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Gossip

In Thomas Harman’s Caveat for Common Cursitors 1566 a ‘walking mort’ relates how she was forced to agree to meet a man in his barn, but informed his wife.


Andrew Roth

He scoured Hansard, gossip columns, vote papers and committee reports to compile his profiles of the personnel of the U.K. Parliament and assessed their character traits, history, opinions and psychological drives.

Blu Cantrell

In 2007, Cantrell starred alongside LisaRaye and Kenya Moore in the musical stage play Gossip, Lies and Secrets.

Body Gossip

Body Gossip is an organization founded in 2006 and run by Ruth Rogers and Natasha Devon which campaigns for all body shapes, sizes and issues, whatever race, gender or age.

Bullpen Bulletins

...We'll also present on this page occasional announcements, gossip, news, and nonsense from Al Milgrom, Denny O'Neil, Jim Salicrup, and Louise Jones, pertaining to the particular comics and magazines they edit.

Chilevisión

Currently the most important programs of the TV station are SQP, a celebrity gossip program, El Diario De Eva, a teenage oriented talk show and variety program, Yingo a contest show for teenagers, Chilevision Noticias, the news program, Primer Plano, a celebrity gossip program and Fiebre de Baile, a celebrity dancing contest.

Chris Beam

With fellow journalist and Columbia grad Nick Summers, Beam cofounded the popular Ivy League gossip blog IvyGate.

Cuando toca la campana

"DJ", portrayed by Gerardo Velazquez, is the school gossip, he tells everything to everybody, he loves music and dancing.

Dan Gross

Dan Gross is an American journalist who writes a gossip column for the Philadelphia Daily News.

David Lat

In June 2004, Lat anonymously started the website Underneath Their Robes (UTR), a gossip blog about the federal judiciary, under the pseudonym Article III Groupie (also known as A3G).

The blog also served as a clearinghouse for news and gossip about clerks for the Supreme Court, whom A3G called "the Elect."

Dlisted

While Michael K posts general celebrity gossip, Dlisted is known for covering the exploits of particular celebrities in detail, including Britney Spears, Madonna, Angelina Jolie, Lady Gaga, Gwyneth Paltrow, Lindsay Lohan's mother Dina Lohan, UK glamour model Katie Price, media personality Phoebe Price, Courtney Stodden, and former Playboy model Shauna Sand .

Doro Merande

Her first major stage role was playing the gossip in Our Town by Thornton Wilder (in which role she made her film debut in 1940 in the film by the same name).

Merande appeared onscreen in bit parts starting in the early 1930s and had her first substantial role in 1940, reprising her role as the gossip in the film adaptation of Our Town.

Edsel Ford Fong

Caen would interview Fong on matters of local politics and gossip, then reprint Fong's Yogi Berra-like responses, which Fong would in turn proudly show to his loyal regulars.

Encarna Sánchez

Over the last year, a new crop of gossip and reality TV shows dealing with exposing all kinds of scandals led by 'Aquí hay tomate' (There’s tomato here) a Spanish TV equivalent to National Enquirer-meets-Springer, have sporadically returned to Encarna's private life with information by a former reporter of her shows and some from the 'bunch' she talked about in her last message.

Erskine Johnson

His most memorable screen appearance was in the 1947 comedic mystery The Corpse Came C.O.D. in which he had a cameo as himself with many of his rival gossip columnists.

Focus 3

"Round Goes the Gossip" is a jazz fusion piece with a centre section featuring Thijs van Leer singing an extract from Virgil's Aeneid (printed on the back of the album in Latin and English; the topic: rumour).

Frances Bemis

Among the publicity events she staged at the store were a fashion contest emceed by gossip columnist and society figure Elsa Maxwell and a Thanksgiving Day circus in Central Park.

Françoise de Montmorency-Fosseux

Wary of gossip, however, she and Henry fled court at Nérac for Eaux-Chaudes from 7 to 25 June, 1581.

Frecuencia Latina

In the early 2000s, Beto Ortiz andGisela Valcárcel also had programs on the channel; Beto's Vidas secretas (Secret Lives) was a gossip program that revealed facts about TV personalities, including those from Frecuencia Latina.

Gossip Center

Gossip Center (formerly known as Gossip Girls) is a celebrity news and gossip website in Slingshot Labs' DailyFill entertainment network, which is owned by parent company News Corp.

Gossip Folks

The refrain of "Gossip Folks" samples the 1981 song "Double Dutch Bus" by Frankie Smith.

Gossip magazine

The gossip genre has crossed over onto television and the internet with sites such as TMZ.com and its television counterpart TMZ on TV as well as Perez Hilton, The Drudge Report and The Smoking Gun breaking many of the stories that were formerly the domain of gossip magazines and tabloids.

Guy Picciotto

He has also produced numerous albums including, The Gossip's breakthrough record Standing in the Way of Control as well as Blonde Redhead's Melody of Certain Damaged Lemons (2000), Misery Is a Butterfly (2004) and The Blood Brothers final album, Young Machetes.

Harrison Carroll

He had feuds with the leading gossip columnists of the day, including Hedda Hopper, Louella Parsons and his fellow Herald columnist Jimmy Starr: all of them appeared as themselves in the 1947 crime movie The Corpse Came C.O.D..

