On the show today, we discuss the hidden details in Justin Baldoni's strongly-worded letter to Disney, including the one part that everyone seems to have missed.
Plus, there have been new photos published of Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster except these ones feel a bit more icky... we explain exactly why.
And... Surprise! There are so many exciting shows out right now so we decided to do not two but four (very different) weekend watch recommendations.
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I'm m Vernon and I'm Laura Brednick.
And on the show today, Hugh Jackman and Sudden Foster's relationship roll out that's been happening online has had a bit of a shift. We are going to be breaking down everything that we've seen online. Plus, we couldn't wait till tomorrow, so we decided to bring Weekend Watch to today with two bonus Weekend Watch recommendations, which include a really interesting guerrilla marketing scheme, probably the best I've ever seen.
But first, but first, we have an update to the ongoing Blake Lively and Justin Beldony situation. Obviously, we did a whole deep dive episode yesterday because there was so much to say, but another piece of news has read it head towards the end of this week, and I just have to quickly flag this with you as an update because I know how invested you are so Justin Baldoni's illegal team on his behalf. Obviously, has sent a strongly worded letter to the head of Disney CEO, Bob Eiger and also the head of Marvel, Kevin Feige, and basically it's pulling Ryan Reynolds even further into the legal dispute between Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni. And so the letter has been leaked to a number of outlets, and there's one part that most people are picking up on, and that's to do with remember that glorious night we went and saw Deadpool and Roltorine together last year.
I've watched that movie in another two times after.
It's watching that movie in cinema. This is neither he nor there for the legal case, one of the best cinema experiences have ever had in terms of people screaming and me clapping and just it was so good. Anyway, that's neither he nor there. For the legal part of this is that Justin Baldoni's legal team has made a series of allegations at the character of nice Pool. So Ryan Reynolds plays different versions of Deadpool from the comics in the movie, and one of them is and also the funniest part of the movie, I would say is nice Who's got a Canadian accent. Ryan Reynolds is originally from Canada. He's very cute and quirky. He's got a man bun, which Justin Beldoni wears a man bun. It wasn't lost on him. And so Justin Beldoni's team is trying to prove legally within this court case that Ryan Reynolds and the Marvel Disney team were trying to ridicule him and bully him via the character of nice Pool. Also, I didn't think the words nice Pool have ever been said so many times within a legal letter. This is like a quote from the letter. They're wanting to leave no stone unturned, and so they're still listening pretty much everything like subpoenaing and demanding everything from contracts to smartphones BlackBerry devices was buried in there paperwork or no floppy disc left unturned. So basically they're saying everything has to be turned over. Because what they're trying to prove is that if Blake C. Lively was so upset by the sexual assault allegations in her lawsuit, then why would she and her husband Because also Blake Lively makes a cameo on the movie as Lady Paul why would she and her husband be joking about it in such a light way in the movie, is what they're trying to say.
But what's also.
Interesting looking through the letter that I think a lot of people have missed because the nice Pool things are so funny, and if you see this conversation happening online everywhere, everyone's just sharing the funny clips of Ryan Reynolds as nice Pool with the information about Justin Baldoni over it, So it's like quite a funny thing. But in this letter to Disney and Marvel from Justin Baldonie's lawyer, there is also an ass for all documents and communication relating to complaints of sexual or other harassment asserted against Ryan Reynolds by any person. What so, what they're asking is, we need you to tell us if any time that you have, all the many years that you have worked with the Ryan Reynolds, to his team, to his management, everything, if there have been any cases of sexual or other harassment claims or conversations anything against Ryan Reynolds. Which is one of the reasons that they are legally asking for all this documentation phones, computers, laptops, black bears is notepaths to be turned over. And what's interesting is that up until now there has been no inference through this whole story. In the whole like over a year, it's been running that there are sexual harassment claims against Ryan Reynolds.
So do we think that they have an idea that there might be, which is why they're asked?
