Celebrity gossip – profitable lies
Celebrities are a brand. The press can be either their best friend or worst enemy. Exposure from the press, when
welcomed can hike their profile and income but instead there is an obsession with their private lives. A pimple on J’Lo
means she’s pregnant and Halle Berry in ripped jeans means she’s cheap and won’t buy more.
Being a celeb brings false perfection, you are idolised by many as being sexy, beautiful or whatever, and as a celeb you
are expected to just tolerate the rumour mill of your surgery, your depression, your abortion/miscarried child, your
shopping or anger problems.
Most celebs say of the rumour mill “it doesn’t bother me” - they say they are comfortable with who they are and know the
truth so don’t care what tabloids say. This kind of response to having your persona, your image and yourself as a person
trashed has been fine until now - but when a ‘fight back’ tool is created celebs can run free and expose reality.
Publishers are stealing from celebs – making money from rubbish, with dreamed up headlines and insider know-how to trick
consumers into buying.
Consumers are ripped off as much as celebs – yes they take an interest in celeb news –but not interested to pay for pure
rubbish.
Celebs are imperfect, some do get addicted to drugs, have affairs, gain weight and sleep around but it’s their business
– if they can tell their story and be the controller of all publicity releases they will be the CEO of their brand.
A new niche to fire the Gossip industry and give celebs the power to expose only truth is very necessary. Celebs could
then stop magazines from making money off their ‘brand’ as the publications would then become worthless – just magazines
printing known lies or exaggerations. Celebs could live their lives without fearing paparazzi or scandal and with the
respect every human deserves. Celebs have a lot of money and to control their exposure they will use it!
There is exploitation in this imperfect world, and lots of this will be washed out when the print industry is overtaken
by a gossip killer. The future of publications is not lies, scandal and invasion –the niche needs to be filled.
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About the author: Allison Toner is a corporate niche designer of Niche Forecasting in New Zealand. Her design work is
based around making improvements to the world thru large corporations and brands. Her unique focus and creative skills
are reflected in her work to satisfy her clients and ‘wow’ their brand. To get in touch with Allison please make contact
via her website http://www.nicheforecasting.co.nz or email her at allison.toner@nicheforecasting.co.nz