Word on the feed is...

...that gossip has changed. OMG, literally! Celebrity news breaks on Reels, all hints are in the comments. Every screenshot spills more tea. Secret fling? Quiet divorce? Here's how the new experts figure it out

- Kritika Kapoor

It happened a little over a week ago. Enrique Iglesias played Mumbai. Photos of celebrities in the VIP sections were all over our feed.

But only eagle-eyed scrollers caught a mystery man in the background, but never too far from Malaika Arora. The comments didn't disappoint: "Who's that guy?" "Her manager." "Nah, has to be her boyfriend."

Two days in, Instagram paparazzo account @TheCidhant claimed to have cracked the case. The mystery man was Harsh Mehta, 33, a diamond merchant based in Belgium. The post played up their age gap (Arora is 52), and racked up 70K likes. Mainstream media only caught on two days later. In a world where everyone has a camera, and everyone's online, @TheCidhant says intel isn't hard to get. "What sets me apart is that I know how to write it creatively. And I'm fast."

What we gossip about is still the same - flings, facelifts, breakups, meltdowns, pregnancies, snubs, petty drama. But how the tea gets spilled? Gather 'round kids. The game has changed.

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