I mean, yeah, I'm not bringing up to say that I think there are, like I have never seen any like even whispers of that. Again, not that I would know over here in his stroger in this little podcast to year what's going on in the world of Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds. But it's something that I just think is quite interesting that they either think there's something there or are they just like chancing it that putting this in a legal letter and pushing for it, that they might find something that there had been some sort of claim harassment against Ryan Reynolds during his career, during his time working with his company, and that might sort of be their get out of jail free card for this. I just think it's really interesting, and it's buried in the letter. The letter is like five pages long with so much in it, and again everyone's really focused on like the funny nice pool, like that guy has a man bun and in the movie he says.
Because I gets what I guess is going around on TikTok right, Like it's interesting. I feel like if people weren't making jokes and videos and memes about Nightpool being justin Baldoni, he probably would have never sent the letter. Yeah, because it's like all around now. But it seems really risky because it also sounds like that his whole thing is, if these claims are serious, why would you make a joke out of it, which kind of feels like you're also admitting that the claims could be true.
Well, that's the thing. Everything he's kind of doing in this lawsuit, as we said in yesterday's episode, is taking a really big swing and potentially opening up more information about himself or more claims against himself. But at the same time, they must think that there's a chance if they're going after all.
But it feels like both sides think there's a chance.
Well exactly, it's so if you look at the information on both sides, like they both feel like they have a really strong case and that they have they both feel like they have their grenade.
They're going to throw in and like blow up this whole story.
So I guess we won't know until the court case like proceeds further of what's going to happen. But I just thought this letter case out justin Balderoni's obviously like, I'm never gonna work with Dizzy or Marvel again after sending this, you know, and because some of the stuff in that is wild, but he's like willing to take that chance because he thinks this is gonna turn the case in his favor.
Nana. So on Monday, our first day back on the podcast after our Hot Pot Summer series, we talked about a brand new relationship that is probably definitely true. Hugh Jackman and Sunen Foster were spotted in Santa Monica holding hands. We were talking about how they didn't mind being paparazzi. They both look beautiful, they were both smiling at the cameras. They were fine about it. But then shortly after, Daily Mail published pictures of Sutton and Hugh again while they were in the car in and out, and they were kissing, and it was very tmz em like very kind of I don't know, how would you say, it felt like very invasive. It didn't look like that they were trying to be in front of the cameras at all.
Friends, between these photos and videos that have come out of Hugh and Sutton now versus the photos that we had earlier at the end of last week of them walking through the streets of Santa Monica, Like, I think that is how you spot the difference between a setup paparazzi photo and a norn setup, because they are just in two completely different worlds. So the initial photos, I mean, obviously, firstly they went to People magazine, Like when Hugh and his wife, Debrily Furnace broke up, they gave their statement directly to People magazine. Sutan Foster has also given really personal stories about adoption and her marriage breakdown to People magazine, So I think that was the first sign. But also how staged and beautiful and like well lit those photos were, and the fact that they were at a paparazzi area, but they were now knowing the location of photos like a few streets away from like a lot of the real paparazzi hot spots, but not even that. It's like they're so in focus, they're laughing. The photographers obviously very close to them, and they look so comfortable. They're even dressed beautifully. All their angles are great. They look like stills from a movie versus these images that as you can they're so blurry, they're so.
Grainy through a car. They're still very much in live, but it feels like a love that I shouldn't be watching.
Yeah, they're kissing, But the thing is with their first paparazzi images again, images versus photo. I think is also a big deal in this case is that they both look gorgeous and in these unsolicited paparazzi photos, these invasive ones, they obviously still look great, but like they look like anyone who has their photo take without their knowledge, Like you get a weird angle, you get a weird expression on your face because it's caught you at like a moment where you weren't ready for the photo. It's and as I said, very grainy, very.
Bad, and like even all the photos I were posted on.
Very long lens, Like the video.
Of them like saying like giving each other a goodbye kiss was just very weird. And then like a few days later paparazzi photos at the Australian Open were published of Debrae Finesse attending with her daughter, and I feel like that's another step indifference, right, because that's a public event that she knows she's going to be photographed at and probably made that decision to do it after these photographs were published.
