"While I admire the ingenuity of that approach, I wouldn't wish this scrutiny on anyone." He shrugged. "I'd say that at least there's not much for them to write about at the moment, but I've already found out firsthand that they seem to enjoy creating fiction as much as they do ferreting out personal details about things that would better left private."
He nodded to her to show that he wasn't blaming her in any way for the specific bit of fiction that had involved the two of them. If anything, he felt bad that she'd been sucked into that particular story.