Hollywood 411

Hollywood 411 is an entertainment news and gossip television show that originally aired premiered on August 12, 2005 but later premiered on January 14, 2008 on the TV Guide Network and is hosted by Chris Harrison.

Holy Moly

It publishes (often scathing) gossip items related to celebrities, notably Amy Winehouse, Sienna Miller, Britney Spears, Tom Cruise and Paris Hilton.

Hugo Rifkind

He joined The Times in 2005, taking over the gossip column ("People") from Andrew Pierce.

Hunter Walker

Before joining the Observer, Walker was employed by The Daily where he helped launched the gossip section with former Page Six editor Richard Johnson.

Jean Fontenoy

and became the subject of a gossip campaign suggesting that he was having an affair with Soong May-ling, Chiang Kai-shek's wife.

Joseph Saurin

He was accused in 1712 by Jean-Baptiste Rousseau of being the actual author of defamatory verses that gossip had attributed to Rousseau.

Katherine MacDonald

The gossip columns also held rumors of an affair with U.S. President Woodrow Wilson, which was unlikely given his poor health after his 1919 stroke.

KIOI

Popular show segments during Bleu's morning show include Bleuper calls (prank calls to unsuspecting listeners), The Daily Dish (entertainment gossip), and the Bleu Room, an in-studio lounge session that featured acts including Dido, Natasha Bedingfield, Matchbox Twenty and others performing acoustic versions of their hits.

Kroonika

The magazine is published in the Estonian language, and includes gossip and news on the country's biggest celebrities.

Lucinda Green

In 1984, Green attended Badminton, and not only won for the sixth time, on Beagle Bay, but also placed fifth on Village Gossip.

Marianne Dashwood

When Marianne is helped by the dashing John Willoughby, she falls deeply and sincerely in love with him, abhorring all society's demands, and ignoring her sister’s rational warnings that her impulsive behavior leaves her open to gossip and innuendo.

Marie Vassiltchikov

Her account of wartime Berlin at times takes on an air of surreality as she writes about days that combined lunches at the Hotel Adlon and nights spent in half-ruined flats and conversations that ranged from gossip about her noble and royal friends to the intended killing of Hitler.

Monk Time

In 2009 a second single has been taken from Silver Monk Time: "Drunken Maria" by Gossip b/w "Monk Chant" by The Raincoats.

Much 'I Do' About Nothing

For the wedding during the first season finale, Gossip Girl costume designer Eric Daman dressed Blake Lively in a yellow floral bridesmaid dress designed by Ralph Lauren while Kelly Rutherford wore a custom-made Vera Wang wedding dress.

Murder of Dennis Jurgens

By this point, Lois' rage and mania had gone beyond her ability to maintain an appearance of normalcy, and she and Harold had relocated to rural Stillwater, Minnesota, possibly to escape the gossip of their former neighborhood where Dennis was killed.

North herts premier pool league

The league gained notoriety with several celebrities playing including Ed Westwick (Gossip Girl, J Edgar, Children of Men), Stephen Dorff (Blade, Space Truckers) and Milo Ventimiglia (Rocky Balbo) in preparation for his part in the Celebrity Pool TV series.

Olivier Chandon de Brailles

The two first met at Studio 54 where she was holding a party to promote the 1982 Christie Brinkley calendar and than they became an "item" for the gossip magazines.

Pol Plançon

"The New York critic Huneker disliked his 'mincing gait' and complained of a 'lack of virility in his impersonations.' Whether this was fair comment or merely a Puritan critic's reaction to what was then hot gossip, is hard to know; it was widely rumoured that Plançon had been caught in his dressing room with the composer Herman Bemberg 'in flagrante delicto'." (See Michael Scott, The Record of Singing, published by Duckworth, London, 1978; page 84).

Rubberduck

While being interviewed by gossip columnist Rova Barkitt as he was lounging in his hot tub, Byrd was struck by a glowing meteor fragment (which was launched toward Earth by the villain Starro the Conqueror); the result gave him the power to stretch his body into any shape.

Sonia Martínez

Some people, as the pop composer José María Cano, tried to help Sonia with detoxification treatments, and Sonia played her last cinema role in 1994, but her health was too damaged by the virus, and she died September 4, 1994, after becoming an easy and vulnerable target for gossip and sensationalist media, including the new TV networks that broke the TVE's national monopoly in 1989-1990)

The Goodbye Gossip Girl

Everything seems to be going smoothly until Gossip Girl sends a devastating e-mail blast that humiliates the majority of the senior class, prompting Serena van der Woodsen (Blake Lively) to seek out the identity of Gossip Girl.

The Silver Brumby

Eee and Mu (voiced by Richard Aspel and Marg Downey) - A couple of loudmouth emus who gossip and mostly talk to each other.

Víctor J. Montilla

Working under the tutelage of Cordero, Montilla was general producer for several comedy and variety productions such as El Show de las Doce, Musicomedia, and the gossip show X-Clusivo.

Yankee Poodle

Rova's name is a play on the name of gossip columnist Rona Barrett, while "Yankee Poodle" is a takeoff on the song "Yankee Doodle."


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