How do relationships affect popularity, and can you become more famous through a romance with a celebrity? Karina Istomina—blogger, entrepreneur, and wife of footballer Fyodor Smolov—and journalist and pop culture researcher Yana Lukina explore how personal life can be transformed into media capital.

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What is a PR romance, and how does it work? Why do celebrities make their relationships public? Why do we love discussing other people's personal lives—and can a relationship with a celebrity really change your career?

In the new episode of BEZFILTRY, we discuss fake celebrity relationships, power couples and WAGs, parasocial relationships, and the attention economy. Using examples from Kim Kardashian, Kanye West and Julia Fox, Taylor Swift and Travis Kelsey, Georgina Rodriguez and Cristiano Ronaldo, Beyoncé and Jay-Z, we explore why celebrities' personal lives are so intriguing to the public—and what happens when relationships become part of the public image.

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Makeup and hair of Nastya Poletaeva in a shoot with Karina Istomina: Ksenia Yarmak

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Nastya Poletaeva is wearing Planta Rosa pants, a vintage vest, a Lime tank top, Versace earrings, and shoes.

00:00 In this episode
01:32 Karina Istomina: Relationships, Popularity, and Gossip
03:47 Does Karina Istomina Gossip?
10:00 How Celebrities Monetize Relationships
15:55 Hate After Karina Istomina and Fyodor Smolov's Wedding
21:00 Is It Possible to Sell Your Personal Life?
26:44 Borrowed Fame: Popularity at the Expense of a Partner
31:20 Advertising
31:35 Yana Lukina: Why Are Celebrity Relationships So Interesting to the Public?
34:30 Can a Celebrity's Personal Life Remain Private?
48:40 How Relationships Affect Career and Popularity
51:50 Kardashian: How to Monetize Relationships
54:20 The Price of Publicity: How Celebrity Relationships Affect Children
59:24 K-Pop: Why Idols Are Banned from Relationships
1:05:40 How Karina Istomina's Income Changed After Her Wedding to Smolov
1:08:24 Why WAGs—Athletes' Wives and Girlfriends—Face Hate
1:20:30 How Does Fyodor Smolov Feel About Karina's Independence?
1:23:17 How Do PR Romances Work?
1:36:05 Karina Istomina on her relationship with Anton Sevidov
1:40:20 Selena Gomez and the Biebers: Relationships Under the Public Microscope
1:43:00 Karina Istomina and Fyodor Smolov's Prenuptial Agreement
1:47:22 How to View Other People's Relationships Without Destroying Yourself

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