Download or read book Get Me a Celebrity written by Stanley Jackson and published by Ecademy Press. This book was released on 2012-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Get Me A Celebrity!" is Stanley Jackson's hilarious account of famous personalities from the world of sport, show business, politics and the media generating extra income for themselves in the corporate market. Stanley lifts the veil on this little known area of celebrity activity. The book also examines the crucial role of TV in creating celebrities, the use of agents and a host of contentious issues from political correctness to the perceived impartiality of the BBC.
Download or read book I m a Celebrity written by Trevor Baker and published by Andre Deutsch. This book was released on 2003-05 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For 19 days and nights in April 2003, 9 celebrities swapped their lavish lifestyles for an eye-opening experience in one of the world's most inhospitable climates. With basic rations of rice and water, a hammock for a bed in a jungle clearing, and neighbors of venomous snakes and deadly spiders, the celebrities had to fend for themselves. Witty, gossipy and compulsive, this book will take viewers behind the scenes on the most talked-about show of the year, and reveal who really thought what about whom, why, how and when.
Download or read book Spider The Celebrity written by S. D. Burke and published by Doodleface Publishing. This book was released on 2020-07-06 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spider thinks he is a celebrity. Why you ask? Because if anyone sees him, they scream with "delight." This charming tale shows that your perspective on life, no matter how misconstrued, can keep you confident in any situation.
Download or read book Celebrity Inc written by Jo Piazza and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2011-11-15 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From $10,000 tweets to making money in the afterlife, a recovering gossip columnist explores the business lessons that power the Hollywood Industrial Complex Why do celebrities get paid so much more than regular people to do a job that seems to afford them the same amount of leisure time as most retirees? What do Bush-era economics have to do with the rise of Kim Kardashian? How do the laws of supply and demand explain why the stars of Teen Mom are on the cover of Us Weekly? And how was the sale of Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie’s baby pictures a little like a street drug deal? After a decade spent toiling as an entertainment journalist and gossip columnist, Jo Piazza asks the hard questions about the business behind celebrity. Make no mistake: Celebrity is an industry. Never in the course of human history has the market for celebrities been as saturated as it is today. Nearly every day most Americans will consume something a celebrity is selling—a fragrance, a sneaker, a song, a movie, a show, a tweet, or a photo in a magazine. With the benefits of Piazza’s unique access to the celebrity market, Celebrity, Inc. explains in detail what generates cash for the industry and what drains value faster than a starlet downs champagne—in twelve fascinating case studies that tackle celebrities the way industry analysts would dissect any consumer brand.
Download or read book Ghetto Celebrity written by Donnell Alexander and published by Crown. This book was released on 2003 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Donnell Alexander grew up sideways in the cramped spaces of Sandusky, Ohio, the son of a devout mother and a dad named Delbert, a protean genius who jacked a thousand identities—from pimpin’ them hoes to preaching the gospel—but skipped out on fatherhood when his son was in diapers. Donnell unwittingly replayed Delbert’s tragedy as farce until he finally wrote himself his own story, becoming a star of California’s freewheeling alternative press, spreading the gospels of punk and hip-hop in print. After finding a career and starting a family of his own, Donnell was drawn to reconnect with the vanished Delbert, and when he did, things fell apart, as they tend to in the grip of ghetto celebrity. Told in multiple voices, freestyle raps, and a graphic interlude, this is the riotous story of one writer’s mission to find truth in the margins and an engrossing tale about phantom fathers and the sons they leave behind.
Download or read book I m a Celebrity Get Me Out of Here written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Have you ever wondered how the Bushtucker Trial is dreamed up? Or what Ant and Dec's daily routine is when they are filming the show? ... Packed with behind-the-scenes secrets and ... photos from the [British version of] the show ... You'll hear from the stars who have called the jungle their home, meet the people who make it all happen and get the juiciest gossip from thirteen unforgettable series"--Publisher's description.
