FAMOUS PEOPLE USEFUL VOCABULARY Celebrity: a famous person in person: yourself advantage: a positive side of something disadvantage: a negative side of something privacy: the right to keep your personal life secret paparazzi: a photographer that follows famous people in all possible places in order to take photos of them for newspapers, magazines, the Internet, etc gossip magazine: a magazine where you can read a lot about private lives of celebrities gossip TV program: a TV program that deals with celebrities and their private lives fun club: a club in which people who admire a particular actor, actress, artist, movie etc share their comments and opinions, either during organized meetings or via the Internet hero: a person who you admire admire: to approve of someone/something or to find someone/something interesting or attractive someone’s claim to fame: someone’s reason for being famous, well-known Girl group: A female band who often just sing and dance to be destined for stardom: To have a high chance of becoming famous talent shows: Contests involving people with skills like singers to have a bright future ahead of them: Their later life will be positive to be thrown into the lights of stardom: To become famous very quickly and gain lots of attention to become famous almost overnight: To get fame very quickly to be a household name: A famous person whose name is well-known he went on to make money: To earn money later at his peak: When he was most famous/creative/productive Ieltsplanet.info hardly a day went by without X happening: X took place almost every day newspaper gossip columns: Sections in a newspaper for rumours about famous people to dry up: To decrease to zero as if nothing had never happened: Like the event had never taken place has-beens: People who are no longer famous only time will tell: The result/conclusion can only be seen at a later day Ieltsplanet.info ... are no longer famous only time will tell: The result/conclusion can only be seen at a later day Ieltsplanet.info