Poor celebrities. They need the press to promote their wares and, of course, the best way to keep the hacks interested is to give them a sense of allowing them into their inner-sanctum. The writer gets to live vicariously through the star and a notion of exclusivity, while the celebrity gets to stay in the public eye, as a visual aid that they’ve got things you can buy of theirs.
However, at some point in a sleb’s career, they must become irritated by the press intrusion. It appears that they’re under the impression that they can play ball for a while, and then walk away when it suits them, only to return when they actually have a product to push.
Sadly, ‘celebrity’ is not on a Pay As You Go contract. Your short shelf life is in symbiosis with the will of hacks to shift units of newspapers and magazines, and so, when you’ve tired of the press writing about you, all that remains for a celebrity is to either give up on fame, or go talk to the very people who pose the problem of your life being no longer yours. And here’s Selena Gomez…
Complaints from the spotlight are nothing new. For years, musicians have been carefully placing a surreptitious comma in their well worn whines.
When a famous band says: ‘We won’t be doing any interviews to promote our new album’, they actually mean: ‘We won’t be doing any interviews, to promote our new album’.
And Selena Gomez isn’t happy with the press, and of course, ran straight to them to speak about how awful her life is.
On the back of a highly-publicised, orchestrated holiday with boyfriend Justin Bieber, which saw the young couple snapped while frollicking on the beach, set-up with various photography agencies and the like, Gomez rolls her eyes and wishes it weren’t all true.
She admits to a media outlet that she:
“doesn’t like it personally”
And the wilds of the internet aren’t going to help her either. While she may have found trace amounts of opinion online, she’s wary of the danger of getting hacked.
“I got hacked one time. They just hacked it, and we hacked it back and I apologized to my fans.”
She continues:
“[The hackers] put mean things about people I didn’t even know.”
Who would do such a thing? Slagging people off who you’ve never even met is the work of astonishing scumbags who should be forced to sit in a darkened room with a laptop, to write clunky jokes that don’t work while gently rocking back and forth while sobbing into their cold tea.
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meiner says
her performance is taken out of context … Selena Gomez said …
“they do not like it, but it belongs to this job”
P.S.: If you want to be taken seriously as an Author, should also be researched properly
ummm says
Wow, i was with you till you misquoted the heck out of her. She said she doesn’t like it but it comes with the territory and she is focusing on her own fans and positives instead of the backlash from ppl. Then she was ASKED if she had ever been hacked and she replied with a laugh, “Yea i have! I was hacked then we hacked back and then i apologised to my fans….It was very anticlimatic.” Honestly, you should do better research and not take things so widely out of context to be taken seriously. Then again, this publishing is called heckler spray so i understand.
Mof-fie says
This is poorly written. Most of the time it doesn’t make much sense, probably because the writer (calling you an ‘editor’ would be gramatically incorrect as you clearly aren’t to good at editing your own work), doesn’t have the slightest clue what he’s talking about. On another note, your research is as good as picking a nose for snot. I recommend a genuine ‘editor’ be put in place, as Mof is beginning to sound more and more like a ‘Moffie’. You do the research Mof, properly this time.
SewerUrchin says
I have no idea what she does or who she is. All I know is that she has the cold, dead, beady eyes of a hamster/shark hybrid.
Cookie Monster says
Ahem, “you clearly aren’t too good at editing,” is what you meant. Lots of slightly dull folks confuse “to” and “too”, so don’t feel ashamed. Of course, you did start your comment with a warning that it is poorly written, and you can’t possibly be held to the same rarefied standards as Hecklerspray bloggers…
Cookie Monster says
Now that right there is hilarious, SewerUrchin.
I think that she was created to attempt to affirm Bieber’s heterosexuality.
Fun fact; Liberace successfully sued the Daily Mirror for libel. They had implied that he was gay. Scandalous, indeed.