Do celebrities get the same treatment? - [Closes 13/08/07]

[Mr.Sam]

You must be blind if you can not see that they receive special treatment - do they deserve it? No.

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[dannyisnotamazing]

Yeah it's quite obvious they do.. lol.

Take "This Morning" programme on ITV. It was Fern's birthday and they had about 10-15 minutes about it, got her family in got people to stand outside the studio with signs up etc.. why couldn't they have just said "Happy Birthday Fern " or something little.. lol. ]:

Meh I don't really care, it doesn't affect meeeeeeee.

[Shawnstra]

Have you watched the Travel Spies on Discovery Travel and living? Let's say if you get a celebrity visiting your hotel, most of the people will give them special treatment, so if they tell their other celebrity friends, or to the paparazzi, the hotel will get a good name. This is inevitable though, even I would give special treatment to them. In a nutshell, yes However, I think that celebs should not recieve special treatment, its wrong. A little special treatment is ok, but not too much imo.

[lAdmire]

Not at all. Paris Hilton for instance. She got 23 days after she broke the law... twice.

If it was an everday man, I think he would've gotten 2 years.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_7145.aspx

In this case, a man was sent to jail for three years for drunk driving. But yet, he killed a woman. Paris didn't, but could've. She should've been sentenced for a year or two from the start. But she was only put on probation. This just shows the justice system is better for celebrities. Their just like us, so why is it changed?

[jrh2002]

you get reports of celebs being caught driving at stupid speeds where we would get a year ban they get 2 or 4 weeks etc :s should be the other way around i cant afford to pay for a driver like they could.

i crnge at mentioning the wonderful pete docherty the druggie who gets caught with all sorts of drugs what seems like every week and even when on bail etc they let him walk away with a slap on the wrist time after time.

a normal member of public should be treated just the same as a celeb when its for any sort of crime/driving offence.

[:Hazel]

they get let off things and get special treatment just because they are david eckham or w.e and its wrong. at the end of the day they are only normal people and everyone should be treated equally.

[Pitch]

but how popular would the man that locked up your favourite celebrity be? There are always obsessive fans out there, and they will do terrible things, people were on hunger strikes when p/h was in jail.. And if people do that for HER, imagine what would happen should someone ACTUALLY FAMOUS be punished like that.

[Ostinato]

Not at all. Paris Hilton for instance. She got 23 days after she broke the law... twice.

If it was an everday man, I think he would've gotten 2 years.

http://www.citynews.ca/news/news_7145.aspx

In this case, a man was sent to jail for three years for drunk driving. But yet, he killed a woman. Paris didn't, but could've. She should've been sentenced for a year or two from the start. But she was only put on probation. This just shows the justice system is better for celebrities. Their just like us, so why is it changed?

Don't be so naive. There is a big difference between could've doing something and actually doing it. That's like saying "Oh if I was rich enough I could have got enough weapons to kill 1000 people, but so and so actually did it so I should get the same punishment".

In my opinion the stars are actually receiving worse treatment - in Paris' case anyway. I do agree that there is obviously a degree in which they do receive a bit of a better time, for instance being segregated etc.

However, in America most people - who commit crimes such as drink driving - in fact only serve around 10% on average of their sentence. Paris was released when she did so, but because they wanted to make an example of her due to her celebrity status she was thrown back in. Sorry, but no-one should undergo being thrown in and out of jail in the way that she was. If that happened here in the UK it would be in all the tabloid's discussing how much of a shambles it was.

[FAQz]

I think that celebrities think that they deserve better treatment than eveyone else. for example i read an article in the newspaper the other day and linsey lohan said that she was a celeb and she could do what ever the **** she wanted after being stopped by police after driving 100mph with three drunken passengers in the car. also i cant remeber who it was but another celeb took drugs and then dorve the wrong way down a motorway and thats just CRAZY!
And then we come to the story that we all know about. Pairs Hilton. She thinks that she deserves special treatment after being stopped by the police after exceeding the speed limit and then she got a jail sentence and then when she went in to jail less than two days later she claimed she was "ill" and she was immeadiatley let out and the judge was furious. and i think he has every right to be because if it was a normal inmate and they said they were sick do you think they would have been released by the drop of a hat? i think not. This is unbeleivable. Celebrities that make their money by selling their own clothes designs to us their own perfume music records whatever. They are a public icon and we have trust in them and then they go and abuse this trust by thinking that they deserve special treatment (and most of the time they get it) and in this case they believe that they can avoid the law and that the laws dont apply to them
~FAQz~

[Loqo]

Yes they do get treated diffrent. Just watch 'The Fabulous Life Of: Young Celebritys' on Mtv. They went to an 'Xbox 360 Launching Party' and just for going they got a free Xbox 360. And another party were they got Mobile Phones for free before they were even released. And Angelina Jolie got a free diamond encrusted pacifier worth 18,000 dollars because she was having a baby. Yes some do deserve to be celebritys because they do have talent but the majority just got lucky!