Taylor Swift & Travis Kelce engaged, Cardi B's trial, Anna Wintour's Successor, Karen Read's TV Deal & more!

I Know You Didn't Ask with Megan O'Donnell

Megan O'Donnell

Tv & Film, Society & Culture

3.8 • 696 Ratings

🗓️ 2 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Summary

This week we are covering a lot babes, so buckle up.

📖 First up, I’m still knee-deep in Lee From America’s memoir If You Do Not Like This, I Will Die — and yes, I have thoughts.

👠 Then: ANNA WINTOUR DRAMA ALERT. Vogue just announced Chloe Malle as Head of Editorial Content at Vogue US. I was RIGHT (yet again). We’re talking about who Chloe is, her rep-baby roots, what her promotion says about the future of the magazine, and how Vogue is shifting into the content machine era. Oh, and don’t worry — I’ll drag the whole Taylor Swift engagement write-up situation too.

💍 Speaking of which… Taylor Swift + Travis Kelce are ENGAGED. The ring, the florals, the chaos, the fact that people thought it could be lab-grown (lmao). I’m happy for her, but also preparing for the fanfare to eat us alive until further notice.

⚖️ Meanwhile in LA: Cardi B is in court. The testimony? Absolutely iconic. From chest-to-chest arguments in a gynecologist’s hallway to her saying pregnancy made her “disabled” — Cardi is serving courtroom theater. We break it all down (and yes, I would still support her no matter what).

📺 TV corner: Prime Video’s Karen Read limited series starring Elizabeth Banks — approved? NOT approved? You already know my answer. Plus, I’m rewatching Inventing Anna for next week’s deep dive, catching up on the Amanda Knox doc, and giving my two cents on Love Thy Nader (the Culpo-coded sisters taking over Freeform).

👀 Finally, a few quick hits: Secret Lives of Mormon Wives drops November 13, Nobody Wants This season 2 arrives October 23, and

I’ll tease what’s coming in Friday’s full Anna Delvey breakdown.

It’s chaotic, it’s pop culture, it’s me — let’s go.

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0:00.0	Love this podcast?
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0:16.1	Welcome to I Know You Didn't Ask, the unapologetic, unfiltered, and slightly unhinged podcast you didn't know you needed. I'm your host, Megyn O'Donnell, pop culture obsessive, professional oversharer, and the host of your new favorite five-day-a-week fix for celebrity gossip, reality TV chaos, books, food news, beauty tips, and of course, navigating your life in your 30s. I know you didn't ask,
0:38.3	but I'm telling you anyways. Sit back, grab a drink, and enjoy the show. Welcome to I Know You Didn't Ask. I'm your host, Megan O'Donnell, and happy Labor Day weekend, everybody. If there's anything there is to know about me, it's that I am not going to be working on a long weekend. And you can't force me to.
0:55.7	I don't want to be an A plus student. I want to coast. I want a long weekend. And I want to do nothing.
1:02.8	Yesterday, I basically read the entire book, If You Do Not Like This, I Will Die by Lee Tillman.
1:09.1	She is a quote unquote former influencer wellness girl who
1:14.3	is now, you know, writing about her experience as one of the first wellness influencers kind of
1:21.0	of our time and of my, you know, millennial generation. And she talks about leaving the industry,
1:26.8	how harmful it was to her, and, you know, her
1:29.5	history before that and as well as after.
1:32.6	It seems like her experience being an influencer was really isolating and lonely.
1:38.7	But to be quite honest with you, like after reading the entire book, like it kind of seemed
1:41.6	like she was a hot mess before becoming an influencer.
1:44.4	And even now, you know, now she's like, you know, meets a guy and six months later, they're engaged.
1:48.7	Her book is coming out. Everything is perfect in roses and, you know, no, no bad things or flare-ups of her past issues, you know, are coming up anymore.
1:57.1	But she definitely used this book and said a lot of interesting things about her
2:01.1	past choices, which like questionable and honestly quite honest and raw, because some of the
2:06.7	shit she was admitting to, I was like, honey, you know, no one's holding a gun up to your head.
2:10.4	Like, you don't have to tell us these stories. Like, this is not making your situation seem any
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