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English
Noun
media whore (plural media whores)
- (derogatory) A person who attempts to transfer or transfers from one entertainment industry to another based only on prior popularity and not necessarily legitimate talent.
- (derogatory) A person who craves media attention; someone who will apparently attempt anything to remain in the media spotlight.
2008, Dan Kieran, Ian Vince, Three Men in a Float: Across England at 15 mph, John Murray, published 2009, →ISBN, pages 145 and 244:Standing there in the car park with Prasanth’s camera trained on me and Dan, be-headphoned and with a microphone pointing at Chris, I was just having a minor media whore moment – of the kind you’d expect to see if you teleported a film crew of Channel 4 gits to the centre of somewhere that really couldn’t give a toss – when in cycled a man at great speed on a bicycle that appeared slightly too small for him. […] Ben interrupted the media whore luvvie-fest that had broken out in the Eden Project car park, and directed us to the electricity supply.