We are gathered here today to celebrate the joyous but brief little life of ‘the selfie’. Born in early 2013, the selfie blossomed with the advent of Instagram, and burned bright and brief in the summer when Kim Kardashian off of Keeping Up With The Kardashians did one of her bum.
Then, sadly, after a short illness in December 2013 when Joey Essex took one with Ed actual Miliband, the selfie collapsed and died. It leaves behind it a slightly previous Oxford English Dictionary entry and a whole mess of bewildered teenage girls.
Yes, believe it: last night, at The Sun’s Military Award (or, ‘Millies’), Joey cornered the leader of the opposition, baffled asked him to pull his most baffled expression, then snapped a picture of the two of them, two faces in the same frame, two minds a million miles apart.
“With my mate @Ed_Miliband at the #Millies,” Joey tweeted. Ed Miliband then retweeted the picture, so we guess… they are… mates… now? Yes? Frankly, we would not be adverse to ‘reality stars taking selfies with politicians’ becoming ‘a thing’.
Arg from TOWIE, snuggling mate-ily up to The Lizard King David Cameron. Spencer Matthews getting John Prescott in a banterrific headlock. Charlotte from Geordie Shore vomiting down Nick Clegg’s cummerbund. Come on, politicians. Get in touch with the MTV press office.