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ICYMI - The Celebrity Breakups That Wrecked Us In 2023

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🗓️ 20 December 2023

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Summary

On today’s episode, Candice Lim is joined by Kristen Meinzer (Daily FailHow to be Fineand Tre’vell Anderson (FANTIWhat A Dayto recap the year in celebrity breakups. Lately, it feels like everyone in Hollywood is breaking up, but have there really been that many more celebrity splits than usual? Was Scandoval really proof that love is dead or have we been placing celebrity couples on way too high a pedestal? And has the internet created a reaction ecosystem where Twitter aggregates like PopCrave amplify breakups beyond their reality?


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0:00.0

Hey, I'm Candicelem, and you're listening to Icy Why Am I, in case you missed it,

0:18.0

Sleeves Podcasts about Internet Culture.

0:20.8

And hey, you made it. It's the final stretch of the year. The holidays are right upon us.

0:26.3

And what are your plans this week? Will you be traveling to the city of Roku or Gag? Will you be rewatching the George Santos Zeway interview where he did not

0:36.0

know who James Baldwin or Harvey Milk was? Will your belly be filled with gravy or the Panera

0:42.3

lemonade.

0:43.2

And are you going to shake some ass in Senate?

0:46.1

No, okay, same.

0:48.0

Well, it's just me today, and I'd love to give you an update about our sweet friend Rachel

0:56.9

because oh this is a good one. As you know Rachel is taking a small holiday and

1:01.9

before she left I asked her like hey where are you going and

1:04.7

she said oh I'm just like going up north and if you remember the last text I got from

1:08.8

her was the one where she said she was recording a submersible Christmas album with Pippel.

1:14.0

Okay, well, she sent me some new photos to like check in, say happy holidays, and they're really cute.

1:20.4

Okay, the first photo, it's a selfie of her in a snowy place, adorable sweater on. I will say I did notice in the back there were like antlers and hooves and like a red nose and I was like, oh, who's that that but I didn't want to bother her on our holiday

1:34.8

obviously and then I get to the second photo this was interesting it's her reading a book

1:41.0

fireplace roasting marshmallows a toasting, but I noticed something.

1:45.0

I noticed bifocals on the table and in the reflection of those vocals I see a

1:50.9

red suit, black gloves and a white beard.

1:56.0

Hmm. I'm not going to jump to any conclusions, right?

2:02.0

But then I went on Dumois. And someone posted a blind item. It said,

2:06.9

a certain jolly old Nick has not been seen with his A-list wife since last year.

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