The pleasures of reading elude some of our biggest names ? from Jamie Oliver to, erm, Davinia Taylor
Mindful of its responsibilities to put something back, Lost in Showbiz is toying with the idea of launching a telethon for celebrity aliteracy. Are you aware of this heartbreaking condition, in which those we might loosely term members of the entertainment community are able to read, but make a big play of choosing not to? The symptoms are a wildly misplaced pride, and an implicit belief that because their success has been achieved without so much as opening a book, reading is generally overrated.
Jamie Oliver is forever boasting "I have never read a book in my life ? ever", the sort of extreme debating pose he'd presumably find less helpful were it a 104-year-old woman explaining she'd never eaten a vegetable in her life. Victoria Beckham also claimed in an interview with a Spanish newspaper never to have read a book, though she later ruled that a mistranslation. Let the record state she has never finished a book.
Latest to join the throng is former Hollyoaks actor Davinia Taylor ? heiress to a loo roll fortune ? who is selling her house complete with the books that line its walls.
"I've not actually read any of them," she hastens to point out. "I just love the bindings."
Perhaps the most complex celebrity aliterate, however, is Katie Price. She has never read her own autobiography, not any of its three sequels, nor any of her five novels. She does, however, devour books about serial killers, and has said she would love nothing more than the chance to visit Broadmoor. Suggestions as to how to make her dreams come true are most welcome.
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