Gossipmongers

Gossipmongers had a field day when Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton started an affair while they were both married to other people.

It was an infinite relief to her to be able to breathe the freer and more generous air of the metropolis (where people scarcely know the names of their next-door neighbours, much less their business, and find enough to do in attending to their own concerns) after having lived for so long a time under the prying eyes of the gossipmongers of Iselford.