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Celebrity gossip, a great catfight between Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz. It’s said that Kate Hudson “hates” Cameron Diaz for dating her ex-boyfriend, Alex Rodriguez.

The claws have come out between Kate Hudson and Cameron Diaz.

The feud between blond beauties began after Hudson saw photographs of Diaz sneaking out of Alex Rodriguez’s Manhattan apartment with overnight bags in tow May 2, Us Weekly reports.

Hudson, 31, who dated the Yankees slugger last year, is reportedly “pissed” at Diaz for moving in on her ex only months after their December breakup.

In fact, the “Nine” star is said to believe that Diaz is only rounding the bases with the athlete out of revenge.

Back in 2007, Hudson allegedly hooked up with Justin Timberlake just days after he and Diaz ended their four-year relationship.

“Kate hates Cameron,” an insider said. “She thinks it’s payback, pure and simple.”

However, those on Team Cameron say there’s a big difference between a committed relationship and a fizzled out fling.

“Cameron was actually in a serious long-term relationship with Justin,” a Diaz pal said. “She thinks it’s a joke Kate would be mad. Kate is only upset because she hates being single.”

Diaz, 37, and A-Rod, 34, have kept a low profile since they were first spotted dirty dancing in February at a Super Bowl party in Miami.

According to Us, the undercover lovers were recently holed up in a luxury suite at Boston’s Liberty Hotel, where they “didn’t even surface for food.”

More like the battle of the desperate. When will these little hollywood ho3s understand taking someone elses left overs – will soon only make you sick and spit it back up of regretfulness! These guys hop in bed with these needy girls bone one and then the other; and now a big fight is going.

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Celebrity lives are all about gossip, scandals, rumors and funk. They are so used to it that if gossip magazines and entertainment blogs are not discussing them, they consider it a drop in their popularity. But if for a while we think what leads to celebrity gossip and scandals, we will find that it is either a stunt or a means to buy some air time. As soon as a leading lady is seen in a lip lock with one of her co-actors, there starts brewing gossip, hotter than coffee.

In Hollywood, gossip initiates from a lot of sources. It could be absolutely anything under the sun. A simple picture of a bikini clad model can give rise to a juicy gossip. To add a cherry on the cake if there is a hero posing with her, then paparazzi is sure to draw a conclusion that they must have spent some time during the ad shoot. This piece of rumor reaches to the girlfriend or wife of the hero and soon there is a lot of mud slinging in public. Media has its mission accomplished! This is exactly what they wanted as the TRP of their news channel and their site increases with leaps and bounds.

There are other instances too when a celebrity’s PR makes it a point to get him or her noticed in a manner to attract the attention of paparazzi. This ploy is usually sorted to when the star is on the downward climb of his success graph. Some crazy step taken by the star causes a flutter and the shutterbugs keep chasing them till the star has got what was required.

No matter how reserved and sane a celebrity is, he or she is bound to get netted in the snare of celeb gossip. Even the suave and sexy Richard Gere got into a problematic while he visited India and kissed an Indian actress Shilpa Shetty. This event got loads of hype and then after the media had its fill they went quiet. Remember the day when Angelina Jolie slapped her husband Brad Pitt? It created quite a furor all over. Such things become juice gossip for readers and this breaks the privacy that should be granted to a married couple. But for the gossip hungry there can be no stopping.

Celeb gossip and rumors become high on the list when a movie is slated to release. If the directors are anxious about their movie, they try to create a story that is sure to draw the attention of the paparazzi. Even if the movie fails, there will be ample number of people who will flock to the multiplex only for the gossip item. The ladies are also used to accentuate the gossip column. There is either a topless scene of the actress, or she may be swimming bare bodied or she may even be engaged in passionate sex in the movie. Any one of the steamy items is sure to draw attention to the movie; an attempt that is enough to get the costs made up.

No matter what, gossip is something that always sells. The gossip makers understand and know very well how to sell the sizzle before one reaches the steak!

Celebrities live a charmed life, or so we think. We read about their luxurious lifestyles in the celebrity gossip magazines. We look at their attractive partners, their sparkling jewelry and their posh houses. Many celeb gossip readers fancy living such a life in the lap of luxury. But do we think how they are missing out on the little things in life that make live livable? I mean, no celebrity can go out and hang around with friends when he becomes the darling of entertainment news columns. His private life practically ends there. He’s then just a normal person trying to trick the paparazzi and protect whatever he can of his privacy.

