The truth about celebrity breakups

Why we can't get enough of watching the famous f•ck it up romantically.

Photo by Walid Hamadeh on Unsplash

Gossip is entertainment that also acts as an early warning system; pulling apart the lives of others can alert us to problems closer to home. But bitching about people we know can get us into trouble; celebrity relationships are more fun to obsess over, because the stakes are low.

When raking over friends’ breakups, ther…