Nov 20, 2009
Do Reality Stars Even Read?
Posted by Ariel Cherie
Celebrity authors are not a new phenomenon. I don’t really understand or fully accept this trend, but it does happen. Most recently, actress/comedienne Sherri Shepherd released a memoir/self-help book called Permission Slips: Every Woman’s Guide to Giving Herself a Break and actor Tracy Morgan wrote the autobiography I Am the New Black. I’m not a real fan of celeb autobiographies because they’re usually written by ghost writers or another author who has a tiny credit at the bottom of the book jacket.
The new — and totally unnecessary — fad in the book world is that reality stars are releasing books. It’s bad enough that you wonder if they read at all, but do we really need to read what they think?
There are a slew of reality stars who have a book or are looking for book deals:
- Heidi and Spencer Pratt of The Hills – How to be Famous: Our Guide to Looking the Part, Playing the Press, and Becoming a Tabloid Fixture
- Miss J of America’s Next Top Model – Follow the Model
- NeNe Leakes of Real Housewives of Atlanta - Never Make the Same Mistake Twice
- Jon and Kate Gosselin of Jon & Kate Plue Ei8ht – Multiple Bles8ing: Surviving to Thriving with Twins and Sextuplets
Now, I’m not knew if they know this, but being on a reality TV show, we viewers see just about every minute of their lives — what restaurants they eat at, where they shop, the dumb things they say. We talk about them the next day at work after the episode airs or gab on the phone to our girls about what happened. We already know so much about them, is there a need to buy their books?
In my opinion, no. But you already knew that. I understand everybody is trying to make a buck out there and capitalize on their fifteen minutes of fame, but there are plenty of credible writers who need their books read because they have a passion for it and they’ve spent many years crafting their talent. How much training does it take to be a reality star?
I’m not saying don’t support these reality show stars (I support them every time I watch a mundane episode of The Hills or a marathon of ANTM or RHOA). All I’m saying is there are plenty of others who need our support too. Let’s add them to our reading list, shall we?
Oh dear, reality stars think they can do anything don’t they? WTH, just because you are a reality star does not you a successful person or one that people care about. Good television is just that sometimes, nothing more, nothing less. Who cares, really, what Heidi and Spencer and a lot of other reality stars are doing. I have my own life to live. Don’t get me wrong, I watch reality shows like most people, but I would not go out and buy anything that Heidi and Spencer write. My money is better spent elsewhere.
Truer words couldn’t have been said.
So much drama, so little time, and I don’t watch them anyway.
Time would be better spent watching MSNBC, CNN and other newsworthy shows that reinforce educating people vs unrealistic expectations of questionable narcissistic personalities of these time-limited wannabes.