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?
Because they have no lives of their own.
I feel like it’s because we’re told to. Celebrities are a big industry. Lots of money goes into making them and we think we’re independent thinkers but we’re not. We follow them because they know how to make us follow them. It could be a brown paper bag. If enough people tricked into being interested we all follow them.
An alternative idea is it’s the same reason people like biographies or drama related stories.
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.
Can I say something controversial?
Celebrity gossip has exactly the same appeal as Shipping and fan-theories, just for people who are more interested in reality than some TV-show.
So just let people enjoy things.
