- Speaker #0
Yep, get your head in the game. It's intro time, bitch.
- Speaker #1
Thank you, Clara. Hello and welcome back to Heis of Gossip. You're sitting here with Hogg, Clara and Sophie. We are the Heis of Gossip podcast, bringing you your weekly dose of pop culture nourishment, live from London. And Shrewsbury. I myself am doing this in a hotel lobby. So if you do hear the clicky clacky of feet, please just ignore it. Clara, how are you today?
- Speaker #0
I'm very well. God, we're all over the world. We take hog everywhere we go. Jet setting to Shrewsbury.
- Speaker #1
My life is a passport.
- Speaker #0
Yeah.
- Speaker #1
I'm coming to you live from Shrewsbury in London town. We again have loads of Clara. I'm told you've got loads of chocolate ganache compliments during the week.
- Speaker #0
I did.
- Speaker #1
jingle.
- Speaker #0
It really fits the like the sincerity of the piece.
- Speaker #1
Right let's kick it off as we always do a J'adore and a test. Clara which are you a J'adore or a J'etesting this week?
- Speaker #0
I'm just I'm really J'adore shit films. Hear me out. Huh. Now this is about two weeks ago. There was a bit of a Netflix drought and there just wasn't like anything like newish coming up and you know you just need something a bit peaceful and like not serious and like not reality sometimes I like watch so much reality tv that I'm like I need a plot like yeah yeah you know you're just like I need like a script and a yeah I came across this movie starring it's like another ensemble cast called think like a man it's really old it's from like 2012 I've I've seen the cover what who's in it Gabriel Union
- Speaker #1
Gabrielle Gabriel
- Speaker #0
Gabrielle sorry I actually guessed myself when I was like Gabrielle like danger you were gonna say Gabrielle Byrne there I know oh it's got it's got like Kevin Hart Taraji P. Henderson and other ones you'd like to recognise it's very like noughties teen like the 2010s is the cover purple? probably and it's about a book a guy Steve Harvey wrote called Think Like a Man it's a bit like he's just not that into Roger yeah but like the acting it's just really not great it's a bit of a at times feels a bit like one of those Showtime movies but then they did a sequel which I didn't know also on Netflix equally crap but a bigger budget what's it called Think Like a Man 2 spelled T-O-O oh like look he's talking mhm so it's just really shit it's and I think there's something to be said for like just really enjoying like sometimes you have to be in the mood for a crap film, don't get me wrong. Just the acting, the plot lines, nothing really making much sense. Just really have enjoyed it. And now I've got another one downloaded called Rough Night and it's got like Scarlett Johansson. I just love how Netflix are like, okay, we need to keep people on this platform. Let's just buy a load of cheap shit stuff just to fill it up with like fresh content, even though it's kind of crap. So if anyone just like it's a great one for like a hangover or like a little cozy Sunday.
- Speaker #1
Should I watch Think Like a Man?
- Speaker #0
Only if you're in the mood for something just a bit shit.
- Speaker #1
I love a shit movie.
- Speaker #0
I'm just loving shit films. So now I'm kind of like hunting them out. I just find it so soothing.
- Speaker #1
I so know what you mean. Have you seen that one with Reese Witherspoon called Home Place?
- Speaker #0
Sweet Home Alabama?
- Speaker #1
Something like that. No, it's so good. We watched it one Sunday and it's so.
- Speaker #0
Like so bad?
- Speaker #1
It feels like a Nancy Meyers film. Like it's so warm and cozy. Three boys move in with her, basically. Three kind of, I think they're actors and they want to become, they want to become famous. And we watch it. It's just, it's such a hunky love movie. It's so good.
- Speaker #0
Home Again.
- Speaker #1
Home Again. It's so good.
- Speaker #0
Nearly 40, Nearly Divorced. Oh wow. God, it's on Netflix as well. Great. Okay, sign me up. I'm downloading that right now.
- Speaker #1
I'd add that to your... I should add that to your list.
