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Stacy. Admittedly, I'm

2:05

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2:08

It's kind of about a cat. I don't

2:10

know anything about Cat Cora. Give me

2:12

the trashy lowdown. Alright, well, Cat

2:14

Cora made history when she became the first-ever

2:17

female Iron Chef on the

2:19

Food

2:19

Network's hit show in 2005.

2:22

Since then, she's remained a fixture in the food

2:24

world and in pop culture. Cat

2:26

capitalized on her Iron Chef win by

2:28

becoming a lifestyle entrepreneur, author,

2:31

frequent guest of talk shows, contributing

2:33

editor, and advocate for healthy living. She's

2:36

also been the executive chef at many

2:38

restaurants as well as opened and operated

2:41

restaurants of her own.

2:43

I don't think they're all still open, but I think she's opened 18 restaurants

2:46

in her. Holy Cats. Holy

2:48

Cats Cora. Holy Cat Cora.

2:51

She has truly earned the title

2:53

of Celebrity Chef. Alicia,

2:56

you'll be thrilled to learn that she has recipes for

2:58

copycat versions of things like loaded potato

3:00

skins and cheddar bay biscuits. Oh,

3:03

yum. We're going to enjoy some tasty rewards

3:05

from this story's research. Oh, fantastic.

3:08

Anyway, Cat is from Jackson, Mississippi.

3:11

She came out as gay to her family at the age of 19.

3:14

And although Mississippi in the 1980s

3:16

was, you know, maybe not the most open-minded

3:19

place to be, Cat said that she

3:21

didn't really care what anyone had to say about

3:23

her being a lesbian. And it sounds like her family was

3:26

really accepting. So all is

3:28

good. Good on them. In the culinary

3:30

field, she says that she didn't

3:31

experience significant discrimination

3:34

due to her sexual orientation, but

3:36

that women in general were typically unwelcome

3:38

in kind of finer dining type

3:40

kitchens. She told

3:42

HuffPost, for me personally, I've experienced

3:45

more harassment and discrimination as a woman

3:47

than I have as a lesbian. I

3:49

guess that makes high-end kitchens

3:52

sort of open-minded anyway.

3:55

In addition to her many personal and professional

3:57

highs, she's

3:59

also experienced. some significant challenges

4:01

in life as well. She's been married twice

4:04

and unfortunately divorced

4:06

twice also, although great

4:08

for us. Since she's a public

4:10

figure, her divorces and one

4:13

messy post divorce situation

4:15

in particular have also been quite public.

4:18

Me?

4:18

Yeah, let's do this. Absolutely.

4:21

Catherine Ann Cora was born

4:23

on April 3rd, 1967

4:24

in Jackson, Mississippi. Ah,

4:28

Aries girl. Okay. Although

4:31

typically I think when we think of

4:33

Mississippi style cuisine, we think of

4:35

soul food, deep fryers and Kool-Aid

4:37

pickles. What are, I'm sorry, what

4:40

are Kool-Aid pickles? Kool-Aid pickles where

4:42

you mix up a batch of Kool-Aid and

4:44

then you dump all the pickle juice

4:46

out of a jar of pickles and then you pour the Kool-Aid into

4:49

the jar of pickles and you put it in the fridge for

4:51

a

4:51

few hours, a few days, not quite sure on

4:53

the mechanics and then you get a sweet and so, it's a Kool-icle.

4:57

This is brand new information

4:59

to me. I don't think I've ever had a Kool-Aid pickle.

5:01

As far as I know, Kat Cora

5:03

has no experience

5:06

with this whatsoever but it is one of my favorite

5:08

Mississippi food things in the world

5:10

ever. Kool-Aid pickles, who

5:12

knew? Kool-icles. Coolicles.

5:16

All right, so Kat was raised by parents who embraced

5:18

many different types of food

5:20

partly because her father was Greek and

5:22

her mother had traveled all over the world because

5:25

her father was in the military

5:26

so both of her parents had very broad

5:29

palates and, you know, beyond

5:32

maybe your traditional Mississippi cooking. Her

5:34

grandfather, father, and her godfather

5:37

were all restaurateurs. Oh, really? So,

5:40

yeah, she knew at an early age that she would

5:42

also like to

5:44

own restaurants. She was

5:46

interested in all aspects of a healthy

5:48

lifestyle so she majored

5:50

in college and exercise physiology

5:52

and biology

5:54

before going on to attend the Koolinary

5:56

Institute of America, the CIA, in

5:58

Hyde Park, New York. Oh wow, okay.

