ABSTRACT
This chapter explores the way anti-regulatory forces and messages operate in and through the politics of celebrity culture. Celebrity disruption manifests in forms of celebrity and fannish behaviour, which run free or counter to dominant ideologies, rituals and discourses. The practice of celebrity trolling seems to warrant reading from both these democratic/demotic positions. The celebrity carnival takes place on a number of levels and diffuses itself through numerous settings and contexts. The celebrity carnival isn't formed on democratic principles and neither does it create the conditions for conformity or obedience to flourish. Celebrity and fan can create the conditions for the carnival to emerge and converge on the conventions of the proceedings at hand. The disgust that one finds in this type of celebrity carnival is sensory and cross-modal: smells, tastes, textures and environments can offend us; can turn our insides out, in synaesthetic union.
