Celeste goes UNDERCOVER!

THE INTERNET’S FUNNIEST IS TAKING ON AN UNEXPECTED NEW CHALLENGE

-  Melissa Field

Celeste Barber readily admits that her latest venture – as a lingerie model and designer of her own range in collaboration with Bras N Things – would please her younger self. “Little Celeste would be stoked that I’m doing this,” she tells WHO. “I think about her sometimes and I reckon she’d be like, ‘Well done! Go you!’”

It’s another unexpected life change for Barber, 39, who lives in Tweed Heads with husband Api Robin and their two sons (she’s also a stepmum to two older daughters). Since she began posting pictures and videos to Instagram in 2015, mocking celebrity posts, she’s gained 8.5 million followers – many of whom are the same celebs she takes the mickey out of. She also famously raised $50 million for the Rural Fire Service after 2019’s Black Summer bushfires, and has recently completed filming a musical comedy featuring music by Dolly Parton called Seriously Red alongside Rose Byrne and Bobby Cannavale.

While Barber is almost universally loved, some felt a recent Instagram post, in which she parodied an Emily Ratajkowski post, missed the mark though. “A lot has changed in my life over recent years, but I haven’t changed at all,” says Barber, who initially trained as an actress – she played paramedic Bree Matthews in All Saints for four years – before embracing her comic talents. Here, she opens up to WHO on her new campaign, what her “hot husband” thinks about her fame, that recent furore and what’s next …