Everyone loves a good bit of gossip, and none more so than those of us who work in the industry. Welcome to Unreliable Sources, where you'll find the juiciest scandals, most shocking stories, and buzzy bits of info currently circulating in the halls of power throughout American culture. If you don't have anything nice to say, come sit by me...

Which TV honcho had a marriage-ending affair with a network spin doctor?

The talk in TV land is afire about the big boss at this behemoth and his very close aide – a lucky lady who, since the on-again, off-again romance, has subsequently scurried up the corporate ladder.

Everyone is tight-lipped about the romance for fear it could deliver a serious blow to the network as the next #metoo scandal — a la Harvey Weinstein, Matt Lauer, and Charlie Rose. (Yes, sadly, there are still as-yet-unexposed men in positions of power who have used their VIP status to get a subordinate between the sheets. Believe me, we still have them in our crosshairs.)

No flash in the pan, this clandestine romance had been going on for years before the duo both had ugly splits from their respective spouses.

At the height of the torrid tussle, one media outlet was so hot on their trail, it even commissioned reporters and photographers to tail the two lovebirds, who are both parents.

While they didn’t snag the crucial "gotcha" shot, paps learned through the course of their reporting that the pair lived in the same Manhattan building, albeit in separate apartments. Keep your friends close and your lovers closer?

Around the same time, the hunters had become the hunted, as the network’s frantic press office created accounts with all the pap agencies to search for errant images of the honcho and spin doctor, so they could buy them up.

“It appeared as though someone was scared enough to think they might have been photographed together in a compromising position,” a source whispered to Reliable Sources.

Alas, no photo ever materialized — and their names have been consigned to chitter-chatter as opposed to a page one scandal. So far.

Guess who tested positive for COVID-19 at this online news leader, the very same day staff were ordered back to the office?

[Insert guess here.]

The top boss was forced to leave after a positive test, but returned to the office the next day, proclaiming it was all a false alarm. To say his staffers were skeptical is an understatement...

It wasn’t the first time this carefree newsroom leader has treated COVID-19 with reckless abandon.

They previously went on a Mexico vacation during the height of the pandemic, only to return and infect a high-level staffer with the delta variant that is running rampant in the state where this operation is based.

We couldn’t help but wonder: How did this household name bring their COVID germs back with them, since you have to test negative prior to boarding the flight?

Pesos can buy you anything in Mexico.

The golden rule of journalism is to never give up your source.

Someone clearly failed to inform Barry Diller's dying digital news wasteland, The Daily Beast.

As royal observers well know, Buckingham Palace has long had its own way of doing things, especially when it comes to the pesky press. In short, mum's the word.

However, renegade outcasts Meghan and Harry (who shall heretofore be referred to as "The Royals Formerly Known As The Sussexes," or TRFKATS, for short), seem to have an insatiable appetite to respond to every little itty bitty thing that is reported about them. Seriously, they cannot resist. (Methinks someone has a Google alert on themselves.)

So, now to the goods: Every time a “source” is quoted as a “friend” of Harry or Meghan, on the Beast, it’s more than likely their publicist.

Indeed, it's more than just likely. We have the receipts.

Unreliable Sources has discovered one recent instance where a spin doctor for TRFKATS proactively provided information to a reporter for The Daily Beast about drones flying over their sprawling estate.

On advice from the publicist, The Daily Beast filed a Freedom of Information request with the cops in California in order to stand up the deliberately leaked story.

While the cops responded that they would not provide any information, as it violated privacy laws, the Freedom of Information request was logged per procedure — thereb