Possible Clues:

• I send oil (anag.)
• Cover version of noise accepted, being given celebrity status
• Made a lot of in a beastly fashion
• Made too much of the beastly king, like this
• Treated as celebrity like Leo
• Treated like celebrity - like Leo?
• Various oldies around the province treated as heroes
• To have been made so much of is enough to have one so catty to a large extent
• Made much of in Feline fashion
• Honoured member of Pride is meeting journalist