Listen up! Dear Media president Paige Port and DITL (a.k.a. Day in the Life) host is spilling all the secrets to building a top-charting podcast. 

While the entertainment expert, who has interviewed Jordin Sparks, Harry Hamlin, and Hannah Brown, is usually uncovering celebrities’ daily routines, ET flipped the script to see how Port manages her own busy schedule.

“During the week, I’m up around 6 a.m. and I start the day with a workout. I usually do a mix of F45, obé, and Form before shifting into mom mode,” she shares. “My husband gets our two kids up and out of bed, and by the time I get home, it’s time to get them ready for school.”

From there, the entrepreneur heads to the network’s office in West Hollywood, California, where she helps A-listers like Khloé Kardashian, Scheana Shay, and Kristin Cavallari turn their ideas into hit shows.

“My day is typically spent in meetings with our talent and team,” Port notes, which includes Dear Media founder and The Skinny Confidential Him & Her co-host, Michael Bosstick.

As for why many stars are flocking to this format: “A podcast gives them the time and space to share their stories in their own words. It creates a direct, intimate connection with their audience that feels both unfiltered and intentional.”

Whether Port is the behind the mic, or behind-the-scenes, she believes authenticity is essential for making engaging content.

“People want depth and connection in a way that fits into their daily lives. … It’s all about creating a space that feels warm, inviting, and curious,” she shares.

“If you’re truly interested, that energy translates and makes the conversation more engaging. … When guests feel listened to and not rushed, they open up and share the most candid moments.”

As for other tips to flourish in the space, Port says consistency is key.

“The shows that succeed are the ones that show up week after week and build trust with their audience over time. Also, good audio and video quality always helps.”

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“Didn’t she leave her husband for this 15 minutes of fame?”

It’s the end of an era for Bobbi Althoff, as the online personality announces that her podcast, The Really Good Podcast, is coming to an end. She made the announcement during what turned out to be her final episode on July 31.

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“Guys, I don’t think there’s any really good way to say this, but this is the last episode of The Really Good Podcast,” she began. After a moving rendition of Hallelujah, Althoff, who was wearing all-black mourning clothes, spilled the beans.

“This podcast started off with just a girl with a dream to make more money,” she quipped.

“I knew when I started that it was gonna go places. I didn’t know that I would fall off as quickly as I did. To be honest, I did think this was gonna last a bit longer. But nevertheless, it lasted a minute, and I’m proud of the accomplishments I had. I’m pretty sad it had to end like this, but it’s OK… It has been a dream, every second of it.”

Divorce and controversy

After establishing herself as a mommy TikToker, Althoff launched her podcast in mid-2023. Her deadpan humor and overall cluelessness helped the podcast — which featured guests like Megan Trainor, Offset, Jimmy Kimmel, Jason Derulo, and Michael Cera — soar in popularity.

But it was Bobbi’s interview with Drake that really put her on the map. The intimate discussion, which featured the pair in bed together, amassed 1 billion views and 300 million likes, according to Deadline.

Following the podcast episode, her husband, Cory, filed for divorce, which led to speculation that she may have cheated on her spouse with Drake.

These rumors intensified when Bobbi wiped the podcast episode from all platforms, with Drake and Bobbi appearing to unfollow each other on social media. Things then hit a fever pitch when Bobbi was allegedly thrown out of a party attended by Drake after showing up uninvited.

Since then, social media’s narrative has been that Bobbi “abandoned her family” for fame, which led to her losing a number of fans who supported her from her mommy vlogger days. To this day, netizens continue to peddle this theory on X.

“Nuclear family unit destroyer Bobbi Althoff’s podcast is officially ending,” one wrote. “Is America finally healing?”

Another asked, “Didn’t she leave her husband for these 15 minutes of fame?” While a third opined that Bobbi “was a bad person who abandoned her family to hang with rappers.”

“People saw through it,” they added.

As of now, Bobbi hasn’t revealed the reason for pulling the plug on her own podcast. Are her fifteen minutes of fame finally up?

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With the recent premiere of TNT’s all-new adventure series The Librarians: The Next Chapter, we challenged the series’ stars Callum McGowan and Bluey Robinson to reveal their internet and app habits through a series of questions.

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Do they wake up and check the same app as you every morning? And what kind of YouTube rabbit holes are they getting sucked down? Watch the video below to find out how your addiction to the internet compares to theirs!

DAILY DOT: What’s the first website or app you check every morning?

BLUEY ROBINSON: The first website or app that I check every morning used to be Instagram, and then I realized I need to stop doing that. So now I don’t look at my phone in the morning. I kind of just let my brain wake up a little bit, and then I go on Instagram and WhatsApp. And probably, I’m giving you a three-answer question, probably the Calendar app to check my diary for the day and see where my head’s at, and what I have to do.

CALLUM MCGOWAN: I would probably say mine is WhatsApp, because over here in Serbia, we don’t have our normal phones, we have an internet sim, so that’s how people communicate with me while I’m here. So I say the WhatsApp. Did I say “the WhatsApp” like I’m 85 years old? I did. And then I also say maybe Sky Sports News, because I’m an Arsenal fan, and I just want to see good news about Arsenal, which rarely happens.

Did you Google anything to prepare for your roles in The Librarians: The Next Chapter?

BR: I Googled the show as I had never seen it before. I Googled my castmates once I knew who they were, and I was very disappointed [laughs]. And yeah, some of the lore of this show, some of the topics we speak about, some of the characters, and some of the myths and legends we speak about.

CM: I’ll confess I did not Google to prepare for the role, mainly because the script, the original pilot, was so strong that I didn’t really need to that. Vikram exists in that world on the page. So I could search Victorian dressing or whatever it is, but that doesn’t really exist in the world. So everything I needed was in that page.

What goes down in the The Librarians group text?

CM: Mainly our group text consists of: “Where are you?”, “Get in the car?”, “Why are you late?”, “Shut up.” That’s pretty much our group text, and then maybe a silly video of Jess [Green] doing something odd.

BR: Mostly location stuff when we’re at work, or the menu for lunch.

CM: For some reason, every time we go out, Blue has to text us pictures of himself in numerous outfits for the evening. Don’t know why does it every night.

BR: I did that one time! I was like, “Yo, this one, or this one, or this one?” And then the group decided, and then it was great.

Is there a YouTube rabbit hole you’re always getting sucked into?

BR: There are a few. Some political stuff. I like learning about, quite like my character, I like learning about history that is kind of newly discovered. Whether it’s ancient Egypt or finding lost cities in the Amazon, or pyramids popping up, popping up in places they never knew existed, and discovering. There’s a place called Göbekli Tepe in Turkey, and I think it’s like, 14,000 years old, and it’s very developed for the time and period that it was supposed to go in, so they don’t understand it. And I just get stuck down those sometimes.

CM: The one I’ve recently gotten into is re-watching music videos from the ’90s, because I have this massive sense memory of knowing where I was when I heard, you know, TLC “Waterfalls,” or stuff like that. And I’m like, “Oh, I remember being in my grandma’s house in the corridor, and it smelt this way.”

What does your TikTok algorithm look like?

CM: What my social media algorithm is a lot of videos of animals, especially otters. And no matter how hard I try, that’s what I see.

BR: I got into a run of flying squirrels and the little tiny ones that people have as pets that just jump off the cupboard or something into their hands.

You can catch Callum and Bluey in new episodes of The Librarians: The Next Chapter, airing Mondays on TNT.