The Duchess of Sussex made her highly anticipated return to the platform on New Year’s Day, treating fans to a serene beachside video filmed by none other than Prince Harry. Justin Baldoni has filed a $250 million lawsuit against The New York Times, accusing the publication of defamation. It seems love has inspired closure for Brad Pitt.
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Ye, sure, Hello, Welcome to the Naughty n Nice Shrub. Your host from Shooter is first thing. And guess what we have a surprise to day. I did not know if the co host would be back this week. It's a holiday still, it's you know, that sort of weird period after Christmas, but it's not really the New Year, but it is. And guess who texted me last night? Popped up on my phone, Loopy Lou saying do we do a show tomorrow? Are we doing your shower tomorrow? I said, oh, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes, yes yes, Lupy are you there? Luby lewis here?
Hello?
Ram A happy happy holiday my friends. How was it? Did you have fun with your family?
Happy New Year? And I had a great time. We were eating and drinking and laying down and just having a lot of fun.
It was.
It was a good time.
Oh I love it. Well, thank you for being here today. Like I said, I didn't expect anybody to be back. You're the only one of the five co hosts to do a show this week. Mark ll look at me. That's good. You get extra points for that, extra brownie points. So we love love that you are with us. I've got quite good, though, at doing a twenty minute monologue. When I first started podcasting, Mark, I just didn't believe I could do two minutes, let alone twenty, and then twenty by myself. And then I think of people, people who you've worked with. I've worked with, like Wendy Williams, who just opened a show five days a week, and my favorite part of the show was the monologue. I just used to sit there giggling and laughing. So I know, Wendy Williams, I get that. But Wendy, if you're listening A Love A Love Aloe, we know she might be If you're listening, You're my inspiration Wendy the days and I'm like, oh gosh, Mark, what am I gonna do? What am I gonna talk about for twenty minutes? I think of Wendy and think, if she can do it, I might not be as good, but I'll give it a go.
You were the person I can listen to talk all day long. You were the most entertaining person solo any hosts they can think of.
So oh, look at that. You are the best. Okay, let's jump into a a show. What time is it, my friends? It is tea Times good story at the top of the show. So Meghan Markle has it made her comeback on Instagram at least, and Harry filmed the video. So Megani's back on Instagram. She posted a really nice video of her running down the beach. It's shot from behind, it's black and white. It's very moody. It looks very Hollywood movie, independent type film like this is not in your face. It's not an action hero, it's not Mission Impossible. It's more arty, farty, it's very Megan. So she's running down a beach and she bends over and in the sand she writes twenty twenty five lovely with a finger, she makes the numbers in the sand, and then the photographer, who we now know is Harry, he scans into the ocean and then he scans up to the sky. And you think, of what a strange video to post like. It's a very very abstract type, very beautiful, beautiful, beautiful. I don't know if there's a message there, if there's a meaning there. I know that these two need to figure out what are they gonna do next? And if making ARTI for arty videos is going to be their next thing, good for them? I don't think it's gonna sell many parts of her jam though, Mark, and I don't think it's going to help really with her new Netflix series, her cooking show, which debuts very very shortly. And so I think this is nice. Now. I did have a little look, so I'm noisy. She has about one hundred and thirteen followers at the moment. A handle is at Megan, So I think we have slightly more followers asselves, but she has. But she's just started, she's only been up for a little bit, and so I wish her the best here. I'm definitely going definitely that's too much. I'm thinking about following her myself. Mark, I'm not quite sure yet. What do you think is going on? What do you think about all this?
Oh my god, it's funny. I actually followed her last night because I figure you have to be on top of this update. You know, this is just funny to me. I think they realized one big thing, which is there is a big disconnect between Megan and the audience, her fans from people. When you're silent, It's kind of like what Beyonce goes through, where you're very silent and private. It leaves room for speculation and people can comment, and then you don't have control of the narrative. And so I think for her to have an Instagram account where she can post and share, she can be involved in the celebrity type of way, but not give too much of herself, but give enough to stop the rumors and the articles that come out about her.
