Shinan Govani SPOTLIGHT

A longtime cultural voyeur and professional people watcher,

Shinan Govani is known for his regular missives in the Toronto Star, as well as bylines in Tatler, Town & Country, and Air Mail, among other outlets.

Taking on the Netflix show Bridgerton, in this issue of Zoomer, he was eager to delve into the different ways gossip has churned throughout history – in this case, via the “scandal sheets” of Regency-era London. “Writing about the ravenous appetite for dish back then, it struck me how those columns were the social media of the day,” Govani says. “The way information flowed, morphed and was leveraged.”