Rupert Everett is one of our leading actors and has starred in films including 'My Best Friend's Wedding', 'The Madness of King George' and 'Another Country'.
You don't need to be a soothsayer to know that, amidst the volcanic spew of fourth-rate celebrity memoirs launched this autumn, only one will be worth the paper it's printed on. I was salivating over my toast and marmalade at last week's serialisation of Rupert Everett's exemplary stab at the genre, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins Rowan Pelling, INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY Hilariously honest... a kind of rake's progress. The accounts of filming with stars such as Madonna, Sharon Stone and Julia Roberts are as good as Evelyn Waugh. The earlier scenes from childhood to unruly adolescence, to drama school and a belle epoque DAILY MAIL The most keenly awaited celebrity autobiography is Rupert Everett's RED CARPETS AND OTHER BANANA SKINS, an urbane charmer in the manner David Niven's THE MOON'S A BALLOON John O'Connell's, TIME OUT Lush, profoundly reflective, and thoroughly satisfying autobiography ... Definitely several cuts above the conventional showbusiness memoir, laced with quirky insights and dazzling phrases it reads like a lurid dream, recalled in deliciously acute deta 'You'll enjoy the hectic energy of Everett's engagement with the beautiful and the damned ... it's impossible to begrudge Rupert his repetitive ecstasies when the result is a book as glowingly resplendently alive, as beautifully written and as damnably