Speaker 1: I'm a homegrowl that knows a little bit about everything
Speaker 1: and everybody.
Speaker 2: You know, if you don't lie about that. Right, Hey, y'all,
Speaker 2: what's up.
Speaker 1: It's Lauren Rosa and this is another episode of the
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Speaker 1: All things pop culture and it's him in news and
Speaker 1: all of the conversations that shake the room.
Speaker 2: Baby.
Speaker 1: Now, y'all know we we always get into checking in
Speaker 1: behind the scenes of.
Speaker 2: The grind before we get started, So let's get on
Speaker 2: into it.
Speaker 1: Checking in behind the scenes of the Grind today. This
Speaker 1: week is actually just we're just I don't know what it's.
Speaker 1: I always say like this week is like a work week,
Speaker 1: but I feel like every week is a work week.
Speaker 1: But I say that when I mean that, like, there's
Speaker 1: not like a lot of traveling. There's not like a
Speaker 1: lot of out of studio. We just podcasts breakfast like
Speaker 1: we did, and we in the news like fully. I
Speaker 1: love these type of weeks where I can spend all
Speaker 1: of my time out saw the Breakfast Club, outside of
Speaker 1: recording a podcast for you guys, just working on stories.
Speaker 2: And being really in the body of things.
Speaker 1: That's been, you know, a challenge for me to find
Speaker 1: and carve out and do it with discipline that time
Speaker 1: where I'm still like throwing myself fully into the story,
Speaker 1: into the details and all of the things, are also
Speaker 1: just taking care of myself as well too. So this
Speaker 1: is one of those weeks. And yeah, so hopefully this
Speaker 1: week I'll bring you guys a lot more exclusives. I
Speaker 1: felt like last week the news was so slow when
Speaker 1: there wasn't much going on, and when that happens, I'm like,
Speaker 1: all right, we need to make some news, we need
Speaker 1: to make some conversation. So this week I think you
Speaker 1: guys will see a lot more of that, especially here
Speaker 1: on the podcast The Latest with one of the Roads
Speaker 1: of because we'll have the time to be digging all
Speaker 1: into the people's business.
Speaker 2: Other than that, though, yeah, we were good.
Speaker 1: We typing on it into the Latest, so let's get
Speaker 1: into it. So this week, actually, speaking of this week,
Speaker 1: as we go into the Latest, everything that's happening right now,
Speaker 1: we are days away from the Real Housewives of Atlanta reunion.
Speaker 1: Now I Real Housewives of Atlanta, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,
Speaker 1: but I actually haven't really tuned into Beverly Hills as
Speaker 1: much as I was before I told myself that I
Speaker 1: was gonna get all caught up before Bozma Saint John
Speaker 1: Bow's loved Bows before her wedding because I wanted to, like,
Speaker 1: you know, she's been covering her wedding on the show
Speaker 1: and preparing for it.
Speaker 2: Amongst other things.
Speaker 1: But with Real Housewives of Atlanta, they're like my like
Speaker 1: my favorite fan chise like they are number one for me.
Speaker 1: I've been hanging onto every episode the season. Sometimes I
Speaker 1: haven't watched two or three a day because I haven't
Speaker 1: been caught up. I just finished the season finale episode
Speaker 1: prior to preparing myself for the the reunion this weekend.
Speaker 1: And there was reporting this week, like literally kicking off
Speaker 1: this week that the girls have received their contracts.
Speaker 2: And that's always a.
Speaker 1: Thing, like the day that the women of Royal housewivest
Speaker 1: of Atlanta Cash received their contracts, as always a day
Speaker 1: that like makes news because then people start having conversations
Speaker 1: about who received the contract, what role are they coming
Speaker 1: back in. For those of you guys who do not
Speaker 1: watch Housewives, when I say a roll are they coming
Speaker 1: back in? You have like main characters and non main characters.
Speaker 1: They call them peachholders. And friends of the show, right
Speaker 1: or a friend of a peach holder. So, for instance,
Speaker 1: Porscha Williams peachholder this season, that just means that a
Speaker 1: lot of the show revolved around her. Shemiah actually you know,
Speaker 1: got her peach this season, and it was a very
Speaker 1: emotionally rough season for Shamia, especially being as though we
Speaker 1: knew her as Porscha's friend on the show and now
Speaker 1: we got to get more into her life and see
Speaker 1: that relationship fall apart to I don't think they'll ever
Speaker 1: get back to where they were, even once they ever
Speaker 1: get back to being cordial.
