The real affair story behind Love Actually

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🗓️ 17 December 2023

⏱️ 43 minutes

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Hello, everyone! We all know the story of Emma Thompson’s character in Love Actually being cheated on. But do you know the real-life affair story that led to the collapse of her first marriage? This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to CeraVe for making this episode possible. Let your skin take centre stage and find your skin type and CeraVe skincare routine on the CeraVe website. You can find them online at Adore Beauty and in-store or online at Chemist Warehouse to shop now. 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. 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. 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,
0:07.0	sipping on lemonadeo.
0:10.0	I'm a dream, got your majesty, the actor, back on the sea, yeah, you can go. We all know the story of Emma Thompson's character
0:13.0	back on the sea.
0:14.0	Yeah, you can call me the Queen.
0:17.0	We all know the story of Emma Thompson's character in love actually being cheated on.
0:22.0	But do you know the real life affair story that led to the collapse of her first marriage?
0:26.4	Welcome to Scandal from Shameless Podcast, the stories of the biggest celebrity controversies
0:31.5	revisited. big celebrity McDonald's. Hello it is the festive season and what is more festive than love actually.
0:46.0	Oh my God guys it's our favorite time of the year it is December the Christmas carols are playing in the supermarket. We're present shopping. We're all watching love actually and this scandal series could not be better time.
1:00.4	Yeah, I know. I mean we literally put it in the calendar in like January. Yeah I was going to say I love how you said it couldn't be better timed as if it just like so happened to land here.
1:09.3	Happenstance and not something we had planned basically a year ago. Now we're going to start today a little bit
1:16.8	differently than the way we normally do. We're actually going to start right away by talking about love actually. actually, because many people around this time of year watch Love Actually, and we wanted
1:31.1	to start by talking about one of the most famous scenes in the movie.
1:35.0	Oh my God.
1:36.0	One of my, I think it might be my favorite character arc.
1:39.0	Also, before we get there, have we realized that this is the 20 year anniversary of the film coming out?
1:43.4	I wanted to say yes, but no.
1:46.7	Came out in 2003.
1:48.0	That is crazy.
1:49.0	20 years ago.
1:50.4	How many times do you think you've watched this movie?
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