- The Climb to fame
- Then the Negative Personal Stage
- And then reinvention.
Newspaper that are tabloids like to show the life cycles of celebrities as many hundreds of people like to read about them.
The Daily Express and the Sun are the two tabloid newspapers I will look at to see how they represent celebrities.
The Two celebrities I chose to write about are Kate Winslet and her soon to be ex-husband Jim Threapleton. They appear in both newspapers even getting a front page link on the Daily Express. The story describes how Kate is finding new love with film director Sam Mendes and the break up with Jim. The Daily Express story of Kate Winslet are accusing her of running off and having an affair with Sam Mendes but using the cover-up of saying that the marriage isn’t working. The paper shows Kale as the evil one and Jim as the Victim. The photos show Jim in a circle shaped photo looking depressed, while biggest picture is of Kate holding baby Mia on the right hand side. The look on Kate’s face is one of slight grin and newspaper might be trying to make her look like he happy that she has the baby and Jim doesn’t. In the top left of the page is the picture of Sam Medes and behind him the picture of the £400 a night hotel that they stayed a few nights in. All the photos are in colour. Something that caught my eye was the fact the picture of Kate Winslet, Sam Mendes and the £400 a night hotel are all joined; and the picture of Jim is in it own circle with a white border maybe showing that Jim is odd one out of the photos as the other ones are together now and he is the left out one.
In the Sun doesn’t write about this story on the front page like the Express and doesn’t write about it intill the 11th page unlike 3rd page in the Express. The Sun starts with the heading “Little surprise at Kate finding love with a big showbiz name” this tells me that people at the Sun knew all along that she was having an affair. The title is followed by “So Sam Mendes is supposed to be the new man in Kate Winslet’s life. Well, is anyone truly surprised?” The Story is next to another Kate Winslet story which has been placed next to it as they are on the same subject. The second story isn’t being patronizing like the first but saying Kate “needs a shoulder to cry on”. The story has a sub-title saying the word “Happy” and the paragraph below is saying that as long as Kate is happy that good enough for her family. “The main thing is that she’s happy and that’s all her family want”. The whole layout of both stories and the picture of Kate with Jim and Mia are shaped in the shape of an L, maybe L for love. Like the Daily Express there is a picture in a circle shape and this time it is Sam Mendes. Sam may be in his own circle because he, the outsider, wreaked the Threapleton family. The photos are in black and white this because its page 11 and colour images end at page 7 and start again at 24. Apart from Sam Mendes being put into a circle there is no cropping or photo editing on any of the photos.
From the stories about and using both papers I have come to the conclusion that maybe Kate Winslet is having and affair with Sam Mendes and wanted to end the relationship with Jim before he or the public found out about Sam and her.
The whole story I feel is benefiting the newspapers more than the two celebrities as no-one is winning out of the pair of the celebrities as Jim is losing his family and Kate is been portrayed as a someone who will do any thing to be even more famous even if it means wreak her family. Mean while the Newspapers are havening a field day as they have some much to write about.
This story has been going for some weeks now before saying that she was having an affair with Dougray Scott but this was proved false, but this story is apparently true as a close friend of Mendes said the two have been seeing a lot of each over but at the moment they are apart because of Kate filming in Texas and Mendes directing in LA. This is the sort of story that tabloid newspapers live on as they give them area to make stuff up and be creative, this can also lead to the celebrity getting annoyed and suing which because more news for another tabloid. This is the tight bond between celebrities and tabloids they might not always be positive, but there is always a tight bond between them. Who would I say benefits the most, out of Celebrities and Tabloid newspaper? I say none of them as they both benefit off each other just as much as each other.