I ve just realised .....

I have no idea who any of them are either. I don't watch any reality TV now either so I'm never likely to find out who they are! I don't think I'm missing anything....

I'm really bad at paying attention to names so don't recognise these so called celebrities by name or face. I don't watch many films, so don't even know most film stars. So called celebrities bypass me completely. I don't feel deprived on any way because of this.

But are they really ‘celebrities’ or just people who go on reality TV shows, most of whom aren’t worth remembering.

Annaraml gemma Collins has become so called famous from a reality show called towie, totally agree with you no one would want to shake her hand,no class enough said

There was a quiz in the Guardian yesterday. A photo of a pop star with a choice of three names to match it to. Couldn't recognise one of them and never heard of any of the names!!

My DD is only 33 and she doesn't know who most of the 'celebrities' who have been announced for Strictly!

Many 'celebrities' are so called because they have appeared on Television and not because they have done another of note.

I have up on this a long time ago. On strictly last year got to know these....errrrr....famous people as the prog progressed

I think many of them are famous either from appearing in soaps or reality shows like Towie, Love Island and the like. So no, us grans (having more class) aren't going to recognize them....

It’s because most of them aren’t actually famous for anything worthwhile, and I haven’t heard of a lot of them either.
I also have no idea which singles ( music tracks)are in the top 10.?Old age eh?

I'm getting more and more annoyed that it doesn't matter which programme I watch, inevitably there is a so-called 'celebrity' (hate that word) guest from some reality tv rubbish that I've never heard of. I really don't want to listen to their inane drivel. Not only do they all look the same, they all sound the same, mostly without two brain cells to rub together!

I remember watching Pointless and the round was "Reality TV stars and the shows that made them famous." Apart from one obvious one my husband and l had never heard of either the "stars" or the shows. The contestants happened to all be over about 45 and were in the same position. I think pointless is a very apt description of those so-called "celebrities."

I sometimes recognise celebs who are on quiz shows such as Celebrity Mastermind or Pointless. They are often people such as newsreaders, TV presenters or actors often seen in TV series.

Trendy, thank you for enlightening me. I just hope I never meet such a crass person. As you say, no class. What has happened to this country that that sort of behaviour is even put on TV?

I only know three of the latest Strictly line up - Anneka Rice, James Cracknell, Catherine Tyldesley (because I remember her from Corrie). It's partly my fault, because some are sportspeople I haven't come across and presenters on channels I don't watch or listen to now. But I don't really "get" the viscountess, the McVitie's heir and the YouTube influencer. Yes, I'm getting old.

I suppose celebrity was someone out of the ordinary with some talent, usually to entertain.
Now you can become one by shagging around and having a boob job or setting up a channel to tell us how to clean or how to empty a bin.

So relieved to see that it's not just me who doesn't recognise so called celebrities.

I think we're confusing celebrities with the talented icons that we used to know. There is now a wide chasm between the two. TV producers are the ones to blame in all this. Without the dreadful TV reality series, we wouldn't have nearly as many new famous talentless cretins about. Thinking back to shows in the past like Morecombe and wise, the guests included people like Angela Rippon, this showed her talent as a dancer.. Now somehow newsreaders get places on Strictly and we have to watch their attempts at dancing when they've got no talent. Wrong way around! No doubt others like to see their journey but it's just this sort of thing that's dulling our appetite now. If you say you like Strictly, you've not the point.

I do try to keep up to date because I do pub quizzes regularly, and need to know these things, lol.

DD was talking about Pointless celebrities one day and I had to ask her whether it was a quiz show or was she actually making a statement. She said she was talking about the TV quiz show but I was probably right about the celebrities too.

'Who do you think you are?' DH and I have never heard of most of them!

If I just see the word 'Celebrity' attached to a TV programme it makes me cringe and avoid watching. Celebrity is a very overused word these days I think.

Whenever I comment to my son “... it must mean I am getting older” her cheekily reassures me that it is not my age but that I have always been like that. ?

I am very encouraged by all the comments here. I am not alone!!!!
TV producers and the media only report, film and write what sells or makes money. If nobody bought the magazine|newspaper or watched the programmes they would stop. Someone said to me many years ago that newspapers were the mirror of society. Very depressing if this is the case.

Me too. Not long ago on holiday I was idly browsing through a Hello! magazine someone had left lying around.

Honestly hadn't a clue who 90% of the people were. Might have vaguely heard some of the names, but whether they were singers/footballers/whatever, no idea at all.

Not perhaps surprising when I never read any 'celeb' news or gossip.

I buy Woman’s Weekly and My Weekly because they don’t often feature the famous for being famous celebrities. My hairdresser gave me a magazine yesterday that was all trash and speculation with contributors trying to out do each other by airing their dirty linen in public! No shame at all and no thought for their offspring reading and seeing degrading pictures of their parents drunk and falling out of their clothing. I wonder if they will ever mature enough to take a long hard look at themselves and their often loutish behaviour.