Page 208 - Katherine Ryan press pack

“The first section will be celebrity and news stuff with some local bits

and that has to evolve because news keeps happening.”

As part of Ryan’s celebrity section, she’ll be discussing such figures

as Taylor Swift, Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Peter Andre and the late

Joan Rivers.

She added: “A lot of my celebrity material is looking at the meta

narrative and at what’s happening behind the scenes. With many

reality TV stars, their weight is 100% engineered.

“They start to get a bit fat because they’re on TV shows where they’re

paid to get drunk and fight, then the managers arrange for photos to

be taken of their star on the beach wearing a pink bikini and eating a

McDonald’s.

“And then their trainer helps them lose weight so they can flog the
book and DVD and fashion line. It’s happened so many times with the

girls on Geordie Shore and Big Brother.

“That’s what entertains me: you can put on this puppet show and

people don’t seem to notice.”

Ryan has a cuttingly great line in Kathbum about Joan Rivers, but

once again the joke is coming from a warm place. Some

commentators have even suggested that Ryan may well be the new

Rivers.

“As in, am I going to die under the knife?” she jokes. “I’ve always

loved Joan Rivers; I used to stay up late on a Friday for my big treat