Download or read book I m a Celebrity Where s Kiosk Keith written by Hamlyn and published by Hachette UK. This book was released on 2017-10-12 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I'm A Celebrity's Kiosk Keith has escaped the Outback Shack and is somewhere in the jungle. Can you locate him, 10 bushtucker trial stars, and key celebrities, critters and objects? It's not as easy as you may think! This fun, family activity book includes: 17 incredible artworks, one for each season plus a bonus 'behind the scenes' artwork Photos of the show's most iconic moments Potted histories of each series, with season highlights and a list of all the delightfully gruesome bushtucker trials from every year Hosted by iconic duo Ant and Dec, I'm a Celebrity has gone from strength to strength since its first airing in 2002, becoming a hugely anticipated fixture in the nation's TV calendar. In 2016 it had its best year ever and recorded a peak audience of 12.7 million viewers... comfortably ITV's biggest show of the year. With stars, celebs and special objects waiting to be found in 17 stunningly detailed artworks, this is the perfect indulgence for every I'm a Celebrity fan.
Download or read book The Dark Tourist written by Dom Joly and published by Robinson. This book was released on 2021-09-02 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ever since he can remember, Dom Joly has been fascinated by travel to odd places. In part this stems from a childhood spent in war-torn Lebanon, where instead of swapping marbles in the schoolyard, he had a shrapnel collection -- the schoolboy currency of Beirut. Dom's upbringing was interspersed with terrifying days and nights spent hunkered in the family basement under Syrian rocket attack or coming across a pile of severed heads from a sectarian execution in the pine forests near his home. These early experiences left Dom with a profound loathing for the sanitized experiences of the modern day travel industry and a taste for the darkest of places. In this brilliantly odd and hilariously told travel memoir, Dom Joly sets out on a quest to visit those destinations from which the average tourist would, and should, run a mile. The more insalubrious the place, the more interesting is the journey and so we follow Dom as he skis in Iran on segregated slopes, spends a weekend in Chernobyl, tours the assassination sites of America and becomes one of the few Westerners to be granted entry into North Korea. Eventually Dom journeys back to his roots in Beirut only to discover he was at school with Osama Bin Laden. Funny and frightening in equal measure, this is a uniquely bizarre and compelling travelogue from one of the most fearless and innovative comedians around.
Download or read book Julia Morris Makes it EASY written by Julia Morris and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2021-05-01 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hilariously half-baked life advice from yet another deluded celebrity Welcome to Julia Morris's immaculately conceived EASY system: a crackpot satire on celebrity self-help culture. Julia will help you figure out the stuff you don't need to do, cut down on the crapola you've decided you don't want to do, make the stuff you absolutely have to do a breeze - and ensure you enjoy the whole lot. Brace yourself for a deluge of slacker life hacks, nice-but-not-very-bright advice and life-changing inspiration on: Making It All About You Getting Shallow The Importance of Always Proving Your Point The Joy of Ex-cuses Achieving Blind Self-confidence How to (Not) Get Shit Done Judging Others The Power of Negative Thinking The Zero Habits of Highly Ineffective People How to Say Yes, Then Cancel Complaining and Comsplaining Disclaimer: if you think this book is going to be like other celebrity self-help books, think again
Download or read book Celebrity Leverage Insider Secrets to Getting Celebrity Endorsements Instant Credibility and Star Powered Publicity Or How to Make Your written by Jordan McAuley and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover creative strategies for getting your products in celebrities' hands, getting low-cost and free celebrity endorsements, linking your business, product or service to celebrities in other ways, and even making yourself into a celebrity in your field. All of these strategies are Celebrity Leverage. Shows you how to get other celebrities to promote your business, your products, and your services. Reveals how to turn yourself into a celebrity in your area, your niche and your field.
