[Cal.]

^

[Liam-]

Blue Ivy.

But seriously, idk.. I don't think i really have one, I'm too cycinal to have 'idols' i think.. but if i had to choose one, based on the good they do and the message that they share, it would have to be Ms. GaGa

[Cal.]

Mine would be the women in my avatar and signature.

[LukeB]

I don't really have one really but I adore Cheryl Cole the most!

[Kyle]

Anybody who selflessly puts their life in danger to protect/save others.

You could probably count on one hand the amount of celebrities worthy of idolatry in my opinion.

[AnnieK]

My mum

[Ninastar]

Totally cliche of me, but yes, you guessed it... Gaga is one of my biggest idols.

I mean I thought I was a fan of her, but this Artrave concert I went to totally changed my mind about her. She is my idol. She is just so incredibly talented and I wish more artists were like her.

Gaga has without a doubt helped the gay community loads over the last few years. She's taught people that it's okay to be ****ing insane. I think the thing I love most about her is that she will take ANY rumour about herself and say 'yeah sure, it's true'... It sends such a good message out to younger (and older) people because its basically telling them to **** the haters and ignore bad things said about you.

Its funny, cause the first time I truly realised that she was a really good role model was when I was telling a stranger on the tube about the concert I went to. He was a white, middle aged (straight, I assume) man, and even he had nothing bad to say about her, apart from the fact that she's crazy. But he said it was a good thing and that she was incredibly talented...

I think in a way, that even though we have beyonce (who is also incredibly talented) and people like Rihanna and Katy Perry etc, Gaga has done a lot more for our generation... And that's one of the biggest reasons I love her.

How many artists in this day and age write their own songs, make their own music and do tours as often as they can? Not many...

and also I like her face

[Raph]

Yeah Lady Gaga is definitely a great answer to this, although I don't listen to her enough to really see her as an idol.

For me, i'd say my idols are my dad and Dan Gheesling.

[LukeB]

technically I should call Cheryl Cole my idol, her music and stuff has helped me through bad times! well i was a fan of her for 12 years now

[Crimson Dynamo]

No one

Its not healthy

[Kazanne]

Well apart from my family all being idols to me,I don't really have a celebrity 'idol' but I do like and admire Gerard Butler for several reasons and Angelina Jolie.

[Ithinkiloveyoutoo]

Eric Roberts

[Cal.]

I admire Nikki Grahame and regard her as an idol because of her living through her eating disorder and managing to survive and make a success of herself despite the amount of times she has relapsed over the years. She was in and out of hospitals for most of her childhood and teenage years, meaning her education suffered, so I know many of you may be thinking 'she hasn't worked hard for success, she went on a TV show and had a few tantrums', but she utilized what she had perfectly and that's how she made herself a success. She didn't have the good grades, but what she did have, is a good character, and she utilized that to her full potential and got the success she needed. She's not hungry for fame anymore, she doesn't want it anymore, but she's trying her hand at a lot of things now, like acting and moving to France to further her career. She's also worked at journalism, and I incredibly admire her from being able to pick her life up from where it was at the beginning of 2006...in tatters.

If you want to know why Beyoncé is my idol...just watch this video:

Youtube video

And Marilyn Monroe is my idol because she didn't have the best background. Her mother suffered with mental health issues, her father she never knew. She was passed from pillar to post, each guardian dropping her after a short stay. She survived being smothered at the age of 2, and being nearly raped at 6. She made something of herself, and that something was being the icon of the 50s and (for a short time) the 60s. She managed to do almost everything that was thrown at her, despite suffering from anxiety and actually having terrible stage fright. I have both of those things, and she makes me think...well if she can do it, so can I.

[JoshBB]

Gaga.

[Liam-]

Away from the world of celebrity, I'd have to say Winston Churchill is my biggest idol.

[Daniel.]

It used to be GaGa alol because of how pro gay and being yourself she is but not now

[Daniel.]

Ke$ha

[kirklancaster]

I am a 'fan' of so many ‘celebrities’; from singers like Elvis and Frank Sinatra to Van Morrison, boxers like Muhammed Ali and Roberto Duran to Joe Calzaghe, male film stars like Burt Lancaster and Gary Cooper to Gerard Butler, and female film stars like Audrey Hepburn and Doris Day to Kate Winslett and Angelina Joilie, but as for actual ‘idols’, mine are from the ‘real’ world – and non more so than the beautiful, heroine, Violette Szabo.