- Speaker #0
Yeah, it's just so soothing. Okay, that's me. So what are you just organising your testing?
- Speaker #1
I've started not putting my earphones in in the morning and kind of in the evening as well when I'm going to and from work. And I really recommend people do it.
- Speaker #0
As in not listen to something, just have your own thoughts?
- Speaker #1
Yep. You hear a lot more. You can hear like people's conversations. You hear like natural sounds. I'm not, I don't wear earphones. that much compared to people my age like I wouldn't be always wearing them but the stuff you can think about you know there's so much noise everywhere when we're getting on the tube we're leaving the house and you're directly putting something in your ears I really would recommend just to do it even on Monday oh my god that's a good it is um
- Speaker #0
I sometimes find that you know say if your headphones are dead and then you're like walking around and you do engage with the world around you a lot more yeah and like sensory wise
- Speaker #1
It's just it's way nicer because I don't like noise over noise. And London's so loud. So I'll take I'll take the one noise.
- Speaker #0
Do you want to know what Blind Boy told me personally on his podcast about birdsong?
- Speaker #1
Roger, go on.
- Speaker #0
So he said that going back to our like Neanderthal days, when us as humans hear birdsong, we naturally relax more because birds only sing when they're like. free and happy and having a cute little time in their tree. So like if birds are, they're not going to tweet their hearts out if they're feeling like stressed or under threat. Like they'll only be singing from the treetops when they're like relaxed. So like our subconscious, like Neanderthal prehistoric elder ancestors know that. So when you hear birdsong, that's why it's so important to like hear the world around you. I'm like, it's like. it's a sonic version of nature. I love that. Isn't it so cute? Because they do say, I heard on the radio as well, like there's loads of, what really makes you happy. And they say like, you can do meditation, you can do yoga, you can do exercise. But the one thing that comes back every time that always makes, like it's 10, by all the other ones put together, this one is still the leader and it's being in nature. And then if you couple, if you couple that with a tweety bird hello sensory experience so that's why it's so important to like get out in parks and you know see nature especially if you're like working from home stuck in this corner of like a room and you're just staring at a screen all day it's like so important to like get out into nature and like see the trees see the seasons even when you don't want to and you please me you look like a shaman gazzer I like that sorry who's blind boy you know blind boy boat club from the rubber bandits you know the horse outside Roger I've been listening to his podcast for years he's great but yeah sorry yeah enough pipeline boy because it's time for the news thank you Clara
- Speaker #1
I must say I'm loving these news bits by the way really helps keep me abreast I'm aware if you're not Irish these updates in our economy and politics are a bit random but But you may as well know what's going on because we know what's going on in the UK anyway. So it's a cultural exchange. So Budget 2025 was announced last week. The total package reaching 8.3 billion euros. Some of the stuff you might pick out, one euro has been added to a packet of cigarettes, reaching 18 euro and 5p for one packet of cigarettes and a 50 cent tax on vapes.
- Speaker #0
18 for a pack? That's insane. It discourages people from smoking, so it's a good one. but like that is like 20 euro for a pack of cigarettes basically.
- Speaker #1
They're making vapes illegal for, is it under 16? They're putting in some legislation for vapes, which I agree with, which I think is a big deal. So yeah, a pack of cigarettes will cost you 20 euro essentially. So the main thing that people were kicking off about and I saw loads of coverage on was 9 million euro. Did you see this for magnetic phone pouches for schools?
- Speaker #0
Yeah, what is that?
- Speaker #1
a disgusting amount of money. And these schools are also schools that would be struggling to pay for their heating and keep the lights on.
- Speaker #0
But what's a magnetic school phone?
