Freddie Prinze Jr. explains the obvious irt fame and "living in the public eye"

[therearewords]

Freddie Prinze Jr. is shedding light on why he and wife Sarah Michelle Gellar choose to keep their romance away from the spotlight: 'We're good at avoiding it.' https://t.co/oXguhF78al
- Entertainment Weekly (@EW) November 5, 2024
- The She’s All That star explained that he and Gellar, who have been married since 2002, avoid the spotlight by simply

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[progression]

I’ve always wondered how easy is it for celebs to just exist. I know that some genuinely can’t escape it - especially if they’re new to blown up fame and don’t know how to get around it yet. But, a million photos of Hillary Duff walking from place to place in the aughts? 😑

[mattay]

I always assumed that for the vast majority, if we’re seeing them they want to be seen. (Ie: I don’t believe Affleck just happens to get photographed all the time.) Sorry to this Freddie Prinze Jr but I don’t think paps are trying THAT HARD to photograph him. So he’s probably right that it’s easy to stay out of the limelight.

But, I agree with you that there is a subset who at certain times generate a lot of buzz and therefore $$$ for the news outlets. In those cases, I think it’s genuinely harder to escape the paps.

[pepsi_twist9]

Nah, FPJ and SM were on top of their game in the early 2000s, especially as a power couple . They would've been wanted by paparazzi at the height of their careers for sure .

[liddlebins]

Freddie Prinze Jr and Sarah Michelle Gellar were wildly popular in the 90s along with Jennifer Love Hewitt, Selma Blair, Joshua Jackson, Ryan Philippe, etc - they were like the Brat Pack of the late 90s/00s, they were everywhere. Freddie and Sarah just chose to leave it before it left them

[trumpydoesmagic]

(Ie: I don’t believe Affleck just happens to get photographed all the time.)

It's so funny you use his name cause I was recently thinking about the whole "they didn't work out cause JLo loved attention too much and Ben is just a regular guy" narrative when he was keeping Rodrigo employed during lock down lmao

[primimproper]

Cosigning Affleck. He doesn't have to mug and smoke dramatically on his front steps. He doesn't have to drag a cardboard cut out of Ana de Armas to a trash can for any reason.

[pi_lady]

And always with a coffee from Dunkin Donuts with the logo perfectly visible for the paparazzis to shoot. LOL

[steffi_333]

I think paparazzi culture was on a different level back then too. Both in terms of celebs courting it and paparazzo's approach/attitudes

[silverstarry]

I still remember a picture that showed Carolyn Bessette leaving her apartment building. The photo included a group of like 50 photographers just standing in a huge group waiting for her so they could all get a pic of her walking down the street. It was one of the first times I saw what it was like to be a celebrity outside of a red carpet event and I was shocked that the paps were so invasive.

[steffi_333]

Yeah I remember I think it was Louis Theroux did a documentary about paparrazis.. was really eye-opening. They were like swarms of flies around celebs.

[scriptedending]

Yeah, I’ve seen plenty out of celebs out and about with no paparazzi in sight - at nice restaurants, on a hike, at the farmers market. I think it’s a combo of if you are being actively pursued and/or if a pap happens to spot you. I know some people call their own too, but I think that’s a minority.

[genbu_no_miko24]

The Hilary walking posts is when I slowly realized celebs really do call the papz. In her case I actually do think it was strategically smart cause it kept her relevant and in people’s mind.

But I remember realizing it was a deliberate choice when Adele got big off 21. I remember thinking that it was interesting that I never see pics of Adele doing normal stuff like buying groceries and the like but I’ll see pics of Hilary doing that mundane routine. I was like wouldn’t pics of Adele be more lucrative than Hilary?? Then it hit me 💡!!

[duchello]

One could argue that FPJ and SMG haven't been relevant enough to pap since the late 2000s. But Jennifer Lawrence at her peak was/is able to stay out of the spotlight unless she's promoting something so its definitely doable.

[spiral_mystik]

Kylie Jenner was constantly "followed" by paparazzi, until she got pregnant and managed to avoid them for months. It couldn't be more obvious that it's a choice most of the time.