Reality TV Celebrities

By Stephanee Muir

The fascination with celebrities has now reached an all time high here in Australia. It once was just the star crazed country that is America.

But it now seems here in Aus that anyone can be a celebrity. For this we can largely thank the person who created the reality TV revolution.

At the moment Big Brother seems to be at the fore front once again. Despite calls from former Prime Minister John Howard, the show is back again for another so called riveting piece of television.

This year the country was promised bigger and better things from big brother: new hosts, new rules and dynamic housemates.

Dynamic housemates? I’m not quite convinced. I am not a fan I’ve big brother, in fact I was bored after the first season. But it seems to me that every year viewers are promised the same thing.

The reason I bring this up is that if you are in fact a fan of big brother or a media follower you would know that Corey Worthington entered the Big Brother house a few days ago.

For those of you who don’t recognise the name, Corey is the 16 year old teenager who through a party in Melbourne while his parents were on holiday and was gate crashed by 500 party goers who found out through a posting made by Corey on MySpace.

Now it is reported in yesterday’s papers that Corey is making money from his party boy status. Big Brother is paying Corey 10 thousand dollars a night while in the Big brother house. So fare the total is up to 80 thousand.

Meanwhile when Corey first entered the house one of the so called dynamic housemates greeted him with a pat on the back and the line “living legend mate.”

Corey, the party boy is now being called a living legend and is being paid to continue his infamous party acts in the big brother house as one of the new and improved dynamic housemates.

God help this country if we are getting so celebrity crazed that a 16 year old who is known nation wide by throwing an out of control party, is now considered one.