Yeah, I think you're right there. It's a disconnect. I'm not knocking anybody for being on social media with both very nosy Mark, get on social media. Tell me all your secrets. I'm happy to listen. However, if I had been Megan's advisor, or Megan or even Harry, I would have said, is that up doing this sort of like commercial for a fragrance? It looks like it's deal, or it looks very Charlie Starone. Why a s el fragrance? Or Johnny Depth in that a sauchy ad. It looks like that. I would have said, look in the camera and say happy New Year, everybody. It's gonna be a big year and I can't wait to share it with you. And you're gonna hear a lot of rumors about me this year. But if you come here, I'll set the record straight. I would have been right on the money, because it feels to me as if she wants a Ellen, a Kelly Clarkson type creer, she wants to be a TV host basically on her cooking show, and so that's the sort of video they would do. Can you imagine how we would laugh if Ellen had made this video? She would make fun of herself, should turn around at the end and should have like dirt on her face or something would be funny. I was waiting for, like just a little bit of a joke. I don't think Meghan knows how to laugh at herself. I think Harry and Meghan take themselves too seriously. Like I'd say, Meghan, at the end of the video, spin around and let's have your dress tucked into your knickers. Funny, everybody will have a good laugh. Well, Harry, you can fall over with the camera and land in the sand. We needed a little button on the end to let us all know that you're human. But they're not good at that. But I think Mark, that's you're absolutely right. There's a disconnect from what she wants. What we saw on Oprah, which was fabulous, that honest person who just sat there and told it as it is, as if she was a real housewife. And now the truth, which is they're quite private when they want to be. They don't really let you into their lives like a Bethany Frankel. And so who are you going to be? What sort of celebrity moving forward? You know, Rachel Ray had a fabulous cooking show, but she was very honest about her life, and I think you have to do that if you want to connect with your audience each day. When we first started this podcast, Mark, we were a little bit more private than we are. Now we've got Lucy Goosey, we have revealed more details about ourselves and that is the nature of the beast. If you want a cooking show, if you want to show where you let people into your kitchen, literally on the beach, I can't see you wave or smile. You couldn't say anything. She didn't speak.
She didn't speak, And I think you know you've given us and else might be as a thing for a skip next. So it does come off very silly, this at least this initial post. But you know we're going back to the jams and the things that she's trying to sell us. Why would I buy a gem from you. Why would I do any of these things, buy a product if they have no idea who you are? Who are you? At the core?
I don't know who you are. I'm worse than that, I'm confused about who you are because sometimes the pictures the videos you put out are totally disconnect with who you are. They like, if I put out a video seriously dancing in the New York Ballet without making fun of myself right, people would be like, rab What if I said to your book mark, do a black and white movie of me at Bottino's where I pretend I'm an adultgy and Gabana Rabbat, I'd look ridiculous just because it's not who I am. Megan, find out who you are. I think that's really the ultimate problem here. I don't think either one of them know who they are. I just don't think they do. Be yourselves, that's who you are. Just be yourself. And if you're not funny, don't be funny. If you're quite serious, be serious. It's all fine. If you're a bit grumpy, be grumpy. There's a lot of people on TV who play the villain. They are the villain, and so figure out who you are in neutral before you start putting on a performance. And we all put on a performance every day when we leave affrontdoor, when we get dressed in the morning to go to work or whatever we're doing. We put on a bit of a show. We have to. It's called life. But when I go out, I'm ultimately the same person I really am. There might be a little shift in emphasis, but I ultimately and the same person. That's why I don't do serious shows because I just don't fit in. I was once on the CBS Evening News, Oh Mark. They hated me because I was so full of, full of life, and they don't do that on those news shows. If you're on David Muir or Leicester Holt, you have to be sort of quite a robot, and it's just not the type of show for me. I'd be better on a local show or a talk show. That's the type of person I am. So who are you, Meghan? Which brings us to our whole question of the day. Megan Markle's Instagram account is bag and Harry filmed a video of her on the beach in black and white? Will you follow her? Already told you his answer, I think I've told you mine too. I'm not following her yet, which is quite telling. Will you follow her? Hey? Go vote on our Twitter page at Naughty Noise. Rob Our facebook page is Naughty Go zimb and be sure to check back down my rower to hear your results. And now, Mark, this is a massive story. This blew up over the holidays, Mark, and it's only getting bigger. It's quite a detailed story, but I'm sure you can make sense of it.
