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Right now Ariana Grande is getting Oscar buzz for her turn as Glinda in Wicked: For Good, but back in 2018 she was mostly making headlines for her intense romance with the guy who made ‘BDE’ a thing: comedian Pete Davidson. Within two months, they met, got matching tattoos, moved in together, got more matching tattoos, got a pet piglet, got more matching tattoos, got engaged and… got more matching tattoos. We were inundated with paparazzi pics of the two of them holding hands, Ariana looking up at Pete like she wished the lollipop she was sucking on was… something else. And then, barely 6 months later, it all ended as quickly as it began. Pete Davidson was soon branding himself with Kim Kardashian’s name, and Ariana Grande was marrying a dude who looked just like her brother (and don’t even get us started on Wicked co-star Ethan Slater).

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E News (2025): https://www.eonline.com/news/1413523/pete-davidson-ariana-grande-where-they-stand-after-breakup

People Magazine (2022):

https://people.com/music/pete-davidson-ariana-grande-relationship-timeline/

Business Insider (2018):

https://www.businessinsider.com/ariana-grande-pete-davidson-relationship-timeline-2018-6

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In 1985, Disney released a sequel to 1939’s The Wizard of Oz, with production involvement from legends of cinema George Lucas, Steven Spielberg and Francis Ford Coppola. It was directed by Oscar winner Walter Murch and starred a 9-year-old Fairuza Balk (who later went on to star in The Craft) as Dorothy. With that pedigree, you’d think an ‘Oz’ sequel would be a slam dunk, but this film did not have the celebrated reaction we later saw with ‘Wicked’. When the movie was released, parents stormed out of cinemas with their kids, saying it was more like a horror movie than something for children. It bombed at the time, but has since become a cult classic, this is just the gist of the 1985 sequel to The Wizard of Oz that Disney considers a complete disaster they would rather forget - Return To Oz.

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Return To Oz trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qBPKgAXA-28

Guardian article ‘Hear Me Out: Why Return To Oz Isn’t A Bad Movie’ (2021): https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/feb/11/hear-me-out-why-return-to-oz-isnt-a-bad-movie

The Hollywood Reporter article: How George Lucas Saved Return To Oz (2024): https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-features/how-george-lucas-saved-return-to-oz-1235866485/

BBB article ‘How Return To Oz became one of the darkest children’s films ever made’ (2025)

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20250616-the-darkest-childrens-film-ever-made

Interview with Walter Murch on the ‘It Happened In Hollywood’ podcast (2024): https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/walter-murch-return-to-oz/id1437795866?i=1000651291941

‘Remembering Return To Oz’ documentary (2021):

https://www.rememberingreturntooz.com/

The Siskel and Ebert review (1985):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kiDP1WRr4

Return To Oz wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Return_to_Oz

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British man Malcolm MacDonald spent SIX YEARS with a penis grafted to his arm after complications during surgery meant it couldn’t be attached to… the regular spot. He thought he might spend the rest of his life with it just swinging there, but in 2022, Britain’s Channel 4 made a documentary about Malcolm called ‘The Man With a Penis on His Arm’. It detailed the infection that led to the loss of his penis in the first place, and the struggles he had endured waiting for the surgery to finally put his new appendage in the right place. A (Rosie’s Version) of a JTG classic.

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Channel 4 documentary ‘The Man With The Penis On His Arm’:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLqb-FNxh4M

Guardian article (2022): https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/may/03/the-man-with-a-penis-on-his-arm-review-tv-that-makes-you-proud-to-be-british

Daily Mail article (2022): http://dailymail.co.uk/lifestyle/article-10779775/The-Man-Penis-Arm-Man-47-lived-six-years-penis-attached-ARM.html

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You know who doesn’t know much about much unless she hyperfixates on it because she’s researching for an episode? Rosie. So occasionally we’re gonna get some experts in to give us Just The Gist on what they happen to be experts in.

This week: Oshie’s Hair (and the man beneath it - iconic TV host Osher Günsberg) tells us all the things about The Bachelor Universe! From what goes on behind the scenes - like what happened when the Honey Badger picked nobody - to his thoughts on The Golden Bachelor.

