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Article: Ricky Gervais.(News)
- Article from:
- Western Mail (Cardiff, Wales)
- Article date:
- March 20, 2006
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If there's one thing the British public love more than seeing a so-called celebrity do well, it's watching them lose everything. Failure makes celebrities more human, it makes them less perfect and it makes them more like us. So with Golden Globes, Baftas, chart-topping DVD sales, record-breaking podcasts and countless magazine cover appearances to his name, why aren't we turning on Ricky Gervais yet?
Gervais stands for the common man. After a stint as a radio DJ on London station XFM, Gervais penned The Office and it leapt to modern-classic status. Gervais's ...