Celebrity Scoop - Taylor Swift Inspires Word of the Year

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celebrities goop on Star one oh five point seven. All right,
at this point, she should just be teaching at Cambridge.
Taylor Swift officially the inspiration for Cambridge Dictionary's Word of

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the Year for twenty twenty five, and a lot of
it has to do with her songwriting and relationship with
Travis Kelsey. The Dictionary Board have chosen parasocial as the
twenty twenty five word of the year. Here's their explanation.
The definition of the word is involving or relating to
a connection that someone feels between themselves and a famous

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person that they don't know, a character in a book, film,
TV series, or even artificial intelligence. Now it's been used
online for quite a while, but it's really made its
mark this year, according to the Dictionary Board. They said,
for instance, a lot of people going to chat GPT
to help out with things, and millions of fans relating
to Taylor Swift's confessional lyrics about dating, heartbreak, desire, leading

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to what psychologists describe as parasocial bonds with stars. I mean,
remember her engagement photos to Travis literally broke every social
media platform, So there you go. The term dates back
to nineteen fifty six, when it was first coined by
a pair of sociologists at the University of Chicago who
would have no idea that Taylor Swift would put this

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on the map. Bridgerton and Wicked star Jonathan Bailey has
once again shown his amazingly good guys side, sitting down
with none other than Sesame Street star Elmo to remind people,
especially in this busy season, take care of yourselves. What's
it doing. I'm just I'm taking a moment for myself.

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Oh can how much dream? I'd love that? Thank you?
Come here? Sit. Yeah, I'm mister Jonathan. What do we
do when we take a moment? Well, anything that makes
us feel like we're taking care of ourselves. You know,
I never liked sing with you, mister Jonathan, and I
like sitting with you. Alma. Remember, give yourself a moment,

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a moment for whatever you need. I mean, I mean,
maybe it's the British accent or that Jonathan Bailey is
just an attractive man, but I would sit on a
bench with him and Almo all day and here we go.
It's a spoiler alert if you have not watched Dancing
with the Stars last night. Okay, take a minute, peace out,
come right back. I don't want to give anything away,
but it was a shocking elimination, of course, a very

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cool night as it was Prince Knight. And I've got
to first talk about the absolute eruption in the backstage
producer's room at ABC when they saw that finally, after
all these weeks of dancing, none other than Zach Efron,
Dylan Efron, who is a competitor in the show, finally
came to Teiran, his younger brother. That's the moment the

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camera panned to the audience and there was Zaca Fron
hot Zacha Frond as for Dylan the good news he
moves on. That's right safe last night alongside his partner Daniella,
Robert Erwin and Whitney also moving on, Alan and Alex Earle.
And that came down to two and again in a

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shock elimination, Whitney, Levitt and her partner Mark voted out
of the competition, which leaves Elaine and Allen are parent
trap favorite headed into the final three semi finals. I've
got the video. I mean it's worth sun Zach West
Michigan star dot com with all of your scoop all right. Next,

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