Human nature is inquisitive. They like to read celebrity news and gossip. They are interested in reading news behind the news. A vast majority of people like to know the personal lives of their favorite celebrities. They want to know your family circles, love affairs, and other pleasant news about marriages, divorces, and current relationships with their spouses.
To feed them well with delicious news, many magazines and websites include these stories. A significant number of them have their dedicated sections to entertain people with these writings. These magazines and websites delve into the lifestyles and personal lives of the latest pin-up stars. They look for deep dark secrets, hidden stories, trashy details, and some juicy bits about themselves and their loved ones. Most of these stories talk about personal affairs and hidden affairs of celebrities in the most interesting ways. As a consequence, they receive a large number of loyal audiences around the world. This helps them increase their TRP and web traffic. Many of them have grown in popularity in remarkable ways.
As celebrity news emerges with more interesting facets, it sometimes becomes dubious. Sometimes it incorporates distortion and misinterpretation of the original outputs. Rather than spreading well-researched, legitimate news, include eye-catching headlines and pleasant news to increase TRPs and web traffic. It goes against the ethics of journalism. That’s why press councils don’t like to take celebrity gossip as news. Now celebrity news is posted on ‘Page 3’. The term ‘Page 3’ has appeared on the scene to respect celebrity gossip. Readers interested in reading these stories can go directly to this section to get their interesting stories. Some professional journalists like to call this practice “yellow journalism.” A vast majority of gossip magazines and tabloids receive this gossip from dubious sources. Reporters involved in celebrity news coverage like to sensationalize a story. They like to represent it in an exaggerated way.
To be honest and very frank, there are some gossip that have no moral values. These are written based on hearsay, gossip, and word of mouth. Celebrity gossip tends to fabricate and distort the facts. Readers like to read them because they love it. They are not interested in walking the path of justification. They don’t want to weigh it and consider it. They don’t want to delve into it. They read it for sheer pleasures. The sallow understanding of these stories makes them happy.