It would be easy to fill a post ten times as long as this on the subject of ‘celebrity’ overexposure. In my opinion it can become almost nauseating, seeing the same annoying faces over and over again, especially in Ireland. In this country we are harassed and harangued repeatedly by the irritating faces of the same small number of RTÉ presenters, rugby or GAA players, models, soapstars, etc. If you turn on any RTÉ chat-show, the guests will usually be other RTÉ personalities, plugging whatever it is they are doing at the moment.  A few days later the presenter/guest roles are reversed and you can watch the same shite interview all over again. As you read your newspaper,  on every second page, pompous Irish rugby players pose in tedious photo-ops, usually beside someone like Glenda Gilson or that other Irish model who always looks as if she has been crying, like William Shatner.

For me, the gold medal in annoying overexposure goes to Myleene Klass. I find her continued success more than baffling. She is bland, boring and not particularly intelligent. Her recent stint on Miss Naked Beauty with Gok Wan (Go Wank?) was the most irritating. Myleene, in full make-up, condescendingly comforted terrifying, shivering women in the nude as they stood degraded and humiliated in an empty swimming pool, moments after she had doused them with a huge hose, blasting them with enough water to disperse a twenty thousand-strong crowd of English football hooligans. [Read more...]