- Speaker #1
So I tried to look it up and I couldn't really figure it out. It's like, I think, so you put your phone in it and I think it's magnetically locked when you enter and maybe magnetically opened when you leave the school. So during the day, kids won't be on their phones. And I saw on Ireland AM, I saw on that they were talking to I think it was one of the ministers or something. And they were like nine million euro when a parent could purchase that. Like that could be going towards better school facilities or like towards their bills. And I was just talking to my mom and she was saying that schools don't have enough money for like paper towels in the bathrooms now. A lot of schools don't have enough money for that. And the kids are being told to bring in their own. But they're spending nine million on magnetic phone pouches. Again, this all goes back to the 1.4 million security yacht government in the government buildings and the three hundred thirty six thousand euro bike shed. And it's just another thing that just seems absolutely outrageous. And then when they try to defend themselves, it's just like they don't even care,
- Speaker #0
do they?
- Speaker #1
No. And there's just this whole thing of like, when it's not your money, it's very easy to spend a lot of it. Yeah. You know, you allocate nine million because it's there.
- Speaker #0
Yeah, it's like they're pulling numbers out of the air.
- Speaker #1
It just seems appalling. And they also said that for this budget, they want to give young people hope to their families, their parents and grandparents, whether they're living in Ireland or abroad, that the decision being made for this budget will help people, young people afford a home of their own, which I think is an absolute joke. Of course, we're not going to be able to afford a home of our own. Like what? Yeah, I mean, trying to get your head around the whole budget is quite overwhelming. You know, there's stuff like IVF. Is there IVF? They're going to give some money to that. And hormone replacement therapy. Also, if you have a new baby, I think you get like a once off payment of 420 euro. But yeah, one of the big things they pulled out was that smartphone fee, 9 million euro in the bin.
- Speaker #0
But like, will that money actually get spent doing all that? Like, how are they going to roll that out? It seems so ridiculous.
- Speaker #1
I honestly don't know. Yeah. And they'll be like, oh, they were like, oh, but this was money that's only available once at this time. And then the schools have them forever. So pay for their heating, you big fools. Oh, also, Simon Harris calls the phone pouch purchase a scandalous waste of public money.
- Speaker #0
Well, he's the Taoiseach.
- Speaker #1
Slay Simon. at a time when so many schools are struggling to pay for heating and to keep the lights on. He called it scandalous.
- Speaker #0
But isn't he supposed to be running the shop like he should be doing something to stop that?
- Speaker #1
I like him.
- Speaker #0
I know he's got he's got cojones.
- Speaker #1
Thank you from the newsroom today. This is Sophie Lyons back to you in the studio, Clara.
- Speaker #0
Thank you. You know, the way they have there was the what was your man name? Is it Stephen something? And they called him Minister for Trampolines. He was the health minister. Was he the health minister?
- Speaker #1
Oh, I don't know.
- Speaker #0
So I'm just wondering, could we give you like a minister, ministerial title? Minister for Goss? Minister for Sass?
- Speaker #1
Minister for Sass could be kind of good.
- Speaker #0
You know, you're on my phone as Sassy Sophie. Well. If the shoe fits.
- Speaker #1
I'm very excited to hear about what your topic is this week. Pray tell what is on your luscious lips to discuss.
- Speaker #0
Oh, saucy. So we talked about it last week in our deep, dense ganache of an episode. The Diddy conversation is still going on. It's ever evolving. We'd be remiss not to talk about it this week. But it's easy to get desensitized because every day there's like a new and awful headline that says even more shit that was going on. Myself and my friend Nikki, we've been going down some rabbit holes. And like my algorithm has changed. You do kind of have to like step away a little bit and going like, OK, this all can't be true. There's conspiracies coming out of people's ears at this point. You know, there's like reasons for this. And like part of my favorite ones I've heard, and they could probably be true. It's like Jay-Z and P. Diddy. They had Aaliyah killed because she was calling them out for this ring that they have.
- Speaker #1
Oh, my God.
- Speaker #0
Yeah. And then they they sent her on a plane with the pilot who was only two days old. A two days old pilot.
- Speaker #1
He was a baby. Yeah.
