Citizen celebrity

A new TV channel launching in March offers members of the public the chance to purchase fame in 15 second slots – a natural progression from the insta-celebrities created by websites like YouTube.
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Apparently even Andy Warhol eventually got tired of his breathtakingly prescient statement, “In the future, everyone will be world famous for 15 minutes.” In 1979, in Andy Warhol’s Exposures, he said, “I’m bored with that line. I never use it anymore. My new line is, ‘In 15 minutes everybody will be famous.’”

The twenty-first is shaping up to be Warhol’s century, just as the twentieth century was Freud’s. And sometimes it seems like every publishing house and TV production company is hell-bent on making Warhol’s wildest dreams come true, just for the sake of it.

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Hannah Forbes Black
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Hannah Forbes Black is a freelance writer based in London.