Celebrity Blogs

You probably know Mario Lavandeira from the celebrity gossip blog he pens...Perezhilton.com sound familiar? Although it hasn't been verified, Lavandeira claims that more than 8 million people will access his celebrity gossip blog a day. In fact, Lavandeira has been so successful with his blog, that he has basically made a career out of posting juicy Hollywood rumors. He is ultimately an example of an ordinary citizen becoming enormously popular through blogging. I don't go to his website daily or anything...in fact, I've only been to it a few times. But I've seen countless people in my classes reading away on their laptops to pass the time in a lecture that is decidedly less interesting. I wouldn't say that Lavandeira is a particularly talented writer, but his blog can be witty, and it's filled with lots of pictures that will at least make you giggle.

I thought of the Perez Hilton blog because I was curious how many actual celebrities keep blogs. I found a list here, although I'm not sure how complete it is. It's interesting how blogs bring celebs down to a very normal, average level...you could be reading one and feel almost like that person has an ordinary day-to-day existence. Although there's no way of knowing for sure if any actual celeb is writing their blog, I found that the random sampling of ones I went to were written very well and seemd to be almost another creative outlet, or at least a way to make sense of the whole celebrity lifestyle. My favorite was John Mayer's (not just because I love his music!), who posts to his blog pretty regularly.

Blogs are exciting to keep because they have the potential to reach a limitless audience...and can even take someone ordinary, like Lavandeira, and make them celebrities in their own right.