Kylie Jenner's Pervert Glasses
6/29/202650 min
Why has Kylie Jenner made a pair of glasses with 'Earth's Most Malevolant Dweeb' Mark Zuckerberg? How has Love Island become America's favourite show? And has Michael Barrymore made a comeback via TikTok?
Richard Osman and Marina Hyde discuss the enormous success of dating reality show Love Island, and why audiences are preferring TV lotharios over Hollywood stars.
Kylie Jenner has partnered with Meta to sell AI powered 'smart-glasses'. Are celebrities finally buying into Silicon Valley, and what does it mean for the world's privacy?
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First 90 secondsMarina Hyde· Host0:01
The Rest is Entertainment is presented by Octopus Energy. Now, fan mail is one of entertainment's strangest bargains. You send total devotion one way, and the understanding that nothing may come back.
Richard Osman· Host0:12
Certainly in our day, you would write to a film star or a singer. I wrote to Howard Jones. Uh, and you maybe three months later, a sort of signed photo comes back that's clearly pro forma, you know, that, that you, you know Howard's never really looked at.
Marina Hyde· Host0:23
Steve Martin used to have the pro forma sort of thing, which would just leave blanks, like insert, like small details and to make a joke about how completely impersonal his personal reply to you was.
Richard Osman· Host0:35
Now- And it was just like a standard thing ... impersonal is interesting, that's why we're talking about this, 'cause with Octopus Energy, you always can reply to their emails. And not only can you reply to them, they will go to the same small group of people who always deal with you. That's, like, unbelievable.
Marina Hyde· Host0:48
It's almost unprecedented that a company you're giving your mon- your money to will actually respond to you.
Richard Osman· Host0:53
Yeah. Are contactable- Yeah ... in some way. [upbeat music] This episode is brought to you by easyJet. You must have had that moment when you're watching a film, but you completely tune out the plot and start daydreaming about the location instead.
Marina Hyde· Host1:09
The bright Mediterranean colors on screen suddenly make the British weather look even grayer.
Richard Osman· Host1:13
And sometimes it doesn't even take the Technicolor. Put on a black-and-white thriller set on the Italian coast, and I'll enjoy the mystery. But part of me is already working out which flight gets me nearest, preferably with less identity theft and bluer skies.
Marina Hyde· Host1:25
For me, it is Greece. Once the rumor started that a certain star-studded musical