Listen: Are the Celebrities Okay?
On the latest episode of the Social Distance podcast, staff writers Hannah Giorgis and Spencer Kornhaber update James Hamblin and Katherine Wells on where all the celebrities went, and whether our fascination with them will survive this moment.
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What follows is an edited and condensed transcript of their conversation.
Katherine Wells: Here’s my theory: This whole thing actually became real for a lot of people when Tom Hanks got coronavirus. Yay or nay?
Spencer Kornhaber: 100 percent.
Wells: Then celebrities dropped off the face of the Earth, as far as I can tell. I want to know both what happened to them and what you all are thinking about, because you cover culture in a much more sophisticated way than Jim and I could.
I think they’ve gone a little unhinged. They’re all at home, like we are. But celebrities are a group of people who are used to having the things
