BRAVO LOSES BID FOR SECRET LEAH MCSWEENEY SHOWDOWN — AS JEOPARDY! ROASTS TIMOTHÉE CHALAMET AND CONAN O’BRIEN ADMITS LATE NIGHT IS “DOOMED”
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
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4.4 • 604 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2026
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
The legal drama between Leah McSweeney and Bravo just took a very public turn after a federal judge ruled her lawsuit against Andy Cohen and the network will play out in open court—not behind closed doors in arbitration. Meanwhile, Jeopardy! delivered a sharp pop-culture jab at Timothée Chalamet with a savage clue referencing his much-mocked “ballet and opera” comments. And Conan O’Brien is getting candid about the state of television, revealing that a viral moment on Hot Ones—not anything on network TV—was when he realized the late-night era might truly be over.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, loy, loy, loy, lo, lo, lo, lo, hello, welcome to the naughty but nice. I'm your host, drop shootout. |
| 0:20.6 | And it's Wednesday, which means our dear friend Donnie Meacham joins us. Hey, Donnie, are you there? Hello, hello, hello. It is Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday, Wednesday. Darling, we got a ton. Tone, a gossip to get to. Let's jump in. What time is it, my friends, it is. Tea time. This story is explosive. |
| 0:38.6 | So a judge has rejected Andy Cohen and Bravo's bid for a private showdown with Leah McSweeney. |
| 0:45.1 | Let me explain. So Leah McSweeney is soon. It's really gone hard after Andy and Bravo. |
| 0:50.7 | Alleging that the network just treated her terribly, terribly, terribly. |
| 0:55.7 | Well, moving forward, Bravo wanted this case, which is happening. |
| 0:59.6 | This case is not going to disappear, this legal drama between Leah McSweeney and Bravo. |
| 1:05.4 | It just got a new public twist. |
| 1:07.4 | So a federal court judge ruled that her lawsuit against Andy and the network |
| 1:12.9 | will play out in, bum, bum, bum, open court. |
| 1:16.6 | Ooh, not behind closed doors in arbitration. |
| 1:19.8 | So Bravo wanted to move it into arbitration. |
| 1:22.7 | They didn't want this in open court for a network that has made millions and millions |
| 1:27.4 | humiliating people publicly |
| 1:29.3 | and really, really, really sort of promoting bad behaviour when it comes to their own crimes, |
| 1:36.0 | their own sins. |
| 1:37.7 | Shh, they don't want to talk about that. |
| 1:40.0 | Well, a judge has really issued a strongly worded ruling here, |
| 1:45.2 | and the judge has scolded Bravo's lawyers for trying to shift the case to private arbitration. |
| 1:52.0 | No, it's going to be in open court of translation. |
| 1:56.1 | We're going to get a reality TV battle that is going to be very, very real, very, very public. |
| 2:00.7 | I cannot wait |
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