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October 30, 2024 14 mins
Rob Shuter stops by the Mercedes Benz Interview Lounge to talk about working for NBC News and Hoda Kotb leaving the Today Show.

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
You're a murderer. A murderer, not a murderer.

Speaker 2 (00:06):
If none of us have ever met one of these
girls that you've dated, that's by design.

Speaker 3 (00:17):
Happy Halloween from Elvis Duran in the Morning Show.

Speaker 2 (00:21):
It's always a show when Rob Shooter rolls by, Hi
Rob Shooter.

Speaker 1 (00:26):
Hello, Gosh, I hope I don't disappoint you. Never do.
Thank you, darling my tap shoes on. So the last
time we saw you was at my birthday party. Oh,
it was a marvelous night at my super Spreader. It
was typhoid Mary everybody there. I really died in Staten Island.
But we all think you brought it to the party

(00:47):
at that room. But the problem is with that is
that I didn't get sick until after the party, so
I definitely caught it there. I was going to blame
my friend Julie Cooper from Access Hollywood and turned up,
but I don't think it was her. It's funny.

Speaker 2 (01:00):
Hell, Look, we had a huge If you're wondering what
we're talking about, it was our It was a huge
surprise birthday party that Alex threw from me, and we
had a great time. We danced, we drank, and we
did everything and then like three days later, everyone has COVID.
Everyone almost everyone has COVID, like Froggy, you had it, right,
did you have it?

Speaker 1 (01:21):
I got it first and I have a picture with Robert.
He and I are face to face, and I sent
it to Elvis. I said, this is the moment of impacted.
I would be proud, obviously, if I thought that I
had that power. I would be proud to say that
I'm the virus. It's like a superhero or a villain.
But I don't think.

Speaker 4 (01:39):
Keep you.

Speaker 3 (01:39):
I didn't come because I had COVID already, so no
I was home. So they said, well you should have come.
I said, if I had come, I would have been
patient zero and that instead, let it be rob.

Speaker 1 (01:52):
Blame for this. Now. Did you send a card though?
Did you send anything that you leacked? Was there any
of your slide? COVID is more of an airborne thing.
I believe. Here's my point.

Speaker 2 (02:05):
If you go out to a super spreader, you you
can't start blaming people. It happens, and you know, we
had a great time.

Speaker 1 (02:11):
No one died. We're good. Is an amazing night, an
amazing night, Thank you, Alex. Alex pulled it off. She
didn't actually technically invite me. I know, I found out,
just showed up and it's like, how many places in
Saturn Island can it be?

Speaker 4 (02:28):
So I had to such a little beer, right, I'm
happy you were there, all right?

Speaker 2 (02:38):
So Rob, of course not but nice. Rob has a
lot of things to talk about it. Where do you
want to start.

Speaker 1 (02:42):
Let's start on the list. Let'start with something really nice.
Let's have a nice, a nice day. So my friend
Holder is leaving the Today Show. She's announced this. It's
quite shocking, isn't it. But she wants to spend more
time with her kids. Now I'm told the offers are
pouring in for ho of course they are pouring in.
Everybody wants a piece of She's great, she's smart, she's relatable.

(03:03):
Everybody wants her. Now, when you work for NBC News,
you can't do endorsements. That's why you don't see Savannah
or Hoder selling Dove soap or corn flakes or whatever.
Now that she's not going to be part of that
news division, Holder can make millions. And I say this
with total respect. I hope she cashes in and makes

(03:25):
a lot of money, but she probably will make more
money off the Today Show. Good for her.

Speaker 2 (03:31):
We've known Holder for years. Hodder is a super human being.

Speaker 1 (03:35):
She is she really is. Like, honestly, I think we're
saying that a lot of times about famous people that
we've met, and we want them to be great. Hoda
is great. He's so sweet, so sweet, and what company
wouldn't want Holder to be their face? Yes? I was
wreaking of it, Okay, Rob, What's next on the list?
Andrew Garfield has broken up with his girlfriend and he's

(03:57):
back on the dating scene. I'm hold, he's keeping his
options open and he's dating both guys and girls. So
we're not going to wait and see what we're nate.
Now you can start murdering men. So Andrew's that out
there dating away. It must be difficult dating Spider Man,

(04:19):
I guess, or being subtle about that.

Speaker 3 (04:21):
And everybody's like, hey, I want to kiss you upside.

Speaker 1 (04:24):
Down the I love that seed. I love that seed?
Did he so lots going on? We did. I used
to work for Diddy, So first of all, I've got
to say, everybody asks did I know? I didn't. I
absolutely had no idea. Now in the past, well, he's
not going to invite anyone like you or me to
one of his free corps. Why not we look morthless?

(04:45):
Hold on, there are rules. This was in the New
York Post today. Do you want to hear those?

