Celebrities should be very afraid when reality bites

A Different View with Dave O’Connell

It goes without saying that we shouldn’t mock the afflicted – but when they’ve made millions for effectively doing nothing, it’s okay to make a one-time-only exception.

Which is why you’d have to smile when you hear the theft of millions of dollars’ worth of jewels from pouting clothes horse Kim Kardashian described as a ‘major reality check’.

After all it has been in the murky world of reality television that we first came to know the lovely Kim – but it the robbery was her first brush with reality, what has been going on for the last umpteen years?

Of course Kim’s version of reality differs radically to the rest of us.

For a start Kim’s notion of taking time off after the incident, meant cancelling meetings and work commitments for this week.

For example, she called of a makeup class appearance in Dubai scheduled for this Friday.

She’s also weaning herself off social media for the time being – although one might think it would be more straight-forward to ease herself off oxygen.

And that’s the real impact of this crime against humanity – there will be no selfies of Kim and her big booty for the foreseeable future. More’s the pity.

Those heartless thieves have no idea the damage they have done; the theft of ten million dollars’ worth of diamonds is nothing compared to the damage that will now be done to Instagram.

For those who are not Keeping Up With the Kardashians – and that’s highlighted as the name of the show, so you know – Kim is one of the eponymous family that includes her mother Kris and her sisters Kylie, Khloe and Kendall.

A sort of multi-million dollar version of Special K.

And they are famous simply for being famous; the stars of their own reality television show, so global that it no longer matters you never saw it in the first place.

You cannot open a store of significance or stage a fashion show worth its salt without a couple of Kardashians – as well as a rapper boyfriend/husband or two and a couple of weirdly named kids like Saint and North West.

They live in splendour and they want to show it; they are the nouveau riche who have a few quid which wouldn’t mean a thing to them if they couldn’t flaunt it.

So they wear really expensive clothes that in reality are missing more material than they have.

This way, most parts of your body can be out for the world to ogle – only you won’t be arrested for indecent exposure.

The lesson to be learned here is that, if you insist on parading around dripping in jewels, some opportunity thief is going to have his eye on you.

For more, read this week’s Connacht Tribune.