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RURN OF THE Diva

Remember when you couldn’t move for stories of female celebrities being outrageously demanding, regardless of how true they were: Mariah refusing to get out of her car until a red carpet was laid for her outside the Baglioni hotel, Madonna throwing a bouquet of flowers gifted to her at the Venice Film Festival on the floor and loudly proclaiming, “I absolutely loathe hydrangeas”, Victoria Beckham allegedly insisting on hair and make-up that cost four times as much as her Spice colleagues before their London 2012 Olympics performance … Tut tut, we wagged our judgy fingers – these total prima donnas are giving us women a bad name.

Just look where our sanctimonious celeb-bashing has got us – the rise of Instagram has coincided with a

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