Why do people fall in love with celebrities?

Experts have noted resemblances between parasocial relationships and real-life relationships. Just like we feel attracted, emotionally or physically, to people in real life, we may feel the same connection with people on screen — be it movie screens or our 6″ smartphone screens. There’s attraction, interest, a level of commitment, a strain of toxicity, and so on. The very genesis, maintenance, and dissolution of a parasocial relationship is similar in many ways to real-life interpersonal relationships.