Noun
media darling (plural media darlings)
(idiomatic) A celebrity who is especially popular and who receives frequent and very favorable attention in the news media.
I was quite the media darling. Madhuri Dixit
I'm not a media darling. I'm not on the cover of all these magazines. I just quietly do my thing. Sarah McLachlan
I'm not a media darling. I'm forever the outsider, for whatever the reason is. Russell Peters