“The world is full of bullshit and we live in a bullshit world” – in an era obsessed with celebrities when it’s hard to tell fake news from reality, Alison’s Jackson’s new show shines a spotlight on Joe Public’s ongoing voracious appetite for gossip and titillation.

From the start, everything isn’t quite what it seems. Its only after we’ve met several Jackson lookalikes that we are introduced to the doyenne herself, a glamorous blonde in tight-fitting leather leggings who leads the audience through some highlights of her multi-decade journey exploring the cult of celebrity.

Step forward a Taylor Swift plant, who with the help of a loo seat and a picture of some blue sky is suddenly transformed into an aeroplane-travelling, champagne-quaffing pop diva. It’s crazy, mind-bending fun with a fair amount of Trump action – a celebrity that Alison confesses she is personally obsessed with. Having scoured the world, she has managed to transform a music producer from Chicago into a very convincing POTUS body double. For those who missed his recent George Square appearances Dennis, aka the Donald, is extremely believable. Cue scantily clad dancers and some clever camera action and Jackson proceeds to recreate her famous golden shower photo – (not as lurid as might be anticipated).

As can be seen from a rolling montage of some of her past work, she reimagines what might have been happening behind the scenes in the lives of celebrities that are household names; a cat fight between Meghan and Kate and Queen Camilla trying on her crown for size: fag and G&T in hand being personal favourites.

There is some fun audience participation too, so beware if you bear any resemblance to Kim Kardashian, Princess Di, or Harry Styles. Assisted by an entourage of stylists, an unsuspecting member of the audience might be swiftly transformed into a celebrity du jour with the aid of prosthetics, makeup, hair and clever camera work.

It is Jackson herself (rather than any of the look-alikes) who is the real star of the show and it would have been interesting to hear even more from this unique artist. An RCA graduate, she has become well known over recent decades as a maverick film-maker and photographer, winning a BAFTA for her BBC2 show Doubletake and multiple awards for her work. It’s fascinating to learn how easily public perception is manipulated using photography and lookalikes to create some show-stopping and thought-provoking images and stunts;  the line between reality and fiction becoming ever more blurred when we learn that she once approached the real George Clooney to be his own lookalike

It’s funny and clever stuff and  a timely reminder that with the ongoing mission creep of Fake News nothing is ever quite what it seems.

‘You Can be a Celebrity Too‘ has finished its Fringe run