Download or read book I m A Celebrity Get Me Out of Here The Inside Story written by Anonymous and published by Bantam Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrities roughing it in the jungle, sleeping in hammocks, subsisting on a diet of rice and beans and being forced to face all manner of gruesome challenges in order to win food and supplies. It can only be I'm A Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! Presented by the inimitable Ant and Dec, I'm A Celebrity ... has become part of our nation's fabric. Every winter, for three unmissable weeks, it brightens our television screens and dominates the press, social media chatter and gossip in schools, offices and homes up and down the land. Here, at last, is the book that fans of the show have been waiting for. It will reveal a feast of behind-the-scenes secrets and is packed with everything viewers could ask for, including: the untold story behind the show; a look at the best - and worst - Bushtucker Trials, plus a mountain of fascinating facts and jungle trivia. Guiding you around this cornucopia of jungle treats will be Brucey the Cockroach, a critter who's been with the show right from the start and dumped on the head of everyone from pop stars to politicians. Lavishly produced, stunningly designed and delivered with its tongue firmly in its cheek, I'm a Celebrity ... Get Me Out Of Here! The Inside Story is a must-have for any fan of the show.
Download or read book Celebrity written by Milly Williamson and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-10-18 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: It is a truism to suggest that celebrity pervades all areas of life today. The growth and expansion of celebrity culture in recent years has been accompanied by an explosion of studies of the social function of celebrity and investigations into the fascination of specific celebrities. And yet fundamental questions about what the system of celebrity means for our society have yet to be resolved: Is celebrity a democratization of fame or a powerful hierarchy built on exclusion? Is celebrity created through public demand or is it manufactured? Is the growth of celebrity a harmful dumbing down of culture or an expansion of the public sphere? Why has celebrity come to have such prominence in today’s expanding media? Milly Williamson unpacks these questions for students and researchers alike, re-examining some of the accepted explanations for celebrity culture. The book questions assumptions about the inevitability of the growth of celebrity culture, instead explaining how environments were created in which celebrity output flourished. It provides a compelling new history of the development of celebrity (both long-term and recent) which highlights the relationship between the economic function of celebrity in various media and entertainment industries and its changing social meanings and patterns of consumption.
Download or read book Framing Celebrity written by Su Holmes and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-11-12 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Celebrity culture has a pervasive presence in our everyday lives – perhaps more so than ever before. It shapes not simply the production and consumption of media content but also the social values through which we experience the world. This collection analyses this phenomenon, bringing together essays which explore celebrity across a range of media, cultural and political contexts. The authors investigate topics such as the intimacy of fame, political celebrity, stardom in American ‘quality’ television (Sarah Jessica Parker), celebrity 'reality' TV (I’m a Celebrity ... Get Me Out of Here!), the circulation of the porn star, the gallery film (David/David Beckham), the concept of cartoon celebrity (The Simpsons), fandom and celebrity (k.d. lang, *NSYNC), celebrity in the tabloid press, celebrity magazines (heat, Celebrity Skins), the fame of the serial killer and narratives of mental illness in celebrity culture. The collection is organized into four themed sections: Fame Now broadly examines the contemporary contours of fame as they course through new media sites (such as 'reality' TV and the internet) and different social, cultural and political spaces. Fame Body attempts to situate the star or celebrity body at the centre of the production, circulation and consumption of contemporary fame. Fame Simulation considers the increasingly strained relationship between celebrity and artifice and ‘authenticity’. Fame Damage looks at the way the representation of fame is bound up with auto-destructive tendencies or dissolution.
Download or read book How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity written by Patricia Carlin and published by Quirk Books. This book was released on 2014-04-01 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A “genuinely hilarious guide” that parodies get-rich-quick self-help tricks while celebrating the brightest stars on the internet (Washington Post). From creating funny viral videos to managing ‘diva’ behavior, this is the cat lover’s blueprint for achieving financial freedom with their one-of-a-kind feline friend. The Internet offers an unprecedented opportunity for cats to become superstar “personalities” with revenue-generating multimedia brands—but only if you know how to cash in. With How to Make Your Cat an Internet Celebrity, readers can unlock the secrets to: • grooming your kitty for success • creating a terrific viral video • managing your cat’s burgeoning stardom • and much more! Packed with practical tips and helpful diagrams, this indispensable resource shows how ordinary housecats can follow in the venerable pawprints of the Internet’s brightest stars.
