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Now I Know What a 'Bonnie Blue' Is

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Katherine: 我认为好莱坞正在应对火灾后的重建工作,但许多名人对火灾的阴谋论感到不满。有人甚至认为火灾是P. Diddy为了销毁证据而引起的,还有人指责无家可归者。我认为指责海蒂和斯宾塞利用火灾炒作是无稽之谈,他们只是分享了他们孩子床融化和房子燃烧的监控录像。失去所有东西对受洛杉矶火灾影响的人来说是痛苦的,因为失去物质的东西也意味着失去与记忆的联系。火灾后需要处理各种事务,这让人感到不安。我个人不喜欢那些从别人的不幸中牟取暴利的人,例如保险公司在火灾前几天取消保单。如果我很富有,我会防火我的房子,就像在全食超市购物一样。有些人富有,有些人不富有,我认为这种差距正在扩大。富人应该纳税、做慈善、慷慨和善良。加州正在利用被监禁的人的劳动来灭火。我希望加州能够将政府资金用于预防火灾,并调查有关水资源被故意转移的阴谋论。总之,我希望加州一切都好。 Katherine: 我认为好莱坞的火灾不仅仅是一场自然灾害,它还引发了一系列的阴谋论和公众反应。人们对名人的行为和财富进行了审视,对保险公司的行为提出了质疑,甚至出现了关于水资源被故意转移的说法。这场火灾不仅仅是一场物质上的损失,更是一场社会和心理上的考验,暴露了贫富差距、公众信任和道德伦理等诸多问题。我希望通过这次事件,人们能够更加关注自然灾害的预防,更加理性地看待阴谋论,更加公正地对待受害者,并更加深刻地反思社会问题。

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The devastating LA fires, fueled by an unprecedentedly dry winter and hurricane-force winds, sparked numerous conspiracy theories. Some blamed P. Diddy, others the homeless population. The narrative then shifts to Heidi and Spencer Pratt, whose home was destroyed, and how their past antics and current resurgence in popularity relate to the tragedy.
  • Unprecedentedly dry winter in LA preceding the fires
  • Conspiracy theories surrounding the cause of the fires
  • Heidi and Spencer Pratt's home burned down
  • Heidi Montag's music re-emerging in popularity

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I'm sure you have seen that whilst we in the UK deal with frosty conditions that, sorry, but Canadians would call kind of a wet spring day, our friends and foes alike in Hollywood have been digging themselves out from underneath ashes if they have anything left to dig out.

After an unprecedentedly dry winter, where a fifth of an inch of rain has fallen since July, perilously dry brush conditions were lying in wait like kindling. The recipe for disaster was given its garnish as hurricane-force winds swept into the city early last week.

Downing power lines providing more than enough spark to turn the city of angels into a towering inferno. Two neighborhoods were hit the hardest. Altadena, an adorable, leafy, diverse, creative, and middle-class neighborhood. Some homes were still worth millions in this neighborhood. And Pacific Palisades, it's home to former A-list celebs.

We qualify them as former A-listers because while they still have loads of money, their profile isn't so high anymore that they would need top-notch Calabasas security so they go to the Palisades. And it's, you know, really, really awful to watch. And so many celebrities have come out blaming, like, the level of conspiracy theorism that I have seen on these LA Fires is too much, right?

I was in a meeting with someone, like an actual thinking, walking around person who was like,

Well, I think the fires are just because P. Diddy evidence is in those homes and like P. Diddy burned it down so no one could testify against him. Okay. And then I saw someone blaming, essentially blaming the homeless in LA for these fires. There are conspiracies always with every disaster. I think this is the largest American disaster in a really long time, I read. Okay.