Speaker 2: It came a selle.
Speaker 1: Those three women this season were the bigger, biggest storylines
Speaker 1: of the show for various different reasons. So you know,
Speaker 1: people are gonna want to see how that works out
Speaker 1: going into this next season, like will all those women
Speaker 1: still be main cast? Will they still be main peach Holders,
Speaker 1: because then you can kind of predict what next season
Speaker 1: will look like and who we will focus on the most. Now,
Speaker 1: I told you guys that that reporting was out earlier
Speaker 1: this week. However, Andy Cohen has come out and said
Speaker 1: that is not true that none of the girls have
Speaker 1: received contract offer yet there were also rumors that Shemiah
Speaker 1: was not going to be coming back to the show again.
Speaker 1: Shemiah was like best friends with Porsche when we first
Speaker 1: came to meet and know her, and it's now taken
Speaker 1: on her own life on the show. So there were
Speaker 1: rumors that she may, you know, potentially not be returning
Speaker 1: back to the show.
Speaker 2: And I'm not gonna lie. Like, whenever you hear these rumors.
Speaker 1: From the fan pages, it's like you can't ignore it
Speaker 1: because a lot of the news will leak to the
Speaker 1: fan pages, through the girls teams, through production because Real
Speaker 1: Housewives fans are very intertwined with the fan pages and
Speaker 1: the fan cultures around the show. But it's like you
Speaker 1: have to you got to pay attention to it, but
Speaker 1: you gotta wait.
Speaker 2: To get the real information.
Speaker 1: This is a big example that because those stories leaked
Speaker 1: and then Andy Cohen came out and said, and I
Speaker 1: have reached out to a source coaster production myself and
Speaker 1: was like, hey, I mean, Shamia had a rough season
Speaker 1: this season, so I could kind of see why she
Speaker 1: wouldn't come back, you know, when she want to protect
Speaker 1: their peace. But the more emotional and emotional roller coaster
Speaker 1: the season edge for you that means you got a
Speaker 1: storyline that's working, baby, and that means you right there,
Speaker 1: stay right in that pocket. That's what builds you know,
Speaker 1: the best housewives and reality stars in this type of lane.
Speaker 1: But here's what Andy Cohen had to say on the
Speaker 1: fact that Shemiah and there's no there's no truth to
Speaker 1: Shemia not returning as of now.
Speaker 2: There was also, of course that any Leaks maybe returning.
Speaker 2: Let's say, a lot of casting rumors online which came
Speaker 2: out over the weekend, and I'm going to tell you
Speaker 2: that they're not true. And I am going.
Speaker 1: To tell you that if you want a preview of
Speaker 1: next season of Atlanta, look at this cast.
Speaker 2: This is the group guys. I mean, uh, spoiler alert.
Speaker 2: We're very happy now.
Speaker 1: I will say that is important to hear because there
Speaker 1: was a time where a lot of like, you know,
Speaker 1: people were not happy about the cast, like they felt
Speaker 1: like after Nini Leaks left, you know, and then you
Speaker 1: had the drama with Kenya Moore where she you know,
Speaker 1: allegedly exposed some revenge porn it was, you know, suspended
Speaker 1: from the show and then didn't come back on the show.
Speaker 1: Like all of that stuff, people thought that they were
Speaker 1: losing our main girls, like they were losing their girls
Speaker 1: that were going to actually.
Speaker 2: Make the show good. Then Portia came back in a
Speaker 2: major way on the show.
Speaker 1: We were excited about that because it felt like, you know,
Speaker 1: we had some of her og girls back. Cynthia Bailey,
Speaker 1: you know, famous housewife, Elena Boro, house husband, Atlanta.
Speaker 2: Housewife, but also model.
Speaker 1: She came back onto the show this season as a
Speaker 1: friend of the show, so she is there, she is present,
Speaker 1: but it allows her to not.
Speaker 2: Fully be in all of the mess of the drama.
