"In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking"
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The intent is less moral panic than exasperated realism. Brook is calling out a distinctly modern British (and broadly Western) habit: treating visibility as proof of value. The subtext is about incentives. If attention is currency, then “doing something” becomes optional. You don’t need a body of work; you need a storyline, a look, a scandal, a feed. Celebrity becomes a pre-emptive brand launch, and the public is recruited as unpaid marketing through clicks, gossip, and outrage.
Her choice of “shocking” matters, too. It’s not the language of a theorist; it’s the language of someone watching the ground shift under her own profession. Modeling already sits in a tricky space between craft and image, so her critique doubles as a warning: when culture rewards mere recognizability, everyone gets pushed toward being legible, consumable, and replaceable. The “obsessed” isn’t just the audience; it’s the whole ecosystem - editors, bookers, producers, platforms - addicted to the cheap thrill of coronation without merit.
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"In this country we're just obsessed with making people celebrities before they've even done anything, which I think is just shocking." FixQuotes, 15 Jan. 2026, https://fixquotes.com/quotes/in-this-country-were-just-obsessed-with-making-160460/. Accessed 18 Feb. 2026.





