September 3, 2025 • 9 mins
Today, we talked about how paparazzi get paid and who calls the paparazzi on themselves.
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Get your head us together, and we're going to start
to party.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Start.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I'm reading a party.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
See Elvis Duran after Party.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
The after show party, show, after party, Yeah, the after
party podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's the after show party because we're doing it after
the show. Does that make sense anyway?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
We got a room full, We've got Danielle and Gandhi
is in a room, but it's not here. It's in Columbus, Ohio. Yes,
that's a room though. Scotty's in another room but it's
right next door. And there's Straight and Eate, who looks
very perplexed.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
What's wrong? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Just going through an email and they're scary, And there's
Garrett got an email that we should help you with.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Okay, that's why you're here. You get paid the big bucks.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hey, I was online, you know, it's just tuning around
on Instagram and I see, I see I see a
music artist. I'm not going to say who who's receives
gets out of his his SUV with his.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Guards, walks into a restaurant.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
But he makes a huge deal to putting his coat
over his head and shrouds himself in secrecy, so no
one knew who he is. But you clearly see who
it is when he gets out of the car. He
does it because he doesn't want to be photographed.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It seems like he's trying to pull attention to himself
rather than just walk in.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You would think you get more attention by doing that,
you know, Yeah, walking in?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
What's the deal with paparazzi? Don't think it big money
for some of these pictures. And if they deny them
the actual photograph of them actually being visually recognizable, don't
they not make money?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Is that why they do it?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Something? Yeah? Because you remember uh Daniel Radcliffe, he would
walk out of his apartment wearing the same exact thing
every day so that the paparazzi couldn't sell the pictures
he did it from.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, wow, so.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
He was trying to scam. I don't know how that works.
I don't know. We've never, luckily, never had to deal
with paparazzi in our faces all the time. But I
gotta imagine that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
But it does definitely pull a ton of attention to
you if you enshroud yourself.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, do you remember Leo DiCaprio at Jeff Bezos's wedding.
He has that hat and he's pulled it like this,
and you know it's Leonardo DiCaprio, but he's got the
hat brimmed down over his nose and he's trying not
to be recognized.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
We all know that's you, Leo. Wouldn't it be a
smarter play to get like a wig and a hat
and glasses and things like that and the background without
security and without putting the thing over your face.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I guess you would think or be like, see you
hair over your face.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Your bangs down over your eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I just okay, in the second part of this, can
you imagine living a life where that's what you do?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Just to go into a restaurant, you have to throw
your coat over your head so much.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I mean, the only other people who do that are
the purps who've been you, who are sent into the
saying that after they're accused of being, yeah, a murderer.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I don't know. I wouldn't want to live a life
like that. And if if if I was at that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Status of paparazzi, which I'll never be, I would like
to imagine that. Okay, well fuck it, I'm gonna walk
in I'm gonna just do my thing. If you take
a picture, fine, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It just seems weird, right.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
There is a paparazzi girl kind of who hangs outside
our building every now and then, and I've definitely seen
her waiting for you because she's asked people if you
were coming out before me. Yeah. Wi the girl from TMZ.
You guys never see her out there?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
No, oh, Yeah, there's a girl from TMZ that hangs
out on the front. She has a camera with her
and she tries to catch celebrities coming in and out,
and she asks for Elvis on more than one occasion.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I don't know why there used to be a guy
from TMZ.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
No, it's a girl. It's definitely a perfect okay.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I don't know why they'd want me or any but
you know, like there are celebrities who come in and
out of the building. I can see it woul wait
for them. So if you were a paparazzi, that's your life.
You're like a private investigator. It's a lot of waiting
and just hoping, yeah, someone shows up here. In New
York City, you'll see like three or four guys with
telescope lenses standing on a corner, like waiting for something
(04:17):
to happen down the street.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You don't down the street. There's a hotel there, and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They hope for that exclusive picture that no one else gets.
Like in a lot of places they want to get
a picture of like the first celebrity kid. But I
think in LA it's illegal to do that. Is it
illegal to photographic kids?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I think I think kids. They can't do that anymore.
But yeah, there would be when I lived in LA,
they would just be camped out certain places. And then
the next level is when the celebrity sets up the paparazzi,
so they'll call the zi and give them the heads up, like, oh,
I didn't know I'd be photographed with scary Hasher.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, that's a scary mode.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Scary.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I would never but I know I would say this.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
I do know that there are celebrities seeing the listers
that do that because I know the people that handle them.