Some people are now saying like, oh, you know, Heidi and Spencer are capitalizing on this. They've done it for attention, which is bollocks. If you don't know Heidi and Spencer, then you are not from where I'm from, friend. I grew up watching The Hills, Laguna Beach, and then the like, what was the fashion offshoot? The City or something? But anyway, it was like one of the first really meaningful reality shows. Spencer Pratt ran...

so that Scott Disick could gallop. I mean, he was like the original reality show TV bad boy. You would have maybe seen Heidi and Spencer over here on Big Brother. Now that we're like a global media community, I'm sure you've seen on TikTok. Actually, of course, you know, because her single and her album maybe from 15 years ago is number one in UK iTunes. So a lot of you are listening. Basically, they became famous, Heidi and Spencer.

in a club on the reality show The Hills. They started dating right away. It was really dramatic because some of the other co-stars didn't like them dating. Heidi was a very religious small town girl from somewhere in Colorado who'd moved to LA. Of course, her parents were worried about her dating this like

Malibu bad boy Spencer saying that he was controlling her and all these other things they started to appear this is very difficult to communicate to a generation who weren't there but before social media

Heidi and Spencer trolled tabloids in a way. So they would do all these set up poses with paparazzi where they would they would do almost anything like wave an American flag or like Heidi got a bunch of plastic surgery and did this pool party where she unveiled her new body. And then her plastic surgeon died texting and driving. He like drove off of it's very sad story, drove off a cliff and

in I think a Beverly Hills or Malibu neighborhood that he knew very well. And Spencer has since come out and said that he was murdered because he took Cassie's breast implants out and she was dating Puff Daddy at the time. Like P. Diddy is just ruling Hollywood. It's like we've woven into every story at the minute and I don't really understand why.

but Heidi would have these amazing sound bites. She'd be like, well, now that my surgeon, Dr. Frank Ryan, is dead, my body's a work of art because when Picasso died, his artwork became more valuable and like, that's my breasts and my new chin. You know, she was just... They were ludicrous together, but I enjoyed them because I understood, I think, even at the time that they were entertainers. And then...

They went a little bit quiet, though not entirely quiet. Spencer and both Heidi, they were very active on their social media. Heidi has a prolific Snapchat channel where she's just like doing hot blonde mom stuff. Spencer mostly feeds hummingbirds and talks about crystals. They've had two little boys since then, Riker and Gunner. Anyway, their home is one of the many celebrity homes that burned down and they...

shared video footage from security cameras of their child's bed melting and their house burning down. It was really moving, quite like, you know, explosive, not to use the term explosive, but

just really visceral footage, I guess. And that went viral. Spencer got to a million followers and then people decided, well, hang on. Remember in the early noughties at the height of their fame when Heidi was trying to become a pop star, let's make that happen. And so Spencer and Heidi had over a million dollars at the time that they poured into this pop star career in like 2007. And

and they hired the best producers. They spent all their own money because they had no backing from a label. I remember she performed at the Miss Universe pageant and all this stuff. So all that hard work kind of landed with a thud. The album did not chart in the Billboard Top 200, I don't think. But now...

Since all this attention and I guess sympathy from the fire is heaped on, people are streaming Heidi's superficial album. Paris Hilton uploaded a video dancing to it. I mean, it's a really lovely gesture. And isn't life funny that like a terrible thing can happen? It's so traumatic for all of these people affected by the L.A. fires just to lose everything. And stuff is just stuff. Like, I get that.

And it could be a very grounding experience to lose all your material things and say, well, I mean, I'm just grateful that nobody died and my family's here and now I see what's important. Yeah. But it's still, you know, stuff is also linked to memories. It would be, you know, bringing home from the hospital outfit that your child wore or there'll be photos or there'll be things that you haven't got backed up or like special moments.

possessions that are tied to an irreplaceable memory. And you'll still have those memories, but it sucks for people. And it's also really puts you off balance. And all of a sudden you've got to do this admin and shelter your family somewhere while you recoup all of this loss in the midst of your emotional trauma. And I've even read that insurance companies, and this is why like I hate insure. I so far have a good insurance company and they've been nothing but like great to me.

