It's a pity some people can't wait to type out abuse, usually without reading what their targets post before doing so. I found Brand and Ross to be less than funny, boorish but at the same time, found the knee jerk reaction to be hilarious, especially in terms of rank hypocrisy.

Brand shags someone. It's newsworthy. Someone says Brand shagged her, it's newsworthy. Brand says he shagged someone, it's newsworthy. Brand and Ross waffle on about shagging and step over the mark. Nobody gives a toss for almost a week.. Then after two complaints were lodged, a newspaper stirs it and all of a sudden, thousands of complaints! Mainly by those who never heard it in the first place. Congratulations to the woman who got the publicity she asked for. Pity how both she and Brand used her connection to her Granddad but there you go, celebrity is about building up and knocking down so it wouldn't occur to any of them the hurt they gave to a serious actor with a low profile, who shunned celebrity shit.

Why is it newsworthy? Well the vitriol towards the bloke on this thread just shows that the media stirs shallow waters.

And in the meantime, the usual idiots on this thread extend their hatred towards fellow Mudcat members, and in the absense of anyone else, it happens to be me. Poor old musket eh? I even seem to take second fiddle to a recording of Match of the Day.

And so I should.

Backwoodsman. I'm not famous, not a celebrity, not as talented as Mr Brand or indeed Mr Sachs. So the question is moot. If my bank balance was based on celebrity, I might roll with the punches more than if my bank balance was based on, say, growing celery and selling it. I'd understand the consequences of selling celery, as opposed to the consequences of public limelight.

As it is, I understand neither. There is no such thing as bad publicity to some people, and the celebrity culture bandwagon certainly sells that point. Although having never watched reality telly, celebrity get me whatever, rigged talent shows or other such nonsense, it goes over my head.

I don't have the fascination with celebrity that many here exhibit. "I hate Brand etc". You must all spend a lot of time reading Hello magazine to display such extraordinary emotion towards a manufactured stunt designed to sell papers and magazines.

Brand has a view! Well he wasn't interviewed in order to fill a few minutes, he was interviewed on order to raise the profile of Paxman, what with Boris being away in China. Poor Paxo wasn't getting the ratings his pay packet craves.

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