At Sunday’s Golden Globe Awards, many viewers focused on the conversations in the audience rather than the winners on stage. As the camera panned, people at her home were shown intimate moments between Timothée Chalamet and his girlfriend Kylie Jenner, as well as juicy gossip between Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift. Before long, people were recording the moment and speculating by zooming in on what was supposed to be a private moment between the most famous celebrities.
After rumors surfaced that her request for a photo shoot with Chalamet was denied, Gomez clarified on Instagram: “No, I told Taylor about two friends I dated. It’s not anyone else’s business.”
Nina Dillinger, also known as TikTok’s “lip-reading girl,” hypothesizes that John Krasinski may have said this to his wife Emily Blunt on the red carpet in a new post that has been viewed nearly a million times. erected. After she became convinced that he was saying on the internet that he wanted a divorce “indoors”.
For internet amateurs, lip reading is no different from some weird telephone game. People make their own guesses about what was said, even though they are usually far from the truth. But there are also experts.
Jeremy Freeman, for example, is a forensic lip reader hired to record detailed private conversations of royals as well as celebrities like Swift and Jenner. According to British experts, he was “born severely deaf and was brought up by word of mouth.” He has worked for media outlets such as The Sun, The Times and The Daily Mail, where he has been tasked with deciphering the conversations of big stars. He also works in law and security fields, including in the police force.
“My journey as a witness lip-reading expert has been very interesting so far…providing me with countless stories, experiences, and a few laughs along the way,” he said. I wrote it in a LinkedIn post.
Many will argue that Freeman is doing an important job and is simply “giving the people what they want.”
While that may certainly be true, is this intense interest in celebrity conversations going too far? Fans have highlighted the lack of privacy, but unfortunately this is nothing new.
For years, people have been live-tweeting overheard conversations between strangers, but now they’re choosing to have fun on TikTok. Is lip reading the latest in this trend? What are the implications?
Like Gomez, celebs have to protect themselves from anything being misunderstood to avoid rumors of feuds, divorces, etc. Maybe cameras will stop capturing these moments, or maybe celebrities will start protecting themselves by covering their mouths or wearing masks.
