am not in the least surprised.

Interesting how badly his left eyelid droops in that photo.

Just can’t help themselves.

28 Furthermore, just as they did not think it worthwhile to retain the knowledge of God, so God gave them over to a depraved mind, so that they do what ought not to be done. 29 They have become filled with every kind of wickedness, evil, greed and depravity. They are full of envy, murder, strife, deceit and malice. They are gossips, 30 slanderers, God-haters, insolent, arrogant and boastful; they invent ways of doing evil; they disobey their parents; 31 they have no understanding, no fidelity, no love, no mercy. 32 Although they know God’s righteous decree that those who do such things deserve death, they not only continue to do these very things but also approve of those who practice them.

You're safe if you believe the KJV. They eliminated the word 'gossips'.
They use 'whisperers'.

The New Catholic Bible (NCB) uses 'gossips'.

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Romans+1&version=NCB

(I'm not really worried about it.)

So said some guy two thousand years ago who said god (or his penis) told him so.