2022 Was the Year of Cheating Scandals

28.12.2022 - 16:17 / glamour.com

, or fester with horrific implications, or leave us anxious, confused, and world-weary. In that sense, we've been living through an outrageously turgid season of gossip ever . Did anyone enjoy sifting through the ? Or 's rapid descent into loathsome anti-semitism? Or ? Or Trump's unseemly confluence of reality-show buffoonery and dictatorial precepts? Our entertainment headlines have been dominated by outrage and criminal proceedings for so long that we've forgotten the joy of a thrilling, pulpy Hollywood scandal.

So it's a real blessing that in 2022, . At last, we're getting back to tabloid basics; no hatred, no politics, no FBI investigations—just good old-fashioned infidelity between two famous people.The most recent (and most riveting) incident occurred on the set of ABC's Good Morning America. Hosts were very much married to other spouses when news broke that the two had been involved in an affair since spring. Naturally, my Twitter timeline immediately billowed with amateur Tea Detectives, desperately in search of any evidence of the two's chemistry while they shared the screen.

(Let me tell you, ) A few months before that rollicking saga of morning-show philandering, the internet's Zoomers received a juicy scandal of their own. , a popular YouTube channel built by four wholesome-coded dorks, lost its luster when one of the stars—Ned Fulmer—. Fulmer had previously built a persona as a doting, wife-worshiping husband, so his infidelity was rhapsodically ironic and ripe with schadenfreude.

The Try Guys were subsequently , which is probably the closest they'll get to attaining actual celebrity. Of course,  when an intrepid TikTokker revealed the singer's bungled, wincingly thirsty . Levine claimed that he's never been