How to Know When You Are Obsessed With Celebrity Gossip

It starts out small, flipping through the channels and occasionally watching E! programing. Eventually you Tivo The Soup and True Hollywood Story, you have weekly subscribtions to US Weekly, Star, In Touch, OK!, and People, and then the online blogs. Perez becomes a household name and "Pink" immidiately makes you think of Trent's Celebrity Blog. Then it happens, you call celebrities by their first name, know every place they go every night, and exactly who they wore, when they wore it, and where they wore it to. Their love lives become your love life and before you know it, you are addicted. Sometimes you wish there was a patch to cure this drug, but unfortuately you're doomed.

Things You'll Need

• A computer (with internet connection)
• Weekly Magazine Subscriptions
• TV, obviously tuned to E!
• To live in LA, want to live in LA, or frequently visit LA

Instructions

1. 

   It starts small. Before bed you catch yourself opting for E! News or the Daily 10 instead of the usual Fox or CNN. Getting ready for work or class the next day, you notice you are picking out an outfit "The Fashion Police" declared "in" and on your drive to work or class, you immidiately tune to Ryan Seacrest...

2. 

   You're mailbox soon becomes flooded with magazines and you begin ditching your lunch to spend your money at the corner drug store on US Weekly and In Touch. This soon becomes your bible and you catch yourself counting down till Thursday each week when a new issue hits the shelf...

3. 

   Thursday clearly does not come fast enough so you become best friends with PerezHilton.com and Trent.blogspot.com. ( On good days these sites are updated 3 times a day) Pictures, gossip, news and comments are taking over your computer screen, and your life...

4. 

   The only thing you have to talk about is who broke up with who and why. You begin analyzing celebrities lives as if you've known them your whole life. When La Lohan was caught going to rehab, you were the first to know...

5. 

   News to you means Hollywood, you know the name of every new club in LA and who promotes each night. Everyone you know becomes a connection for you to somehow meet someone. You talk about, dress like, and love celebrites. You are officially addicted.