ABSTRACT
This chapter addresses the regulation node on the circuit of celebrity culture. It examines the processes and practices through which celebrity regulation enters the social world. The chaper draws upon themes of teen celebrity liminality to examine the way regulation is policed and sometimes challenged. It then examines a series of Celebrity Big Brother to demonstrate how celebrity culture regulates identity and body through food taboos and ethnic transgressions. People's bodies became more sensitive to smells, to nudity, to the private spaces between people and to their own private, bodily actions. In contemporary society children have become a 'horror' story and horror is central to the telling of the wayward celebrity body. The idea of the 'civil body' as the desirable norm is a relatively recent historical invention. Elias also considers the civilising process in terms of the way it attempts to distance the body from the animal and the natural.
