Ben & Jen’s Paintball PDA! Affleck Can’t Keep Hands Off Ex-Wife Garner. Michelle Trachtenberg’s Silent Health Struggles Exposed. Gwyneth Paltrow Confesses to Nightly Drinking During LA Wildfires  

Published Mar 6, 2025, 1:35 PM

Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter

Rob Shuter is serving up some tea! Hear from America’s No. 1 gossip columnist as he’s joined by industry peeps and celebrity pals each day to break ex 
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Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner sparked major reunion rumors over the weekend as they got cozy during a paintball outing in California! Michelle Trachtenberg: shocking new details about her hidden health struggles have emerged. Gwyneth Paltrow is making a shocking confession—admitting that she drank every night as devastating wildfires ravaged Los Angeles earlier this year.

Rob is joined by the charming Marc Lupo. Don't forget to vote in today's poll on Twitter at @naughtynicerob or in our Facebook group.

It's time lo welcome to the Naughty but Nice I'm your host, Rams Shooter, and it's Thursday, my favorite day of the week. I love Thursdays. I just love Thursdays because I can see the weekend. I can literally see it. And I could go out tonight and get a little sloppy and make it through a Friday. Because it's only one day, I have to pretend to be together. I might do that tonight. But the other reason I love her Thursday is because our dear friend Mark Lupo joins us. Hey, Loopy, are you there? Loopy? Louvers here?

And I love seeing you Thursday.

Rab Can you believe we've been doing this almost five years.

I think back to the first day just it's crazy how much times past and all the shows we've done. It's been a lot of fun.

It's been a lot of fun. We also got pretty good at it, if I say so myself. If you go back and listen to some of our really early episodes, thank you Naughtis for sticking with us, because I'm not sure I wouldn't. It was a little rough in the beginning. It was a learning curve. Mark, we had to learn this.

We did but we got to a great place.

We got to a great place. Thank you, Naughty's it's all because of you. Let's jump into the show. What time is it, my friends? It is tea time, big story at the top of the show. So you're gonna hear a lot of rumors that Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner are back together because he was spotted they were out with their kid. They were out with their son, Samuel, and he was spotted affectionately grabbing her by the waist. He pulled her in. Mark they're out together, and he pulled her in. They looked terribly cozy. It was a paint ball outing in California. The fact they're doing that together has people gossiping. Now she still does have her boyfriend John Miller, but people are saying, could they possibly get back together? Let me give you the exclusive scoop. No, she wants no part of this. She's friends with Ben. She likes Ben. She's been down that path. She doesn't want to go down it again. Ben will always be in her life because of the children, and she likes him. She does like him. Ben at his best is great, but there's a lot of darkness, a lot of moody moodiness that comes with Ben Affleck. She doesn't want part of that sluppiness anymore. Now this is where it gets complicated. The kids would love to have him back, of course they would. They would love mommy and Daddy to get back together, particularly Samuel, who's a little bit younger than the girls. And so the kids here are happy. They love these days out together with mommy and daddy. I'm told Jennifer is like a whoa, whoa, this ain't gonna happen. Would Ben like to have her back? There is some reporting. Yes, I've covered Ben now for twenty years. I knew him a little bit when I worked with Jennifer Lopez. Yes he would, but I don't know if he can be trusted. I think Ben wants her back today or Ben wants it seems what he can't have, and the minute he gets it, like Jayleen gets it, I don't know if he wants it. So Jennifer tread carefully. I know you already are I know if you listen to the show and Love Love below. We are preaching to the choir. But this is so interesting Mark he would like to get back. She's like, oh no, no, no, Now.

You hit it right on the head. He wants what he can't have, and when he gets it, he will not want it any longer. And she knows that she is not She's not dumb. She's been through this before with him. Yes, you know, and I looking back at the story, I completely forgot that he had the affair of the nanny, you know, after they were married for many years, and it's just how do you how do you trust someone after that? It's definitely tricky, you know. I love Jennifer Gardner, and I love that their connection she's again still for me, feels like his caretaker. She does not feel like it doesn't feel romantic to me. It feels like I'm gonna look out for you in times of struggle and then if you need me, I'll be there for you. And we're great friends. And you're the father to my kids. But that's that's where it kind of ends, right right.

I don't have a father to my I don't have I can't have babies, surprise, surprise. However, I do have at least one friend in my life who's a little bit of a bed affleck, a little bit of a bad penny that I just can't get rid of I can't because I've got too much history there. Would you know somebody you do feel towards them? How about you? Mark? Can you cut off a bad penny? Is it over or no, it's over?

