Why do people like celebrity gossip?

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• MissUtilis

  2015-12-05 03:58:27

  BEWARE OF GRRL!
  

  Or at least the media seems to want people to.
• Imipolex G

  2015-12-05 04:05:40

  Touch the cow. Do it now.
  

  I always wondered this myself.
  
• glennmagusharvey

  2015-12-05 04:23:53

  Imipolex G said:

  I always wondered this myself.
  

  This.
  
  Perhaps it's just something to talk about.  Something to follow.  Something to care about outside one's own life.
  
  People seem to crave that.
  
• One-Winged Eagle

  2015-12-05 04:30:30

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  Celebrities represent an idealized life that others aspire to.
• Alduin

  2015-12-05 05:50:03

  MachSpeed said:

  Celebrities represent an idealized life that others aspire to.

  And gossip humanises them.
• One-Winged Eagle

  2015-12-05 06:07:02

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  I don't think it does, but whatever.
• Sredni Vashtar

  2015-12-05 07:16:44

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  People like to know that even famous, seemingly untouchable people have problems, and using that as a focus helps them take their minds off their own problems and frustrations.
• One-Winged Eagle

  2015-12-05 07:25:32

  Man is a most complex simple creature: see what he weaves, and how base his reasons for doing so.

  I'm thinking of the other thing that happens, like when the need for celebrity gossip really intrudes into other peoples' lives, but, eh.
• glennmagusharvey

  2015-12-05 10:32:15

  MachSpeed said:

  I'm thinking of the other thing that happens, like when the need for celebrity gossip really intrudes into other peoples' lives, but, eh.

  This.
  
• Sredni Vashtar

  2015-12-05 20:29:51

  “I'm surprised. Those clothes… but, aren't you…?”

  I'm not saying that it can't lead there, because it often does, but it's popular for less nefarious reasons.