Jono, Ben & Megan - The Podcast - Our Entertainment Reporter Has An update on Diddy!

Episode Date: September 26, 2024

Are celebrities nervous on what Diddy knows? It costs 1 million to producer a song! Is Katy Perry's new album a fail? Diddy's association with Kris Jenner, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Justin Bieber The controversial producer Dr. Luke...  See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

This John and Ben podcast brought to you by HelloFresh, the experts and tastes that Kiwis love. We go live to our New York correspondent from America. It's Nicole from New York. Good morning. Good morning. Lovely to have you on. Jeez, I tell you what, it seems like we talk to you

and then all of a sudden a massive news story breaks. Just moments after we spoke to you last week, Diddy arrested by the feds in a hotel in your city. I mean, I hate to say it, but like saw this one coming. I mean, it's been brewing. Obviously, we all saw his house got like swarmed. Right. And then they kind of like went through it and everything.

But I have heard horror stories about this man for years that I just sort of chalked up to. Oh, like, you know, it's just legend. Right. It's like entertainment like industry legend but this man ain't a good man and then did you see what else came out today no what else came out well i just saw it i don't know if it's true or not but last week it was the baby oil the thousand bottles of baby oil and today um i saw something like thousands of adult toys thousands they break down the average cost of those he has spent more on baby oil I saw something like thousands of adult toys Thousands?

They break down the average cost of those He has spent more on baby oil and adult toys than I have on my house It's a lot of plastic We're trying to save the environment Honestly, have a little respect for Mother Earth So what are we thinking?

He's gone Potential jail time He's in jail now until the trial It doesn't really looking like he's gone he's gone he's potential jail time well he's in jail now until the trial it doesn't really look like he's gonna get out and i love how he tried like did you read the stuff that he was doing like he blatantly was like i will give you 50 million to like make my bail 50 million and like that's it and you don't have to worry about me but he was obviously at flight risk you don't negotiate with the courts like that's not an option so i thought that was kind of funny. Plus, I have read one of the plans

of his was to pay that money if they were willing to take it and then run, go somewhere where they couldn't get him. Oh, they can't extradite him. Right, exactly. Now, obviously he's taking the hit here and obviously being the ringleader. Are there some other nervous celebrities

watching this play out? Yeah, I think that there are many, not just the ones that we've discussed. As I said I think a week or two ago, where the heck are Beyonce and Jay-Z? I'm not saying that they partook, but certainly I feel like they're hiding something. And now it's just like every celebrity.

Any celebrity that is known to party, and Ashton Kutcher, Leonardo DiCaprio, any of those guys, they were all just partying and probably didn't think they were doing anything wrong. They just went to like a fun diddy party. Cut to they're in an orgy, you know? It's like, it's a little bit, it's a little bit nuts. But I think, I don't think they're in trouble

or should be worried about like going to jail or getting in trouble with the law, but it's certainly not a good look PR wise. Sounds like the barbecue we last had at Ben's house. Come over for some steaks. Next thing you know you're low. I've seen videos of Leonardo DiCaprio from these parties when he was younger.

But that doesn't mean that they're doing anything. No, I know. But like Nicole says, it doesn't paint them in a good look. Kris Jenner is known to be a very good friend of Diddy. She's spoken about him a lot and keeping up with the Kardashians and they hang out a lot. Kris is a freak. She's the freak of a lot in Keeping Up with the Kardashians, and they hang out a lot. Chris is a freak. She's the freak of all freaks, and she openly admits it. She talks about it on

the show all the time. God bless her. I hope I'm like that when I'm older. But again, I don't necessarily know if she was doing anything illegal, but I'm sure she was down for a good time. And then I don't know if you saw someone put out a statement for Bieber that he's focusing on being a good husband and a good dad because now past things are coming up. He was at one of those parties that he even took him in for 48 hours to show him the Diddy experience, and now we know what the Diddy experience is.

And that's scary thinking about a 14-year-old Bieber doing the Diddy experience. So are there actually grave concerns about what went on over those 48 hours? Yes. Oh, my gosh, yeah. We've all wondered, you know, about his mental health hasn't been great. He's had to cancel tours and stuff. Wild that you could get away with it for that long. Well, if you think about it, I mean, times have changed, right?

Like, even just what was allowed in the workplace, like, HR-wise, and what was considered harassment. Like, things were very different not so long ago. So it's not like these things were okay, but they were certainly looked over more, you know, than they are now. Well, you're right. Even looking at things like the Playboy Mansion, which was another place that people partied at and all that.