Listen to Osher’s podcast Better Than Yesterday right here:

https://podcasts.apple.com/au/podcast/better-than-yesterday-with-osher-g%C3%BCnsberg/id711028488

Get his memoir ‘Back, After The Break’: https://www.harpercollins.com.au/9781460759028/back-after-the-break-a-memoir-from-one-of-australias-most-loved-celebrities-about-life-love-and-living-with-mental-illness-powerful-dark-f/

Get his new book ‘So What, Now What’:

https://www.penguin.com.au/books/so-what-now-what-9781761352300

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On January 28 1986, 'America's Favourite Teacher', 37-year-old Christa McAuliffe, boarded the Space Shuttle Challenger, after beating out 11,000 applicants to become the first regular civilian NASA would ever take to space. Satellites had been sent to schools around the country so children could watch the shuttle launch live from their classrooms. But just 73 seconds after launch, the Challenger exploded mid-air, resulting in millions of children witnessing the moment that Christa McAuliffe and 6 other Challenger crew members were tragically killed. The Challenger disaster turned what was supposed to be NASA's triumphant return to relevance through the "Teacher in Space" program into one of the most traumatic moments in US history, broadcast live into classrooms across the country.

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Netflix doco series 'Challenger: The Final Flight' trailer (2020):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILAeVAgqFV4

National Geographic doco 'Space Shuttle Challenger - 30 Years On' (2016):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8DMmkp_F25Y

You're Wrong About 'Challenger Disaster' podcast episode (2019):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u8qUAhcBKu8

Trusty old wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space_Shuttle_Challenger_disaster

Britannica page: https://www.britannica.com/event/Challenger-disaster

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This story in The New York Times Magazine went ridiculously viral last week because… ooft. ‘She Was Ready To Have Her 15th Child, Then Came The Felony Charges’ was brilliantly written by David Gauvey Herbert, and tells the story of MaryBeth Lewis; a woman who has been having babies via IVF since her mid-forties and doesn’t want to stop - no matter what she has to do to make it happen.

This episode started out as a segment in Breakin’ Nooz, then it turned into a JTG MINI, then it turned into a Medium, then it pretty much turned into a regular-length episode BECAUSE THIS STORY IS NUTS. Rosie gives Just The Gist of one of the most gripping and ridiculously good articles she’s read in a long time. Read it right here in The New York Times Magazine.

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The trash fire human formally known as ‘Prince’ Andrew is now just a regular person, only worse. Same as his former wife Sarah Ferguson, who until recently was still referred to as ‘Sarah, Duchess of York’. It was huge news in October 2025 when King Charles finally released a statement from Buckingham Palace, officially stripping Andrew of all his official titles and kicking him (and ol’ Fergie) out of the 30-room mansion ‘Royal Lodge’. But HOW did they end up this way? What is just the gist of Andrew and Fergie? How did they meet? How did they both end up such entitled, self-serving people (or were they always that way)? We’ve all seen the headlines about Andrew and Fergie’s enduring, years-long friendship with Jeffrey Epstein (and their continued lies about it), but what is it about them and their history together that led to this royal couple both being so… awful? Rosie gives just the gist of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor and Sarah Ferguson.

(CW: While this episode focuses more on the history and lives of Andrew and Fergie rather than the specifics of Jeffrey Epstein’s crimes and Andrew’s alleged involvement in them, those crimes are obviously part of this story so they are mentioned, without detail, at some points. Take care when listening.)

We give you Just The Gist, but if you want more, there’s this:

SO MUCH of the info for this episode came from the incredible book ‘Entitled: The Rise and Fall of the House of York’ by Andrew Lownie (2025)

Interview with Andrew Lownie on an episode of ‘Throwing The Book At Them’ (2025)

Andrew Lownie giving a presentation about his book at the University of Cambridge (2025)

‘The Turbulent Life of Sarah Ferguson’ by Isaac Bickerstaff for Tatler Magazine (2025)

‘Fergie and Andrew: Duke and Duchess of Disaster’ documentary (2020)

‘Downfall of a Duchess’ documentary (1997)

Andrew’s now infamous Newsnight interview with Emily Maitlis

‘Nobody’s Girl’ by Virgina Roberts Giuffre (2025)

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