Drama? Among the Drama Queens?? No means! In all seriousness, this appears like a fairly critical feud brewing between the podcast hosts…
As Perezcious readers might know already, Bethany Joy Lenz just lately teased her upcoming memoir titled Dinner For Vampires. As the quilt reveals, the ebook is about Bethany’s “life on a cult TV show while also in an actual cult.” Cute. Implies she’s approaching a extremely grave topic with the great humor distance can convey. Nice.
But it was that very ebook cowl which can have introduced the rising feud between Bethany and her co-stars to a head!
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Fans couldn’t assist however discover the identical day she revealed her ebook cowl final week, Hilarie Burton posted on her socials a quote from Pink:
“I don’t think imitation is the highest form of flattery. I think it’s annoying.”
— Hilarie Burton Morgan (@HilarieBurton) February 29, 2024
What’s that about? Fans assume she’s shading her former One Tree Hill co-star over the ebook jacket considerably resembling the format of hers — a classic-model oval photograph, title huge up prime, creator identify on backside. Hardly distinctive, however y’all can determine for yourselves in the event you assume Joy took inspiration from her co-host.
The factor is, the true alleged friction between them isn’t in regards to the ebook — that’s simply the newest peccadillo poking at Hilarie and their third host, Sophia Bush.
On Thursday, DeuxMoi revealed on her Deux U podcast the tea she heard. Her supply says filming One Tree Hill “was hard and traumatic for all of the girls” again then — one thing we’ve heard lots about in recent times. But there was extra interpersonal drama between the actresses than we knew! The insider went on to tease:
“Joy definitely had a big part in why Hilarie was not asked back to return after Season 6.”
Ooh! Are we speaking Charmed degree issues? In any case, the supply says “it was worth it for all of them to work through it for the Drama Queens podcast.” Sounds nice, proper? Except it was powerful to search out frequent floor!
“They knew it would be tough since Joy has never really had the same, let’s call them values, as the rest of the girls.”
WHA?? What are they hinting at? If you’ve seen a few of her public IG posts — and particularly her personal IG posts — you may need an inkling what that’s about. The insider says Sophia and Hilarie knew Joy had totally different spiritual beliefs than them, however the “intense” posts about LGBT and trans rights had been too far for them! And that was even earlier than Sophia herself acquired right into a lesbian relationship! Per the supply:
“The girls have tried to have so many conversations with Joy about basic human rights, and all I can say is, obviously Sophia is with a woman now and they all have plenty of queer friends, but Joy has drawn her line in the sand, and it’s really hard.”
In different phrases, she apparently has some homophobic and transphobic beliefs she — and her co-hosts — can’t get previous! The supply says it’s gotten tangled with the enterprise as Joy refused to “do ad reads on the equality, inclusion, ally umbrella under iHeart” and “detached herself from a project” they had been all going to pitch as a result of she “didn’t feel right having to portray herself as a mother with a gay daughter.”
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Wow. Sounds like we’ve acquired an actual Candace Cameron Bure scenario on our arms. It’s not simply that she received’t play homosexual, she received’t even play somebody associated to the LGBT group?? That’s some hardcore homophobia proper there if true. Ick. To put it extra explicitly, the insider says:
“It’s hard because all Hilarie and Sophia have ever done recently with Joy is try to bridge the gap between her and the iHeart sponsors, etc, trying to make everyone happy because a lot of Joy’s personal views on vaccinations and LGBTQIA+ do not align.”
Yikes! Apparently Hilarie and Sophia have each commented on a few of Joy’s extra upsetting posts. In response to at least one anti-trans message, Sophia passionately pushed again:
“Less than one percent of all humans in our country are trans, a fraction of them children. The idea that you know them better than their parents do, than their doctors do, that it’s your place to be outraged at their journey? It’s unconscionable. And this decision that you’re wiser than their own parents or medical professionals who assess them over time is what’s rooted in ego. You are not their parents, you are not them. You escaped a cult and yet you let a new cult mentality harm the most vulnerable among us instead of shielding them from harm. I’m sad, mad, I have loved you, and I hate this with my whole heart.”
Damn. Well written!
But that’s not all there’s to the feud…
The supply says all three ladies had talked about becoming a member of forces to jot down one huge ebook collectively about their time behind the scenes of One Tree Hill, noting:
“At least that was the plan until Joy couldn’t stop running her mouth about how gay and trans kids shouldn’t have the same rights as others, and that is just not something Sophia and Hilarie could be involved with.”
But it was allegedly Joy who put the coffin nail within the trio’s model of the ebook by sneakily writing her personal memoir in regards to the present! The sources says she instructed her co-hosts her ebook was “going to be about what it was like to be in a cult and what it was like to leave the cult — she never mentioned it would be about the show at all”!
“So when her book news launched with an eerily similar cover to Hilarie’s and the tagline was basically ‘come read about cults but mainly some behind-the-scenes stuff about my teen drama’ it threw everyone for a loop.”
The supply says Joy didn’t inform Sophia or Hilarie prematurely, again when it was within the planning phases and might be modified — solely when it was about to make headlines!
“There was no offline text before the news launched, just a ‘hey, this is coming and I know it was different from what I said it was going to be, here’s a heads up.’”
Damn. That’s a enterprise betrayal, little question about it. A heads up doesn’t depend for a lot when it’s too late to duck, what we imply?
We must marvel if there’s any means the podcast survives, no less than in its present state, contemplating this a lot unhealthy blood between the hosts. What do YOU assume, Perezcious readers??
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