As a nation, we’re obsessed with fame. Celebrity magazines, such as Heat and OK, sell thousands of copies and deluded reality TV show contestants seem willing to do anything for their fifteen minutes of celebrity. But as wannabe stars queue for hours to be humiliated on the X-Factor or desperately try to get placed under surveillance in TV’s Big Brother house, are they really aware of the high price of fame?
As Andy Warhol famously said, “In the future, everyone will have their fifteen minutes of fame.” While this once seemed like a rather flippant remark, it has become eerily accurate. Nowadays, there are more opportunities than ever to achieve fame and people are willing to go to great lengths to take advantage of them. In the early ’90s, a Channel 4 TV show called The Word featured a regular segment, The Hopefuls, in which viewers would complete disgusting acts to appear on television. The Hopefuls were made to eat maggots, kiss a dead fish and do a variety of other vile deeds, before muttering, “I’d do anything to get on TV.” Almost a decade on, we havent progressed much further.
TV talent contests, such as Fame...
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