5-6-26 Morning Rush - Baldoni's Lawyer Talks Settlement & Bachelor Clayton Admits Nick Viall Made Bizarre Move Deleting My Name
The Rush Hour With Dave Neal
Dave Neal
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🗓️ 6 May 2026
⏱️ 26 minutes
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Morning Rush Hour is heating up with some major behind-the-scenes drama finally bubbling to the surface. Justin Baldoni's legal team is now openly discussing settlement talks with Blake Lively, signaling a possible shift in what's been a messy and highly public battle. Is this the beginning of the end, or just another strategic move?
Plus, Nick Viall hits the panic button with some suspicious "dirty deletes" — and yes, my name was involved. After weeks of speculation, the narrative is starting to crack, and what was once denied is now being quietly admitted. We break down what was said, what was deleted, and what it all means moving forward.
If you've been following this saga, today's episode connects dots that certain people clearly hoped would stay buried.
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rush hour, your daily dose of pop culture for your rush hour ride. |
| 0:07.8 | Buckle up and enjoy the drive with your host, stand-up comedian Dave Neal. |
| 0:13.7 | Good morning, everybody. Happy hump day to you on this May 6th, 2026. |
| 0:19.5 | I have all of your news for your rush hour ride to work. It's Dominican |
| 0:22.7 | Dave over here on my Caribbean getaway, but we've got the drama for you. I'm going to give you |
| 0:28.5 | all of the updates on the Baldoni versus Blake lively settlement as it's being reported by |
| 0:33.6 | TMC that no money has exchanged hands other than the $60 million spent in legal fees, |
| 0:39.6 | which is double the cost of the film. It ends with us. Well, we've got actually some clips to share |
| 0:45.4 | of Billy Bush interviewing Brian Friedman, Baldoni's attorney. So we'll share what he had to say |
| 0:50.7 | about the content creators that helped push this case to the finish line or whatever you want. Does this count as a finish line? It's one finish line. It might not be the |
| 0:58.5 | door people wanted it to go through. After we talk all about that, I've got updates from the |
| 1:03.1 | explosive She's All Batch episode, our friend Stephanie from She's All Batch interviewed Bachelor |
| 1:08.7 | Clayton Eckerd. And they actually discussed me. |
| 1:12.8 | And Clayton admitted that Nick Vyle podcaster, I think he's like, man of the year for Vulture |
| 1:19.3 | magazine. Can you believe that? He deleted my name from an interview, which again is a long-standing, |
| 1:25.9 | like we knew this all happened. But it's very interesting to hear Clayton sort of pull behind the curtains and share just exactly why that happened. So stick around for that conversation. It's wild. It's so dramatic. It's so stupid. But we're here to cover it. All this and more starts right now on the rush. All right. So I'm going to share with you guys some updates again. |
| 1:44.3 | There's going to be a lot of news trickling in. They'll be jockeying for a PR position following this |
| 1:50.6 | settlement. My guess is Blake Lively is going to want to go away for a long time coming. But I think |
| 1:55.2 | what's going to happen is, and we saw the same exact thing play out in the Johnny Depp versus Amber |
| 1:59.3 | Hurd case, even though they're completely different, is when one side's PR starts talking, it's going to be a battle back and forth, which is what got us into this mess in the first place. If you're expecting an explosive statement from Justin Baldoni, it's just not going to happen. He's, you know, he's a Baha'i member of faith and he doesn't talk ill of other people. |
| 2:18.5 | From all we've seen, he's got the receipts to prove that. |
| 2:21.4 | So I don't think we'll get too much from his camp. |
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