- Speaker #0
So some of them are like really like, and they could well be true. And then they've other ones like, that it's Jay-Z and Beyonce running this mob. If it comes out that Beyonce is like involved in this kind of ring, I think I would like collapse as a person. I would dissolve into the thin air. So I just can't really go down there. One of the big, I'm actually making myself hot.
- Speaker #1
I can tell you're tugging at your jacket.
- Speaker #0
I need to take it off. There's this one conspiracy theorist called Jaguar White. And yes, I did what I never thought I'd do. I watched an episode of Piers Morgan's YouTube show. Oh, I don't think that's so bad. All in the name of research. I hate that man. But she she's claiming that like she knows everything. But like there's no photos of her with Puff Daddy or anything. She knows better. She was a sex worker. She knows that loads of them were wearing hidden cameras. So I feel like with any of these conspiracy theories, they can say what they want now and get loads of press, but like it'll all come out in the next like year or two, what's true and what's not. But what the good thing about the conspiracy theorists is for the people like Jay-Z and Beyonce is when there's so much noise, it's hard to tell fact from fiction. So it's actually the more conspiracy theories in a way, the better because it kind of like muddies the water and it kind of brings loads of people in. So it's kind of like a distract. It works in the... their favour because people are getting like really tinfoil hatty about it.
- Speaker #1
I do think something's gonna come out with with Jay-Z.
- Speaker #0
How could it not at this point? Another one that Nikki was telling me about was like, or Kelly went down, but like nobody else went down with him. So it's like Diddy will go down. But like, it's kind of, apparently they were in like a bit of a three-way thing. And like, they just accept the blame and then that's it. But then, right, so this lawyer down in Texas called Tony Busby, best name ever. They put out a call when all this came out and they were like, we'll act for you if there's anyone who has evidence. 3,000 people came forward. They've only taken 120 people because obviously they can't take 3,000 and they took people with who had solid physical evidence. So the 60 men, 60 women, 25 of which were minors at the time, one going as young as nine. And it's all people who were like, so this dream of like, I'll make your kid famous. Or like, you know, if you want to make it into showbiz, you've got to do what I say. Or if people want to break into the industry, I'm your ticket to do that, but you need to do this. And Tony Busby has come out saying like loads of powerful people are going to be exposed for this. So in 30 days, they submit their files. So I don't know if they'll name the people then, but we might get a bit more information because I don't think Disney's trial is going to go on for a year or two. And I'm sure he'll try to kick that down. But he's probably going to be in prison till then. So it's just crazy. But there's now 130 lawsuits against him, against Puff Daddy. And all the claims are... I think they're a bit too dark to read, but just imagine they're really horrible and gross. Or do you want me to read them out?
- Speaker #1
No, no, thank you. Also, do you remember your one Aubrey from Danity Cain? Yes. All these clips are getting brought back up of her talking in like riddles about why she was fired and how the band ended. And it's all to do with that. Yeah. Justice for Aubrey.
- Speaker #0
Justice for Aubrey.
- Speaker #1
It's everything she was saying.
- Speaker #0
I know because I'm sure she's like litigated up to her eyeballs like with NDAs and everything. But now she can probably talk a bit freely.
- Speaker #1
She read out an NDA that they tried to make her sign.
- Speaker #0
But it's not just Diddy. That's the thing. It's like which we'll get into now in a minute. But like it's so much more than that. And one of the accusers has been saying in the media recently she has a video and she was contacted about the sale. So somebody involved in the video is trying to buy it off her and buy the rights. So it's like. It's being shopped out and it's a porno featuring Diddy and somebody even more high profile. Dun, dun, dun.
- Speaker #1
Who is it?