I can cut off a bad penny When it's over, it's over, and that that feels good, though, like you don't want things lingering around and hanging over your head. And I think for her it's not that. I just think she again knows where he is in her life and doesn't want to fall down that path of you know what could be and what could not be and knowing that ultimately would not be for her.

Yeah, yeah, you're right. She's so smart. I love her. I really do love her. Everybody I know who knows her absolutely love her. And let's say she's super super smart and she's not naive. She knows what this is and there's no way she's gonna let this happen again. She's not gonna blow up her life just on whims. Just because Ben feels a little bit romantic today, what should think a boyfriend thinks? Though? Because these pictures now are everywhere, they do look really intimate. He's hugging her. He's pulling her into his chest. It's so many manly, it's so romantic. If I was the boyfriend, do you think the boyfriend's Oh, Ben's at it again.

I mean, I don't think he loves to see that. However, when you've been married to someone for many years, when you share kids with somebody, I would imagine there is this intimacy that you can't ignore. It doesn't mean it's romantic. It just means there's a closeness there, that there's a respect in a friendship. So I hope that her boyfriend recognizes that it's not romantic on Jennifer's part, but it just is, you know, it's their connection.

It is Mark. It's like your boyfriend recognizes you and me are very intimate, too exact to all these forget that's right, don't be jealousy. Mark grabs me into his I don't. Okay, let's get to appole question of the day, Ben Affleck and Jennifer Gardner by having some pedy, a quite a lot of it. His hands were all over her, However, sources saying she's not really into him. My question is quite simple. Should these two get back together? I think I know the answer, and I think you know the answer. Should they get back together? Hey? Go vote on that Twitter page had naughty nice rom Our facebook page is naughty gossip and be sure to check that to Marau to hear your results. Hey, Loopy, what are you working on?

This is kind of a sad story for you, Rob. So. Michelle Trottenbergh's silent health struggles have been exposed after her shocking death at age thirty nine. Okay, so, Hollywood was still rooling from the sudden loss of Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Gossip Girl alum Michelle Trattenberg, and now shocking new details about her hidden health struggles have emerged. And Rob, a close friend of the actress, has revealed that Trattenberg was plagued by ongoing medical issues in the years leading up to her tragic passing on February twenty six in New York, and according to insiders, the beloved actress suffered from serious back problems, bone issues, and multiple fires. It's crazy and these challenges are things she kept largely out of the spotlight while Trodberg maintained a brief face. Those closer says she struggled more than anyone knew, and she had recently undergone a liver transplant, although the circumstances surrounding her need for the procedure remain unclear. Yeah, and I should point out that the Mayo Clinic has listed genetic disorders, cancer, hepatitis, and aphol consumption as common causes of liver failure. But no, no, there's no more details yet on why she had.

Oh, it's just so heartbreaking. I want all the news here to try and understand it. Trying to get your mind around somebody so young, just thirty nine, dying no longer with us. It's just so heartbreaking. I knew her a little bit, Mark. She was like a New York fixture on the sort of social circuit. If you got invited to premieres or red carpet events, or even just clubs and bars, restaurants openings, you would often bump into her. I had dinner with her for a few times, close friends, but I did know her. I liked her, and you could tell she was struggling. I think she was always struggling. Did you bump into her Mark on your travels? Did you know her? Did you interview her?

You know what's funny, I've never encountered her in all the years I've been doing this, and you know, and also she really wasn't top of mind for me in recent years.

She well, yeah, yeah, I was shocked because I did not grow up in America, and so all these shows that she was on, and really really huge, huge shows, Gossip Girls, Buffy, these were huge shows. I sort of miss them because I was in Britain. So when she did pass the outpouring the heartbreak, Mark, it took me a little bit by surprise. It's interesting which celebrities you connect to, which ones you don't, and who would break your heart and who you can cover as more of a news story. Nevertheless, though these details are just just heartbreaking. Okay, moving along, Megan Markle's a strange brother lower lower Larry's back is slamming her new Netflix show as Bland and Boga. So I didn't even know if I wanted to do this story, Mark, but we should point out here the poor Megan. She can't win, the critics don't like her, and now her own family are throwing shade at her. He did an interview on British TV and he called the episodes very generic. But what was interesting the only part of this that I did find interesting is he said Meghan was not a whiz kid in the kitchen growing up, and she wasn't always cooking stuff, and she presents herself as somebody who sort of struggled in a childhood going to like fast food restaurants, and he said that absolutely was not true. He remembers them going to really nice Hollywood hotspots, not these fast food places. And so he sort of adds to the narrative here, the story here that Meghan's not been exactly authentic, and I think that's what's going to hunt her because I thought the show was okay, but I didn't really buy the whole.

