Star as profession

Which is a person after he/ she becomes a star famous and known with his/ her work in the entertainment industry.  A star as profession is a person where his/her private life did not really stand up in the public and public does not pay fully attention on their private life. Which can consider their life as little non-existent in the public. There group of the people are form by television show hosts, journalist, and also the sit-com actors. Whereby the audiences only focus and pay fully attention on their work.

In Malaysia we have an example which is Owen Yap a newscaster in 8tv. Few years back he became more and more famous and we can see his level of popularity many of the advertisers hired him as the ambassador for many brands and products. The star as profession is a stage before the star gets famous whereby everyone is crazy about his private life, another example is the international star, Andy Lau, he is one of the stars as profession and moves to star of celebrity’s category.     

Generally speaking, the star-as-professional mode is seen to contrast with the star-as-performer, for in the latter it is the actor’s performance or acting skills that are foregrounded, over and above questions referring to their private life or public image. As suggested earlier, a logical consequence of the fact that the star-as-professional relies on the existence of a perfect image-role correlation is the widespread but misleading belief that professionals do not act, or ‘work’ for that matter, but ‘perform themselves’.