Eating For Free Vanderpump Fools: Enter Andy Cohen
It's 2005. An upstart TV exec with a flashy new job picks up the pilot of a no-name reality TV producer about "bitchy tennis wives" in America's largest gated community. Neither knows that the landscape of pop culture is about to change forever.
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Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
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