You know, I watched the show last night, so I was very curious and listen. I think her brother's kind of pathetic. They seem like her family just seems like the only source of revenue they have is just getting paid to talk about Megan and saying mean things about Megan. I will tell you this. When I met Megan years ago, and when she I was working at the Wendy william Show and she came on to our offices to pitch herself as a guest. She told me a lot about her childhood, and she mentioned that her father was someone who worked on the sets of different TV shows and he was, I think a lighting designer or something. And so, yes, she wasn't exactly like working, you know, living at home with parents who were you know, working very you know, low paying jobs.

But it wasn't all of the twist, right. She paints it as a very very cool upberk. It wasn't that.

But I also feel like people can change, people's interests can change, and she's it's like, it doesn't mean she can't be, you know, a culinary expert now or have interest in doing those kinds of things. And so I just for him to say this, it's just unnecessary.

Shut up. You're right. I'm with you, Heya, shut up. Leave her alone. She's getting beat up enough about it. We don't have to yet. Netflix are very very shady, sketchy about their ratings. When a friend of mine at Netflix told me is if it was a huge it, they would have screamed it from the rooftops, which they haven't. So the fact we don't have numbers is probably not a great sign. What did you think of it? Though, Mark? I thought it was well produced. It looked beautiful. She looked fabulous, and a friend of mine he was Dannie. Donny Meacham said, you know, don't watch it for the cooking, watch it for the clothes. Like it was more of a fashion show than a cooking show.

To me, it was, you know, I had it on the background as I was working last night. It's the aesthetic is beautiful, it's it's cool, it's artistic, it's creative. She's wearing all white when she's cooking these shous so it doesn't feel like something I would do when I'm making I wanted to.

Scream at my television that cash me a sweater that's cream, a spot of tomato sauce, and that it's ruined. It put an apron on the and I was very nervous about it when I have to cook, and I don't cook very often, but I often cook in my underwear because I don't want to have to buy a new sweater. And I'm very clumsy Mark, and so I'm very careful about I did love it, though, every minute. She was like wonder woman. Every time she left the room, she came back in a different costumes. She like spun around. It was mind blowing. Sometimes in the same segment she had two different night things on she did.

I think I would have paid more attention if it was actually shot in her house, Like.

That's right. That upset me. It's not her house, I know. So she's sitting on a stranger's stool and a stranger's o them, looking out of a stranger's window, pretending to enjoy the view. And I was like, you don't know that view? You don't know? Yeah, Ogan, listening, I hope you can pull it together. I am rooting for you. I don't know if this TV stuff is her thing. No, I don't know, but.

You know what suits is coming back, So I think.

That's what she should do that, Megan, if you're listening a lower, lower, low, they would have you back in a minute, get yourself back on that suits right back on top. Did you stay for the for the whole season? Mark? I think there was four episodes, eight episodes. I did get to the end. Did you get to the end?

We kept playing on my TV, and then at some point it just was like, are you still watching watching terrible?

Okay, quickly before we go to break our girl Gwendeth, who annoys me as much as Megan, but I just can't resist her has a big confession to make. What is she?

Oh? Yes, she does so. Gwyneth Paltrow, the Goop guru known for her strict wellness routines, is making a shocking confession, admitting that she drank every night as a devastating Wildfire's rage Los Angeles earlier this year. Now, she was speaking candly on her Goop podcast episode, The Oscar winning actress revealed that she used alcohol as a coping mechanism while discussing menopause. She said, I think I drank every night. I was medicating. Ooh, and we know Rob. She's someone who's promoted clean living and wellless. She shocked listeners but relying on this alcohol. But for me, Gwyneth has always been the person who is do as I say and not as I do.

