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In contrast to abstract trait words which describe people's general personality, gossip is about personal affairs of others. Although neural correlates underlying processing self-related trait words have been well documented, it remains poorly understood how the human brain processes gossip. In the present fMRI study, participants were instructed to rate their online emotional states upon hearing positive and negative gossip about celebrities, themselves, and their best friends. Explicit behavioral ratings suggested that participants were happier to hear positive gossip and more annoyed to hear negative gossip about themselves than about celebrities and best friends. At the neural level, dissociated neural networks were involved in processing the positive gossip about self and the negative gossip about celebrities. On the one hand, the superior medial prefrontal cortex responded not only to self-related gossip but also to moral transgressions, and neural activity in the orbital prefrontal cortex increased linearly with pleasure ratings on positive gossip about self. On the other hand, although participants' ratings did not show they were particularly happy on hearing negative gossip about celebrities, the significantly enhanced neural activity in the reward system suggested that they were indeed amused. Moreover, via enhanced functional connectivity, the prefrontal executive control network was involved in regulating the reward system by giving explicit pleasure ratings according to social norm compliance, rather than natural true feelings.
gossip*celebrities
Evolution did not prepare us to distinguish among members of our community who have genuine effects on our life and the images and voices we are bombarded with by the entertainment industry. Thus, the intense familiarity with celebrities provided by the modern media trips the same gossip mechanisms that have evolved to keep up with the affairs of in-group members. After all, anyone whom we see that often and know that much about must be socially important to us.
Before that, people had always been interested in gossip about individuals who were socially important to them, either because they dealt with them every day, or because they were powerful people who could influence their lives. I am sure that in medieval Europe, the serfs were keenly interested in the political and social lives of the lords and nobles who controlled their fates.
Frank McAndrew: People form what are called "parasocial relationships" with celebrities. This is a one-way relationship in which the fan pays attention to and follows the lives of the celebrity, but the celebrity pays no attention to the fan.
In spite of this, the familiarity that one develops with the celebrity fosters a feeling of friendship (or even kinship!), which triggers all of the same emotional mechanisms that one would experience with real friends and relatives. Hence, one can become very protective of one's own celebrities, and this causes us to vilify and hate other celebrities who appear to be the enemies of "our" celebrities.
Frank McAndrew: If it is a celebrity whom we already do not like, I suspect that it does NOT produce outrage. Rather, it provokes more of a "See, I told you he/she was like that" response. The outrage is reserved for previously beloved celebrities by whom we feel betrayed.
Frank McAndrew: If one's involvement with celebrities becomes so all-consuming that it causes us to neglect real relationships in our real lives, then yes, I would judge it to be unhealthy.
Frank McAndrew: It would be hard to prescribe an exact dose. Being in touch with pop culture (i.e., the cultural zeitgeist) is part of being a socially skilled person. In the modern world, celebrities may serve another important social function. In a highly mobile, industrial society, they may be the only "friends" we have in common with new neighbors and coworkers.
If you fancy being famous: hey, go for it, I'm sure your Soundcloud page will take off any day now. But consider this behind-the-scenes peek at the world of gossip mags to be a warning: as soon as you get an Instagram blue tick, it's fair game to say pretty much anything about you. And once it starts, you get into a weird place where you never want it to stop, to the point you start making up shit about yourself just to extend your 15 minutes of fame up to 16, 17, maybe 18 minutes. Think about it like this: do you want to be Antony Costa? Because you're probably going to end up being Antony Costa.
An editor of mine had a list of people she'd met, hated, and refused to write about. There were about eight people who never, ever made it into the magazine. The list was printed off and stuck on the wall so newbies in the team knew which celebrities to turn down for interviews: the "Wall of Hate" and the "Wall of Love". Woe betide you if you made it to the hate wall. You might never work in this town again.
It's not just editors inventing headlines and bending the news around to suit them: Z-list celebrities have their own sub-economy, where they invent (or exaggerate) stories about their apparent near-death experiences, drug relapses and engagements, then sell the exclusive on to the highest bidder. Essentially: a good Z-list celebrity is like Charles Dickens, constantly inventing serialised fictions and selling them out on a weekly basis.
