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Eh, occasionally?
I have to admit to paying more attention to it for a while when the Covid-19 pandemic first began because I needed a distraction from the traumatic ways it was affecting humanity in general as well as the lives of so many people I know (or knew) and love. Those were years I hope to never see repeated in any way.
There was one star who shall remain nameless here who kept having children with different women he wasn’t married or otherwise committed to (so far as I could tell, of course). As in, he was fathering multiple children per year for a while there. It was something I found so unusual that I did let my morbid curiosity get the best of me as yet another birth announcement was released every few months or so.
This was not a hobby I’m proud of, and I have gone back to avoiding celebrity news as much as humanly possible now.
Some of it always seems to leak through, though, even if I do something as simple as look up what new projects my favourite entertainers have coming out.
Those generally positive tidbits of information are something I may save for small talk when nothing else is working and I’m trying to guide the conversation away from topics I don’t want to discuss with a particular person or anyone at all. Most people like babies, weddings, and/or pets, for example, so talking about a celebrity who recently had a kid, got married, or adopted a pet from an animal shelter is something the average person will find neutral if not endearing.
(I generally ignore negative stories unless there’s a rare pressing need to do otherwise. Celebrities are fellow human beings, so I try to give them as much privacy as possible unless they’re, say, harming others with their bad choices or something. Everything else is none of my concern…but I still want to know when their next film, tv series, book, or album is coming out. Ha!)
I think many of us turned to celebrity gossip during Covid, Lydia. What else was there to do? There’s only so much family time one can take before psychosis sets in… 🫠😂 Also, I’m with you in hoping we never have to go through that again.
Exactly! I’m glad you get it. LOL.
re: the pandemic…. amen!
I think a lot of the interest in the particularly scurrilous celebrity gossip is akin to a bad traffic accident. You hate it for the people, but you also can’t seem to keep yourself from watching.
So very true, Judy!
I think I know of this celebrity, who is doing it deliberately because he believes we’re approaching a depopulation-of-smart-people crisis.
Yes, he has talked about that. Ugh.
We did many things we don’t usually do during the pandemic. I hope we never see such a time again. Thanks for visiting my blog, Lydia.
You’re totally right, Cheryl. And you’re welcome.
I’m generally with you on this one. Some thingws I can’t ignore, but I have very little need to know about other people’s social lives, especially people that I objectively don’t really know at all.
For sure!
I’m not really, no. Partly because I just don’t know who most of them are—and partly because the whole energy around celebrity gossip feels a little… off. There’s something about picking apart strangers’ lives that doesn’t sit right with me. I’d rather put that attention into stories, books, or the small magic of everyday people.
I get that. 🙂