Our favorite Blind Item giver, Rob Shuter, joins us to talk all of the gossip he dishes on his podcast, "Naughty But Nice," which is now a part of the Elvis Duran Podcast Network!
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Here he comes our best friend, your best friend, Rob Shooter.
Had a big announcement today. It's a big day.
We have a big announcement. We got lots going on with Rob. Isn't it funny when Rob walks into the room, everything just turns to like rainbows and yeah, lollipops and glitter everything.
If you can't get Liz and Ellie call me.
And she says the same about you.
All right.
So Rob, of course notughty, but nice. He's a part of the Elvis Drean Morning Show podcast division.
Boom, that's your announcement today.
That's an announcement.
I've been rolled into the Elvis division. And when I say rolled in, I think I pushed my way in. Actually it's the truth. So thank you for having me. Now I'm part officially, after all these years and maybe a decade of coming here, I'm officially now part of the of the crew.
Truth be told. I mean, you were the original podcast on our show around Us.
You're the first one, one of the first ones.
It was Garrett that said to do it, and I thought he was ridiculous and I didn't even know what one of these CASTI pods were. I decided to give it a go, and to my surprise and delight, people listen to it. And so now I'm successful. Now you want me no, I'm so happy to be part of this and it's a growing division. You have some great people in the group. I feel like I'm at the Oscars, and I want to say I like everybody that I've been nominated with because this group is a bunch of all stars.
And then they play the music and take you off the stage.
They roll you off the stage. We have some more announcements coming up for the division, and I can't do it right now, but some some big names are coming into a joint. Let's talk about Megan Markle. Let's talk about the Royals watching Megan Markle's new TV show, what they think about.
Yes, So, because of a silly accent, I have a lot of sources within the Palace. So that place has one hundred two hundred people working there, which is great for people like me because they all gossip like gooses. And so I know several people within the Palace and they told me, despite the sort of official statement that the Royals are too busy to watch Meghan's new show. My sources tell me they are watching it like they are watching it's the meanness here. I think some people in the Palace would like her to fail. Some people are still sort of rooting for a little bit, but they can't turn away. And I was thinking about it, like in my own family, my sisters that annoy me. If they had their own TV show, I'd be the first to watch.
They're all watching.
So within the palace we now know that the royal family are tuning in again.
If you're listening a lower.
Level low, well, isn't it just like they say with radio.
If you love someone, maybe you listen for twenty twenty five minutes, but when you hate them, you listen to the whole show.
To find out what you hate the most.
About magazines in the world that I'm from, in the gossip world, love and hate are the only emotions that matter, and hate is more powerful.
I hate that everybody.
I don't like that.
But if you really don't like somebody, you're probably going to click the story. If you love somebody, you will click to Indifference is where you die, and nobody, including everybody in this room, is indifferent.
About Megan. We all have our opinions. I wish you well. She's got pot two.
So Royals, if you're listening Glow Charles and below that you've got another eight episodes coming.
So do they only have popcorn? And like why? And they all gather around to watch.
You know, it's not quite as glamorous as one thinks.
I know that they live quite humbly within a palace, but they have all these empty.
Rooms, humbly in a palace, and they're stuck.
In a corner.
You know. There's famous stories about the Queen being quite frugal, and during the winter, because it's a dusty old place, it's quite cold, she had a space heater plugged in, I know. And they love to eat dinner out of tupperware. So I imagine them all around the little TV in old fashion and TV, you know, not a new one, not a flat screen, and they're watching Megan while eating out of their tupper Were you watch The Crown, we know how they live.
I remember I was watching The Crown once and they went to a shot of everyone in the kitchens at Buckingham Palace preparing a meal, and they showed a little mouse running around on one of the tables. I don't know if you saw that.
They've they're renovating in the palace right now. It's not being renovated for like one hundred years, so it's not quite as gladus as you might think. Meghan said that when she married into the family and Oprah came to visit, Oprah couldn't believe how they were living.
They got it a good way, right, Wow, But there you go.
All right, let's move on.
Rob.
Of course, Rob Shooter is here. Not a bit nice Rob, And we have a list of incredible things you want to cover. Let's talk about our mutual friend Wendy will Is there a chance they can spring her out of that joint and she can get a TV show again?
Yeah, I think that's going to happen. So Wendy has been doing some appearances. Yesterday she was on with our friend Rosanna Scato.
She'll be on the view or doing a.
View on frid And so I'm told Wendy has a really good chance now of ending this conservatorship. What's going to really help her is yesterday she took a mental health test, a cognitive test, and she passed with flying colors. So I think Wendy's in a good place. Anybody that has spoken to Wendy, including Rosannah, will say she's back.
So she's back.
Why do you think this was happening.
We're hearing rumors that she has no money left, so why would these people be controlling her.
They're not going to get anything out of it.
