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• Tuesday, December 25, 2007 10:04 PM

  Blame the blogs

  I've always been curious about celebrity gossip, but until recently, my consumption was limited to reading the headlines in the supermarket check out aisle. I was too embarrassed to actually pick one up and read it, let alone pay money for something like People or Star or the National Enquirer.

  But now, with the blogs -- Perez, TMZ, etc -- the latest celebrity gossip is free, it's at our fingertips, and nobody has to know we've been reading it. These days, I don't know why you would buy the magazines unless you didn't have a computer. The magazines break stories, but the blogs reprint everything before it even hits the stands.

  Best of all, the celebrity blogs are funny. The magazines have this tone of "Oh my gosh guess what!" while the blogs are snarky, sarcastic, and generally fun to read. They indulge both our lust for scandal and our petty desire to mock the rich and famous, to roll our eyes like we are obviously smarter than those wrecks.

  So I went from catching celebrity news by accident to reloading Perez and TMZ pretty much all day. I'm not proud of this, but I know I'm not the only one. The blogs have taken celebrity gossip to a whole new level and to a whole new audience.

  —Kelly Q Read Kelly Q's other letters
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