Bad Habits !

Now a days I am under a very bad addiction. You can say it as a very bad influence Or a very nasty habit to keep my mind off! And I blame Ireland for thrusting me with this bad habit (along with wine , red bull and KFC!). I never used to read any kind of glossy film magazines, while I was in India. No ‘Stardust‘, no ‘Filmfare’, nothing. According to me, those were all for those rich women who didn’t have anything better to do. I strongly believed that.

But to my utter disbelief, I am hooked onto British tabloids now. I started it as fun by reading Sun and Daily Mirror newspapers on weekends. They were cheap with almost 30 pages, had free glossy magazine inside and even a free DVD. Those were my reasons. It had everything to read about… all those gossips about celebs… about who dumped who, who is seeing who, who is in rehab now, who gave birth on her honeymoon, who got divorced and who is cheating on whom. It was harmless fun, it served the basic human inquisitiveness of peeking into others lives. To get relieved at the thought that they too have miseries like us. Yes I was just being human!

I first read Sun, when Saddam Hussein got hanged. It was different because it gave all those bits and pieces that were missing in ordinary ‘respectable’ news papers! Then came the CBB (celebrity big brother) hype. I think it was the golden time for British tabloids with all those controversies hanging around all the time. It was when Shilpa Shetty became the ‘ultimate’ lady and Jade,Jo and Danielle became ‘ultimate’ bullies. Ok, that phase too went. Then they ran a special on Princess Diana, with all those rare photos from her life.

Then came Britney shaving her head off!!! I still remember the day when I stared at ‘Sun’ for more than 5 minutes to make my brain believe what I was seeing. A half-shaved Britney with hair clippers!!! I read Sun‘s editorial, predicting Britney becoming next Anna Nicole, and was shocked at the state of the once squeaky clean celeb, like every other reader.

And now I started buying other celeb magazines too. And that too, 2 each week. I just don’t know what I gain by reading who lost how many pounds and who put a new tattoo, where. I don’t gain anything by reading that Jade and Britney are in rehab, or Danielle has been dumped or Jo tried to kill herself or Shilpa Shetty may become next The Xfactor judge!!! (All CBB participants). I know Victoria Beckham moving to US or Johny Depp moving to UK doesn’t change my life, a bit. I know Liz Hurley’s wedding to Indian business tycoon, Arun Nayar or Hugh Grant’s break-up with Jemima doesn’t makes me feel different.

Yes….I have developed this very bad habit. And honestly what I feel now is that, instead of probing into Hollywood , I should have tried Bollywood first, while in India.