We're all television stars in a pandemic.

This article responds to James Bennett and Su Holmes's essay 'The "Place" of Television in Celebrity Studies' from the inaugural issue of Celebrity Studies, reflecting on developments in the field over the past ten years, especially the expansion of social media, its intersection with the authentic ordinariness expected of the television celebrity, and 2020's COVID-19 pandemic. If domesticity and ordinariness are hallmarks of the television star (Mann 1992), a pandemic makes us all television stars. As film stars, television stars, 'digital stars,' and ordinary people all remained confined to domestic spaces in 2020, it seems prudent to theorise celebrity in this moment just as Bennett and Holmes suggested in 2010: television fame has much to tell us about fame in a pandemic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]