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An Article On Celebrities - "Private Parts, Public Lives" by homesteady(m): 10:16pm On Nov 11, 2013 |
I pity celebrities. Where many people envy them for the attention they draw in public, all I am able to feel for many of them is pity. How do they survive? I would literally die if I had to endure the public scrutiny that celebrities are subjected to. When I moved from the theatre to film seven years ago, I was very insistent on a move that would put me behind the camera. I had endured some popularity as a stage actor in my time at the Lagos State University and some of it was enjoyable but largely, it was a chore I could do without. While I have ended up doing some film/TV acting, it’s been with huge reluctance. I have been with celebrities in private spaces and the transformation from the façade they put up when public scrutiny is at hand is simply amazing. Very few of them, like 2Face Idibia, retain their identities largely, whether cameras are present or not. Some of them, like comedian Tee-A just don’t give a hoot and cannot be bothered to be celebrities. To have every single thing you do watched for errors so that blogs, newspapers, websites and all can benefit from your misadventure is thoroughly discomforting for me. In other to avoid this, you are forced to behave in a certain manner in public, to be polite to people that disgust you, to answer infinitely dumb questions from dumb reporters (Can we meet you?), to hug and take pictures with fans whose body odour can cause heartburn, all the while seething inside. I couldn’t be a celebrity even if you paid me. Since red carpets became a permanent feature of events in Nigeria some years ago, I have watched celebrity friends fret over what to where to what event and how to ensure outfits are not repeated so those evil commenters on Linda Ikeji’s blog and Bella Naija will not call them out. I find the whole exercise very amazing. I avoid the red carpet like a plague, unless the event has my name directly attached to it, say like the premiere of a film I am involved in. Even then, it’s always a quick dash, with poses that ensure the pictures will not come out great. I guess the bright lights are just not for me. On few occasions I try to put myself in the shoes of some of these celebs. How does one handle the fact that you can’t go down the road and buy something on your own? That you probably can’t eat in peace and quiet in a restaurant without someone coming to interrupt in the name of appreciating you? How do you date someone and try to love truly when you can’t be sure that the person likes you for you and not the stardom? How do you trust? Who do you trust? How do you handle friendships? Over the past decade and a half I have lived in many guises. Either in writing, broadcasting or performing, I have sought the comfort of living within other characters that I have created to shield me away from the popularity, and in some cases notoriety, that the endeavor brought my way. It is on the one hand perhaps a show of spinelessness, the inability to confront the realities of my writing, performance or broadcasting. Perhaps it’s also a distancing, letting the work stand for itself without the complexities of my name having any effect on it. If something came to you through an unknown person, the likelihood that the thing will be the focal point and not the person is way higher. On the other hand, and I suspect this might be the real reason, I just find popularity tiresome and I really always want to be me. Perhaps there’s a celebrity gene that people posses and this allows them to somehow life through the sum total of their public lives being very different from their private parts. Kudos to them, if that be the case. That gene is grossly deficient in my genetic make up and I am happy for it. Source - www.thenet.ng/2013/11/chris-ihidero-unedited-private-parts-public-lives/ |
Re: An Article On Celebrities - "Private Parts, Public Lives" by Swiftboy(m): 11:14pm On Nov 11, 2013 |
Nothing stops one from being real as a celebrity! Trust me,its better If you keep a low profile.dont go about doing things anyhow cos you're a celebrity,a role model.I mean be nice and wise all the time. |
Re: An Article On Celebrities - "Private Parts, Public Lives" by pfijacobs(m): 11:46pm On Nov 11, 2013 |
Cumin |
Re: An Article On Celebrities - "Private Parts, Public Lives" by ajasa4link: 12:38am On Nov 12, 2013 |
u think being a celebrity in Nigeria is hard? ask the English celebrities about the English press and paparazzi... At least in Nigeria u don't get paparazzi besieging ur house every now and then trying to get a caption of u at the slightest opportunity, and u don't get magazines trying compete with one another to be the first to post the first pics of ur new born child... I think it's the Nigerian celebrities who put themselves in difficult situations tho. I mean how can a female celebrity post an instagram pics of herself rocking a channel bag worth over a million naira and she expects us to believe she is not rich?... |
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