Trinny and Susannah

In todays Sunday UK newspapers, as usual trying to get readers interest and sales that after all is their brief, the The Mail On Sunday has an article about those self promoted fashion gurus, Trinny and Susannah. How this attracts sales is only understandable if readers want to see people made to look stupid and are impressed by the least of minor celebrities ‘here today gone tomorrow’ comes to mind!

These two very ordinary women have somehow taken to the TV screen in an attempt that is designed to take the average women off the street and superimpose a supermodel image on to them.

However, although I believe the intention can just about be justified for commercial reasons to sell newspapers in a declining market, the poor victims are totally at the mercy of these two fashionistas.

Yet, there seems to be an acceptance that we can make ourselves look inadequate, even foolish or ingenious, if we can have momentary fame on our TV screens or other media. Is it just for the sake of the money or is it that fifteen minutes of fame that is the objective?

I believe that it is yet another example of declining standards of personal behavior. A lack of self respect and the ongoing desire to profit at whatever cost to personal pride.

In fact, my own daughter was recently asked to appear in a similar program, as a ’so called expert’, run by two of her very good friends. However, due to her incredibly good taste, she declined on the grounds that it was seedy and was not something she wished to be involved in.