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Silly content makes celebrity embarrassed - it's doomed (3-7)

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I believe the answer is:

ill-starred

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'it's doomed' is the definition.
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'silly content makes celebrity embarrassed' is the wordplay.
'silly content makes' becomes 'ill' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'celebrity' becomes 'star' (a star is a celebrity or famous person).
'embarrassed' becomes 'red' (someone may blush or go red when embarrassed).
'ill'+'star'+'red'='ILL-STARRED'

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(Another definition for ill-starred that I've seen is " Unlucky".)

I've seen this clue in The Irish Times.
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