EXCLUSIVE: WHOOPI INSISTS ABC DID NOT SILENCE HER - MICHAEL JACKSON ESTATE “LIVID” WITH PRISCILLA PRESLEY AS LEGAL ACTION LOOMS — TODAY SHOW ON EDGE OVER HODA KOTB’S RETURN
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
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4.4 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 23 September 2025
⏱️ 21 minutes
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ABC execs ordered Whoopi Goldberg and company to zip it until lawyers could script their every word on the Jimmy Kimmel suspension. Priscilla Presley’s new memoir is rattling cages, with the Michael Jackson estate “livid” over her explosive claims and weighing legal action. A one-day return for Hoda Kotb has insiders nervous.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:18.7 | Hello, hello, lo, lo, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:20.8 | Welcome to the Nordivae for now show. |
| 0:23.1 | I'm your host, Rome Shuser. |
| 0:24.9 | It is Tuesday, so guess who's joining us? You can guess it. Our dear friend, Delana Dixon, hey, Miss Dee, are you there? I'm here, I am back. I have missed you Notties for the past couple of weeks. |
| 0:36.7 | But I am here and I am raring to go. |
| 0:39.7 | First of all, can I say it is the start of Libra season. And if you didn't get it, I am a Libra. My birthday is on Friday. Friday. I was going to be a good one. What are we doing? Have you decided yet? We spoke a couple of days ago about this and you said you hadn't made your mind up yet. It's your birthday. It's your choice. Have you had any thoughts? |
| 1:00.8 | Of course I'm going to be hanging with you, Mr. Shooter. So we're going to figure out the plan and we're going to have a crazy, wonderful, wild, sexy, cool night. |
| 1:28.7 | I think it sounds great. Meanwhile, on Friday, I've been invited to see art. Have you seen the James Corden play yet? No, tell me all about it. Bobby Calavalee, Neil Patrick Harris. Be my date. Let's do that on your birthday. We'll go and see art. Sounds like a plan. Look at us. Look at us doing it live on the show. |
| 1:30.3 | Okay, let's jump into our show. |
| 1:31.8 | What time is it, my friends? |
| 1:33.4 | It's tea time. |
| 1:35.2 | Big story at the top of the show. |
| 1:38.2 | So Jimmy Kimmel is back tonight on ABC. |
| 1:40.4 | Not all the ABC stations, though. I think this is a bit hard to understand. |
| 1:42.8 | So let me try and explain. ABC does not own their |
| 1:46.8 | local affiliates. So you could be an ABC station in Mississippi or in Detroit or anywhere in America. |
| 1:53.7 | That does not mean ABC owns you. It's quite complicated, isn't it? Misty, if you and me had millions |
| 2:00.5 | and millions of dollars, we could buy ABC Kentucky. We could buy it. It's quite complicated, isn't it? Miss D, if you and me had millions and millions of dollars, |
| 2:01.5 | we could buy ABC Kentucky. We could buy it and it would be our station. But it is part of ABC, |
| 2:08.6 | but they don't own it because me and Miss D do. So these individual stations can decide whether |
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