Yeah, that's an interesting one. I guess I wouldn't say this strain photos of paparazzi because it's like the special event photographer, that person's like, hey, my job, and like they were shared on geddy, which is the photo publishing service that we and any other media outlets use. I guess that's like a really different thing. So we were able to publish those photos of Deborah women covering the story on the site yesterday, but obviously can't publish the photos of Hugh and Sun because we don't publish paparazzi photos. But what kind of struck me seeing the photos of Debra le Furnas is that she looked gorgeous, look happy, she'll carefree. She had her daughter with Hugh, but they have two adopted kids, yeah, Ava and Oscar. I didn't need to look those names up. Why they in my head, don't know why.
They've grown up so much? Like she's nineteen nineteen and Oscar's twenty three, and I just remember that family, like he would talk so much about his kids, especially when he's just started doing Wolverine, like about their struggle with IVF and how they've always wanted to adopt, so he suggested, let's just start adopting now. And I just remember their story. It was like such an honest story about IVS and they told it from the beginning, and just watching these kids, it feels kind of like one of those situations where they wanted to wait for them to just grow up and be their own person. And they've talked about how they kind of admitted they've always said that, yeah, our children would be NEVO babies because they're living a life that we previously never lived ourselves. Like his father was an accountant, And I think it's felt like that they waited for them to just be their own people before they started doing like announcing the separation. I don't even think they filed for divorce yet, have they.
I don't think so. If they had, they haven't made that public. But I mean TAMZ would get ahold of those documents in a second. They have people stationed everywhere who they pay for that stuff, which is how everyone would have got that video. You see the video of them underground of the parking.
Garage, Yeah, yeah, that's what that. I'm deer noir.
I mean again, I didn't go looking for it, but it's just all of my news feed TikTok, like people are just putting it on greens so you can't help but not watch it and just comes into your eyeline. But it's a video of them in a parking garage and Suton standing next to the car and then Hugh comes over to her and kind of strokes her face and then they start like, you know, they have like a really sweet kiss. I feel so dirty, Like I'm sorry, I didn't want to see this. I'm so sorry this has happened to you. And then Sutton gets in the car and he kind of walks out of the frame. And what's interesting is that they're not out in the street, they're not in the car park, you know, they're not going through a drive through like the other photos. They're inside a building. And what's obviously happened allegedly I don't know, but I can assume what's what happen is that someone obviously had in the building had that security footage, took it and sold it. It's like when someone sold the footage of Solange beating the shit out of jay Z in the elevator, Like someone's seen out of footage, yeah, and has sold it then to these news outlets. Otherwise they're in like a private place. It looks like there's no one else in the parking garage to just them. They probably thought it was safe to have a cute little pash but no still icky, yeah, still icky. Speaking of Ikey and can I say this is director towards me? Can I just bring up one more thing about this relationship that people only because in my defense, these are just people I have loved for a long time. Always loved to you, Jackman, ever since I was a child. Sutton Foster even before she was on Younger, which is one of my favorite shows. I listened to her on Broadway all the time. I love Debor Broadway nerds like love such Yeah, she's our queen.
I love her. I saw her comment in the other loudest groups saying can we please stop referring to Sun Foster as the chick from Younger?
Yeah, that's great, as she is on that show. That is offensive for one of the greatest Broadway stars of all the time. And I love deboraly Finess. She's amazing. I met her once and she was really nice. Anyway, what I know about these two families, which I think something that people are missing, is that they've all been friends for over twenty years. Sutton Foster has previously said that she and her husband Ted and Hugh Jackman and Deborah le Finesse were like couple friends, they were like a group. They bonded. One of the reasons they bonded is that Deborah and Hugh have two adopted children. That's obviously a very intense process to go through. Hugh and Deborah have been like advocating a lot in Australia for like adoption laws and things like that to sort of help people find families and cut through some of the red tape because a lot of the time, if you don't have the money to push through, it can be really difficult. But they also bonded over helping Sutton her husband Ted adopt their daughter and go through that process. And Sutton has always said that Hume particular was really helpful to her and talking her through the process and also do you know these two families she want to talk to her about more than that, Emily, We don't know that. We don't know. They could have been friends for twenty years and then they both broke up separately, they waited okay amount of time, and then they got together. We don't know. But I'm just saying they used to go on holidays together. Like I think a lot of people are really like the families. The two couples and their children used to go on holidays together. They were photographed, they would talk about it, they would go on family vacations together, and so I just feel like that's getting missed in this whole story.
