Please Do Not Swear

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How Reality Tv Reinvented Fame

Inbunden, Engelska, 2027

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Relive reality TV’s golden age with Please Do Not Swear, the explosive oral history of a decade that redefined celebrity and reshaped pop culture.From the groundbreaking early days of Big Brother to the rise of ‘living soaps’ like The Only Way is Essex, culture critic Louis Staples takes us behind the scenes of the extraordinary decade when reality TV changed everything.Through candid interviews with reality stars, producers, presenters, and journalists, this explosive book uncovers how the experimental TV formats shaped social attitudes and redefined what it meant to be a celebrity. Featuring iconic moments – from the meteoric rise of Jade Goody to Paris Hilton’s influential The Simple Life – Please Do Not Swear captures the innocence, cruelty and cultural impact of the shows that paved the way for the influencer age.With humour, gossip and plenty of nostalgia, this definitive oral history reveals the secrets of an unforgiving, unforgettable era when anyone could become a star – for better or worse.

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Utgivningsdatum2027-03-25
Mått159 x 240 x 21 mm
Vikt270 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagHarperCollins Publishers
ISBN9780008765828
MiljömärkningProduced using independently certified paper to ensure responsible forestry management. (Certification is by FSC, PEFC or SFI.) Produced in the UK using 100% renewable electricity.

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Louis Staples is a London based culture writer and critic at The Independent. His work covers culture, the internet and society, with a particular emphasis on television and pop-culture. Staples has written exclusive interviews, long-form reported features, cultural analysis and essays about reality TV for publications such as New York Magazine, Rolling Stone, Variety, The Guardian, VICE, GQ and the BBC. He writes ‘Cultural Staples’, a fortnightly culture essay for Harper’s Bazaar US. In 2021, he was shortlisted for the inaugural Freelance Writing Awards in the Technology category, for his digital culture reporting.