How gossip became one of our biggest comforts in lockdown
Updated / Friday, 16 Apr 2021
14:31
Kate Demolder is a freelance journalist.
Opinion: Kate Demolder explores the complication role gossip plays in our lives, and how the pandemic made us hungry for more.
Recently I learned that Leonardo DiCaprio wears noise-cancelling earphones during sex. In a news item branded Hollywood s laziest lover!’ Leo – star of The Beach, Romeo & Juliet and famous for not dating any model over the age of 25 – was outed by a recent conquest who claimed Leo reached for his vape and a pair of noise-cancelling headphones during sex.
Rumour has it, the Oscar-winner leant back, closed his eyes and signalled for her to keep going. The king of the world, indeed.