It is a future pub quiz question in the making – what do Big Brother ‘star’ Imogen Thomas, TV presenter Andrew Marr and Fred the Shred have in common? Superinjunctions! And the mind boggles at how many other celebs, from A list to Z list, are also in this club.
If a company gets caught out by the press, it seems only fair that this story is reported, it’s in the interest of their customers, shareholders, suppliers etc. Should the same rules stand for an individual?
I don’t feel that it is my right to know who has been caught with their pants down, or with who, and in most cases I’m not that interested either. Fluffy as it sounds I find it depressing to hear that a celeb I had thought was a ‘good guy’ is in fact a dirty rat, and that there seem to be so many of them to choose from. Perhaps more cover ups would help the world to seem like a nicer place.
But I just can’t help thinking that if you don’t want to get caught you shouldn’t do it in the first place. Not forgetting that these people have chosen to be in the public eye, and to accept the baggage that comes with the fat pay packets and adulation this brings. And Mr Marr’s point that he sought a superinjunction because he had his family to think about doesn’t really stand up as justification, there is one very obvious question – shouldn’t he have thought about that sooner?
I am not saying I am all for inflicting public embarrassment and upset on family members, it just seems far too convenient that if you have £20,000 to spend on obtaining a superinjunction, you can do something you know is wrong, and then instigate a perfectly above board cover up to avoid the consequences.
And are superinjunctions really effective? In this day and age it is pretty hard to keep a secret, a quick search for ‘#superinjunction’ on Twitter produces a whole host of celebrity names, a few of which have had plenty of nasty stories about them do the rounds before. Maybe they thought superinjunctions would save their bacon, but word spreads fast and once things are on the net, they are hard to hide. Perhaps these superinjunctions aren’t so handy after all, if I was a celebrity with a secret to hide, I wouldn’t bank on a superinjunction being the fix-all.
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