Page 114 - Classics Issue

Andy Warhol famously said “In the future, everyone will be famous for 15 minutes” living now in the on line, publish yourself generation, this quote has never been more true. I’ve worked for 20 years in the entertainment industry and I count myself lucky to have plenty of experience in this arena having met and worked with some incredibly talented performers in both music and flm. So Andy may have predicted the rise of the reality show, or car crash TV, which has fuelled the explosion in social media creating a plethora of new “stars” of the small screen, (which used to mean television) but maybe today is more appropriately tagged as “on-any mobile device”. There will naturally be winners and losers, On the one hand, it has certainly left the music industry in a tail spin and almost caught the movie studios napping, which is not a totally bad thing. On the other hand it just means the flters are removed, talent is not nurtured and developed it’s just thrown out there to live or die on its feet. I was enjoying Sunday lunch the other day, with a group of some old friends in a sleepy village near Thame in Buckinghamshire. There were about 12 of us including my friend Robin Robbins and his daughter Daisy. So when Robin, huge glass of splendid red wine in hand, announced the Daisy was now the latest member of the Made in Chelsea, or MIC as the in crowd call it, cast I was interested to hear her story.Although MIC was not on either of my teenage son’s radar, nor mine for that matter, you would have to be living on a desert island not to have heard of the show. In case you haven’t seen it, MIC follows the lives of a group of Chelsea born and bred young twenty somethings, in a semi scripted reality show. They all know each other, usually from school, so their lives are already intertwined. I’ve not really seen the show, but I’ve heard the buzz and run into a few of the original cast from time to time at events, I’m not their target audience, but millions of people love to dip into the “Chelsea” life style of parties, cocktails, beautiful homes and superyachts. So you could easily dismiss these “characters” as shallow party goers with no ambition other than to rinse through DAISY ROBINS Talks family history with Craig Blake-Jones