The joy of spying on celebrity homes over Zoom and Instagram Live

In my sixth week of self-isolation, my favorite pastime has become judging the homes of celebrities over grainy Zoom calls and low-quality Instagram live streams.

The more trouble they seem to have, moving cameras around and finding a perfect spot to film, the better. Julia Louis-Dreyfus confessing to Jimmy Kimmel that she wanted to film in her bathroom, where there’s better lighting since she lacked a hair and makeup team, but learning that the router signal wasn’t strong enough is peak entertainment for me right now. Dreyfus conducted the interview from her office instead, where the quality was notably good. Kimmel remained in his home office, where commenters on YouTube have been tearing apart his interior design choices.

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