I definitely missed it. Of people said maybe Deborah can get with Ted now.
I mean maybe, but I wouldn't be going down that tree. I just think that the narrative has been that, like Sutton and Hugh met at work and then they went off and had an affair. We don't know what happened with their fair but what we do know is that this is a group of four people that were friends for over twenty years and were very close and then somehow this is where right now. I just thought that as an extra layer that people should know.
Actually that makes me feel weird. The weekend watch. It is weekend watch time, which feels really weird saying on a Thursday, But we have a really great episode for you tomorrow, which is why we wanted to give ourselves extra times to talk about our weekend watch recommendations, because we also have two bonus ones for you to watch over this weekend.
Yes, in our planning meeting, we were getting quite distressed, and when I say we, I mean Emily over what she was going to pick, because there's just sometimes there are weeks so there's not a lot, and sometimes there are weeks where there are so many new TV shows and movies that we just are desperate to talk about, but we have to limit ourselves. And this week we thought we'll just give you guys all the great recommendations because we have something coming tomorrow that you've all been asking for. Just to give that space. Okay, So Emily Vernon, you have been dying getting be very emotional over your recommendations.
Yep. Okay. So I have two records. They're both very different from each other, and I have to start this off by saying one I've watched fully and one I haven't watched, but I'm recommending it anyway because that's the only show that everyone is talking about. Essentially, the first one I want to recommend is season two of XO Kitty.
Welcome to Spring Semester at the Korean Independent School of Sault.
Last semester ended with so much drama. This semester, I have my priority streak.
I'm going to hit the books and finally discover who my mom really was.
I'm ready to launch Kitty two point out weekly.
When I came to kiss, I'd never felt more like an outsider.
Luckily, there's nothing like a friendly face from home.
What what? Oh my god?
Have you watched season one?
No? I know people love this franchise. I feel like it's maybe not for me, but I could be convinced.
Okay, I'm going to convince you, okay right now. Oh but I'm also going to spoil it for you because I had to when I've started watching season two. So if you don't know, XO Kitty is the spin off to the three Movies to All the Boys I Love Before.
Can I tell you something It's c retally gonna upset you. I've never seen those movies. Oh, so I feel like I have to go. Maybe this is why I get into XO Kitty. I'm missing a huge part of the story.
So I watch those first. I'm not gonna tell you about them. Okay, there what they are? They're great. They're one of those like feel good, like yeah, rom com teenage movies. Anyway, Xokitty follows Kitty. Her name's Katherine Song Covey played by Anna carth Kart. She is absolutely amazing. She's so cute. So I'm gonna recap season one because when I watch season two, I was like, I'm really confused. I can't remember what happened in season one. So here's my little recap. So Kitty goes to school in Soul, Korea. The school's called Kiss to be with her long distant boyfriend Day. She also goes because she wants to reconnect with her Korean heritage as well as reconnect with her mum. When she gets there, she finds out the Day actually has a girlfriend named Yuri, who's the daughter of the school's principal. Cool Kitty then finds out that day In Yuri's relationship is fake and they're only pretending because Yuri is actually in a relationship with Juliana, but her parents wouldn't approve, so then she asked Day to be her pretend boyfriend to like kind of get away from the parents. So then Day and Kitty are officially together like again. Yuri and Juliana then break up because Juliana didn't want to keep their relationship a secret, which is fair, so Kitty helps Yuri get back together with Juliana. While she's doing that, Kitty falls in love with Yuri, so it becomes this whole mess. Kitty then breaks up with Day to confess her love for Yuri, but before she's able to confess her love for Yuri, Juliana comes back into the picture and then they get together, and then Day's best friend, min Ho confesses his love for Kitty, and then Kitty gets expelled.