This is a huge story, Rob. So Justin Baldoni has filed a two hundred and fifty million dollar watsuit against The New York Times over the explosive Blake Lively allegations. I't man explain. So Justin Baldoni is not going to go down without a fight. It ends with us. Director has filed a two hundred and fifteen million dollars lossuit against The New York Times. He's accusing the publication of defamation following escaping exposa that rocked Hollywood. Now. The four thousand word piece titled we Can Bury Anyone Inside a Hollywood smear campaign detailed allegations of Baldoni inappropriate behavior on the side of It ends with Us, including claims by co star Blake Lively that Valdonia repeatedly entered her makeup trailer uninvited while she was undressed, including when she was breastfeeding. But these are various serious claims, So in the lawsuit, Baldoni vehemently denied allegations, offering text message exchanges with the Lively as evidence of the cordial working relationship. I know this is very interesting. So in one text and June of twenty twenty three, Lively allegedly blamed her assistant for not delivering updated script pages, signing a message with an X, which is often interpreted as a friendly kiss.
I take that as a kiss, yeah, of course.
And then the second text, she reportedly invited Baldonia to her trailer while she was pumping breast milk, writing I'm just pumping my trailer if you want to work out our lines, to which Baldoni replied, copy eating with the crew and we'll head that way soon. Oh so, Rob, these Baldoni's arguing, these messages are contradicting the narrative of harassment that she's claiming.
What do you think while this is going to happen? Now? Everything that she's released about him, all the text messages that she got about him. He's got text messages now about her. Now you have to remember what the New York Times released. It was an amazing piece, a long, long piece. Four thousand words is a lot of words. But if you ever read my stories, my articles are about two hundred words that issue just the sort of a sense of a difference there, and two hundreds sometimes I can't even get through that. But four thousands, it's a lot. It was full of evidence that is all real. It was not fake. So Justin can't pretend these texts didn't exist. He's saying they edited them or they massaged them to tell one side of the story. Well, I do know. I hit the phones my friends at the New York Times, of which I have like one, maybe two marked. It's not a lot too fancy for me. I know everybody at the Post and US Weekly, but I don't know anyone at the New York Times. Well I know a few. They said that The New York Times reached out for comment, so they didn't just publish this. They reached out to him and said, we've got these texts. This is what they say. Do you want to comment? And in our business market, you have to do that because you have to prove that you're giving the other side a chance to have a voice. And I don't know if Justin's people responded. However, the New York Times piece, I'm told there's nothing in there that is wrong. It might not be as balanced as they like, but this annoys me. Mark. When people shoot the messenger, they always blame the news, not what happened, but how it was reported. Now we're reporters, Mark, we very rarely get it one hundred percent. It's almost impossible, but we do get a good ninety ninety five percent. It's like when you testify at court. If you miscape the date, where you get the time wrong, then the other side are like, oh, they're a liar. They've got everything wrong. You can't be trusted. No, I've got the color of your shoes wrong, but everything else is right. So I'm told the New York Times is not worried about this. They're definitely going to fight it. But I think the part here that Blake should be worried about is that he's got text messages directly from her, not publicists, not managers, not agents, from her. And if you're signing messages with an ex which is a kiss. Come on, let's be honest, and it's not a romantic kiss. I've sent you kisses and exes market it doesn't mean I want to kiss you. Oh god, the thought we're incompatible. We're good friends, but we should never be love us. That noted your mother Doris is listening. Notice, Thank you everybody. But if I signed off with an exit, probably means I've in a good place with you. And part of her complaint was that he walked into her trailer while she was breastfeeding or pumping, and that's just outrageous. But now he's got a text from her inviting him in, not just to come in and say hello, she said in the text, I'm pumping, so if you want to come in and run lines coming over. It was him that said no, he's having lunch with the crew. He said, oh god, the hold your horses. I'll be there in a minute. This is gonna get so ugly. It's going to be Johnny deppan Amber heard and they're both going to destroy one another. Here. Hey, we've got a little update on this story too. So in these accusations, In these accusations, he's also saying that Ryan Reynolds was very aggressive with him when they had a clash, and this is something that went down in the couple's apartments. So it appears as if Ryan and Blake invited Justin over to their pentase to talk to him about how production was going. He said it turned into a horrible confrontation and a very aggressive Ryan Reynolds came at him. He left there like really upset, and he said he was willing to try and repair the working relationship. Ultimately, big picture here, they didn't get along. Blake and Justin hated each other from day one. He has complaints about her. She has really really serious complaints about him. And now I think it's going to end in tears for everyone. Ah, this is a story. We will definitely keep you in the loop. It's not going away. Although I do predict Mark, this will ultimately be settled. I don't think this will end up in court. I don't. I think it will ultimately be be settled. And what are they going to do with part two? There's another part of this book, Mark, I love this movie. There's another part of this book. I don't think we're ever going to see that. Okay, We're going to take a quick break and we will be right back. Welcome back to the Naughty but Nice Show. I'm your host room Shooter with our dear friend Mark Lupo. We really we had a couple of more topics to do, Mark, but we were talking so much to they catching up.
