What a load of Goop; celebrities are no gurus

Mootchikaka says:

11:15am | 03/06/11

Delta Goodrem toured extensively throughout Australia 3 years ago and is in LA working on her new album, her name has only been in the media recently due to Brian McFadden being the douche that he is. Danni Minogue is the most popular judge of the most watched Australian TV show right now. You dont know Lindsay Lohan isnt a lesbian or even bisexual and the dragged out breakup between Lindsay Lohan and Samantha Ronson begs to differ that its all been for publicity especially given the fact she has never confessed her sexuality or relationship, nor should she feel the need to. Gwynneth Paltrow has wn an oscar and her husbands band is one of the most succesful and acclaimed acts out of the UK in the last 20 years…

What else have you got?

S.L says:

11:57am | 03/06/11

Mootchikaka (probaby Deltas manager) where did Delta perform? How many tickets were sold? (as opposed to given away). I’ve only seen her singing the national anthem at sporting events. Danni is still known as Kylies sister with few strings in her bow beside her current job and morning TV in Britain.
You are defending Lindsay Lohan? Oh you poor thing!
Name one industry insider who think Ms Paltrow deserved her Oscar? Cold Play still sucks….............

dancan says:

12:07pm | 03/06/11

Lets not forget every-bodies favourite nobody.  Snookie.  Never before have I seen such a useless nobody become “famous”.  Hell even Paris Hilton had money if nothing else

kyzz says:

01:40pm | 03/06/11

S.L I had no idea Danni was a judge on Masterchef

Leah says:

10:44pm | 03/06/11

Uh, I can take Delta or leave her, but in all honesty, she hasn’t been in the news much at all the last few years, except for the times when she was an X-factor (??) judge, and more recently her split from Brian McFadden.

mike j says:

12:06pm | 03/06/11

Bored? Surely they’re not bored. Being a stay at home mother is hard work. Keeping a clean house and making sure your squealing, shitting cabbage patch kids don’t fall down the stairs isn’t just a full time job, but it’s such a terrible burden that whining about it to people who actually do real jobs is considered legitimate.

Thank you, daytime television, for providing the reassurance needed by unemployed women everywhere, that it’s okay to be slovenly and morbidly obese, as long as you keep whelping bogan parasites for the welfare. After all, it’s not your fault you don’t have a job. It’s that imaginary glass ceiling thing.

Leah says:

10:58pm | 03/06/11

you’re both pathetic.

Deb, do you really believe in this day and age that stay at home mothers are the only people in the world who watch daytime TV? Are you not aware of shift workers, stay at home fathers, part-time working mothers, students, retirees?

Mike, well plain and simple you obviously don’t have any experience with kids. Look after 3 kids for a month and you might be surprised at the increase in the cooking, washing up, grocery shopping, laundry and ironing you have to do, let alone getting round to those things that get relegated to the back of your mind because you have too many day-to-day things to get done - eg, vacuuming, mopping, gardening, cleaning the bathroom, washing windows etc. And that’s just the housework, that doesn’t touch on stuff like taking kids to school, helping them with homework, taking them to soccer/piano/dancing, supervising their playtime/actually playing with them if they’re below school age (when you’d probably actually rather be putting away that load of laundry sitting in the bedroom), etc etc.

Try it for 6 months and THEN criticise the mothers who choose not to take paid jobs and actually raise their kids themselves (instead of paying someone else to do it for them. And having said that, why is it considered a fulltime job to be a teacher or childcare worker, but if you choose to do it yourself and not pay someone else to do it, you’re not recognised as ‘working’?)

And no, FYI, I’m not a mother. I just appreciate women who are.

Jack says:

08:50am | 03/06/11

Dave, at least you don’t have to run anywhere to buy Carbo Cate’s BS.

Anubis says:

09:39am | 03/06/11

@TheRealDave - “with baited breath” -If your breath smells like Bait maybe you should consider a mint or two. I await your response with bated breath.

TheRealDave says:

10:47am | 03/06/11

‘Baited Breath’ is the new mint endorsed by Colgo, get with it.

St. Michael says:

11:26am | 03/06/11

Now if Downton Abbey is anything to go by.

Anne71 says:

12:32pm | 03/06/11

I prefer minions, myself. But it’s so hard to find quality minions nowadays. They just don’t make them like they used to :(

Suzanne says:

02:56pm | 03/06/11

@Anne71

“But it’s so hard to find quality minions nowadays. “

I recommend ebay. ExcellEnt quality and half the price of Minions R Us or K-Minions.

Sickemrex says:

03:48pm | 03/06/11

And the price of minions will just keep dropping while the Aussie is rising.  Now is the time to buy.

Anne71 says:

04:52pm | 03/06/11

Actually, Suzanne and Sickemrex, I’m thinking of paying a bit extra and just going for an Igor instead.  A good quality Igor is worth a dozen minions, or so I’m told.

Catching up says:

07:59am | 05/06/11

Adam, not sexism, silliness.

Bilby says:

09:39am | 03/06/11

Just saying stupid things (because *everyone* thinks like me) doesn’t make one an ivory tower intellectual…  per se.

TheRealDave says:

10:48am | 03/06/11

Hang on…Cate is now an ‘Intellectual’ ?? I guess money can buy you anything .....

Joe Jiudice says:

11:38am | 03/06/11

“Working families” have had enough of ‘elitist’ celebrities and NW Magazine.  Weekly issues really hurt the hip pocket.

Cate Blanchett is worth $53 million.  Why doesn’t she buy everybody a copy of NW magazine, so we can have a fair go.

I await all of your responses with bated breath.