I'm gonna be honest that I didn't follow all that, but it sounds very interesting.
Soo starts off with Kitty just kind of examining and breaking down everything that happened to her and then also going, hey, the whole reason I came here was to get in touch with my Korean roots. I was gonna do this for this next school round. Obviously, that doesn't happen. It's a teenage drama and comedy. It's really funny, really cute, really stilly, and just they're like scenes and the location shoots are beautiful, Like I immediately want to go to South Korea because they just make it look so freaking good and it's just so beautiful. Like I don't think they like beat around the bush when it comes to like Korean dialect and English, Like when Korean characters are talking to each other, they talk to each other in Korean. It's yeah, because so many shows don't do that. I'm like, it's very realistic and I just feel like they're just young kids just having good time and they're super super rich.
Also what we love in a team show rich team My favorite genre. Okay, mine's a little different, but as I was watching it, different to your recommendation. But as I was watching it, I was thinking, oh, this is an Emily Verner movie because it's a new action comedy that is coming out on Netflix tomorrow. That's your favorite genres action comedies? Oh my god, what is actually sees things blowing up, sexy people in peril. Your favorite genre, it's called back in action. And let me just tell you this what a great name exactly. It's like tells you what it is right. The title back in Action. But listen to this cast list. This is in any throwaway, fun little Netflix movie, Like you know, it's only their Christmas movies. They just bring in a bunch of washed up people. This movie stars Jamie Fox, Cameron Diaz, Andrew Scott, Kyle Chandler. I'm Glenn Close. It's not to mess around. So what's really interesting is that, obviously, Cameron Diaz took that huge break from making movies after being one of the biggest stars in the world, very happily married to Benji Madden. They have two kids. Now, it's whole situation. She is really good in an action movie. The very last movie she started before she took that huge break from Hollywood was the Annie adaptation with Jamie Fox.
Remember that, I do remember that tragically.
Yeah, with Jamie Fox. I love that they've paired up again together, and so they play two former CIA spies, Emily and Matt, and they're pulled back in into the dark world with espionage after their secret identities are exposed.
It's like very mister and missus Smith.
Yeah, it did give me those vibes.
Can we please get something to eat? You look right in here? Do you? Guys? Running and grass with snacks right in and out? Bring much change? Best go? Why did you see one?
Just saw? Did you see what we just did? Good? Two years ago, me and your mom were non official cover operatives for the CIA, but we went off the grid to start a family.
Find your enemies, find out. I think you're gonna live. They're going to come after you and your kids. Find your own Hello, mother, we've been compromised. We're going to fix all that.
I won't say anymore because I mean it's kind of what it says on the tin, like it's you know, there's no big port twists or anything like that. So excited, but I found it so enjoyable. Everyone in the cast is amazing. Jamie Fox, You're obviously a great actor, but it just reminded me just how magic Cameron Diaz is on screen, and how she can just elevate any movie. She's so watchable, she's so good, she just anchors a movie so well. So it's just the perfect movie for a weekend if you just want something fun and a little bit silly, but also with a great cast and it's interesting that it's on Netflix. I think that just goes to show where we are at with streaming and distribution everything, because a few years ago, this would have been the blockbuster movie opening at the cinema with a cast like that, that classic like teaming up two stars together for this zany wild Ride with all the stunts and everything. But I think, you know, obviously Netflix has got so much money they can pull stars into projects like this. But I just loved it, and I love that Cameron Diaz is like she really getting back into acting. It's weird that people kept saying that she disappeared, and I'm like, it's not that she disappeared. I think she'd just been and she said she'd been acting since she was about nineteen. She had like acted really solidly all the way into her late forties, and then she got married, had the two kids. Radis is her daughter's name, which I love. And you know, she also opened a wine brand and all this other stuff.
That's it's her toldous name, Radix Radi.
So it's Radix Maddox, No Radix Madden. I didn't think that too. When it was announced.
My first thought was like, so happy for her.
