Finally I feel that someone out there has an opinion that most closely mirrors my own in regard to the trials and tribulations of Young Hollywood. That person would be E! News anchor Giuliana Rancic. This woman sees all of these news stories first hand and when asked by Allison Kugel for PR.Com about feeling as if people in her line of work were responsible for putting these young hollywood starlets in the spotlight and creating the mayhem, she reponds:
"I think that it’s a vicious circle. I think that everyone is responsible. If The Daily 10 and E! News went off the air tomorrow would people still care about Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton and Britney Spears? Yes. There’s still all the tabloids and the weeklies and even Fox News and Entertainment Tonight, they’re on all the shows now. I think we’re just giving viewers what they want. We get minute by minute ratings and we can see what people are responding to. People love a Britney Spears story, anything about Britney Spears."
Also later in the interview for PR.com, when asked about celebrites losing touch with reality she states:
"What happens to celebrities is the more famous they get the more they lose touch with reality. And I mean literally, not figuratively. They can’t talk to quote-unquote “regular” people anymore. Imagine Britney Spears is going to a mall or going to a grocery store or to get her mail, she is constantly annoyed by people. Everyone comes up to her and annoys the hell out of her. In all fairness to her, whether it’s paparazzi or some chick from Kansas who comes up to her on Robertson Blvd. (a popular shopping strip in Beverly Hills) and says, “Oh My God Britney, you’re fatter in real life then I thought! That’s so funny!” You can’t imagine the tact that some people don’t have. She can’t sit on an airplane without the flight attendant bugging the hell out of her for a picture or being afraid that someone’s going to take her picture while she’s asleep on the airplane. It’s a constant state of paranoia. When she was first getting famous maybe she was annoyed one hour out of the day, then two, then five. So what happens is they start completely alienating themselves from real people. They’ll get their cousin or their assistant or whoever to do everything for them so that they don’t have to talk to people. And then you lose touch. Then what happens is one day they’re not normal anymore. They’re not on this earth with everyone else. They’re operating on a different level and that’s when you start losing your freakin’ mind."
I could not agree more! In light of the recent events that have unfolded in the life of Britney Spears and others, it is a breath of fresh air to see that someone in the media recognizes that these girls may not be totally to blame their erractic behavior, there may be some other forces contributing to all of the hoopla.
Click here to read the rest of Allison Kugel's interview with Giuliana Rancic for PR.com.
