S30E6: Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds
Trashy Divorces
Hemlock Creatives
4.5 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 10 August 2025
⏱️ 28 minutes
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Summary
With the passing of Loni Anderson this week, we pulled one of the trashiest divorces out of the vault for an encore this week. Oh, the 1980s were a weird time, and Loni Anderson and Burt Reynolds might have seemed like they could have gone the distance. However, it was not to be. It is a much bleaker portrait of a six-year long marriage, and a divorce without an end. It is also a story of surviving and thriving after an abusive relationship, and we applaud Loni for that from TDHQ!
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to trashy divorces. Everybody's favorite good podcast about bad relationships. |
| 0:07.3 | My name is Stacey. |
| 0:08.5 | Hey friends, Alicia here. And in this, My Birthday Week. |
| 0:12.7 | Happy your birthday week. |
| 0:14.0 | Thank you. I hope everyone is enjoying Happy My Birthday Week. |
| 0:17.4 | We're going to celebrate another Leo this week, taking one out of the vault for an |
| 0:22.9 | encore from Stacey. Are You Ready? August 18th, 2019. |
| 0:28.4 | Wow. This was early. It was all the way back in season three. Have we been doing this too long? |
| 0:33.4 | No. We have barely even scratched the surface of trashy divorces. Today we're going to talk about the |
| 0:40.6 | trashy divorce of Lonnie Anderson and Bert Reynolds. Lonnie Anderson did pass away this week just a few |
| 0:48.7 | days shy of her 80th birthday and remembering her this week here seemed fitting. I want you to remember from Lonnie's |
| 0:56.8 | story. Sometimes the way to win the trashy divorce game is just to walk off the field. Seems right. |
| 1:03.2 | Good advice. A few highlights in this quick and dirty one. The divorce details are dire. I had forgotten all of the actual minutia of |
| 1:15.0 | this divorce. Sure. Buckle up, friends. This also calls back to the Sally Field episode a few weeks |
| 1:21.4 | ago. Absolutely. Bert Reynolds went on to romanticize their really not great relationship for decades later. |
| 1:29.6 | A few other things in this one. |
| 1:31.1 | Bert Reynolds is the original Florida man. |
| 1:34.5 | Also, the spider webs are off the charts because in 2019 when we did this, |
| 1:40.2 | Sally Field had just released her autobiography. |
| 1:43.5 | Her memoir, sure. |
| 1:44.7 | Her memoir. |
| 1:45.4 | And so it really does all come back around in this one. |
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