Love that, and then I was like, Radix Maddix, No, Radix Madden.
Okay, thank god.
But also Joel Madden and Nicole Richie have two kids together. One's Harlow Winter Kate, which is just a beautiful name. Their son's name is Sparrow, So I feel like in this family, being called Radix would just be fine.
Yeah, there's no eyebrass raised.
No exactly. It was only like just a few years ago that they announced that. Cameron Diaz and Benji Maddon announced hed Welcome to Sun called Cardinal, which I don't know. Maybe you can hang out with Deacon Felipe, I don't know, Okay, kids of Hollywood's no comment anyway. Back in Action is coming out Netflix tomorrow Friday. Highly recommend everyone watches it. Highly recommend you watch it.
Percent going to watch it, okay. My second recommendation that I'll be watching with everyone else is the second season of Severance, which actually comes out to my so market in your calendars. It's been nearly three years since the first season because of the writer's strike, but the second season is going to be finally here and they're going to be premiering with two episodes right from the get go, which we love. What you all did was one of the most painful moments in the history of this company. But the four of you have become known as the face of severance reform, not if so, what the hell did you guys see up there? It's not our world up there? My Nwadi's wife died a few years ago. Except the woman is miss Casey. So what are you gonna do?
I gotta get it rid of here. Mark, you're any such, She's alone. This is obscene. I just want to be sure.
Why did you do this? What is this all about? So, if you haven't watched Severings, I'm not going to spoil so one.
For you, but please don't do that for people.
No, no, x so Kitty was fine.
Also, I'm going to be honest, no one followed the exo kitty plotline that you gave.
Us you have, you have, and you loved it. It was such a great season one, but season two is also as good. Season two of Severance, however, so if you haven't watched it, it's about a dystopian workplace concept where employees kind of undergo a medical procedure called severance, which splits them from work and home. So when they reach the workplace, they're a different person, and then when they leave the workplace, they kind of forget everything that's happened at work.
I know the show points out the flaws with that, but I I love it. I wish that could happen to me right now. Someone bring in that technology. I would love to not know anything about work when I'm in my home.
But then technically you're because they call it like your innis and your OUDI yeah, technically your innie at work. It feels like you just never leave the workplace.
Yeah, that's so true, which I mean I do feel like that now anyway, So maybe it would be fine.
I don't have that work. They've been doing such a great job at the marketing scheme, so if you didn't know, Ben Stiller actually directs and is an executive producer for this show, and he's so extremely involved. Recently, there was a little pop up promotional event at New York Grand Central Station where Adam Scott, Zach Cherry, and Britt Lower appeared in like this kind of glass cut out box and they had the lumin desks, the lumin is the name of the workplace, the deaths and they were just pretty much being their characters working incredible, so good, and everyone's just standing there watching them. They were there for so long, and I thought that was like the most brilliant idea. I've also been listening to Ben Stiller's and Adam Scott's podcast, the Severance Podcast. They've been up until tomorrow. They've been going through every single episode of season one and dissecting every episode and recapping it, and then after every episode of season two they'll be doing another podcast for it to recap that each episode as they go. It is just so well done and the concept is so wild. If you watched season one, you know that it ended on a massive cliffhanger, and there's more people coming in and it feels like just from the trailer that it's going to be a bit actiony from what I've seen. But yeah, mag and your calendar, because I'm going to be watching it with you, and then I'm definitely going to force LB to do a really honest review.
Okay, look forward to that. Okay, the last recommendation, I just feel like people really needed to know about this, so I had to slip in an extra one. And it is the fact that Molly May's documentary behind it all. The first few episodes are coming to Prime Video tomorrow.
Former Love Island star Molly May.
The UK number one influencing.
We were utterly obsessed with one another. All I ever wanted was to get married. Suddenly, overnight, every part of my life changed. I am angry at him and I am very hurt, but like sometimes it just really hits you that I'm in this alone. Now she's just a normal girl. She just has the world's eyes on it. Are you ready for this? There is a whole other side. I'm there for the vibes. I don't know what the future holds for there. This is a good opportunity for me to say how I actually feel. I'm so excited for this.
