media darling

noun

A celebrity who is especially popular and who receives frequent and very favorable attention in the news media.

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Meanings

nounmedia darling (plural media darlings)

plural media darlings

  1. idiomaticA celebrity who is especially popular and who receives frequent and very favorable attention in the news media.

    TV Correspondent Alexander Krutkov became an overnight media darling with his piercing on-the-spot dispatches.

    1986 June 30, John Moody, “Gorbachev Loosens the Media's Reins”, in Time
    1 more example

    “[T]he coverage of Obama has been so positive that you have to call him, though I really hate this term, a media darling.”

    2008 February 14, John Heilemann, “The Meme Prisoner”, in New York Magazine, retrieved 13 Sep 2010

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
celebrity
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APA

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“media darling.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/media%20darling. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

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