Ricky Gervais is turning into David Brent
The comedian is condemned for being a culture warrior. The truth is much sadder.
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2023: the year fandom went feral
“Stan culture” has reached new heights of invasive obsession, delusion and misogyny.
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The death of the celebrity profile
It used to be a major journalistic event, but the glossy magazine interview is now a dull, corporate PR exercise.
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The confessions of Robbie Williams
A new Netflix series can’t explain how the singer’s bombastic, revealing songs made him the self-flagellating poster-boy of a generation.
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The celebrity chef is dead
In the era of the post-heroic kitchen, the restaurant prevails as the brand over the celebrity’s name.
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Matthew Perry was brave to speak about addiction without full recovery
We love a reformed addict story, but admitting to the existence of failure can be a freeing gift to someone…
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The faux-intellectualism of celebrity memoir
Publishers may have attempted to turn this once trashy genre into something more serious, but gossip prevails.
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Did celebrity ruin David Beckham?
Netflix reveals a footballer betrayed by celebrity.
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Russell Brand: In Plain Sight made me sick with horror
This Channel 4 Dispatches documentary, which accused the comedian of rape, sexual assault and abuse, was nauseating and terrifying to…
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Celebrities are now “honest” about diet, exercise and beauty. I wish they weren’t
Kim Kardashian says she’d “eat poop every single day” to look young. Jennifer Aniston admits to salmon sperm facials. At…
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Inside the soul of Tyson Fury
He’s too strange, too powerful, too honest and complicated to contain in a bite-size media persona.
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Michael Parkinson – The last interview
The veteran talk-show host on broadcasting’s halcyon days, car-crash interviews and today’s “charlatans in high office”.
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Celebrating failure is a mistake
There is no such thing as a “teachable moment”.
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Mugshots of a nation
After a three-year facelift, the bandages are now off the National Portrait Gallery.
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The rise of Citizen Celebrity
A new breed of British influencer is rewriting the rules of celebrity.
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When did young people decide they wanted their celebrities to be so boring?
Taylor Swift’s fans don’t like her new boyfriend and Jenna Ortega’s hate that she smokes. Back in my day famous…
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How the tabloid media turned on Anna Nicole Smith
Smith’s life, death and now – thanks to a new Netflix documentary – after-life was a spectacle.
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We have lost Russell Brand
This once-sexy communist has become an American culture wars pundit.
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The degradation of Marilyn Monroe
In death as in life, the actress has been used, abused and commodified. Netflix’s film Blonde is just the latest…
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It’s high time we saw Pamela Anderson as a person, not a punchline
In a new documentary and memoir, Anderson asks that we see her fame from her perspective.
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