Speaker 1: But she's been even doing like some side commentating as
Speaker 1: well too, And I think it also just gives her
Speaker 1: time to figure things out as well. Like outside of
Speaker 1: the show, I think Cynthia has always been one of
Speaker 1: those people on the show who had a lot happening,
Speaker 1: Like she was trying to figure out, you know, her
Speaker 1: wine situation, and then she had the Cynthia but a
Speaker 1: Bailey agency, Like she's done very successful businesses. But I
Speaker 1: think at this point in her career, I could see
Speaker 1: her wanting to be able to have a little bit
Speaker 1: more time to build out those things, build out her
Speaker 1: personal life while also understanding what the platform does for her.
Speaker 1: So she you know, one foot in, one foot a
Speaker 1: little bit out, which is great. Now, there was also
Speaker 1: rumors about Kelly on the show. Kelly is one of
Speaker 1: the newer housewives that you know, her drew prior to
Speaker 1: Pinky Cole of Sludy Vegan coming on. People were trying
Speaker 1: to figure out if they even, you know, really cared
Speaker 1: for Kelly on the show. And I feel like this
Speaker 1: season has really developed for her with her storyline, even
Speaker 1: though she was not able to fill with her children
Speaker 1: this season. There was a lot happening because of her
Speaker 1: recent separation from her estranged husband. But I think again,
Speaker 1: I think it gives her a storylines, It gives her
Speaker 1: something to talk about.
Speaker 2: But people thought that she wasn't gonna come back either.
Speaker 1: When those rumors broke a contracts being sent out, people
Speaker 1: thought that, you know, there was also gonna you know,
Speaker 1: be a goodbye sent to Kelly, non contract sent to Kelly.
Speaker 1: And that is not the case according to you know
Speaker 1: what Bravo sources are putting out there now.
Speaker 2: Cohen is speaking on.
Speaker 1: So I'm looking forward to this reunion, baby, And let
Speaker 1: me tell you guys something, this group of girls, it's
Speaker 1: all about the reading. Okay, I don't know if y'all
Speaker 1: are into the reality TV. I wouldn't even say it's
Speaker 1: my guilty pleasure. I don't even feel guilty about loving
Speaker 1: the Housewives and w did they read down?
Speaker 2: Okay?
Speaker 1: And when I say read, it's like the comebacks they quick,
Speaker 1: they sharp. So the season finale ended with them celebrating
Speaker 1: Kate Michelle, who just released her first ever country album.
Speaker 1: She has been in the country music space for some time.
Speaker 1: Was told a long time ago she couldn't do a
Speaker 1: country music album because she's a black woman, and there's
Speaker 1: just been so much that it's opened up in country music,
Speaker 1: you know, for people like Kay Michelle because of the
Speaker 1: work that she's put in. Beyonce Mickey gotting mad people
Speaker 1: right in that space. So she got to do that
Speaker 1: on this platform, which is benefit of the platform. It
Speaker 1: elevates everything else that you're doing. But it closes out
Speaker 1: with a party that she has and at the end
Speaker 1: of the party, they're reading each other down.
Speaker 2: Okay, let's take a listen. They're lyon. But I'm not lying.
Speaker 2: No one's gonna hold her accountable to her life. We
Speaker 2: don't survive with Allen. I'm gonna survive and you're going
Speaker 2: to jail, you said the girls. Listen.
Speaker 1: I know that the reunion is going to be insane.
Speaker 1: We already know. Pinky Cole of Slaty vegan, who was
Speaker 1: recently made headlines for bankruptcy with her businesses and a
Speaker 1: lot of money things are the businesses. Her and her
Speaker 1: husband are expecting a new baby, and this is after
Speaker 1: she revealed on the show that they were having some
Speaker 1: issues because she's just been so focused on her business
Speaker 1: and trying to figure out what was going on with
Speaker 1: the business when they came to bankruptcy.
Speaker 2: Let's take a listen. Hi, Pinky, you look amazing. Thank you.
Speaker 3: I know that you are vegan, but you had quite
Speaker 3: the meaty season.
Speaker 2: How are you feeling about your first season? It felt good.
Speaker 3: I don't even want to ever hit a B word again.
Speaker 3: The only BEE word that I want to talk about
Speaker 3: is the fact that I'm having a baby.
Speaker 2: How does your mom feel about it? She was mad? Hey, listen,
Speaker 2: she said she want to have another one.
