Celebrity Blood Voyeurism

The term Celebrity Blood Voyeurism was coined several years as a means of addressing what I perceived as an ongoing curiosity that begets interest, fascination and, at times, violence.

We watch them, stalk them, and envy them. We read about them and view their reality shows. We send the paparazzi after them, intruding upon their most intimate moments. We want to own them, like little Matryoshka dolls. 

 As depicted by the onslaught of TV, Internet and media programming, there is rampant interest in celebrity culture and lifestyle. 

 Today’s celebrities and superstars are the incarnate of yesterday’s Bedlam. The names scrawled upon the scroll are disturbing examples of pre-ordained self-destruction, witnessed through ongoing media saturation.  Elvis. Janis Joplin. Jimi Hendrix. Jim Morrison. Michael Jackson, Anna Nicole Smith, Heath Ledger, Kurt Cobain, Amy Winehouse and Whitney Houston are unfortunately among that number. 

Celebrity Blood Voyeurism explores societies’ pathological fascination, or possible addiction, to celebrity meltdown and self-destruction. Addictions specialist Maxim Furek is featured in Recovery Today magazine.