The #WakeUpCall selfie: just another egotistical celebrity stunt for ‘charity’: And now comes the #WakeUpCall selfie and I’m afraid I cannot hold my tongue any more. This involves celebrities posting photos of themselves showing the world what they look like first thing in the morning so as to help the rest of us “wake up” to Syria (get it?). A photo of Jeremy Clarkson in bed first thing in the morning does not make me want to give to Unicef’s Syria emergency appeal. It makes me want to rip out my eyes, reject the modern world, move to the Outer Hebrides and weave clothes out of brambles. Is this really what we have come to – needing to see photos of luminaries such as Nicky Hilton and Elle Macpherson in bed in order to give money to Unicef? Since when did charity become some kind of beauty pageant in which famous women flaunt their “natural” looks? Although on that note, I must tip my hat to Naomi Campbell, who, judging from her charity selfie, wakes up every morning with a full face of makeup. ... Yes, this is all for charity, and that’s great. But you can quibble with the means of raising money for charity without dissing charity itself. So maybe someone, somewhere, could think of a way to give money that doesn’t involve celebrities inflicting constant photos of themselves on the public? More “let’s help the Syrian people” and less “Syria – it’s all about me!”, perhaps?
Posted on: Fri, 17 Oct 2014 13:35:00 +0000
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