Psst! Did you hear about the star who took her dog for a walk?!

Name: Anti-gossip.

Age: New.

Are we talking myrmecological tittle-tattle? No. That would be ant gossip.

Psst!? Excuse me?

Psst! It’s what you might say before telling someone some juicy goss. Oh, I see: “Psst” being the word that precedes the gossip. But no, that would make it antegossip. Like antechamber, or antenatal …

Or antelope? Or is that when a couple of ants (12-)leg it to Gretna Green … Stop it! And no, we’re talking anti-gossip.

Like antifreeze, or the antichrist? A bit, I suppose, in that it’s the opposite.

I think we’re going to need an example. OK … so I saw Thandie Newton the other day.

I love her! Where? At the fishmonger.

No way, seriously? Who was she with, what was she doing? She was on her own; she bought a fish.

And? Go on! That’s it. Sea bass, I think; it was a while ago. I don’t get out much, or have many celebrity encounters. I did see Ricky Gervais on Hampstead Heath, but everyone does. And David Baddiel coming out of a toilet …

Were they cruising, and taking drugs? No! Just going for a walk, and to the loo.

That’s so tame and mundane … which I’m guessing is what makes anti-gossip? Exactly!

And this is now a thing? You got it. Once it was all about Perez Hilton and TMZ, not to mention the British tabloids. And they’re still there, spewing it out, along with various social media accounts.

But … But I also give you the accounts @overheardcelebs, @commentsbycelebs and @deuxmoi. Less about who’s sleeping with who, more about so-and-so was spotted walking their dog or having a coffee at a Primrose Hill cafe.

Sounds boring. That’s cos you’re stuck in the early 00s. “Somebody’s going to message me and say like, so-and-so was caught doing drugs at a party or having a threesome or whatever,” the anonymous person behind @deuxmoi told the New York Times. “It’s just not as exciting as it sounds any more.”

The slebs are going to like it. “Our whole goal is that we would never want the person in the picture to look at it and be like: ‘Wow, really sucks that they posted that,’” the co-creator of @commentsbycelebs told Vox.

So we’re talking a less cruel, more truthful kind of gossip … Hey, no one said anything about truth. “This account does not claim any information published is based in fact,” @deuxmoi’s Instagram bio proudly proclaims. But then if it’s not defamatory, who cares?

Do say: “Spotted Rishi Sunak with a can of pop.”

Don’t say: “Rishi Sunak has a massive Mexican coke habit.”

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