LIES!
I know for a fact, that Celebrities with bearing noise can be fixed. 
The upper and lower motor bearings were still available 6 months ago... even if they're now 'discontinued' from Hoover, I'm sure a vac store somewhere has some laying around.
E-mail me with the model number and I can get you part numbers; and possibly service instructions.
My first Celebrity was kind of a pain.. getting the nut that holds the fan on is the worst place. Now that I've rebuilt a few of them, it's old hat.
~Fred
Here's a picture of Terry using my S3199.
It had a bad armature in it (totally toasted); so when I finally found another armature (took me maybe 6 months), I rebuilt the whole motor/machine.