6:01

It was here that she learned just how male-dominated

6:04

the professional food and restaurant world was.

6:07

Fortunately, though, Kat

6:09

had met one of her idols, Julia Child,

6:12

while she was still deciding how to pursue her

6:14

desire to become an executive chef. Oh, that

6:17

had to have been incredible. So incredible. Julia

6:19

Child gave her very specific and very prudent

6:22

advice,

6:22

saying, you need to go

6:24

to the Culinary Institute of America and

6:26

as soon as possible, get a culinary

6:28

degree.

6:29

Which is what she did. Julia

6:31

Child continued to be a friend and mentor to

6:34

Cora. Cora would tell the Food Network of this

6:36

quote, she taught me a lot about integrity,

6:38

being gracious and about always

6:40

being

6:40

a student. You never quit learning.

6:43

Always be a student of cooking.

6:45

Well, that's a good way to think about it. Absolutely.

6:48

After culinary school, Kat was one of only

6:50

a few women to be accepted to cook at two

6:53

different three star Michelin restaurants

6:55

in France.

6:56

She then returned to the U.S. and made her

6:59

TV debut in 1999 as co-host of the Food Network's

7:03

Melting Pot

7:04

with Rocco Desperito.

7:06

Making a big name for herself in the culinary

7:09

world, Kat

7:09

Cora made history in 2005 when

7:12

she became the first ever

7:14

female Iron Chef on

7:16

the Food Network's hit show Iron Chef America.

7:19

I mean, what an accomplishment. That's amazing.

7:21

Sure. I used to love that show. So

7:24

good

7:24

on her. Her career has been one

7:26

success after another since then, and she

7:28

holds many firsts for women in

7:30

the industry.

7:31

And now we move on to first marriage

7:34

and ugly split. Oh no. Oh yeah.

7:37

So Kat had been in a long term committed relationship

7:39

with her partner, Jennifer, since 1998. They

7:43

share four sons together. In 2013,

7:46

they officially married after being together

7:48

for 15 years. Even as it

7:50

was legal, wherever they lived in 2010,

7:53

the couple did an interview with Working Mother magazine

7:55

where they discussed their journey to becoming parents.

7:58

So they're together. They have four kids

8:01

after they've been together 15 years, then they get

8:03

married. Right. Wow. Well,

8:06

they wouldn't have been allowed to prior. Well, no,

8:08

I get that. I just am anticipating

8:11

the bad that's coming. OK, go ahead. Right. You would

8:13

think this would be like, oh, finally. Finally.

8:15

Yeah. Here's the piece of paper that,

8:18

you know, and yeah, then it all fell apart. OK.

8:20

Kat said, quote, We knew we wanted to have four kids.

8:23

She didn't want to wait. And she got pregnant quickly.

8:26

After she did, we decided I shouldn't

8:28

wait. It would be easier to raise two young babies

8:30

together almost as twins. Jennifer

8:32

could breastfeed for me when I was on the road.

8:35

So the couple used one sperm donor for

8:37

all pregnancies.

8:39

And Cora explained to the doctor implanted

8:41

Jennifer and me with each other's eggs.

8:44

So she gave birth to

8:46

our son, but he's my biological child.

8:49

I carried another son, but he's Jennifer's

8:51

biological child.

8:53

Interesting way to do it. Also, we avoid

8:55

using the names of young children. And I think all

8:57

of her children are still pretty young. So

9:00

we're just that is one heck of a punnett

9:02

square, though. If you think about how

9:04

everything's cross going

9:06

in that one, that's amazing. Jennifer

9:08

would end up giving birth to three of their

9:10

children. Cats gave birth to

9:12

one. And that is their four

9:15

kids. Yep. Four kids, six person family,

9:17

all sons, actually. So

9:20

once the children were born, the parents

9:22

had to go through the process of legal adoption

9:25

because they were a same sex couple. They were not technically

9:27

married. Isn't that incredible? Even though

9:29

they birthed the kids?

