A six-part podcast - AVAILABLE NOW!

Each week, ordinary Australians reveal what it’s like to become an accidental celebrity after a traumatic, newsworthy event – offering rare insights into the competitive media industry.

Imagine your trauma leads the news. Your private life is then public property. Your anonymity is lost. That’s what it’s like to become an accidental celebrity. Now, the spotlight is turned around. Each weekly episode offers rare media insights from an ordinary Australian who faced an extraordinary event. They expose the tricks of a competitive trade – the relentless pursuits, the manipulation and misrepresentation, the betrayals of truth and trust – with journalist Fiona Reynolds. Learn too why they participated in media coverage. This is the inside story on a shrewd industry that plucks unknowns from obscurity to feed our fascination with adversity and the strength of the human spirit.

The Accidental Celebrity series is researched, written and produced by Dr Fiona Reynolds - an Australian journalist and former media executive with over 30 years of industry experience.