans and kebabs when your country needed you?

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 4:39 PM

MONKSDAD

Jennifer lopez, they throw millions and millions at her and has she ever been in a successfull movie?
Dear studio execs,
please take jalo's next 20 million and put it into our BDM2 that will cover 1/2 the budget. Get the other 1/2 buy not making another lindsey lohan movie.

EVER!

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 4:45 PM

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Quote:
Originally posted by Corncobb:
The only aforementioned person I disagree with is Brad Pitt. He can act

I agree with that. It's easy to dismiss him as being popular because he's pretty, but he gave some good performances. I liked him in 12 Monkeys, Fight Club and Troy, and I thought he was excellent in what is probably my favourite movie, Seven.

Other people can occasionally be useful, especially as minions. I want lots of minions.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 4:49 PM

GLOBLABSURDITY

Yep, Paris Hilton--that's the first one that comes to mind. Next is, as far as acting goes--Clint Eastwood. Never could understand the hype there. As a director--he does a much better job--IMO. I know this isn't a popular opinion.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 4:52 PM

REGINAROADIE

I actually agree on this. Even though lately he's known as Angelina Jolie's bitch, for an entire generation of diaffected males, he will always be Tyler Durden.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 5:23 PM

KNIBBLET

The three that have puzzled me the longest, nearly 20 years are...

Michael Douglas. ewwwwwwww, sleezy, oily scuzball with no chin.

C. Thomas Howell. Why? There's nothing even vaguely interesting or talented or good looking about that lump of mashed potatoes.

Tom Cruise. Midgets don't get to save the world unless you're shooting them out of a cannon *at* the bad guy.

As for more recent craptastic vapid losers:

Paris Hilton. Look at me, I'm a silver spoon whore with no apparent talent for anything besides amateur porn.

Britney Spears. Look at me, I'm a trailer park slut who breeds fantastically well with lower level primates.

Jessica Simpson. Look at me, I have HUGE tits and not a single brain cluttering up my skull.

Ashlee Simpson. Look at me, Jessica is my big sister and I have HUGE tits. *hoe down dance*

Katherine Zeta Jones. Look at me, I sleep with Michael Douglas. (whole new level of oookieness)

Lindsey Lohan. Look at me, no you can't see me 'cause I'm a stick figure waiting to die of heart failure.

The Bush Twins. Look at us. We're drunken bimbos but our daddy can bomb you if you aren't nice to us.

Donald Trump. Look at me, I have the worst rug in the world and my lips look like bad liver. Let me feel up your college age daughter.

Celene Dion. Look at me. Better idea, go find a caterwalling coyote and have it sing in french to you.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 6:41 PM

COPILOT

Wow! Hostility!

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 7:03 PM

RICKKER

well that pretty much covered my list can't top that

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 7:17 PM

JOHNBOY

No-one mentions Keanu? He must be the second-highest-paid non-actor in history, after the Cruiser.

Except Tom Cruise is probably reasonably smart. Wacky religion though.

I just get the feeling that Keanu Reeves just..sorta..lucked..his way to fame and fortune.

Don'tcha hate that?

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 9:55 PM

SERYN

Apparently he's actually good in the up and coming Scanners (and it not animated, its rotoscoped or something, so they're just colouring in his actual performance.

But yeah, based on some of the things he's done, over-rated.

Talking of reality t.v. stars, the single one I'd not object to seeing more of is Darius Danesh. After the crazy unbelivable random patheticness of his auditions. He actually managed to turn it into something good and beat Simon Cowell at his own stupid game, he made an album, which considering the pop-muppets who won Idol were still covering other peoples songs badly, was ok for its level and original at least!

Plus, seeing him on tv, he actually has a personality, he's got the joke now, and he's a laugh a minute (ok, so I 've only seen one appearence, but he amused me)

I think someone should give him a job presenting something, he's got the makings of a decent t.v. personlity, then when his tastes start wandering, he may start making music for grown-ups, and I for one will give it a listen.

oh, sorry, that was my essay on Darius. You'd actually think I liked the guy wouldn't you?

