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Chapter 1: What is trending online this week?
The Clare Byrne Show on Newstalk with Aviva Insurance.
Well, also joining us this morning, have you got a fabulous Maserati in the car park this morning off the back of your investments, Olivia Fahey?
No, I really wish I did, though, because Maseratis, you know, they are just very, very beautiful cars.
I can see you in one of those. So you're joining me today to go through all that is trending online this week. Let's start with this. ...of yours really is an attractive quality. Thank you. It was either that or get my hair highlighted. Smugness is easier to maintain.
Your girlfriend called the clinic 15 times looking for you today.
Ha. A lot to discuss. China patterns.
House, she's a stalker.
Right. Couldn't be that she finds me interesting, attractive. Has to be that she's insane.
She's called you 15 times. Your mother's not that interested in you.
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Chapter 2: What sparked the online spat involving Hugh Laurie?
And he replied to that tweet and he goes, oh, I'm really sorry if people have been having a go at you because of my tweet. That was not at all the plan. I was very slightly drunk and already upset about something that had nothing to do with you. If it's any comfort, I got it in the neck too. And I would say he absolutely did.
I love it he said he's a thin skinned twat so he really did put his hands up I think there is a note there for everybody when you've had a few drinks don't go on X and certainly don't let your fingers start moving on the keyboard we need like breathalysers on our phones to be like maybe you shouldn't be tweeting this
the phone away okay somebody else who's getting into a lot of trouble online I have seen this one is Gwyneth Paltrow yes so look it's not the first time that Gwyneth has rubbed people up the wrong way but this time it seems to be very much what people are calling a tone deaf kind of collaboration she has been advertising a new luxury apartment development in Israel and
you know, of course, during when the country's genocidal war in Gaza is taking place. So she's starring in a campaign for 51 Park, which is called a high-end residential project in, and I'm going to butcher this and I apologize, Herzliya, a wealthy coastal city north of Tel Aviv.
So she's appearing in the ad campaign and there's a lot of people who are very up in arms about this to the point that one fan actually wrote on Twitter, "'Imagine advertising luxury villas in Nazi Germany during the Holocaust. That's the level of tone deaf that we're witnessing.'"
So in this ad, she is going for a run, isn't she, around New York. That's actually where it's filmed. She's going for a run across Central Park. And then she comes back to her own condo or her own apartment block probably and says, all the most fabulous apartments in the world are built beside parks. And then this reference then to this apartment block in Israel.
I was actually a bit surprised, not necessarily that she is the face of this real estate project. And, you know, I respect people have their own opinions on that. But why would somebody like Gwyneth Paltrow, who is so conscious of her brand, who no doubt pays people around her hundreds of thousands of dollars to protect her reputation, to protect her image.
kind of take this risk honestly that was what was kind of surprising me as well because like yes we've said before like she has come under fire for some comments especially to do with some of her group group brand um items and things like that but for this like this is such a touchy subject for so many people and it's like no matter what side of the fence that you're on you can kind of see why people would kind of choose to be taking a step back from things like this just to avoid any kind of
controversy but no she seems to have kind of dove head first into it so and hasn't responded to the racism yet no not at all has gone silent in the Paltrow camp only murders in the building I have to say Olivia I'm late to this what is this oh no So this is one of my favourite murder mystery series. It's on Disney Plus and it stars Steve Martin, Martin Short and Selena Gomez.
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