| Thursday 18 December 2008 |
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Being famous isn't as lucrative as it looks
In the days of countrywide recession, even red carpet celebritantes are struggling to find new ways to afford their billion-dollar mansions and cocaine binges. The old way of making money in Hollywood - by, y'know, actually being good at one's craft - has been cast to the wayside in favor of quick and easy side projects, celebreality television shows (hey, you get paid for being on Celebrity Rehab) and special appearances for $50k a pop.
Want in? If you're a Kim Kardashian or a Brody Jenner in the making, here's how to parlay your minimal amount of faux-success into cold hard dollars (which you will waste). The fake marriage
Heidi and Spencer did it for however much The Hills is paying them. Mariah Carey and Nick Cannon did it for $2 million. Vanessa Hudgens and Zac Efron? You bet your tween ass that they're finding a way to get it done, too. What is it? Why, the convenient celebrity marriage, of course, which comes with a cottage industry's worth of free schwag, free publicity and elevated levels of stardom. And all for the price of going to court and having some guy dressed as a judge say a couple words that they always say in the movies. Then a blood test and presto, chango! You've just landed yourself on the cover of Us Weekly while you spend the next week and a half hiding out with your wife on a tropical beach, clinking glasses, checking out the cabana boys' asses and laughing all the way to the money bank. (Jossip)
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