Very Best Sites for Snarky Celebrity Gossip
Recently, these two British guys named David Giles and John Maltby wrote an article for The Psychologist about the nature of celebrity gossip. According to these guys, who are smart and scholarly and stuff, there are three categories of celebrity worship:
1. It’s Fun! – has fun talking about celebrities with friends, likes gossip about celebrites.
2. It’s Personal – feels like they belong with their favorite celebrity, fate-wise.
3. It’s Creepy – would die for their favorite celebrity…or kill.
We’re happy to report that we are firmly in the first category. Absolutely. Except when it comes to Johnny Depp. We’re not quite at category 2 on that one, but we’re pretty sure we’d at least be good friends.
Here we bring you the sites with people who dish the dirt on your favorite (and not so favorite) celebrities.
The Pop Eye
I first discovered BeckEye a few years ago during American Idol season. She’s hilarious, and she has really, really interesting taste in music. Really interesting. She posts a forgotten “classic” video every week, and she makes some bitingly funny remarks about some of the messier celebrities. Love her.
Best Week Ever
This is a VH1 website that is the online component to the show called Best Week Ever. I don’t watch the show. I do, however, frequent this website. It’s so well done, and so very funny. I don’t even follow reality dating shows, but with a title like, “Vienna Girardi Emerges From Ugly Bachelor Breakup As The Silkwood Of Reality Dating Shows” I’m going to read that post anyway. For sure.
Hot Momma Gossip
Hot Momma Gossip is a very straightforward site that is dedicated to celebrity gossip and news. It’s just a good, solid site, and they try not to be too mean about people. So, if you’re looking for deep snark, don’t go here, but if you’re looking for a place that you won’t get your sensibilities offended, stick around. The site has some legs – they’ve been around since 2005 – so they know what they’re talking about and have most of their bugs worked out. Most.
Go Fug Yourself
I know what you’re thinking. “Fug” is, like, a dirty word, right? Well, not according to Heather and Jessica, who tell us in the FAQs that “fug” is a contraction of “fantastically ugly.” We’ll go with that. Basically, this site is all about celebrity fashion – mainly the faux pas – and Heather and Jessica are HILARIOUS. It’s possible, upon the first visit, to spend six or seven hours on this site, using the handy right sidebar to click on your favorite or least favorite celebrity’s names and seeing the posts Heather and Jessica have made about them. Trust me. It’s possible.
Celebitchy
This is a site that has many talented contributing writers. Unfortunately, I am not one of them. That’s OK, because the folks they have are fantasticish. The posts are funny but still full of information, and the writers put thought into their posts. That’s not to say that the other sites mentioned DON’T put thought into their posts – they do, but this site is self-described as “smart” so I thought I’d mention that they are. So they’d like that, and ask me to do a guest post. Just kidding. Or am I?
dlisted
So, Kathy Griffin isn’t the author of this site. In fact, the name of the site used to be The D List, but then Kathy Griffin had that show, and Michael K didn’t want problems with the D List Diva, so there you go. Some of the language is NSFW, or if you have those delicate sensibilities we talked about earlier. If you don’t mind some cussing, check out this site because this guy is also HILARIOUS. Even if he is a potty pen. Potty typer. Potty blogger. Potty mouth. Whatever. He should call me and we could talk smack about The Jonas Brothers together.
Gawker
This site is big league – they have a different big sponsor every day (at least every day I looked at the site, which was three days in a row – and the coolest sponsor was Cheetos – it was the first day I looked at the site and I thought “Sweet! This site is exclusively sponsored by Cheetos! I bet all the writers get free Cheetos!” but then I looked at the site today and it was some kind of tequila and I thought, “Sweet! Those writers must get free Cheetos AND free tequila!” and then I thought about writing to them to find out but I chickened out because if they DO get free Cheetos and tequila they sure aren’t going to tell me about it. Anyway. Their site is first rate, despite all the flashy advertising. The writing is sharp and funny. You would like it.
The Superficial Lainey Gossip
So I was going to write about The Superficial, which is a really great site, but I found Lainey and picked her instead. I have no idea who she (he?) is since she felt it unnecessary to post an “about” section, but she gets linked to by every other site on this list, plus all the ones you’re going to tell me I should have included. But before you criticize, check out her category list. Priceless.
Perez Hilton
Perez Hilton
I would be remiss if I left out the self-proclaimed Queen of All Media. Perez and his team are fabulous and funny, and I have nothing bad at all to say about them. Except one thing. I hate the little cheapo paint program thing they use to “alter” the photographs. I realize it’s designed to visually show you what they think of the celebrity, but it looks dumb to me and I don’t like it. Perez is better than that. Gee. That wasn’t funny at all. That was, like, brutally honest and straightforward. I’m sorry, Internet. I’m sorry, Paris. Back to the nonsense!
That’s the end of the list, folks. Yes, I realize I left out PopEater, HollywoodTuna (boobs!), and a bunch of others, but this is called VERY BEST SITES for a reason, and what you have above is what I consider to be the very best sites for celebrity gossip.
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