British rock star and rehab expert Pete Doherty, along with a host of other celebrities, are being mocked in a new animated series by author Peter Robinson, founder of Popjustice.com. The animated cartoons are based on a series of books which make fun of celebrity lifestyles.

“They are aimed at all ages. They are written in a childlike way like the ‘Mr Men’ books but they are for adults as well as kids,” he told Reuters.
“I particularly loved the idea of writing a book about Michael Jackson that you could read to children.”
In “A Boy Called Michael” Robinson writes: “If you were to line up lots of pictures of Michael, you might think that he had changed himself lots to look different. You would be wrong to think that — most of this has happened by itself!”



“In the book on Britney Spears, I said she should halt having babies and make another album. She is now doing that so I hope we played a small part,” Robinson said.
He has now signed a discount to turn the slender volumes into an animated TV series.
Elton John is satirised for

his shopping sprees and brief temper. Recalling one of his outbursts about lip-synching at concerts, Robinson writes: “Once Sir Elton was very mean about a girl called Madonna.
“He said that Madonna should not make people pay to watch her pretend to sing songs. Elton was very angry about this. He was so angry his head almost fell off.”



Feedback, as far as Robinson knows, has been positive.
“Robbie Williams was given a copy early on of the book about him. He really liked it and took it home,” he said.
No collection of cautionary pop tales would be complete without the story of “A Boy Called Pete” about singer Pete Doherty, the self-confessed drug addict and on-again off-again boyfriend of supermodel Kate Moss.
“I didn’t set out to make it moral but it’s difficult not to see it as a good example of why you should not take drugs all the time,” Robinson said.



As the book explains, Pete “likes to take lots of mind-bending Class A drugs. Unfortunately Class A drugs are not very good for you. They make you smelly and a bit untidy-looking.”

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