Speaker 2 (04:50):
They had rules allegedly about who was or who was
not allowed to come to the free corps, the free
coff parties. No female guest could weigh more and one
hundred and forty pounds oh away in would be necessary.
The girls had to be young and hot and so
blah blah blah, which is just no flat no sally,
so I'm out, no short hair. I wouldn't want to

(05:11):
be there anyway. No pants, no jeans, no flat shoes.
Every girl had to wear a party dress short, just
enough to cover her enough to cover her butt cheeks.

Speaker 1 (05:19):
Give me a b.

Speaker 2 (05:21):
Keep reading high Stiletto's good. One thing that the organizers
never asked was the girl's ages.

Speaker 1 (05:27):
Oh god, it's bad. It's bad, and it's gonna get worse.
Like my experience of doing this for a living, reporting
on this stuff is that once you once the damn breaks,
it all comes out. And for a long time it
was it was a big secret.

Speaker 3 (05:42):
Do you think we're going to ever get the list?
Of the actual celebrities who went to the freak Off.

Speaker 1 (05:47):
Yes, I think it's inevitable, Like stuff doesn't stay secrets forever.

Speaker 3 (05:51):
Jeffrey Epstein. We never got that full list.

Speaker 1 (05:53):
We never but it's not over yet. That story's not
over yet. We might, you know, at some point we
might get that list. But it's it's shocking. It's that
you see the only person that I've worked with who
I'm now ashamed to have on my resume. And it's
such a sad thing because I gotta say this, You're
not gonna like it. He was charming, which is probably
why he got away with it for so long. Every

(06:13):
time we met Biddy, he was always great.

Speaker 3 (06:15):
He there with a little bag of oranges and they
were all cut up, and I was like, oh my gosh,
my mom made.

Speaker 1 (06:20):
This for me.

Speaker 3 (06:21):
She packed and I was like, how cute is this?
Like it was sod.

Speaker 1 (06:25):
That's what makes this whole thing even more perverse, doesn't it?
But did he The news on Diddy that I'm hearing
is within now the family. It's almost like the Godfather.
It's a billion dollar business. It is, even though it's
been definitely hit by all the all the scandal and
now there's a power play with did he in prison?
Who's going to take over the business? I hear his

(06:45):
mom is probably the first choice. His son would like
to take over it now. So exactly is the business?
It's a very good question because I worked with him
for several years and I didn't really know what he did.
I think he sells liquor, and I don't think amore.
I think it's the amount of money he's accumulated. And
during the days when his record label was a big deal,

(07:07):
you had to I think sign over your publishing to
him to get on the label. So that's where the
money was raised. But now there's going to be an
internal fight in the family. We'll see who's going to
win that and take over the business. What's left of
the business.

Speaker 2 (07:21):
All right, So moving on, you have a list, Ryan
and Blake. Okay, there's a Hugh Jackman story, which is
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (07:29):
Yeah, I broke the story. So a year ago I
found out that Hugh and Sutton Foster, who's a Broadway actress,
they were both together in the Music Man on Broadway.
They were getting friendly. It was obvious to everybody in
the cast, anyone around that show. That these two are
getting friendly. Now the problem is is that they're both married,
or they were at the time. Surely after the show opened,

(07:51):
Hugh and his wife split. Now Sutton and her husband
have split, they're together, that they're in love. You're allowed
to fall in love. I think that this is messy.
But the problem is now everyone's asking who knew, what, when?
And do you tell the wife? So Ryan Reynolds and
Hugh Jackman are best friends. They've been friends for a

(08:12):
really really long time. He knew Debb, he knew the wife,
he knew Hugh, he knew Sutton. And so now the question,
the rumors, what everybody's asking is who knew? When? Did
they know? And should they have given the wife the
heads up? Where do you do that? Who am I
to tell anyone anything?

Speaker 4 (08:30):
I no.

Speaker 2 (08:34):
Look, if I found out that your your husband was
messing around with you, would.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
I tell you? Would you? If I found out your
husband was messing around, I would tell you. I know
he is knew that.

Speaker 3 (08:45):
See, I would tell my best friend because I would
want her to tell me.

Speaker 1 (08:49):
I would say something. I think I would say something.
Now I understand if I'm in the cast of the
music Man on Broadway. I'm not going to tell tales
on the Boss. So if you tell deb that Hugh
had Sutton are very close, you're probably gonna lose your job,
like hang up your tap shoes. So I understand that.
But if you were really friends of them, someone like
a Ryan Reynolds, she's gonna be fine. Regardless of Ryan Reynolds.
Do they owe a call a text?

Speaker 3 (09:12):
If you know one hundred percent that something was going
on and it's your bestie, why wouldn't you do?

