Prince Harry's DISASTROUS U.K. Return, Justin Baldoni's Viral Video Statement, and a Subdued Stephen Colbert

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“Hello, and welcome to your Friday edition of the nerve.”

I am your host, Maureen Callahan. It's another banger for you today. That cold open was an excerpt from none other than South Park's legendary worldwide privacy tour episode in which Harry and Meghan were lay on poond as the attention, grabby, pathetic, needy, insufferable, hypocrites they are, and Harry just got a big black eye this week.

We are going to be talking all about it. We've also got your Friday celebrity wrap up all the stuff that we weren't able to get to during the week. Here at the nerve, Friday mornings. This is it.

“We've got the latest on a talk show, blowhard, who cannot believe that the culture has”

moved on without him, cannot believe that the earth still spins on its axis, and yet it does. It was a big deal when he was around and now nobody gives a shit, nobody cares. It's like when somebody dies, not to be crashed, but it's often shocking, and then you acclimate to it. Now, more grievance emerging from Taylor and Travis, we have my colleague at the Daily Mail,

Allison Boschoff wrote an incredible story about what really went on behind closed doors

at Madison Square Garden, and what Taylor's a-list guests such as Julia Roberts and Steven Spielberg and Brad Pitt and Tom Cruise. I'm not putting it in any of their specific mouths, but the consensus among the a-list cohorts seems to be that wedding was a cheap, tacky, cost-or-fuck, and we've got specifics. Then we've got a fading mail star who has impregnated someone who is less or more.

How would you say it? Half is age, half is age. So we're going to comment on it in the way that the usweeklies and people magazines and eighties of the world will not.

“It is our real talk about fake people, and that's just part of it, okay?”

Our favorite royal commentator, commenter, insightful, dialed in, expert is joining us later in the show to tell the real story about what's behind Prince Harry's disaster of a return to the UK. He posited it through posited it, excuse me, through his official office. It was going to be a victory lap.

We were going to be making up with King Charles. He was going to see the grandchildren, Megan was going to come. The olive branch was going to be received, accepted, and extended all the way across the ocean. So because if anybody can fuck up anything, it's Harry, it's Harry, that loser, okay. It is time to ask, are you ready, are you ready, let's go.

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We begin our celebrity wrap up with Prince Harry, and his visit to London, supposed to be something of a homecoming the beginning of the beginning. The beginning of the end of this feud that truly is Harry and Megan's doing. My opinion, just my opinion. Now this was, as we discussed at the top of the show, and the intro meant to be his victory

lap. It's become a funeral pire, and Harry now has a lot in common with psychoarsanist Ryan Reynolds. I will have to move these two out of the wood shed out of the wood shed. They are clear fire hazards. They burn everything to the ground.

“I think we're going to have to construct a wood shed that is truly made out of concrete.”

Something that is really fire resistant, because there is nothing this guy won't burn to the ground. It's like Megan hands him the lighter fluid, and the implement to spark the fire, and then she goes all the way off-site, like she is nothing to do with it. If you notice, by the way, we've been told the reports are that Megan is with the children

at their other home in Portugal, and that she has made the last minute calculation not to join her husband, this loser, because when things don't go well, she tends to disappear. And so by the way, Harry was also throwing a fit that he couldn't possibly bring his wife and children to London without a royal detail, royal security, but as far as we know they're in Portugal and they're fine without it.

Square of that circle, the times Harry, the Duke of Hazard, this was published July 8th the UK Times by Kate Mansey, the readout with a thrashing and court. I love that word thrashing, and a disastrous visit to the UK Kate Mansey examines where this leaves the Duke's plans to present himself as a moral crusader. I actually would take a little bit of on-bridge with that phrasing, Harry's been positioning

himself as a moral crusader ever since makes it ever since, okay, Kate's piece begins. This is day of the verdict coming down that is a complete refutation and dismissal of every single claim Prince Harry and his cohort, he was involved in this lawsuit with Elton

John, Hugh Grant, and others, the judge basically threw it out and said it's trash.

Even in substance, it's trash, and you're trash for bringing it and taking up all of our time and hurt feelings do not equate to legal action, you dummy Kate's piece begins. Prince Harry was half an hour early, my aside, he's usually late, he's usually late. Half an hour early, I continue as a discussion about his Invictus Games tournament at Shadow House in London, got underway. The Duke of Sussex was distracted glancing down at his lap to check

a phone or tablet of some sort. It was hard to discern what exactly because the press who had been invited to report on Harry's one year to go event for the tournament. This is how desperate and pathetic Harry is. He's holding an event a year out from the actual event to announce the event is happening one year from now. We know, you just set it in a press release,

“we know it. Why do you have to hold a presser? This is how much attention this person needs,”

okay? The press who had been invited to give Harry some free publicity had been relegated Kate writes to see it's at the back of the room. See what I mean? Just bring a big lighter for him. I'll just torch the place at 2 p.m. Kate writes, phones started to vibrate around the room with the breaking news that Harry had comprehensively, whoops, sorry, comprehensively lost his 50

million dollar court battle against the publishers of the Daily Mail, full disclosure where I

call him twice a week. Harry's face flushed red Kate writes and he fidgeted awkwardly with his

devastating line back home in California. He is not back home on his native London soil. No,

“no, no, no, no. That's a little shift. Nice work, Kate, back home in California. Moments later,”

she writes when he got up on stage, one onlooker said that the prints looked "crushed" and "like

he might be about cry." Police can always dish it out. They can't take it. They crumble. They cry.

They whine. They marinate in self-pity and victimhood. Always the way. Now, my colleague at the Daily Mail, Charlotte Griffiths. I've got two major stories from these incredible colleagues of mine over at the Daily Mail. First, Charlotte Griffiths wrote an astounding first person piece about Prince Harry befriending her years ago, full well-knowing that she was a journalist who worked for the mail. So, when he's two wine, winge, moan, and throw temper tantrums in the public square

that the press is racist and seeks only to assail them and make them look terrible and destroy

“their reputations. Just remember this, Prince Harry knew Charlotte was a journalist working for the”

mail and he actively sought to be a friend. And we're going to talk to Lady C about why that might have been because I don't think it was innocent. This is a mail plus exclusive. Charlotte's piece, the headline, Prince Harry and me, a small white pill, notiness, and why I wish I could erase his friendship from my memory published on July 8th, 2026. Now, I'm going to set the table. It's a Friday in December 2011 and Charlotte who's about 27 and she's still a cober

reporter at the mail. She has been invited via mutual friends to a shooting weekend with Prince