But I know some people who work in insurance who I think are bastards. I just don't like them. And Bobby's like, why don't you like that guy? I'm like, I just don't like him. I could tell that anyone who profits too much, like a little bit of profit in business is understandable, fine. But anyone who profits grossly from a person's misfortune or pain or death or accident is not a good person.

Like that should be social work.

someone very kind hearted who wants to make a difference in the world and earn a good living, but not like billions or millions. That's who should work in insurance. But these insurance companies just scare the shit out of me. And before the fires, allegedly I read, I don't know this, I haven't seen any documents, but I have certainly read a lot about insurance companies just pulled the policy like days before the fire. So what? So you pay into your policy and

And they can take money from you for years and years. Let's say 50 years you've been paying into this insurance policy. And then they remove fire coverage like two days before your house burns down. No, that's not actually how insurance works. Here's a list of celebs who lost everything in the Palisades fire. And actually, I was looking at the map. Violet and I, I didn't want to upload a photo of

from our visit, but you know how celebrities die and then everyone just scours, especially like other lower celebrities will find the one photo they had with them and be like, RIP John Major. And they'll have like a selfie with that person. I just think that's gross. So I didn't want to upload photos from the house in Malibu where Violet and I stayed, but

like that burned down. It's like up big rock. I don't know if you've seen the maps, but it was a beautiful sort of like vintage, lovely house and it's gone. And it's like, gosh, you just don't know like what natural disaster is going to make the place where you made so many memories just like disappear.

Iconic Canadian funnyman and unofficial self-appointed mayor of Pacific Palisades, Eugene Levy, Levy, Levy died. No, he didn't die. His house burned down. Jeez. I wish this podcast had an edit. Oh no. Julia Louis-Dreyfus's house burned down. Oh, she is the funniest. She's probably the funniest actor I think I've ever seen in my life.

The consummately delightful Billy Crystal, his house burned down. British acting treasure and fava bean enthusiast Sir Anthony Hopkins' house burned down. Ricky Lake, Paris Hilton, John Goodman, Alty's teen soap stars Adam Brody and Leighton Meester, Spencer and Heidi aforementioned. Mel Gibson, who was actually filming his episode on Joe Rogan when his house burned down.

And finally, teen pop star turned legitimate actress Mandy Moore, who has freshly positioned herself at the center of the class war this week. When in a since-deleted Instagram post, she shared a GoFundMe to raise money for her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, Griff and Kit, very Altadena couple names, to assist in their rebuild.

With their first baby on the way in a matter of weeks, they need our support now more than ever, Moore wrote in the post's caption. Griff is a touring musician and also lost his entire arsenal of drums and percussion he uses to make a living. It's all so much. So many have asked how to help during this unimaginable and stressful time. Please consider donating and sharing to help them rebuild.

And people questioning whether we're helping out our own family or attributing some arbitrary amount of money Google says someone has is not helpful or empathetic. Hmm. The candy chanteuse clapped back at the haters. Of course we are, before concluding, kindly fuck off. No one's forcing you to do anything. Hmm.

The amount of money Google says is a reference to her net worth. Now, anyone with a public profile has this where you can Google like, what's Catherine Ryan's net worth? And I don't know what it says right now. Let's find out. It's probably not right. Catherine Ryan net worth. Now it's pretty...

Pretty accurate, yeah. Okay, but Mandy Moore's is estimated at 14 million. So a lot of people found this post to be tone deaf and it descended, the people descended like flying monkeys into her comments. I mean, I don't know. I, okay. I personally, I don't know how much money Mandy Moore has or doesn't have, but she definitely has more money than most people.

