Pseudo-celebrities make way on to show

By Krystle Wagner

Created:
06/09/09 11:29pm

Last updated:
06/09/09 11:29pm

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NBC’s “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!” isn’t on my list of shows to watch.

Nothing about the show appeals to me. The only thing that has caught my attention is the ruckus Heidi and Spencer Pratt have caused.

According to reports from ABCNews.com, Heidi supposedly became sick after a night in isolation. The couple was placed in isolation for quitting the show, but Heidi’s illness has caused them to leave the show for good.

Why they were on the show for being “celebrities” is beyond me.

Although Heidi has ventured out and been on the MTV show “Laguna Beach: The Real Orange County,” “The Hills” and one episode of the CBS show “How I Met Your Mother,” I wouldn’t give her celebrity status.

In the ABCNews report, Heidi’s sister Holly Montag will replace the couple on the show. I don’t understand why the producers selected her, either. If the title of the show is “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!” an actual celebrity should have been selected. Montag’s biography on the TV show’s Web site states that she is in the process of working with Joe Francis, “Girls Gone Wild” creator, and is friends with Paris Hilton. In my standards of what makes someone a celebrity, she doesn’t come close. Being associated with celebrities and doing something to be called a celebrity are two separate things.

From a fake Mexico elopement (which was later made legal in California) on “The Hills” to this recent stunt on “I’m a Celebrity … Get Me Out of Here!” the Pratts are nothing more than media attention seekers.

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