Am I the only Guardian reader who is fed up with all these no names presented like they are celebrities? Example: "Wouldn’t it be lovely if I could shut up?’ Meet Lola Petticrew, TV’s most fearless actor" - who TF is this person?

Main Character Syndrome? Because she gets a bit annoyed with having interviews with micro-celebs pushed in her face every time she opens the Guardian?

I’m with the OP on this, I’d rather read about people who’ve actually done something significant - otherwise why pick this person rather than thousands of equally obscure others?

Quite like the girl’s hair though, despite the comment that it is “90s”. Makes a change from centre partings anyway!

Meet this sleb - "I'm nothing like the others slebs honest, I'm soooo distrinctive".

I do love the Graun but it tries my patience with its clickbaitiness lately. And the flogging the Observer business . Oh and the editors bore of a husband.

So they should stick to printing articles about strictly come dancing and I'm a celebrity? No thanks. Both Trespasses and Say Nothing were fantastic dramas and Lola Petticrew was fab in both. How on earth do people broaden their horizons if they insist on living on an echo chamber and immersing themselves in the same old stuff?

I've found the Guardian unreadable for years now. It was the heavy-handed editorial bias that did me in, but for a while there the pop culture section was still decent. You'd get funny tv reviews and the occasional interesting interview about how something was made.

But I noticed a shift a few years ago, where it became obvious that every interview they did with a celebrity was pushing for a topical, click-bait headline. Every interview with an actress, they were digging for her to share her #MeToo experiences, even if she obviously wasn't comfortable. Every interview with a gay actor was about being gay. Every interview with a black actor was about being black.

And that would always be the headline, even if it was only one brief sentence in the interview itself. The actor would have have said all these really interesting things about their creative insights or an upcoming project, but none of them would be deemed interesting enough to hook the reader. Every single time, without fail, they'd be pushed back in their identity box, and that would be presented as the most interesting thing about them. You could sense how irritated some of them were with the interviewers, as time went on. It was so reductive.

😂😂😂

Me too. Glad I'm not alone.

Am I the only [person] who is fed up with all these no names presented like they are celebrities?
Can I join the club. Who the heck cares what actors (celebrities or otherwise) think? They are not Great Thinkers of Our Time, they are (1) people who need publicity and (2) fill media's column inches / airtime.
It is, sadly, no deeper than that.

Stand in front of the mirror first thing in the morning and last thing at night.

Point at the person staring back at you and repeat 5 times in a row:

”The world does not revolve around you”.

Yours is an advanced case so may take about few months for treatment to take hold.

Happy to help but it seems in your case there is no cure.

700,000 people is not that many. I've never even heard of the show that she is in. It's no wonder that few people read the Guardian. Most of what they print is depressing and sad and when they do print something more light-hearted, it's stuff like this about an actress on a TV show that very few people watch.

i’m amazed the OP had to come and post here for you to point this out haha but thanks for doing it quickly

This woman is none of those. She’s an actress that has appeared in dramas watched by people that are not the OP

You're missing some good drama if you avoid the regular channels (which you can stream).

(I haven't watched Trespasses myself, just seen it talked about a lot - including being reviewed in the Guardian!)

I quite like the Guardian, in fact I subscribe to the digital version as I am trying to find objective good quality journalism. My main gripe with it is that it's heavy on Australian news! I checked my app is for the UK version yet I get multiple stories for Australia?!?

I mean, I've heard of her, and think she's been decent in the things I've seen, but she's fighting a losing battle if she thinks anyone is going to take her they/them-ness seriously. Maybe she should stop taking roles for women if she feels that strongly she's not one.

You created this thread to whine that the Guardian is not tailored personally to you and things you are personally familiar with.

It's the 'old' that's doing it, not the 'grumpy' or the 'bitch'.

The world is crammed with famous people I've never heard of. All actresses look the same to me. I never know anyone on any 'Now Celebrities Have a Go' tv show.

This is not because - as some people my age insist - the people who are famous today are less talented and less deserving than those who were successful when I was young. ("Who's that woman cooking on telly? She's not a patch on Graham Kerr, the Galloping Gourmet!") No, it's because I'm not paying attention these days. That's not a fault, but neither is it a virtue.

It's just age.