gossip

The pseudonym Perez Hilton is a reference to Paris Hilton who was at the height of her fame when the celebrity gossip blog was launched in 2005.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

“Many of you have reached out with concern for Perez, and we are incredibly grateful for the overwhelming outpouring of love, support, and prayers,” the statement issued via Hilton’s online gossip site read.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 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

But there is little in the public record to document this, other than items in the gossip pages about their golf bouts.

From Slate ● Jul. 22, 2026

Seven shivered at the thought and hoped all the town gossip was wrong.

From "Witchlings" by Claribel A. Ortega

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

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

Everybody gossips and everybody gets up to things.

From Slate ● Apr. 28, 2023

Seamen were the worst gossips in the world when the wine was flowing, even wine as cheap as this.

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

As attendees roamed the corridors of the suburban Dallas resort and gossiped over drinks in the faux-adobe sports bar, there was no sense of a coming contest.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

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

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

From BBC ● Aug. 6, 2024

There was a long silence, so long that Turner wondered if the clock might chime again.“Yes,” his father said,“! do know. But it’s not to be gossiped about at the minister’s dinner table.”

From "Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy" by Gary D. Schmidt

Major Eaton, Old Hickory's first Secretary of War, had married a beautiful widow, maiden name Peggy O'Neil, of common birth, and much gossipped about.

From History of the United States, Volume 3 by Andrews, Elisha Benjamin

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 Collingwood, W. G. (William Gershom)

M.P.’s gossipped in the lobby—or dined—or smoked—or drank brandy-and-water—in short, did anything but listen to Mr. Wilson; and yet this was a grave, serious government measure. 

From Here and There in London by Ritchie, J. Ewing (James Ewing)

"The substance of the Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley was, with singular industry, gossipped by the present precious secretary of war, in Payne the bookseller's shop."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

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

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

"Avoid gossiping and talking about your friend or about their partner to others who could whip up hysteria," Shaheen-Zaffar tells the BBC.

From BBC ● Dec. 5, 2025

It was lunchtime, and this Chili’s in suburban Dallas was hopping: office friends gossiping, parents eating chips and salsa, their kids gaming on Chili’s-branded Ziosk tablets.

From Slate ● Aug. 11, 2025

Folk with less curiosity or more propriety stayed outside, peering through the wide windows and gossiping over what they’d heard.

From "The Name of the Wind" by Patrick Rothfuss

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

And so in a few moments we were gossipping cosily about "old times," as we, not very old people, called them.

From Mathieu Ropars: et cetera by Young, William

"We've no right to be gossipping here all night."

From Miss Pat at Artemis Lodge by Ginther, Pemberton

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 McCarthy, Justin

A crowd had evidently collected round the door, for I heard the muffled sound of voices gossipping, but could not distinguish what they said.

From Tales of the Wonder Club, Volume II by Huth, Alexander