Ewww! I don't want to know! (Celebrities' personal lives.)

Cafe Society
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I don’t know what my problem is; I should just turn away and not read this shit. But the other day I found a celebrity “gossip” page and read a lot of gossip (a lot of it wishful thinking and guessing on the part of the page’s author, I think) about celebrities.

I was surprised at how upset I was about some of the stuff. I tried to figure out why it bugged me, for instance, to read that a certain TV star (who I’ve always admired) may be “into leather” and perhaps is bisexual. I decided that it wasn’t the leather part of the bisexual part that bothered me (I don’t see why I’d care), it was that I was now forced to think that she had a “secret” part to her life. And I didn’t want to think about it. I don’t want to know these people’s “secrets.” I don’t want to read speculation (especially since a lot of it probably isn’t all that accurate). But why did I read the damned page? I am an idiot!

Am I the only one who feels that way? Are there just some people that you admire, that you don’t want to know much about? Like they’ve got a certain mystique in your mind and you don’t want that shattered? Like all that matters to you is what they show onscreen (or in print, or on CD, or whatever) and you just don’t want to know anything else?

A somewhat offbeat example (not involving a celebrity, but a TV character) was in an episode of “The X-Files” a few years ago. Assistant Director Skinner (the bald guy with the glasses) always seemed so enigmatic and we usually only saw him at the workplace. I always loved Skinner, as did my sister. Then one episode showed his unhappy home life, and how he picked up a girl in a bar. This really bothered me. Blech. I loved Skinner, but he was a “only at work” kind of character, and I hated seeing what he was doing on his off-time. My sister (a big Skinner fan) felt the same way—“Yuck. I don’t want to know that stuff about him.”

Does this make any sense? I am not the only one, am I?

And please, please, please—if you want to share some “gossip” about someone here (which I am not specifically encouraging) PLEASE POST A WARNING OR PUT IT IN A SPOILER BOX. Please! Some of us are apparently delicate creatures and don’t want to know! :wink:

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I agree. I had a friend who spent all her time on gossip sites getting all the dirt on figure skaters and tennis players, and she felt the need to share all of it. I enjoy watching figure skating for the skating - I don’t need to know all the sordid details of who’s sleeping together and who’s a real asshole and so on. It got to the point where I dreaded speaking to this person because I knew that was pretty much all she was going to talk about and we are no longer in touch with each other (there were other problems in the friendship as well, I didn’t just cut her off because of excessive celebrity gossip).

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Exactly, JulKatBo! I don’t always want to know.

I had a teacher in school (art school) who did artwork for porn publications and talked about it sometimes. He’d also heard lots of rumors. (I went to school in L.A., where we all “heard rumors.” This teacher once told me a rumor he’d heard about some old-time actor (in the same era of Clark Gable, but no, it wasn’t Clark Gable) who had supposedly done some really scandalous tacky underground porn film.

Now, I will still like that actor no matter whether he did this tacky smarmy film or not (I doubt he did—wouldn’t the film have surfaced by now if he had?) but I just didn’t need to know about that.

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yo’…, Sooooo this inquiring mind wants to know! Who is the actress in your first post & the actor in your last one?

TOtally of course in contradiction to the whole point of the thread G

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No, FriarTed, NO! You are evvvillll if you think I’ll repeat that! I’m a delicate flower who doesn’t want to think about it, let alone repeat it! :eek:

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Spoilsport! :-)~

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