Paris Hilton | Celebrities are People Too! | 5

Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 2 February 2021

⏱️ 48 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

When Paris was in her heyday, the tabloids were mean. Really mean. On this episode, we talk to gossip maven Lainey Lui about why gossip in the 2000s was so cruel, her site included. Lainey is co-anchor on CTVs eTalk, The Social, and founder and editor of LaineyGossip.com. Over the past decade, she’s used her platforms to push for a new, more thoughtful breed of gossip.

We also talk to Alexandra Deane, the director of the documentary This is Paris. Who is the real Paris? Does Paris even know? And how do you film a documentary about someone who’s still finding herself?

To read Lainey’s reporting, follow this link: laineygossip.com

And watch Alexandra’s documentary This Is Paris, available on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOg0TY1jG3w&t=4476s

Listen ad free with Wondery+. Join Wondery+ for exclusives, binges, early access, and ad free listening. Available in the Wondery App. https://wondery.app.link/eventherich.

Support us by supporting our sponsors!

See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Hey, Prime Members! You can listen to even the rich ad-free on Amazon Music. Download the app today.
0:05.8	This will probably come as a complete surprise, but there's some salty language in this episode.
0:11.2	From Wendry, I'm Brooke Sifrin, and I'm Erecia Skidmour Williams.
0:21.8	And this is even the rich.
0:24.8	Over the last four episodes, we tracked the rise and slow-bade of Paris Health, the original influencer.
0:30.6	I wonder if I could be an influencer.
0:32.4	I have very strong opinions about sunsets and hair growth vitamins.
0:35.9	Oh, I know you do.
0:41.7	So one of the ideas that kept coming up in our series about Paris is that the media was really, really cruel to her.
0:48.1	Yeah, they'd never get away with talking about her that way now.
0:51.1	Definitely not.
0:52.3	When Paris was just becoming the id girl we know and love, the tabloid industry was a lot different than it is now.
0:57.6	Back then, slut-chaming women in magazine headlines was just part of the business model.
1:02.1	But thankfully, things have mostly changed.
1:04.1	We're a lot smarter about how we talk about women now.
1:06.7	Yes, the future is female, baby.
1:09.1	It definitely is.
1:10.9	But we didn't get there overnight.
1:12.3	And we're going to talk to none other than Lene Louie about how and why that happened.
1:16.7	Lene is the co-anchor on CTV's eTalk, co-host of the social, and founder and editor of LeneGossip.com, which has been around since the simple life was still on the air.
1:26.9	Then we'll be talking to Alexandra Dean, the director of the documentary This Is Paris, to find out what it was like to see the impact of that cruelty up close.
1:35.4	And we'll talk about how Paris, a woman we all thought we knew, is more complicated than we ever imagined.
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Wondery, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Wondery and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.