There are two questions here. Do the celebrities really want the celebrity gossip sites to talk about every little aspect of their life? The answer is a yes and a no. They want the celeb gossip sites and other publications to talk about them because that gives them publicity and visibility. Being splashed all over tabloids and entertainment news portals have a strong impression on the celebrity’s fan following. When the tabloids and magazines talk about them at length, the celebrity knows that he is interesting enough and popular enough to get people talking about him. When they see the paparazzi on their tails, they know they have achieved something important. It’s like a yardstick to measure their success.

The answer is a no when we talk about celebrity gossip sites probing deep into their private lives. Celeb gossip sites beep date alerts even when a male celebrity is just hanging around with a celebrity of the opposite sex. The constant scrutiny and a life under the microscope of the paparazzi- that’s what celebrities get as a byproduct of fame. They can’t go shopping with their family, they can’t sneak out with their partner for a quiet dinner, they can’t even go to town partying! It’s like whatever they may do, the entertainment portals and tabloids will write about them. Exaggeration is an essential enemy here! There are very few publications which actually authenticate a news story about a celebrity before going viral with it.

The second question is: do the celebrity gossip sites help the celebrity? This answer is an emphatic yes! Celebrities use the celeb gossip sites to promote their movies and music. They court journalists who write for these entertainment portals to get favorable movie reviews and music reviews. They like to answer tons of inane questions about their life and lifestyle to please the yellow journalists. They deliberately plant the paparazzi at their favorite haunts so they can be clicked. They know they can’t stop the news stories to trickle out, so they make sure that they use these sites and portals as vehicles and media to further their cause.

So the next time you find a celebrity lambasting a celebrity gossip site or threatening to sue an entertainment portal, be sure that he will do a double flip when it comes to using these celeb gossip site! It’s all a case of mutual understanding and existence. And as long as no one is seriously complaining, their honeymoon can go on a extended period!

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Celebrity gossip is no more something that you keep folded in your bag to read when you are alone. Celeb gossip is slowly but steadily throwing off the grab of secrecy to emerge as a potent and important marketing tool. Celebrities are fast waking up to realize that entertainment news portals are popular and they can be used to marketing and promotion. Suddenly the dreaded paparazzi started receiving exact locations of the celebrities.

This ushered a new age in which celebrities used celebrity gossip sites to promote their movies, music albums and sometimes products which they are endorsing. When a movie is about to release, you find all these date alerts on celeb gossip sites about the lead pair of the movie dating in real life as well. This sparks off curiosity in the leading stars of the film. That definitely translates into sales for the movie. Entertainment sites are provided with other trivia related to the film. There are press junkets organized to showcase the film to the press.

Celebrity gossip magazines and portals are used to cook up controversy surrounding a movie as well. Before the release of a movie, celeb gossip columns go abuzz with reports about the intimate scenes that the movie contains. It could be between actors who don’t see eye to eye. It could be between performers who are rumored to be dating, but there’s no official word for it. Entertainment sites love it when an actor is romancing an ex onscreen. It’s taken for granted that if a director is able to bring Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston for a movie together, the very casting will guarantee a huge opening for the movie. The publicists of the movie have to just feed the rumor mills with fodder once in a while!

Celebrity gossip magazines work great for other promotion and advertising purposes as well. An example here would be the Carl Jr. burger ad that had Kim Kardashian. The celeb gossip industry went dizzy writing about the ad and how Kim was projecting the act of eating a burger look like making love! Thanks to the enthusiasm of the entertainment news portals, the ad got more visibility than it could have got without it. It became a regular feature on You Tube. The star-struck viewers didn’t care about the fact that if Kim was actually having those burgers, she could never maintain the body that they are dying for!

Celebrity gossip portals receive updates from the stars about their upcoming activities through Twitter, Facebook or MySpace. They have their profile pages on these social networking sites, more to connect with celeb gossip sites than their fans. They post pictures of their recent dates, sometimes even anonymously or with the help of fake profiles, making them come off as leaked snaps. Entertainment news sections have proved their importance by demanding this importance from the celebrities by the strength of their popularity. It does make a difference to the celebrities when they are talked and written about and that is exactly what they want!

With great power come great responsibilities! Remember that Spiderman quote? We do, but it seems that those celebs who hog the pages of the celebrity gossip sites are forgetting it. Celebrities hold sway over a million hearts. They are adorning the pages of celeb gossip publications and online portals because they have achieved something, even if it is preposterous or outrageous. Being celebrities, it naturally draws that they have influence over people. Don’t you think it’s time that they become mouthpieces for a cause and make the world a better place through the medium of entertainment news?

