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That's the dealio when Oscar-nominated Australian auteur Baz Luhrmann gets bailed up by a TikTok street interviewer who's got no idea who she's talking to.

Comedian and guest critic Kirsty Webeck is in to dissect that viral moment between TikTok creator god_worthy and the director of Elvis, The Great Gatsby, Moulin Rouge, Romeo and Juliet, Australia and Strictly Ballroom. 

Kirsty's also got big thoughts on how social media is changing the game for standup comics.

Show notes:

god_worthy and Baz Luhrmann
Kirsty Webeck's TikTok
 

Activist, performer and Drag Race royalty Kween Kong is back in the Stop Everything! guest critic chair to talk about the trailer to Celine Dion's new documentary, controversy on the Cannes red carpet and getting political at Drag Con.

Show notes:

I am: Celine Dion trailer
Kelly Rowland on Cannes red carpet incident
Kween Kong's TikTok account

British broadcaster Piers Morgan has become a main character in the aftermath of the Internet sleuthing around Netflix's Baby Reindeer. What the heck is going on?

Guest critic and ABC entertainment reporter Jared Richards is in to help us figure it out.

And we're also talking about TikTok content – from the cringe to the heartwarming.

Show notes:
Piers Morgan interview with Fiona Harvey
Baby Reindeer: Truth or Fiction, BBC's The Media Show
Rose and Anzai Country Life

Dearest Gentle Listeners, the third season of Netflix's Bridgerton is upon us and it's heaving with bosoms, babes and romantic intrigue.

Series leads Penelope Featherington (Nicola Coughlan) and Colin Bridgerton (Luke Newton) are glowed up and loved up, but *spoiler alert* major twists are on the horizon.

Stop Everything! romance correspondent Rudi Bremer is in to guide you through it all.

Deborah Frances-White host of the hit podcast The Guilty Feminist unpacks unattainable perfection, ageing and spills the tea on the Netflix series Baby Reindeer.

Plus Barbara Streisand's Ozempic post and the algorithms that are serving up outrage.

Vietnamese-Australian actor Hoa Xuande is breaking into Hollywood's big league as the star of HBO's The Sympathizer, a limited series based on Viet Thanh Nguyen's Pulitzer-prize winning novel.

Hoa is Stop Everything's special guest, and he's taking us behind the scenes of this A24-produced series, telling us about how he landed this huge role, and what it was like to act opposite heavyweights like Robert Downey Jr. and Sandra Oh.