The Nerve with Maureen Callahan
The Shadow of Diddy Loomed Over the Met Gala, Plus Prince Harry's Performative Whining and Lying
Wed, 7 May 2025
Maureen rips into Prince Harry's exclusive whine-fest with the BBC and also highlights Meghan Markle's home-life hypocrisy. Then, Maureen is joined by entertainment reporter, Kinsey Schofield and together they break down this year's Met Gala fashion follies and the dwindling celeb turnout on the red. Plus, she discusses all the latest in the Diddy trial with criminal defense attorney, Thomas Kenniff.
Chapter 1: What are the main segments in this episode?
Welcome to The Nerve. I am Maureen Callahan. If I may say so myself, I think we have a banger of a show for you today. I am dressed in black, in high-necked black. with some Upper East Side pearls because I am in mourning for the culture, but I know you're gonna help me get through it. So coming up, we have incredible guests.
We have my friend and like entertainment slash royal reporter, nonpareil, Kinsey Schofield. She will be joining me shortly to discuss everything about the Met Gala and it is a stew. It is going to be very rich and fun. And then later, I'll be diving into the latest developments in the Diddy trial.
And by the way, there is a Venn diagram between the Met Gala and Sean Diddy Combs and conspirators, alleged conspirators within. That kicked off Monday here in New York City. So an incredible defense attorney, like this guy is a national profile and you're going to love him. Tom Cunniff is going to join us.
But first, first, we added this to the show at the last minute because we need to discuss Prince Harry's latest interview. He sat down with the BBC. He lost a major court case in the UK. Long story short, he's like, hey, UK taxpayers, pay for my security and my wife's security and my kids' security any and every time we come to the UK.
And the court said, sorry, sir, you closed that door a long time ago. You're no longer a working royal. Leave us out of this, please. And so in a grieved Harry, and really, is there any other kind of Harry? said to the BBC, why don't you come on over and I'll give you a 10-minute sit-down. He gave them a 30-minute sit-down.
I mean, 45 is approaching like a psychotherapy treatment, which I kind of think the mainstream media is now providing for Harry. He's just sort of venting. So this interview, which I also columned on for the Daily Mail yesterday, this thing is a doozy, okay? This is Princess Diana sitting down with Panorama, okay? saying that Charles is not up for the top job doozy of an interview.
So we're going to take it apart. piece by piece. Um, now Harry may be the spare as he titled his memoir. He may now be fifth, I believe in line for the British throne. So it's never going to happen. He may be, uh, no longer on speaking terms with his family of origin, their choice, not his, but he wants us to know, and I shit you not that, uh,
Irrelevant to the royals, though he may be, when it comes to whose life is more in danger, who is number one on the threat list, who people want allegedly to see grave harm come to, if not outright death, it's Harry. Harry's number one. He's number one, and he's kind of reveling in it. So let's look at this.
Last R&B assessment I was given, I scored the highest. The only person within the family that scored anywhere near that was my grandmother.
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Chapter 2: What is Prince Harry's latest controversy?
Chapter 3: What are Maureen's thoughts on the Diddy trial?
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And she was like, is this your first night? And I was like, it's my last. And she was like, uh-huh. I mean, I think I should be like grateful I was invited or something. But yeah, I was just like, it felt like a punishment. Like, I just, I cannot, it's not me. And I don't like it. We're dressed up like a bunch of fucking assholes. And we're like, hi, yes. And I have no interest in fashion.
So that was Amy Schumer being extremely candid, and I love her for it. I had the same experience at the D.C. Correspondents' Dinner last week. I left early. It was that bad, okay? So these things are over now. I just want to say a quick word about Anna Wintour, who has been governing – nay, I'm sorry. I would call her terrorist-adjacent. Now, this is a joke, and it's my opinion.
But Anna Wintour has been running this thing – forever. Okay. And to get in, you have to have, first of all, you have to be approved by Anna to get in. You then, if you're bringing a guest, all of your guests have to be approved by Anna. Anna either dresses you or you have to run by Anna what you are wearing. Okay. So this is like She is just a dictator, okay?
And by the way, this is a woman who loves to be very political and she only puts like democratic women on the cover of Vogue, okay? She did put Melania on the cover when she was marrying Trump, but now that she's in the White House, no go zone. But if you wanna call anybody a dictator,
it ain't trump it's anna okay secondly this event the theme was black dandyism okay this is a woke adjacent event by a woman who was editor-in-chief of vogue took three years to put a black model on the cover of vogue you know who that was naomi campbell we're gonna get back to her after george floyd and black lives matter anna immediately wrote a cover your ass open letter my opinion
open letter saying the vogue really needed to do better in hiring people of color to work for her rather than the spawn the nepo babies of celebrities and titans of industry uh that she typically has i don't think it's gotten better over there i'm just saying i haven't heard anything you know change and then sec thirdly thirdly andre leontali who was her sidekick
and who worked for her and actually knew his fashion history for many, many years. And then she suddenly dumped him out of nowhere. She was like, you are persona non grata. This guy wound up living out the rest of his days. He's now dead in poverty in upstate New York. You know, there were very few fashion people who came through for him. And that's how this is the point.
The fashion world is ugly. And it's mean. It is mean, okay? These are not happy people. These are not happy people. And they get off on trying to make you and me feel like shit about ourselves so we can go buy stuff we don't need. Now, there was a bunch of celebrities, there were, excuse me, let me conjugate properly. There were a bunch of celebrities missing in action last night.
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