- Speaker #0
Who is it? Like, is it Jay-Z? But it's somebody more famous than Diddy. So I'm also just sidebar to this. Okay. Probably why I need to watch so much shit telly at the moment. I'm just so sick. I feel like Hollywood and like all the celebrity fandom, we're finding out now that everybody isn't. an awful, horrible person. There's a new Chris Brown documentary coming out about how horrible he was. The Carter brothers, Puff Daddy and this whole illegal sex ring of trafficking and racketeering. I'm just like, I'm at actual max capacity of how awful everybody seems. And how gross it all is. And just today, Garth Brooks has been accused of rape. And I'm like, oh, my country, a hero. I just can't. Is anybody good? Will this ruin Hollywood? Like, what if this exposes... Okay, just to put my Jaguar White conspiracy theory tinfoil hat on. What if it exposes that, like, everyone who went to the white parties was, like, involved in this weird sex ring? What happens to Hollywood? Like, what actually happens?
- Speaker #1
I just had a thought there. Do you remember your man Corey Feldman? He was, like, a child star. Was it Stand By Me?
- Speaker #0
With the glasses?
- Speaker #1
I can't really remember. Anyway, he did something maybe, I want to say, five to eight years ago, being, like, I think... kind of he might have been involved in this kind of thing on the victim side and he basically alluded to the fact that there's this massive ring in Hollywood this is clearly what he's talking about and he was like there's a lot of high profile people in this such and such and like that was like five to eight years ago and he's really troubled now the poor guy that's awful but I do think as well it's also because of the way media is shared now we have access to everything do you know what I mean like 15 years ago because I just find the news now too much it's all it's so depressing all the time we've news all the time on our phones at hours it's like alerts yeah it used to be like a newspaper and then you know and like conspiracy theories and stuff travel way quicker yeah it's really exhausting being a someone trying to digest all the news let alone being involved in it yeah that's so true
- Speaker #0
And it's just it's really overwhelming. It's hard to stop it then once you start. And you're right. We are just so much more exposed to media nowadays. We talked last week about the celebrities that are all involved. P.S. I saw that the feds aren't investing Ashton Kutcher justice for. That, please. But today I wanted to go through the people behind it, the normal people, the business people, ones that are being exposed now, because Diddy's not doing this all on his own. Diddy is being helped by people and lots of people. So I'm going to take you through two people.
- Speaker #1
Roger, go on.
- Speaker #0
I've seen a little bit online about this woman called Lou Taylor. And... She was on a few of like, you know, the TikTok videos and things like that, but then actually did a bit more of a deep dive. And there was an article about it in The Hollywood Reporter all about this woman, Lou Taylor, and how she relates to the Diddy case. So she is Britney's former manager and the founder of TriStar Sports and Entertainment Group. And she played a vital role in Britney Spears'conservatorship in 2008. And her company, TriStar, had... control over Britney's credit cards, her medication, and used her money to pay for security services that monitored her every move, like her sleep, what room she was in, her phone, everything. So it's all, she talks about it a lot in her memoir. And she accused them of bullying her. She called one of them a weird ass lackey, which lackey, I had to Google it, means a servant or like kind of a footman. And she wanted them out of her life. She says, talks about it all in her memoir, saying that they were benefiting from her conservatorship. Apparently, TriStar got $18 million out of this deal. So they were kind of paying themselves out of Britney's money. How this connects to Diddy is that Lou Taylor is a manager and she managed since the early 90s, Puff Daddy. So it's not known if they still work together. It's not really public. when they stopped working together. Anyway, one of the employees, a supposed accountant at TriStar called Robin Greenhill, their name got brought up in the case. So if you can remember, there was a guy called Lil Rod or Rodney.
- Speaker #1
Yeah.
