TV shows such as Pop Idol and Model Behaviour may be exciting and innovative television but has anyone thought about what may actually happen to some of these teenagers being thrown into the highly competitive, drug-infested music and fashion industries?
Innocent kids with no experience of life outside family, school or college will have had no preparation for the ups and downs of their future careers.
By the time they are 30, many of them will have faded from the public eye completely and, while some may well enjoy continued success, I predict that more than a few will be very disillusioned, bitter and disturbed people.
-C Sengelow, Montpelier Street, Brighton
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