Enjoying Celebrity Gossip is Like Having Hillbilly Cousins Without The Personal Embarrassment
by Some reasons why celebrity gossip is so satisfying.
As I scan the celebrity gossip columns once again for the latest “news” on Lindsay Lohan, Paris Hilton or Britney Spears, I realize why celebrity gossip is so satisfying. Its just like hearing about the sordid affairs of some hillbilly cousins only without the embarrassment of actually being related to any of them.
Watching shows like TMZ is just like having a gossipy grandma. It’s as if grandma, herself, were calling you up on the phone to tell you the latest scandal about the black sheep of the family. If you’ve ever had hillbilly cousins and a grandma who can’t keep her mouth shut, then you’re already familiar with the kind of thing you hear.
Much like a celebrity gossip show, grandma is only too glad to tell you who’s in jail, who’s going to jail, who should be in jail but isn’t, who’s having an affair with the judge in her case, what they were wearing, who’s starring in a porno, who got arrested yet again, who threw a drink in whose face, whose husband is really gay and so on.
By the way, if you’ve never had one of these loose-lipped grandmas, you are lucky. Because if you did, you’d be wondering what she was saying about you behind your back.
And, that is yet another reason why celebrity gossip is so much fun. It’s safe. It is strictly a one way street. The target is clear and it’s someone else. It’s always someone else. There’s no risk for you, whatsoever. So, you can enjoy all of the filthy gossip to your heart’s content without ever wondering what anyone is saying about you.
The world of celebrity gossip is not the real world or, at least, it isn’t yours. It’s like another life that you can submerge yourself into for a few minutes at a time, just as if you were getting the latest news from grandma about your crazy, hillbilly cousins, but without the fear of ever seeing these people at Thanksgiving dinner!
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