And I wouldn't, I personally wouldn't, I don't judge her. I would not be asking my fans to help my sister purchase a home. If I was in a position where I could purchase my sister a home ever, I would never do that. I have reached out to my fans and asked them to vote for my sister's skincare clinic and

Clinique de Mode that is ranked top in Toronto in this like aesthetics contest. I don't know exactly what it is. And my sister also offers to send those people pictures of her feet. That's kind of like a family joke that we have. But like if I could buy my sister votes, I would, but I can't. Elsewhere, real estate executive Keith Wasserman made a since deleted post on X saying,

If you're sensing a theme here, asking, does anyone have access to private firefighters to protect our home in the Pacific Palisades? Need to act fast here. All neighbors' houses burning. We'll pay any amount. Thank you. The pushback in the replies came as fast as the fires spread, prompting him to delete his account, but not before posting one more thing saying, Mama, I'm going viral. What do people want from rich celebrities like me?

If you have money, this is what I didn't understand throughout the entire thing. And again, I absolutely don't mean to victim blame. I do not understand a dry climate. I don't live in Los Angeles. I don't have like a multi-million pound home in the Pacific Palisades. But if I did, and I knew that fire was a threat...

And I was a multimillionaire real estate executive or celebrity or you know what I mean? If I had money to fireproof my home in any way, I would do that. Yes, I would do that. And then if people were like, why are you fireproofing your home? I'd be like, for the same reason I shop at Whole Foods and I wear like Balenciaga. It's because I'm rich. Like, I think it's offensive to be rich and act like you're not rich.

Some people are rich and some people aren't. And that is the divide, I think, is getting wider. And I think that there is a lot to be discussed about that. I don't feel comfortable with that. But that's why people who have money presumably pay the tax they're supposed to. Hopefully that tax goes to the right places. They contribute to charity. They do what they can. They're generous. They're kind.

But they're going to spend their money. What are you going to spend it on, like a Cartier watch or fireproofing your home or hiring private firefighters if you can? Because, by the way, the state of California is using the exploited labor of incarcerated people to fight the fires right now. So would they not prefer to be paid by the residents privately to do so? Like, I don't know what's going on politically over there. All I know is people are angry. But I mean...

It's very sad. And I did have some people message me who were like, you always say that Hollywood's a bad place full of bad people. Well, do you feel like we're good people now? And sent me loads of articles where people were being, you know, building, rebuilding their community and being very generous and going to make donations of food banks and driving around. I saw a lot of my friends in LA doing the same. Of course, I know there are people like that. Of course I do. I'm like exclusively talking about

celebs and like producers and executives and in the context of like the Hollywood machine. But I know that privately, most people are very good people and nobody deserves a natural disaster to wipe out their home. Nobody. And hopefully America and California specifically can take a look at like how they can direct government funds to prevent this from ever happening again.

because I don't know what happened I don't know again conspiracy theories about like the water where the water went Kris Jenner's friend what is her name her name's like Faye someone she pops up on the show sometimes resnick Faye resnick allegedly she and her husband own like everything they own like 30 of the water in California because they own Fiji water they own that pomegranate juice they own all these different things a lot of people are like

Oh, the city's water has been deliberately moved and dumped, and I don't know what's going on. But I try to stay away from the conspiracies, and I wish well to all of California.

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Click ranger.com or just stop by. Ranger, for the ones who get it done. Lily Allen is harboring resentment? What's this Apple news story? Lily Allen is slowly but surely opening up about her very recent split from ex David Harbour and the very stranger thing he did during the course of their relationship. She recently divulged on her podcast that she had been using chat GPT to deal with couples' arguments.

If David and I have had an argument and I need to articulate it, I'll be like, chat GPT, write me a long text message about an argument that started with the dishwasher and ended in an argument about our finances. And if she needed the responses to be more personal, she'd use the prompt. That's great. But can you add in a bit about how I think this is all actually to do with his mom? Just copy and paste every single one until you've got enough. Is this the future of couples arguments? Are you using AI or

In your own relationships. I mean, I did a collaboration with Google Pixel Gemini and they absolutely do not advocate, you know, causing any problems, meddling, no replacing of humans or doing anything like that.

