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What a Creep: Mario Batali (Celebrity Chef & Major Creep)

Release Date: 06/19/2020

What a Creep: Norman Mailer (Controversial Writer & Creep)

What a Creep

What a Creep: Norman Mailer Season 14, Episode 3 Writer, Activist, & Wife-Stabber Norman Mailer has been in the news lately due to the fact his son John Buffalo Mailer who is partnering with Mailer biographer J. Michael Lennon on a new trove of Mailer writings with the later writers’ ideas on what American democracy will look like in the future. The man died in 2007 at the age of 84 and lived as big a life as any (we will get into it all today.) Yet, Mailer’s longtime publisher Random House said they will not be associated with this work, instead, Skyhorse publishing (which...

What a Creep: Rush Limbaugh (Talk Radio Creep)

What a Creep

Rush Limbaugh was one of the most popular talk radio hosts and leading voices of the conservative movement in the United States. He was the prototype to Fox News trashcans like Tucker Carlson and Sean Hannity, and even disgraced former president Donald Trump.

What a Creep: Canada's Residential Schools (Non-Creeps: Dan Levy & Eugene Levy)

What a Creep

Margo & Sonia talk about the Residential Schools of North America in this episode which lays out why it happened, how it kept going on for several decades, and the collateral damage of seven generations of cultural genocide. THEN, we talk about Canadians who are NOT Creeps. TW: Child abuse and SA.

What a Creep: (Bonus!) Reality TV Talk with the "Book of Lies" Podcast

What a Creep

Margo & Sonia talk with two of our favorite podcasters, Sunni & Brandi of the Book of Lies podcast about all things reality TV-related including Real Housewives of Salt Lake City, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills, Selling Sunset, Love After Lockup, 90 Day Fiance, the Duggars and more!

What a Creep: Dov Charney (Former CEO of American Apparel)

What a Creep

Dov Charney is the creator of American Apparel, a retail clothing chain that sold the building blocks for your hipster wardrobe - leggings, plain T-shirts, and pants. But it had really sleazy marketing and a dedication to not make their clothes in a sweatshop which made them kinda cool. Unfortunately, Dov Charney is probably more famous for his sexual harassment than he is for American Apparel.

What a Creep (Bonus!): Interview with Trashy Divorces podcast & celebrity divorces

What a Creep

Margo & Sonia talk with two of our favorite podcasters Stacie & Alicia from Trashy Divorces! We talk about the latest celebrity divorces in the news, their new podcast launching this month (Love Letters…), and what they each believe helps make a marriage stronger. Just a bonus episode of fun with a couple of amazing women in podcasting.

What a Creep: Robert Durst ("The Jinx" Creep)

What a Creep

In 2015, HBO released a docu-series that took the nation by storm. The first media interview with Robert Durst, the son of billionaire real estate magnate Seymour Durst, in decades at the time. The then 72-year-old Durst has been accused of three murders in his life and seemed to use his money and privilege to avoid any real penalty. He is now serving time for first-degree murder and will soon be on trial for the murder of his first wife. Will he make it long enough to face a jury of his peers again?

What a Creep: Altamont "Creepy Concert Tragedy" Not Fade Away Replay

What a Creep

The real-life concert tragedy at the Altamont Raceway took place on December 6, 1969, and this replay of "Not Fade Away" digs into what really happened and how this could have all been avoided.

What a Creep: Frank Sinatra (replay)

What a Creep

Margo & Sonia talk about the lifelong creepiness of one of the biggest voices of the 20th Century--Frank Sinatra. A singer, actor, lover, cheater, gambler, and one of the angriest people in show business. (That is really saying something!)

What a Creep: Rex Harrison (Old Timey Hollywood Creep!)

What a Creep

From Henry Higgins to Doctor Doolittle, Rex Harrison is one of Hollywood’s most popular leading men of the 20th Century. With his tall stature, deep booming voice, and his undeniable confidence—audiences ate him up whether he was playing a deceased sea captain in The Ghost and Mrs. Muir or Julius Caesar. “Sexy Rexy” as he was known led a life full of swagger, luxury, success, and often—tragedy.

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What a Creep

Season 5, Episode 6

Mario Batali

Mario Batali is one of the most celebrated chefs of the 21st Century. During his career, he has hosted multiple television shows, authored several bestselling cookbooks, opened Michelin-rated restaurants, was friends with celebrities, was named as GQ Man of the Year in 1999, and won the James Beard Award.

He even made an appearance on The Simpsons “Treehouse of Horrors!”

Batali is also known as a world-class woman-abusing Creep who has been accused of multiple accounts of sexual assault and harassment. Here is his story.

Sources for this episode include:

Eater.com (Irene Plagianos)

NY Eater.com Dec 11, 2017 (Irene Plagianos)

Grub Street (Chris Crowley)

Time magazine (Jamie Duchmare)

Creep Sheet

Esquire 2010

Los Angeles Times (Samantha Masunaga, Jonathan Gold, Amy Scattergood)

CNBC.com (Amelia Lucas)

D-Listed (Alison)

New York Times May 2018 (Kim Severson)

Hollywood Reporter (Abid Raman)