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unusual facts about The Gossip



Fat feminism

Beth Ditto, frontwoman of punk band The Gossip, who is vocal about fat acceptance, attained celebrity in the mid-2000s with the popularity of her band's 2006 album Standing in the Way of Control, which has raised awareness of the movement.


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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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Round Goes the Gossip

Round Goes The Gossip is a song by the Dutch band Focus from Focus 3.

VĂ­ctor 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.