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during this witty and insightful journey of the underbelly of the fame international, LBC’s Steve Allen takes us through the hand and leads us during the highs and lows of existence as a modern day ‘sleb’ – why they’re there, and what we’ve all performed to deserve this. Required interpreting for watchers and wannabes alike, this is often your crucial consultant to 1 of the main bonkers features of recent Britain.
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Unless you can find a way of extending it. I ask if he sees this fascination with celebrity fading any time soon. He thinks not, and mentions a politician who has chucked it all in to become a celebrity, and wonders out loud whether someone like Jeremy Clarkson is a celebrity or a television presenter. There are other adjectives that may apply to Clarkson, but we ignore them. Shalit’s point is that there’s a constantly growing desire to fill pages and more and more people are needed to fill those pages on a continual basis.
In 2012 she wrote a piece that the Daily Mail published, saying that she was so beautiful that other women despised her, and airline pilots gave her free champagne just for being on their plane. Now, my mother would always say, ‘You have to be nice to people. ’ And I do try, but, of course, she really wasn’t most people’s idea of beautiful, so the nation reacted in horror and disgust, and we all thought, ‘But you’re not beautiful. ’ But because of that she was on all the talk shows, brazening it out and making her money while she could.
If you read as much gossip press as I do – and I’m as fascinated and disgusted as the next person – you’ll know all about Josie Cunningham. But in case you only have a vague knowledge of her, and as a lesson in how to get famous for absolutely nothing but audacity, here’s the route she’s taking. She first came to public attention in 2009 for getting a boob job on the NHS. Quite how she pulled that off is anybody’s guess, but after that she went quiet until she came hurtling into our consciousness again when she told the press she was prepared to have an abortion in order to get on Big Brother.