Mister, and this to you, and there's been just so much news this holiday.
But that is so much reason. We'll get to it. It's got some really good ones. Let's get to the polls first. Thank you, Mark, Brad and Angelina finally have settled their divorce after eight years. Will these two ever be friends? Have a local Ninety five percent said no, they are not going to be friends now. Even though the divorce has been settled, Mark, the Chateau Mirabello has not been settled. They're still fighting over that. So the divorce is done, they are legally single, they are divorced, but they're still fighting over that shadow, so they're still gonna be in the news. She's not back down, he's not back down. So this oh, it's still a little bit ugly, but you have the lovely, nicest of the day. But before we get to that, don't forget to vote on today's Paul go to a Twitter paycheck naughty nice Rob, or a Facebook page which is naughty gossip. I'm be sure to check back to my raw your results are now. Oh well, it's time for our nicest of the day.
Wow, this is a really cute and Rob. Brad Pitt credits girlfriend anste Ramon for pushing divorce ettlement with Angelinette Jolie. Oh so, it seems like love has inspired the closure for Brad Pitt. After nearly a decade of legal battles, ex wife Angela and Joelie, the Hollywood stars finally settled their contentious divorce, and sources say it's all thanks to his girlfriend and this was a huge influence on Brad to finally settles for a sales to page six. She made there that life would be much more enjoyable without the constant I will trust an eight year war of the roses.
I love it, love it. I love it, Mark, I love it. Date people that make you better. Bruce makes me better. Bruce is a nicer person than I am. Is Kevin nicer than you?
Mark, He's much nicer than I.
Of course he is your and it makes you nicer. I don't want to fight anymore. Whenever I get into a temper tantrum and Bruce's like, why are you fighting? They don't care, like you're using all this energy and they don't get He's absolutely right. So I love that love here. I love that love has made him a better person. It always does. Surround yourself with good people. Okay, now I noticed the day I love this naughty, noughty, naughty. Martha Stewart has been accused of photo shopping her vacation pictures. So she posted some pictures on vacation. She always looks fabulous. Let's be honest here, Martha is gorgeous. If you've ever met her in person, which is flawless, Mark. I mean, it doesn't matter age one of you. I think she's eighty three. She just looks fabulous. She doesn't need filters, she doesn't need photo shopping. She's gorgeous. What she knows the picture of her hands, you have got one hand. I looked at this picture three tabs that it could be in a sleeve. You know, sometimes if it's cold, you pull your hand in your arm up, all your hand disappears, or it could be behind a rock, or she could have just photo shopped it out. Now, this is very interesting because it's the one thing that a lot of people can't change about themselves when they age. If you look at Madonna, she might have had a lot of surgery on her face, but her hands she always wears gloves. My plastic surgeon. When I say that, it's a surgeon, I know I'm done plastic surgery, yes, but I might I reserve the ride. My doctor always says, you can never fix your hands. Your hands are always what gives you away. So maybe that's why Martha's hiding her hands. Martha, if you're listening, and I know she does occasionally. A friend of hers told me she likes this shirt. What's she excellent taste? So I'm gonna be nice to your Martha because you're a fan A friend of the show. Allegedly, Martha, you're so fabulous. Put your hands behind your back. You don't like your hands. That's what pockets are for. And naughty the day. Let's end with a murmur of rob. You gotta rub, you gonna rub, you'renna ub you gonna rob. A friend of mine said this to me on New Year's Eve, and I really love it and I'm going to try and live this entire year with this, with this phrase, no more excuses. I'm responsible for my mistakes and my choices. You are responsible, maybe not for your circumstances, but you are responsible to how you react to external factors and don't make excuses anymore. Be responsible. Hey, that is it for today. Thank you so much for listening to the not even Nice with Rob and Mark show He's back. A prediction of iHeartRadio. Don't forget to subscribe on the iHeartRadio app, app or podcast wherever you listen, leave us a review or Mark and email me if you if you want to say nice things about Mark being back. I watch today, my phone's gonna blow up. I've done all this work Mark, and it's gonna be Mark all day long, which I'm happy to have. Okay, let's end with that tagline. Are you ready everybody? If you're going to be naughty, you gotta be take care of everybody. People starting but nice with rog