![]() ![]() ![]() Jenner is an author, broadcaster, and consultant on the much-loved British children’s television show Horrible Histories. Instead, Dead Famous is a gambol through history that seeks to disillusion us of the idea that celebrity is a solely hyper-modern phenomenon. (Is any book on celebrity complete without a mention of Kim Kardashian?) But that and other seemingly obligatory references to pouts and Instagram are made mainly in passing, for this is not a tut-tutting book about 21st-century celebrity culture. Those famous sisters with whom he shares a name do not appear in Dead Famous: An Unexpected History of Celebrity from Bronze Age to Silver Screen, but he does name-check their more famous sister. ![]() IT TICKLES ME that a public historian named Greg Jenner has written a history of celebrity. ![]()
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