The word 'celebrity' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to someone who is famous and renowned, typically in the entertainment industry. For example, "The actor was mobbed by fans wherever he went, such is the power of celebrity."
"This woman is nothing more than an attention seeker who does not deserve to be a celebrity".
Woods's alleged cavorting with Vegas waitresses and celebrity groupies, his woeful "sexts" and voice mails, his driving his S.U.V. into a tree: all these things make him look weak and discombobulated.
Meanwhile, collectors of recherché celebrity litigation may find much to delight them in the tale of one Charles Sarris, who is suing a stage equipment company for injuries sustained during the construction of a giant pink tongue for Miley Cyrus's current Bangerz tour.
Committer of the cardinal celebrity sin of taking his work seriously.
Like Alexander, celebrity stylist Gray thinks any backlash against men's short-shorts is really about gender and even anxiety around the accuser's sexuality.
The Oscars only recently started hiring young people of both genders to pass those treasured gold statuettes to the celebrity presenter.
Today's tooth-aware Brits can choose from an array of celebrity dentists, including Khalid Khan of Liverpool, who has worked on footballer John Barnes and singer Ian McCulloch Jamie Newlandss of Glasgow, who honed the smiles of Robert Carlyle and Sharleen Spiteri; or the Welbeck Clinic in London, which has treated Sophie Ellis-Bextor and Helena Bonham Carter.
Earlier this year Channel Ten dropped 12 celebrities into a very basic camp site in South Africa and every night you can watch them as they struggle to survive in a reality show called I'm A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here!
Who knows if this year's Great Comic Relief Bake Off will rise to the occasion or suffer a soggy bottom, but for the first time in celebrity-challenge-TV-show history I've actually heard of 15 of the 16 contestants.
In the realm of the unbearably twee, celebrity-endorsed lifestyle website, battle is joined.
Steel yourselves readers, for now we venture into one of the internet's darkest and bleakest corners: the grim realm of the unbearably twee, celebrity-endorsed lifestyle website.
