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media darling
n. (context idiomatic English) A celebrity who is especially popular and who receives frequent and very favorable attention in the news media.
Usage examples of "media darling".
When media darling President Kennedy first sent troops to Vietnam, liberals thought he was a genius.
She was a media darling until she started using those hands to shape doorways into bank vaults.
The current media darling, if she spoke with any man for more than a couple of minutes there was immediate speculation about their relationship but there'd never been so much as a whisper of gossip about her and Darius.
The woman standing in the jeep was none other than Jennie Higgins, the reporter who had made Captain Jester a media darling.