If she had no money left, they wouldn't be paying eighteen thousand dollars a month to keep her in this facility. Wendy's pay to be in this facility. And also too, let's be honest here, and we know this from Britney Spears. A conservator does get an income and that's legal. They're not stealing if you're a conservator what you can build for your services. So the conservators making money this fabulous hotel slash building that she's staying in it tower money. But it was so encouraging yesterday because I'm team Wendy or all the way. Yeah, I had several different producers from big networks call me saying there's already a bidding war. They want Wendy back if she can do it. Maybe we're being a little bit Mam truer now, but can you imagine Wendy that amazing.
It would be amazing, but you know, in a guarded way.
Yeah, and that's her the happiest. All the times I've gone out with Wendy dancing or out on a night, she's happier when the cameras are on. Wendy at her best was an hour at ten o'clock every morning on that show.
That throt that.
Yeah, absolutely Wendy could be back.
So you know, yesterday Daniel was reporting how Jennifer Garner's boyfriend husband it was pissed off because she's taking all these cuddly photos with Ben Fleck.
I was listening, nodded away on that tread.
What's going on with them? And what's going on with them?
Ben? I think would like to get that.
Maybe with Jennifer Garner, he's the rebound guy, is JL like he's the rebanded guy. However, I hit the phones and my my Jennifer gone. You have to be careful. So there's two Jennifer's. My sources are saying she ain't getting back. She knows who he is, she loves him. He'll always be part of the family that have those beautiful children together. And she's a good person. She doesn't want to just abandon someone.
But she also not stupid.
She knows, she knows who Bid is and she wishes him the best and she will always be there to help him. But he's not coming back. And let's be clear, she has a really cute boyfriend that he's out of the spotlight, and I think she likes that too. So Ben's almost that ex that you just can't streak off.
But she seems to me like she's the girl next door. Like she doesn't like all the Belgian whistles she likes. She's rather be without makeup, you know, unless she has to be glamorized for something. But she's just even with her cooking show, her fake cooking show that she did.
She's just the girl you want to be friends with.
She's the greatest. She's the greatest.
And she doesn't go to red carpet events that are not her movies or her premierees. She's not out at Noble all these fancy sort of celebrity restaurants, the Ivy. She lives a really lovely life, and unfortunately for her, the father of her children happens to Ben Affleck, who does enjoying a little bit of attention. I think we can all all agree here, but they're not back together. You're going to hear these stories for weeks. I promise you. Your best friend Rob told you they are not back together.
It's not happening, Okay.
They say that ever since he is a single guy, he's actually happier than ever.
How much I think is a bit of a dig to j Low, Like when you move on, if you get divorced and suddenly you're happier than you've been in yours that's not the nicest thing to sort of say.
I was sad, though, Were you not sad? Because I thought like that was the fairy tale? Like she had pined for him for so long and they finally found each other again, and it just, I mean, it didn't last long at all, did it.
When I when I worked with Jlo, they broke up for the first time. I wrote their breakup statement that was issued to the press, and she was heartbroken. He really was the love of her life. But sometimes love's not enough, like they've got to be compatible, and Jennifer and then were not compatible. But I think her heart's probably still broke. And I'm sure these photographs with his ex wife Jennifer Gardner are not not fun to watch here. But don't worry about Jlo. She's going to be just fine. I'm told she's getting ready to maybe even go back out on the road and do the big Greatest Hits type tour, which she canceled about a year ago, playing maybe smaller venues, but I'd love to see j Loo back alan stage.
Interesting.
Oh, go ahead, and Guandy, do.
You have any idea what it was that broke the two of them up, because there have been so many rumors, especially with all this stuff coming out about former boyfriends of hers, any inside info on that.
I think it's very difficult for two people who are that successful and that alpha to sort of be compatible. Relationships are really hard. Can you imagine being married to one of the biggest stars in the world, which they both were. They both are superstars. I also think too, that Jennifer probably didn't read the room, and the bend that she wanted was not quite the reality. And he is who he is, and he's been honest about his struggles, and you want to support people and be kind, but it's difficult. It's really difficult. So I would imagine, and let's be clear, too, it's hard being mister j Low, which every person's going to be a rod, every person that she needs. I don't think I can think of another celebrity that maybe is as big as her, who's bigger than Jayla, maybe Beyonce or Taylor's with but it's not I can't think for male celebrity, and so I think it must be very difficult for Ben, who certainly is an alpha male, to be in the shadow of somebody as big as Jennifer.
I want her to find love.
I love her, but I do know too here she does get a lot of love out of her career.
Like that is very important because when you're going to be dating or married to someone who is in love with their career, you have to understand that going in, I.
Say, it's my ba Frey day.
Bruce has learned how to live with it. All right, Let's talk about who's going to play the new double or seven. If it's who you think it is, I am going to it'll be a like watching a porn from me.