Speaker 1: I said, no, do in December.
Speaker 3: Wow, and I just might name him or her Bravo.
Speaker 2: Congratulations.
Speaker 1: I'm excited to see this reunion. I don't think we're
Speaker 1: going to get receipts from certain things. I know that
Speaker 1: there was like a big blow up between Porsche Williams
Speaker 1: and ky Michelle. I don't think we're going to ever
Speaker 1: get the receipts of you know, there was like a
Speaker 1: whole oystergate, I will call it a whole plot and
Speaker 1: a plan in ky Michelle's voice that she said that
Speaker 1: was put out and trying to be you know, or
Speaker 1: allegedly being executed by Porsche to produce the show or
Speaker 1: produce the storyline around ky Michelle in a certain way,
Speaker 1: which is a reality TV show thing. You know, you
Speaker 1: will have the lead of your show or certain people
Speaker 1: on the show who can work with the story producers
Speaker 1: the build out narrative in the way they need to.
Speaker 1: And ky Michelle is you know, she comes from love
Speaker 1: and hip hop, so she's a reality star. Bet she
Speaker 1: felt like she was shying, they were trying to swindle her,
Speaker 1: so she that was a huge thing in the beginning
Speaker 1: of this season. But I don't think that we're gonna
Speaker 1: actually get receipts of who she alleges told her all
Speaker 1: of that, But hey, you never know. I just haven't
Speaker 1: seen too much about that in the previews yet. But
Speaker 1: we shall see because.
Speaker 2: They did exchange words. We know that. Let's take a
Speaker 2: listen to ky Michelle in Portia. From the way that
Speaker 2: the edit looks ina I have.
Speaker 1: Lift not live, I'm so has your body?
Speaker 3: Okay, glory home.
Speaker 2: So we'll just have to stay tuned see what's going on.
Speaker 1: So, speaking of storylines, narratives, all the things that come
Speaker 1: with being somebody.
Speaker 2: Of influence, Ariana Grande.
Speaker 1: There was a statement that was released by her team
Speaker 1: confirming that she is going to take a step back
Speaker 1: from the spotlight for an extended break after she finishes
Speaker 1: her Eternal Sunshine towards.
Speaker 2: And the reason for that, the rep says, is because
Speaker 2: of a lot.
Speaker 1: Of the scrutiny that she's been getting surrounding her health
Speaker 1: and her body.
Speaker 2: So here's the statement.
Speaker 1: After her Eternal Sunshine tour wraps and London on September first,
Speaker 1: a singer who is thirty three years old, she's going
Speaker 1: to be stepping away and this is the statement was
Speaker 1: given by Ariana Grande's rep two People magazine, So this
Speaker 1: is from People Magazine. She will be stepping away from
Speaker 1: the public eye as scrutiny surrounding her health and body intensifies.
Speaker 1: So the rep continues, Ariana will be taking a step
Speaker 1: back from visibility after she completes the Eternal Sunshine Tour.
Speaker 2: She looks forward to finishing the tour.
Speaker 1: And ending it on a high note, both healthily and happy,
Speaker 1: and then taking a much need to break from public
Speaker 1: facing work and appearances which has led to endless ongrowing
Speaker 1: public scrutiny. This tour has been a beautiful experience for her.
Speaker 1: She loves her fans and has loved every minute of
Speaker 1: this tour so much. She performed a very physical show
Speaker 1: and there's a lot of athleticism involved. She performs healthily
Speaker 1: and successfully at a very high level, night after night.
Speaker 1: So you know, because of this, they say that Arianna
Speaker 1: Grande is no longer going to be appearing in the
Speaker 1: West End revival of Stephen Sodom's Sunday in the Park
Speaker 1: with George. So she's taking a step back from work
Speaker 1: that I was supposed to open at London's Barbican Center
Speaker 1: next summer, and she was going to be doing that
Speaker 1: with Jonathan Bailey, who she did Wicked with. They were
Speaker 1: he was going to be opposite her. But yeah, so
Speaker 1: she's taking a step back, and y'all know what's crazy.