So Nate is two hundred percent right on that. I'm like,
how can pop that's so right?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Talk about an active desperation that's they want to control
the photos.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You can also hire teams to make it look like
they're paparazzi chasing you around because you want to make
it seem like you're a big deal. I know that
that exists.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Also, don't give scary and I just see genuous.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
That's all going to do it, But that the money
these paparazzi get is insane, at least it used to be.
I remember when I was coming back from Las Vegas.
I had an early morning flight. I landed in Burbank
Airport and I only lived like a half a mile
away from the airport, and there's a massive line for
the cabs. I'm like, I'll just walk. So I'm walking
(05:48):
home and I see a police car on Hollywood Boulevard
or No Hollywood Way, and it had another car pulled over,
and there was a girl standing in the front yard
and I'm like, she looks kind of familiar.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I walked by it.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Three hours later, the news breaks that Amanda Vines got arrested,
and somebody told me, if you had taken a picture,
that would have been worth ten grand I could have
sold that photo of Amanda Vines getting arrested in the
front yard of that house for ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Place for a time picture, for a photograph. Well, don't
you remember I told you this story about Orlando Bloom.
Oh yeah, I had my dog Max.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I was taking him to get groomed. I was walking
down West Broadway and all of a sudden, these paparachi's
just came out of nowhere and boom, they were all
over me.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm like, I don't know, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Orlando Bloom and his little baby boy were right next
to me, shouldered and shoulder, and they were basically pushing
me and my dog out of the way.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Just to get a photo of Orlando Bloom and his kid. Wow.
And of course I screamed him, are you pieces of.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And I didn't understand until I saw who it was, like, okay,
so if you ever get caught in that crossfirey, you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And then the other interesting part of the just the
paparazzi world is after they take the photo is the
race to the internet. So you'll see people set up
a hot spot right there on a corner off their
phone just to upload the picture, or if there's a
Starbucks nearby, you'll see paparazzi take over the Starbucks just
to get connected to the Internet to uplild the photo.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Living like that. Could you imagine, like, no, having to
live like that?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
No being a paparazzi or photo take it well both.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think, but especially like doing that for a living
and chasing people.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Down, sort of like the ambulance chaser. But you're the
celebrity chaser.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Oh well, to all of the photographers who do show up,
you do make it life a little more exciting here
at our building when we do have the real celebrities
coming in and out, So we welcome you.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I always want to tell the TMZ girl like, you're
kind of waiting in the wrong spot if you want
the big dogs, But I won't.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Go ahead and tell her that.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Okay, to a different entrance.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
All right, So there you have it. What else I'm
talkingbo oh wait?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Speaking of TMZ, So yesterday was Harvey Harvey levin Is
it was his birthday? Do you know? I had no
idea that he was the reporter on People's Court.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Had no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
They were talking about it on a news station yesterday
and I was like shut. So then of course I
went down a rabbit hole and I had to see
all the pictures back in the day. I'm like, I
used to watch that show like all the time.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Wasn't that his show?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I think it was. I thought he was like behind
the People's Court.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh I didn't even know.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I think so where he was like always outside and
he still.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Does that because he's a lawyer, right. And then he
started TMZ. So I was crazy because they were saying
his age yesterday I forgot what it was and the
people in the news report were like, I want what
he's having. How does he look so good at his age?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Look for him, he does very very very well. Yeah,
So congratulations and happy birthday, mister Levin.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Anything else know that the entrance?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Nope, Okay, have a beautiful day and thanks for joining
us for the after Birth podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yes, the Elvis Duran after Party.
Get your head us together, and we're going to start
to party.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Start.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
I'm reading a party.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
See Elvis Duran after Party.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
The after show party, show, after party, Yeah, the after
party podcast.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
It's the after show party because we're doing it after
the show. Does that make sense anyway?
Speaker 4 (00:24):
We got a room full, We've got Danielle and Gandhi
is in a room, but it's not here. It's in Columbus, Ohio. Yes,
that's a room though. Scotty's in another room but it's
right next door. And there's Straight and Eate, who looks
very perplexed.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
What's wrong? What are you doing?
