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Zoe Kazan just suggested the REAL reason why Taylor Swift did not invite Blake Vevans to her wedding. Also, let s talk about how Taylor snubbed all of her five godchildren from attending her wedding and how manipulative it was of Blake to ask her in the first place to be godmother of all her children. And yesterday I spoke about Ryan s declining acting career and now there s a report of dropping sales from Aviation Gin and how they just had to close down a visiting center. And guess what this internet sleuth found? Ryan Reynolds is trying to change the script of It Ends With Us to also include ads for his Aviation Gin. And we have to talk about Prince Harry s big loss.
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She just suggested the real reason why Taylor Swift did not invite Blake Vively to her wedding.
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Hi and welcome to Blossom Talk. I'm Tashti Flohr, journalist, Hollywood truth teller and your voice of reason in a town built on delusion.
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Okay, so actor and screenwriter Zoe Kazan just made a lot of Swifties angry.
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She just suggested the real reason why Taylor Swift did not invite Blake Vively to her wedding.
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Also, let's talk about how Taylor snubbed all of her five godchildren from attending her wedding
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and how manipulative it was of Blake to ask her in the first place to be godmother of all of her children.
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And yesterday I spoke about Ryan's declining acting career.
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And now there's a report of dropping sales from Aviation Gin and how they just had to close down a visiting center.
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And guess what this internet slew on Reddit just found?
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Ryan Reynolds trying to change the script of It Ends With Us to also include advertisements for his Aviation Gin.
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And we have to talk about Prince Harry's big loss.
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The headlines are everywhere today that he lost his major lawsuit against the Daily Mail.
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And now he's facing a bill of up to 50 million pounds.
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And I just have to comment on my comment yesterday about Sandra Bullock.
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So if you didn't watch my episode yesterday, I said that Sandra Bullock supported Ryan Reynolds in a comment on Instagram.
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and the fact is I had an interview with her some years ago and she was not being very nice to me
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and I found out later that she was being quite a hypocrite calling me out for what I asked her.
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Anyways I might tell that story at one point and also how Billy Bob Thornton was the one who stepped
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in and saved me. Okay but let's get into this. So as I said Zoe Kazan who is a screenwriter and an
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actress. And this little twist here is quite funny because Zoe played the New York Times
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journalist Jodie Cantor in the movie She Said. And in that movie, we saw how two journalists,
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the other one being Megan Thewey, took down Harvey Weinstein. And as you know, Megan Thewey
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is also the journalist who wrote the story about Justin Baldoni that basically tarnished his career
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So I think it's a bit interesting that this is actually coming from her.
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talking about why Blake Lively was not invited to Taylor Swift's wedding.
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I think she didn't invite her because she has come to the end of her marriage plot,
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thus cutting off access to her first great subject.
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she's generating the next chapter of interpersonal drama for herself via female friendship and then
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she adds or as my father once told me as soon as you answer one dramatic question in your screenplay
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you must pose the next one or you will lose your audience interesting I was thinking the same thing
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what is Taylor Swift going to sing about now that she is so happy in love as she's suggesting here
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she can't start speculating about her own divorce so she needs to find drama elsewhere and according
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to this article in Us Weekly Zoe got a lot of backlash from this tweet it says here that
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Kazan's post attracted backlash from disagreeing fans of Swift leading to the actress defending
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her stance in a subsequent ex post shared three hours after the original and she said hilarious
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to me that is being read as critical she's explicitly made her love life the subject of her
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work yielding many good songs now as a storyteller she needs a new subject she then concluded what a
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touchy fandom and then it says here that kazan's theory made further waves on reddit with one fan
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questioning her motive do they have beef because this is a stone cold takedown wrote one swifty
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while another amused social media user commented Zoe Kazan being involved in this was unexpected
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but it's interesting lol. Yeah let me know what you think. Will Taylor Swift sing about Blake
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Lively? As you know a lot of people speculated that the song Cancelled and I Like My Friends
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Cancelled was about Blake Lively and maybe that song was written before the real fallout between
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the two friends because she obviously said that she likes her friends cancelled. Obviously she
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doesn't like them this much cancelled. Yeah very interesting theory there. Okay so let's jump into
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this article in the Daily Mail talking about Taylor Swift being the godmother of all of Blake
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and Ryan's children. I thought she was only the godmother of the three daughters but here it says
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she's the godmother of all four of them and this journalist says devastating reason Taylor Swift's
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godchildren weren't invited to her wedding. Blake Lively's most manipulative move yet has
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sensationally backfired. And it says here, 1000 guests, but Taylor couldn't make space at her
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wedding for four of her godchildren. Ouch. It's safe to say her friendship with her mother,
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Blake Wively, appears to be well and truly dead. And it says, but surely there was a time when
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Blake and her husband, Ryan, imagined their own daughters scattering petals at Taylor's feet
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It's sad that children have been caught in the crossfire.