9:32

Yes. Wow. Wow.

9:34

They had to become second parent, like

9:36

adoptive second parents to the. Makes sense.

9:39

It's yeah, it's not great.

9:41

I think that's done with now that we have legal

9:43

marriage. But anyway,

9:45

in June of 2012, there

9:47

was a bit of a challenging time

9:49

because Kat was arrested for DUI

9:52

in Santa Barbara, where no where they lived.

9:55

It was determined that she had a blood alcohol

9:57

level of point two zero, which

9:59

is.

10:00

way over the .08 that

10:03

is, you know, danger

10:05

zone. There was obviously some bad press

10:07

stemming from this, not just for the DUI

10:10

but also for the circumstances surrounding

10:12

it and Cora's mugshot.

10:14

The police allowed Cora to come back several days

10:16

later for her mugshot, so in the

10:18

picture she had her hair done, she looked composed,

10:22

she was obviously sober. Cora

10:24

was taken to a sobering house instead

10:26

of jail on the night of her arrest as

10:28

well. A lot of people were like, hmm,

10:31

would that happen to me, random

10:33

nobody if I got pulled over in Santa Barbara? Interesting,

10:35

a sobering house. They just let you hang

10:38

out and get sober. Yeah. Okay. I mean,

10:40

yeah, the Santa Barbara PD spokesperson

10:42

defended the decision and claimed it was

10:44

definitely not because she's a celebrity.

10:46

So, of course not. Sure.

10:48

Quote, the sobering house is a place where cooperative,

10:51

nonviolent people who've been arrested for DUI

10:54

are taken to sober up before being released.

10:57

Before being released and charged

10:59

or? Well, she was charged. Yeah.

11:02

Interesting. But she had

11:04

no prior record. I mean, it was sure

11:07

it was one of those things that happened. She released

11:09

the following statement, quote, I deeply

11:11

regret my decision to drive that evening after

11:14

my designated driver became unavailable.

11:16

I learned a very important lesson from this experience

11:18

and take full accountability for my actions.

11:21

This will never happen again. And

11:23

as far as I know, has not.

11:25

Get on her. So, she was ultimately

11:27

sentenced to three years probation, nine

11:29

months of DUI school, and she paid

11:32

like close to $2,400 in fines. She had received a 120 day suspended

11:35

jail sentence, but

11:39

she

11:39

was at the sobering house. Like she never served

11:42

any jail time.

11:44

Unfortunately, the marriage between

11:46

Kat and Jennifer only lasted two years

11:48

before they would file for divorce in 2015.

11:52

That was certainly not the end of it though.

11:54

This divorce and its aftermath got

11:57

very, very messy.

11:58

Oh no. So. Kat claimed

12:00

that Jennifer was making her life a,

12:03

quote, living hell, unquote,

12:05

and was trying to destroy her, quote,

12:07

at any cost. The accusations

12:10

and fighting went on way longer

12:12

than just like the period of the divorce or even

12:15

the marriage. Really, Kat

12:16

Korah would marry again. Her next

12:19

wife, Nicole, compared

12:21

Jennifer to Ted Bundy in 2020. Wow.

12:27

Yeah, things didn't seem

12:29

to start out terribly with this

12:32

divorce.

12:33

They released a statement, a very civilized

12:35

statement, in November of 2015 when they filed, quote,

12:38

it's with great sadness

12:39

that after 17 years, a tremendous

12:41

amount of work, careful consideration,

12:44

and heavy hearts, my wife and I have mutually

12:46

decided to no longer remain married. In

12:49

love, there is a season, a reason, and

12:51

a lifetime. Oh, I hate that saying. Although

12:54

this is not what we ever imagined, we

12:56

will always have four incredible

12:58

reasons to celebrate our years together,

13:00

our sons. We're forever

13:02

parents to our boys and are jointly

13:04

committed to raising them in a peaceful, nurturing,

13:07

and healthy environment. Good statement.

13:09

Good statement. Interestingly,

13:12

both women filed for divorce.

