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What Katie Price Reveals About Celebrity Culture and Us
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Marina Hyde frames Katie Price as a picaresque figure — the kind of roguish, low-born protagonist who uses wit and compulsion to survive a series of episodic adventures — and compares her to an opera diva whose life is a tragedy sublimated into spectacle. Richard Osman agrees that she feels like a 19th-century novel character who has moulded herself to every era she has inhabited, and has also moulded some of those eras herself. She has the 'curse of being compelling,' Osman says, and that compellingness enables her at every step. Marina observes that Price's story holds a mirror up to what society fetishises, normalises, and then demands of women's bodies — direct criminal abuse, indirect cultural abuse, and the collateral damage to those around her — while a tiny woman staggers on at the centre of it all. Both hosts recommend the documentary warmly.
Sky's £1.6bn purchase of ITV's free-to-air broadcast network (not ITV Studios) merges two of the UK's three biggest advertising houses. For viewers, almost nothing changes immediately — but Channel 4 is now dangerously exposed as the smallest remaining advertising house, and the BBC must urgently find a way to partner with it.
