Wondery Presents: Diss and Tell

British Scandal

Wondery

Scandal, Alice Levine, Great Britain, Society & Culture, Exhibit C, British, England, History, Matt Forde, Documentary

4.5 • 6.5K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2023

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Summary

Savage subtweets. Scathing diss tracks. Tell-all memoirs. These are the weapons that celebrities use to wage modern social warfare against each other. Feuds between celebrities captivate us like nothing else. Why are there so many fights that play out for everyone to watch? How do public figures tap into the arsenal of weapons at their disposal to come out on top? And why do we have such a hard time looking away?

From Wondery, the makers of the hit series Scamfluencers and Even the Rich, comes Diss and Tell. Hosts Sydney Battle and Matt Bellassai take you deep into pop culture’s most iconic celebrity feuds, from Paris Hilton and Lindsay Lohan to Hailey Bieber and Selena Gomez. Sydney and Matt unpack who fired the first shot, what happened, and how cultural phenomena and hidden forces influence not only these battles, but also the world we live in.

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0:00.0	Celebrity feuds can be high stakes.
0:03.1	You never know if you're just going to end up on page 6 or a Doom War or in court.
0:08.1	One Rees New Podcast Dis-Entel is hosted by comedian Sidney Battle and Matt Bellasai,
0:13.7	where they weighed into the glorious mess of celebrity beef from sub-tweets to distracts
0:18.4	to physical altercations.
0:20.4	Each episode of Dis-Entel will take you through the build-up to the feud, why it happened,
0:25.3	and the repercussions.
0:26.7	What does our obsession with these feuds say about us?
0:29.7	The first season as packed with some pretty messy pop culture drama, but none is drawn
0:34.0	out and more personal as Brittany and Jamie Lynn Spears.
0:37.8	When Brittany's fans formed the free Brittany movement, dedicated to liberating her from
0:42.1	her infamous conservatorship, Jamie Lynn's lack of public support angered fans.
0:47.4	Jamie Lynn claimed that she was going out of her way to help her sister, but it turns
0:51.2	out she was using Brittany's conservatorship to gain more control over her own fortune.
0:56.5	Dis-Entel covers everything from their still ongoing social media battle and whether
1:01.0	there may or may not have been a knife involved.
1:04.1	It's a story of two young women who had their choices taken away from them by controlling
1:08.6	parents, but took their anger out on each other, and it's about a movement to save a
1:12.9	superstar, which set its sights upon anyone who failed to fight for Brittany.
1:17.6	You're about to hear a preview of Dis-Entel.
1:20.5	Follow your listening.
1:21.5	Follow Dis-Entel wherever you get your podcasts.
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