“Harry and his friends at a 4,000-acre estate in Hampshire. She is not of this world. She is not”

posh. She writes about choosing an H&M dress that she's going to wear to this dinner and feeling self-conscious about it. And she notes that Harry's probably going to note that she's wearing, you know, like a cotton poly blend at best. So she, she's surprised, it's implied that at this dinner, she's seated right next to Harry. And what does Harry, by the way, he and Megan be kind, be kind, what does he do to her? I'm going to write. I'm going to read,

rather, what Charlotte wrote, Harry did to her. He's never met this girl before, okay? Never

met her before. She writes, he decided to kick start our relationship by subjecting me to a little test. From his pocket, he removed a small white pill, then he held it up to my face, popped it onto my tongue and said with a smile, she quotes him here, "Now, I know I can trust you." This goes beyond entitlement. This is somebody who has behaved disproportionately, and this recklessly, just my opinion, many a time before, and whose friends who come from very posh,

privileged circumstances themselves, nonetheless, feel cowed by this beta royal of the blood, who thinks it's fun to potentially drug a stranger at a party as a test. Because in Charlotte's recounting, not one person stood up and said, Harry, don't do that Charlotte spit that out. Whether or not it was a hard drug or a placebo, I doubt it's the latter. We're going to talk to Lady C about why she thinks it was a hard drug.

He's an asshole. Harry is an asshole, and his wife is no better. We at the nerve cannot wait for them to continue their worldwide publicity tour in which they seek to explain to us over and over

you to fucking fuck with losers. Now, moving on to another one, Stephen Colbert.

As predicted on the nerve, when Stephen Colbert was having his months long, sigh and aura to himself, and the likes of John Lithgow, we're coming on his show in reading original poetry to what a noble sort Stephen was and bring on about how only Stephen could save democracy. Again, we're apolitical here at the nerve, but that's just what the discussion was. Stephen would often stand there on stage with his

nose and the air looking down at the viewers at home and wondering how anyone in America,

the way the western world would survive without him on his low rated unfunny nightly talk show

that was hemorrhaging millions and millions of dollars that required like 200 people to mount it.

“You know how many people work at the nerve? It's a fraction. It's a mere fraction, okay?”

You could count it on two hands. Anyway, Stephen can't believe that the rest of us, the world has continued on. He cannot believe that his absence from the media landscape doesn't matter. It doesn't fucking matter. This guy posits himself as a deep thinker, as something of a theologian who has one would assume framed his own celebrity

in the healthiest of ways. Like if he's a true believer in Jesus Christ, he should know that like

he's here on this earth as a mere mortal servant, you know, to do whatever God sees fit. And if God sees fit to make him a clown, he's a clown. Do you know what I'm saying? No, no. Stephen Colbert bought into his own publicity and hype and media coverage and clearly believes he's something

“of a messiah himself because he cannot believe that the western world hasn't stuck with him,”

the way that a good faction of the western world by which I mean adherence to Christianity stuck with Christ after he died. Like Stephen Colbert is metaphorically died. Make no mistake in the culture he's dead. He's not around. Now he'll come back with a podcast, trust me. He hasn't gotten there yet, but he will. Our pal Rob Schuters exclusive in his must subscribe sub stack, naughty but nice published July 7th. Stephen Colbert's heartbreak after late show acts friends say

he's retreated as he struggles to move on. And I quote, friend say Colbert is heartbroken, frustrated. That's anger. That's adjacent to anger to rage. And I continue and struggling to imagine life after spending years at the center of late night television, which no less late night legend and David Letterman says is going to die as a genre within the next 11 months. quote, this wasn't just a job. It was his identity, one insider tells shooter scoop.

Therein lies the problem. And I quote, Stephen poured everything into that show, losing it has hit him hard and quote, the emotional toll was hard to miss when Colbert attended Taylor Swift's wedding over the weekend where guests spotted the usually upbeat comedian looking unusually subdued and miserable. Listen, his upbeat nature was predicated on people blowing smoke up his ass to keep him loft. Now that that's that now that that is ended he's you know plummeted back to earth with a

thought. As I said at the time that this show was going off the air, I hoped that his long suffering wife clearly just my opinion long suffering wife had booked herself like a lengthy vacation with her best friends to like a very expensive spa out of the country so that she wouldn't have to deal with his moping around their house in New Jersey. Because you know that's what's going on.

“You know that's what's going on, you know, I think there might be some alcohol intake that might be”

even more than usual, you know, just my just my supposition anyway, we will come back to what really went down at Taylor's wedding, which you're not going to believe. You're going to die. I mean, you'll probably believe it, but the specifics are so granular that you know these alistars were like just they couldn't wait to spill. They couldn't wait to spill. And Diaz, the Taylor and Travis made even their mommy sign. No one's adhering to him sister.

Blake the snake lively psycho arsonist Ryan Reynolds stuff. That was the first real shank in her

“cultural armor. This wedding, this bullshit. Number two. And now that the nerve exists, you know,”

there's no telling what might happen to Taylor. You know, no telling. Anyway, we'll get to it in a moment. Now, our favorite Spritly 900 year old heroin this wound up in my Instagram feed. She was spotted. She was spotted by a photographer by a paparazzi reading on a bench and am against it, New York. Now, number one, that's way too close to nerve HQ. If you ask me where we are out here for this summer. And, you know, some of you have noted my hair is not nearly as lush and vibrant as

when my beloved Darrell is able to attend to it in New York City, you know, I'm out here in the summer, swimming on my own and I don't have hair. I don't have glam is what I'm saying. I don't have glam. So just bear with me. But my point is this. My larger point is this paparazzi do not roam around

“the east end of Long Island. They just do not. It is not done. It is not accepted. Like there are”

people out here like the SJPs of the world who are worth so much money and have so much fame and power, you know, this is something of, so if these people get photographed, this is something substance, what I'm trying to get to is because they called the paparazzi. Okay. Now, we're going to look at these photos of Sarah Jessica Parker Gleefully on a bench with her big fat book and her toe bags. We're just so happy. We're just so happy. These benches. She's either on the sidewalk on Main Street.

Okay. The sidewalk, or there are benches inside what's called Am against it's square, which is this very cute little square where there are retail shops and a spa and eateries, coffee shops. But, you know, it looks to me like she's on the street and those benches on the street, they're not for lazing around. It's like benches in Manhattan, like outside central park. You know, it's like you take your there to take a break. You maybe have a phone call to make

you're putting your bags down for a second while you regroup. You're waiting for somebody who's still shopping in a boutique, but you don't go there with your book and sit there.

