I’m being paid to let you guys know there’s a new gossip blog in town. They’ve secured the lucrative and expensive domain CelebrityGossip.com, a Wordpress-powered aggregator site, and pretty pink Google advertisements:

Except for their advertisement at the top, though, the site is quite cleanly layed out and designed. Every story gets a legal, licensed photo to accompany it (take that Perez), a list of “related chatter” ala techmeme (but so much better!), and a community story rating. Currently their hottest item appears to be slow down baby, a new song by Christina Aguilera.

Major criticism? The related chatter is too verbose; it can’t roll up the conversation into small groups, it just displays a massive (a page or two) of links:

Still, they’re clearly trying to innovate, which many other gossip blogs (this one included), do not have a chance to do. Good luck making a name for yourself, Celebrity Gossip!!