Add to ORKG‘The celebrities of media culture are the icons of the present age, the deities of an entertainment society, in which money, looks, fame and success are the ideals and goals of the dreaming billions who inhabit Planet Earth’ Douglas Kellner, Media Spectacle (2003: viii) ‘The many watch the few. The few who are watched are the celebrities... Wherever they are from... all displayed celebrities put on display the world of celebrities... precisely the quality of being watched – by many, and in all corners of the globe. Whatever they speak about when on air, they convey the message of a total way of life. Their life, their way of life... In the Synopticon, locals watch the globals [whose] authority... is secured by their very remoteness