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Just going through an email and they're scary, And there's
Garrett got an email that we should help you with.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Okay, that's why you're here. You get paid the big bucks.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
Hey, I was online, you know, it's just tuning around
on Instagram and I see, I see I see a
music artist. I'm not going to say who who's receives
gets out of his his SUV with his.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Guards, walks into a restaurant.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
But he makes a huge deal to putting his coat
over his head and shrouds himself in secrecy, so no
one knew who he is. But you clearly see who
it is when he gets out of the car. He
does it because he doesn't want to be photographed.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
What is that?
Speaker 4 (01:23):
It seems like he's trying to pull attention to himself
rather than just walk in.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
You would think you get more attention by doing that,
you know, Yeah, walking in?
Speaker 5 (01:31):
What's the deal with paparazzi? Don't think it big money
for some of these pictures. And if they deny them
the actual photograph of them actually being visually recognizable, don't
they not make money?
Speaker 3 (01:42):
Is that why they do it?
Speaker 5 (01:43):
Something? Yeah? Because you remember uh Daniel Radcliffe, he would
walk out of his apartment wearing the same exact thing
every day so that the paparazzi couldn't sell the pictures
he did it from.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
Yeah, wow, so.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
He was trying to scam. I don't know how that works.
I don't know. We've never, luckily, never had to deal
with paparazzi in our faces all the time. But I
gotta imagine that's part of it.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
I guess.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
But it does definitely pull a ton of attention to
you if you enshroud yourself.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Yeah, do you remember Leo DiCaprio at Jeff Bezos's wedding.
He has that hat and he's pulled it like this,
and you know it's Leonardo DiCaprio, but he's got the
hat brimmed down over his nose and he's trying not
to be recognized.
Speaker 6 (02:27):
We all know that's you, Leo. Wouldn't it be a
smarter play to get like a wig and a hat
and glasses and things like that and the background without
security and without putting the thing over your face.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
I guess you would think or be like, see you
hair over your face.
Speaker 3 (02:42):
Your bangs down over your eyes.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
I just okay, in the second part of this, can
you imagine living a life where that's what you do?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Just to go into a restaurant, you have to throw
your coat over your head so much.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I mean, the only other people who do that are
the purps who've been you, who are sent into the
saying that after they're accused of being, yeah, a murderer.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
I don't know. I wouldn't want to live a life
like that. And if if if I was at that.
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Status of paparazzi, which I'll never be, I would like
to imagine that. Okay, well fuck it, I'm gonna walk
in I'm gonna just do my thing. If you take
a picture, fine, I don't care.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
It just seems weird, right.
Speaker 6 (03:22):
There is a paparazzi girl kind of who hangs outside
our building every now and then, and I've definitely seen
her waiting for you because she's asked people if you
were coming out before me. Yeah. Wi the girl from TMZ.
You guys never see her out there?
Speaker 7 (03:38):
No?
Speaker 6 (03:38):
No, oh, Yeah, there's a girl from TMZ that hangs
out on the front. She has a camera with her
and she tries to catch celebrities coming in and out,
and she asks for Elvis on more than one occasion.
Speaker 3 (03:48):
I don't know why there used to be a guy
from TMZ.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
No, it's a girl. It's definitely a perfect okay.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
I don't know why they'd want me or any but
you know, like there are celebrities who come in and
out of the building. I can see it woul wait
for them. So if you were a paparazzi, that's your life.
You're like a private investigator. It's a lot of waiting
and just hoping, yeah, someone shows up here. In New
York City, you'll see like three or four guys with
telescope lenses standing on a corner, like waiting for something
(04:17):
to happen down the street.
Speaker 3 (04:18):
You don't down the street. There's a hotel there, and.
Speaker 2 (04:20):
They hope for that exclusive picture that no one else gets.
Like in a lot of places they want to get
a picture of like the first celebrity kid. But I
think in LA it's illegal to do that. Is it
illegal to photographic kids?
Speaker 6 (04:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (04:31):
I think I think kids. They can't do that anymore.
But yeah, there would be when I lived in LA,
they would just be camped out certain places. And then
the next level is when the celebrity sets up the paparazzi,
so they'll call the zi and give them the heads up, like, oh,
I didn't know I'd be photographed with scary Hasher.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Yeah, that's a scary mode.
