Whats the difference between a star and a celebrity? Surely they e much the same?
A star has a skill, a celebrity doesn’t. I’m saddened to think that people don’t realise the difference. If it’s that simple, why do we confuse stars with celebrities? Our awareness of what makes a star seems to have slipped. A star is not someone who’s been whisked out of obscurity and made to sit in a room for seven weeks being observed by cameras. A star is someone who’s good at something, but we’ve lost sight of that. An astronaut or an athlete would now be way down the list from some complete nonentity. So why did you focus on celebrities in previous series of Ruby Wax Meets…? For a long time I lost interest in famous people. I never wanted to make films about stars because I wanted to meet them, or because I was in awe of them; I wanted to make those films in order to study the disease of fame. That was my fascination: seeing what fame does to a person, taking notes. You must have learnt a lot, then… By the end of the last series of Ruby Wax Meets… I had so much material I