Speaker 1 (09:19):
I know their old best Well, this would be the
the the analogy here. It would be your bestie's wife,
your bestest part. Yeah, I don't think we're not telling
your bestie, you're telling your besties part. Yeah.

Speaker 2 (09:29):
I don't think they're as close with her, yes, yes,
So moving on to the Royals for a moment.

Speaker 1 (09:36):
William and Kate are coming to the USA. It's exciting.
So they were planning to do this and then Kate
got six. She's doing much much better, and so they
had all these plans to come and do a real
American tour and to come here with the flags and
all the pump and the circumstances. Let's hope they bring
one of those gold carriages. We can have it down
fifth have and you'll be love leg and so a
couple of horses. As I'm told, legs dependent on Kate's health,

(10:01):
which looks pretty good at the moment. We could have
an amazing visit from William A Kate.

Speaker 3 (10:08):
Can you book William and Kate.

Speaker 1 (10:11):
Hard Rock? I've got an email. Yeah, I'm sorry, I
may have. Do you have a vote here? I don't
want him on the show. Why. I find them.

Speaker 4 (10:23):
As boring as a door knob. What about if he
brings some of the jewels from the tower. If you
let you wear the crown, you he came from Queen Elizabeth.
You love Queen love Queen Elizabeth. I mean, you know
he's touched Queen Elizabeth hands and stuff. She hugged him.

Speaker 1 (10:39):
I still want Harry on the show. Harry's got a
lot of bo's left. Do you think if they come
to visit and they go to California, do you think
they'll stop into Harry and Meghan's home. I don't know. So.

Speaker 2 (10:52):
One of the things we love about Rob, other than
the fact he's a super spreader, his blind items now
they're why don't just come out and say the names
of the people your replies, I would be sued.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
So legally, this is like a rumor, and I know
it sounds nutty, but if I say something, I've got
to be able to back it up. And so a
lot of people think you just make this up. You don't.
You have to go through legal to actually get this
to be today's blind blind items will be one day
I will be able to tell you this. I just
can't at the moment. But it's a front of tease.
It so today's blind item. You're gonna get this one?

(11:26):
Which ambitious, very ambitious, and I say that is a
good thing. Cable host has been sucking up to Savannah
to try and get Holder's jobst cable host is part
of the NBC family. He might have been on this
show you.

Speaker 3 (11:44):
The show Jimmy, Jimmy fallon, no host, no.

Speaker 1 (11:49):
Network, cable host. Who would Jimmy has a job. It's
a good job. Who would love to be the next Holder?
Who has made themselves a star with so fair? He
put a lot of ambition what is it rhyme with? OK,
he's tell us you know him him? You know from

(12:11):
our show. He's been on this show? My god? Who
say it, come on too. He might have a friend
or two that's a housewife. I've said too much.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Andy color.

Speaker 1 (12:26):
Oh that'd be awful, be awful. But I'm not confirmed.
He's doing great where he is, doing great where he is.
But when you're ambitious, and I'm not saying it's Andy,
I'm not confirming that. Brother. If you're listening, no idea
that will raise that. But I think, I think if
you're ambitious, this is the best job on TV, this

(12:49):
is the best job on TV. He would love this job.
It's a great money making job, replacing coder. I could
see it happening. What's interesting, OVI is that everybody's after
this job and tried to be subtly enough that you
don't look too ambitious, too rude. You said you want
to be you want people to know you want it.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
Body's not even warm, cold.

Speaker 1 (13:15):
Than you don't want.

Speaker 3 (13:17):
And they got to do makeup, like at least we
can show up looking like hammer crap.

Speaker 1 (13:21):
They got to do makeup. You don't have to do makeup.
But he told me you got a full face of makeup. Hey, Nate,
where did you find this? I was watching in the microphone,
Nate in the microphone is how it works the other
day and I didn't realize. They screamed Rob's last night.

(13:43):
I don't shoot her. Oh here's your theme. So I
know you're very manelow. That's the way you love. I
never loved shoot.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
We love you all right, it's always not even nice
with Rob Shooter. We see you and hear you everywhere.
Your podcast is doing well, Yeah, it's wild.

Speaker 1 (14:07):
I'm like top ten, top twenty now in the podcast charts,
and so thank you for you know. I got a
check Oh the iHeart what's that? What's that like? We
haven't seen one of that. It's rather surprised and it
landed in my mailbox. See iHeart. Sit you a check
out of that heart, Rob Shooter, we love you. I
love coming by. Good to see you all. I'm going

(14:29):
to see you tomorrow night. Yeah, come to your party.

Speaker 3 (14:31):
We're doing the Disney's Big Disney event tomorrow night for iHeart.

Speaker 1 (14:35):
So yeah, I'll wear a mask, okay, please do. Thanks
hoop Shooter everywhe
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