of acceptable taste, such as the sexually explicit Hollywood Star of the 1970s. There are nearly 400 magazines related to gossip in the news stands. Notable gossip magazines around the world include Us Weekly in the United States, Hello! in the United Kingdom, Gente and Chi in Italy, Actustar and Voici in France, Bunte in Germany, and East Touch in Hong Kong. The gossip genre has crossed over onto television and the internet with sites such as TMZ.com and its television counterpart TMZ on TV as well as Perez Hilton, The Drudge Report, and The Smoking Gun breaking many of the stories that were formerly the domain of gossip magazines and tabloids. See also Defamation Disinformation Gossip columnist Tabloid (newspaper format) Tabloid journalism Notes References Tabloid journalism Magazine genres