Wow!

We'll smith this smack-t***** out of me.

To the other major headline late today, the verdict to the Johnny Depp amber herd defamation trial,

a seven-person jury siding with Johnny Depp.

The fallout continues for yay.

Formally known as Kanye West, whose recent anti-semitic comments have caused public outrage.

This year, a lot of what we might have once considered celebrity gossip were big stories in mainstream news.

From this slap herd round the world to Yeezy anti-semitism, to the Harry and Meghan documentary,

select business felt like our business.

And for a lot of us, it felt a lot more like news.

Constance Grady writes about culture for Vox.

This was a year when gossip was really getting a moment in the mainstream news cycle.

In a way that it hasn't in previous years.

Of course, the business of hot gossip is not new.

Celebrity gossip has been around since there were celebrities growing in popularity throughout the 20th century.

In the 1940s and 50s, columnist Hedihopper and Luila Parsons scoured scandal and personal news items from the rich and famous,

becoming as famous as their subjects.

And here with the latest Woodbury Hollywood headlines is Luila Paz.

Hello, all of you from New York.

Well, here I am in the big town.

But with movie news from both Hollywood and New York.

My first exclusive, the Frank Sinatra's are expecting another baby in late May.

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