I was kind of surprised to hear you on deuxmoi podcast, can you share a bit more of the experience? what's your impression of her?
if you already talked about it, sorry, I might missed the post(s), but I'm super curious. I follow her because I like gossip (sorry not sorry), yet I'm not sure what to think of her. does she actually have the sources or is she just being fed by randoms and PR people?
yeah i'm happy to share my perspective on all things deux moi:
so back in the day when deux moi first came on the scene i was interested but skeptical on things. i remember discussing some messages she got about taylor when she lived on cornelia st. i didn't talk about her a ton and probably the most i ever commented was when tree told her no joe and taylor didn't get married. i probably talked some shit about that but nothing crazy.
then me and torry were looking for a new recurring series to try out and one we tried was a game show called "blocked by deux moi" (torry accidentally got blocked by her somehow) and i had to start listening to deux's podcast because our game show questions hinged on what deux had said and i was actually impressed with deux's podcast for 2 reasons:
she just sounded normal. she wasn't peddling conspiracy theories, she wasn't calling everyone gay, pr relationshipped, and secret sex worker "yachters". she was just chatting about and passing along gossip she had heard and she was also dosing everything with some skepticism. she called some of her listeners 'crazy' (in a light hearted way) at one point for believing deep conspiracy theories about harry styles i remember that. it was really refreshing compared to some other gossip accounts that pass themselves off as insiders with knowledge of everything that's ever happened and push conspiracy theories really hard instead of approaching with skepticism.
in every single podcast episode, there is a disclaimer that everything she's sharing might not be true. i really respected that!
once i listened to her podcast i became a fan! it was just pretty reasonable and entertaining gossip and her personality cracks me up.
BUT THEN there was a little drama because on one of her lives someone brought me up and it was reported to me that she "talked shit about me" i got pissed and emailed her because wtf i've never done anything to her and i quickly realized she truly wasn't talking shit. after a matter of hours we buried the beef and i told her i'd send her some tips to make up for me needlessly yelling at her lol. i broke down this little drama in this absolutely hilarious episode of my bonus pod "feuding with deux moi".
so we started emailing a touch and i did have a little tea for her (nothing crazy) and so she had me on her pod to talk about the tayvis wedding before it happened and now again after it happened!
my experience in working with her has been great. she is super respectful and polite even though i have a fraction of her following and she also just seems genuinely passionate and has a love for good ole gossip. she really wants to get to the bottom of things and find stuff out for her followers.
in terms of does she have sources- yes she absolutely does! they're not right about everything but she gets plenty right. off the top of my head quickly, she was right about karlie coming to the wedding, she was right about tayvis being an item before it was announced, like the woman gets stuff right all the time.
but she also fields random gossip sent to her in dms or via email by all sorts of people, and some of it is truly wild, unvetted stuff. but she shares it because the tagline or her show/account is "gossip for the people by the people" as in it's a democracy where anyone can send stuff in. which can make for very entertaining conversations! even if it's not true. so you also just have to keep that in mind while consuming deux moi is that part of the appeal of her show is that it's truly like you and your friends gossiping together, even if you don't have a bunch of perfectly vetted sources.
i think on her podcast, it comes off really clearly what she hears from a vetted source vs what a random dmed her and the amount of confidence she has about gossip given how vetted the source was. but on her instagram account maybe a little less so (harder to communicate over written stuff compared to voice), which gives people the false impression she has zero vetted sources.
i can hard confirm the woman has vetted sources because she has heard all the same thing i have heard from MY vetted sources about this wedding!
now, this does not mean i endorse everything she's ever said or agree with every take she's ever had. but i've really enjoyed working with her and i enjoy her podcast!