But I learned by using Gemini that the AI is really advanced and like actually just fun to have a back and forth conversation with. But I think I would use it to flush out my own thoughts, not like weaponize an argument against my husband. Sadly, not even ChatGPT could save their relationship as it was no match for ultra exclusive dating app,

Raya, which Lily caught her husband on in a manner that would have made Agatha Christie proud. Lily rejoined the dating app where she first met David on Raya and pretended to be, quote, looking for women. She soon discovered that David had already set up a dating profile and was listed on the app as being active for at least a month. His dating profile reads, oh, no.

Ugh, visiting New York from Atlanta and closet nerd that plays tough guys on your TV. Oh, that is a nightmare. That is sick. Even that profile, not knowing he's married, if I remove that from knowing who it is, that is a disgusting profile for some reason. What is wrong with men? Which brings me to Bonnie Blue.

I led what I did not even consider fully to be the blissful life that it was pre-knowing who Bonnie Blue was and what she was doing. And I've seen this young lady slut-shamed up and down the country. I think it's far more complex than that. She's 25 from my understanding. But I mean, and she's beautiful. She's beautiful. But there is...

Sort of the look that I have now. You know, there's a certain weatheredness that comes from defeat. And you're meant to earn that as a woman over 40. You know? And your struggles and your hardships, they show in your skin and on your face and in your eyeballs.

They emanate from your heart and they just get into all of your cells and you can be proud of them and you can wear them as a badge of honor. It's a different thing to wrinkles and saggy skin or whatever. It's not that. It's like there's a certain willowy like thinness to your face, to the skin and like your eyes just have this knowing feeling.

glare that that you're supposed to earn and I think Bonnie Blue even though she's young and beautiful she has that somehow at age 25 and you will probably have heard of her as the young woman who earns 400,000 pounds a month allegedly and who makes videos of having sex with people

I don't know where these videos are. I don't know where you even post sex videos these days. Presumably on a variety of like sex works websites, find sex work. And she does like stunts. So it's not enough to be a porn actress. I don't even know if that's what it's called anymore. But it's not enough. You've got to do stunts. And she's kind of a genius because...

Having sex on camera, fine. Vintage. Showing your body on camera, fine. Vintage. Being a cam girl, okay. But she's mixed that tale as old as time, oldest career in the books for women, something that will always be in high demand. Porn built the internet. She's mixed that with viral content.

marketing. So she's doing kind of what people with their clothes on might do on TikTok, where you see these videos of a girl like trying to pick a fight in the hood or like a boy surprising his parents or, you know, these clickbaity things. So she's like doing sex almost that way. She had sex with a thousand men allegedly the other day. I think the number climbed to 1057. And she worked along with this other young woman called Lily, I think, who cried about it

I don't know if she's doing well. We wish her the best. But they do different videos together sometimes. And Bonnie on her own is like, all right, I'm going to Nottingham. And I know it's a big student school and lots of boys go to school here. And I'm going to do a day of fucking like just students over 18. Bring your ID. Let's bonk. She always calls it bonk because I really got lost in like

a bunch of TikTok videos about her. And she seems to enjoy it. She likes sex. That's good. She doesn't seem to be affected by it. She likes what she's doing. She likes the money that she's earning.

And then she did a day of like, now today I'm just going to fuck dads. So like she's done fathers and sons and she'll be like, I don't feel sad for fucking your husband because women are lazy. And a lot of the men who come to me, they tell me that they haven't had a blowjob in years. And so for them, I'll do a blowjob for free.

