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[ritasNo1Fan]

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@Starpolisher wrote:

I'm tired of Gabrielle Union and her natural hair! I don't  understand why this is newsworthy!🤔

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It's good to know that I am not the only one that feels the same about HER.  She was not so great as judge on AGT.  It looked like she reallly had knives out for Julie Hough, with those ugly side looks.

[Jinlei]

These over paid people making millions of dollars for doing nothing.  Could care less about them.  

[feline groovy]

@Trinity11  wrote:

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@happycat wrote:

People just gotta make it all about them., celeb or not

Now, here we are,  all high school graduations have been cancelled all over the place, and my facebook is flooded, with people (my age 50+) who are feeling the need to post their high school graduation photos and their memories of that special time of walking to get the diploma. WTH is going on here? I don't give a flying flip.

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Funny, I noticed that too. And I really do not care what someone looked like in 1969. Facebook is like a dream come true for those in love with their own image. One more selfie of their meals or posts like my SIL in her bikini pushing 70 and I am going to .....

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your response?   ;-)

[Stray]

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@Mz iMac wrote:

Dear celebrities: Stop making coronavirus all about you!

While much of the United States is on lockdown, scared or bored out of their wits, broke and newly unemployed, many celebrities, TV personalities and “influencers” are behaving like Nero, fiddling while Rome burned.
The hordes of the entitled aren’t quite sure how to behave. Everything has changed. How will they be aspirational? How can they show America that they too are in pain, struggling and therefore relatable/likable? Many of them have dug deep into their shallow psyches and bravely tried to show us their burden either via their own television shows or social media channels to get their daily dose of crowd-sourced dopamine. And it’s … horrific.

Yeah, I’m talking to you Ellen DeGeneres. Earlier this month, Ellen taped her show from inside one of her palatial mansions and complained: “This is like being in jail.” I would happily offer to switch places with poor Ellen while she holes up in my tiny three-room apartment and I spread out in her multi-tiered fantasy pad. Or take Kelly Ripa — who started crying because although she is lucky enough to isolate at her huge home with her healthy children, those mean kids won’t let her hug them. At one point, Ripa even used that lousy excuse (used by misogynists everywhere to “explain” female behavior): “Maybe I’m just getting my period.”

Meanwhile, social media is bursting with tone-deaf celebrities trying to “inspire” us with nearly nude sexy photos while the rest of us pack on the COVID-19 pounds. There are the usual suspects like Emily Ratajkowski and her husband posing naked on what looks like a toilet. Or Bella Hadid who posted a shot of herself casually lounging poolside in a teeny bikini while her BFF, Kendall Jenner, spends self-isolation chilling in her underwear for all of us to endure.

Even D-listers want in on the nude attention: Ex-tennis star Ashley Harkleroad went naked to save “money on clothes” — riiiiight — and the ever-thirsty UFC contestant Paige VanZant and husband Austin Vanderford still insist on stripping off every day despite a fan backlash. Having to be sexy all the ****** time smacks not of body positivity but low self-esteem — and a constant need for the public peanut gallery to cheer them on. I refuse.

Many so-called “influencers” have gone crying to media outlets like The New York Times, Bloomberg, Business Insider, and Digiday because their money is drying up — although some have found a way to milk the viral opportunity. According to the Daily Beast, “’The Bachelor’ franchise alum and fitness coach Krystal Nielson recently suggested that there’s one easy way to avoid contracting the virus: Sign up for her two-week detox program!”

Then there are the people with zero percent body fat showing me how FUN it is to work out at home and cool “tips” on how to lose weight like Rita Ora, Kate Bosworth (using a device that looks more like a sex toy than anything else), Tracee Ellis Ross (who can apparently afford a home treadmill — good for you!), Jessica Alba dancing inside her home gym (sob) and hordes of others. I am not interested. I’m just gonna do some old Jane Fonda workout videos, do bicep curls using cans of beans I hope to never have to eat and lunge for the wine bottle come five o’clock.

