Q:

What Are The Uses For The Admired Ability?

 I keep seeing challenges that result in my Admired ability rising.
What use is there for this ability?

A:

It's not hugely helpful, but if you have 15 Admired you can laugh off Scandal instead of needing a friend to redirect it onto.
Edit from 2013: Admired has been renamed to Making Waves, and is now critical to making promoted professions available.

