EXCLUSIVE: NICK REINER RECENT ROMANTIC BREAKUP. DAVID MUIR FINDS RELIEF AT ABC AND NETFLIX REJECTS MEGHAN MARKLE’S DIRECTOR PLANS
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
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4.4 • 605 Ratings
🗓️ 19 December 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Sources say Nick Reiner, 32, was struggling with a fresh romantic breakup that left him lonely and emotionally adrift, alongside his ongoing battle with addiction. At ABC News, insiders claim David Muir is quietly relieved after Matt Gutman departed for CBS, ending years of behind-the-scenes tension. Meanwhile, Meghan Markle reportedly pushed to direct her upcoming Netflix romantic comedy with Prince Harry, only to have the streaming giant swiftly shut down the proposal.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, hello, hello, hello, welcome to the naughty but nice show. I'm your house, Strom shooter. And it's Friday, which means a dear friend. |
| 0:23.0 | Corey Andrew joins us. Hey, Corey, are you there? I am here with my bells on. I love your bells. |
| 0:29.7 | We need your bells. It's been quite a week, hasn't it? The Rob Reiner story has dominated the headlines. |
| 0:35.9 | Thank you for all your kind notes. I've been doing a ton of TV about this story. |
| 0:41.1 | Yesterday, I taped the Anderson Cooper special. He's doing a special on Rob Brynner. |
| 0:45.8 | So thank you for all your nice notes. I've been all over the way. I think really it's because our stories and news is so good. |
| 0:54.0 | We have excellent sources in L.A. |
| 0:56.1 | And that's why we're breaking the biggest news here. It's so, so gratifying to me that we're |
| 1:02.5 | holding our own with the big boys, with the People magazines of this world, with the New York |
| 1:08.1 | Post, the TMZs of this world. We punch our little show, punches above its weight, and that's partly because of you, Nautizza, and you too, Corey, you bring so much to their table. Let's jump in. What? Did you just say I do? No, no. No, I said, thank you. I was going to say, did you just say I do? No, I haven't gotten that bad yet. |
| 1:28.8 | Thank you. Thank you. |
| 1:29.5 | It sounds like I did. |
| 1:30.5 | Okay, let's jump into the show. |
| 1:32.3 | I do. |
| 1:33.1 | What time is it, my friends? |
| 1:34.4 | It is tea time. |
| 1:37.4 | Big story at the top of the show. |
| 1:39.8 | So before the tragic death of his parents, Nick Reiner struggled with loneliness and heartbreak. |
| 1:47.9 | Insiders are telling me that just weeks before the brutal murder of his parents, Nick broke up with somebody special in his life. |
| 1:58.5 | He was struggling. We can see this. It is very clear now that this is a |
| 2:02.6 | very troubled young boy. He had trouble connecting. He wanted a girlfriend desperately. He was 32 years |
| 2:09.2 | old. He had tried. Everything had ended badly. I'm told that he had tried online dating, which a lot of |
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