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The 3 Main Reasons We Are Infatuated With Celeb Gossip

Why is it that many of us are fascinated with celebrities? Come on, you know it’s true! Who hasn’t picked up the latest gossip magazine in the checkout line at the grocery store, and gotten their fix of celeb gossip? I know i have! And you know those mags would not be there if nobody bought them!

So why do we girls and guys have such an interest in following the lives of folk we don’t know? Well read on for the top three reasons we like celebrity gossip, and especially marriage gossip!

Reason #1: It’s so much fun living vicariously thru the lives of others. I mean let’s accept it - most of us will potentially never just jet off to the Caribbean to get married to a twenty something super model in a lavish and secret marriage attended by all of the largest names in Hollywood. We adore reading about celeb’s famous and often infamous weddings because it lets us pretend and think what it would be like to live a famous and fabulously rich life. I mean actually, what would it be like getting married in an Italian castle like Tom and Katie?

Reason #2: It makes us feel better about ourselves! It’s simply a fact of mankind’s nature that irrespective of how bad our own lives seem to be, there’s always some other person out there who will make you feel better about your own situation. Sure, you may be endeavoring to pay the bills with a night stocker job at the local Wal-Mart, but at least you did not get pregnant with octuplets and then have nobody in the media care about it! Sure, you may not have managed to have 1,000,000 greenback marriage on an exotic island, but at least your marriage is still intact after ten years instead of ten mins, like a certain country music star we all know. Rhymes with Benny Lesney?

Reason #3: Because it’s there! Often, celebrities are like a train wreck - you don’t want to look at, but you cannot look away! It isn’t like you want to watch Brittany going down in flames and shaving her head bald, leaving K-Fed as the responsible parent ( yikes ) but dang, how are you able to not watch? And if they didn’t want their escapades splashed all over the media, then perhaps they should not be acting crazy! I mean, how many country stars do you see in the tabloids, besides the one mentioned above of course? Not that many, because they aren’t out wrecking Ferraris (cough, cough Sarah Harding).

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