The new Hollywood Reporter podcast series, led by veteran journalist Allen Salkin, explores the origin and spread of the tenacious urban legend, and what it says about our society.

What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word ‘gerbil’? And why has the salacious urban legend — perhaps the first viral meme — burrowed so deeply into our … collective subconscious? A ...

Many people remember hearing it when they're a kid, whether or not they did," Salkin tells Newsweek. "And the rumor has never ...

Richard Gere's baseless gerbil rumour gets a new podcast. Allen Salkin investigates its origin and staying power for The ...

A new 12-part podcast examines how one of showbusiness’s most tenacious and improbable rumours spread globally before the internet ...

Forty years after one of the most absurd, ridiculous and completely unsubstantiated urban legends was born, the Richard Gere gerbil rumour still won't go away.Case in point: Just recently, the 77-year ...

Rumors about Hollywood and the notable names behind films, television shows, and music often spread like wildfire on social media. One anonymous claim, accurate or not, can spiral into days of ...

Daring to defy the norms of political lobbying, the ex-US president is becoming a podcast mainstay – and is opening up about the books that inspired him. Plus, is the Richard Gere gerbil rumour true?

Things were going so badly for Richard Gere by the end of the 1980s that he was in real danger of being better known as the guy who may or may not have shoved a gerbil up his arse than for his work as ...

What's the first thing you think when you hear the word "gerbil"? Hollywood has long been a petri dish of nasty rumors, and throughout its history, several unproven, or unprovable, salacious stories ...

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