Like, why do you care so much if she’s sleeping with a new guy after just divorcing or her coming out or that rich family buying a new mansion? How does that affect your life?
Nothing new under the sun…
This might come as a shock, but back in the day there were these things called “Newspapers” where people got almost all their news and information.
One of the more popular columns in a newspaper was the “Gossip Column”, where a celebrity fortune could literally be made or lost depending on what that particular columnist wrote about them.
Hedda Hopper was NOTORIOUS for her column which ran from 1938 to 1966.