E593 The Randall Scandal/VPR Discussion with LA Times' Amy Kaufman
The Viall Files
Nick Viall
3.8 • 26.3K Ratings
🗓️ 6 June 2023
⏱️ 102 minutes
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Summary
Welcome back to The Viall Files: Freestyle Edition! Today we are joined by LA Times Investigative Journalist, Amy Kaufman to discuss her expose on Randall Emmett and everything Scandoval. She shares behind the scenes information on writing the article, what was left out of Hulu's Documentary, The Randall Scandal, and what she's heard the big reveal in Part 3 of Vanderpump Rules reunion is all about.
"If you have to push the narrative, I don't buy it."
Raquel TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@jaimeminormcmanus/video/7239175685514759467
Amy's Articles: https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/00000188-35ac-db74-ab9d-37af84c70000-123 https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/randall-emmett-scandal-hulu-documentary-latt-123
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| 0:00.0 | What's going on everybody? Welcome back to another impactful episode of the Vile Files |
| 0:21.1 | on your house. Nick joined by the household of Allie, Amanda and Derek and our very, very |
| 0:27.8 | special guest today, friend of show, returning to the Vile Files. LA Times reporter investigative |
| 0:36.1 | journalist Amy Kaufman is with us. Everyone round of applause for Amy. Let me get that right. |
| 0:43.2 | Yes, you did. Actually now I'm technically a columnist I guess. |
| 0:47.4 | Investigative reporter sounds juicier. I agree. Let's go. We like that. We wanted to have Amy |
| 0:54.0 | here because obviously we are we are super deep into all things. Van der Pomp scandal. |
| 0:59.7 | All and anything Van der Pomp adjacent of which the recent documentary on Hulu Hulu Hulu. |
| 1:10.3 | Randall scandal. God these names of these men are so giving when it comes to them being |
| 1:15.9 | fuck ups. But we watch it and we saw our friend Amy on it. Amy has been covering the Randall Emmett |
| 1:23.3 | scandal really from day one. I mean you broke the story with you and your colleague. Meg James. |
| 1:29.6 | Yeah, Meg James. And you have been in the weeds investigating this scandal and Randall Emmett. |
| 1:36.5 | And it's really credit to both of you for bringing the story to light. Thank you. Yeah. I mean, |
| 1:43.3 | I do feel a camaraderie with you in that prior to looking into Randall. I was not a Van der Pomp |
| 1:50.9 | and now I'm like fully obsessed. Oh really? You're new to it too. Yes. I'll look back and watch |
| 1:56.0 | new seasons. I am starting. I'm episode five of season one. I've already and then like I've watched |
| 2:02.5 | as reference point. I've watched the reunion of season two because the reunion of season two |
| 2:08.0 | has the cheating scandal between Tom and Kristen. And so I was trying to get like data points and |
| 2:13.7 | reference points. And then going back and watching season one has just been an absolute trip. |
| 2:19.3 | But yeah, going from bachelor, I mean, you're still a bachelor obsessive. But now the |
| 2:23.4 | another reality show. I feel in the same journey with you. It's kind of fun to almost watch it |
| 2:27.5 | the way I'm watching it. I think for obviously if you've been an OG Van der Pomp fan, the payoff |
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