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Speaker 1: Fitz And with Kate Ritchie podcast Liz Hayes. The new

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Speaker 1: book I'm Liz Haes, a Memoir is available now in

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Speaker 1: all Good bookstores, and we thought, you know what, we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about.

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Speaker 2: This so much, why don't we get the lady in herself,

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Speaker 2: Liz Hayes. Welcome to the lizsh Are you a little

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Speaker 2: bit nervous? Are you nervous this morning? Absolutely scared you

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Speaker 2: would be. This is media, Liz, is it is. We'll

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Speaker 2: talk you through.

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Speaker 3: It's going to be okay.

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Speaker 4: You know what funny is that you rolled your eyes

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Speaker 4: when FITZI said, we've been talking about this book. But

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Speaker 4: it's absolutely true because there are certain parts of the

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Speaker 4: book that Fitzy in particular is incredibly fascinated with.

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Speaker 1: What were you expecting, Well, you know, we spoke about

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Speaker 1: this the dog days with Singer and you were married

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Speaker 1: to John Singleton for a while there. But the reason

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Speaker 1: that the dog got in in the way of your

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Speaker 1: relationship and he had was Thug was his original.

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Speaker 5: Dog, Thug was and then there were son of Thugs

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Speaker 5: of Thug.

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Speaker 1: I've got two favorite lines from the book, understanding my

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Speaker 1: place in the singlet and abode Ultimately proved to be

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Speaker 1: a tricky business, especially after I've realized Son of Thug

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Speaker 1: was not the only one trying to get into the sack.

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Speaker 5: Well, you know, he tracks a lot of you know people.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I don't know quite how to deal with it,

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Speaker 5: but I actually thought if I wrote the story like that,

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Speaker 5: that would be enough.

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Speaker 1: The other part of this story was Kate loved this

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Speaker 1: part as well, is that there was, you know, a

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Speaker 1: moment there where you knew that the marriage wasn't going

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Speaker 1: too well. But you had a very good friend of

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Speaker 1: yours who said, Julie was your friend. Liz, We've got

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Speaker 1: to get away. I don't like the people that you're

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Speaker 1: hanging around with, and I'm going to take you overseas

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Speaker 1: and we are going away on a lettered rip track.

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Speaker 2: I love this, Liz.

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Speaker 5: It is Can I just set it up properly?

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Speaker 4: Though?

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Speaker 5: I mean, things were not going so well. Things were

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Speaker 5: coming apart, I think. And I found a letter on

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Speaker 5: the table, the dining room table and said take Beth

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Speaker 5: Ryan out for a run.

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Speaker 2: Now now when your original name wasn't trying.

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Speaker 5: Yes, And so my good girlfriend Julie said, yeah, let's

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Speaker 5: why don't we Let's do let's let it rip troops.

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Speaker 5: So off we went to London and Paris really and

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Speaker 5: just went through France and.

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Speaker 2: We let rip.

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Speaker 5: I don't know how to put it any other way.

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Speaker 4: I know, I think your imagination can run wild. But

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Speaker 4: the fact that I know that Liz Hayes has a

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Speaker 4: dark side is also.

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Speaker 5: Not to have a dark side would be very dull.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 5: I think you all have to have a little moment

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Speaker 5: in your life.

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Speaker 2: Several if you can.

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Speaker 3: You When I look through the book, I stumbled across

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Speaker 3: a photo.

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Speaker 2: Of a very beautiful man.

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Speaker 3: His name is Richard Wilkinson.

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Speaker 2: It goes on to say, you lived with the Big Dicky.

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Speaker 5: I did live with the man I knew to be Richard.

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Speaker 2: Yes, how long did you live with Richard? For a

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Speaker 2: couple of years? So this is when you were both

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Speaker 2: at nine?

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Speaker 6: Yes, we love him so much. On this show, we

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Speaker 6: do have a segment called the Urban Dick where we

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Speaker 6: get people to tell stories about Richard Wilkins. Would you

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Speaker 6: like to play It's Dicky Wilkins.

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Speaker 1: What do you know?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so what have you got for us?

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Speaker 1: Listen?

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Speaker 5: Well, I'm definitely not going to betray my Dickie, but

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Speaker 5: I will tell you that one of the great joys

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Speaker 5: of having Dickie in my life was that in his bathroom,

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Speaker 5: he had his own bathroom. He had the most magnificent

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Speaker 5: array of hair products, like something I've never said. You know,

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Speaker 5: if you look back, his hair and mind looked almost

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Speaker 5: the same. Serious and I was described as being a

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Speaker 5: bit barrimental at the time.

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Speaker 2: What a comproment.

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Speaker 3: So would he be pretty heavy on the hair dryer?

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Speaker 2: Sort of half an hour?

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Speaker 5: We had great stuff. Oh, I loved him for it.

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Speaker 3: Why didn't you and Richard have fallen to each other's

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Speaker 3: Oh no, he was very busy.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Lizzie would have had a couple of cracks over.

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Speaker 5: Such an.

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Speaker 2: Keep it classy.

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Speaker 5: He did not not once take advantage of the situation.

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Speaker 3: Well something, Can you give me one more story before

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Speaker 3: you go? Can you tell me about your most favorite

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Speaker 3: celebrity interview, the one you love doing with Mariah Carey.

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Speaker 5: Mariah Carey. Look, everyone loves Mariah Carey, and I wished

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Speaker 5: I could. We were to interview Mariah in New York.

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Speaker 5: Were scheduled at eight p m. And she click clacked

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Speaker 5: in around about three a m.

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Speaker 2: And it was still there.

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Speaker 5: Lena, What that's A very good question because my producer,

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Speaker 5: Nick Runaway and I kept looking at each other. We'd

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Speaker 5: keep going because she was just in the next room,

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Speaker 5: and every time they just say, look, yeah, she's gonna

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Speaker 5: be here in a minute, here in a minute, and

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Speaker 5: just went on we here in a minute for so

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Speaker 5: long and we.

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Speaker 2: Just all passed out. How was the chat at three A? Oh? Well,

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Speaker 2: she was so sweet, of course, you know.

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Speaker 5: And when I walked back to that hotel and the

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Speaker 5: cleaners were, you know, mopping the floors at the hotel

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Speaker 5: for you, I was like, what the hell happened to me?

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Speaker 6: Yeah?

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Speaker 5: Did I really interview?

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Speaker 2: So good?

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Speaker 1: The new book I'm Linsays and Memoir is available now

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Speaker 1: in all Good bookstores or download the ebook.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much for coming, Thank you. Thanks Vizy

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Speaker 2: And with Kate Richie is a Nova podcast.

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