Celebrities we love to ‘hate’

SHOW BIZ fans and viewers have always had a “love-hate” relationship with the stars they’re supposed to admire. They do love many of them to bits most of the time, but there are instances when they subconsciously resent the fact that stars are more privileged, beautiful and otherwise “blessed” than they are.

Many stars manage to keep such sour and rancid feelings down to a tolerable and manageable minimum by being really nice to their fans. But, from time to time, celebrities emerge whose irresponsible and downright rude and crass conduct turns fans off—bigtime.

Currently, those “hateful and hurtful” stars are represented by those bipolar luminaries, aged and even has-been, who bark and snarl at each other just to make the tabloid headlines.

Impulses

In the real world, they would be advised to take medication to manage their surly impulses—but, as volatile celebrities, they’re allowed (and in some instances even encouraged) to do their worst!

Little real news is reported on in the tabloids, because it’s deemed to be boring, so there’s a lot of space just waiting to be filled with the latest “breaking news” reports from the “star wars” battlefield.

It takes one to know one, so each hateful celebrity needs another vile and vicious luminary to really heat things up to their mutual benefit and satisfaction.

That’s why, when they find each other, they may swear that they are filled with disgust for one another, but the truth is, they need and love each other, because their mutually beneficial feud and fight to the finish will go the distance only if they do it together.

This season, however, the most contentious and controversial display of stellar froth and friction is being staged, not by the usual has-beens in need of  publicity, but by a pair of young siblings who used to love each other to bits, but now despise one another with even greater unction.

Their version of “star wars” is turning out to be the celebrity brawl of the already singularly contentious season, because its “sibling strife” factor gives it a deeply seminal and elemental quality (think Abel and Cain!) that other brawls don’t have.

Right off the bat, especially for Filipino uzis, the “sympathy factor” is heavily canted in favor of the ate, who took care of her sister for years, but is the one who is now being bad-mouthed, for one real or imagined fault or other.

Even if the ate may be guilty, it’s the younger sibling who ends up in the doghouse of public opinion, because the “gratitude factor” automatically kicks in. So, it behooves her to quickly resolve their sibling strife, to keep her career viable.

Implausible comebacks

Other celebrities we love to hate include many other has-beens who make pests of themselves by trying to make implausible or even impossible comebacks, or do drugs, or get pregnant with seeming impunity.

Aside from gratitude, the repentance factor is deemed important and even essential by local fans, so erring stars should behave not misbehave, accordingly!