Reviews of Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins
“His hilariously honest autobiography, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins…is a kind of rakes progress. The accounts of filming with stars such as Madonna, Sharon Stone and Julia Roberts are as good as Evelyn Waugh. The earlier scenes from childhood to unruly adolescence, to drama school and a belle époque beyond, are like Brideshead in Doc Martens, shocking and hilarious… His autobiography is funny, outrageous and extremely well written”. Sarah Sands, Daily Mail

“The most keenly awaited celebrity autobiography is Rupert Everett’s Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins, an urbane charmer in the manner of David Niven’s The Moon’s a Balloon”. John O’Connell, Time Out

“You don’t need to be a soothsayer to know that, amidst the volcanic spew of fourth-rate celebrity memoirs launched this autumn, only one will be worth the paper it’s printed on. I was salivating over my toast and marmalade at last week’s serialisation of Rupert Everett’s exemplary stab at the genre, Red Carpets and Other Banana Skins.” Rowan Pelling, Independent on Sunday

“You’ll enjoy the hectic energy of Everett’s engagement with the beautiful and the damned… it’s impossible to begrudge Rupert his repetitive ecstasies when the result is a book as glowingly resplendently alive, as beautifully written and as damnably charming as this”. John Walsh, Independent

‘What makes this autobiography a (novelistic) masterpiece is the way he is acutely aware of the melancholia and pain that are the other side of hedonism’s coin…If Lord Byron’s memoirs had been grabbed from the flames, they’d have been like this – preposterous, self-serving, slapdash, soulful and brilliant”. Roger Lewis, Daily Telegraph

“It’s extremely well-written, very funny and manages to balance satisfactorily high levels of bitchiness with equal amounts of personal candour…Rupert Everett’s autobiography may well be the best thing he’s ever done." John Preston, Sunday Telegraph

“Brilliant memoir, the best theatrical autobiography since Noel Coward’s Present Indicative…he has lived his life on the frontline…Red Carpets is his dispatch; shot through with a sense of his own absurdity, it is a superb and unexpectedly inspiring achievement”. Simon Callow, Guardian

“Lush, profoundly reflective, and thoroughly satisfying autobiography… Definitely several cuts above the conventional showbusiness memoir, laced with quirky insights and dazzling phrases, it reads like a lurid dream, recalled in deliciously acute detail – in short, a heady triumph of observation and reverie”. Christopher Silvester, Independent on Sunday

“highly entertaining and self-deprecating autobiography…His chapters are presented as essays or short stories in themselves; one can pick at random and be entranced in seconds. Everett’s technique has the bubbling thrust of a fountain and none of the gush. His flawless memory, allied to a sharp eye and ear, brings alive his crazy year in Moscow with Capote-like dark humour” Nicholas Haslam, Spectator

“You probably won’t believe me, but Rupert Everett is a seriously good writer…this autobiography is a proper book”. Michael Pye, Scotsman

“There’s a lot of fun here…For a start Everett can write, which most celebrities can’t.” Duncan Fallowell, Daily Express

“The most unashamedly queeny memoir I have ever read, and in many respects the funniest…There are some superbly told anecdotes, and a brilliant account of what it was like to live and work in Moscow in the 1980s.” Paul Bailey, Sunday Times

“A wonderfully waspish, gossipy, grandly amusing thing full of great lines… Best of all, though, it is genuinely revelatory, something increasingly atypeical in celebrity memoirs”. Teddy Jamieson, Herald

“Now here’s your chance to find out even more about this enigmatic actor and engaging storyteller as he reveals all about his glam and energetic life. Blooming brill!” OK! Hot Stars

“I couldn’t put it down and by the last page was thinking: much more of this, please. As a natural outsider, he is a first-rate observer and a born commentator: perspicacious and quite venomous when it suits”. Jan Moir, Daily Telegraph

“This is a fun read, refreshingly candid and deliciously gossipy. They’re all here – Andy, Bianca, Julia, Liz, Roddy, Rudolph and Sharon – and in each case he offers some engaging new insight. He may not be a Great Actress, but he’s a pretty good writer.” Paul Burston, Time Out

“Everett combines a delicious sense of humour with a natural instinct for storytelling in this gripping account of his life so far”. Sainsbury's Magazine

“The best bits are the fabulous fruity ways in which he describes the stars he met along the way. Indiscreet yet affectionate”. Bent

“Refreshingly appetising…Everett’s tales of encounters with a glittering kaleidoscope of celebrities are vivacious and engaging”. Johanna Thomas-Corr, City AM