Suffering for their talent?

I am already hooked on Britain's Got Talent.  I hate myself for it.  I used to proudly hate BGT as opposed to myself, but then I missed the Subo moment and despite youtube, I would have liked to have seen it live.  So now I'm signed up fulltime - God Bless Sky+.  I'm not sure whether the Gorgeous Granny will win (Subo didn't).  I have a feeling it will go to Spelbound who are extraordinary.  If that's the case, it will be the healthier outcome because apparently Gorgeous Granny just wants to carry on singing in pubs and clubs.  We should let her - she's no Susan Boyle.  It will be some years before that happens again because Subo took us by surprise and now we're waiting for that surprise. A watch pot never boils.  If Spelbound win, then like last year's winners Diversity they will be allowed to enjoy talent over column inches because not everyone captures the media's imagination in order to warrant a hounding.  Ben MacIntyre in today's Times believes 'today it's hard to stop paying the price of fame'.  That's a myth.  Those who are forever in the media are really few and far between and they court it.  They know that the more coverage, the bigger the offers, the higher the fees and they just can't help themselves.  They get hooked on the fame, the money, the adulation, even the vilification because anything is better than being ignored.  The classic example of this is Katie Price, a woman who doesn't exist without the media.  She may moan, but she won't know what to do once they and we get tired of her (please!),  She doesn't know what to do now, choosing to marry in a rushed, desperate way just to keep her car crash going.  Kerry Katona follows in her wake.  According to MacIntyre, Susan Boyle is suffering for the lack of privacy and for a while that will be true.  But that while will be her choice.  If she really hates it, she can stop recording albums.  She's enough money now for several lifetimes.  She's the one who could go back to the pubs, given some time out of course.  But she won't because she too is hooked.  Don't feel sorry for her.  Don't pity the fact that she has to have guards outside her two up two down.  She's choosing every bit of it.  She dreamed the dream and even though it may throw up the occasional nightmare, my hunch is she has no intention of waking up.