Sometimes you have to wonder about the lives of celebrities. Truly wonder. As in, they truly don’t live normal lives. Yeah, we already knew that, but don’t their lives end up resembling a caged animal in a zoo more than a liberated citizen in this country? Look, the monkey is actually… wait for it… peeling a banana! Wow, major accomplishment!

Enter Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt. Granted, they’re at the upper echelon when it comes to A-listers of the A-list but apparently they went to get ice cream in Jordan. They took their twins to get ice cream. This, my friend, has become news. For real? They also visited refugees in Syria related to Angelina’s work with the U.N. Now that, to me, is headline news!

I think we put celebrities on too much of a pedestal. Way too high of a pedestal, that is. Do you take your children to get ice cream? Isn’t that a normal thing to do? Maybe that’s why it made headlines. After all, here are two wealthy, successful actors doing something that regular folks do on a daily basis. Why make news of it? It’s probably because their children are rarely seen in public. Again, could you imagine raising kids to have photographers following their every move? To have sleazy people scrounging through your garbage? To truly live under a microscope? I commend Jolie for doing goodwill work but just wish some of the minutiae wasn’t magnified as some of the truly substantial things like her work get downplayed.

I won’t start my soapbox rant of how professors doing research on cancer or volunteers across the country are making a difference for various causes and how they get overlooked. Rather, we’ll just focus on the high pedestal we put celebs on for “newsworthy” things that aren’t so significant when you truly think about it. Although some people enjoy celeb stuff as an escape and hey, we all know entertainment is an escape anyway, can we just keep our feet on the ground here for a sec, please?

They went to get ice cream. Big deal. Get over it. Let’s focus on some more important things and give them their privacy, ‘k?

Do you think magazines and websites publish trivial headlines because they think there’s a demand for it? Or is the demand being fed by the publications which choose to publish such “breaking news?”

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