So she's looking for attention. She's looking. It's never enough attention, never enough. My

favorites are when she posts reels on Instagram where she's showing us her beach front. We never see anything of the house itself, but she's clearly on her porch and she's just doing a panoramic sweep on video of her beach front and the ocean so that we can all, I guess. I don't know, eat ourselves up with jealousy because we're not Sarah Jessica Parker. We didn't create and push and just like that into the culture. We're not rolling around with Andy going,

you know, Amy Sedaris. I don't know. I don't really know what she's trying to prove here.

But notice her husband is never in those photos with her. He wants nothing to do with the shit.

Matthew brought her. I want something to do with it. Anyway, another report about, you know,

“you guys tell us because we are thinking of doing a segment and I think you'll like it because you”

guys did really respond to Bell Burton, which we are going back into next week, but they're, you know, we'll do it. I don't even need to ask you. I know. I know. But, you know, I was talking to a friend of mine, they're over the July 4th weekend. Now, I had friends out here and their kids and dogs and after the fireworks on July 4th, which was Saturday evening, Saturday night, 20 minutes elapsed and then there was a thunderstorm, like it was biblical. It was apocalyptic.

It was thunder. It was a lot of lightning. It was a heavy, heavy downpour. And, you know, you don't want to be outside in lightning. You just don't. And there's like the vegetation on the east end of Long Island is so lush and thick. And it's flat out here. Okay, there is nothing in nature to protect you from heavy like gale force winds and heavy storms. Like when they come in hard, they come in hard. Okay. So, this wound up in my feed and I'm going to show it because this is the real Hamptons.

Celebrities love to post about their version of the Hamptons and influencers love to post about their version of the Hamptons. And this is kind of the real Hamptons. Now, Gernys and Montauk

Because it's like the end as far as the east coast goes. I think it's the eastern most tip

“of the continental, well, no, it's not the continental. It's not island. But, you know what I mean”

of the United States. Okay. Gernys was packed that night. It was July 4th. These businesses are making a ton of money. You know, they charge like a thousand dollars for like a bottle of champagne. You know what I mean? It's really, it's really vulgar. But, look at this, look at this real that was posted on July 8th by an account that goes an Instagram account that goes by Sheery Paints. This is a real from Gernys and what you are seeing are the people on the outside

begging to be let in in the storm. This is not even an accurate like that you're not seeing up to the inside of Gernys, which is not packed at all. And look at that asshole behind the glass door.

That asshole who's smirking and smiling as this crowd begs to be let in. And basically they're

like you're not on the list. Somebody up front of mine was telling me that over in sag Harbor at LeBibblica, which is another fancy restaurant, it was the same thing that they close their doors to people who are begging to be let in. You know families with like kids and they were basically

“like sorry, you know, do you have a reservation? Oh, you don't have a reservation?”

Sorry, you can't come in. You can't come in. We simply don't have room. This user rights honestly still shocked by how Gernys handled this. We were outside

by the fire place over July 4th weekend when it started raining. Staffed security were telling

people to head towards the exit, but then it started absolutely pouring. And instead of letting people inside the glass doors were shut and security would not let anyone in. Everyone was packed under this tiny ledge soaked upset yelling, well, they stood there watching from the inside, which did not even appear full, which made it even more confusing. People paid good money to be there that night. I also personally witnessed someone being charged $900 for a table that got rained

out after about 10 minutes. I mean, what can I say, a full and their money are soon parted? This is how it is that. So if you're not, if you're seeing other versions of the Hamptons in your social media feed, just know that is an idealized version that people like to, you know, send out to make other people feel less than or, you know, it's ridiculous. Okay, now on to Luke Wilson, who really hasn't been relevant and quite some time. But I just read that he and Wes Anderson got stuck

in an elevator in LA. They were doing some sort of anniversary screening or event for bottle rocket, which was Wes Anderson's debut feature. Luke Wilson, it has been announced and I guess he got caught because it doesn't seem like this was an announcement that normally gets fed to the likes of people magazine for, you know, happy, wholesome coverage. Luke Wilson is 54 years old. It's 24 year old girlfriend Kendall Gates just had his baby. She's 24. He's 54. So 30 years

spread in the age difference. According to a page six report, Wilson and Yates have been dating since at least 2023, which would put her at a respectable 21 years old.

“I'm no moralist, but this is creepy as f to me, creepy as, and I honestly, I do think that guys”

like that who date so much younger, like they don't really like women. They don't, they don't want a woman of their age who maybe is as successful or more successful or as smart or smarter. They really don't, they just want someone they can kind of boss around and like who are impressed perhaps with their fame and wealth, although I would imagine that Luke's has diminished in the years since he was at his height. But, you know, my question is what do they talk about?

What is someone who began dating her when she was 21 and he was 51? What do they talk about? What do they have in common? What kind of cultural references do they share? Tina Fey used to have this line and I think it's very true that the older that male celebrities get, the younger their girlfriends and wives get, but also the less attractive they get.

who was his first marriage was to Cindy Crawford, bombshell, supermodel, second marriage was to carry

“low, also a former model and actress, also beautiful and a completely different way. And now I think”

is married to a civilian who is much younger, but I don't think has that kind of sort of, you know, traffic stopping looks. I think there's a lot of truth to what Tina said. Okay, anyway, now to the Taylor and Travis scandalous details, what's leaked out from their wedding despite actually not, I would say not despite, but I would say because of those NDAs. I think those NDAs were kind of just like catnip to people who are just going to be like, fuck you, I won't

do what you tell me. You put me through this emissary, this production, this wasn't a wedding,

this was a production and a very poorly run one. And at the end of this, I'm going to reference something that, frankly, of its observed quite some time ago and that I completely subscribed to.

“Okay, now, more real talk about fake people, my colleague over at the male, the, um,”

Allison Boschoff is just one of the absolute best Hollywood celebrity entertainment reporters going. Okay, listen to what Allison writes. Don't listen to the entertainment tonight, it's of the world or the people magazines of the world. It's Allison, it's the nerve. Now, this is her banger of an exclusive. Most, if not all, of the ALIS guests at Taylor's wedding, were shocked at how tacky, cheap, and uncomfortable it was, there was barely any seating.

Like 800 people, 900 people had to stand. Okay, this is it. By the way, Madison Square Garden, holds 20,000 people. It seats 20,000 people. She's a sadist. This is my working theory of the case. She's a fucking sadist. Now, before we get to that, NBA legend Charles Barkley just revealed

“that he too was invited to this wedding. And he said, no, thank you. Like a sane person.”

