I don’t know what a blind is in this context. Help?
“A blind item is essentially Hollywood gossip told through code.” -— https://www.nylon.com/articles/celebrity-blind-items#:~:text=A%20blind%20item%20is%20essentially,after%20the%20original%20publishing%20date.
A blind is an anonymous source about a celebrity or notable person, that everybody knows the name, that tells us something that is usually negative that you wouldn’t hear elsewhere.
It’s called a blind, because the source is anonymous.
They aren’t always true, but they often have some truth to them.