So I think she works as an escort or sex worker, but also makes these viral videos. So the biggest one now, everyone's calling her a slag. Of course, people love to slut shame women. Talk about like, there was one guy who was like, yeah, I just did it. And the men aren't even embarrassed at this point. They're like, I was Bonnie Blue number like 304. And they're making their own videos being like, yeah, I had to sift through layers and layers of deli meat.

and get finally to where I was going. But once I was in, it felt like warm apple pie. It was amazing. What an experience because she's a celebrity to them. But they still find it appropriate to body shame her and act like her vagina is entire, her labia is whatever. And this is really what blows my mind is that your vagina is

is designed to have a baby. It can stretch and it goes back. And that's what's great about it. Why don't we turn around on men ever and be like, you've had so many boners, your dick, the shaft of it has been so engorged with blood so many times while you are having sex that it's now like an empty balloon sack. It's like a withered

old empty condom when it's flaccid. Like we, they are fine with their penis getting big and getting small and getting big and getting small. And like, nobody shames them. Like your balls are on the floor, sir. Your dick is like an elephant's trunk. Like nobody shames them for that. But Oh, a woman has sex for a living and now her vagina is floppy. Guess what? Like it just doesn't go floppy. But anyway, the videos that I saw of these men queuing up

to be within a chance of having sex with Bonnie Blue on camera. Now their face wasn't always on camera. I didn't see any of those videos, but I read that they'd be given like a blue balaclava, which is maybe just so she didn't have to look at them or like smell their breath.

And they'd go in, I think they each would get 45 seconds with her. So they would queue up in this location, all down the stairs and out the street. And some of them would queue just like in their boxers, like with other guys. Like what? You're standing in a corridor with other guys to have 45 seconds of sex with a stranger and you what? Like you feel good about yourself? You're like, yeah, yeah. And like, oh, I'm going after you guys. Cool. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Huh? Yeah.

And then when they get in the room, there were fluffers allegedly to like get them ready for the 45 seconds. And some of them couldn't deal with it because there were like more men in the room than they thought or they got stage fright or whatever. But they just kept coming literally. And like over a thousand men participated in this. And not all of them will have been single.

And they don't feel bad about it. They're just like, yep, here to do it. And what a great experience. I just saw, I think as much as people see Bonnie Blue and what she has set out to do as being dehumanizing or disgusting or they want to slut shame her.

I was transfixed on this queue of men just looking like fucking idiots in their socks and boxers with their like dumb, hairy legs just sticking out in this corridor, just like waiting. Like, here I am gonna do 45 seconds in her. It's gonna be the best. And like, wait for hours to do that. Just to say that you did like you're that desperate for sex. Like what would happen to men?

If we weren't around, they're just like, I've never seen someone so desperate for 45 seconds of a thing. And so that feeling that people have about her, I really got that feeling about men generally. And I don't even know how to articulate it properly. Just what a sad lineup of absolute fucking losers. And a lot of these men will have a wife at home who absolutely loves them.

who has made so many sacrifices for them, who sure, yeah, might not have given them a blowjob in a few years. And that's sad in your marriage. Like you should hopefully have intimacy, physical intimacy, romance. But like, what are her reasons? I don't know. Maybe she's dating the kind of man who will take your adult son with him to go fuck a 25-year-old stranger. I mean, I'm going to advertise myself, I think.

for sex. I'm going to be like, come. I'll use like AI or like chat GPT to write something sexy and old photos of myself when I was basically a child, like 25. And I'll be like, yeah, anybody, anytime, just come and let's do it. And you have to be on camera, bring your dad, bring your son. And then I'm going to like start the cue. And once you get in the room, it's just a cliff. You just fall. You just a steep drop.

into like a snake pit or just like a massive swimming pool of just photos of your own mother when she was a baby.

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She was a French lady. It was a very sad story where someone online used AI, once again, AI for good, AI for bad. They used AI to manipulate images that looked, well, I've seen much better AI in my life. It sort of a little bit looked like Brad Pitt was in hospital, right?

