This is an ABC podcast.

Okay, you can tell me. I promise I won't tell anyone, but I want to know, what's the juiciest morsel of gossip you've ever heard?

The juiciest piece of gossip that I've ever heard probably comes from the workplace.

A friend of a friend was dating someone quite well known, I want to say.

It's a secret relationship between a boss and their junior.

But there were so many people involved, so many secrets that were intertwined in it.

So every time I got a little morsel of it, it was like feeding my soul.

Love it.

Love the goss.

And you probably do too, because most of us get a kick out of learning information we should

not be privy to.

We're social creatures.

We spend a lot of our time in the social world.

And gossip allows us to kind of keep track of what's going on in that social world.

Like gossip is something that's been around since the beginning of time, I think.

Like, everyone gossips in some way, whether it's about celebrities or people that there were.

This is Megan Pistetto, and she loves gossip so much, she's made it her job.

I'm the host of The So Dramatic Podcast. She's a reality TV gossip podcast.

Her show is part of a constellation of similar pods and social media accounts peddling celebrity gossip.

Des Moire, the Instagram account, is my particular obsession.

But a part of me has always wondered why I, we, people,

care about gossip related to celebrities.

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