And then the stories that have come out since Hugh Hefner's death and, you know, things that went on, you know, it's like, oh, okay. It kind of shines a whole nother light on those parties. Yeah. I mean, you can only hide that stuff for so long and hire people to you know be fixers and and and fix all this stuff and then also the diddy stuff that not everybody's really talking about is like this guy was like hire for murder happy like it came out that he was trying to get um drake murdered a while ago and now all the like the tupac and Biggie stuff is coming back because that was always like a legend.

Right. So I don't know, man. It's one big mess. It's certainly entertaining, but also really scary and sad. Yeah, it is. People go power crazy, don't they?

Yeah. I'm going to say it now. It's pretty dark too. I reckon he won't be around for much longer if there's some powerful people that have their reputation on the line.

Yeah, it's not good. This is not going to end well for him, for sure. And I think there are going to be a lot of people that go down around him. Big news, Nicole. Katy Perry's brand new album out this week. Katy Perry. Now, she's someone that you hung out with the other day, right?

She came up to the studio. Yeah, we just had her. Yeah. Now, she has released a new album but doesn't seem to be getting uh great reviews rolling stone i felt were very very harsh rolling stone magazine like brutally harsh on one and a half stars they gave it and said it was tired and she's trying to you know get back to her glory days i mean we're all tired and want to get back to our glory days yeah i mean listen nothing's ever going to touch Teenage Dream. Like when you have like

an iconic album like that, as you saw, like I don't know if you guys watched the VMAs. Yeah. But you know, she got the, when you get an award like that,

usually it's towards the end of your career, right? It doesn't have to be, but that is sort of like the usual. Listen, she got married. She took time off. She had a baby.

It's hard to come back after an album like that right and then come back after taking time and falling in love and really taking that much time away from the spotlight and i mean she was obviously on idol but the spotlight in like the music realm and and make it make it work again so i'm not gonna lie it's not my favorite i don't think it's horrible but i don't think that it's great. But like, it's okay. We can play it. I mean, it doesn't seem like she cares.

Yeah, I was going to say, can you tell when someone like that comes in and they're like, oh, this is a bit of a dud? Yeah, I mean, there's a few things. I've heard from like sources. She knows it's a dud and is like, it's okay. This is my work. I'm pleased with it. I'm putting it out.

That's all that matters. I don't know. She seems to be sort of putting that on the back burner and just sort of making us all look at her because she walked into my studio and I've never seen her look hotter. I mean that body, like she literally, she's clearly worked very hard. She looks amazing and she's just as fun, but yes, it was easier to, to overlook how much people weren't loving the album when she walked in because she just looks fabulous did you address the dr luke situation with her because she has used the producer dr luke because she used years ago to make pop bangers but he's had controversy with kasha and a lot of people have asked her for comment and she's kind of glazed over it

she's non-answer answering right so she So she's like, yeah, like that started conversations, but what is she supposed to say? I don't think he did a whole album. I think he worked once or twice on like a song or two. And there's nothing for her to say. Like, I'm not, you're not going to get her to be like, I shouldn't have done that. Like, she made her decision. She wasn't really,

you know, a part of like the whole Kesha thing. And there's nothing she can do now. It's over. So no, there was kind of no point in even talking about it because we knew we were going to get a non-answer answer. She's down this side of the world. This weekend, she's playing in the Australian Rules, the Aussie Rules final, the grand final. And they've asked her only to play bangers.

She's not allowed to play any of her new stuff. She wants to play two new songs. We want the hits that everyone knows. But what do you mean she's not allowed? Like someone specifically said you're not allowed. You have to play two new songs. We want the hits that everyone knows. But what do you mean she's not allowed? Like someone specifically said you're not allowed, you have to play the oldies? She wants to play specifically two new songs from her album and they've said no, only the bangers.

That's messed up. Give her a song or two and then let her play her hit. I can't see. $5 million is her payday for this weekend's AFL final. So that's pretty good. I mean, she's doing okay. Not chump change. It certainly is not chump change.

Well, I can see why they just want bangers if they're blowing $5 million. It's a million dollars a song. A million dollars a song. Right. People want to hear what they want to hear. Yeah. I'm worried. I'll be called washed up and passed by Pride for $5 million.

That's for sure. You know, we're all going, okay, she passed us. She's winning $5 million this weekend. Someone give me $5 million or offer me $5 million. I'll do whatever the heck they tell me to do. I know. Exactly. Put that in perspective.

Yeah. Hey, Nicole. Hey, thank you so much for your time this week, Nicole. Of course. Great insights. And you have a lovely seven days. You too. I'll see you guys next week.