She formed a relationship with who she thought was Brad Pitt. And then he said that his accounts were frozen because of the divorce proceedings with Angelina Jolie, but that he needed urgent medical care. And would she wire money for this medical care? Now, I'm sure he didn't say this straight away, but

He would have really laid the groundwork and earned her trust. And there would have been many messages back and forth until she was in love. This is how it happens whenever I see it on 90 Day Fiancé or similar shows like that.

And then it's amazing how people just believe what they want to believe after a certain point. Because you or I, if you look this story up and you see the images of Brad Pitt in a hospital bed, Brad Pitt in a hospital, Brad Pitt having surgery. Like, I'm sorry, how do you get a photo of yourself while you're under general anesthesia having kidney surgery?

But love, let this be an example to you about how love blinds the best of us.

And a lot of people ridiculed her to the point that news platforms started to take this story down. They started to take it off their socials. She deleted her socials because she has spent upwards of 600,000 pounds on this guy for all of his different medical needs that he wanted. And she believed he was going to pay her back. And I think most of all, she believed that they were dating.

And now she realizes and it's all come crumbling down. And I don't understand how people are so callous as to judge this woman when I'm sure they've been in relationships themselves where like, oh, he said that he's just visiting New York for a while because of a work due and he couldn't call me back because...

There was nowhere to charge his phone. And then actually he took me off location services because yada yada. And that crazy woman knocking at my door saying that he had a baby with her. Like she was meant to find someone else in our neighborhood. Like people believe all kinds of shit to protect themselves. And that is your mind's number one job is to protect you. And so this poor woman, this poor woman, but you would think, all right, Brad Pitt,

But this also goes to show that he has really gone downhill. Let it be a lesson to men over 50 who are thinking that alcoholism cannot catch them. I don't know what happened with Brad and Angelina, but I can guess that after what happened...

In a number of his relationships, and then leaving Jennifer Aniston, and then getting caught up in this really fiery relationship with Angelina, and the allegations that have been made public now in their divorce proceedings, I think one would be fair to guess that perhaps Brad Pitt struggled with alcohol for a bit, and maybe still does. And also might have had a facelift, and it looks great.

But there are women in France, like regular women. This woman wasn't a regular woman. You're thinking like, how did she have 600,000 pounds? She was divorced herself from a millionaire. And she thought, yeah, I can get Brad Pitt. I maybe couldn't get 90s Brad Pitt when Sunita dated him, by the way. But I could get 2025 Brad Pitt. Yeah. So either he is just like plummeted in status or...

Maybe it's good news. Maybe women are getting more confident because there are men across the globe. Like, remember when that guy John someone made a movie called Chef? I'll never forget this. I will forget his name, but he's he's fine. He's not good looking, but he's fine. Talented actor. I think he wrote it and maybe directed it. And that is why he cast in the role of his wife, Sofia Vergara, and his girlfriend, Scarlett Johansson.

Like, okay, John, all right. This is why Justin Baldoni is embroiled in all this controversy with Blake Lively because he's directing his film where the villain is supposed to be like the hottest guy who ever lived. And he thought, oh, I'll cast myself as that. I like this Brad Pitt catfish woman. I think she's finally leveling the playing field and good for her.

Molly Mae's documentary, the hotly anticipated documentary, came out on Prime Video today, Friday, the 17th of January, and Violet watched it right away. And she ran in here just a few moments ago being like, I need to come on the podcast. I need to publicly apologize to Molly Mae because Tommy didn't cheat on her.

He just suffered from alcohol addiction issues. And I have yet to see the documentary. But first of all, we will be making no apology here because firstly, we said allegedly. We said allegedly cheated. A lot of people think he cheated. There's a lot of speculation online that he cheated. And you know, I was very much team cheating.

Like this really happened. Like there's some breakdown in the relationship. It probably, as a woman of the world, I feel like in some way, even if he didn't have sex with someone, but maybe he did, I feel that he would have been unfaithful. Because once again, when you're touring around and you're going to clubs and you have alcohol addiction issues or drug abuse issues, in any case like that, you are also likely to exercise poor judgment and to cheat on your partner. All of that goes hand in hand.

