As can be seen from many of my reviews I am a huge motorsport fan. It is my love of all things with wheels and engines that have led me to this article and to share my opinion with you all. On the 16th of October 2011 the motorsport world was rocked by the death of Indy car champion Dan Wheldon, barely a week later Moto GP rider Marco Simoncelli was also killed in competirion. During the days that followed the motorsport world stood shoulder to shoulder competitors, those in the business and the fans, we had lost two great competitors and everybody was in mourning. I for one am so proud of everybody involved there were no barriers, nobody cared where you ...  Read the complete review

Celebrities are different in modern times than they used to be. Look back 50 or 60 years and everything was hushed and covered up and scandal was usually covered up. But right here in the 2000's it is a completely different story, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. For a lot of females out there Jade Goody being ill with cervical cancer brought it home to the ordinary person and made the prospect of something like cancer seem real to them. Jade Goody being in the papers so much and talking about it helped a lot of people. The modern celebrity is a person the general public can relate to as we see all the trial and tribulations ...  Read the complete review

They don't affect me at all....I know that possibly sounds harsh, but they don't affect me. Lets think of the people who have died recently in the media, the main two I can think of are Jade Goody and Michael Jackson, now Jade Goody when she was alive, I couldn't stand her, I hated her, if she was on TV I would turn it off, if she was in a magazine I'd flick past the article, I didn't like her, I thought she was a thick imbosile who really should have learned to keep her mouth shut if she had something to say which might offend...! Now when I read (which I couldn't do anything but seeing as it was everywhere...) that she had cancer, I felt very ...  Read the complete review

When I saw this topic it made me stop and think. Now before I start I must confess I don't really buy into the whole celebrity circus but I AM sometimes moved by peoples individual stories. I am "lucky" enough to know a quite few people in the public eye but then again I know lots of people that are not. The point is that there are not that many differences between them. True, some(but by no means all)of the famous ones have more money but death is a great leveler. As the saying goes there are no pockets in a shroud. Why is the death of someone in the public eye somehow more important then? Truth is I don't believe it is. The main difference is ...  Read the complete review

I've always been confused by the way in which celebrity deaths affect me. I have been very fortunate in that I have not lost anyone who I was close to, but when I get upset at someone dying who I didn't even know, it makes me abit nervous about how I would actually feel about someone I genuinely loved dying. We put celebrities on a pedestal, whether we intend to or not, that is what happens. And it is almost as if you don't expect bad things to happen to celebrities as they are in some kind of safe bubble or something, immune from the everyday troubles that us mere mortals have to contend with. Of course this isn't true, but it's very easy to forget that bad ...  Read the complete review