[ChristmasNeeve]

Originally Posted by The baby Zeesus

The people that buy those magazines buy them for the content of the magazines, not the accompanying pictures. I'm sure they'd still read a story about Harry Styles allegedly shagging Taylor Swift if the picture was of him on the red carpet, rather than him climbing out of a taxi or looking out of his bedroom window or whatever. They're glorified stalkers and psychotic paparazzi culture should be shut down. It isn't normal behaviour. They aren't photographers, they're stalkers with cameras. Harry Styles isn't biting the hand that feeds him - he still wants to meet his fans, he doesn't mind having his photo taken - he's drawn the line at having people waiting outside his home, people following him in cars and on motorbikes to wherever he's going, people trying to get into his car, his home... it's not normal.

It's not normal and it's dangerous as well. If someone was doing things like that to an ordinary person they'd be arrested for stalking/harassment, it should be the same for celebrities. Yes to a degree part of their job is losing alot of their privacy but the paparazzi go too far and cross the line

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Originally Posted by Niazareth

It's not normal and it's dangerous as well. If someone was doing things like that to an ordinary person they'd be arrested for stalking/harassment, it should be the same for celebrities. Yes to a degree part of their job is losing alot of their privacy but the paparazzi go too far and cross the line

I agree. If a man was standing outside my house taking pictures of me in the safety of my own home, I would be trying to get a restraining order too. Yes, celebrities are people that sell themselves as a product and us everyday people quite like to know things about certain famous people because we find them interesting for whatever reason - but that doesn't give people the right to try and gain access to their homes, take pictures up their skirts, follow them when they go out for dinner, wait for them outside night clubs, set up sting operations to try and incriminate them (e.g. Tulisa)... it's just nasty. I remember watching a documentary about Girls Aloud and there was a paparazzi creeping about their private villa in some foreign country taking pictures of them lying beside the pool - if they were on a public beach then fair enough, but they were at a private villa in a foreign country! Totally unacceptable. The end result is that people look at pictures of them and think "what a bunch of attention seekers, they wanted the paparazzi to photograph them like that" - totally messed up.