Speaker 6 (04:51):
Scary.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
I would never but I know I would say this.
Speaker 7 (04:57):
I do know that there are celebrities seeing the listers
that do that because I know the people that handle them.
So Nate is two hundred percent right on that. I'm like,
how can pop that's so right?
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Talk about an active desperation that's they want to control
the photos.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
You can also hire teams to make it look like
they're paparazzi chasing you around because you want to make
it seem like you're a big deal. I know that
that exists.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Also, don't give scary and I just see genuous.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
That's all going to do it, But that the money
these paparazzi get is insane, at least it used to be.
I remember when I was coming back from Las Vegas.
I had an early morning flight. I landed in Burbank
Airport and I only lived like a half a mile
away from the airport, and there's a massive line for
the cabs. I'm like, I'll just walk. So I'm walking
(05:48):
home and I see a police car on Hollywood Boulevard
or No Hollywood Way, and it had another car pulled over,
and there was a girl standing in the front yard
and I'm like, she looks kind of familiar.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
And I walked by it.
Speaker 5 (06:01):
Three hours later, the news breaks that Amanda Vines got arrested,
and somebody told me, if you had taken a picture,
that would have been worth ten grand I could have
sold that photo of Amanda Vines getting arrested in the
front yard of that house for ten thousand dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:14):
Place for a time picture, for a photograph. Well, don't
you remember I told you this story about Orlando Bloom.
Oh yeah, I had my dog Max.
Speaker 4 (06:25):
I was taking him to get groomed. I was walking
down West Broadway and all of a sudden, these paparachi's
just came out of nowhere and boom, they were all
over me.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
I'm like, I don't know, I don't know what's going on.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Orlando Bloom and his little baby boy were right next
to me, shouldered and shoulder, and they were basically pushing
me and my dog out of the way.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Just to get a photo of Orlando Bloom and his kid. Wow.
And of course I screamed him, are you pieces of.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And I didn't understand until I saw who it was, like, okay,
so if you ever get caught in that crossfirey, you're screwed.
Speaker 1 (07:01):
And then the other interesting part of the just the
paparazzi world is after they take the photo is the
race to the internet. So you'll see people set up
a hot spot right there on a corner off their
phone just to upload the picture, or if there's a
Starbucks nearby, you'll see paparazzi take over the Starbucks just
to get connected to the Internet to uplild the photo.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
I can't imagine.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
Living like that. Could you imagine, like, no, having to
live like that?
Speaker 3 (07:23):
No being a paparazzi or photo take it well both.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
I think, but especially like doing that for a living
and chasing people.
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Down, sort of like the ambulance chaser. But you're the
celebrity chaser.
Speaker 4 (07:35):
Oh well, to all of the photographers who do show up,
you do make it life a little more exciting here
at our building when we do have the real celebrities
coming in and out, So we welcome you.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I always want to tell the TMZ girl like, you're
kind of waiting in the wrong spot if you want
the big dogs, But I won't.
Speaker 3 (07:54):
Go ahead and tell her that.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
Okay, to a different entrance.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
All right, So there you have it. What else I'm
talkingbo oh wait?
Speaker 2 (08:00):
Speaking of TMZ, So yesterday was Harvey Harvey levin Is
it was his birthday? Do you know? I had no
idea that he was the reporter on People's Court.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Had no idea.
Speaker 2 (08:14):
They were talking about it on a news station yesterday
and I was like shut. So then of course I
went down a rabbit hole and I had to see
all the pictures back in the day. I'm like, I
used to watch that show like all the time.
Speaker 3 (08:26):
Wasn't that his show?
Speaker 6 (08:28):
I think it was. I thought he was like behind
the People's Court.
Speaker 2 (08:31):
Oh I didn't even know.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
I think so where he was like always outside and
he still.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Does that because he's a lawyer, right. And then he
started TMZ. So I was crazy because they were saying
his age yesterday I forgot what it was and the
people in the news report were like, I want what
he's having. How does he look so good at his age?
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (08:48):
Look for him, he does very very very well. Yeah,
So congratulations and happy birthday, mister Levin.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Anything else know that the entrance?
Speaker 4 (09:00):
Nope, Okay, have a beautiful day and thanks for joining
us for the after Birth podcast.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yes, the Elvis Duran after Party.
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