Britain's Most Pointless Celebrities

Broadcaster Sir Michael Parkinson has said that Russell Brand is lucky to be famous, and claims that he does not see the point of him. Parkinson slammed the title of Russell Brand's autobiography My Booky Wook and his "Dickensian" way of speaking. While Brand's millions of fans would be quick to jump to his defence, everyone is entitled to their own opinion. When you take a look at the world of entertainment, there are an awful lot of "pointless" celebrities, particularly in the UK.

Most often these pointless celebrities are has-beens who have had their fame reignited on celebrity reality television shows like I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here - a show where (mainly) former celebrities are flown to an Australian jungle and have to survive, earning food by performing disgusting tasks like eating fish eyes. These aren't really the worst though. It's the amount of famous people who have had their turn in the spotlight by appearing on Big Brother and never gone away again that are also making a mockery of the name of "celebrity".

In the UK, there are endless amounts of pointless celebrities, and these are some of the people who are most famous for....being famous.

Katie Price

Some people will immediately cry out that Katie Price deserves to be famous, but let's take a closer look at that. Katie Price shot to fame using the name Jordan. At that time she was a topless model, famed for her enormous breasts which had been enhanced by surgery. At her biggest, her breasts were a 32FF. For many years she earned a living by getting the boys out, until she appeared on I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here. It was on this show that her career got a lift as she met singer Peter Andre. The two later married and the two had a reality television show about their lives together. After having two children, the pair divorced and Katie quickly re-married. Over the years she has released perfume, books that she didn't even write herself and had a brief dabble into releasing music - which was short-lived as she refused to sing live and nobody bought her single. Although Katie Price certainly has something about her that keeps people interested, overall she seems to be famous for giving the tabloids something to write about - usually relating to her love life.

Kerry Katona

Back in the late 90's, Kerry Katona was one third of the pop group Atomic Kitten. After admitting that she can't sing she gave up the popstar lifestyle, but married former Westlife member Brian McFadden. They had two children but after Kerry was in I'm A Celebrity alongside Katie Price and Peter Andre, her popularity soared after she won the show. This was rumoured to have led to the breakdown of her marriage and while Kerry managed to get by on her reality TV win for a while, things quickly began to unravel with news that she was drinking heavily and she ended up in rehab. Katona's love life with a string of different men was heavily reported and she briefly starred in advertisements for supermarket Iceland, but overall Kerry Katona is one of the more pointless celebrities who is famous for nothing.

Chantelle Houghton

In 2006, Chantelle was placed in the Celebrity Big Brother house as a false celebrity. Her mission in the house was to convince people that she was part of a girl band. The unexpected twist was that while in the house, she and Samuel Preston (Preston) formed a relationship. Chantelle went on to win the show and later married Preston - but divorced after a year (can you see a pattern here?). Technically, Chantelle is a model and did much work as a Paris Hilton lookalike, but overall the only thing she is famous for is being on Big Brother and as such, this ranks her very high amongst pointless celebrities.

Jedward

Jedward were recently voted the most pointless celebrities this year. Jedward were possibly the most hated act ever to make the X Factor finals. Mentored by Louis Walsh in last year's X Factor, he insisted that they had talent but every week they failed to sing in tune and made up for that with gigantic, crazy performances which had them jumping around the stage. After the initial hatred though, the British public ultimately began to slightly admire their ability to keep going after facing such opposition. They have continued to release music, but they still can't sing and are best known for making inappropriate remarks.

With pointless celebrities stealing more and more of the limelight, it makes us wonder if they will ever go away or if they will continue to take centre stage. One fact that remains is that if the public continue to watch their television shows and read their autobiographies, newspapers will keep on reporting about them. No matter how pointless these celebrities may be - the public still can't get enough of them!

Sources:

Russell Brand Lucky To Be Famous

Katie Price info