Okay, he's been famous for a long time. He's seen a lot. And he knows how this shit goes. And more celebrities, frankly, should have more self respect and follow suit. Here's Charles on unfiltered with Ricky Boe and Bill Colerulo. This podcast was published on July 7. Charles, please take it away. So you didn't get the invite to the royal wedding at Madison Square Garden that idea. Oh, you didn't get the invite. You didn't go. I don't go to weddings. That's

one. I don't go to weddings or funerals, but I didn't get an invite. And I'd politely decline because I thought it was going to be a crap show. That's the real reason. Charles says, I don't go to weddings or funerals. I don't really believe him there. He says, I declined because I thought it was going to be a crap show. Trouble make our Charles Barkley, we salute you. Come over to the nerve anytime you like. Sir, also Charles, you definitely should have an

intern or an assistant over at your house. You can help you with your framing. You deserve much better than that. Okay. Now, here it is. The unglamorous reality of attending Taylor Swift's wedding revealed by disgruntled guests, excuse me, published July 6 by Allison Boschoff in The Daily Mail. And I read guests at pop eye contailers July 3rd wedding to football star Travis Kelsey at MSG in New York. Have been complaining post event about the tacky and chaotic scenes inside,

which saw the champagne running dry really early and long lines for buffet food. It wasn't even a sit down dinner. It was a buffet. It's like if you're staying at a Hilton, a maria, near an airport, you're lucky. You might get a buffet breakfast. Come on down for the buffet is from 7 to 11. I couldn't believe that there was a buffet at the wedding of the year said one shot guest. That felt like such a tacky move. It is. It is. Another added, there were slightly

chaotic scenes around the food carts. I mean, I guess that means it was a shit show, per Charles.

With all these amazing alisters having to stand in line, it wasn't quite what I expected.

You know, Julia Roberts was there and Steven Spielberg and I might add Brad Pitt and Tom Cruz and Steven Colbert. The list goes on and on. Now it gets better. It gets better. Allison reports. That's before you get to the cringe-inducing system, which ranked attendees

Travis is just some guy she's marrying. The bride trusts me when I tell you this piece was got over with a fine tooth comb and told them when they needed to arrive accordingly. British supermodel Cara Delevin, who not for nothing just in a side, recently said that she had a quote unquote entanglement with Amber heard for quite some time. So they were sleeping together,

just so you know. Okay, Cara Delevin was in first in the D-list contingent.

So she was told to arrive at Madison Square Garden at 230 p.m. a full three hours before the ceremony.

“So again, I think Taylor's the saddest. She is ranking her famous friends and basically saying to them,”

"I think less of you. I don't really care about your comfort. I don't really care about you. If you really want to come to this wedding, wedding in the century, you better roll up like four hours before, oh and by the way, or three hours, whatever, you're going to have to check your phone with my security and there's not really going to be enough seating and you know, we are in the middle of a heat wave and you're just going to have to deal. You're just going to stand around,

twiddling your fucking thumbs until you find somebody who wants to talk to you. Lovely. Love, you know, any good host and by the way, if you are throwing a wedding in a reception, you're essentially a party host. You're throwing a party. Any decent host knows that your number one job is the care comfort feeding and attending to of your guests and that your guests should leave happier than they even were when they arrived, that your event should have exceeded their expectations.

Not so with Taylor Swift, actor Bradley Cooper, Alice in Rights and TV host Graham Norton, we're not far behind arriving at 330 PM. So they were in the Celeste contingent. That's my interpretation. Taylor's best friend Abigail Anderson, who she's known since her days in high school in Nashville, Tennessee showed up at 430 PM. So Alice in, sorry, Abigail is in the Celeste contingent. You may have known Taylor since before she was really famous and one would think be a person who is the most

“important to Taylor because I think those are probably the most valuable people you could have.”

No, no, no, no, no. As the nerve broke the news to Abigail, leave on Tuesday show, Gigi Hadid is now head bitch in charge. Okay. This thing, I would like to see this thing spoofed as like the red wedding from Game of Thrones because this is really what it feels like.

Now, Alice in Rights that the most important guests, the VIPs here,

arrived as instructed closer to the time of the 530 PM ceremony. So they didn't have to sit around and wait for very long at all. They got, they got the, they got the perfect timing. You know, this is mean, this is caddy mean bullshit. Okay, a source sets. Alice is reporting and I quote, "It was surprisingly chaotic inside. Arrivals were staggered with people having to wait

“for hours with nothing to do. The cocktails only started at 4 PM." She's a billionaire.”

The cocktails only started at 4. I want to be surprised that these were like cash bars. People, Alice in Rights, literally were twiddling their thumbs for hours if you were in the 230 PM time, slot like Cara Delivine, slot, excuse me, you couldn't even amuse yourself by checking your phone. You were just standing around like a lemon wondering why the hell you were forced to arrive so early. Again, Madison Square Garden, the arena itself, I'm not talking about backstage,

I'm not talking about underground, the arena itself holds 20,000 people. Why on God's greener is that she needs to stagger arrivals like this? It's because she can. She likes being a main girl. News, okay, so everyone had to give up their phones upon entry and then they had to stand in long lines at the end of the night to collect them. TMZ reports that the theme was the wizard of Oz meets Alice in Wonderland. As the nerve has said and predicted, it was Taylor Swift's big

fat Disney wedding. A source says this is Alice's piece. Quote, I know everyone was saying how it was

all decked out fairy tale garden style, so you'd never even know that this was in Madison Square

Some of the flowers, vines and garlands were wrapped so badly around the seating that they barely

camouflaged the plastic bucket stadium style seats. It was all quite ghastly and tacky. They tried to cover up that it was a wedding in a stadium and that failed. Also, there were loads of huge fake plastic trees all over the place and it just looked bizarre. Another unusual element to the wedding was this much disgust raffle. Celebrity guests were invited to win raffle tickets. So you didn't even just get handed a raffle ticket. You had to compete for a raffle ticket by playing

“games like mini golf, pinball and a ring toss during the post-nubsual party. Are you fucking for real?”

Again, this is a humiliation ritual, a humiliation ritual. Now before we get to Justin Baldoni's

bombshell video statement that he and his wife Emily dropped online late Thursday night. I want to say a couple of things. Number one, family of it did a couple of documentary documentaries with Martin Scorsese who is a huge fan of hers and one was called Pretended to City and I think the other one was that was a series. It's like a mini series on HBO and then the other one I think was also for HBO and I think that's more of a documentary film. I recommend both highly.

