People are now tired of the mania surrounding the actress. They consider the whole media circus surrounding her every step an overkill.
LONDON: While members of the British Parliament fawned all over her, nudging each other out of the way to get photographed by her side and even a trip to Leicester created pandemonium with fans fighting to catch a glimpse of her, there are many in the UK who are now tired of the Shilpa-mania and consider the whole media circus surrounding her every step an overkill.
“This is a place for Parliament. It’s not to be used for publicity,” said one of the guards to the media scrum outside Portcullis House where the Bollywood beauty gave an alfresco press conference on Wednesday, quite disgusted by what the august house had been reduced to. He was not alone in the criticism.
“Bombs are going off across the country, bird flu is causing panic and police are at Downing Street’s door. But who cares when a Bollywood star is in the House?” said Bendict Brogen and Kristy Walker in The Daily Mail, one of the UK’s more conservative tabloids.
Many readers wrote in horrified at the way the Prime Minister and MPs had wasted time on being star-struck by the ‘Big Brother Bird,’ rather than dealing with the affairs of the state. “Glad to see that politicians have no problems in getting their priorities right,” said Dr Kevin Law in Dundee.
“Why was Shilpa Shetty invited to the House of Commons in the first place? I don’t see the thousands of other people, of all races, who have been subject to racial abuse and bullying being afforded such invitations,” asked Elaine Grant of Garden City outside London.
Even The Sun tabloid which had staunchly supported Shilpa during her bullying ordeal in the CBB house called MPs and officials “love-sick teenagers,” while some of the paper’s readers called her a “nobody.”
“If she had been somebody who had actually achieved something it would have been half way understandable,” said a man who signed himself as Peacetoff from central London. While Eric of Preston said, “I am sick and tired of hearing about this second-rate reality TV star. This woman was not a victim of racism, just of ignorance. She will now make an absolute fortune off the back of the ‘scandal.’” Bill Blanko who writes a column on Parliament in The Guardian said he had not seen “so much drooling over a celebrity visitor to the Houses of Parliament since topless model Jo Guest had been brought in for a Press Gallery lunch.”
Most papers and columnists have written sarcastic pieces about the Shilpa-mania, and particularly attacked MP Keith Vaz, who set off the media circus and basking in the reflected glory.
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