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Links: BRITNEY GAGGED Britney Spears' autobiography delayed amid legal concerns about flings with two major Hollywood stars [ The Sun ] BOLD BRITNEY Britney Spears reveals first details on her upcoming memoir she's 'now writing' & slams her conservatorship as a 'cult' (02/05/22) [ The Sun ] Britney Spears set to pen tell-all book in bombshell $15M deal (02/21/22) [ Page Six ] Britney's Lawyer send...

Here's a little exclusive for everyone on our brand new Patreon exclusive podcast, Beautiful Women Updates, a podcast about sucking, fucking, and Sex and the City. Hosts Joan Summers and Alex V. Green will chat each week about two episodes of Sex and the City, and use them as a jumping off point for whatever discourse happens to cross their minds!  Episodes are available every Friday on Eating for...

Sydney Sweeney & Glen Powell have entranced people with flirty press appearances & "scandalous" pap shots. The internet's convinced they're fucking, but that's only half the story being told to potential audiences of future hit movie "Anyone But You." Sources: Gigi Paris Instagram [ Instagram ] SYDNEY SWEENEY NOT DATING GLEN POWELL ... Still Engaged To Fiancé [ TMZ ] Tweet about it [ Twitter ] SYD...

Amid breaking news about Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet's nothingburger romance, a man who claims Kim Kardashian ruined his life has begun to tell his story around LA.   Let's dive into this 10 year saga of lawsuits and App Store trademark warfare!   Sources: David's Twitter Video [ Twitter ] Instagram Video [ Link ] Deuxmoi blind [ Twitter ] KYLIE JENNER HER CAR SPOTTED AT TIMOTHEE'S ...Fueli...

Joan's sick this week, so in lieu of our regular programming, your two favorite gay people sat down to talk about... Pedro Pascal's sugar mama, Jacob Elordi's bare feet, Tom Sandoval's war on feminism, and Vanessa Hudgens' demonic possession! Sources: Lili Reinhart passionately kisses new beau, TikTok star Jack Martin [ PageSix ] Weeks After Cole Sprouse's "Call Her Daddy" Interview Went Viral, Li...

A president was indicted? Who cares! We're still in #Scandoval . As the biggest news in the nation, VPR is Bravo's greatest success story, and its stars' highly lucrative nightmare.   Let's dive into the business of a scandal; this is how gossip gets made.   Sources: Andy Cohen responds to fans calling Raquel Leviss' apology 'terrible' [ Page Six ] [Mar 8, 2023] Andy Cohen issues PSA for upcoming...

In the fourth and final part to our series on Justin Bieber (catch "Justin Bieber's Purgatorio" on our Patreon), we explore the singer's relationship with God, his evolving public relations strategy, and Scooter Braun's future prison sentence. Get into it! Links:  Justin Bieber cancels rest of 'Purpose' tour without explanation [07/24/2017] [ Reuters ] Justin Bieber Focusing on 'Being Spiritual an...

This week on Child Star Hell, "Justin Bieber's Inferno", we begin to examine how the patron saint of "Bieber Fever" went from an unknown Youtube prodigy... to the most famous kid on earth... to the most hated man in America.. all in just five years! Links:  Justin Bieber Is Living the Dream [ NYT ] [12/31/2009] Scoop on the pastors we're gonna mention: [ Premier Christianity ] Justin Bieber Filmed...

Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, haunted by adolescent fame, have been entangled for over a decade. Invasions of privacy, exploitation, and stints in rehab are just the tip of the iceberg.  What can save their souls from this child star hell? Links:  (RARE) Justin Bieber Meets Future Wife Hailey Bieber at the Today Show (13 Years ago OCT 12, 2009) [ Youtube ] Teen vogue premiere of 'monte carlo' he...

Former 1MDB consultant 'Jho Low' famously embezzled billions of tax-dollars to fund his lavish Hollywood lifestyle. Celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio & Kim Kardashian received millions to party with him, only to find they'd been tricked years later. We break it down in today's episode!   Links: How Malaysia's 1MDB Scandal Shook the Financial World [ Washington Post ] [Aug 2022] Big-spending Malaysian...

In 1990, a landmark case about "obscenity" in rap music sparked decades of discourse. 30 years later, hundreds of black artists have been prosecuted based on lyrics and their music. Part three of "Pop Music That F*cks", The Long War on Rap, is out now! Links:  Obscenity or Art? Trial on Rap Lyrics Opens [ NYT ] The state of obscenity in rap (June 29, 1990) [ EW ] 2 Live Crew's Obscenity Trial, Rem...

From 'The Real Housewives' to A-listers, controversial diabetes drug Ozempic is the talk of TikTok and Tinseltown med-spas. This week, we trace its origins, unpack its ubiquity, and link it to past weight loss drug disasters like fen-phen in the '90s.  About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture...

