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Celebrity challenged to ignore one without food (7)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

starved

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'ignore one without food' is the definition.
I can't tell whether this defines the answer.

'celebrity challenged' is the wordplay.
'celebrity' becomes 'star' (a star is a celebrity or famous person).
'challenged' becomes 'ved' (I can't explain this - if you can you should give a lot more credence to this answer).
'star'+'ved'='STARVED'

'to' acts as a link.

Can you help me to learn more?

(Other definitions for starved that I've seen before include "really hungry" , "Denied" , "Went without food" .)

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