It's so interesting. Is because Mollie May hag so anyone doesn't know, but I feel like people do because she is one of those reality TV stars whose fame has crossed over from reality TV and she's now become a bit more of a mainstream star.
She's probably the biggest star that's come out of Love Island. Country was like a big influencer before going in, and then she was like everyone knew who she was when she went in, and she came out with like millions and millions of followers.
Yeah, there's a whole story. Like when I think her sister came into the Love Island set or whatever to do the family things. I don't watch Love Island, and she was like, what's happening with my Instagram because she'd heard with business sister wrote in the sand two point two, which is the number that her following had jumped to in a few weeks. She'd been in there.
Crazy.
She's one of those people that people like me who don't watch reality TV are so aware of just because of how her fame has gone. And so she was on the show many seasons ago on Love Ilan, she and Tommy Fury, who comes from really famous family in Ireland, had one of the kind of biggest love stories and romances to come out of that show. That's widely regarded as the best season of Love Island. Is the best Love Island fans don't come for me, but this is what your people say.
No, I said it as well because I used to watch the season of the show. It's the best season of the show because of their romance, their romans, but also the entire cast that season was really good. But Tommy Fury and Molly May, I think out of that entire cast for that season, their relationship lasted the longest. Yeah, people were quite surprised because usually we'd love like you're on on island together there for like you see each other for two seconds and then suddenly you're back in the real world and you're more famous. Like Love Island UK is the most successful Love Island show, where like you are guaranteed to be like be less celebrities by the time you come out. Yes, and their relationships just kept lasting and lasting and lasting, so people are like, oh my god, they do really love each other. And then happened the cheating scandal.
Yes, which was last year, so they've been together a long time. They were very public as a couplet, the kids together, a house together, and then it came out that Tommy Fury had cheated on Molly May, and there was this whole public story around it. It was like on the front page of all these different news outlets, like it crossed over from celebrity into mainstream news. And what was interesting is that this particular documentary behind it all was already in the works just to capture their lives in a really intimate way, and it ended up chronicling their divorce and the breakup and all that sort of information. So what you're going to see. What Molly May has said about it is that it's so much more than a breakup documentary because it's giving insight into her life as a mother and a business person and behind the scenes and stuff, which when you think of someone whose whole business is sharing their life online, you do start to think like, how much more could you give away in a documentary, But according to her and also the makers of the documentary, it does show you a lot of information that she wasn't ready to share at the time that she's now going to share. And they do talk about the breakup. She said, she's very honest with it.
Which I have done on her YouTube channel as well, so I doubt she would do it on YouTube and not do it for the document exactly.
But she's What they're saying is that this is more information. They've been really keeping this under wraps, like they weren't giving people access to screeners or anything like that, Like it's really been kept under wraps, but apparently it is going to show like a whole new side of her life, and I'm very invested in that.
I love a well made docco.
I think sometimes a look behind the scenes of a public person's life is sometimes even more interesting because it is that idea of like, how much more could I possibly know about this person when they share everything and then you see behind the scenes and you see what it's like, and I feel like it's going to give us a lot more information, not just that their break up, but like when she's been in the news for like things going wrong with businesses, or there's been all these wild stories or people broken to her home, or how people like judge her for what she does as a mother, Like there's all these kind of things in there. So the first three episodes of Molly May's documentary, I'm just calling it Molly May's documentary. It is called Behind it All Molly May's but so you search that if you're looking to find it as the official name. The first three episodes coming out on January seventeen, and then the remaining three episodes are coming later in twenty twenty five. So we are gonna have a bit of a break. Yeah, maybe that's good to kind of process at all.
Oh, I'm so so excited. Thank you so much for listening to the Spill today. We did actually touch on Molly May and Tommy Fury's breakup when it happened at the time. We will link that episode in our show notes. The Spill is produced by Kimberlee British with sound production by Scott Stronik and we will be back here on your podcast feed at three pm tomorrow. Bye bye bye