Vanderpump Fools: Enter Andy Cohen
Eating For Free
Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson
4.8 • 536 Ratings
🗓️ 15 February 2024
⏱️ 96 minutes
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Summary
It's 2005. An upstart TV exec with a flashy new job picks up the pilot of a no-name reality TV producer about "bitchy tennis wives" in America's largest gated community. Neither knows that the landscape of pop culture is about to change forever.
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Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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Sources:
- Bravo's 'The Real Housewives of Orange County' to premiere March 21 [Reality TV World] [Jan 6, 2006]
- 'We were ready to kill the show': How Bravo's 'Real Housewives' made it to TV [NYP] [Oct, 2012]
- 'Vanderpump Rules' executive producer Alex Baskin on 'Scandoval' and what's in store for Season 11 [LA Times] [Jan 28, 2024]
- The Ringmaster [WP] [Sept 26, 2019]
- Andy Cohen Revels in His Rise From CBS Intern to Bravo Star [Variety] [Feb 4, 2022]
- 'Real Housewives' trying to create some new realities [via LA Times] [East Bay Times] [Mar 3, 2007]
- 'Housewives' franchise comes to Atlanta, [South Coast Today] [Oct 2008]
- INTERVIEW WITH ANDY COHEN, [Youtube] [Oct 2008]
- The Affluencer, [NY Times] [Oct 2008]
- Decay at play in the O.C. [LA Times] [Feb 10, 2009]
- Andy Cohen To Become First Openly Gay Late Night Host? [Mediaite] [Jun 209]
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What I think is totally cool is that you're an exec. |
| 0:03.0 | You rarely see this an exec that's actually hosting a show and branching out into that and like really doing a lot of outreach for the brand. |
| 0:11.0 | Right. Well, you know, I love our brand and, you know, I was emailing my boss three years ago some kind of gossipy nonsense from the set of a show and she was like, |
| 0:22.1 | you have to do a blog. |
| 0:23.9 | And so, you know, like a couple months later, I started Andy's blog and it really began as |
| 0:29.5 | a way for programming to interact with our viewers. |
| 0:33.9 | And it was really a way of like people commenting under my blog like you suck or |
| 0:37.8 | Santino why is he still on Project Runway or this or that and so that was a way for me to |
| 0:43.6 | listen to them and say look man I called Nina Garcia yesterday and she stands by her |
| 0:47.4 | decision so you need to understand that this is what went down and so it's really |
| 0:53.2 | a way for us to interact. |
| 0:54.6 | Since then, we've got, you know, hundreds of bloggers that are each uniquely involved in each of our shows. |
| 1:00.3 | And I still blog every day. |
| 1:01.6 | And, you know, we want to know what our viewers think and what they have to say. |
| 1:05.3 | And that's why we're here. |
| 1:07.0 | And that's why we just use bravoTV.com like crazy. |
| 1:10.6 | And they do too |
| 1:11.6 | these gays they're trying to murder me What do I think of her? |
| 1:29.9 | Yes. |
| 1:31.5 | I don't think of her. |
| 1:36.7 | Wait about that in the New York fucking post. |
| 1:40.4 | We are coming at you live from the Bravo Clubhouse. |
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