I wouldn't say go see her now live. I've seen her live. I want to say within the past few

years and she's phoning it in. She's totally phoning it in. But before she began phoning it in. You know, there are very few cultural commentators who were as a suit and unafraid to say what

“they really thought as Fran. And she said this and I think there's a lot of truth to it. She said”

that one of the true tolls taken by the AIDS crisis. I mean, of course there was the human carnage and the death and the illness and the despair and the paranoia and the fear and the homophobia all of that. But one of the true tolls that AIDS took was on the culture itself because AIDS took from us our most sophisticated, scholarly, tasteful, well-traveled gay men who really knew how to not just criticize the culture but who elevated the arts who elevated our aesthetics as a culture and a

country and who really reinforced how important beauty really is. It's not, it's nothing superficial. It's nothing to be scoffed at. Beautiful things and experiences matter, a taste level matters. And what this fucking monstrosity, vulgarity of a wedding says to me, is that Taylor Swift is not have a single gay man in her corner, like a single gay man of taste and well-regard and well-repeated

“and who knows what he's doing in her fucking corner. What do you think of that?”

Now, before we get to Justin because the nerve insists on Justin getting the last word in this segment, he has earned it. TMZ, again, somehow, somehow, how? How? They're so, they think we're this stupid. Okay, Blake, psycho-arsanist Ryan, we're on to you, you fuckers, you fuck wits, we're all on to you. So just stop it, okay? Just stop it. We don't believe that TMZ just happened to randomly catch you in Lake Plasid last weekend while Taylor was getting married, engaging in ostensibly whole

some activities with one of your kids. We don't. How did TMZ get exact details as to how that kid placed in a horse-jumping competition? Not from the stable. You'd have those people fired if they devolged personal information like that. Just my opinion, it came from Blake and Ryan. They're on to be dial with TMZ. TMZ also obtained photos of Blake the snake and psycho-arsanist Ryan from Wednesday. Now they're in Canada. Dining on the rooftop of the Mexican restaurant with

It seems that Taylor and Blake, sorry, I can flate them in my mind. Blake and Ryan maybe got a

heads-up that Justin was about to open his mouth and that his wife Emily was about to open her mouth. Okay, I'm going to read the details from the TMZ reports. TMZ really needs to get their

“shit together when it comes to this stuff. Stop being the handmaidens of these awful people, okay?”

They felt that this was publishable or in order to keep their line of communication open between psycho-arsanist Ryan and his equally loads some wife Blake, just my opinion. They do definitely are the court stenographers for these two. Okay, listen to this riveting

description. Brace yourself. And I quote, "Our sources say Ryan left the eatery first and walked

to his vehicle parked in a lot nearby." So we need to be briefed that Ryan left the restaurant first and then went to his car which he parked in a parking lot. Stars, they're just like us. Shortly thereafter, TMZ continues. Blake exited the restaurant with two assistants and waived goodbye to staff. See she's friendly to the peons. She's it's not like at the mechala when she was like snapping at her male minions below her on the staircase. Hey, just do it like that,

just do it. Oh, it's good. I'm friendly Blake. Just to leave it the fuck up.

So she waived goodbye to staff before they went shopping in a boutique store. Oh, so after lunch,

they they went to a neighboring store and and browsed. Again riveting. At one point we're told TMZ continues with this electrifying report on the ground reporting boots on the ground. Ryan joined the trio inside the store and then they left minutes later heading to the parking lot. I mean, is this news because Ryan didn't set fire to something? The fuck out. Now, Justin, Bell Doney and his wife Emily posted to Instagram and social media on late Thursday night.

“I think early Friday morning and this thing has gone viral viral. It's over four minutes long.”

We're just going to show a small segment of what they have to say. They have been put through by the way, not once today mentioned Blake, psycho arsonist Ryan or even Taylor Swift by name, but they're timing impeccable impeccable, here we go. We'll say is that there have been so many painful things that have been spoken and do existence over the last couple years and that created so much noise and we didn't want to add to the noise. So we just wanted to let the

justice system run its course. We can genuinely say that we are sitting here today feeling immense gratitude for so many things and so many people and so many things that have happened to us. Graditude has saved us. It has and I also feel that it's important as we say that in that gratitude it doesn't negate the injustices and the pain that we have also felt in the last few years and we've had to wrestle with so many things and try to understand so many things

that how could something make this even happen? Let alone disguise as a fight for women. That's I think the real take away and it's very smart that it's Emily who says it, that they can't believe what happened to them and let alone that this injustice was, quote, disguised as a fight for women. It's not over Blake, not by a long shot, not at the nerve coming up, trouble maker. Feedback, we are back in a minute. Are you ever disappointed by the seafood that you buy? Do you

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alone, the very same wedding at which Lena made the really insulting rage filled quote-unquote joke that American football players are just straight guys engaged in gay porn, reenacting gay porn.

“It's not verbatim, but I think I have a pretty close. So we're going to be tracking that and also”

regarding widows bay, which is my favorite new show of the year of the year so far. The lead

actor Matthew Reese, who is amazing, is the first actor I believe in 30 years to secure dual

acting nominations for two different shows. There was the beast in me. He was excellent in that. It's not as nearly as great as widows bay, but frankly what is, but he was excellent in it. And then of course for widows bay, which again, if you haven't watched, I cannot recommend it highly enough. It's horror, it's comedy, it's funny, it's smart, it's original, every actor in it is incredible, but he is the lynch pin of it. If you haven't seen the

Americans with Matthew Reese and Carrie Russell, who are a couple in real life, absolutely watch the Americans, one of the greatest shows of the modern age. I also want to say, there was something about, oh, a lot of you have asked me about Margo's got money troubles. If I've watched it,

“what I think of it. I, and so before this ever became a series, I got the book, because it”

looked intriguing to me, and I read only half of it, and then I really, I was just like, the

book is kind of falling apart. Secondly, this is my problem. I watched the first episode. I don't

know that I'll be watching any more of it. This is my problem with Margo's got money troubles. It's the casting. Margo's got money troubles is about a young woman who is in college, who is having an affair with her sad sack, married, loser, writing professor. She dreams of becoming a writer. Her estranged father is down on his luck professional wrestler. He's like aging out of it and has been for quite some time. She was raised by a single mother, so she's not a woman

of means. She's not a young woman of means, right? She decides to have this baby and the crisis is like, how is she going to support this baby? She lives in the middle of nowhere. She's going to get a job on only fans. Like, it's supposed to be comic, you know, and in the book is, it's well written enough, but again, not well enough to finish it. L fanning plays the young woman, Margo. Michelle fight for plays her mother. These women are too expensive looking. It was my exact problem with the

casting of Michelle Williams in God, the Casey Affleck movie. Marlene, can you tell me what that movie was? Oh, it was Manchester by the sea. Manchester by the sea. Michelle Williams was supposed to play this sort of working class, you know, heartbroken, devastated woman who had lost her child. Her marriage had broken up and you take one look at her hair color, her hair cut, her eyebrows, her skin. She looks too expensive. She, you know, it's a certain type, a certain weather,

beaten type of woman who has been beaten down by life. And Michelle Fifer, I am sorry, is far too refined. Her cheekbones, as they say, could cut glass. She her bearing her compartment, the way she articulates things. It was exactly the criticism she came under for when she and Al Pacino

the film, the play, Frankie and Johnny at the Claire DeLoon, which originated with, or was most

famous as a play, Edie Falco, was Frankie. I forget Stanley Tucci played Johnny. You know, you can't have that kind of magnetism and like otherworldly beauty and convincingly play someone who's working class. Like you can see the fake nails that Michelle Fifer has like it used to like adhesive, just to put on. It doesn't work. It's the same with Al fanning. You know,

“she's the face of like very high-end design houses. I think she may be one of the faces of Chanel.”

