{"id":710172,"date":"2026-07-25T07:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710172\/"},"modified":"2026-07-25T07:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-25T07:40:09","slug":"tunbridge-wells-exhibition-showcases-steve-read-celebrity-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/710172\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunbridge Wells exhibition showcases Steve Read celebrity photos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">A photographer who spent the 1990s capturing some of the world&#8217;s biggest celebrities has opened an exhibition of his work in Tunbridge Wells.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Steve Read worked for magazines including Talk and Loaded, photographing stars such as JK Rowling, Eminem, Sharon Osbourne and Lennox Lewis.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Now an exhibition called Shooting Stars Pays the Rent is displaying images from the period at The Claremont pub in his home town.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It was kind of a golden era of celebrity and magazines that doesn&#8217;t exist any more,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Read spent much of the decade working in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I&#8217;d be waiting for a call and they&#8217;d say: &#8216;Do you want to do Eminem? Do you want to do Sharon and Ozzy?&#8217; It was amazing, it was such an incredible experience,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A photographer who spent the 1990s capturing some of the world&#8217;s biggest celebrities has opened an exhibition of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":710173,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[6491,96,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-710172","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710172","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=710172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/710172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/710173"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=710172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=710172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=710172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}