13:15

What? Yeah, TMZ obtained divorce

13:17

papers

13:18

showing that Kat was requesting joint custody

13:21

of their four sons, but Jennifer was

13:23

requesting to have full physical custody.

13:26

Soon, more details kind of emerged

13:28

into the public and things got

13:31

quite a bit uglier. Kat's

13:33

lawyers filed documents accusing Jennifer

13:35

of badmouthing Kat to the children.

13:38

Also, it was released that the couple had mutually

13:40

agreed that Kat would file for divorce, but

13:43

Jennifer had gone behind her back and filed

13:45

at the same time. Oh, no,

13:48

that's dirty. According to Kat, this

13:50

was just out of spite,

13:53

just a poke-ity-poke-poke.

13:56

Jello pickles everywhere. Kool-Aid

13:59

pickles everywhere. Sorry. Kat

14:02

and her lawyer were asking that Jennifer be required

14:05

to submit to a vocational analysis

14:07

and get a job instead of relying solely on

14:09

Cora

14:10

to support her after the divorce.

14:13

2015 was not all bad for Kat,

14:15

though. That same year, she became the first

14:17

female chef to be inducted into the American

14:19

Academy of Culinary Chef's Hall

14:22

of Fame. That's exciting. Yeah,

14:24

by the American Culinary Federation.

14:26

Her divorce was finalized in 2016,

14:29

and things seemed to calm down for a

14:32

while. But

14:35

Kat remarried, which

14:38

appeared to spark a whole lot of hostility

14:40

between the exes.

14:43

In 2018, Kat was sued by

14:45

the Guernsey Schneider

14:46

accounting firm for breach of contract.

14:49

The firm claimed that as of September 18, 2018, Kat owed

14:51

them a total of $169,171.15

14:58

for work they performed for her over several

15:00

years. Wow, that's $170,000. She

15:03

disputed the claims and blamed her financial

15:06

issues on her ex-wife, Jennifer.

15:08

So the parties reached a settlement agreement.

15:11

This is according to Radar Online, which brought the

15:13

total down to only $144,167

15:15

and

15:20

allowed Cora to pay the balance in installments.

15:23

But the agreement said that if she defaulted, the

15:25

total would bounce back to the $170k-ish

15:30

number. So Radar Online

15:32

reached out to Kat for a statement, and she

15:34

said, quote, The genesis of this action is

15:36

my long-standing and contentious divorce

15:39

with Jennifer.

15:40

As a result of an antiquated system

15:42

with unprotected judges and greedy

15:45

ex-spouses, Jennifer

15:47

was rewarded for taking me to court 16 times

15:50

over the past five years.

15:59

by a court system that imposed a

16:02

receiver to take 100% of

16:04

all income owing to me and

16:06

my businesses in order to pay Jennifer,

16:08

her lawyers, and the receiver. None

16:11

of the proceeds that have been paid to the receiver

16:14

have been released to me and as a result

16:16

of the court's actions,

16:17

I have been left with no money to pay

16:20

taxes, bills, or even to live.

16:23

As a result of Jennifer's actions, there was

16:25

no money to pay the expenses of my businesses

16:28

which were integral to our receiving income.

16:30

I was forced to lay off all our employees,

16:33

cancel our insurance policies, stop

16:36

all marketing efforts, and sell what was

16:38

left of my business.

16:39

I will now take a salary from a third party

16:42

in order to make ends meet.

16:44

Talk about to the cleaners. This

16:46

is where I'm simply too cheap to get divorced.

16:50

I'm sorry, but if you're going to

16:52

output to lawyers in courts

16:54

and y'all get that petty

16:57

over your divorce, I just look at the money

16:59

absolutely wasted. Yeah,

17:02

I mean, it does not have to work that way, but

17:04

clearly it can. Just what you do

17:06

when you're that mad that you're going

17:08

to risk

17:10

financial safety and security

17:13

for a lot of years just

17:15

for spite. It's incredible. Well, I

17:17

have news. Oh, goody. Because

17:20

things only got worse from there. Sounds

17:22

right.