In the same vein are the Rich Kids of the Internet on Instagram, many of whom are wealthy because their parents are venal dictators, oligarchs or hucksters, who now have to wear face masks (!) and stay on a yacht alone (!), pose by a pool alone (!), and can’t take their hideously ugly and expensive cars out of their garage during lock-down. I hope they all get boils.

Then, of course, there’s Gisele Bundchen, the supermodel who, while promoting Global Meditation, posted a pic of herself in front of a beautiful pool and waterfall as she extolled the importance of being Zen. Which is easy to do when you’re not losing your job, have millions in the bank and are healthy. She also posted a romantic video of her and Ken-doll husband Tom Brady riding horses while talking about balance in one’s marriage. Yaaaaay for you, Gisele. Now go away.

Not everybody is awful. Thank God for Leslie Jordan whose Instagram antics brighten my day. People like Sarah Silverman cheering from her balcony in a bathroom while banging on pots and pans for healthcare heroes, grocery store workers and delivery people, and that sweet angel Tyler Perry paying for elderly people’s groceries have warmed my heart and brought a tear to my eye. I’m even down with Naomi Watts’ breakdown over her home appliances failing (I mean, we can all relate to that.)

Everyone else — turn off your recording devices, stop making it all about you and try to empathize with the 99.99 percent of the rest of us… by just going silent and not being a jerk.
It won’t last forever, I promise. But our memory of your insane behavior will.

SOURCE:  NY Post & Apple News

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@Mz iMac - I don't know many of the people you reference but celebrities like Elton John, Oprah, Kelly Ripa, Tom Brady, Russell Wilson, Rihanna, Ralph Lauren to name just a few have donated large amounts of money and food to Covid-19 relief.  It's quite a long list 

[Sage04]

@twocatlou  this is a person whose Foundation donated $5 million to help to fight coronavirus. She could get anything she wants. I also know of a Company buying four ventilators and donating them to a hospital in the Carribbean (not Barbados). Didn´t ask where they got them from but I was glad that they were able to get them.

[Sage04]

@Mz iMac  I don´t understand why some people are thinking these are your words. I must admit that after I read a few paragraphs I was thinking that you know a lot of people and I was wondering who are these people.

When I got to the end and saw the Source, I then realized that it wasn´t you.

[Mz iMac]

@Sage04  I was tickled myself.  The only explanation I can come up with is that some did not bother to read the whole posting to the end.

I am not on social media....FB, Tick Tock or whatever, Instagram, Twitter & any other I missed.  I don't know who half of those folks are.  My children & grands do though!   They are "followers."

[shoekitty]

That's why they call them celebrities.  That's why it's called SHOW BUSINESS   , They  are always showing us things.  Usually things they own.  It doesn't bother me.  Actually, I haven't heard any of this stuff.  Maybe I am listening to the wrong news 

i don't see anything wrong with Ellen ?  She is a comedian. And a performer.  She is also one of the most generous people...Hense the name De "generous".  Lol   Okay I will stop. I really like her!   she donates and supports many causes and people we will never know because she really is humble about stufff like that.  Ellen and Porto's used to live near someone I know.   They saw them all the time walking, jogging and at store.  They said they are very nice, friendly people.  They do have body guards  in back ground.  My granddaughter was at the Target near Warner Brothers one year when Ellen was there with her show.  Omg, the whole store was laughing.    

[JaneMarple]

@Mz iMac , please try twitter, you're a natural for it. 

[shoekitty]

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@Marp wrote:

Thanks for posting this @Mz iMac.  I had not read or heard about a single thing/person in the article you posted.  Guess I just don't frequent the places where I would be exposed to this kind of information.

I've been wondering what I've missed with the news and online sites I visit concentrating on the pandemic and covering very little else.

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Shoekitty said,  me too!  Where have I been?    I am sure they suffered, some more than others because the virus varies.  So we have no pity for people who suffer physically, if they have money..  I'm sorry, I don't get it.