AdamC says:

10:48am | 03/06/11

What was it you once said to me about laughing at something and then feeling guilty?

Redeker Plan says:

10:56am | 03/06/11

+1
I don’t necessarily agree with your generalisation of modern women, but with regards to Gwyneth you’re absolutely right.  Any woman who doesn’t bang Iron Man or, for that matter, Robert Downey Jnr in any of his recent guises needs to get her head read.

Sherlock Holmes….bare-chested fisticuffs…droooool

Anne71 says:

12:39pm | 03/06/11

Redeker Plan - totally agree in regards to Robert Downey Jnr. Rowrrrr!! (and I mean that in an appreciative way. I am certainly not attributing felinity to him in any way, shape or form Except now I shall most certainly be labelled sexist in that I am reducing him to a mere sex object.  Damn political correctness!)

Anubis says:

12:55pm | 03/06/11

Where’s Erick when he is needed. These feminists are literally drooling over the body of a man. Just what was the response from said feminists when the odd man was drooling over Pippa’s butt ????

Placebo says:

02:23pm | 03/06/11

Robert Downey Jnr gives me the shivers… and i mean it in a good way… He is hot hot hot hot…!!!!

Redeker Plan says:

02:36pm | 03/06/11

@ Anubis
I was on holiday when the Royal wedding palaver took over the country and fortunately missed actually seeing it. 

My response to the Pippa Middleton issue was thus: I have no problem with anyone, male or female, voicing their appreciation for the human body, regardless of which gender it happens to be.  I don’t even have an issue with Pippa Middleton’s backside getting its own webpage.  The difference is that I’m not promising to leave Robert Downey Jnr in a wheel-chair via means of sexual congress.  Or any of the other “compliments” towards Pippa Middleton that had a violent, degrading undertone.

Anubis says:

03:48pm | 03/06/11

@Redeker Plan - I was also appalled by some of those comments, way over the top. But the average male may have made the odd comment of appreciation but ALL were soundly condemned as a result of the few morons. What a lot of the “rabid” feminazis need to understand is the difference between appreciation and outright lechery and inappropriateness. Some may think it is a subtle difference but there is a huge gulf between those morons who posted on that Facebook site and general appreciation of the feminine.

Sickemrex says:

05:47pm | 03/06/11

@Adam C I share your guilty mirth.  Ah, bacon, lovely bacon.

Anne71 says:

12:43pm | 03/06/11

Good point, Rose. Although apparently it’s okay for mining and / or media magnates to have an opinion on carbon tax and other political issues.  I suppose it depends on how one obtains one’s wealth as to whether you’re entitled to an opinion on something.

Adam Diver says:

01:33pm | 03/06/11

It all depends on the context. Whilst a lot of people will claim Cates uniformed opinion is less then there own uninformed opinion there is a big difference with these things,

She is explicitly telling us to say yes (I assume in the polls) to a new tax that will increase the cost of living marginally. Such an increase would have no impact on her lifestyle, but for the majority who are much closer to the breadline it will have an impact.

Now for a media magnate to oppose a carbon tax (which they can easily afford, so there is no hypocrisy there), but which will have impacts on mining (it is supposed too), and may result in job losses, reduced investment and filtered down negative impacts on individuals and the economy seems like a fairly reasonable position to have an opinion. Obviously there vested interest means you need to take it with a grain of salt.

Its all about context hopefully I have cleared things up for you Anne.

Bilby says:

02:09pm | 03/06/11

You appear to be coming from the stand point that *everyone’s* opinion is worth something, and it doesn’t suddenly become worth nothing just because they’re a celeb. In fact *no-one’s* opinion is worth anything unless they can show a good reason why it should be and being a celeb is not that reason. That’s why they’re called “opinions” and not “facts”.

HappyCynic says:

02:59pm | 03/06/11

@Bilby

You’re incorrect about the value of an opinion that can be proven to have good reasoning behind it.  Such a thing doesn’t exist.  All opinions are therefore worthless.

@Adam Diver

Close to the “breadline”?  Pfft can’t afford bread?  Eat cake

Leah says:

10:48pm | 03/06/11

I don’t think the article is saying you shouldn’t pay attention to them at all. Just that you should afford them the same attention you’d afford Joe Blow down the street if he were to try and tell you how to live your life. Which, realistically, is probably very little.

Leah says:

11:05pm | 03/06/11

Anne, mining and media magnates’ jobs tend to be more intrinsically political than an actor or actress’s job. While they’ll still have biases that we need to be aware of when listening to them, chances are their knowledge and education on the political topic they’re commenting on will be somewhat more significant than some actor. Often, it’s their job to know and understand these things.

I’m not saying an actor/actress can’t know or understand these things. Just that it’s less likely, unless they have a special interest in it and have specifically taken the time to educate themselves in it.

Supermodels are humans too ya know! says:

03:40pm | 03/06/11

She’s a model and a mum. What’s the problem?

anon to protect eyes from being scratched out says:

04:16pm | 03/06/11

Don’t worry Loxy, I got that. Well played.

I think she is absolutly beautiful but I’m sick of seeing her engorged breasts on display. They are all veiny and rank. She does have a cracking set, but give it a couple of months and she’ll be wearing skivvies or heading to the surgeon. Good on her for breast feeding, but put them away! Nobody needs to see the vats working overtime to generate supply, its a beautiful feat of nature, but its not beautiful to look at.

Leah says:

10:50pm | 03/06/11

at least she isn’t the one out there publishing her own parenting achievements and lecturing the rest of the world as if she has reached the pinnacle of parenting.