Celebrity = Insanity!

Just recently there seems to be a huge media focus on mental health...Charlie Sheen, Kate Middleton? I'm not a great TV watcher and dislike the whole celebrity media circus culture, for while I can understand anyone enjoying a film, series, book whatever, I just can't really understand the obsession with the people involved in the production. To me it seems a bit like enjoying a cake so needing to know what size shoes the baker who made it has.
Don't get me wrong, I can become enthralled by biographical and autobiographical writing and enjoy nothing better than listening to people's life stories, I just think I prefer the stories to be interesting - and few 'celebrities' are! Here I feel I must distinguish between actors, musicians, writers and celebrities, with many actors, writers and musicians being talented and interesting 'real' people. Whereas, unfortunately, most celebrities simply seem to be shallow, ego-driven puppets - people so lacking in personalities of their own, they have to assimilate themselves, like the Boggarts mirroring the viewers desires. (When I say Boggarts I mean Harry Potter style, not the little cat-like creatures who stole milk-maids' stools of Manchester folk-law)
Once mutated and sculpted into these strange contorted shapes, they begin to become unrecognisable as people and the viewing public are shocked and surprised when they exhibit signs of wear and tear, whether it's physically, emotionally or mentally?! I'm rather shocked when they don't.
In hundreds of years time people will debate the word origin of 'celebrity' and few will know that this archaic dead metaphor was once a word used to describe a group of people who craved attention, glory and financial-gain rather than the common usage of the word which by then will describe mental illness. Who knows with 'gene' therapy, lucky parents could ensure their perfect and modified children were born without the blighted 'celebrity' gene. Wasn't it Diogenes who was quoted as stating that fame is the noise of madmen? Think the old cynic may have been onto something there.