Oh, which is.
Really what Double O Seven's about. Said, Yeah, it's very ironic. Who you get Daniel Craig walking down of the ocean in those tight, little little swimming shorts. And so I'm told that that now it's been sold. So the franchise now has a new owner. Jeff Bezos now owns.
And you see what happened. He got Barbara Broccoli kicked out.
He did get what he paid, but he got a kicked out for six billion dollars. So Barbara's doing So Barbara sold Barbara Broccoli. The Broccoli family was in charge of bonds for the last sixty years since the beginning of the movies, and now that has been sold to Jeff Bezos. They're looking around. There's a couple of criteria. One they would like him to be British. James Hard is a British agent after all. They want them to be in about their forties because they hope when you sign on they've got a good ten years out of you. They don't want to keep changing bonds, and so they're thinking ten years in advance. If you're forty now, by the time you retire, you'll be fifty, you could probably still be an agent. And the name that I keep hearing over and over and over again, say it THEO James.
Oh yeah, wow, And it's perfect.
It's perfect because he's forty years old, and so he has a good ten yures left.
I was gonna say, Elvis Da Ran, you would be a great Double O seven.
Okay, look, I love the old James. I can't wait till this segment that the second run of Gentleman comes.
That's a good show.
Oh yeah, so good.
Because he's so hard on it. But I still think they should consider someone of color to play Double O. Seve A guy thinks.
So a good idea. I think so too. I even thought I would like to.
See a Jame Bond, I think, But I do think whenever Jeff Bezos has brought a franchise like Lord of the Ring, we will see a lot of spin offs. And so the way that he's gonna make his eight billion dollars back is not by releasing one movie every three years. We're gonna have the backstory. We're gonna have the backstory of the villains. We're gonna know how mister Goldfinger became mister gold Fingers.
That's why he said he bought it because he wants to do spin offs and he wants to control.
Cast himself as a super villain.
Is about girl, Well, he should always have a cat with.
Him looks like he is turning into Dodger's crazy.
So yes, if you're listening, we're all for it here thumbs up up.
All right, give us a blind item because, by the way, blind items are my favorite, because well, it's going to be a rumor about someone. But he can't say who it is because he doesn't want to get his ass suit off, so than you, they won't sue us for saying it.
That's right.
You could say whoever you can get.
Okay, guess So, which big.
TV star with a very wholesome image is behind the scenes a little less wholesome and he's having an affair with somebody on his staff. Now we should say he's single. So when I stay affair, it's really an undercover relationship with the dating. That's very tricky if you if you're listening and you're dating somebody that you work with. I'm looking at you, Gandie. It's a little bit tricky, isn't it, with human resources and everything. So very very straight laced TV anchor maybe in the evening.
But wait a saying he also says he has a signature catchphrase.
He does have the signature catch phrase.
He does so he says the same thing good night every night.
The end will start the show in the same may, which is not that unusual. Who is it?
Who is a big TV star who's having Ryan Seacrest? I would never dare do that in the house of iHeart podcast thicker that.
I got in with Ryan.
All Right, we're gonna think this through.
Go ahead, I have one more question before we go. But go ahead.
Well, we've got to figure out who this is.
Yeah, I'm gonna start.
I have no idea.
All right, we're gonna get back to you on that. We're gonna think about that. I watch your question.
I I want to know if the rumors are true. A Mall and George Clooney are they on the rock?
No, they're so in love. I actually saw them a few nights ago. They were having dinner in New York. So George has moved to New York to start this play. Is doing a play at the Winter Garden Theater. It's selling out, so if you want to get a ticket, get one now. Unfortunately, I think the price is about six or seven hundred dollars a ticket. George is going to end up being the highest paid Broadway star of all time.
That's cool. I would love to see him on story. Wait, Holmus, you can buy the tickets, Olvi this I'll go with you. Well, okay, thank you very much. And they are a little bit expensed. But George is in New York with a mill with the kids. They are so so happy. Everything that I've seen about them or heard about them, they're They're the real deal. And he took a long time to settle down. So no, and I'm glad that that story. George, although he did dye his hair, is no longer a silver fox for the play. It looks like just for men, he's gone a little bit brown, just for me.
Just so back to this news anchor.
Hmm.
They start or finished with the same phrase every night, so that would probably be a nightly.
News type thing, do you think.
I don't know.
I don't know if they're single or not, but I would like Lester Holt.
Oh Marrit not Leicester. But it's a good, good, good guest David ABC. I would not know, I would.
Okay, Okay, so not I think guessing.
We love your blind items. We love not e but nice Rob and of course now a member of the Elvis Durant Podcast division.
Be so rich. Elvis, thank you.
Let me know what that money starts parted. Can we play this theme song? Oh yeah, let's play the very metal theme song for Not Nice Rob Shooter