Comments on: Bad PR Recovery: Tips from the Celebrity Set

By: joshchandler

joshchandler — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 20:02:04 +0000

@jelenawoehr That is true.

By: jelenawoehr

jelenawoehr — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 19:04:07 +0000

@joshchandler With others, probably, but someone not mentally competent to be called to testify in court can probably not be considered to be making a “decision” to stay in the public eye.

By: joshchandler

joshchandler — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 18:26:18 +0000

@jelenawoehr I wonder if there are commercial decisions which influence a celebrities decision to stay in the public eye?

By: barrettrossie

barrettrossie — Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:25:10 +0000

Luis, it sure would be an interesting from a PR perspective to look at lists of (1) celebrities who have hit rock bottom and (2) celebrities who have come back. For PR purposes only. For real life purposes, I wish they’d all just stay in their rooms more often.

By: kafesguatemala

kafesguatemala — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:23:43 +0000

@MelissaOnline Melissa at what time is the #CMchat ?

By: MelissaOnline

MelissaOnline — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 21:18:43 +0000

@JessicaNorthey Going to try my best-est to make #CMchat tonight! Packing for Chicago. Oy vey!

By: ExtremelyAvg

ExtremelyAvg — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 19:47:04 +0000

Who doesn’t love to see redemption? I think your post is a good one and points to the fact that now matter how terrible the act was, some measure of redemption is possible.

I wonder, though, how many people don’t forgive. I, for one, will always consider Alec Baldwin to be a scumbag. I can’t get his phone call to his daughter out of my head. Tiger Woods, who broke my heart by cheating on his lovely wife, won’t get my cheers again. Go Zach Johnson!

Others, though, I’m quite fine with their comebacks. I applaud Robert Downey Jr. and Bill Clinton for making amends, and the same could be said for Alex Rodriguez. I can’t say I cared one way or another about Britney Spears.

I guess the point is, if at all possible, use some common sense and avoid the bad PR in the first place, but if you are a narcissist, who must cheat and be a douche, then a good PR firm might help you make amends…or at the very least…fake it (Alec Baldwin).

By: jelenawoehr

jelenawoehr — Mon, 15 Oct 2012 18:02:18 +0000

This post touches on one of my personal peeves that makes me sound like I spend way too much time reading celebrity gossip: Britney Spears as a “success story.” I mean, I don’t know her, but the poor woman must be severely mentally ill for a judge to grant her father a permanent conservatorship over her affairs. If she’s severely mentally ill, it seems unkind to me to continue her career when she has already earned enough money to maintain a middle-class lifestyle and care adequately for her children for the rest of her life. She isn’t allowed unrestricted phone or internet access and has been described as not mentally competent to testify as a witness in a court case involving her. Why not give the poor thing a break from public life and let her enjoy raising her kids? Of course, there’s no way to know if she wants to remain a celebrity or not, since her conservators also won’t let anyone interview her live or interview her without clearing the questions first.