What makes a celebrity?

It’s been three days since I vowed to make friends with a celebrity.  (See #9 in post below).  Although I have seven months to make this minor miracle happen it is proving very difficult to get started.  Questions crowd in on me concerning the best plan of action; a possible shortlist; geographical location; gender and so on.  But my biggest quandary is trying to define a ‘celebrity’.

Having consulted a few trusted people in my life we have decided that a celebrity is someone who, if invited to ones wedding or birthday party, would be recognised by most people.  But doesn’t this vary depending on ones friendship circle?  

More than all the rest, this challenge causes me the most angst.  Unless I have a finely honed strategy; I could be arrested, locked up in an asylum, shot by an undercover body-guard, run-over by a motorcade, punched, followed and threatened, beaten to a pulp… the list is endless when you think about it!

Therefore I have decided that a minor celebrity from the emerald isle may be the most achievable and certainly more possible than an international movie star or rap artist.  Suggestions so far have included William Crawley, Shane Lynch, Ian Paisley, Gerry Anderson, Hugo Duncan, Christine Bleakley, Fanta Clarke, Eamon Holmes and the current Presbyterian Moderator.  So I now shamelessly make my appeal to any A, B or C list, Irish/British celebrity, who by chance reads this blog, to get in touch with me… thanks. 

All other suggestions gratefully received.