Pippa Middleton photographed 300 times a day, editor says
Pippa Middleton, sister of Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, watches ATP World Tour Finals tennis tournament in London on Nov. 27, 2011.
/ GLYN KIRK/AFP/Getty ImagesLONDON (CBS/AP) If you think you've been seeing a lot of Pippa Middleton lately, it's not your imagination.
The picture editor of Britain's Daily Mail newspaper says he sees up to 400 photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge's sister, Pippa Middleton, cross his desk every day.
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Paul Silva says the younger sister of the former Kate Middleton typically has eight or nine photographers camped outside her door and estimated that they produce between "300 to 400 pictures" of her daily.
The 29-year-old London socialite became the "It" girl of the global media after she almost stole the show at her sister's royal wedding April 29, 2011, in a figure-hugging white gown by Alexander McQueen.
Lon Silva was answering questions at the Leveson Inquiry, a judge-led investigation into the ethics of the country's media.
The inquiry was set up in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal centered on Rupert Murdoch's News of the World and has heard from celebrities who say they were hounded by paparazzi.
Silva said Wednesday that he saw no need to constantly run photographs of Pippa Middleton.
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I recall reading about occasions when Prince William's mother would end up having her escorts "frog-march" her down stairs because she was so blinded by camera flashes that she couldn't see.
That is very true. We don't endure the flashes. But you and me and everybody else endures having cameras watching virtually every move we make including sometimes in places that we expect to be private like changing rooms and such.
THAT is news worthy and deserves investigation and media attention.... some woman getting snapped by an over eager press is annoying but really not worth the international press.
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former ... as in no longer? this seems a bit strange.
Not to mentioned the hundreds of times she, and the rest of us, are photographed by traffic cams, web cams, store and other security cams every day. The paparazzi are just more blatant about it. :-)
If you're not holding a camera, it's called stalking. If you're holding a camera, it's called journalism.
No they don't. They are simply placed everywhere (including some places we should have reasonable expectations of privacy), in advance. My point is we all get photographed MANY times every day and being photoed is NOT newsworthy.....
What's YOUR point?