101 Faces - 15

People 71-75 - including some people that normal people have problems with ... also, as you can see, I'm filling out the list with more silly conceits now, because silly conceits are my lifeblood

SALLY ROONEY

Both the Rooney novels are powerfully moving - they blast through the potential belittlement of being called Young Adult Fiction, or whatever. The books show a wide understanding of human nature and human happiness, the ability to write several different sympathetic and full characters all at once, great but rarely intimidating cleverness, and a real but gimmickless modernity.

MARTYN ROONEY

I like this guy, this tall bearded Cusack lookalike from Croydon. He's emblematic of the sacrifice, pain and disappointments of being a sportsperson. The intangibles. Running 400 metres looks like one of the simplest things in the world to explain, but how do you explain Rooney's consistency in relays and his inconsistency in individual events. 400 metres is impossible to explain, impossible to get right time after time. But he kept plugging away, an international athlete for over 10 years, which is a long time in a sport where one injury can, and often does, take someone off the top level for ever.

WAYNE ROONEY

Rooney, Rooney, Rooney.  I've written a lot about Wayne Rooney - a complex cultural figure, for so long the chosen beast/villain of these souring times. But I'll refer back to the quote from Sally Rooney I also used in the bit on Albert Camus, which could perfectly apply to Wayne Rooney - "through no fault of their own they have a sublime gift and there’s nothing in their personality that would necessarily mean they enjoy fame. They don’t choose to be celebrities in the way that actors do. They just have it heaped on them." That's me linking together my Rooneys. Rooney, the rushing red-faced boy everyone could have been, could never have been.

LENA DUNHAM

Girls was a great, great show - hilarious and new and shocking. It's a fine line, innit, because now everyone hates Lena Dunham and she's "problematic", and perhaps there are occasionally good reasons why she should get a little criticism, but I don't think you necessarily want to stifle wild, generally well-meaning talented people like this.

JAMES CORDEN

And everyone hates this guy, and again there are good reasons sometimes maybe why we grow a little tired of his ubiquity, but basically, he's a real good actor and Gavin and Stacey was a great show and he's made an unlikely huge success of something people would have expected him to fail at, and he's an obvious target to hate really. I bet they sneakily watch Carpool Karaoke