Comedian and actor Celeste Barber doesn’t want to be called a ‘media sensation’
COMEDIAN and actor Celeste Barber may have more than 2.7 million Instagram followers — and count A-listers such as Marion Cotillard and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as personal fans — but don’t call her a social media sensation.
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COMEDIAN and actor Celeste Barber may have more than 2.7 million Instagram followers — and count A-listers such as Marion Cotillard and Rosie Huntington-Whiteley as personal fans — but don’t call her a social media sensation.
Although Barber’s parody of celebrities on Instagram has made her a household name and given her a following that could equate to thousands of dollars in sponsored posts, that’s not what she’s about.
“I don’t have any desire to be a social media sensation or model, I’m a comedian. And this is a platform that gets what I do out there even more and it’s really exciting for me,” Barber told Confidential.
“I’ve actually been called the anti-influencer. I get offered to do a lot of sponsored posts for detox tea, meal replacement, diet pills. And they offer a heap of money, but I always reply saying I don’t support any product that makes women feel they need to look a certain way to feel a certain way. I’m not interested in the slightest.”
Instead Barber, who stars in ABC’s The Letdown and has appeared on Home And Away and All Saints, is focusing on her comedy and acting work. She’s reaching the end of a sold-out national comedy tour, playing in Sydney on December 5.
It’s just been announced she will take the tour to the US in February.
“This is the dream, to work. And Australia isn’t mad for me when it comes to TV work and movie work. The Australian industry is small … but the States are knocking a lot harder than shows here,” she said.
Inspired by her idols Amy Schumer, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, the dream for Barber is to have her own show.
But in the meantime, she will continue sending up “swimsuit models gyrating up against something”.