You know, she, she looks too expensive and I hate, I hate when casting does this. You know, who would have been better as Margot? The miscast misfire that is super girl. That girl, Millie Alcock. She has a look to her and I mean this in just a casting sense. I'm not judging. She looks a little hard. She looks like she's like life has thrown some shit out of her. That would have been a better casting. Okay. Now onto trouble maker feedback. Just my thoughts.

Okay. Hello, it's team nerve. The subject line is pre-up three exclamation points. Did Taylor have to sign a no-messing around clause? The reporting, which has not been denied. As of this taping, is that Taylor may Travis sign a pre-up that included a fuck around and find out clause to rival Nicole Kidman's cocaine clause for one Keith Urban. And this says that

in the event that Taylor, sorry, the Travis fucks around on her. He has to pay her $20 million per

“per indiscretion. Now this question came to us from many a trouble maker. What about Taylor?”

What if she cheats, okay? This trouble maker named Karen asks since when is she all original? The greed. Hi, Maureen. Is it possible to get a list of all the movies and TV shows? You have recommended throughout the 151 episodes of the nerve. I'm rocking my brain trying to think of a show or movie you recommended last year. We are doing it on our sub-stack and we can begin compiling a comprehensive list. It will take some time. But in the meantime, go to

sub-stack subscribe because I always talk about weekly things that I recommend. Be they products,

or clothes, or jewelry, or things I'm reading, watching, listening to. Join the sub-stack. That's a

“great place for it. Hi. Maureen, vis-a-vis the raffle that Taylor threw. The carnival games that”

she encouraged her a list guests to play. This trouble maker writes somewhere along the way. Celebrity culture stopped trying to be aspirational and started trying to convince us that billionaires are, quote, just like us, except they are not. Watching A-list celebrities reportedly tossing ski balls for the chance to win a Chanel handbag doesn't make them seem relatable. It makes the whole production feel oddly curated. Every moment was being, yes, every moment was being engineered for

future content instead of genuine celebration years ago, stars cultivated, a little mystery, Liz and Dick come to mind, agreed. Liz and Dick, but today it feels like every birthday vacation dinner, relationship and wedding has become intellectual property waiting to be monetized. Ironically, the more access we are given, the less authentic it all feels could not agree with you more trouble maker. Love to you all, Maureen, Maureen and of course to the handsome and talented

Teddy Van Halen and his little protégé trouble. Teddy will love to hear this trouble is driving him nuts at the moment. Nots. Hi, Randy. It's from Randy, sorry. Your trouble maker in Iowa. Garth Brooks announced his new tour starts in Indianapolis next month. I wonder if he has made any pre show, Colonic appointments. That's a reference to another email from a trouble maker who reported that Garth Brooks just this trouble maker's report had allegedly tried, no, sorry, had allegedly

figured out a way to bring himself to orgasm while getting a Colonic from this trouble maker's friend who was a female and who was shocked and was like, I can't say anything. I will lose my job. There is also the online conspiracy theory that Garth Brooks may be a serial killer,

we are certainly at the nerve not saying that Garth Brooks is potentially a serial killer.

“Headline, cocktails, please feel free to use my name. You've got a trouble maker, Megan. Okay,”

this is a bitchie comment regarding Taylor Swift's wedding, trouble maker Megan. Did you just get to the

nerve? If you're going to say something, bitchie comes sit by me. She and Travis never held a cocktail

glass correctly when they're drinking wine or champagne. Stemware is called Stemware for a reason. You hold the stem of the glass where, yes, the thinking is that the science is that if you hold the glass itself in which the beverage is contained, your body heat allters the composition and the taste of said beverage and so you hold the stem. Megan goes on to say that she has been in and out of the hospital since January and most recently over the July 4th holiday, we are sorry to hear

that Megan. We are rooting you on. She says that the nerve cheers her up. We are so happy to hear it.

Marine, if indeed Jack Schlossberg is a malignant narcissist, this goes to our part of our segment

on the nerve at night or Tuesday. Probably Tuesday because I couldn't wait to get to it since we were off last week into my feet, it came Jack Schlossberg, multiple photos of himself at a museum looking at artifacts behind an under glass and the caption under Jack's images said history on full display to which I said that's a museum you fuck with. It's literally history on full display. It's baked into the definition of a museum and it is the exact reason people go. Now this troublemaker is not

alone in positing this theory which I like. I like troublemaker L says if indeed Jack is a malignant narcissist, he was referring to himself as the history on full display. He considered himself

“a historical figure and was documenting himself and the art was only a prop. I think you're right.”

This troublemaker also says I too am a Jackie fan. We have this in common. You guys know how I feel about Jackie Kennedy on us as I love her. It pained me to put pen to paper but I really appreciate it. We hear at the nerve all appreciate it. Trouble maker our final troublemaker email

for the week high, morning. I've always gotten such a narcissistic vibe from Taylor Swift and

as a mother I had to live through those years. My daughters were fans sympathies. Trouble maker Pete sympathies. When the era's tour came to town, I love this. This is the kind of parenting that I I would encourage for the culture and we're going to do Marlene and I were talking about

“doing a segment about this um wild piece that New York magazine ran wild and I think we should”

book market for next week or the week after but we will be doing it. Now this troublemaker said I refused to give her her she refused to give her daughters a dime for tickets to the era's tour and love it. My then 23 year old daughter even more so she's an adult paid her own way and went with friends. It also took her a later. She writes took her a while to admit it but the bigory. The talentlessness and the egg hit her all at once during that show. She still can't believe she spent

all that money live and learn indeed live and learn. Those are some of the best lessons you'll ever make because they really stick. They really stick with you. She then goes on to write trouble maker Pete that she and her daughters have been fans of the nerves since day one and that her daughter jokingly calls me Aunt Marlene and love it. God I love it. Throughout the year that you've been doing the nerve we have been waiting for the day cultural repeat offender of the

century Taylor Swift got on your radar. She is insufferable and thank you for calling it out and sending Tatai into her wood shed era trouble maker Pete. I can assure you this is only the beginning. It is only the beginning for Taylor. The asteroid has pivoted direction and is going straight it. This is our target number one and trust me. That's as a lot in this cultural landscape. Don't you think. Quick reminder, keep your feedback coming email me at [email protected] or DM me