- Speaker #0
Before any of this major diddy stuff kicked off, like earlier in the year, like April time, Lil Rod is suing Puff Daddy for $30 million for sexual assault under the influence of drugs. and it was filed weeks before two of Diddy's homes were searched. And Lil Rod alleges that he was instructed to recruit sex workers and participate in sexual activities with them for Diddy's pleasure. So then Lil Rod is also claiming that he has hundreds of hours of video evidence. And I don't think you'd be suing Diddy for 30 million if you didn't have all this evidence. He also stated that Robin Greenhill from TriStar was one of the several individuals who facilitated these sexual encounters, i.e. maybe the freak-offs. And Robin would ensure the wiring, fund transfer and cash payments to sex workers. So one theory is Diddy pays them a management fee, but it's really like a hush money fee to the people to pay them off or to pay off a victim or to pay a sex worker. Pretty gross. So Lou Taylor and TriStar's client list includes Justin Bieber, JLo, Mary J. Blige, Kris Jenner, Kim Kardashian, Kylie Jenner. So like all these people, well, bar Kylie probably. And there's other people like Gwen Stefani and a few other celebs, I don't know. But, you know, they're all people who are closely linked to Diddy. So not to go too conspiracy theory, but it seems a bit strange that they're all managed by the same woman. Oh, sorry. And before, sorry, her other client list was, she was apparently also trying to, back in the noughties, trying to get Lindsay Lohan and Courtney Love into conservatorships. So maybe she just like arranges these big deals and then takes a commission. I don't know.
- Speaker #1
Oh my gosh.
- Speaker #0
Gross. Now I did see, and I think we should talk about it because out of all the conspiracy theories, it is my favorite. So I did see online that Lou Taylor was on the... board of the Kardashian Church called the California Community Church.
- Speaker #1
Is this the one that Kris Jenner uses as a tax thing?
- Speaker #0
Yes, it's a tax shield. So what can happen if you own a church in America, maybe California state rules apply, I'm not so sure. And it's run by Pastor Brad, who like married half the Kardashians in the old days. Oh my God,
- Speaker #1
I'd say he is sitting pretty, Pastor Brad.
- Speaker #0
Yeah, he founded it and then I think Kris Jenner kind of like co-owns it or something. techie thing she's the priest what they can do is they can pay themselves in donations so to reduce their tax bill say kim kardashian earns 100 million in one year she can give 10 million of that to the church and not pay tax on that 10 million because it's a donation to a church yeah the craziest tinfoil hat thing i heard was That California community church that the Christianer owns, Lou Taylor and TriStar were facilitating hush money payments via this church, the donations of this church, because the church doesn't have to claim where the donations go. So it's a little backdoor for paying off victims or paying off sex workers. Because the Kardashians did come under fire for work. Still, they were like, oh, Britney, so glad you're ready for your conservatorship. Great. And then fans copped on being like, well, you just hired the woman who put Britney into that conservatorship. You're working with Lou Taylor. Why are you doing that?
- Speaker #1
Sorry, this could be, we might have to take this out. I have a question though.
- Speaker #0
Yeah.
- Speaker #1
Would Diddy and all these people, like... Like, would people not just have sex with them anyway? Like, why is this paid for?
- Speaker #0
Interesting. I think the nature, it's a good question because, but I do think like the nature of these were like, you know, if people were going on IV drips and they were having to drug everyone, like I appreciate people might meet Diddy in a club and go back and have a bit of like an orgy. But like, this seems like a bit more advanced. Like, if there's IV drips keeping people going, if they have to drug people, there's loads of clips of Diddy going, like, you need to make sure the heat goes up and the locks get turned. I think there's also, like, there might, this is just my own tinfoil hat, but, like, maybe there's a thing of, like, a sexual fantasy and having people against their will and stuff like that. I don't know. But, like, you would think, though, that, like, do you remember after Chris Brown beat up Rihanna, there were still loads of women who wanted to sleep with him.
- Speaker #1
People still want to sleep with him.
- Speaker #0
But this seems like it was... like a large operation. It wasn't just like, oh, if you met a man, a famous man in a club, he's like, I'll come back to mine. And then it was like this huge orgy. You know, it's harder to convince people. Maybe that's why they needed sex workers because it was like, OK, this is and like you can control them maybe with NDAs.
- Speaker #1
Because it was so intense and you can kind of tell them what to do, I suppose.
- Speaker #0
I suppose.
- Speaker #1
He's like an almost employee.
- Speaker #0
This is, yeah, I think this feels like an industry, like a sex company. It feels like a much bigger scale.
