Celebrities, for the most part, are richer and better-looking than the rest of us. We envy their lives (we even fantasize about living their lives), but we also need reassurance that they, too, have personal problems to deal with. So stories about how happy they are and how unhappy they are both are newsworthy (well, let’s call it “gossipworthy”). It’s real-life Soap Opera, and it’s hardly new.
Celebrities, for the most part, are richer and better-looking than the rest of us. We envy their lives (we even fantasize about living their lives), but we also need reassurance that they, too, have personal problems to deal with. So stories about how happy they are and how unhappy they are both are newsworthy (well, let’s call it “gossipworthy”). It’s real-life Soap Opera, and it’s hardly new.