Celebrity Gossip Blogs
Get the Dirt on Your Favorite Celebrities in Real Time (Almost)
Love celebrity gossip? Here are five celebrity gossip blogs that will keep you fed all day long with up-to-date photos and commentary on your favorite celebs.
For some of us, the best part of going food shopping is having time in the checkout line to read the celebrity gossip magazines. What are celebrities wearing? Who are the dating? What kind of trouble are they getting into? We either love them or hate them but celebrities give us a fascinating measuring stick for thinking about our own lives.
Celebrity gossip magazines are quickly becoming a thing of the past. Now, celebrity gossip blogs provide the same (or similar) photos that appear in your favorite magazines (i.e. Us Weekly, People) with much more colorful commentary long before they hit the news stands.
Here are five celebrity gossip blogs that will keep you up-to-date on the latest and tastiest celebrity gossip:
If there is only time to read one blog, choose Perez Hilton. Perez Hilton is the Rolls-Royce of celebrity gossip blogs. It often scoops some of the larger celebrity news outlets. Hilton, the self-proclaimed "Queen of All Media", is a 29 year-old marketing genius whose birth name is Mario Armando Lavandeira Jr. His web site gets approximately four million hits on a daily basis (time.com) and pulls in between $9,000 and $16,000 a week for ad space (paulamooney.blogspot.com).
Perez Hilton's content is updated several times an hour and provides biting commentary on celebrity behavior. Hilton will often doodle on photos of his celebrity subjects with drawings or hilarious observations.
X17 Online and Perez Hilton are at odds. X17 Online is a photo agency whose paparazzi are out on the Hollywood streets all day long. The agency claims that Hilton has used their photos on his site without giving them credit. Consequently, there is often bickering between the two blogs.
If photos of celebrities are more interesting than colorful commentary, X17 Online is a clear choice. They post photos with lightening speed and often are a source used by other celebrity gossip blogs. The commentary provided is usually straight reporting with a little spice.
TMZ is a celebrity gossip powerhouse. Also a photo agency, TMZ often is a source quoted by other blogs that cover celebrities. Bloggers for TMZ definitely take some editorial liberties and provide engaging content on celebrity mishaps and activities.
Just Jared provides an attractive, clean user interface and remains fairly dignified in its coverage of celebrities. The site is great for reading magazine scans and viewing photos that other celebrity blogs don't seem to find.
Pop Sugar is an easy read. Billed as "insanely addictive", there blog has humorous commentary on celebrity relationships (romantic and otherwise) and celebrity fashion choices.
