S21E14: John Derek, Linda Evans, and Bo Derek (ft. Ursula Andress)
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 25 February 2024
⏱️ 35 minutes
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Summary
Actor and filmmaker John Derek may not have been the gifted auteur he imagined himself to be, but his luck with the ladies was undeniable. His four marriages were all to starlets, and his roving eye eventually led to an ugly split from a young Linda Evans, later of Dynasty fame, for an even younger - in fact, a minor at the time - Bo Derek.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to another exciting episode of trashy divorces, everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:09.3 | My name is Alicia. |
| 0:10.7 | Stacey, my cohort, my storyteller galore. |
| 0:14.3 | We are just silly for the 70s these days, aren't we? |
| 0:17.1 | So, so silly for the 70s. |
| 0:19.3 | But in terms of trashiness, that would probably land you in prison today, I don't know if there's a better era. |
| 0:25.3 | This whole story, we're doing the intro after we did this story and it just felt like, when does the rock just finally hit rock bottom? When does the snowball end? Like, where's the end of this? There was no end. |
| 0:37.9 | There is no end. Wow. Today's tale of marital misadventure is filmmaker and notorious philanderer John |
| 0:44.5 | Derek and his love triangle, specifically between his third wife, actress Linda Evans, and his soon-to-be |
| 0:51.0 | fourth wife, Bo Derek. Their marriage was a smidge delayed because they had to wait for her to turn 18. |
| 0:59.1 | It was a lot. It was a lot in a story with so, so many spiderwebs. |
| 1:03.6 | So many spider webs. |
| 1:05.4 | Think y'all are really going to like this. Before we dip into today's tale, Is that a magic mirror, I spy? |
| 1:12.1 | So magic. |
| 1:13.0 | So mirror. |
| 1:14.8 | Thank you so much for joining us at patreon.com slash trashy divorces for early. |
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| 1:31.4 | to our new supporters, big love to our sustaining supporters. Big love |
| 1:35.4 | to y'all. We're really excited you're with us today. Let's hop in our |
| 1:39.4 | time machine and head back to those simple carefree, trashy days of the 70s. |
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