Celebrity is the condition of being famous – people talk about you. Martin Amis predicted our contemporary obsession with it when he said “It’s not the case that in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. In the future everyone will be famous all the time – but only in their own minds. It is lookalike fame, karaoke fame.” We have been obsessed with celebrity for as long as I can remember. J.G Ballard said that it all began in the sixties when “Celebrity was all that counted. If denying God made a bishop famous, what choice was there?” Historically, celebrity status was achieved through doing something, good…