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 10:15 PM

VERASAMUELS

Pretty much all of the previously mentioned , plus:-

Jeremy Paxman
Most 'celebrity' chefs, even the 'sainted' Delia
Garry Shandling. Maybe I'm missing something, but ???
*Alec* Baldwin. Get a diet and some anger management classes already.
Jeremy Clarkson - should be made to wear drag forever in punishment for being a misogynistic dinosaur
The Spice Girls - just retire, now.
All boy bands - ditto
Eminem and most rappers - silencing order!
Most modern R&B stars - ditto
Trinny and Susanna - please, go, now.

Vera/Xenaclone

Devout Keeper of Jayne's Lunchbox

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 11:15 PM

SERYN

Trinny and Suzanna.

Yup, (maby its cause I recognise to much or my self in them) (but) first against the wall when the revolution comes.

I have to nominate the one true oxygen theif fake celeb though - Chantalle, 'fake celeb' in big brother, and in some cruel self-fulfilling curse 'fake celeb' in life.

Does anyone find her absolutely nausiating? She's like a cheap-seconds Paris Hilton clone fed through a chav-itiser.

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Tuesday, May 9, 2006 11:57 PM

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C. Thomas Howell. Why? There's nothing even vaguely interesting or talented or good looking about that lump of mashed potatoes.]

That "lump of mashed potatoes" as you call him, happens to be a dear friend of mine and he's the most sweet, kind, nice, generous, charming and talented guy I've ever had the pleasure to know.
Sorry to hear you have such a low opinion about him...but alas! You have the right to express your feelings.

I agree about Tom Cruise, though.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:10 AM

TAYEATRA

I'm Ba-aaaack!

Yes I've thought of someone else!!!

First though, allow me to add my support for everyone else's comments with the possible exception of Brad Pitt and Jeremy Clarkson (I can't help it... he makes me laugh!)

The new people for my list are two people I have hated since the moment I found out how much money they were making.

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Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen

I mean, all they're famous for is being identical. That is biology, not talent or skill. I would be perfectly happy if I never saw either of them ever again. In anything! Grrrrr

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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:16 AM

AUSSAY

Rove Mcmanus - the host of an Australian interview show ('Rove', of course). I just don't know how this unfunny and annoying little man got a tv show and why he is still on the air. He gets all the big stars as well. His show isn't even in the top 100 yet he is this celebrated Aussie icon.

Julie Roberts definetly. Why do people go watch her movies?

As an aussie its hard to say this but Nicole Kidman

She can't act at all yet she is in every big Hollywood movie.

Matthew McConaughey - Can't act. Rides on his looks more than any other Hollywood star

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One mission.
One army of Browncoats.
On June 23rd, we aim to misbehave.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 12:49 AM

CABOT

I wasn't going to chime in here, but there is one name that hasn't appeared yet and as far as I'm concerned it should be at the top or tied for the top with Paris Hilton. That fact only kind of scared me into posting.

First, I have to say I don't agree with every mention, but if a name has popped up more than 3 times, (and several have...) I can't argue with any of those.

Pamela Anderson is the poster child for everything that is wrong with Hollywood.

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Wednesday, May 10, 2006 1:31 AM

HEB

I was going to write this post in response to the one about Ryan Reynolds. But I'm going to start by sticking up for Ant and Dec.

Their popularity may be mistifying in a country where people get on tv for breaking up with their girlfriend to marry Chantelle or for cheating at Who wants to be a millionaire. I for one am glad that people will tune in every Saturday night to see nice normal people like Ant and Dec. They may not be the most talented people in the world. But their SMTV live for children made a nice change from bbc one rubbish for kids and who couldn't love them after Let's get ready to rumble (from one of their three succesful albums). Anyway my point is I think they're sweet so leave them alone

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Also if you don't like Ryan Reynolds and haven't seen Two guys and a girl (formerly two guys, a girl and a pizza place, also starring Nathan Fillion) then you should check it out. If you have and still hate him, ok.

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