What Celebrities & Managers SHOULD Realize...

Ok, enough of what I realize about celebrities...
Here's what celebrities and their managers SHOULD realize - but NEVER do.

Of course, we all have a job to do.
I get it.
Managers and celebrity publicists are supposed to protect their clients.
For us regular PR folks, our main job is to get media for our clients.
When we have celebrity events, our job is to get media for those events.
Our job IS our media contacts and relationships.

And it's been happening frequently lately that we will bust our butts to get media, just to get an email saying, "Bad news -- he/she will not do any interviews."

Then I think (and unfortunately can not say), "Ok, thanks for letting us know and thanks especially for all of your 'help.' Now we're going to go piss off a bunch of great media contacts and try for the next few months to either find new ones or try to prove to our existing contacts that we are not incompetent."

Recently, there was an event "fire drill" on my team. "MUST GET MEDIA NOW -- THE EVENT IS 4 DAYS AWAY!!!!! All hands on deck. Bring out your best contacts!"

So now, we are 12 hours away from the event and get that good ole email, "Uhhh, bad news -- the event has been cancelled. There's a certain someone who isn't happy about something."

Again, I would love to say, "Ok, thanks for letting us know and thanks especially for all of your 'help.' Now we're going to go piss off a bunch of great media contacts and try for the next few months to either find new ones or try to prove to our existing contacts that we are not incompetent."

After going through these situations many times, I came up with what I would say, if I could say one thing to all celebrity publicists/managers.

So here it is:

"Pretty please realize that, not only, are you disappointing us and our media contacts, but you are technically prohibiting us from doing our jobs. Media is at the very core of what we do. If we do not have any more media contacts, we can not do our job. Keeping this in mind, for next time, please REALIZE how badly you are hurting our current great media relationships and in turn, hurting our careers..... Oh Ya and one more thing -- you should try to remove that overgrown head from your aRRss. Seriously, you should have that looked at."

What I Realized About Celebrities

As a public relations professional, I have had the opportunity to work with hundreds of celebrities over the years.

I realized....
The celebrities that seem the nicest on camera, are the nastiest off camera.
Rock stars are the coolest people.
Rock stars are all shorter than me, for some reason.
"B" & "C" list celebrities are so much better to work with than "A" listers.
When the manager says that the celebrity won't do a media interview that you've secured, the celebrity didn't say no - the manager said no.
The way that a manager acts toward you can make you love or hate the celebrity he/she represents.
After a while, you are not star-struck anymore.
Celebrities are just people.... with a lot more money.