Settling down to watch this #CelebrityA21stCenturyStory doc on the BBC. Looks really interesting. I’m obviously going to spend much of it muttering “celebrity isn’t modern” but that’s fine
Obviously, if you’d like to know about how celebrity culture began, there’s a book for that 😉 #CelebrityA21stCenturyStory
Enjoying the doc, many interesting stories, but the interviewees saying “celebrity journalism was new because Heat could dissect every aspect of their life” is ahistorical. These people are all saying things that felt true to them, but these things weren’t new at all
The 3am Girls was not “a new type of celebrity journalism”. I mean, Walter Winchell, Cholly Knickerbocker, Tom Driberg, Cecil Beaton, Evelyn Waugh, Hedda Hopper etc
The analysis of Katie Price is interesting but, again, Anna Held was also doing this in the 1890s
The Paris Hilton analysis repeats the 1960s myth of “famous for being famous” being a modern affliction. Giacomo Casanova had the same ambition in the 1700s #CelebrityA21stCenturyStory
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