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We spoke to Lady C moments before this report broke and Lady C's very busy. So we are going to

“front load her interview with this breaking news initially reported by the telegraph re-reported”

by page six and notably people magazine which is Meghan Markle's preferred outlet. They are historically extremely friendly to Meghan which means I can tell you in my experience just my opinion they have a very friendly relationship okay the headline Meghan Markle Prince Archie and Princess Lilibit because they're using the royal titles will travel to the UK this week I'm quoting from the people magazine report amid days of uncertainty surrounding the Sussexes travel plans new reports

indicate that Meghan Markle Prince Archie and Princess Lilibit are expected to travel to Britain later this week it is already later this week so I don't know what she's talking about according to the telegraph the report continues the Duchess of Sussex 44 will return to her husband's homeland with the children Meghan and the children are not expected to make any public appearances which I'm going to say they're going to be sure that they're photographed just my opinion just my opinion

and finally report this report says a spokesperson for the Sussexes had no comment when reached by people because what are we doing if we're not installing yet another cliffhanger everybody wants to know what will they do what will they do nobody really gives a shit is over for these people okay their brand is chaos joining us now the one and only lady Colin Campbell better known to us all as

lady C royal biographer New York Times bestselling author palace insider and someone who has never

been afraid to say it exactly how it is when it comes to the Sussexes in fact she wrote the actual book called Meghan and Harry the real story if you have not read it treat yourself welcome back to the nerve lady C wonderful to see you again Lauren now this this has been quite the week and and and not one that has gone the way Prince Harry clearly imagined it would he is in London as promised he was given an invitation to stay at Buckingham Palace which was later rescinded

after his hithering and dithering he it was announced that Meghan and the children would be joining him they are not it was announced that Harry would be having a meeting with King Charles as of this moment

the daily mail the cost is a reported fifty million dollars plus you and I are going to take a look right here at a video statement made by the editor and chief of the daily mail published on Tuesday July 7 after this verdict was handed down and this is this is the real irony here what Harry's beloved mother thought of of the exact outlet where I call him by weekly that he tried to destroy here we go the bitter irony is that his mother Diana likes the mail we were her paper we took her

side in her acrimonious break up with Charles she and I would speak and meet the mail the superb

“royal reporter was her friend and confidant the truth is that this trumped up action which is”

cost will over fifty million pounds and wasted a huge amount of valuable court time should never

have been brought to trial lady C what do you make of it well I agree with Paul Dayca I mean I've been seeing the solar long you know I know me suggest this nickname he was the judge in my case against oh the daily mirror that's right and and I mean I've had lots of experience in the last 50 years in suing very successfully all the newspapers including associated newspapers repeatedly but Paul Dayca's absolutely right and what Paul Dayca hasn't said is that not only was he and Richard K but

“there was also so David English who was the editor in chief of the whole headhardt show in those days”

and David English said Diana was the most brilliant PR operator he'd ever met that if she hadn't been the princess of ways she should have set up a PR operation she had them around her little finger actually in my opinion to an unacceptable degree because they were all they were much too much in

favor of her and they were not always as fair to Charles as they should have been but the whole

thing is an absolute scandal I mean it's bad enough that Harry has done this but during Lawrence lady Lawrence the black Baroness who who it's thanks to the male and thanks to Paul Dayca

“and so David English that her son's murderers were brought to justice and that she would turn on”

them the way she did just because Harry convinced her that I mean the whole thing was they wanted to get the daily they wanted to get associated newspapers shut down they'd had yeah hat off hat off which is the anti-free press organization behind all of this Elton John's a part of it you grant support of it and that that case that you were talking about with those five suspects that the male had named it's no mistake that Paul Dayca is sitting in front

of the front pages he's sitting in front of the front page where the headline says the daily male will name these suspects the the one in the in the right background of that frame is is a huge portrait a blow up of Diana's face and you're absolutely right Diana was a brilliant mastermind

she befriended these reporters she got her narrative always put down as as what we call journalism

the first draft of history what is it in Harry that remains so obstinate and so destructive do you think that he doesn't understand again more bees with honey when first of all he's he's you know he's an idiot that's the first and he's drug-addled and you know he's admitted that he's that he resorts to drugs but he is truly drug-addled his brains have such brains as he had and he never started with any have been totally blown by all of the drugs that he has taken and continues to take

how do you know lady see that he is still continuing to partake in drugs because people I know have been there when he has been a veiling himself of of the solution because

it's but but what is so outrageous about all of this is having lost he has the

“on mitigated goal to say that the senior defamation law is our judge in this country and”

misstitch us this nicotine misstitch us this nicotine is one of those senior judges in this country is corrupt and that it's a white wash and that it's an establishment's teacher and I have been told that he and Megan has been having been seeing it's white privilege in action so now he and Megan are two black people who have been completely disadvantaged by white privilege no one do they need to dream Lawrence in the frame because she's black I mean the hope that this is madness you know

there was never a case I said all along that because I'm ignoring for over 50 years I've been

soon the newspapers and I've never lost and I know my way around the law in terms of litigation reputation or unlawful news gathering and I always said there was no case because

“they couldn't prove one thing saying I suspected or I think it might have happened is not the same thing”

as proof and I said all along I'm not a fortune teller I never predict anything but of nine knowledge of the law there was no way they could win I thought of the 97 claims misstitch us nicotine might have felt obliged to throw them one or two partial or total pictures on the nine of things that weren't serious but in fact he didn't throw them even those crumbs as far as he's concerned they're not deserving of any sustenance and he's giving them none. What I would also

like to read I'd like to read a little bit to you from an incredible bombshell that was published

on July 8th again in the Daily Mail this is by Charlotte Griffiths and it was a first person essay called The Truth About the Prince and Me and she is recounting two very among many salient points but for our purposes I love this detail she she she does not come from Harry's world number one number two in her piece she maintains that as she was invited via mutual friends to parties with Prince Harry weekends away with Prince Harry in various states where they would go shooting

peasant and what have you that her role as a journalist at the Daily Mail was always known and disclosed

and that Harry himself knew she writes after one evening spent with this cohort of people a Facebook messenger app on my mobile phone I'm reading "Pinged with a friend request from a certain quote spike wells and accompanying message read it's h in case you were confused by name and picture x meaning a kiss. Now I love that because all we hear from Meghan Markle is that h is her special name for Harry. Only she calls him h and this this little tidbit tells us that Harry was going by

the self-appointed nickname h years before he met Meghan years yes he was and also what was very interesting in Charlotte Griffith's account is that Harry popped a very small white pill on her tongue at dinner and and and said no I can trust you and she removed it very subtly so he wasn't too aware of it she removed it with her napkin but she didn't swallow it and then cover her self legally

