'Go and work on the stock market'
Updated on 22 August 2007
That's the sage advice actress Keira Knightly is offering to young people who want to be famous.
Despite our new prime minister's protestations to the contrary, British society is still enthralled by celebrity. The fact we're not bored of the famous and their trappings is not lost on Hollywood darling Keira Knightly.
This week she told the Radio Times how horrified she was by the hordes of young people who, these days, want to become famous for fame's sake: "It frightens me when kids go, 'I want to be famous,'" she said.
And her solution? The star who found fame in Bend it Like Beckham thinks the nation's fame-seeking youth would be far better off getting a day job ... on the stock market.
"Go and work on the stock market," she said. But is the heady world of stocks, shares, city bonuses and masters of the universe really the antidote to the glamour of the rich and famous?
She's evidently been spending too much time living the highlife to remember what most ordinary people do for a living. Mind you, we can still get a reasonable thrill from the lottery.
