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Gossip blogs, celebrity databases and the strangely compelling business of tracking famous strangers' heights and birthdays.
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Anonymous celebrity riddles where readers do the detective work in the comments and are occasionally proved right.
Twenty years of forensic argument about how tall film stars really are, with photographic evidence and footwear analysis.
Estimated fortunes for anybody famous, sourced loosely, and impossible to stop clicking once you look up the first one.
Blind items published daily since 2006, unverifiable by design, and treated as scripture by a very large comment section.
Who was born today, ranked by fame, drawn from a database heavy with teenagers famous on exactly one platform.
Red-carpet criticism written with real fashion knowledge and jokes aimed at the outfit rather than the person in it.
Straightforward celebrity photo blogging updated hourly, with none of the editorialising the rest of the genre insists on.
Gossip written as media criticism, tracking how celebrity stories get placed and who stands to benefit from the placing.
The LiveJournal community that outlived LiveJournal, still posting celebrity news with the comment threads doing the work.
The New York Post's gossip column, now its own site, still running on restaurant tip-offs and unnamed sources.
A British gossip newsletter of blind items and pop trivia, running since 2000 and still legally very careful.
The outlet that breaks the story first and considers taste afterwards, with a documented record of being right.
New York Magazine's pop-culture desk, where the recaps and power rankings are better written than the shows deserve.
A relationship graph of everybody famous, cross-referenced far past the point of reason and updated constantly.
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