Celebrity? A definition...

ce⋅leb⋅ri⋅ty

 
–noun

1.	a famous or well-known person.

2.	fame; renown.

So there you go. The definition of Celebrity as offered by dictionary.com on the old World Wide Web. A celebrity is a famous, or well-known person. Kind of a broad description don't you think? A lot of people know Saddam Hussain...but was he a celebrity? My e-mail address book is bulging, but does that mean I can tread the red carpet at the next "celebrity party"? No of course it doesn't.

What does the word 'celebrity' conjour up to you? Do you think of your favourite footballer, singer, actor...politician? Politicians are well known people and indeed are famous, but would you look at Gordon Brown and point and exclaim "there goes a celeb"? I very much doubt it.

As the latest series of "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here" hits the TV screens I bet most people in the country have sat back and thought "why the hell are they classed as celebrities?"

This year they've chucked in a gay ex-cop, an ex-eastender, a WAG, a glamour model who no-one has heard of, the disgraced chat show host, an actor who hasn't done much of any notability for the last 20 years, an aged tennis player, an ages tv presenter, another tv presenter who ain't done anything in about ten years and the list goes on.

Everyone's definition of "Celebrity" is different. But one thing is for sure, they're actually bloody entertaining this year. George Takei is hilarious, Jo Swash is getting put forward for everything, the cop hates Kilroy and will no doubt end up sparking huge arguments, Carly is pretty cute, and hopefully this year will be as entertaining as ever before.

So Celebrity...anyone well known.

Just call me Celebrity Dave!