gossip

Hilton, born Mario Lavandeira Jr., has been a pop culture personality since the early aughts when he launched his eponymous celebrity gossip rag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

Hilton rose to fame in the early 2000s via his popular and at-times controversial celebrity gossip website.

From BBC ● Aug. 5, 2026

This piece of gossip soon begins to cloud Elliot’s life and better judgement.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

“Fans love drama, buildup, internet gossip, beef and story lines, and I think fighting naturally lends itself to that,” Paul said in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 30, 2026

“I have some old contacts who hear gossip other people don’t. I’ll seek them out, see if they’ve heard anything about the Immortal. Ratwin’ll do the same.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

Much of the chatter never moves past a relatively small, dishy circle of political gossips because the supposed misdeeds, while titillating, can’t stand up to rigorous scrutiny.

From Los Angeles Times ● Apr. 17, 2026

The chapters fly at the reader in column-length bursts, and the perspective bops about from that of our heroine to neighborhood gossips, savvy editors and that unforgettable mother-in-law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Tisa’s reenactments, commentary, and energy earned her a comment from a viewer who dubbed her “the new and improved Wendy Williams,” signaling a changing future for even legacy gossips and talk show hosts.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

Williams has long understood why people love gossip and equally adore and abhor gossips: they cause controversy, and sometimes force a public, corrective response.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

Nobody gossips about whether you have the flu or not.

From "Ask the Passengers" by A.S. King

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

Busy markets sold butchered meats and fast-wilting vegetables, horse carts clattered, children shouted, and men and women gossiped in coffeehouses and read from printed newspapers.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 6, 2026

During his childhood, Almodóvar sometimes sat and listened under the kitchen table while his mother and other women gossiped and shared secrets, Moore says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

Some are afraid that if they reveal too much they could be gossiped about.

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

I sat there grinning while Kevin and Susan gabbed and gossiped over their sandwiches.

From "Stargirl" by Jerry Spinelli

"Worship makes worshipped, worshipper, worshipping; gossip, gossipped, gossipper, gossipping; fillip, fillipped, fillipper, fillipping."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Goold Brown

I run on like this, because you say you like to be gossipped to; and I am just a little lonely here—sometimes.

From Elizabeth's Campaign by Mrs. Humphry Ward

You may tell her that I came here and gossipped against her, if you like.

From The Irrational Knot Being the Second Novel of His Nonage by Bernard Shaw

It was gossipped that he was expected to write Turner's biography—"five years' work for you," says the old man, full of plans for gathering material.

From The Life of John Ruskin by W. G. (William Gershom) Collingwood

Soon the rest who had wondered and praised and blamed and gossipped forgot about him; they had no more attention to give him, no more flattery, no more allegiance.

From Quisanté by Anthony Hope

There is no reality in which gossiping about someone’s weight loss, especially on social media, is a way toward helping or healing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

As rumours spread that Anne Boleyn, the English queen, is about to be executed, three working-class women in Essex sit around drinking, gossiping and wondering what it all means for them.

From BBC ● May 13, 2026

I felt like he was gossiping about me to a lot of people, and during one review, it became clear that he was.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

“You hear people gossiping in the locker room, or you hear about cool art shows that are happening or dance parties,” says Hansen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

Our language evolved as a way of gossiping.

From "Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind" by Yuval Noah Harari

Robinson and Frances Glandney, who married in 2002, were part of a group of longtime pals and she knew they’d start gossipping about her and the legendary singer-songwriter.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

I love this sort of gossipping during breakfast, of all things.

From Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

These rumors were started by the Dubarry servants, in their gossipping with other family servants in the chance meeting in church or village.

From Cruel As The Grave by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth

It will not, I hope, be considered a piece of gossipping personality if I allude to a fact which must, some day or other, be part of literary history.

From Modern Leaders: Being a Series of Biographical Sketches by Justin McCarthy

I’m not their maid, and she had no business to stand here gossipping about Miss Nevins.

From The Girls at Mount Morris by Amanda Minnie Douglas