She would say that too. She would absolutely say that do as I say, not as I do. I like her, mark, I know she annoys me. She I always went to a guest on the Rachel Ratio. I had no business being one that show, but I had a monthly segment where we did chat and chew, and if I gave Rachel some good gossip. She fed me, and so it was quite funny. Once I was there in the posh dressing room. In the a list dressing room, next to me was Gwenna. I just I couldn't stop staring at her. Mark gorgeous. She's absolutely gorgeous, almost from a different planet. She looked like an avatar of Gwenneth rather than a real human being. And she was sipping I think it was iced tea that was freshly prepared Rachel. I know she did not show down on the pasta like I or the cheesecake. It was very, very healthy. Oh, Gweneth, have a glass of wine, honey. I can't imagine going through these fires. We have friends in LA. It is devastating. So do what you have to do. But do know the truth. When I drink excessively, now I know it's not because I'm trying to have fun. I know It's because I'm self medicating and I try to now get to the real bottom, the real feeling of what's going on here. Rob, Why do you feel you need to go out and get wasted? What are you running away from with Gwyneth? I think it's very obvious that it was this horrific natural disaster with yourself. If you're drinking too much and your town's not on fire, think about it. What is going on? Okay, We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. Welcome back to the Naughty but Nice. I'm your host from Shooter with a different Mark Lupo, Hey Loopy, let's get to the poles d. Last year we talked all about Meg and Markle's cooking show getting roasted by the critics. They said some awful things. I'm not gonna say them again, but are they being too harsh. Let's have a look. Seventy percent said yes, she can't win here, Mark. These reviews, So these reviews, I've never things that are so so full of venom. It's almost like people want her to fail. I read some of the British press too. Ooh, I no, wonder she doesn't want to go back there, Mark, They're so many mean.

They are mean and making it as a person. At the end of the day, she's a lot of the things, but she has feelings. It's like, all right, let this give her a break.

Please give her a break. I've been on the receiving end of some really negative press on projects I've done and I can giggle about it now, but at the time it was really devastating. It really was devastating. Mark I wanted to just get back into bed or maybe hide in my dishwasher with a bottle of vodka. And Gweneth Pelt I literally wanted to hide. So this must be really really rough, too hard, too harsh. I agree. Okay, don't forget to vote on today's Poul will go to back to the page at naughty ninety nice Rob? Will they get back together? Ben Affleck and Jennifer what do you think? Will they get back together? Go to our Facebook page and already go. Zib Hamy shoots a check back Tom Rahill to hear your results and now oh we need this Mark and nicest of the day, Oh so true.

Barrymore shades Meghan Markle's name drama casually and calling her Meghan Sussex on air. This is very very I love it. So Drew Barrymore is taking notes from Minnie Killing's recent runner with Meghan Marko and making sure she doesn't make the same mistake. On a preview clip from The Drew Barrymore Show, Very Moore made a subtle but pointed choice. When introducing the Duchess of Sussex, she said that this is the d with Meghan Sussex.

That's the name of that's you know. I say, tell me what you want. It's honestly, it's that easy to me. I can call you he She, I can call you there, I can call you Mark, I can call you Loopy. What do you like And if you don't like me calling you lupy, tell me and I'll call you Lupo. And I think that say what you want here, and then people respected. Now she's Meghan Sussex. She's told everybody this. Let's remember she had an edit approval of this show. My sources tell me she did it her production company. If they wanted to edit that out, she could have just cut pause and said to Mindy, let's do that again and call me Meghan's Sussex. But no, she wanted to correct her on camera. And I think the reason she wanted to do that is she really wanted to correct all of us. It is now Megan Sussex. We're going to try really hard to remember that on this show, just in case Megan Hellolo is listening. And now anaught is there, naughty, naughty, naughty Ryan Reynolds is getting blasted as a hypocrite and having p R stunts imediate this ugly legal war. So let me explain. There's lots of stories out there that after Ryan posted a really emotional tribute to a young cancer patient he met through his UK soccer team, now people are saying, oh, we only did that because he's in trouble, he's getting bad prayers, he's trying to use this kid to get some good stuff. No, that's not true. Ryan might be in a lot of legal drama at the minute, and it's an ugly case. There's no doubt about that. And I'm not even sure I'm on Ryan's side in this case. I don't think there's really any good party. But that doesn't mean he's a bad, bad man. He can still support kids with cancer and his wife. You can do two things at once, and so let's give Ryan just a little bit of grace now, and particularly let's give this young boy a lot of grace too. It makes me mad. Let's end with a moment of rob. You're gonna rob, you gonna rub, you go to rub. You were given this mountain to show others that it can be moved. The challenges in your life aren't just obstacles, no Mark, they are assignments. You were given this mountain not to be defeated by it, but to prove to everybody that it can be moved. Your struggles aren't just about you. When you push forward, when you refuse to quit, you become the proof, the proof that anything is possible. Your journey inspires others to climb their own mountains. So keep going, keep showing up. The mountain won't move all at once, but step by step, you, my friends, will move it. Hey, that is it for today. Thank you so much for listening to the Naughdy but Nice with Rob and Mark Looppo Show, Loopy Lou. We're a production of iHeart Radio. We have a big announcement about that next week. I shall tell you. Then, don't forget to subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen. Leave us a review if you can. They really do help and remember altogether. Now let's sing along. If you're going to be naughty your gat help me nice. Take here, Woody, it's not even nice with Rah