That's why, as well, you get every single Weird Celebrity Photo Opp ever taken: because they made them that way. It's a constant hustle: celebrities set up pap shots for the most desperate things, then we publish them, then the circle goes round again. Taking rubbish out in their underwear? Check. Dropping eggs outside Tesco Metro? Check. Most of the celeb "pap" pics you see are the result of a delicate working balance between the celebrities, their agents, the photographers and, eventually, us.
To be the first person to report on a celebrity break-up or feud is a big part of the job, and it means being on constant pally terms with the celebrities. We'd go out for lunch with them, meet up for drinks with them and hang out at parties with them, all in an effort to be the first to get the scoop. Essentially: both the journalist and celebrity would be friends with each other in a very fragile way where they both get something out of the friendship, just not actual, you know, friendship.
Good rule of thumb is: celebrities who you think would be all sweetness and light are usually the worst divas. And, weirdly, vice versa: some of the loveliest, most genuine celebrities to interview haven't got the best public persona. The one constant? Everyone shit-talks you if you show even the slightest sign of rudeness, so be nice.
Just like the name of his signature drink, Ne-Yo's musical talents can't be denied, making him sought after by celebrities wanting to release their next big hit. As a singer, Ne-Yo topped Billboard charts with R&B songs, like "Closer" and "Miss Independent." As a songwriter, he has collaborated with divas, including Rihanna, Whitney Houston, and Beyonce Knowles. Ne-Yo is able to wear many hats in the music industry, so it comes as no surprise that he likes his drinks to be just as diverse. Combining his favorite spirits, Hennessey and TY KU Premium Liquor, Ne-Yo created The Godzilla. Fellow celebrities Jamie Foxx and Ludacris have been spotted sipping The Godzilla, in hopes of looking just as debonair as Ne-Yo. For a smooth drink that contains aphrodisiacs, The Godzilla is the best choice to make any guy feel like a gentleman.
There may not be much you can tell from what celebrities are drinking, but it is fun to see if their beverage of choice matches up to the personality they cultivate in the spotlight, and if yours does as well!
The problem with most news, gossip, and link-bait titled articles online is that they are filled with surface level information. Your life isn't better off for reading them and you're rarely better informed because of them.
A gossip magazine, also referred to as a tabloid magazine, is a magazine that features scandalous stories about the personal lives of celebrities and other well-known individuals. In North America, this genre of magazine flourished in the 1950s and early 1960s. The title Confidential, founded in 1952, boasted a monthly circulation[when?] in excess of ten million, and it had many competitors, with names such as Whisper, Dare, Suppressed, The Lowdown, Hush-Hush, and Uncensored. These magazines included more lurid and explicit content than did the popular newspaper gossip columns of the time, including tales of celebrity infidelity, arrests, and drug use.
The publication generally credited as America's first national weekly gossip tabloid is Broadway Brevities and Society Gossip,[a] which was launched in New York in 1916 and edited by a Canadian named Stephen G. Clow. Brevities started out covering high society and the A-list of the New York theater world, but by the 1920s focused on society scandal and the destruction of reputations culminating in its editor, Stephen Clow, and two of his associates being charged with using the mails to defraud due to allegations that the magazine was a blackmail racket threatening to publish material injurious to the reputations of businesses and individuals unless they purchased advertising. The tabloid was consequently shut down in 1925 after Clow and his associates were convicted with Clow sentenced to six years in prison (serving two). Clow revived the tabloid in 1930 and the new incarnation covered more general vice and ran splashy, highly sensationalized features on sex, drugs, gang violence and crime. This was possibly the first time a gossip magazine had made real efforts to attract readers who weren't members of the elite classes; it didn't presume its readers had a close familiarity with any given social or professional world. In 1932, New York City banned newsstands from selling the racy tabloid, and it appears to have folded sometime around 1933. A third incarnation of the tabloid was printed in Toronto from 1937, with Clow as editor initially, until around 1948.[1][2] 041b061a72