![]() Our ghoulish fascination with images depicting stars in various states of disintegration has ensured that these pictures often carry a higher monetary value. But now, 11 years later, the fragile boundary between feeding the public interest and maintaining an individual's right to privacy appears to have been breached by a new breed of guerrilla paparazzi. 'If you look at the biggest film stars, they do not get paparazzi'ed that much, partly because they've already had it so much that they just close themselves off in their houses and don't leave them.'Īfter the death of Diana, Princess of Wales in a Paris car chase in 1997, there was a collective pause for breath by newspaper and magazine editors who pledged not to use snatched images. 'When you are leaving your front door and paparazzi, who are a lot bigger than you, are shouting "You're a whore" to try to make you cry - that obviously is not great,' she said in an interview with Tatler magazine. Last week the actress Keira Knightley complained that paparazzi intrusion was 'a very predatory force'. She later complained to police and was given an escort back to her Beverly Hills hotel. Miller, who has been dating the married actor Balthazar Getty, broke down in tears at a Los Angeles garage on Monday when photographers swarmed round her car and asked questions about her alleged 'home-wrecking'. Then there have been the constant snatched images of Amy Winehouse shuttling to and from rehab and the blurry shots of Sienna Miller wrapped around a new boyfriend. That was further exacerbated last week by her marriage in Las Vegas, aged 19, to an unknown American rocker: cue front-page pictures of Geldof sporting an oversized wedding ring, looking sheepish. First, Geldof was alleged to have collapsed at home in July from a rumoured drugs overdose - which she denies - causing a spike of interest and a rash of tabloid photographs. ![]() This summer the British paparazzi have gone into overdrive. These are people who have had the empathy sucked out of their life systems.' They are very aggressive and remind me of the hard men you would try to avoid at a bar. They have access to a range of expletives that they use with ease. 'These guys are like professional wrestlers who have picked up a camera. 'We have had up to a dozen paparazzi hanging out for 12 to 18 hours at a stretch, eating, drinking, urinating on the street, having barbecues,' says Convery, a local Labour councillor who was recently moved to write a letter to Geldof suggesting she 'slope off for a few weeks' to give residents a holiday.
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