Did you know gossip is good for us? It might not feel like that, at least when you're the person who's the target of it, but experts say that the exchange of gossip serves to draw us closer together. Whether it’s done at the office watercooler or at 2am in the toilets of a nightclub, gossip acts as bonding material between you and your mates.
That exchange of confidence is part of the prize, reinforcing a friendship while reconfirming boundaries against others – if you want to see an example of it in real life, just watch Selling Sunset on Netflix, in which a bunch of women tell us they trade in real estate while actually dealing in A-grade gossip.
She revealed that someone was leaking information about her to the Sun newspaper and that she – having embarked upon a detective route which involved her concocting made-up stories made visible only to Rebekah Vardy's Instagram account, which were subsequently leaked – had deduced that she had therefore located the culprit.
Wigs on the green? Handbags in the swimming-pool, more like. So far, under cross-examination, the revelations from Vardy’s life reveal a champion gossip, particularly in her furious back-and-forth texts to her agent. What did this remind me of? I kept thinking. Oh yes. School. Some of the comments make for scandalous courtroom fodder, but would have you run a mile from the person in real life. It’s schoolgirl stuff, albeit with grown-up consequences. By the time their seven days in court have played out, according to one estimate, costs for each side will be greater than £1 million and the winner will only get back about 70 per cent of their legal bill.
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