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I can give you a psychological reason we as a society like to read of celebrities having problems. It's the same reasoning that keeps Soap Operas alive.

We, as a society have many pressures put upon us daily. Some inflicted from work, spouse, children etc, but the vast majority come from self-infliction. And when we read about how someone who makes millions and lives the life we dream of living has either the same problems or problems much greater than we percieve ours to be it validates us. It's an emotional displacement or escapeism theory, that many in the psychology world believe.

This was more common with housewives in the past, because men were more separated from their feelings and worked hard and avoided stress by accepting their positions in life. Today, men suffer from it as much as women, because men are more in tuned with their emotions, watching more television and inflicting far more self stress upon themselves to be better than their predecessors.

Example: Joe is having marital problems and feels as though his life is boring and that he is stuck. Joe sees that Celebrity "A" is having marital problems and is also being dragged through the mud for any number of reasons.

Joe feels better because if celebrity "A", who makes millions more and lives a much better life is having problems then Joe must be OK and Joe isn't as bad off as celebrity "A".

That is the main reason why the tabloids are selling like crazy and "mainstream news" follows these people.

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I just love people who use the excuse "I use/do this because I LOVE the feeling/joy/happiness it brings me" and expect you to be ok with that as you watch them destroy their life blindly following. My response is, "I like to put forks in an eletrical socket, just LOVE that feeling, can't ever get enough of it, so will you let me put this copper fork in that electric socket?"