Speaker 1: I feel like Ariana Grande and Cynthia or Rivo when
Speaker 1: they were on that Wicked Tour run I knew. I
Speaker 1: I've heard Cynthia Rivo talk about, you know why she
Speaker 1: felt like she got so much jokes and means about
Speaker 1: her appearance on that tour. We'll get into that. She
Speaker 1: says that it is because she's a black woman, and
Speaker 1: that is the and it particularly it was the moment
Speaker 1: where she jumped in front of this guy who was
Speaker 1: like a fanan who like jumped over like almost like
Speaker 1: barricades at a red carpet to get to Ariana Grande
Speaker 1: and Cynthia a Revo jumped in front of her.
Speaker 2: To just make sure she was okay.
Speaker 1: Because Ariana has talked about suffering from like anxiety and
Speaker 1: different things.
Speaker 2: She's been through a lot. But the crazy part of
Speaker 2: that is, I feel like that.
Speaker 1: Time period from them has like changed forever the way
Speaker 1: that they're going to interact with fans in the public.
Speaker 1: I mean, we know that Ariana Grande has been through
Speaker 1: other things that publicly have you know, really changed the
Speaker 1: way that she interacts with There was the bombing that
Speaker 1: took place at the concert that the Ariana Grande concert
Speaker 1: back in twenty seventeen.
Speaker 2: There were at least nineteen.
Speaker 1: People killed and fifty people injured at the concert in
Speaker 1: Manchester in England. I think it's a celebrities have such
Speaker 1: a like you think about something like that, you think
Speaker 1: about you know, you're on a red carpet, a man
Speaker 1: is jumping literally jumping over the carpet at you, and
Speaker 1: you're already dealing with a lot of like society societal
Speaker 1: like thoughts, pressures, like you're scared all the time because
Speaker 1: you don't know who's coming at you for a reason,
Speaker 1: like it is a nerve wrecking thing.
Speaker 2: I'm sure at the height that she.
Speaker 1: Is dealing with it at But I think celebrities have
Speaker 1: such a different experience with fans and supporters nowadays because
Speaker 1: of social media as well too.
Speaker 2: I think social media, even if you.
Speaker 1: Are Ariana Grande who isn't really accessible, like Ariana Grande
Speaker 1: is not posting YouTube videos every day and on stream
Speaker 1: and giving us her life story all the time, and
Speaker 1: you know, like she's still there are some things about
Speaker 1: her that are still very like you know that school
Speaker 1: is celebrity like a Zendea or a Tom Holland is
Speaker 1: in where things are kept to herself. It's very regarded.
Speaker 1: You're not just gonna be able to walk up and
Speaker 1: get to her. But at the same time, because of
Speaker 1: social media, because of how what you're seeing her on
Speaker 1: your timeline and other celebrities, I think that, you know,
Speaker 1: supporters feel like people in celebrities. People celebrities as people
Speaker 1: are very accessible and I think that there's no boundary
Speaker 1: anymore of like understanding it, like these are also people too.
Speaker 1: They just have a job that they're doing. But safety
Speaker 1: should matter for them as well too. Boundaries should matter
Speaker 1: for them as well too. And I think that it
Speaker 1: has changed the dynamic between the fan experience in the
Speaker 1: celebrity experience. And I think about I want to go
Speaker 1: see the Michael Jackson movie. I saw the Jackson's Instagram
Speaker 1: posts that they're going to be doing a series all
Speaker 1: about Joe Jackson as the Jackson's manager, to which we'll
Speaker 1: watch and we'll talk about here. But I think about
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson after watching the Michael Jackson movie and how
Speaker 1: famous he was at that height, like social media was
Speaker 1: not really a thing, you know, there was so much
Speaker 1: that hadn't happened yet technology wise, imagine if it had
Speaker 1: how overly personified that would have been. And then you
Speaker 1: have people nowhere near as famous as Michael Jackson, Like
Speaker 1: I don't think anybody will ever be as famous as
Speaker 1: Michael jacks but you do have big celebrities still, it's
Speaker 1: very few far in between, because we have Internet personalities who,
Speaker 1: don't get me wrong, are in the celebrity lane. But
Speaker 1: I think the way that they maneuver their lives, they're
Speaker 1: way more accessible. They want you to know, way more,
Speaker 1: they want you to they want to bring you in
Speaker 1: way more. You have celebrities who don't want to do
Speaker 1: all that, who grow up in a school learning from
Speaker 1: Michael Jackson or other big Hollywood names like a Ariana
Speaker 1: Grande or Cynthia Rivo, who are just too true creators
Speaker 1: who want to put certain things out into the world,
Speaker 1: and the people don't be having it at all, especially
Speaker 1: in this go viral, go home society.
