Usa news: The Gwyneth Paltrow ski trial has left the internet salivating for more. The Oscar-winning actress has been in a Utah court for the last two weeks after Terry Sanderson, a retired optometrist, sued her over a ski crash in 2016. Sanderson claimed she injured him during a crash, but Paltrow says it was Sanderson who skied into her (and is countersuing).

But people haven’t really cared about who hit who. They’ve cared about Paltrow’s nonchalant response to how she felt about the crash: “Well, I lost half a day of skiing.” And about how she offered treats to courtroom bailiffs. And about her relationship with Taylor Swift, given she and Swift are both celebrities who have sought $1 in lawsuits. And have we mentioned Paltrow’s elegant, ethereal and likely expensive courtroom looks?

But why are we so invested in the kerfuffle? It comes down to our fascination with the wealthy and when they fly (or ski) too close to the sun.

“The question is: why wouldn’t we be fascinated?” says Robert Thompson, founding director of the Bleier Center for Television and Popular Culture at Syracuse University’s Newhouse School of Public Communications. “There’re so many elements to this story that make it positively (theatrical).”