EASY AND ENGAGING: That’s what VG’s reviewer writes about Morten Hegseth’s autobiography “Mr. Hell” coming this week. Photo: Espen Sjølingstad Hoen / VG
The proto-celebrity Morten Hegseth looks through himself in a suitably merciless and entertaining way in “Mr. Hell”.
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He does not walk around the porridge, the presenter and journalist Morten Hegseth.
Already on the back of the dust jacket of the recent autobiography “Mr. Hell,” he states: “There were two things I knew I wanted to be when I grew up: gay – and celebrity”.
One must be able to safely state that he has succeeded in both.
When the 37-year-old stjørdaling now collects his life between two binders, it is on behalf of the psychologist, who encourages him to write in towards the core of the urgent question “Who the hell am I?”.
That the result of this therapeutic process is suitable in book form is by no means a given. But it does – thanks in large part to the author’s self-revealing, humorous and merciless look at his own narcissism and shamelessness.
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Book review: “Mr. Hell»
Author: Morten Hegseth
Genre: Nonfiction
Publisher: Kagge
Sider: 168
Taken: 399,-
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Especially the childhood and youth years as a gay man in the countryside are depicted smoothly and engrossingly.
Young Morten falls in love with Ådne Søndrål and Roy from the “Family saga De syv søstre”, reads Se og Hør religiously and promptly answers “Wenche Myhre” when the teacher asks what he wants to be when he grows up. Winning a beauty contest at the Hellsenteret as a five-year-old (hence the book title) is both a matter of course and an indication of what the boy has in store.
BOOK NO. 2: Morten Hegseth is out with his autobiography. He has previously published the children’s book “Tine and the magical mirror”. Photo: Kagge publishing house
Likewise, Hegseth paints a recognizable and vivid picture of the 90s and the struggles of youth, where Christina Aguilera and cornflakes are displaced by Tom Waits, Bikini Kill, Simone de Beauvoir and vegetarian pizza, and the AIDS epidemic still casts a shadow over young gay reality.
That Morten Hegseth towers like a giant among the smoke of influencers, intellectually as well as physically (the man is over two meters tall), is not so surprising:
After all, he became a TV celebrity through his participation in “Big Brother” as early as 2006, when Sophie Elise, Isabel Raad and VGTV partner Vegard Harm were still subbing around the primary school.
On his journey from reality TV participant via tabloid journalist to A-list celebrity, he has proven to be a skilled click anchor and an up-and-coming social debater.
Here he proves that his storytelling talent is also suitable for carrying a more comprehensive format.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Morten Hegseth is a presenter on VGTV and TV 2 – and is known from the podcast Harm og Hegseth. The two won the audience award during Gullruten in 2019. They are also known from a number of reality TV shows such as “Skal vi danse”, “Kompani Lauritzen” and “Jaget”. Photo: Espen Sjølingstad Hoen / VG
The lightness and economy that pervade “Mr. However, Hell” becomes a double-edged sword throughout the reading. 168 pages is not enough, and in the last half of the book we will go through twisted body ideals, pandemic fog, liposuction, Botox and mental illness that culminates in a diagnosis.
Hegseth never succumbs to self-pity, but in these parts he could have needed more room to frolic. He clearly writes best when he gets to immerse himself in his favorite subject (“me, me, me”), without too many distracting side tracks.
The anger and fear after last summer’s Pride terror is portrayed painfully and insightfully, but he could have put on several more characters about his crusade against conversion therapy.
But if you’re only going to read one celebrity book this autumn – and many more are hardly advisable, if the truth be told – it might as well be this one.
Unless you are severely attacked by a Morten Hegseth allergy, that is. In this sense, probably “Mr. Hell” unbearably lives up to the title.
Morten Hegseth and Vegard Harm are associated Max Social, which is a wholly owned profile agency in VGTV AS. VG’s editorial assessments are made independently of this. The editors are free. An overview of bindings for profiles who do assignments for VG is located her.Published:
Published: 19.10.23 at 00:00
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