For over 40 years, the specter of the "Satanic Panic" has loomed large over the American cultural psyche, with many claims made about what happened, who were the players involved, and what its lasting impacts on pop culture and politics really were. This episode, we take a peak into the panic, and unpack how racist segregation policies and outrage against the growing popularity of Black musicians...

As Kim Petras and Sam Smith don 'devilish' attire for their Grammy performance of 'Unholy', right-wring pundits claim Satanic panic, echoing outrage seen in American politics since the 1830s. Our new series charts 200 years in American moral panics about music, race, sexuality, and the conservative religious zealot's war for control of America's heart and mind. Links: Kim Petras Defends Sam Smith...

While the nepo baby panic rages on with no end in sight, everyone tip-toes around that rather obvious pile of class anxieties 🤔 So join us and special guest Emily Alford  this week in search of an answer to the ancient question: What's up with rich and famous people?! Featuring cameous from our favorite friends and enemies, like Allison Williams, Lena Dunham, Anderson Cooper Vanderbilt, Edith Wha...

Jen Shah has faced many accusations for many crimes. But what of the cast members and producers in her orbit, who've hung around her like carrion vultures desperate for every last scrap of rotted flesh? This week, we look into all the ways people like Heather Gay, Meredith Marks, and Andy Cohen have desperately clung to her rapidly ascending public profile, ensuring screentime and enriching the ne...

In the final episode of our series on James Cameron's latest aesthetic monstrosity, Avatar 2, we talk about the impact on the film industry of shooting four "billion dollar movie sequels" at once, the terrifying prospects of Weta's 3D technologies, and more! Links:  James Cameron Praises 'Avatar 2' Nearing $2 Billion: 'Enough With Streaming Already! I'm Tired of Sitting on My A–' [ Variety ] Will...

James Cameron's Avatar series promises to haunt us for another decade, after disappearing into the jungles of Pandora since 2009. In our first series of the year, we look at the making of James Cameron's $2 billion sex dream phantasmagoria nightmare horror fest featuring suburban heterosexual Americans cosplaying as blue people! Links:   'Avatar 2' Needs $2 Billion to Turn a Profit. James Cameron...

2022 was a monumentally horrible, terrible, no good, evil, despicable, heinous, apocalyptic year in pop culture history. Everything happening everywhere all at once all the time! Links: Jimmy Fallon, Justin Bieber, Serena Williams, and her Reddit cofounder husband among the celebs being sued over Bored Ape NFT promotions [ Fortune ] MrBeast is inspiration of soon-to-open Airbnb [ Reflector ] MrBea...

Once upon a time, a Hallmark CEO scandalously quit his job after pulling a wedding ad for a gay couple. Now he's back (alongside Candace Cameron Bure) with a mission to save America...one Lori Loughlin Christian Christmas movie at a time! Over the last two weeks, we dove deep into Great American Family, former Hallmark CEO's new Christian family network that streams almost exclusively Christmas mo...

Once upon a time, a Hallmark CEO scandalously quit his job after pulling a wedding ad for a gay couple. Now he's back (alongside Candace Cameron Bure) with a mission to save America...one Lori Loughlin Christian Christmas movie at a time! Over the next two weeks, we'll dive deep into Great American Family, former Hallmark CEO's new Christian family network that streams almost exclusively Christmas...

In the final installment of our series on Balenciaga, we look past the right wing fundamentalist conspiracy theories and instead explore the haunting images of photographer Gabriele Galimberti. Through our investigation into his work and legacy, we ask: Where will all the good art go when Christian nationalists tighten their grip on the media and artistic reproduction? We also would like to prefac...

In our new two part series, we seek to unpack the controversy around Balenciaga, and the malicious fascist forces whipping up a 24/7 moral panic news cycle concerning the brand's latest campaign photos. Who stands to benefit from the outrage, and who might lose everything?  We also would like to preface that this episode concerns frank and serious discussions about sexual assault, trafficking, and...

Content warning for this episode: we talk about domestic violence, abuse, and harm to children. We will give verbal warnings in the episode before those segments.  Brad Pitt and Emily Ratajkowski have been in the headlines recently for their brief romantic outings, however the narrative Page Six and other tabloids report may not be the whole story. Violence and abuse allegation about Pitt recently...

Which celebrities ate Rick Caruso's assh*le during an extremely spooky L.A. mayoral race? We dive deep into Hollywood's election meddling in the city of angels... and everywhere else! Most notably: Pennsylvania's hotly debated Senate race between global eating disorder merchant Dr. Oz and local "guys being dudes" hero John Fetterman! As always, there's a darker story hidden beneath the flurry of e...