Summer Scandal: Julia Roberts, runaway bride

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🗓️ 5 January 2025

⏱️ 78 minutes

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Welcome back to another bumper episode in our Summer Scandal series! This time, we’re unpacking Julia Roberts and her runaway-bride era. Goodness me… Massive thanks to the Australian Open for making this episode of Shameless possible! Don’t forget to check out Shameless Media’s new interview show, Inherited, out now on Spotify and Apple Podcasts. Want to support our show? Clicking ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify is the best way to do that, and we're super grateful to anyone who leaves a five-star review while they're at it. Also! An old-fashioned 'Tell a Friend In Real Life' is equally appreciated. Want more? We've got more… Subscribe to the Shameless newsletter, Smart Dumb Stuff: http://eepurl.com/iH2sV-/ Aaaand everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

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0:00.0	This episode of Shameless Media
0:05.6	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by the 2025 Australian Open.
0:12.1	Grab a ground pass from $35 and explore Melbourne's best food alongside world-class tennis.
0:19.8	Yeah, I've got the new moves. Call me a renegade. Hello, we're back. Hello, we're back. As we told you last week with our Sex and the City Bumper episodes, we are resharing our most popular scandals of all time.
0:45.6	And this is one that was not just popular Mitch, but one that we in particular loved doing.
0:50.9	This lives in my head rent-free.
0:53.2	I am so obsessed with this story even now.
0:56.2	Like it's kind of audacious that we split this over two episodes when you actually
0:59.2	think about how a lot happens, but it happens in such a short amount of time.
1:04.9	It's kind of crazy we split it over two.
1:06.6	We definitely could have done it in one, but I think we loved it so hard.
1:09.8	We wanted to spend as much
1:10.9	time as possible just teasing it out. Yeah, it's like, we can just get as much juice out of this
1:15.1	as possible. Now, if you aren't across this story, all the way back in the early 90s,
1:20.1	Julia Roberts had skyrocketed to global fame off the back of her leading role in Pretty
1:23.9	Woman. It was kind of the era of the old school Hollywood celebrity in that
1:29.9	celebrity culture hadn't fractured to the point that it is now. So there were just only a handful of
1:34.3	uber, uber famous people. Julia was one of them. She would after that earn her title as
1:41.5	the runaway bride for a scandal that happened in her real life, not in one
1:46.2	of her movies. Yeah, you really can't get more iconic than a peak A-lister, like absolute
1:50.7	Hollywood A-lister, mysteriously canceling her lavish wedding just days out from the event.
1:57.4	Just take this passage from the New York Post. This was the first real Hollywood scandal of the 90s.
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