In this post I looked at how the search traffic for Gillian McKeith had increased since her entry and exit from the TV Game Show ‘I’m a Celebrity – Get Me out of Here’, even though during her time on the show she didn’t cover herself in glory.
During the same weekend a contestant on another Reality Game Show, The X-Factor, Wagner who also hadn’t performed brilliantly on the show was sent home.
Both Celebrities had received their own share of negative press, but how did their popularity hold after their exits from their relative shows?
The following graph was produced using Google Insights for Search and tells a story.
You can see that Gillian’s popularity is a long way short of Wagner’s and has already started to tale off, this is strange as she was already a celebrity going onto a show and should already have had a fan base.
During his time on the X-Factor Wagner became an anti-hero, gaining support from those not liking Simon Cowell, whereas Gillian carried a wave of curiosity based how badly she would perform tasks, and no more. After she left the show there was nothing to make her socially relevant anymore.
