Gwyneth Paltrow and husband Chris Martin claim that they are being haunted by the ghost of Adolphus White – a Royal College of Music professor who died in 1902. Coldplay star Chris is convinced the spectre affected his creativity while he was writing the band’s last album ‘X&Y’. I hear his footsteps, late, within my…
Protecting the golden goose. Sven should pay for a better defence against intrusive journalism if he is to stay out of the tabloids Coughing up his Swiss-style premium muesli on Sunday morning, Sven-Goran Eriksson surely might have considered his consistency in making gigantic PR blunders on a scale few professionals have ever seen before. http://media.guardian.co.uk/columnists/story/0,7550,1687751,00.html
Psalm 3 from The Book of Common Celebrity Prayer “The lure of celebrity is so great among teenagers that almost one in 10 would abandon their education if they had the chance to appear on television.” The Independent, January 13, 2006 Oh, slip me between the clean sheets of fame, cast me in crystal, televise…
Teenagers beguiled by false dreams of instant fame on reality TV Independent Newspaper 13th January 2006 The lure of celebrity is so great among teenagers that almost one in 10 would abandon their education if they had the chance to appear on television. Borkowski believes the rise of reality television and “karaoke television” is creating…
Britney Spears has just been named the worst-dressed celebrity for dressing like an “over-the-hill Lolita”. She is sixteen going on thirteen, in a tight school uniform dressed to kill. Pigtails pulled tight she is dancing, dancing like she wants to be dirty, is enjoying the old men’s thrill. Soon she will be wallowing deep in…
Written to mark the moment when unknown office temp and model, Chantelle Houghton, convinced her Celebrity Big Brother co-contestants that she really was famous. Welcome to the ghost game of celebrity, the trick-or-treat vision of fame. Welcome to the hope that money and power will quickly devour the shame. Welcome to the restless world of…
Edward Bernays, the ” Father of Modern public relations” wrote that “The public’s ability to create its own heroes from wisps of impressions and its own imagination, and to build them almost into flesh and blood gods, fascinates me.” I had the same feeling about TV producers’ creativity when watching the cheap Battenberg cake of…
for Charles Kennedy who, at the time of writing, is still leader of the Liberal Democrats. The drunker the drinker the slower the thinker, the less that gets done in the chamber. The drinker who’s drunker gets less chance to tinker, fiddling instead with liquids of amber and lies that are swallowed hook line and…
The trouble with bad news Basking in the glow of potential good news is something to be avoided unless you are familiar with the facts The scene at the Virginia coal mine was like an episode of The Simpsons with Governor Joe Manchin becoming the real life portrayal of bumbling Mayor Quimby. http://media.guardian.co.uk/marketingandpr/comment/0,7494,1678389,00.html
When will Chelsea FC stop shooting itself in the foot? For a team that is virtually unbeatable on the pitch, Chelsea are remarkably poor at defending themselves off it. I ought to be celebrating, after the football team I’ve supported since I was a small boy beat Arsenal at Highbury on Sunday.