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BEST IELTS Writing Task 2, 5th July
IELTS WRITING TASK 2
IELTS WRITING TASK 2
These days many TV reality stars are becoming famous. What are the advantages and disadvantages of fame for these people?
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Reality TV has dominated our screens for more than twenty years now. Thousands of people have become subject to the fame that follows the brief periods spent on cooking programmes, talent shows, being locked in houses, and being left on desert islands. For very few of them it has changed their lives for the better in the long term, providing them with new career opportunities and good income. What about the rest? Well, the fame does eventually fade away, but while it lasts it has its benefits as well as problems.
Without doubt, for the minority who benefit from reality TV fame in terms of career and finances, the advantages probably outweigh the disadvantages. People who step up to be on programmes like these generally tend to be aware that they will be recognized in public, so when they are, they probably do not see it as a disadvantage. Recognition may well have been one of their original motives for going on a reality show. However, many may have insecurities about the position they now hold, about whether they truly deserve it and whether other people think the same way of them.
It is the other ninety-nine percent who end up with the shorter end of the stick though. At first people might stop and ask them for selfies, which can be fun, and perhaps they will be asked to a lot of parties for a while. However, in the following months, people who recognize them might also start criticizing them in public or troll them online. All of this could be without the benefit of money or a new career. Going back to normal life can be difficult when the selfies stop.
Being a reality star is a strange kind of fame. People recognize you, but they also see you as an ‘ordinary’ person. You occupy the middle ground between being famous and not being famous. People who have been on reality shows may have done or said embarrassing things that are now forever recorded on the Internet for the world to see and poke fun at; or they may have been cast as a villain by the production staff, causing negative reactions from strangers.
All in all, fame from a reality show probably has more disadvantages than advantages. People should think twice before they decide to take the plunge. It might change their life, but it is all the more likely to lead to nowhere.
IELTS Writing Task 2
IELTS Writing Task 2