cult of celebrity

noun phrase

: the tendency of people to care too much about famous people

He criticizes the way journalists promote the cult of celebrity in modern America.

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Growing up in the Shadow of Hollywood which detailed how kids at that time were affected by the cult of celebrity, the importance of image, the proximity to Hollywood. —

Anne Easton, Forbes, 25 Sep. 2024 Timothée Chalamet and Havana Liu Rose starred in the short film that centered on the actor’s conflict with the cult of celebrity. —

Samantha Bergeson, IndieWire, 4 Sep. 2024 Popular on Variety These additions — and moments in which ordinary working stiffs are given opportunities to take stage — deepen the critique of the hedonism and cult of celebrity that followed World War I and, it’s suggested, continue to plague us today. —

Bob Verini, Variety, 14 June 2024 But Edna soon became a case study in exorbitant amour propre, lampooning suburban pretensions, political correctness and the cult of celebrity, and acquiring a damehood along the way. —

Margalit Fox, New York Times, 22 Apr. 2023

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