17:23

In 2020, Kat told Page

17:25

Six, never talked to Page Six, that

17:28

since 2015, when the couple filed

17:30

for divorce,

17:30

what she has been dealing with from Jennifer

17:33

is, quote, a nightmare that I can't

17:35

wake up from. Referencing recent

17:37

court documents that she had filed against Jennifer,

17:40

Kat said, quote, it's cyberstalking mental

17:43

and emotional

17:43

distress and abuse.

17:46

In September 2020, Kat petitioned the

17:48

court for a domestic violence restraining

17:50

order against Jennifer. Oh,

17:52

no. In the petition, she cited

17:54

an incident when she claimed Jennifer

17:56

cornered her and Nicole in public

17:58

places like the boys school. or

18:01

like baseball practice,

18:02

invading their personal space

18:04

while making a scene. Hooray!

18:06

So Nicole would be the new wife and

18:09

Jennifer doesn't sound like she's over it. No.

18:11

So here's a quotation, quote,

18:14

her parents witnessed it, all six

18:16

kids, cats four plus Nicole, new

18:18

wife's two,

18:20

saw or heard her cornering Nicole.

18:22

Jennifer got up in Nicole's face. It

18:24

was pretty shocking.

18:25

She's such an uncooperative co-parent.

18:28

For instance, she's taken me to court 15 times

18:30

in four years and has

18:32

basically bankrupted me

18:34

by having to defend myself. Wow,

18:37

that's this is terrible. Yeah.

18:41

So cats, new wife, second

18:43

wife, we will we will get to that. Nicole

18:46

Erlich contributed to the interview and told

18:48

page six

18:49

that Jennifer gets quote, her power and

18:51

happiness from making Kat miserable

18:54

and then

18:54

went on to compare her to Ted Bundy

18:57

as already mentioned. Yikes.

18:59

Kat's petition for a restraining order said

19:02

the final straw and this

19:04

this is a good final straw was

19:07

when she, Nicole and their

19:09

six kids were home together and

19:11

a strange man trespassed onto

19:13

their property and approached a window while

19:16

shouting. Uh oh. Right.

19:19

Cora says I didn't know if we were being robbed,

19:21

if we were going to be killed, if he was trying to get

19:23

into our house, I had no idea who

19:25

this person was. So

19:28

Nicole ran after the guy and they

19:31

got him surrounded until police arrived.

19:34

He was there to serve legal papers.

19:36

So Jennifer had sent him,

19:38

but Kat claims he never rang the front doorbell

19:41

and instead quote, criminally trespassed

19:43

and didn't leave when we told him to stand off

19:45

our property until the police came.

19:48

The police told us that we absolutely should file

19:50

a restraining order against Jennifer

19:52

quote. She's never cared if I needed to be

19:54

with my mom or the kids or anything.

19:57

Kat wrote in the restraining order

19:59

petition.

19:59

and quote, her whole goal in life

20:02

is for me to fail, be destroyed,

20:04

not have a relationship with the kids. For

20:07

everyone I know, I am a bad person.

20:09

She's desperately trying to make me seem like a

20:11

bad person, bad mother, anything

20:14

to hurt me. This sounds

20:16

very vindictive. Yeah, we don't

20:18

actually know when this is going

20:21

to find, I mean, this looks like it may continue being

20:23

a fight until the youngest

20:25

child turns 18 or 21.

20:28

As of August 30, 2022, Kat still legally owed Jennifer $100,000

20:31

in support obligations according to

20:36

TMZ.

20:37

Jennifer quit taking her to court, man.

20:40

You're just, you're in the divorce financial

20:42

hole by this point. Apparently she's got 100,000

20:45

reasons to keep taking her to court. So. Okay,

20:49

well, that was a, that was, that

20:51

was a lot of drama, conflict, bad

20:53

divorce. We're going to take a little break

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Alicia, what would a story even

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be if it didn't involve a weird fling with a

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housewife? I'm

23:59

I'm still trying to get over Kool-Aid pickles. So

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continue on with Brandi Glanville. I knew

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that was going to blow your mind.

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In 2017, page six reported

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that Kat and Brandi Glanville had

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a lesbian fling,

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as they so helpfully put it, while

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filming the cooking show, My Kitchen Rules.

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Brandi Glanville has long described her

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sexuality as fluid. Glanville

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addressed it on Watch What Happens Live and

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said that she actually considered settling

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down with Kat,

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but then Brandi remembered how attracted

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she was to men and decided that she couldn't

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commit to another woman

24:33

for the rest of her life.

