I'm just really wondering why Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are compared to Princess Diana?

Question

I was still 10 years old when Princess Diana died so I'd never been into watching showbiz news and stuff...All I'd heard was that Princess Diana was a decent, smart and beautiful philantrophist so why is she compared to Britney Spears and Paris Hilton who did nothing but get attention from the media by their indecent ways?!

Answer 1

i avoid showbiz news & stuff so much that I didn't even know they had been making that comparison. The real similarity, as  Tessa says, is the action of the media itself in obsessing about a public persona and not leaving them alone. But Britney and Paris haven't done anything worthwhile that i can see, whereas Diana, though I didn't like the way she added to the negative attention by purposely making her private life public, was at least involved in things that helped people.

and even if she was a  spoiled rich girl, at least she had a job before she married Charles. I don't think Paris has ever had to hold a job, and Britney has worked. but in the position of pop star, where people were fawning over her

plus Diana seemed to be a lot better mum than Britney.

so if the media are comparing it should be only their own obnoxious behaviour

Answer 2

i think  the comparison has to do with the media and how much of it they get people always want to know what they are doing just the way they wanted to no what princess Diana was doing but i really dint think they should compare princess Diana with either 2 besides the media i don't believe there is any other comparison

Answer 3

It's just the media interest in these two hopelessly gauche girls draw that invite the comparison.Otherwise,Britney and Paris are nothing like the well-born,philanthropic Diana,Princess of Wales,who wanted to use media attention to spotlight her charities and causes.

Answer 4

Cause the media is nuts!

Answer 5

Because we Americans are like white trash, so our "royalty" is white trash, too....Movie stars and debutantes are the closest we have...of course, why we can't spend more of our time and energy following the lives of decent movie stars, people like Natalie Portman, who is intelligent and caring and does great charity work, I don't know.

Answer 6

Are they now ? well that's outrageous.

Princess Diana came from an aristocratic family and she'd got class. She did numerous charity works in her lifetime. Although she had lots of love affairs in or after her marriages she was a good mother. Britney Spears and Paris Hilton are not even fit to clean her shoes.

Answer 7

While there are many, many good reasons not to include Princess Di with them, such as all the humanitarian efforts she led and how she was light years ahead of them as a human being, they all were rich and spoiled.  They also gave the media plenty of fodder, as Princess Di never bothered to do anything in private.

Answer 8

Only in America dahling!

Answer 9

I didn't realize there was a comparison.  The only explanation is that the people doing the comparing is trying to put a negative light on the late Princess Di.