Ricky Gervais is right about sanctimonious celebs

Do you know who hasn’t had a good corona war so far? Celebrities. Throughout this crisis, many of them seem to have gone out of their way to prove our worst prejudices about them right: namely that they are narcissistic, entitled people, completely cut off from the concerns of ordinary people and yet possessed by a desire to lecture to and coo over us.

First there was Hollywood actress Gal Gadot, who thought that what we all needed amidst this pandemic was for her and her celebrity mates to sing a profoundly cringey cover of ‘Imagine’. She teed it up by saying ‘it doesn’t matter who you are, where you’re from, we’re all in this together’. But the clips of impossibly rich people singing from the comfort of their mansions and plush apartments rather undercut that message.

Even more repellant was a video put on Instagram by Madonna, as part of her daily quarantine diary.