Celebrity gossip sites and publications are popular. They reach out to millions of people all over the world. When celebrities speak for a cause, that message goes out to many of their fans through the celeb gossip sites. That helps, because money is not the only factor when humanity is in trouble. We also need active participation and we need a voice that will speak and lead. That is where celebrities can come in. They can use their power and influence to move people to act. They can urge them to support a cause with dedication and hard work. Mobilizing public opinion is not always easy and celebrities can do that through entertainment sites.

The coming of celebrity gossip portals has benefitted social issues. Take for example the relief work at Haiti. How many of you would have known about the Telethon organized by George Clooney if not for the entertainment news sections? How many of those people would have actually called the phone banks if celebrities were not manning them? This is the perfect example of celebrities coming together for a cause. There was no malice, no sense of one-upmanship. It just went to prove that the bitter rivalry that some celeb gossip sites make out isn’t always true.

Raising funds and other resources get a boost when celebrity gossip sites take up the work of promoting the event among fans and the masses in general. The same can be said about issues like water, global warming or maybe even gay rights. When the celebrity decides to speak, people actually listen. They can send out their message through the entertainment news portals. Sometimes they take part in debates and panel discussions to voice their concerns. Sometimes they go out their way to speak up against a cause. Some also become ambassadors, like Angelina Jolie who is the UN Ambassador for Peace.

Celebrity gossip sites don’t always focus on the personal lives of the celebrities. When the celebrity decided to walk the virgin path, celeb gossip sites are on their trail. Their every step is recounted in the entertainment news sections. People come to know about their icons doing something to make a difference. That inspires them to make a difference, too! That is a very encouraging sign in a dog-eat-dog world. And if a celebrity can come out of the pages of the unreal world and make a difference, things can really turn out in our favor.

Celebrity gossip is not always something that yellow journalist hunt out. There are times when the celeb gossip updates are provided to the entertainment sites by the celebrities themselves. There is an increased tendency among attention-stared celebrities to take center-stage by getting hold of the limelight and placing it firmly upon themselves. Planting updates to the sources tapped by the paparazzi is a practice that is not entirely new, but that is definitely getting redefined. Celebrities know that they can be in the news for only a designated period of time and that time span is very short. They have to make a continued, sustained effect to keep themselves in the news.

Planting celebrity gossip stories in newspapers and tabloids happened in the days of yore as well. You had jealous celebrities blowing the lid off scandals by calling celeb gossip publications. The motive for this was entirely professional jealousy or just rage at being dumped, rejected or slighted. All that changed with the coming of modern entertainment news. Because these portals are extremely popular with the masses, celebrities feel the need to reach out and connect with them. It’s obvious that they cannot do that overtly. The only way they can do that is by planting stories about themselves.

An example here would illustrate the point better. Take for example the Kardashian family. They have been talking about their bruised relationships with their significant others. There was Kourtney Kardashian hinting that her relationship with beau Scott Disick was anything but normal. Her sister Khloe spoke in favor of her in celebrity gossip magazines. Their mother Kris Jenner lambasted Scott in another celeb gossip portal. Just when you thought that there was some truth in this and the relationships of the Kardashian sisters were actually fractured, you have all of them coming out, trashing every report and exhorting us not to trust entertainment news portals. It was like a bolt from the blue that scorched the tender faith that gossip lovers in these publications.

Here, the celebrity gossip reporters have an important role to play. They need to check facts before giving them up for press. Celeb gossip lovers love their news served with a bit of a tang. That is true. But they also like to know that they are reading entertainment news which has some degree of credibility. With modern technology, especially the internet, they can verify in seconds if a particular news item is a scoop or a figment of the imagination. They can also cross-check facts and data with other websites and publications. Thanks to the archives that you have online you can check out the back-stories of any new update that comes your way. This is a great way to check if a celebrity is planting a story for publicity.

Celebrities these days are convinced that any publicity is good publicity. They couldn’t care less if the celebrity gossip columns speak about their personal affairs indiscriminately. They are only interested in celeb gossip sites when they talk and write about them. Plants or not, these celebs surely know how to grab columns in the entertainment news sections!

Celebrity gossip sites have a wave of enthusiastic readers all over the world. They have dedicated readers who check up on updates, no matter what the constraints are. What we do not really notice sometimes is what effect do celeb gossip sites have on the kids of these celebrities? It must surely be taxing to have tons of entertainment news sections talking about their parents. The situation is really difficult for kids whose parents have broken up. They must be feeling a mind-numbing experience of all that is written about people who are close to them. Being of an impressionable mind and age, kids are more likely to believe whatever they read.

