Ep. - 668 - QUEENMAKER: MAKING OF AN IT GIRL WITH BEN WIDDICOMBE
Reality Life with Kate Casey
Kate Casey
4.7 • 7.5K Ratings
🗓️ 9 May 2023
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
Author and pop culture expert Ben Widdicombe joins Kate to discuss Queenmaker: The Making of an It Girl, a Hulu docuseries. The height of heiress-era NYC, an anonymous blogger infiltrated Manhattan's elite, bringing socialite celebrity to new heights. When the website's creator was unmasked, the mastermind was not who anybody expected.
Ben Widdicombe is a writer and 20 year veteran of the celebrity and society beats. A specialist in the intersection of high culture and pop culture, he has been a columnist for the New York Times and New York Daily News, and co-creator of the cult online fashion gossip column “Chic Happens” – he is also author of Gatecrasher: How I Helped the Rich Become Famous and Ruin the World.
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| 0:41.2 | Welcome back for another episode of Reati Life with KKC. |
| 0:47.1 | Hope that you're having a great week and this episode is dynamite because I talk about |
| 0:51.3 | a new Dakiou series that's coming out on Hulu on May 17th. |
| 0:55.8 | It's called Queenmaker, the Making of an It Girl. |
| 0:59.0 | And I think you guys are going to be obsessed. |
| 1:01.4 | The early odds ushered in a golden era for the New York social set. |
| 1:05.5 | A generation of rich young women desperate to recreate the success of Paris Hilton and |
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| 1:18.2 | Reik City in 2007 was a world of excess never before seen in the public sphere and then suddenly |
| 1:24.7 | socialites were celebrities. |
| 1:27.0 | Gossip blogs like Gawker and socialite ranked when viral and began sowing chaos and paranoia |
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