“DOUBLE DATE” PODCAST HOSTS PHIL DONAHUE & MARLO THOMAS

“NEW AMSTERDAM” STAR RYAN EGGOLD

AIR DATE: THURSDAY, MARCH 11^TH

VIDEOS:

Phil Donahue & Marlo Thomas on Princess Diana and Harry & Meghan’s Interview with Oprah

https://drewbarrymoreshow.cimediacloud.com/r/tAESwSElgW8g

Drew: I didn’t even get to talk to you about dancing with Princess Diana. Phil was that fun?

Phil: My dancing partner, I’ve never had so many pictures taken of me as when I was dancing with Princess Diana.

Drew: Did you happen to watch the Harry and Meghan interview?

Marlo: I felt so sorry for the Queen. That poor woman. What she’s been through trying to keep that family up. I mean every time she turns around wham something else has gone wrong, Prince Andrew, Prince Charles and Camilia and Diana dying. I mean, I really feel for her. Phil said he just wished he had the interview.

Phil: I felt very jealous of Oprah. I mean that’s the kind of interview I would have loved to have had.

Marlo: I bet you would have too right Drew?

Drew: Of course. Absolutely because there are so many eyes on these two humans but they are two humans and when you talk about The Royals, there is a precedence of behavior and lifestyle that may not be human in our modern times. So it’s a very vital and overwhelmingly interesting discussion. And Oprah, attributes to so much of her career to the road that you’ve paved Phil Donahue because of the fact that you did open the opportunity to have these conversations with people.

Phil: Well she’s been very generous to me and we’re pals.

Marlo: I hope they make it. I really do. I always cry at weddings because they are so full of hope and you hope that every couple has the privacy to nurture their relationship.

Phil & Marlo on Opening Up Publicly About Their Marriage For the First Time in 40 Years After Talking with Couples Like Kelly Ripa & Mark Consuelos on Their Podcast

https://drewbarrymoreshow.cimediacloud.com/r/hyz6gtjemtvJ

Marlo: When Phil and I first got married and we did it so that nobody knew about it until we got out of the country for our honeymoon and when we got back we were asked to co-host the Emmys, the People’s Choice, be on the cover of People magazine and it was a bit overwhelming and we looked at each other and said, ‘Let’s not do this. If we stay out of it maybe people will leave us alone.’…So we decided we won’t do interviews about our marriage, we won’t co-host anything, we will just lay back and try to have our privacy so we can find out who we are as a couple. When I first had the idea to do the book and the podcast Phil said, ‘I’ll go with you but I’m not talking about our marriage,’ but once we got on these double dates and people talked about their jealousy. Mark Consuelos, who is married to Kelly Ripa, talked about his jealousy so Phil talked about his jealousy. They talked about fighting, we talked about fighting. They talked about spending money, so whatever they talked about we talked about. It was a real double date and it was fun and I learned stuff about Phil and he learned stuff about me. We learned how to work together. We had never worked together because we were always afraid we would kill each other because we are both Type A personalities, and we are both kind of bossy and so we felt we wouldn’t make it but after 40 years we did it.

We did it. 

Phil: Yeah, after 40 years here we are and you know once in a while I get to say a few things. 

Marlo Thomas and Phil Donahue Instantly Clicked During First Meeting in 1977

https://youtu.be/-RzdjN3DOws

Ryan Eggold & Drew on Their Shared NY Car Towing Experience

https://drewbarrymoreshow.cimediacloud.com/r/rAoQblAxK98W

Drew Reveals Her Best Tips to Achieving the Perfect Brow

https://youtu.be/iRhEbygtdXU

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