What else could explain our gargantuan effort in helping Twitter to break its traffic record this week by following the ‘Super injunction’ revelations.
Twitter has not only exposed the pointless protection of adulterous movie stars and premiership footballers, but our nation’s voracious appetite for snippets of salacious scandal. We can indeed count ourselves top rumourmongers and avid celebrity gossip snoops.
The signs have been there for some time; the assiduous ascent of Katie Price on the TV and our collective consciousness; the popularity of celeb magazines pedalling tales of ‘celebrity’ abortions and eating disorders; and the media, ahead of the game, have long been conspiring to give the masses what they want - a rich regimen of celebrity tattle, speculation and hearsay.
Britons not only want to know the details of which celebrity is having an adulterous affair with whom, but we want to be the first to peddle the gossip-mongering wares.
Our guilty pleasure has now become a national merit for men as much as women.
What does it say about Britons? Psychologists will point to the person at the centre of a social gathering, whom quite happily will keep an audience captivated and entertained by ‘spilling the beans’. Gossiping is usually closely followed by a judgement- ‘Can you believe that guy cheated on his girlfriend?’
Gossiping is a poor social tool to make one’s self feel better and worthy of acceptance or is just down to plain jealousy.
A nation of envious, inferiority-riddled, frustrated gossip hounds may be a tad harsh, but it does certainly give some insight behind the popular obsession with scandal.
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