- Speaker #1
They're saying he's the Jeffrey Epstein of music. Jeffrey Epstein of music, yeah. Sorry, but I just Googled your one Lou Taylor there. And Justin Bieber fired her in April.
- Speaker #0
Yeah, when all this shit kicked off, he fired her.
- Speaker #1
When all kicked off,
- Speaker #0
yeah. I don't know. It's, again, ever evolving and exposing the dark underbelly of Hollywood. It's highly depressing. And it seems like it's a web that's stretching all across. the world.
- Speaker #1
Yeah, it's a hard pill to swallow.
- Speaker #0
Yeah. So I'm just so sick of everyone being so evil. Like I just, there's nothing sacred anymore. And people are getting exposed for like way worse and worse things. So depressing.
- Speaker #1
I know. Anyway,
- Speaker #0
we need you to lift us up, Sophie. So.
- Speaker #1
Yeah, mine's very trivial compared to yours.
- Speaker #0
Trivial.
- Speaker #1
The Beckhams. Yay! They have purchased a £6 million pad for a Miami mega mansion, nine bedrooms, rooftop bar, chef's kitchen, cinema, gym and spa. They also have a £20 million full floor, 10,000 square foot penthouse in downtown Miami, which they got in 2020. And this is them obviously upscaling. They're saying it so he can be close to his football team. The house looks spline. have a look at it online they are even if they're in an open relationship or not they are living the life they're really enjoying themselves aren't they I honestly I look at them and I'm being like wow you guys are really you're doing well she's killing it as well delighted for her I love her do you know my theory on them I think she's so great
- Speaker #0
I'd say they are like best friends but I don't I don't think they're together I'd say they live in such a big house because it's like two mansions in one and I'd say they live separately but they get on great I don't think they are live separately I think they live together my mum always talks about she watched it and the other way apparently in the documentary he's like cuts the wicks and he's really OCD and it's like what a sad little life like you've had the best football career ever and you're just all you're concerned about is chopping wicks off candles and cleaning fridges it's like what a sad little life Jane like imagine somebody's mum cringing over your behaviour
- Speaker #1
I'd say though the more insane everything got. The control he had was so minimised that the control he can actually have over something is something as trivial as a candle.
- Speaker #0
Candle wig. Oh, fair play to them. They seem very happy.
- Speaker #1
Ah, no, fair play to them. And Brooklyn has come out with some sort of hot sauce.
- Speaker #0
Oh, shock. The moves at shock. He's sticking with the same thing.
- Speaker #1
I'm paranoid because I'm in.
- Speaker #0
to go on a central on no doubt imagine if he just like uh photo bombed you or like came in
- Speaker #1
Yeah, like, Peter's not going to be here, but it's just way too close for a dome. Another lovely story I read was that School of Rock movie that's really dear to my heart. Two of the kids have gotten engaged. No, who? You know the larger security guy, the kid?
- Speaker #0
Yes.
- Speaker #1
Him, and then, you know, the blonde girl who likes to stay, like Christina Aguilera.
- Speaker #0
Yes.
- Speaker #1
Yeah, they've gotten engaged 21 years later. Now, happy news.
- Speaker #0
Oh my God, my sister Hannah will be listening to this and jumping up and down for joy. She loves that film as well.
- Speaker #1
I love it so much. That's a bit less depressing news, isn't it? Oh,
- Speaker #0
that's fantastic. Oh great, I'm so glad we're ending on a high.
- Speaker #1
Thank you, Clara. My third point is something that I've wondered it for a while and I still can't really get an answer on it. So if anyone has an answer on it, I'd love to know what it is. But Children's Firehouse just... that's also like so close to where I am. Celebrated its 10th anniversary the other night. Sienna Miller was there. Isla Fisher was there. Ellie Goulding.
- Speaker #0
They're always there.
- Speaker #1
Yeah. But this place has celebrities flocking in and out of it all the time. And I don't know why. I don't understand. I've been in it. There's always celebrities falling in and out of there. And the buzz has never lulled.
