When the public face provokes so much idolisation, a sort of dissonance is likely to occur: it is as if the star has a twin who is receiving all the attention. The jaw-dropping mansion and fleet of cars cannot fill a gap left by an unnoticed and un-nurtured true self, which might have atrophied at a young age if fame arrived uncommonly early. In these cases, the fans who love you are not people you could ever connect with in real life; they respond to your mediated, orchestrated, grotesquely sexualised twin right on cue, whilst remaining the very people that the real-life you has to spend much
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