Celeb kids don’t always know that many celebrity gossip sites publishes half-baked stories to meet certain deadlines and sometimes, just because they do not have anything better to report. This trend among celeb gossip writers is the most damaging. This is detrimental to the credibility of the celeb gossip sites. The kids of the celebrities they tear apart in their entertainment news sections are the ones who bear the brunt. It is really sad that kids have to read a lot of drivel about their parents, the hook-ups and linkages that these writers cook up where they are non-existent. It is not a very enviable situation to be in.

The celeb kids themselves are not out of harm’s reach. They have the paparazzi glaring down their throats each time they make a move out. They can’t hang around with their friends or head for the video-game parlor. They miss out on a normal childhood because they happen to be celeb kids. They have celebrity gossip reporters hounding them for a snap as they go about their lives like any other kid would like to. They are denied the full freedom that childhood brings with it. They may be growing up in the lap of luxury but they are missing out on a lot, things which money can’t buy.

Celeb kids have been known to have problems in schools because of what is being written about their parents on celebrity gossip magazines. A recent example would be the presence of the paparazzi in front of the school where Tiger Woods’ daughter studies. The posse of reporters positioned at the gate of the school was waiting for Tiger or his wife Elin to show up. It was a crisis situation for the entertainment news sections because both of them were not making a public appearance. A snap of either would cost millions. In the rush of economics and profit, they laid siege to a school, making things inconvenient for the kids as well as for guardians.

This is one aspect that we must all look at with some consideration. It is okay to look for updates and you can’t really expect people to forego their habit of reading entertainment news columns. But maybe we need to be responsible when it comes to talking about celebrities who have kids. After all, they are not part of this celebrity circus!

Celebrity gossip hunting can sometimes get dangerous for the reporter as well as for the celebrity. We are not unaware of the dangers associated with the paparazzi tailing a celeb as she gets out of a restaurant with her partner. Celeb gossip reporters can go to any lengths to uncover a scandal. You cannot blame them because there is a whole chunk of readers feeding on entertainment news. They know that if they don’t do the dirty work, someone else will. When there is a demand, they have to supply or perish.

The danger lies not just in the paparazzi chasing the celebrity. The danger also lies in what is written about the celebrity. An inauthentic report about an alleged affair in a celebrity gossip portal can actually forge a dent in the relationship. Celeb gossip sites, at least some of them, cook up facts and forge documents to make the readers believe that there is truth and fact in their news story. It’s not easy for a celebrity spouse or partner to ignore such a report. In a world where relationships are fragile by themselves, celeb gossip sites make them more uncertain.

There are those times when innocent members of a celebrity’s life are dragged into the limelight by the celebrity gossip sites. The members could be children of the celebrities at logger heads or it could be parents or the circle of family and friends. Life becomes tough for these people who have nothing to do with fame and the celebrity status. But that status is thrust upon them by the celeb gossip sites. Recently you have Tiger Woods apologizing to the school his daughter studying in. After his sex scandal came to light, you had these teams of paparazzi scouring the school, looking to spot either Tiger or Elin.

Things are not all hunky dory for the celebrity gossip sites either. They have to be careful about what they write at all times. Since they are dealing with people who have money and power, they have to be sure that they don’t rub them the wrong way. Celeb gossip sites are slapped with lawsuits and legal notices every now and then. There are libel issues that the entertainment sites have to deal with on a regular basis. Sometimes their sources turn them in, sometimes there is some misunderstanding and the celebrity claims that the words in the interview have been misconstrued. Then the publication is under the scanner and at the receiving end of legal action. If they lose the legal suit, they have to pay millions in damages.

This bitter-sweet relationship between celebrity gossip sites and the celebrities has continued for years. With the coming of online celeb gossip sites and real-time updates, the relationship is now deeper than ever. The dangerous hankering for entertainment news has diminished a little with the celebrities updating their social networking profile pages on Facebook and Twitter with the updates in their lives. Celebrities realize that being public figures, they cannot escape the glare of the paparazzi.

Twitter is the biggest buzz on the internet now. What started off as thought and knowledge sharing in 140 characters has now become the birthplace for many celebrity gossip stories. The greatest advantage of sourcing celeb gossip stories from Twitter is that the germs of the stories lie in posts made by the celebrities. Some celebrities are tactful and careful about what they post. Most are not. They put up something which offends someone and then you have the entertainment news sector spilling over with interpretations and analyses. It gets on to such a point sometimes that the celebrity has no other option but to come out with a rebuttal to douse what has been ignited.

