But it was scooped by its rival, the New York Journal, which triumphantly ran a full-ear portrait, sketched from life.

I am happy to personally sign and dedicate books by sending out adhesive bookplates to stick in the front of your copy. Dead Famous (2001) is a comedy/ whodunit novel by Ben Elton in which ratings for a reality TV show, very similar to Big Brother, rocket when a housemate is murdered. He has written two previous books - A MILLION YEARS IN A DAY and DEAD FAMOUS: AN UNEXPECTED HISTORY OF CELEBRITY.Greg is also the author of YOU ARE HISTORY (2022), a fun and surprising children's books exploring the history of the world through 50 objects a child might use everyday.

During these extraordinary times Greg Jenner is able to sign you a personalised bookplate for your hardback.

We also share information about your use of our site with our social media, advertising and analytics partners. The victim left the box to go to the toilet and the killer apparently left the box wrapped in a sheet to conceal his or her identity and stabbed the victim twice in the neck and head. As a tour guide through centuries of celebrity culture, Jenner acts as a kind of Oscar Wilde figure, dispensing wisdom and wit in equal measure, producing a fiendishly enjoyable and thoroughly engaging look at other people's lives.

Meet the Georgian literary forger William-Henry Ireland, who claimed to have discovered a trunkful of Shakespearean manuscripts, complete with a new play, Vortigern and Rowena. Come down the travelators, exit Sainsbury's, turn right and follow the pedestrianised walkway to Crown Walk and turn right - and Coles will be right in front of you. We all live in a world where ‘celebrity’ is encounter around every corner, but where did this idea of celebrity begin?

And though it is right that celebrity culture was born around 1700, we don’t get quite enough of an explanation of how and why it all kicked off then. They help us to know which pages are the most and least popular and see how visitors move around the site. He also tries to pin down a concrete definition of celebrity as opposed to mere fame, notoriety or renown.