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Collateral damage in a feud not of their making.
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And you might argue it was cruel of Taylor to punish them
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But it would also be a little weird if she invited the four godchildren
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when she decided to drag Taylor into the ugly legal battle with Justin.
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She was, after all, gambling away not only her own decade-long friendship with Taylor,
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but also the relationship her kids had with their godmother.
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I don't blame Taylor for not wanting any toxicity on her big day.
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Why would you want someone like Blake there?
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You know it would make so many headlines and take away the magical moment that Taylor wanted to create for her and Travis.
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And here comes the interesting thing the journalist is saying.
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I happen to think it was very telling in the first place.
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that Blake asked Taylor to be a godmother no less than four times in a row.
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For James, her oldest daughter, who's called James for some reason,
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not a great name for a girl, if you ask me, but anyway, she's 11.
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And Inez, who is nine, Betty, who's six, and Olin, who is three.
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And thinking about the two oldest daughters, who are 11 and 9, of course, they are big fans of Taylor Swift.
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They've been to her concerts, and insiders have told me that Blake's daughters used to go to Taylor's house for playdates.
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Taylor even made songs mentioning their names in the songs.
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And I really wonder what Blake told her daughters is the real reason
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for their auntie Taylor not being around anymore.
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You also have to keep in mind, Blake and Ryan are basically neighbors,
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all of them living in the same neighborhood in New York, in Tribeca,
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So not that they're actually going to run into each other in the streets,
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because I don't think Taylor just wanders around
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like Blake and Ryan does when they go on dates.
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And this journalist is saying here that personally, I avoided the temptation of asking my wealthiest friends to be godparents to my children.
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Obviously, the birthday presents would have been excellent, as I'm sure Taylor's were.
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And then she says here that she has a billionaire friend and he's been joking about how many people are asking him to be the godfather of their children.
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And she says one thing would be to ask him once, but to ask him four times, that's a bit too much.
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And then she says, Blake probably thought she was locking Taylor in for life when she did that.
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It gave her leverage because she could always say, you know, you're the godmother to all my children.
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How can you not support me publicly in this really important legal feud that I have going on?
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Yeah, I don't know if Taylor signed anything to say that she was the godmother of these kids
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or if it's just something they agreed on just for a PR move for Blake Lively to say,
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I have my dragon and she also is the godmother of my children.
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This was complete manipulation from Blake Lively's side.
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Okay, so let's talk about Ryan Reynolds' aviation gin and what's happening there,
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the decline in sales and how this visitor center is just closing down after three years.
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So as I said yesterday, Ryan's acting career is really on decline and Hollywood is refusing to
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work with him at the moment. And it seems like it's not only his acting career that's going down
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the toilets, his gin is too. So this was reported yesterday that his Aviation American Gin Visitor
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Center in Portland, Oregon is closing down less than three years after opening the attraction
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as the spirit giant continues to reshape its business amid weaker North American sales.
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So the visitor center opened in 2022, just two years after Diego acquired Aviation Gin
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The brand is closely associated with actor Ryan Reynolds, it says here,
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and here someone on reddit is saying that the portland aviation gym building that was recently
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reported on closing its door was ryan reynolds themed and then they added some photos here from
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what it looked like inside his face and name was everywhere and a major draw to the location so
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many people have been turned off from the tone-deaf narcissist couple after their smearing and
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malicious legal actions towards justin baldoni and wafer studios and he says here it's no
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surprised that a building that significantly relied on Ryan Reynolds' celebrity persona
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to draw people in has tanked. The location had nods to his movies, humor, and image. The building
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even had an escape room that featured a painting of Ryan Reynolds that would give the direction to
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the entrapped participants. The escape room was set up as his office and his desk read,
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desk of a humble genius look at that how cringe is this the wall art of his movies had little
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quips about each one etched on a metal plaque and the person says here i found all this info
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through reviews of the aviation gin location and photos from there too and then it says here that
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the tour would cost 35 and it took an hour and and according to the reviews here they spoke really
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highly of the staff, and no one should really blame them for any of this. It's interesting to
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see how Ryan Reynolds' empire is crumbling now. This is called karma. I think there's a Chinese
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saying, saying that if you're seeking revenge, make sure to dig two graves. Anyways, talking
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about Aviation Gin, I found this post on Reddit this morning, and this is quite interesting. So
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this person has gone through the script of It Ends With Us and compared it to what actually ended up
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in the movie. And they looked at that restaurant scene when Lily, played by Blake Lively, brought
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her mom to meet Ryle, played by Justin Baldoni, for the first time. And they go into this restaurant
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and guess who owns the restaurant? Atlas, who was Lily's first love and he's played by Brandon
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splenar and then a female waiter comes over to take their drinks order and here from the original
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script it says a female waiter asks them here we go three waters to start so that's what they
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ordered three waters what else can I put in for you and then the actress who plays Blake Lively's
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mom in the movie says I think we should share a bottle of wine it feels like that kind of occasion
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and Lily says great I'll be right back I also need to use the restroom and then what ends up in the
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movie it says here that the female waitress comes over and says here we go what else can I put in
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for you and then Lily Bloom's mom is commenting first on something Lily said that Ryle is going
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to be in a journal a medical journal whatever and then she adds this I'm having a negroni I feel so
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rebellious. Then Lily says, my turn, I'll be right back, I gotta use the restroom. Okay, so what
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happened here? As this person is pointing out, I finally saw it ends with us, and the scream I
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scrumpt when I reached this scene between Lily, Blake Lively, and her mom, I instantly knew Ryan
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Reynolds got his grubby hands on this dialogue once I heard the word Negroni. In case you didn't
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know. That drink is his origin story for why he bought a steak in aviation gin. I'll bet he wanted
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to plug the brand name, but it would make this involvement too obvious. So he did this instead.