Speaker 2: She's done with it.
Speaker 1: I just hope that she is in a healthy space,
Speaker 1: like physically, and that you know her because it's like
Speaker 1: she's taking a step back during a time where people
Speaker 1: are noticing, you know that she is thinner, visibly thinner.
Speaker 1: So I just hope that she's taking care of herself.
Speaker 1: And I hope that even if she's struggling with how
Speaker 1: to take care of herself while performing at such a
Speaker 1: high level, dealing with you know, all the pressure and
Speaker 1: anxiety that come with the job that she has, this
Speaker 1: time that she's taking off, she's going to really focus on,
Speaker 1: you know, rebuilding her arsenal of tools to.
Speaker 2: Be able to do that.
Speaker 1: Because I think a lot of times, like you'll hear
Speaker 1: like Ariana Grandez, because she's such a big celebrity, she's rich,
Speaker 1: she's very successful. It's like all right, champagne problems, Like
Speaker 1: come on, girl, like you got the career, you got
Speaker 1: everything going when you're in some of the biggest movies
Speaker 1: of the last like you know, biggest projects of the
Speaker 1: last like two three years, you.
Speaker 2: Know what I mean.
Speaker 1: Like people can look at this and be like complaining,
Speaker 1: complaining and complaining. But also the girls had a key
Speaker 1: key about all the memes and the viral moments. But
Speaker 1: I think there's a real conversation that she's been trying
Speaker 1: to have for some time just about what she's battling
Speaker 1: and quiet that I don't think people really hear or
Speaker 1: pay too much attention to or love to sit to
Speaker 1: the side because the means and stuff are funny. So
Speaker 1: I hope that she's actually tapping back into what she
Speaker 1: needs to be. Okay, And I think I will say
Speaker 1: it is a it's not a never before seen thing
Speaker 1: because we've had celebrities take a step back. We've had
Speaker 1: celebrities we forced to take a step back Britney Spears
Speaker 1: when she was fifty one fifty back in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eight.
Speaker 2: This it gets crazy.
Speaker 1: It does like every level comes with new devils and
Speaker 1: you got to learn how to balance it all. You
Speaker 1: got to learn how to like to let somebody know
Speaker 1: when you're struggling with doing all that. And that's why
Speaker 1: I was when I saw this statement, I'm like, damn,
Speaker 1: Like they didn't drug sist into the ground. She is tired, Okay,
Speaker 1: she is over it. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: was like, you know, it's a really big thing to say. Yo,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna take a break, I'm gonna start working. She
Speaker 1: got the money, she got she cool, she got the brand.
Speaker 2: She'll be able to do it.
Speaker 1: But a lot of us that work in this industry
Speaker 1: for like out of sight, out of mind. So I understand,
Speaker 1: like you know, she's on a run right now, like Wicked.
Speaker 1: I mean they say, you know, the the second installation
Speaker 1: of Wicked wasn't as good as the first. But like
Speaker 1: Wicked and all the projects that she has happening like
Speaker 1: these last couple of years, she's if yuh, she's dominated
Speaker 1: for the last I would say, like what like five
Speaker 1: to seven years from music to television.
Speaker 2: Projects, the movies.
Speaker 1: Taking a set back is a big deal and a
Speaker 1: big decision to make it. So I'm proud of her
Speaker 1: for making it. But it's not easy at all. So
Speaker 1: I think when people are speaking, we should listen.
Speaker 2: Y'all would be looking. We all are guilty of having
Speaker 2: a little laugh, a little key key, but we should listen.
Speaker 2: I'm Lona Rosa.
Speaker 1: This has been another episode of the Latest with Laurna Rosa.
Speaker 1: I tell y'all all the time, y'all could be anywhere
Speaker 1: with any old body. My low rider's talking about all
Speaker 1: of the things, but you guys choose to be right
Speaker 1: here with me.
Speaker 2: I appreciate you, guys. I'll catch you in my next episode.