Hunger Games Star blasts hyper-sexualisation of young stars

Watch this clip as Hunger Games star Jennifer Lawrence discusses body image on BBC Newsnights.

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Bieber named on the Forbes '30 under 30' list 2014

Justin Bieber has today been named on the '30 under 30' Forbes List 2014.

Justin Bieber has had  another outstanding year commercially in 2013 and his success hasn't gone unnoticed. Forbes Magazine has recognized Bieber as being one of the best and brightest young talents in the music industry. Is this really a shock with the sudden rise to stardom he has gained spanning over such a short career?

This can be considered a great start to the year for Justin. The past 12months his actions and behaviour have been under scutiny by the world's media in 2013.  Let's be honest though, he was his own worst enemy at times!!

http://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/justin-bieber-spits-fans-controversial-2111827

http://www.express.co.uk/news/showbiz/449930/Justin-Bieber-s-grandmother-defends-singer-against-media-lies

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Despite the worrying behaviour, it is definitely worth noting the incredible achievements Bieber has made both in terms of his financial status and contributions to the music industry.

Publicity problems and bad behaviour aside; Justin Bieber has achieved more success than most of us can dream of and he's still just 20 years of age.

Check out these amazing stats:

Justin Bieber Album statistics

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Also on the list was fellow celebrity Miley Cyrus. She too has been heavily critisised in the media in the past 12 months for some outrageous behavior in her quest to escape her disney image!

Check out the complete list on Forbes.com.

Whitney Houston: Pop Sensation & Ultimate Tragedy

Whitney Houston is a worldwide superstar.  She reigned for a long time as the Queen of pop and 
RnB, with a voice the likes of which we’ll never see again.  Beautiful and inspiring, her performances were always breath-taking, so much so that she sold multimillions of records.  After 2 decades in the music industry, Whitney was still as strong as ever and her presence and influence will never be eclipsed again.

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What the world didn’t expect was her untimely death in 2012, after dealing with years of an abusive marriage and cocaine use.   She was 48.  

But what exactly caused Whitney’s death?  What was shocking enough to bring her to this fatal ending?  

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• Whitney was born in 1963 in Newark, USA.  She was the daughter of Cissy Houston, a gospel and pop singer who had backed up Aretha Franklin and the cousin of Dionne Warwick.

• In 1977, aged 14, she began to sing backing vocals on chart singles.  A young age to be thrown into the music industry.  She worked with acts including Chaka Khan and the Neville Brothers.

• She was signed after performing in a night club and in 1985 aged 22, her debut single and solo album were released.  We were provided with polished, catchy songs such as ‘How Will I Know’ and ‘The Greatest Love of All’.  People began to remember her voice. 

• Over the next decade her popularity soared. In 1987, her second album ‘Whitney’ became the first album by a woman to enter the Billboard charts at No. 1 and it included four No. 1 singles.

• In 1992 aged 29, Whitney married RnB singer Bobby Brown.  Also in this year, she made her film debut in The Bodyguard.  The soundtrack to this film went onto sell 17 million copies in the United States.

• Whitney and her husband gave birth to Bobbi Kristina in 1993 when Whitney was 30.  

• In 1994 aged 31, she became the first major musician to visit the newly unified and apartheid free South Africa following Nelson Mandela’s winning election.

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• Marijuana was discovered in Whitney and Bobby’s luggage by security at an airport in Hawaii in 2000 when she was 37.  The charges were dropped later.  

• In 2001 aged 38, she signed the biggest record deal in music history with Arista/BMG.

• Aged 39 in 2002, things took a turn for the worse when she admitted to using cocaine on a prime time television interview.

• After what had been described as a passionate and turbulent marriage Whitney filed for divorce from her husband in 2006, when she was 43.  They divorced in 2007.

• In 2009 when Whitney was 46, she admitted on a TV interview that in the late 1990’s, doing drugs was an everyday thing and that she wasn’t happy.

• Aged 47 in 2010, she embarked on her first world tour in 10 years.  But she was met with much criticism and some shows were cancelled due to illness.

• In 2011, aged 48, she enrolled in a rehabilitation centre citing drug and alcohol problem.

• Then in 2012, aged 48 she died in a Californian hotel after drowning in a bath.  This was ruled partly as an accident and the effects of atherosclerotic heart disease and cocaine use.  

