Celebrity & gossip magazines are a real guilty pleasure for many of us. Even if you only pick them up while waiting to be seen at the dentist office, you can go ahead and admit it: you like reading those gossip mags, don’t you?
It’s okay. There is something about them we can all enjoy. The sassy little snipes at the rich and famous are always satisfying on some deep level. We both envy and hate the overpaid, too-pretty and too-privileged celebs in Hollywood. We wish we could live that lifestyle while at the same time we acknowledge that nobody should really be able to live in such a wasteful and ridiculous way.
There are hilarious, brilliant, weird and ridiculous stories to be found in the pages of these mags. For instance, Woody Harrelson loves the environment, right? Well he loves it so much, he once had his favorite eco-friendly, green t-shirt flown to him by private jet, wasting tons of airplane fuel just to prove how much he loves the environment!
Sometimes these magazines actually break some pretty heavy stories, for instance, when Northern Trust used taxpayer’s bailout money to hire Sheryl Crow for a private concert, it was a “scandal rag” that broke the story.
Trashy? Sure. Snarky? Of course. But these magazines are often willing to confront issues that other magazines simply cannot. They do not need to worry about losing their press passes at the White House, whether or not they get invited to fancy dinners and so on. The simple fact that gossip magazines are seen as being at the bottom of the barrel means that they can run the stories that other magazines are afraid to.
Of course, even so, the real reason we love these magazines is so that we can read all about how Courtney Cox hated having sex with David Arquette, so we can see gross pictures of Victoria Beckham’s legs and so we can see that the celebrities have warts, cellulite, temper tantrums and breakdowns, too. A subscription to your favorite gossip magazines means that your guilty little secret remains a secret!