Twitter is fast. Celebrities use that advantage. Celebrity gossip sites monitor the Twitter pages of celebrities round the clock, scourging for updates and developments. Some celebs like to post anything and everything on Twitter, which comes off as extremely silly sometimes. Celeb gossip magazines and publications follow the thread posted on rare occasions and ignore the posts on others. Entertainment news reporters generally “follow” the celebs of their interests so that their tweets are visible on their page as well. Twitter has made it possible for the paparazzi to locate a celeb without having to run around the town looking for authentic information.

Twitter is interactive. If you have followed a particular celebrity gossip story with some interest and you know the details painfully well, you can share your information with other “followers” on Twitter. In exchange of your information, you may come across further updates from the tweets made by like-minded enthusiasts. Celeb gossip, like wildfire, needs fodder to feed on and expand. The “tweeple” or the people on Twitter make it possible. They pass on information to others through re-tweets. They contact entertainment sites when they have sufficient information to go out and declare something substantial. The paparazzi keep a sharp eye on the tweet pages of the celebrities to check what the fans are writing about and if there is an interest in a particular story.

Twitter isn’t only about those 140-character tweets. It’s also about pictures. Twitpic allows you to share you photos with thousands of followers. The paparazzi need not look further to find the latest holidays snaps of the celebrities. If the celebrity likes the private photos to go up on the celebrity gossip publications, he or she can just upload them on Twitpic. In a matter of hours you will find celeb gossip reporters taking out digital copies of those pictures and streaming them to other sources. Entertainment sites used to go through a lot of hassle to get that one exclusive snap or the first look of an upcoming movie. Now they are readily available on Twitpic. Celebrities use Twitter for damage control on certain occasions. If the celebrity gossip has spiraled out of control and hurting the image of the celeb, he or she may post a clarification on Twitter. Celebs tweet to make their voice heard and also to connect with numerous fans out there.

Celebrity gossip portals and publications portray relationships. In fact, relationships between celebrities and their close ones make for quality celeb gossip material. Readers, however, wonder if relationships in the tinsel town are as bitter and brittle as the entertainment news columns make them out to be. That’s a riddle that keeps gnawing at the reader’s mind, making them curious about the life that these celebs are leading. The element of curiosity is the driving force of this entire paparazzi onslaught.

The question here is, though these celebrities are youth icons for millions of fans, would you depend on them for advice on relationships? Celebrity gossip sites are always coming up with stories of their fast track life, revealing details about their affairs and scandals. Celeb gossip portals are flush with stories about their extramarital stories, about their sexual escapades and their lives which we can politely call amoral. Entertainment sites follow their lawsuits and libels with almost personal interest in the proceedings. That interest is primarily for the sake of the readers.

The primary interest in celebrity gossip is fuelled by the reader’s desire to know how bonds develop between the rich and the famous. There is an air of majestic pleasure in reading about their hook-ups and their break-ups. Celeb gossip publications talk about every new linkage with relish. Entertainment news portals keep their tabs on every social networking profile where the celebrities declare their latest crush and romantic interest. When it comes to break-ups, you can find the paparazzi posted near the house of the hapless celeb, waiting for that exclusive, ghastly picture of a person going through a personal turmoil.

You cannot blame the yellow journalists for being cruel on this. They are just doing their jobs. They write on the celebrity gossip columns exactly what the readers want to know about. When they find that there are more visitors on their celeb gossip site because of a particular story, they know that the pains they took to collect the story have been validated. Entertainment news sites have repeatedly reaped rich dividends when they have covered stories that deal with relationship issues of the celebrity.

There’s more mileage to the story if there are some intimate details splashed on the pages of the celebrity gossip magazine. The Tiger Woods scandal ran long on the celeb gossip pages because there was evidence in the form of text and email messages that Tiger sent to his mistresses. The women in question sold off the messages to the entertainment sites against a hefty fee and before Tiger could know what hit him, his personal text messages were splashed all over the pages of every publication in town. That is the level of interest that we are talking about here. Celebrity gossip websites go tizzy if there is a sex tape somewhere out there! There is a manhunt out to get that and post it on the celeb gossip site. Any amount of voyeuristic attention is like paradise to the readers and the paparazzi make sure that the readers get their daily updates.