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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
Entertainment
Elle Hunt

Celeste Barber’s next target: ‘The wellness industry is like the new form of church’

Celeste Barber
Australian comedian, actor and celebrity parody queen Celeste Barber stars in new Netflix series Wellmania. Photograph: Cybele Malinowski/The Guardian

It’s not how I’d planned to start my interview with Celeste Barber about her new Netflix dramedy which skewers the wellness industry, yet here I am logging on to Zoom 15 minutes late, dishevelled and regretting my recent attempt to have it all.

Barber is at home in Australia; I’m in the UK, where it’s 6am. I’d been intending to have only a half-pint the night before and, well, the next minute, I am being woken up by my ringing phone.

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