nowadays celebrity seem to have done nothing to earn there status, i mean in the olden days there were celebrity like albert einstein that made some crucial equations for the making of atom bombs, kings, queens, etc. in comparison the modern celebrity has done nothing, why do they deserve so much attention?

Some don't deserve it, they just get it.
So blame the people who watch Big Brother and buy Hello! magazine.

I don't have an aerial so dont watch television, so i'm just guessing!

A lot of blame can be attributed to the media.
They try to make stories by saying who's hot and who's not. Yet when you talk to anyone about this, they are not interested.
So for most of the time, it is just the newspapers chatting about celebrities.
I personally could not give a flying foopar.

Celebrities are just making a living like everyone else. People moan that its just too easy, well if its so easy they go do it.

Also you think in the old days celebrities earned it more. For many the celebrity status is like eternal life and for them it is the ultimate prize but I bet most people can remember more of what Hitler did than Albert Einstein. You still think they deserved it more?

I've never got to the stage where I could call myself a celebrity but I have just touched the surface of that lifestyle and I love it. The glamour is very addicting and I think if you ever try it out for yourself you'll understand why people will do what they do to get there.

lol those 'celebrities' u talk about never last anyway. so why worry about them?

I guess u4ric it depends on whether gigm is seeing a difference between notoriety and fame.
Hitler certainly deserved his notoriety, just as einstein deserved to be famed for the good he did.
In that sense, both got the limelight, so maybe 'celebrity' wasnt the word gigm was meaning in the first place?
"Celebrity" is certainly not a word i would use for Hitler, for a start!
I myself assumed he meant 'celebrity' as in the people on big brother etc. but perhaps not?
I can think of lots of 'celebrities' that *do* deserve it, clint eastwood is a damn fine actor, as is quite a few others, and he 'deserves' to get his name in magazines surely?

Perhaps gigm will define for us what he feels constitutes a "modern celebrity"?
Give us some examples please.

Possibly he could clear up whether he meant famous or infamy