Mark Borkowski: I work with celebrities — fame has never been so dangerous
Caroline Flack in 2019. ‘Every celebrity now exists under a microscope with a target on their back and a bounty on their head.’
"Fame is a sweet poison you drink of first in eager gulps. Then you come to loathe it.” Richard Burton’s aphorism, and the context of his turbulent stardom, is still a near perfect summary of the nature of fame; but as our polarised society and media-industrial complex continue to engorge and mutate, new strains of this toxin hit the market almost daily.
Two years on, the collective guilt felt by many of us over the death of Caroline Flack, which has never truly subsided, was again brought to the fore by her mother’s forceful accusation this week that the police treated Caroline differently — more harshly — simply because she was famous.