• The cocaine found in her body revealed it had been used shortly before her death and toxicology results revealed additional drugs in her system, including marijuana.

Whether it was the drugs, alcohol, family issues or fame, there isn’t one single moment you can say lead to the death of this superstar.  But Whitney Houston is living proof of how shocking some moments in celebrities’ lives can be.  And it isn’t the last tragedy we will see in the world of superstardom.

What do you think caused Whitney Houston’s death?

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What happened to the Justin Bieber that first broke onto the music scene?

The pop playground is littered with young one hit wonders who break into the music scene but no sooner do they arrive, they are soon forgotten. But then you have the likes of Britney Spears, Justin Timberlake and Miley Cyrus who all found fame at an early age but have since stuck around to sell millions of records and this boy is no different.

We all remember the young innocent Canadian boy that broke into the charts after releasing home videos showing off his talent. They soon hit hundreds of views, then thousands, hundreds of thousands and before he knew it his videos had reached 80 million views and record labels battled it out to sign this Youtube phenomenon.

Yes the break through for Justin Bieber's career was nothing short of a fairy-tale. The young boy with the high pitch voice and the distinctive haircut was about to be signed by Usher.

Watch Justin Bieber's first Interview on The Ellen Show.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c0nsCu5jxLk

Since then Justin Bieber has never looked back. He is now a global icon and with over 47million twitter followers he is one of the most recognised figures around the world.

But with Justin's sudden rise to stardom has money, fame and power changed him?

It has become difficult recently to talk about Justin Bieber without mentioning his recent downward spiral he seems to be on these days. The teen heart throb is never to far away from the media spotlight but for the wrong reasons.

Lets have a look back at some Bieber's bizarre confirmed, rumoured and simply bonkers antics.

 

                 

In November 2013 Justin took to Instagram to post this image of him spray painting a wall in Brazil. This image showed Justin committing a crime that could lead to a hefty fine and time behind bars. Oh and the week before he did a similar thing in Columbia.

Back in March it was reported Justin's pet capuchin monkey was confiscated in germany, after the controversial singer attempted to smuggle it into the country without permission.

All this shocking behaviour highlights just how much Bieber has changed since he first broke into the music scene. Is it the fame? The money? Or has he simply just got to big for his boots? Who knows but I have to question his management team on how they have handled his recent shocking behaviour.

Does it run in the family?

It is no secret that Lindsey Lohan has had her fair share of issues in the past few years. She’s gone from the sweet kid in The Parent Trap to a jailbird who’s no stranger to being in a spot of trouble with the law.

But what’s the reason behind Lindsey’s bad behaviour? Here at Celebrity Shockers we’re asking whether you really can blame the parents.

A glamorous party lifestyle gone wrong. Source: teamtechsquad.com

Lindsey Lohan’s childhood wasn’t the most stable. Her parents, Dina and Michael Lohan separated when Lindsey was three, and despite a brief reconciliation ended up divorcing in 2007 after Dina filed for divorce in 2005.

On US reality TV show CelebrityRehab, Michael Lohan admitted that his battle with alcohol and attempts to rehabilitate had been going on since 1982. Lindsey was born in 1986. Michael Lohan was also quoted saying: "Drinking always led to coke. Always." Michael Lohan blamed the Wall Street culture (where he worked as a trader) for his abuse of drugs and alcohol.  Michael Lohan has served numerous prison sentences for crimes including domestic violence, assault and violating terms of various parole conditions.

Michael and Dina were involved in a high profile argument as Lindsey hit the peak of her career, with her father claiming that she should be managed by professionals rather than hangers-on from Dina’s side of the family who had all become interested in Lindsey’s rising fame.

Lindsey Lohan has been admitted to rehab numerous times in the past few years, for alcohol and cocaine abuse. She released a statement in 2007 and said: "It is clear to me that my life has become completely unmanageable because I am addicted to alcohol and drugs."

Lindsey and her father Michael Lohan. Source: rollingout.com

 Starting to see a pattern here?

Experts at the National Instituteon Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism say: “Alcohol-specific influences (e.g., the modelling of parental drinking behaviour, the development of alcohol expectancies, and certain aspects of the parent-child relationship) are particularly relevant to the development of alcohol abuse and dependence in children of alcoholics.” The same concept applies to children with parents who use drugs.

