The Hollywood Philanderers: David Letterman (Part two)

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🗓️ 5 March 2023

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hi, friends! Welcome to part two of our series on Hollywood Philanderers. After David Letterman was blackmailed in 2009, he made a shocking on-air confession. The admission that might’ve cost him his career today was, at the time, practically forgotten about within the week — until one ex-employee revealed her story. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast. Big thanks to Dementia Australia and their Eat.Play.Rest campaign for making this episode possible. Their Instagram handle is @eatplayrestaustralia if you want to follow along and enter the competition to be in the running to win the ultimate Bondi beach getaway weekend. Head to eatplayrest.org.au and subscribe to get the best of Eat.Play.Rest straight to your inbox. Want to support our show? We are sending air kisses, air tea, and air hugs (too far?) to anyone who clicks ‘subscribe’ on Apple (bonus hugs for anyone who leaves a five-star review, too) or ‘follow’ on Spotify. Still not enough? Well! Our hearts! See below for everything else. Click here to subscribe to ShameMore: http://apple.co/shamelesspod Subscribe to the weekly ‘ASK SHAMELESS’ newsletter: http://eepurl.com/gFbYLT Join our book club: https://www.instagram.com/theshamelessbookclub/ Check out our website: https://shamelessmediaco.com/ Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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0:00.0	You're about the new moves, call me a renegade, the one in the lions cage, sipping on lemonado.
0:09.0	I'm a dream, got your majesty at the reactor, he made a shocking on air confession. The admission that might have cost him his career today was at the time practically
0:26.4	forgotten about within the week until one ex-employee revealed her story.
0:31.6	Welcome to Scandal from Shameless Podcast, the stories of the
0:35.2	biggest celebrity controversies revisited.
0:37.6	Hello, hello, hello. We are ready for a jam-packed episode two.
0:45.0	Well, we left everybody on Quiet the Cliffhanger, so it's only fair that we don't spend too long
0:49.2	before we get straight back into it. But let's do what we always do and quickly recap. What we covered in
0:54.2	episode one, we gave a lot of context on who David Letterman is. He actually
0:58.8	started out as a weather presenter. In 1975 when David was 29 years old he moved to LA with his then wife
1:06.2	Michelle Cook and it was there that his big break happened almost immediately.
1:10.8	He started out with a morning TV show before executives realized his sense of humor
1:15.4	mish was better suited to the late night TV spot.
1:18.0	Yeah, within a handful of years, the LA Times was dubbing him the king of late night TV. He was earning millions of dollars a year for the
1:26.2	late show and despite his public feud with Oprah Winfrey and despite some of his quite controversial
1:31.6	chats with young female celebrities that would age terribly in the years to come.
1:36.4	His career was thriving at the time, right?
1:39.3	Absolutely, and then at 6 a.m. on September 9, 2009, then 62 year old David Letterman was about to drive into work when he
1:48.6	spotted a mysterious package sitting on the backseat of his car. Now there was a letter accompanying the package. It read,
1:55.9	I know that you do some terrible, terrible things and I can prove that you do those terrible things.
2:02.4	Yeah, by this point in his life David had moved. that you do those terrible things.
2:02.6	Yeah, by this point in his life, David had moved on from his first marriage.
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