14 DAY TRIAL // Kristen Bell and Dax Shepard are just two of the many celebrities urging celebrity publications not to buy paparazzi photos in which the stars’ kids are also present, in a bid to discourage the paps from stalking and harassing their children. Embedded below is a video of a confrontation between the two and 2 people in this branch of the industry.
Kristen and Dax have an 11-month daughter whom they protect the best way they know how. However, all this means nothing when they step out in public, and the paparazzi swarm around them, sometimes using profanity and yelling all kinds of nasty kids to get a reaction.
The duo, with backing from Jennifer Garner and Halle Berry, have already managed to get several major publications, People magazine among them, to ban paparazzi photos of celebrity kids. They’re now trying to get the paparazzi themselves to understand why what they’re doing is wrong.
On the other hand, the paparazzi, represented in this confrontation by the founders of the one of the biggest agencies out there, see this as a business and, as such, to them it makes no sense to have a ban of celebrity kids photos.
They do agree that some regulations need to be in place and enforced to prevent incidents from occurring, but they disagree with Kristen when she tells them that the way their “foot-soldiers” do their job is unethical and dangerous.
They actually call her hysterical for reacting this way, and insist that her way of going about this problem will not lead to an actual solution: instead, it will just make the paparazzi try to sell their photos to other publications.
The two are actually convinced Dax and Kristen and whoever other celebrity joins them will not be able to get all magazines from all over the world to ban this kind of photos.
It’s actually somewhat infuriating to see them dismiss her point, avoiding to answer direct questions only because they don’t like them. It’s not that they’re not right in saying this is a business like any other that irks, but rather that they don’t even try to understand where she and Dax are coming from, which was the point of the chat in the first place.
Check out the video to see the arguments of both sides. Access Hollywood says this is not the entire interview so if you too are interested in this debate, keep an eye on this space for more.