The title of this post is the same as the title of a long article in yesterday's New York Times Magazine. It detailed the glamorous life of Katie Price aka Jordan (during her career as Page 3 girl).This whole idea of what it means to be famous in England is getting more and more interesting to me. This is just the latest in a slew of articles about how (fill in the blank -- Steve Coogan/Russel Brand/Katie Price) is going to be big here one day.
Just as most Brits can speak American, (or at least know that flashlight = torch) they also seem to know nearly all of our celebs ... while we hardly know any of theirs -- unless you're like me, and I'm trying really, really hard.
Of course, they probably don't know the names of local news readers or perhaps American Football and Baseball player below the rank of Bret Favre or Daryl Jeter -- but neither do a lot of Americans. I'd be hard pressed to name one English cricket star.
How many times have you heard something like, "Billie Piper was the Brittney Spears of England" (filling in the former and later names to make a simple identification)? I mean, in the case of Katie Price, she's the "Pamela Anderson" of Britain, but because they used to get Baywatch, so is Pamela Anderson!
It seems as though Brits have their famous people AND THEN have to learn about all of ours. Maybe that's why I find all this stuff intriguing ... it's a view into an alternate universe where they speak the same language (sort of), but Rowan and Martin have been replaced by the Two Ronnies.
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