Download or read book Under Construction written by Chrishell Stause and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of Open Book and Sell It Like Serhant, a heartfelt, humorous personal memoir and relatable guide to overcoming obstacles, wising up about romance, and getting ahead in your career from the star of Netflix’s hit reality show Selling Sunset. In this engaging, witty, and inspirational memoir, Chrishell Stause shares her story of living an unconventional childhood in small-town Kentucky marked by periods of homelessness, family addiction struggles, and dreams of one day being on a daytime soap, all while managing the local Dairy Queen. Through resilience and grit, she overcame obstacles and pushed past every barrier in her path to become one of the most envied luxury realtors in Los Angeles and buzzworthy cast members in reality TV. She takes us behind the scenes of Selling Sunset, reveals never-before-told stories from her life in soaps, and even pulls back the curtain on her highly publicized love life, offering insight not before shared. With her signature honesty and charm, Stause also gives tangible advice based on the lessons she’s learned over the years and offers unique insight about how to stay resilient and positive no matter how many times life knocks you down. Under Construction is for anyone who wants to remember that no matter what happens or how, you have to get up, dress up, and show up, and walk back into the room stronger than ever before.
Download or read book Celebrity Politics written by Mark Wheeler and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2013-08-22 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this new book, Mark Wheeler offers the first in-depth analysis of the history, nature and global reach of celebrity politics today. Celebrity politicians and politicized celebrities have had a profound impact upon the practice of politics and the way in which it is now communicated. New forms of political participation have emerged as a result and the political classes have increasingly absorbed the values of celebrity into their own PR strategies. Celebrity activists, endorsers, humanitarians and diplomats also play a part in reconfiguring politics for a more fragmented and image-conscious public arena. In academic circles, celebrity may be viewed as a ‘manufactured product’; one fabricated by media exposure so that celebrity activists are no more than ‘bards of the powerful.’ Mark Wheeler, however, provides a more nuanced critique contending that both celebrity politicians and politicized stars should be defined by their ‘affective capacity’ to operate within the public sphere. This timely book will be a valuable resource for students of media and communication studies and political science as well as general readers keen to understand the nature and reach of contemporary celebrity culture.
Download or read book Get Slightly Famous written by Steven Van Yoder and published by Bay Tree Pub. This book was released on 2006 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I build levers to move objects that appear to be immovable.Alexei Drovosek represents the next evolution of human: no heart, immunity to cancer, and the uncanny ability to survive in conditions that would kill normal men. As an orphan growing up in post-Soviet Russia, Alexei was taken in by the state and trained as its most vicious and effective killer. But eventually the Russian Federal Security Service's best-trained assassin did the most dangerous thing of all: he turned on his handlers, went rogue, and disappeared.In the bleak, high-tech near future, Alexei has resurfaced in a secret compound on the outskirts of Los Angeles, a city where autonomous-drive vehicles race along the highways and independent city-states operate with materialistic impunity. In the center of it all is the soaring headquarters of Pearl Knight Industries, an international mega-corporation that keeps war machines and cultural capitalism running in every country and on every continent on the planet. As a principal proponent of the 31st Amendment to the United States constitution, which legalized the transfer of suffrage from citizens to corporations, Pearl Knight has power that is truly above the law.Alexei lives a clandestine existence where his closest companions are his personal AI, Emma, and a group of orphans he has spent years amassing and training. But Alexei isn't fostering these children as a favor to the state; he's raising them with the hope that they will destroy it. As he moves each child into play in the world's highest-stakes game of chess that spans decades and continents, Alexei fights to destroy the plutocratic control of those in power and restore what matters to him most: democracy and freedom.
