Special Episode with Ben Widdicombe - the only gossip writer to have worked for Page Six, TMZ, and The New York Times.
Naughty But Nice with Rob Shuter
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4.4 • 606 Ratings
🗓️ 11 July 2020
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Ben Widdicombe joins Rob with all the dish from his hit new book, “Gatecrasher: How I Helped The Rich Become Famous and Ruin The World” – Ben is telling all!
“As the gossip pages go, so goes the country,” he says.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:02.6 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:14.7 | Hello, hello, hello. |
| 0:16.0 | Welcome to the naughty but nice show. |
| 0:17.7 | It's a very special edition of the show today. |
| 0:20.3 | So we do our show Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. But last week we did a special nice show. It's a very special edition of the show today. So we do our show |
| 0:21.2 | Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. But last week we did a special bonus show on Saturday. It went |
| 0:26.5 | across so well that I asked my friend Ben Woodacom to join us today. Ben is a gossip columnist, |
| 0:31.6 | or maybe I should say a former gossip columnist working at page 6, TMZ, even having his own column at the New York Daily News. He's also |
| 0:40.3 | worked for the Fancy Pants, New York Times. His new book is called Gatecrasser, How I Help the |
| 0:46.2 | Rich Become Famous, and Ruin the World. It's a great title. Ben are you there? Robert, hello. |
| 0:53.0 | Hello, hello. So congratulations on the book. It came out this week. I can't believe I actually have a friend who has a book, Ben. It's awfully impressive. Well, thank you, Robert. And if you're a fan of a naughty but nice gossip and who isn't, I think the gatecratcher will be really right up your alley. And in fact, one Robert Shooter, also pictures in the book, |
| 1:12.3 | by the way. I've heard about that. We'll get to that a little bit later on. So Ben, let's jump in |
| 1:17.1 | straight with the show because we've got so much to talk about. How did all this start for you? |
| 1:21.3 | How did you become one of the premier gossip columnists in probably the media capital of the world? |
| 1:27.3 | New York City, how did it start? Completely media capital of the world, New York City. |
| 1:27.8 | How did it start? |
| 1:28.5 | Completely by accident. I moved to New York City in 1998. |
| 1:33.8 | Knowing nobody, my first job was literally selling hot dogs on the street on the Upper West Side. |
| 1:38.6 | And my partner at the time was a fashion guy, and he had the idea that we should start a fashion gossip column. Because it was the late 90s, the wild west of the time was a fashion guy and he had the idea that we should start a fashion gossip |
| 1:45.1 | column because it was the late 90s the wild west of the internet there was nothing like that |
| 1:50.2 | on the internet at all so we were the first fashion gossip columnists and we gate crash fashion |
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