How To Destroy A Celebrity
Binchtopia
Julia Hava & Eliza McLamb
4.8 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 15 January 2025
⏱️ 82 minutes
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Summary
In the first episode of the new year, the girlies explore the world of celebrity public relations — from the emergence of the modern celebrity to the intricacies of managing a public image. They discuss the storied history and secret theory of PR to answer the important questions: How do you destroy a celebrity’s image? Can it ever be rebuilt and if so, how? Is the key to image rehabilitation simply being a man? Plus, the girlies debut a fun new game, Can You Remember Why We Hated These Women? Digressions include revisiting the phenomenon of being woman’d, holding space for the name Tree Paine, and urging Khloe Kardashian to get a new publicist.
This episode was produced by Julia Hava and Eliza McLamb and edited by Allison Hagan. Research assistance from Kylie Finnigan.
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SOURCES
Ivy Lee: "Father of Modern Public Relations"
The History of Modern Public Relations
Press Agents of Change: Early Hollywood and the "New Publicity".
Media and the Rise of Celebrity Culture
The Evolution Of PR As We Know It
What's the Difference Between PR and Marketing?.
The Long and Strange History of Celebrity
Image repair discourse and crisis communication
Why Actress Sarah Bernhardt Was the First Modern Celebrity
Understanding Authenticity and The Lawrence-Hathaway Carnival Ride of Attraction/Revulsion
Understanding Celebrity Is Celebrity Culture on its Way Out?
Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni: A timeline of the feud and lawsuit between It Ends With Us co-stars
PR expert reads between the lines of the Baldoni-Lively publicity saga
What does it mean to get ‘woman’d’?
The PR astroturfing strategy explained
Fred Inglis, A Short History of Celebrity
Sharon Marcus on The Drama of Celebrity
Why Actress Sarah Bernhardt Was the First Modern Celebrity
Image repair discourse and crisis communication
Medieval Saints and Modern Screens
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to Binchotopia. We hope you enjoy your stay. |
| 0:14.7 | Hi everybody. Welcome back to Binchotopia. Hello and welcome back. I'm Julia Hava. I'm |
| 0:19.6 | Eliza McClam. Is this our first real episode of |
| 0:23.1 | the year? First main episode. Wow. And do we have an episode for you guys? We have such an |
| 0:27.2 | episode. Before we get into things if you would like to support our Patreon, it's patreon.com |
| 0:31.2 | slash Binchotopia. You can get two monthly bonus episodes there. We've really been doing that |
| 0:36.6 | bonus-wise, as well as our monthly |
| 0:38.7 | Zooms and our media sods. We just did a best of the whole year media episode. So if you've |
| 0:43.7 | never listened to one of our media episodes and you want to just get like a full year's |
| 0:47.0 | worth of bests of, that's our most recent episode. That's the place to go. And also people have |
| 0:51.8 | been commenting their best of, which I love to see because I love to get new wrecks. I love that. Well, it hasn't been a great start to 2025, |
| 0:59.7 | hasn't it? Yeah, it's sort of like the world's on fire. Well, I've been thinking a lot about fire, |
| 1:05.3 | like metaphorically. Like, it's crazy. Yeah. When you really, when you really think about it. Of course you would. You are, I know. |
| 1:11.5 | Well, |
| 1:11.6 | that's true. |
| 1:12.2 | I mean, |
| 1:12.5 | fire is just, |
| 1:13.9 | I also have been like, |
| 1:15.3 | I was at my parents' house for a while and we have like a fireplace, |
| 1:18.1 | which is such a lovely thing to be able to do. |
| 1:20.4 | And it's like, hard to get a fire started and then like seeing fire just like take off so quickly like fire |
| 1:28.7 | this is like my stoner brain I'm like fire is so crazy like as a human tool but like |
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