24:36

The former Real Housewives of Beverly Hills

24:38

star explained the brief relationship saying,

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she's hot, she's talented, why not?

24:43

I mean, that's fair. When

24:45

host Andy Cohen asked Glanville

24:48

if she could see herself settling down with a woman,

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she said, quote, I did actually

24:52

think that because she's so cool and talented

24:54

and wonderful, but then I saw a hot guy

24:56

walk by and I was like, oh, wait.

25:01

So according to page six, Brandi

25:03

Glanville and Kat hooked up for like

25:06

a couple weeks, but Brandi ultimately

25:08

called it off because she could not be in a serious

25:11

relationship with a woman or it

25:13

sounds like maybe anyone. Anybody, yeah.

25:15

Based on our earlier discussion of,

25:17

you can go listen to that episode. Second

25:21

marriage, finally. Okay,

25:23

in 2017, Kat began dating producer Nicole

25:27

Ehrlich, music industry executive.

25:30

Okay.

25:31

The couple quickly fell in love and they decided

25:33

that they wanted to spend the rest of their lives together.

25:36

While planning their dream wedding, they appeared

25:38

on an episode of TLC's Say Yes to the

25:41

Dress.

25:41

Oh, exciting. Where they each

25:43

chose a beautiful gown to wear to their

25:45

wedding. Nicole is not

25:47

as famous as her now ex-wife,

25:51

but has actually been

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in the entertainment industry for more than 20 years. She's

25:56

an accomplished

25:56

director and producer. She's

25:58

won both a Grammy and an Emmy. Emmy. Her

26:01

Grammy came from her work on Lady Gaga's

26:03

Bad Romance video and her Emmy

26:05

from Lady Gaga Presents

26:08

the Monster Ball Tour at Madison Square

26:10

Garden, an HBO special. Oh,

26:12

that's great. Yeah.

26:13

According to Distractify, they found each

26:15

other on the dating app Raya. Interesting.

26:18

The super elite,

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the app for all the super famous.

26:23

When they met, Nicole said it was

26:26

love at first

26:27

on April 21st, 2018. They

26:30

married at the Via Verano estate

26:32

in Santa Barbara. Today was such

26:34

a magical day. I married the love of my

26:36

life. Nicole, in front of all our family

26:39

and closest friends, Kat told

26:41

Us Magazine to share our love

26:43

and commitment to one another alongside our

26:45

six sons was a dream come true. We

26:48

couldn't have asked for a more perfect day.

26:51

And of course, Nicole brought her two sons

26:53

into the marriage. So that's the six. Yes, four

26:55

perfect. Six family of eight. It's like

26:58

the Brady Bunch boys alone.

27:00

A lot. A lot. It's a lot. It's

27:02

John and Kate plus. All right.

27:05

The two kept their career separate for the most

27:07

part, but they worked together on

27:09

Kat's collaboration with California's

27:12

Miller Family Wine Companies'

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Hand on Heart collection. Hand on

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Heart is a collection of premium non-alcoholic

27:19

wines. They sell for about $15

27:21

a bottle.

27:22

There's a Chardonnay, a Cabernet and

27:24

a Rose. And not only are they alcohol

27:26

free, but they're also lower in sugar, calories

27:29

and carbs. So basically everything

27:31

you want in wine has been removed.

27:34

Fantastic. No, that's unfair.

27:36

I've not tried the product. Unfortunately,

27:39

Kat was no luckier in love on

27:41

the second go round. Oh, no.

27:44

Kat and Nicole announced their split in April

27:46

of 2021 after three years of marriage. Yeah,

27:49

it's not terribly long. No, but

27:52

you have to imagine

27:54

if Kat is just being like

27:56

pummeled by Jennifer. Yeah. Just trapped

27:58

in this like ongoing litigat. and accumulating

28:02

debts for legal service, just the whole nine. I'm

28:04

sure it was stressful. Thankfully,

28:07

for both of them, this divorce seemed

28:09

to go a lot more smoothly than the

28:11

first one. Well, because she's still trying to divorce wife

28:13

number one. So TMZ

28:16

got hold of the settlement agreement and

28:18

learned that Nicole was awarded some furniture,

28:21

some jewelry, a few bank accounts. There

28:23

were three cars, a 2010 Lexus RX350, a 2015 Audi CV, and

28:29

a 2017 Jeep.

