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    <copyright>Larry Hackett 2024</copyright>
    <description>What’s the backstory to all those screaming tabloid headlines filling your inbox? Welcome to How to Handle Scandal, where we examine the controversies, court cases, PR disasters and assorted reputational emergencies stalking the modern celebrity. We've set up camp at the intersection of media and fame, where we can best critique how stars succeed or fail in handling these crises, and what says not only about them, but about us and our view of the world and the people around us. Whether it’s about the Royals or Hollywood, we ask the questions you want the answers to. Consider us your user's guide to how celebrity works.</description>
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      <description>Our show today is about something both ancient and very modern, with elements as old as storytelling itself, but with implications that point to directly into our very uncertain future. I speak, of course, about the great Kate Middleton photoshop scandal......what is going on at the house of Windsor and why can’t these Royals get out of their own way? Join former people magazine editor Larry Hackett and People magazine chief foreign correspondent and royals expert, Simon Perry as they dig in, dissect and dish. </description>
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