Mark Frith: The Celeb Diaries

by Frith, Mark

ISBN: 9780091928285

Published: 2008

Celebrity is this decade's biggest obsession, and one person has had a ringside seat for the whole thing. As editor of celebrity bible Heat, Mark Frith has had more access to celebrities than anyone else. And now, for the first time, he's opening up his diaries - and no one is safe. Addictive reading, this is the story of the inexorable rise of this thing called celebrity, crammed with previously unheard of stories from the likes of Victoria and David Beckham, Kate Moss and Pete Doherty, Amy Winehouse, Britney Spears, Paris Hilton, Kelly and Sharon Osbourne, Jordan, Madonna, Jude Law, Ewan McGregor, Simon Cowell, Will Young, Teri Hatcher, Oasis, David Walliams, Tara Palmer-Tomkinson and more. In 2000, Mark was tasked with turning around the fortunes of an entertainment magazine that was just two months away from closure. He did it - by sweet-talking Victoria Beckham into giving him an interview and stealing a Robbie Williams exclusive from another magazine and essentially inventing...