Or sometimes if you're a woman (Liz Smith.)
You also have to be pretty brain-dead to give a flying ball of laundry about the comings and goings of the glitterati, much less to write about it.
Yep, unless you're writing about them in a critical way. But you're not going to get any good gossip if you do write about them in a critical way. Heck, critics who write negative movie reviews sometimes get banned from access to celebrities.