page_title: Gossip columnist
section_title: Notable gossip columnists
hierarchical_section_title: Gossip columnist / Notable gossip columnists
caption_attribution_description: Michael Musto (cropped) by David Shankbone
context_page_description: A gossip columnist is someone who writes a gossip column in a newspaper or magazine, especially a gossip magazine. Gossip columns are material written in a light, informal style, which relates the gossip columnist's opinions about the personal lives or conduct of celebrities from show business, politicians, professional sports stars, and other wealthy people or public figures. Some gossip columnists broadcast segments on radio and television.
  The columns mix factual material on arrests, divorces, marriages and pregnancies, obtained from official records, with more speculative gossip stories, rumors, and innuendo about romantic relationships, affairs, and purported personal problems.
  Gossip columnists have a reciprocal relationship with the celebrities whose private lives are splashed about in the gossip column's pages.
context_section_description: Notable gossip columnists include:
  Cindy Adams
  Jani Allan
  Flo Anthony
  Army Archerd
  Rona Barrett
  Marilyn Beck
  A.J. Benza
  Jamie Foster Brown
  Ted Casablanca
  Claudia Cohen
  Mike Connolly
  Giles Coren
  Ana Marie Cox
  Nigel Dempster
  Matt Drudge
  Jinx Falkenburg
  Jimmy Fidler
  Luke Ford
  Sheilah Graham Westbrook
  Charles Graves
  Lloyd Grove
  Ian Halperin
  Tanya Hart
  David Hartnell
  Courtney Hazlett
  Perez Hilton
  Hedda Hopper
  Arianna Huffington
  Micah Jesse
  Dorothy Kilgallen
  Irv Kupcinet
  Frances Lynn
  Isabel Mallon as "Bab" (1880s–90s)
  Elsa Maxwell
  Florabel Muir
  Michael Musto
  Louella Parsons
  Drew Pearson
  Rex Reed
  Sidney Skolsky
  Liz Smith
  Adela Rogers St. Johns
  Jimmy Starr
  Ed Sullivan
  Mike Walker
  Jeannette Walls
  Earl Wilson
  Walter Winchell
  Mila Ximénez
caption: Michael Musto (March 2007)
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