gossip

The pseudonym Perez Hilton is a reference to Paris Hilton who was at the height of her fame when the celebrity gossip blog was launched in 2005.

From BBC ● Aug. 9, 2026

Hilton, born Mario Lavandeira Jr., has been a pop culture personality since the early aughts when he launched his eponymous celebrity gossip rag.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 5, 2026

This piece of gossip soon begins to cloud Elliot’s life and better judgement.

From Salon ● Jul. 31, 2026

Clement’s lawyer said in a statement that the report found against her “on the pretext of ‘perception,’ the source of which was rumour, gossip and innuendo.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jul. 22, 2026

“I have some old contacts who hear gossip other people don’t. I’ll seek them out, see if they’ve heard anything about the Immortal. Ratwin’ll do the same.”

From "Impossible Creatures" by Katherine Rundell

The chapters fly at the reader in column-length bursts, and the perspective bops about from that of our heroine to neighborhood gossips, savvy editors and that unforgettable mother-in-law.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 27, 2026

Tisa’s reenactments, commentary, and energy earned her a comment from a viewer who dubbed her “the new and improved Wendy Williams,” signaling a changing future for even legacy gossips and talk show hosts.

From Slate ● Jun. 10, 2025

Williams has long understood why people love gossip and equally adore and abhor gossips: they cause controversy, and sometimes force a public, corrective response.

From Salon ● Feb. 23, 2024

Rosenblum snaps back to the beginning of the summer, where she lays out her rogues’ gallery of gossips, hypocrites, cheaters.

From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2023

People moved in the corners of Cora’s vision: shadows of gossips and scolds.

From "The Underground Railroad: A Novel" by Colson Whitehead

As attendees roamed the corridors of the suburban Dallas resort and gossiped over drinks in the faux-adobe sports bar, there was no sense of a coming contest.

From Slate ● Apr. 17, 2026

Because the home has been staged, buyers won’t be able to sit at the very kitchen table where the Kardashian clan gossiped over salads, or the poolside lounges where they often sunned themselves.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 17, 2026

As spectators filed through security screening then streamed into the courtroom, they gossiped as key players strode by as though in a stage play, including Dick Harpootlian, the lead defense lawyer.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 12, 2026

During his childhood, Almodóvar sometimes sat and listened under the kitchen table while his mother and other women gossiped and shared secrets, Moore says.

From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 30, 2024

We gossiped as we cooked small eggs and sweet potatoes on top of the houlu just to enjoy their smell.

From "The Joy Luck Club" by Amy Tan

In the forepart of the oven, on either hand, stood a variety of pots and pipkins, and gossipped together in their several tones.

From Yiddish Tales by Various

"Worship makes worshipped, worshipper, worshipping; gossip, gossipped, gossipper, gossipping; fillip, fillipped, fillipper, fillipping."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

"The substance of the Criticisms on the Diversions of Purley was, with singular industry, gossipped by the present precious secretary of war, in Payne the bookseller's shop."

From The Grammar of English Grammars by Brown, Goold

The old Frenchwoman gossipped and wondered about her; but the most speculative could fashion no story from a page so blank as this joyless existence.

From Charlotte's Inheritance by Braddon, M. E. (Mary Elizabeth)

Her father, I suppose, wished to avoid the chance of her marriage being gossipped about.

From A Canadian Heroine, Volume 3 A Novel by Coghill, Harry, Mrs.

There is no reality in which gossiping about someone’s weight loss, especially on social media, is a way toward helping or healing.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026

I felt like he was gossiping about me to a lot of people, and during one review, it became clear that he was.

From MarketWatch ● Feb. 28, 2026

“You hear people gossiping in the locker room, or you hear about cool art shows that are happening or dance parties,” says Hansen.

From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 5, 2026

The time guys normally spend learning in GED or college classes, or socializing and building community in prisoner-run workshops, is now wasted inside their cells gossiping and scheming.

From Slate ● Oct. 8, 2025

I could go to a phone booth at one of the nearby stores, but all the store owners know the Doctorita and are prone to gossiping.

From "The Queen of Water" by Laura Resau

Robinson and Frances Glandney, who married in 2002, were part of a group of longtime pals and she knew they’d start gossipping about her and the legendary singer-songwriter.

From Seattle Times ● Apr. 28, 2023

So soon as the first canoe was made, Cary Singleton launched it, and, accompanied by two men, made the reconnoissance which so much frightened the gossipping laundresses.

From The Bastonnais Tale of the American Invasion of Canada in 1775-76 by Lespérance, John

"Peter!" said Walter, struggling painfully to recover his composure; "Is there more in what you have just been telling me, than mere talk and gossipping nonsense?"

From L'Arrabiata and Other Tales by Heyse, Paul

A bon mot of a pretty and sarcastic lady, at the expense of both of them, is now going the round of the gossipping circles.

From The Knickerbocker, or New-York Monthly Magazine, April 1844 Volume 23, Number 4 by Clark, Lewis Gaylord

His friendships are a kind of gossipping friendships, and those commonly within the circle of his trade, wherein he is careful principally to avoid two things, that is poor men and suretiships.

From Microcosmography or, a Piece of the World Discovered; in Essays and Characters by Earle, John