When gossip protects coworkers – and when it backfires
Business
October 17, 2026
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Stephanie Joseph was working at a television station when someone started a false rumour claiming she and a married colleague were romantically involved.
Joseph, then 20, barely knew the man in question and didn’t hear the gossip until a producer told her it was circulating.
“I’m thinking to myself, this is crazy,” she recalled. “This particular male co-worker, although he was young, he was married with a family. So that made it even more insulting because I thought, ‘I’m friendly with these people. Don’t they know my character?’”
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