So did he do that? Didn't he do that? I don't know. But it pisses me off now because there are a lot of people who were like, oh, they just did this for publicity because his book was coming out, her fashion line was coming out. Now the documentary is coming out. They had chance after chance after chance. I mean, the girl posts a weekly vlog to just come out and be like, he didn't cheat. This is what happened. And if you want to know more, I have this documentary come up. But they chose not to do that. They chose to let people speculate. And by the way,

I'm not convinced. So Violet will not be allowed on this podcast to make an apology. Before we go, I think it's important that we do some of the listener emails because I failed to do these. It's been a crazy week. Miriam's on holiday, which I love. And we're settling Fena into nursery. Just she and Fred are going to go three days a week. They used to go. Well, she did not go. He went two days a week. And now we feel like with Fena's support, we're going to be able to do that.

They can be there together three days a week. And when I say three days a week, I mean like 9 a.m. until noon. It is a bullshit day. Our kids just don't have what it takes to be in formalized education yet. And that's fine. I really feel confused by anyone who wants to rush that outside of reasons for like needing to go back to work or something. That's fair. But yeah.

I can't wait until they're gone from this nursery only because I want to tell you what nursery it is. If you live anywhere near North London, we drive about 15, 20 minutes to get to this nursery because that's how good it is. I absolutely love it there. And I have had the best week being at nursery. And the kids really love me because I'm a professional entertainer and they can sense that. And I have a really good time with them.

And I love it. Okay. Letter number one, and you'll be pleased to hear this is a response from the concerned daughter of the lady who was being like sexually enticed by the vicar. Catherine, thank you to all the listeners who wrote in. It's given me peace of mind that I am not overreacting. I made it clear to the diocese safeguarding that either they go to the police or I do. And although I literally have zero trust in the police, I will do that.

The only other update I have is that me and my partner's family had great fun listening to the podcast over Christmas and many laughs were had. I sent it to my informants and they loved it too. I've been a fan for a very long time and I've listened to your podcast from day one.

I'm even debating showing my mom the episode. She has a great sense of humor and perhaps it will help her to see things clearly. Thank you all again and I will send many updates when things happen. Sorry, I don't have too much to say this time. We get it, babe. It's been a busy Christmas and holiday season. Catherine, she wrote a hell of a letter to the diocese. Oh, this is Joanne. So the woman attached the letter, but Joanne, you haven't attached the letter to me. Well, Joanne is very impressed with the letter you wrote to the diocese.

Joanne reports that you very politely yet fiercely said exactly which laws were broken and you made it very clear that you had very good receipts, even Vic Dick pics. You knocked it out of the park and you're waiting the reply. Please let us know if they reply. Holy shit. Oh, this is interesting. Citizens advice for debt issues or child maintenance and more.

Catherine, in the last few podcasts, you've discussed small claims court and debt in the advice sections. Please, could you direct people to citizensadvice.org.uk? It's an independent charity which offers free advice with offices in most towns and areas and has a national helpline. Just a shout out to direct folks to Citizen Advice. Citizens Advice would be super helpful for lots of people.

It's regulated and audited, so the advice is up to date and spot on. I used Citizen's Advice myself years ago to help with a housing issue. I then became a volunteer and finally a paid member of staff, and it's a brilliant organization. I should really say that at the end of all of my episodes. And let me take this as an opportunity to remind you that I am utterly without any formal education in giving anyone advice.

I've had a lot of problems of my own that I navigated poorly and I have no authority in telling you what to do, but I like to do it anyway. Choose to listen to me or not. Well, I thought those letters were very important to push forward. Thank you once again for listening to Telling Everybody Everything. Please look after each other. I am back on tour in Dorking from January 30th and all kinds of places after that. I'm going back to Ireland, going out to Madrid. I hope to see you soon.

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