28:31

Kat retains full ownership of her companies

28:34

to the extent that she held

28:36

ownership. I guess

28:38

any shares that maybe Nicole

28:40

had acquired in the marriage reverted. Not

28:42

sure. Who gets the Jello Pickles?

28:45

Sorry, the Kool-Aid Pickles. Both women

28:47

waived the right to spousal support

28:49

because

28:50

they're both okay. Okay.

28:53

So onto that wine company collaboration,

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the marketing director for Miller Family Wines. commented

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on it and also kind of on the end of Kat

29:02

and Nicole's marriage.

29:03

Nicole doesn't drink and the

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couple couldn't find a selection of non-alcoholic

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wines, so they reached out to the Miller family.

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The upshot is that it launched the joint

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venture between Kat and the Miller family

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hand on heart wine. In other words, although

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the marriage between Kat and Nicole ended,

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it could also be said to have been the beginning of

29:21

a beautiful relationship between Kat

29:24

and the winery. Oh, well that's

29:26

nice. Sure. I mean,

29:28

I appreciate people on their sober

29:31

journey or maybe you just don't like

29:33

alcohol too much. So having an alcohol free

29:35

alternative, that's great. Sure. I

29:38

know there's a boom market

29:39

on that right now because a lot of people are sober

29:42

curious trying to moderate. It's

29:44

all good. The pandemic was hard on everybody.

29:47

Let's be honest. And

29:49

we're using past tense why the pandemic

29:52

was and is still a little

29:54

bit hard. Let's say 2020 was hard on everybody. This

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won the competition with the impressive recreation

32:04

of the iconic lift in Dirty Dancing

32:06

when Patrick Swayze lifts Jennifer

32:08

Grey.

32:08

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on her. A proud cat said, we

32:12

worked so hard for that.

32:14

The fact that we nailed that lift, we

32:16

got one shot at it and we nailed it. I

32:18

was just overcome with so much emotion.

32:21

It was magical. Amazing.

32:24

The dancing partners practiced the lift in

32:26

a lake the way that Patrick

32:28

Swayze and Jennifer Grey did. Well that's how you have to learn the

32:30

move. In the movie.

32:33

The competition meant a lot to

32:35

Kat for many reasons. She

32:37

said she had to step out of her comfort zone,

32:39

be vulnerable, doing something that she hadn't

32:41

done before and that she was older

32:44

than the other competitors at the age of 55.

32:47

Of overcoming all of these challenges and

32:49

nailing the lift, Kat said, quote,

32:51

that was really empowering. And she

32:54

also wants

32:54

women and young girls to know

32:56

that you can do anything at any age.

32:59

Never put yourself in a box or

33:02

to put it more appropriately.

33:05

Nobody puts baby in the corner.

33:07

That's amazing. So that is the

33:09

current sitch with Kat

33:12

Cora, celebrity chef,

33:15

dancer and escapee

33:17

from Mississippi. That

33:20

was an incredible story. We're going to get mail

33:22

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33:25

we need to know where to get the best. Kool-Aid

33:28

pickles in Mississippi. We need more.

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What flavors should we try if we're

33:32

going to try this at home? Need more details about

33:34

the Koolicles, friends. I've read about them. I

33:37

have not driven through Mississippi in a number

33:39

of years at this point, but I'm so

33:41

sad I didn't know to look for them when I did

33:43

back in the day.

33:45

OK, Stacey, that was quite a ride. How

33:48

many trash cans for Kat Cora? I

33:51

think we're talking like

33:53

the trash cans behind a fine dining

33:55

restaurant at the

33:56

end of a busy Saturday

33:59

night. something along

34:01

those lines. Sure, sure. Hiding behind

34:03

the grease trap. Yeah. But

34:06

they stay hidden

34:07

for six years and it

34:09

takes 15 court cases to find them. Yeah,

34:11

that seems right. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. What

34:14

a story. Thanks for that. You're

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