Some of the loneliest people are those faces you see on television. Some of them have no real friends even though they are mixing it with the celebrity famous types and have adoring fans. In reality they might have their parents and that is it for support, then those parents might be the pushy types that wanted superstar kids so not the best type of loving parents.

This absence and loneliness is hard to imagine given the public persona. Seemingly they have it all. But, after the studio lights go down they get bundled off into a taxi, to get driven home. Meanwhile the rest of the production crew pack up and go to the pub because 'it is a wrap'.

The production crew will also be professional in that they will respect the 'talent' (people in front of camera are 'talent') and not make clumsy, unprofessional advances. This is not always the case, in Hollywood women are still expected to sleep with the producer or director to keep getting the roles, however, this is the exception, your average lighting engineer or sound guy will have nothing but professional respect.

These lonely stars of TV also don't really relate to their fans, it is a different world they work in and know. It is also a one-way relationship, a fan may know everything about the lonely 'star' but the 'star' will know nothing of the fan's life. So sometimes you do get major 'A list' celebrities types hitching their wagon to some member of the crew who can relate to them.

Because of how TV gigs are freelance there is also no feeling for the 'talent' that they are part of a company thing. They are just hired for the day, with no continuity. They also might have to spend half their time on location or living in hotels, in this way they end up with no community and don't know their neighbours.

Then youth gets extinguished and the wrinkles set in... So then the gigs are few and far between. Life becomes a struggle.

Think of how many celebrity types from TV and music die horrifically alone. Or with a substance abuse problem for company. It happens all the time. Despite the millions of fans they can end up knowing nobody with nobody to trust.

Margaret Thatcher died as a very lonely woman, yet once their was a time when the world would hang on her every word, albeit to probably hate her. Her family didn't care, however, due to being a former Prime Minister she did have police protection until the bitter end. Yet nobody could even be bothered to throw insults at her, and, as every narcissist knows, hate is at least 'attention'. She wasn't even getting that during her final days, a cruel and unusual punishment. Tony Blair is probably in the same predicament, I found his autobiography at the local tip the other day and I am sure that is indicative of how people feel about the 'once great man'.

At the other end of the scale are people that work and live in a small community, e.g. village sized, know everyone, have lovely family, a life long partner and not a lot of material riches. These are some of the happiest and least lonely people in the world. They might not have got very far, e.g. to spend their working life as a local builder, they might not know anyone famous and yet they have all the ingredients for the rewarding life that eludes those faces on TV that seem to have it all.

In an age when everyone seeks superstardom - 'get rich or die trying' - the local folk that 'did not get very far' are having the last laugh.