Morphindal wrote:

SnapShots2015 wrote:The amount of autograph requests received or her own sense of self importance isn't what keeps Katie Hopkins in the limelight.
Its ratings, newspaper and magazine sales that keeps her in the spotlight and the irony is, there's more people that dislike Katie than like her, so its the haters that maintain her prominent profile by giving her the attention and reactions she's deliberately garnering.
If people refused to buy The Sun on the day her column appears, or any magazines she features in, change the TV channel whenever she appears on screen and switch off the radio when they hear her voice - then her media presence could be damaged.
Katie courts controversy and people choose to read/listen/watch her and be enraged. This is the Baby Bio to her career.
Equally the public have the choice to disregard her but this proves difficult with many when they feel they have the moral high ground over someone (Katie), and therefore go on the attack. *This* is the attention Katie requires to sustain her public profile. Katie has tapped into this niche of the human psyche and is forging a career from it. I just wonder how long it can last...
Love her or hate her, Katie Hopkins gets people talking, which I think this thread clearly demonstrates.

You do go on and on don't you! Zzzzzzz What a drainer!!! lol

SnapShots2015 wrote:The amount of autograph requests received or her own sense of self importance isn't what keeps Katie Hopkins in the limelight.
Its ratings, newspaper and magazine sales that keeps her in the spotlight and the irony is, there's more people that dislike Katie than like her, so its the haters that maintain her prominent profile by giving her the attention and reactions she's deliberately garnering.
If people refused to buy The Sun on the day her column appears, or any magazines she features in, change the TV channel whenever she appears on screen and switch off the radio when they hear her voice - then her media presence could be damaged.
Katie courts controversy and people choose to read/listen/watch her and be enraged. This is the Baby Bio to her career.
Equally the public have the choice to disregard her but this proves difficult with many when they feel they have the moral high ground over someone (Katie), and therefore go on the attack. *This* is the attention Katie requires to sustain her public profile. Katie has tapped into this niche of the human psyche and is forging a career from it. I just wonder how long it can last...
Love her or hate her, Katie Hopkins gets people talking, which I think this thread clearly demonstrates.

Morphindel wrote:

SnapShots2015 wrote:

BenJones90 wrote:If people like you continue to make her out as a celebrity the answer is of course yes.

The people who support her are just as bad in my book.

The fact is, Katie's career is not built on people that 'make her out to be a celebrity' or 'The people who support her'. Its built on people that react negatively towards her, such as your post. She thrives on it. If everyone chose to ignore Katie her career would wither and die. Think on...
(BTW, it was in fact a rhetorical question :p)

That makes no sense. If you're asking her for an autograph, she continues to feel important enough to keep herself in the limelight. If everyone ignored her, her career would wither and die as you said. So why are you supporting her by giving her that attention?

BenJones is right.

SnapShots2015 wrote:40 year old Katie Hopkins made her first public appearance on a TV show called The Apprentice in 2007. The prize was to win a £100,000 a year job as an apprentice to Alan Sugar. Throughout the series Katie made controversial and critical comments to the camera and turned down a place in the series final. The die had been cast; Katie started as she meant to go on...

The same year her profile was raised when she took part in I'm A Celebrity... Get Me Out Of Here!

Shortly after, 'I'm a Celebrity...' she started writing a column for one of the biggest selling tabloid newspapers in the UK, The Sun. Here, Katie was given carte blanche to air her views (that many considered highly offensive) on subjects that particularly riled her. These included, her hate for allowing asylum seekers into the UK, women breastfeeding in public, children's names that are based on 'geographical location', her dislike for anything Scottish, body shaming plus size figures, along with many others.
Nobody escapes Katie's poison pen. From prominent public political figures to topical celebrities; all face Katie's wrath if they dare to irk her.
A petition was started to have her sacked from The Sun, that thousands signed, but knowing Katie's outrageous 'column', (which was by now a 2 full page spread), was pushing sales, The Sun paid no attention it.

She is in essence a controversial loudmouth that has been given a media megaphone. Most of the press have now labelled her 'The Most Hated Woman In Britain!'. A title that a none political woman has ever earned before. Katie is particularly proud of this.

To add insult to injury she started her own Twitter feed, on which she claims she's only saying what we are all thinking. Her daily Tweets are too inflammatory to mention here (the one's that are included on the autographed photo she sent me are of the more milder nature). On more than one occasion her Tweets have prompted investigations by the Police. Katie now has to pay for 24 hour security protection for herself and family due to the numerous death threats she's received.

In 2015 Katie's notoriety reached a new high, when she entered the UK Celebrity Big Brother House (to a baying crowd of raucous 'boos' and negative chants). Her behavior attracted 100's of complaints during her time on the show but despite this, she made it all the way to the final and came second place!

Her star seems to continue to rise as she has just completed the filming of her own chat show, If Katie Hopkins Ruled The World! Aired on the channel TLC.

I wrote to Katie as I find her a curious product of today's pop culture and am perplexed at how long she can sustain her 'fame' with these current tactics. Will Katie achieve longevity or will karma bite her career in the rear and she'll crash and burn..?

I sent her a 5 page A5 LOR asking for an autographed photo, 1 6"x4" index card, SASE.

Address: (taken from http://www.katiehopkins.co.uk)

Katie Hopkins
PO Box 818
Exeter
EX1 9WG

Sent: 22/08/2015
Received: 19/09/2015
Turnaround: 4 Weeks

Received autographed A4 photo and index card in my SASE.

SnapShots2015 wrote:

BenJones90 wrote:If people like you continue to make her out as a celebrity the answer is of course yes.

The people who support her are just as bad in my book.

The fact is, Katie's career is not built on people that 'make her out to be a celebrity' or 'The people who support her'. Its built on people that react negatively towards her, such as your post. She thrives on it. If everyone chose to ignore Katie her career would wither and die. Think on...
(BTW, it was in fact a rhetorical question :p)

BenJones90 wrote:If people like you continue to make her out as a celebrity the answer is of course yes.

The people who support her are just as bad in my book.