Speaker 1: You're listening to Amma Mia podcast.
Speaker 2: Hey spillers, if you love Bridgeton as much as I do,
Speaker 2: and I know you do because it is the biggest
Speaker 2: show in the world. Did you know Mama Mia has
Speaker 2: its own Bridgeton podcast. It's part of our watch Party series.
Speaker 2: There's a link in the show notes to our entire
Speaker 2: series of Bridgeton episodes, including some about the brand new
Speaker 2: just dropped Part two. Wasn't it Amazing? I wanted to
Speaker 2: give you a little sneak peak today of the things
Speaker 2: we talk about, all the big issues like what John's
Speaker 2: death really means, the behind the scenes of those absolutely
Speaker 2: epic sex scenes that I have not recovered from, and
Speaker 2: the most important question they left us with at the end,
Speaker 2: just who is Whistledown two point zero enjoy?
Speaker 3: So at the end of episode eight, show hands us
Speaker 3: a gift. There is a new whistle Doown.
Speaker 1: I just want to float my own boat that I
Speaker 1: did say that they should do this.
Speaker 3: They heard this podcast.
Speaker 1: I said, let's take a page out of Gossip Girl's
Speaker 1: book and let's spin things around a little bit. And
Speaker 1: that's what they've done. Well.
Speaker 2: Jess Brownell admitted that they've gone rogue here. This never
Speaker 2: happened in the books. And remember in the books, Colin's
Speaker 2: book is after Benedict's. So reading this book and offer
Speaker 2: from a gentleman. We don't know who Lady Whistledowan is.
Speaker 2: But look, we have discussed the role of gossip in
Speaker 2: this podcast previously and the most important part is that
Speaker 2: it was real. These scandal sheets were real. The most
Speaker 2: famous was the Teta tet column in Town and Country magazine,
Speaker 2: which we would all be subscribers to if we lived
Speaker 2: in this time.
Speaker 1: Is that even mean?
Speaker 3: Yeah?
Speaker 2: Head to head? Ah. So history tells us all about
Speaker 2: women like Elizabeth Johnson, who edited the Sunday Monitor, and
Speaker 2: Elizabeth Archbald, who wrote gossip for the World Newspaper. It's
Speaker 2: an era where women couldn't vote, they couldn't own property,
Speaker 2: but they could be the most powerful person in society
Speaker 2: by writing these gossip sheets. But they didn't name names
Speaker 2: like our mate Penelope.
Speaker 3: So I was curious after we realized that it was Penelope,
Speaker 3: why she wasn't doing the voiceover and why they kept
Speaker 3: it as Julie Andrews. So in the end episode, I
Speaker 3: don't know if you guys noticed this that Julia Andrews
Speaker 3: does deliver the latest whistle down slightly different like o
Speaker 3: Cadence the syntax of how she's speaking to do you guys notice?
Speaker 1: Yes, and everyone online has also noticed, and that kind
Speaker 1: of weaves into the theories about who it could be.
Speaker 1: Particularly the biggest evidence is that they think it is
Speaker 1: a man. They thought that the language was stronger, harsher,
Speaker 1: and that is how a man speak less whimsy. See.
Speaker 2: I read a lot of comments in this reddit deep
Speaker 2: dive I did where they think that the voice sort
Speaker 2: of morphed into the voice of Valley, the Featherington's ex
Speaker 2: housekeeper and now the pen housekeeper. Now Julie Andrews is
Speaker 2: still narrating it, and that is still Julie Andrews's voice.
Speaker 2: And if you're a fan of hers like I am,
Speaker 2: you know that one of her most famous roles was
Speaker 2: Eliza Doolittle. The woman can do Cockney lower class accent.
Speaker 2: So that's still Julie Andrews doing the vo like a pro. Now,
Speaker 2: Jess BROWNO in the past has hinted at looking at
Speaker 2: the people who keep these homes magnificent, which made people
Speaker 2: think it was Vali. She's the ultimate gossip right, She
Speaker 2: knows all the Featherington's secrets. She's a master of forgery.
Speaker 2: We saw that in season two with the estate papers.
Speaker 2: But I would say Vali's absolutely not an option. I
Speaker 2: have a lot better theories.
Speaker 3: Say Okay, let's dive into this because this is the
Speaker 3: thing we're the most excited about to discuss live. I'm
Speaker 3: going to hand it over to you to tell us
Speaker 3: what everyone is saying.
Speaker 1: Yes, okay, So I've done a lot of investigation on TikTok.
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