Violette – a British citizen – was born on the 26th of June 1921, and was the daughter of an English father and French mother, and widow of a French army officer who was killed in action in North Africa in 1942.

She served during World War II as a ‘Special Operations Executive’ agent on two very dangerous missions in Nazi occupied France. On her second mission she was involved in a shoot-out with Germans but captured when her Bren Gun ammunition ran out. She was interrogated and subjected to the most appalling torture, then deported to Germany where she was eventually executed at Ravensbruck concentration camp on the 5th of February 1945. When she was just 24 years old.

Violette was a slightly built, diminutive ( 5’ 3”) “slip of a girl ” who was truly beautiful – a cross between Audrey Hepburn and Ingrid Bergman – and she had a “wonderful personality” and “infectious laugh”. Everyone who knew her either “loved her” or was even “in love with her”.

In 1958 a movie about Violette - Carve Her Name with Pride starring Virginia Mckenna – was released and a now famous poem; ‘ The Life That I Have‘ was featured. It stands as a very poignant reminder that the heroism and patriotism of this beautiful young mother, and the ultimate sacrifice she made should never be. forgotten.

The Life That I Have

The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours.

The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.

A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.

For the peace of my years
In the long green grass
Will be yours and yours and yours.

[Fetch The Bolt Cutters]

Originally Posted by AnnieK

My mum

this is so cute

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Who Is She?

And Marilyn Monroe is my idol because she didn't have the best background. Her mother suffered with mental health issues, her father she never knew. She was passed from pillar to post, each guardian dropping her after a short stay. She survived being smothered at the age of 2, and being nearly raped at 6. She made something of herself, and that something was being the icon of the 50s and (for a short time) the 60s. She managed to do almost everything that was thrown at her, despite suffering from anxiety and actually having terrible stage fright. I have both of those things, and she makes me think...well if she can do it, so can I.

She was also murdered by her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson at the behest of Robert Kennedy and they all got away with it. Poor Marilyn, I wish somebody could have been there to save her. At least the Kennedy's got theirs.

[Crimson Dynamo]

I am reading Boris's book on Churchill at mo and I guess you could do worse that have Churchill so i am choosing him


(not the fecking dog)

[Cal.]

Originally Posted by kirklancaster

She was also murdered by her psychiatrist Ralph Greenson at the behest of Robert Kennedy and they all got away with it. Poor Marilyn, I wish somebody could have been there to save her. At least the Kennedy's got theirs.

That has never been proved, but all the evidence is very mysterious. I for one believe the Kennedys and Ralph Greenson (whom she'd been having an affair with as well) had something to do with her death. I would definitely warn Marilyn away from the Kennedys if I could go back in time, everything that has come to light is very confusing for me. (The timeline for one, she was apparently pronounced dead by a paramedic at like 12 am but was put back to bed and the paramedics left, then the police were alerted at 4 am, and there was like 10 people in the house when she 'died' yet no one supposedly knew what happened to her).

[Natalie.]

I don't have any idols

[kirklancaster]

Originally Posted by Who Is She?

That has never been proved, but all the evidence is very mysterious. I for one believe the Kennedys and Ralph Greenson (whom she'd been having an affair with as well) had something to do with her death. I would definitely warn Marilyn away from the Kennedys if I could go back in time, everything that has come to light is very confusing for me. (The timeline for one, she was apparently pronounced dead by a paramedic at like 12 am but was put back to bed and the paramedics left, then the police were alerted at 4 am, and there was like 10 people in the house when she 'died' yet no one supposedly knew what happened to her).

The evidence is overwhelming and - Lawford apart - comes from unimpeachable witnesses, in addition the medical and forensic evidence totally corroborates the witnesses. If it were ever to be presented in a criminal trial (which we know is impossible) the evil little Greenson and the abhorrent Robert Kennedy would be indicted.

Poor, poor Marilyn; even Frank Sinatra was sickened by what Sam Giancana did to her at the Cal Neva lodge, but he was powerless to stop such a powerful gangster - just as most of the witnesses to Marilyn's murder were too intimidated by the power of the President and Attorney General of the United States to step up at the time.

Oh she was murdered by Greenson and Kennedy make no mistake.

[rubymoo]

I don't have any idols.