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Cameo explodes as celebrities seek new income amid COVID-19 lockdowns and fans hunger for celebrity attention

Simon McCarthy
Updated April 11 2021 - 12:10pm, first published 10:54am
FAME: Cameo.com has exploded as celebrities like Billy Boyd seek new income and fans crave their attention. Picture: Getty
FAME: Cameo.com has exploded as celebrities like Billy Boyd seek new income and fans crave their attention. Picture: Getty

BILLY Boyd - the actor who famously played Pippin in Peter Jackson's Lord of the Rings trilogy - has just sung my friend Happy Birthday. He's beaming with kindness as he croons down his mobile phone camera in a video that appears to have been shot in his home.

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Simon McCarthy

Simon McCarthy

Journalist, Newcastle Herald

Simon McCarthy is a journalist working at the Newcastle Herald in NSW. He writes news and features, and produces video and multimedia, for the Herald and Herald Weekender magazine. He contributes regularly to the Newcastle Herald’s daily Topics column, and is the co-creator and producer of the Toohey’s News podcast. McCarthy has worked as a journalist in regional NSW since 2013. He joined the newsroom of the Newcastle Herald in 2017 from the Northern Daily Leader in Tamworth where he worked from 2015 to 2016.

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