When asked who she blamed for Lindsey’s behaviour in the past few years, her mother Dina Lohan said: “I blamed her friends, her career and her handlers for and new found lifestyle of partying excessively.” But perhaps the answer lies a little closer to home?

Lindsey and her family in happier times. Source: Daily Mail

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Top 5 Shocking Celeb Moments of 2013

1. Justin Bieber kicks off at paparazzi

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It's fair to say that Biber has had a rough year.  He's constantly been in the tabloids, but for all the wrong reasons.  Top of the list is when he hurled a round of abuse at the paparazzi in February.  He shouted: "What the f*** you say?  What'd you say?  I'll f***ing beat the f*** out of you man!" Not one of the nicest phrases to say...

2. Miley Cyrus at the MTV Music Awards

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Well Hannah Montana has well and truly disappeared.  In her place we have Miley who has had quite a year in terms of shocking moments.  But the main one came at the MTV Music Awards, where she twerked and twerked and twerked.  To top it off, she danced raunchily with a male popstar old enough to be her dad and let's just say that her singing voice wasn't at it's best that night.  And I don't think we need to mention the outfit...

3. Reese Witherspoon arrested

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Reese Witherspoon has always been remembered at the cute blonde girl in film Legally Blonde.  Well, that was up until April when she shocked us all by getting arrested for disorderly conduct charges. Could this be a real case of good girl gone bad?

4. Simon Cowell is a dad-to-be

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I'm presuming most of us still can't actually believe this story. We sure as hell can't. But it's not all plain sailing as the woman who's pregnant with his baby, was still married to Simon's friend at the time.  Since then she's filed for divorce and now her and Simon are happily in love.  Seems slightly awkward doesn't it?

5. Cory Monteith dies

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Shocking in a different way was when we heard the news of Glee star Cory Monteith's tragic death.  He was found in a hotel room in July aged 31.  It was confirmed later that he'd died from a "cocktail of drink and drugs".

What do you think the most shocking celebrity moment of 2013 has been?

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What is a Role Model?

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A ‘role model’ can mean something different for everyone.  I’d say a general definition is someone who people look up to, who serves as an example and, sometimes, who people want to imitate.

Is this the same for the women celebrities of our world?  Would we say we look up to Miley Cyrus, Rihanna and Lady Gaga?  Do we want to imitate them? 

Celebrities don’t sign up to be role models.  It’s not part of their remit.  Yet for some reason, they are, and there are a lot of people who expect them to be.

Though at the moment, people aren’t looking up to these women for their singing voices and their music.  They are looking up to them because of their image.  And some girls even want to imitate this image.  Right down to Miley Cyrus and her twerking, and Rihanna and her crotch-grabbing.  Not to mention how very few clothes they seem to wear in their music videos…

But hold on a minute.  These women are all young, beautiful and independent.  They’re allowed to enjoy life and they can make their own decisions.  A role model has never been part of their job description.  So they can easily justify their actions by saying that they are simply living their life.  Just like they can easily justify their lack of clothes by saying that they are expressing their sexuality.

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This is all fine and well, because it doesn’t really affect me.  Along with many other women, I’m at an age where I know my own mind.  Everyone is individual and has their own outlook on life.  But there are many young girls out there who are still growing and learning. 

To put it bluntly, if I had a young daughter who I saw ‘twerking’, I’d do my best to make sure she never did it again.  But that’s the problem isn’t it?  How do you stop your young child from watching videos of these celebrities, who ultimately, they greatly admire?

So is it not, on some level, a responsibility of the celebrity to monitor their behaviour in some way, for the sake of their younger admirers?

I don’t know.  I think it is unfair to expect a young woman who wants to pursue a career in entertainment to be a perfect performer and to also be a perfect role model for young girls.  Yes, some of their actions I disagree with; however, I believe it is ultimately up to the parents to ensure they are teaching their children the right lessons in life, the lessons they believe in.

We can look up to these women for their determination, hard work and independence.  But their image and sexuality?  I don’t think so.  There is so much more to women than just sexuality.  And hopefully, we can all continue growing to see how many ways we can show our beauty and strength, no matter what age we are.

Do you think female celebrities are good role models for young girls?



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