- Speaker #0
In 10 years, like that's because it came in as a real celebrity hotspot. Is it true that they pay the celebrities to go or like obviously they for free?
- Speaker #1
No, like I know there's a private aspect to it, but as in, you know, like Soho House is like, you know, everyone just says anyone can get in there now. And they're correct. But like this still hasn't lost its like glimmer. And so I was having a read. I was trying to see if there was anything on Reddit. There's like nothing. It's a bit mysterious, but it's originally one of London's first. purpose-built fire stations as a grade two listed gothic victorian building and has a new york style brasserie high ceilings it is very sexy i've been in there it's like sexy and it's still the hottest ticket in town it's where leonardo dicaprio apparently stays and he's in town yeah
- Speaker #0
yeah it's hotel top oh yeah remember taylor swift went after her london show didn't she yeah she did so did spina carpenter Maybe it's just the way like the pops don't get in there. So slabs like it or something.
- Speaker #1
But they're always waiting outside. They always get popped. As in I was walking around the corner from it the other day and there was loads of people standing outside it. There's something going on in there. A margarita is £35. So the standard just did a piece on like, what is it with the sheltered fire ice? Like, why is it still a thing? People on the door can reject anyone. No one is a guaranteed entry. And then. They spoke about in this article, one West London party girl who insists on remaining anonymous, anonymously explains, it's probably the best night out in London on a Thursday, still to this day. It's a sexy late night lounge for the badly behaved. I want that on my front door. They might say, hotel guests only one night, but let you in the next. It's like a giant house party with expensive drinks. There's something there. I don't know what it is. There's something going on in there that's really working well. And I'm dying to know what it is because I don't know. I don't get it. Are people still falling out of there? You know, like stuff always has like a cycle of stuff being popular and then it dies down.
- Speaker #0
For like 10 years is a long time.
- Speaker #1
I know. And like anyone can go in and have food there. It's confusing. Wow. Alas, the riddle remains unsolved.
- Speaker #0
unsolved Sophie lines on the case.
- Speaker #1
I'm dying to know what it is.
- Speaker #0
£35. Wow. Yeah, we must go. Let's save up some pennies for one margarita. We'll share a margarita.
- Speaker #1
We should go for our Christmas evening. Hopefully that ended on a high, Clara. Recommendation of the week is up to you. Please let us know what you're thinking.
- Speaker #0
Now, I've actually another telly related thing to talk about, but I just can't not. It's actually good. It's not shit. is Nobody Wants This, Kristen Bell, Adam Brody.
- Speaker #1
I need to watch it. It's on my list to have it. It looks amazing.
- Speaker #0
Adam Brody, is that his name?
- Speaker #1
Yeah. Adam Brody, correct. Seth Cohen.
- Speaker #0
What I love that it's not a movie. It's 10 episodes, half, 20 minutes, half an hour, depending on the drama.
- Speaker #1
It's a renaissance, I feel, for him.
- Speaker #0
Yes, 100%. And renaissance for rom-coms. Because it's like, it's really funny. It's really quick. And because it has 10 episodes, it's like you can kind of really get to know some of the characters. But it's just a lovely return for the two of them. It's actually very funny. She hosts a podcast with her sister and he's a rabbi and they meet. So it's kind of like how they navigate a new relationship being like from wildly different worlds. And it's very gentle, very funny. It's got Willa from Succession in it. She's really good. Great supporting cast. Love, love, love. It's really good. So I highly recommend you watch it. It's on Netflix. But that's all from us this merry day. from this week's podcast. You can find us on Instagram at Soph underscore Lions or at Classy Cabana. You can follow, write, subscribe, all that good stuff and spread the word, shout from the rooftops. You could oink from the rooftops maybe to just fire your love for Hogg to the whole wide world. And we will talk to you next week. Ta-ra. until next time till next time oink oink till next time okay brilliant
