Careers Paths Associated With A Celebrity Status

By Bob Allen


Celebrities command a degree of influence and public fascination and have a prominent profile in media and public life. Celebs are known as persons with fame and fortune, and the term celebrity is synonymous with wealth, implying prominence and popular appeal.

Different careers within the entertainment and sports fields are associated with having celebrity status. Professional athletes such as Muhammad Ali, who is a former box player, and Tom Brady (football player) rose to fame. Other prominent figures within the sports industry are hockey player Wayne Gretzky, golfer Tiger Woods, and basketball player Michael Jordan. Entertainment figures such as Sofia Vergana and Adriana Lima, who are both models, have become celebrities. Prominent pop singers, authors, radio personalities, and infotainers and political pundits are also persons with fame and fortune Careers paths that allow people to reach celebrity status include talk show hosts (Larry King, Oprah Winfrey), television correspondents (Anderson Cooper, Meredith Viera), and comedians such as Ellen Degeneres and George Lopez.

Many actors, pop singers, athletes, and other professionals attain celebrity status because of their talent and a successful career in entertainment or sports. Others enjoy celeb status because of their misdeeds, extravagant lifestyle, wealth, or connection with wealthy and famous people. Celebrities are known within a country, region, or internationally.

Certain cultural communities (ethnic, religious, and linguistic), cultures, regions within a country, and regions have their own celebrity systems. Quebec and Wales and two examples of linguistically and culturally distinct and homogenous regions. Regional community leaders, newscasters, radio personalities, and politicians may rise to fame at the local or regional level.

People choose different career paths - in their country, region, or internationally, but many athletes, entertainers, and actors have to take a second job and abandon their aspirations. Only a small number of them succeed and become celebrities. The majority of athletes and entertainers spend their lives toiling from rejection, determination, hard work, and frequent unemployment. Many producers, writers, models, talk show hosts, and musicians work on-and-off and are forced to freelance. Some entertainers alternate between television, film, and theatre and become singers, producers, television hosts, and comedians to earn a living.

Some celebrities turned entrepreneurs such as Oprah Winfrey, Martha Stewart, Arnold Schwarzenegger, and others. Oprah Winfrey, for example, has business holdings in the Oprah Winfrey Network and Harpo Productions. Other celebrities such as Tom Selleck have a second job or hobby. The movie star plants and harvests an avocado ranch found in California. Selleck is not the only celebrity with an unexpected hobby or job. Nikki Blonsky earned a cosmetology license and works at a beauty salon while Nick Offerman's hobby is carving handmade canoes. Other celebrities get involved in investment and business ventures such as fashion retailing, model management, sports team ownership, etc. Most professional entertainers and athletes are not successful entrepreneurs, however. Finally, celebs participate in a variety of endorsement opportunities such as fragrances, cosmetics, footwear designing, animation, publishing, and others.




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