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And then the person says, after watching the scene, I ran off the script to see what was
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originally there. Sure enough, there was no mention of Negroni drinks in the 2022 version.
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Yes, I am 100% sure this is Ryan Reynolds doing.
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Ryan planted all these little Easter eggs in the script for his own pleasure.
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So when he watched the movie, he could be like, I put that in there.
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Was this a coincidence that Lily's mom all of a sudden wanted a Negroni?
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when the original script said that let's share a bottle of wine yeah I don't think so anyways let's
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jump to this Prince Harry drama as you know he's gone after basically every tabloid newspaper in
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Britain and this was the last one of all those legal feuds in 2023 he actually won over Daily
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Mirror, Sunday Mirror and the people the claims against that those newspapers were that they were
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doing phone hacking and illegally obtained information about him. And in January last year
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he settled a case with the Sun and News of the World. They were also accused of phone hacking
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and other unlawful information gathering and he obtained substantial damages for that and a public
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apology. Then he went after the Daily Mail and Sunday Mail and he just lost a big time. He got
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support from Elton John, Liz Hurley, David Furnish, Sadie Frost and Doreen Lawrence and his lawsuit
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has been going on for years but the judge just ruled a 436 page ruling throwing out all of his
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claims. During the trial over 40 journalists were questioned and they had to explain how they got
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their sources and how they obtained their information in so many articles that were
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written about 20, 22 years ago. Some of them luckily kept their notebooks so they could prove
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that, hey, we did not hack into his phone. We did not tap his phone lines. We did not obtain any of
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this information illegally. And as one of these journalists explained to Piers Morgan this
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morning, she said, you know, I was invited by Prince Harry to party with him. And she also
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talked about how stressful this has been for her and also to remember how you created a story about
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20 years ago the thing is if you obtain information illegally you will remember that as she also
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pointed out you know i did journalism the hard way right i went out i went out every night i
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partied i partied with prince harry that story came out in in the court when you know he couldn't
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remember but he invited me into the party into his inner circle so this is obviously a huge
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vindication for this journalist and a big loss for Prince Harry. Right now he can't really afford
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to get any more bad press. So this is just terrible for him. And as I said, all the headlines are
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focusing on how Prince Harry lost. They're not really mentioning all the other people involved
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in this lawsuit. And in the UK, if you lose a case like this, you have to cover the legal fees
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of the people that you sued. And that is estimated to be around 50 million pounds. So I don't know
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how they're going to split the bill between them because now as you know harry is cut off from the
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royal family he doesn't get an allowance from them he has to make his own money now but the irony of
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this which i totally agree with as pierce morgan pointed out is that prince harry accused these
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journalists of invading his privacy while he released a book to reveal inside information
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to trash the royal family himself and i would say that it's valid to point out this hypocrisy
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Because nobody has invaded the privacy of the royal family like he has.
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Harry has made a fortune, gazillions of pounds,
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trashing his family and revealing the most extraordinarily intimate secrets.
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I also believe, though, that there are a lot of unethical journalists out there.
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But we also have to remember how the celebrities are using journalists as well.
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And as Pierce Morgan pointed out here as well, Princess Diana used to call him.
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And that's something that we learned from this Blake Wiley case, how the publicists
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But they always, of course, want the stories to just benefit them as soon as the resources
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saying something else that could damage their reputation is all about journalists being
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so yeah i also spoke to a daily mail journalist not too long ago she was a witness and she said
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it was one of the most stressful experiences of her life having to sit on that stand and go through
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her notes that she wrote over 20 years ago i don't think i had any notes from when i reported
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for newspapers about 20 years ago i would never i would never keep stuff like that anyway it
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be interesting to see how prince harry responds to all of this if he's going to come out and say
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anything about it but yeah that's it for me today you guys thank you so much for watching
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do that and thank you to my executive producer Oscar who is no longer here he just left he was
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like I had enough I'm gonna go and nap somewhere else so good for him