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The Nation's Fixation with Celebrity In today's society the word celebrity is everywhere. Whether you are reading a magazine, listening to the radio or watching the television you can find out all you want to know and more about your favourite celebrity. The word celebrity used to define people such as Frank Sinatra, Marilyn Monroe and Grace Kelly - people with talent, whose lives were far removed from the general public. Nowadays people such as Jade Goody, a runner up in a reality television programme, are splashed across the front pages of magazines and newspapers daily for their lives to be dissected by a 'celebrity' obsessed nation. However I believe we have to ask ourselves, how did our country become so fixated with celebrities. Yet it is not just the famous that fascinates us but the thought of fame itself this is partly due to reality television programmes such as...

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