Right, this is for all of you who have been living under a rock for the last year...Beth Ditto's fat, but that doesn't mean she doesn't rock like some Nordic god.
In Beth's words, The Gossip formed,'cause we were bored. Our mission is to make you dance' and dance you will - to their one good song 'Standing in The Way of Control' which, if you had to write one awesome song, you'd be pretty pleased with.
Oh, and they also wrote the theme song to the first series of Skins, a show I think is utterly unrealistic... either that, or my formative years were particularly unspectacular.