“because you know what it's like in England you have to cover yourself legally she said she assumes”

it was parasitemol parasitemol is not small white pills they're big white pills and also us because they have no coating as soon as they touch your tongue you can tell that it's definitively parasitemol or it's not so clearly whatever little pill he put on her tongue even though she says it was parasitemol it wasn't parasitemol and Harry everybody knows has been heavily into drugs

do with the 12th's that program which I did because my ex husband was an alcoholic and my mother was

“an alcoholic I mean Harry is a classical out of control or substance abuse whether he yeah he does”

exhibit those behaviors to me the most pronounced one being it's always everybody else's fault

we are never taking blame for anything and I love that you pulled out that she leads with that and it's her first meeting with Harry very first and she sat next to him and she is not of this world she writes about getting dressed in her H&M dress and feeling nervous about that and he has the temarity and this is the disgustingness of the entitlement I am sure everybody else just laughed along as he placed a drug of unknown provenance on this strangers tongue as some sort of

game of thrones poison pill test of loyalty to this dope who was you know then the third in line but

was about to go way way way down the wrong you know the other the other detail that I read and I thought I have to talk to ladies see about this because it is too good how leaks actually often work leaks often castigated by Harry and Meghan Charlotte writes I can now reveal that during the summer of 2025 so last summer a close advisor to Harry and Meghan contacted me out of the blue invited me to lunch at the ivy restaurant in London a very high profile restaurant

she writes as a result of information given to me given to me at that lunch meeting I placed a series of stories in the mail on Sunday that portrayed the couple in a positive light this included a front page article which ran in July that Harry and Meghan were attempting to rebuild their relationship with King Charles it revolved around Liam McGuire and Meredith mains Harry and Meghan's USPR chiefs were about to about to be holding clear the air talks with the monarch's age aide excuse me

Tobin Andre in London I was duly tipped off about the meeting which was held at the royal overseas league near Clarence House the attendees settled themselves on a balcony plainly visible from the public park below the mail on Sunday arranged for a photographer to capture the cozy but very embarrassing scene in a development which speaks volumes for their integrity quote sources close to the Sussexes then briefed the daily telegraph that they were quote very frustrated that the

pictures of this gathering had ended up in the mail on Sunday suggesting quite falsely that the palace was responsible for a grotesque betrayal of trust lady sea well moreine at the time because I knew what was going on I blew the whistle on the whole thing I said the whole thing was an absolute stitch up and set up and that it was a set up by Harry and Meghan and their people

“and that they had tipped off the the mail on Sunday and and that's why they had a photographer there”

I mean I knew the whole thing and I called chapter in verse on it so she's simply very fine what I said at the time and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only person who said it because it was as obvious as the nose on your or my face what was going on but it's typical of Harry and Meghan they create these scenarios they shaft the palace then they spin around and say oh where victims of the palace I mean it's and the press and the press let's not forget the the treacherous press

I mean Harry obviously thought that Charlotte Griffiths would never open her mouth because she's

married now she has three children she's cleaned up her act she used to be a very buy her own account in the period with Harry she they were both perpetually drunk she's cleaned up her act she's

“married happily three children she's now a respected journalist and I think Harry thought”

she's never going to see anything I can trash her all I want because she's going to have the awkward problem of did they or did they not sleep together and yes that's the question

it's obvious that there was some free zone of attraction between them or certainly from him to her

“and she played along with it just right a hurricane but right just her account she writes she writes”

in her defense she writes you know she she was in her 20s everybody was partying she was in this circle it's it's not unusual she also writes that she she she was given information even back

then that she never ever reported unless she had the complete okay from any given source she did

not she she would not betray a confidence and I think that you're right either Harry just assumed that Charlotte would never ever tell what really went on during that time period or he simply forgot she wasn't important enough to remember I mean I'm sorry I don't think he forgot at all oh really no I think he calculated that she would that she knew that questions would be asked as to whether they had slept together or not and he calculated that she'd found it so embarrassing

and she might be potentially so damaging to her career and her credo that he was basically

“blackmailing her that's what he was doing and I'm delighted that she refused to succumb to the blackmail”

and you know she's given a very good account about your knowledge of what happened I am too I think she did I think that that piece is great if anybody hasn't read it go read it I I love this piece and what I love about it too to your point lady see is you know she doesn't say this so this could just be my interpretation perhaps you share it but Harry becomes immediately overly friendly overly flirty with this woman who is a member of the media not

only that is a cover porter at the daily mail working for Katie Nichol who back then even was a big name and a big deal so the idea that Harry did in know what he was doing and in fact doesn't have some of his mother in him trying to play the media kind of like it it it it's it's you cannot

believe it on his face absolutely and you know I've always said people don't understand to what

extent Harry and so Harry Meghan have used the day and a playbook I mean they've done it in a far more flea granted disgraceful and quite frankly care candied away she was far more sophisticated but the fact of the matter is Harry has played the media and the irony is that everybody in the media world knew that Charlotte Griffith was basically reporting virtually word for word what Harry had unwanted her to report which did her reputation no good so it's

“her credit that she's come out and I think that she has she has helped to preserve her reputation”

because I have to tell you she was in danger of losing it because she was well known for a while to be one of Harry and Meghan's girls you know a conduit a mercury so it's good that she's done what she's done me I make a point as well but yes please in it in it she says that I accused her

of being a drunkard I never accused her of being a drunkard I said to defend her that she was young

and that she was caught up in a farsco and that she by her own account was drunk and that she's cleaned up her act so but she says that when she's complaining about the fact that her you know she had such a hard time and she got a lot of hate she never got any hate for me but it's a friend of man who actually phoned and told me about this story hence why I actually read she said oh when I said but why would she she said oh my dear she you're the only name she's mentioned and she's obviously

dropped your name because it's a feather in her cap oh lady see you know I love that I had no idea that you two had any personal history prior to reading that that essay that she wrote but your insight as always always beyond invaluable thank you for giving us your time this most moment is week for Harry and Meghan we will see you soon I said for my dear more than a pleasure God bless me well that does it that does it for our Friday edition of the nerve is there a better

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