Perez Hilton had a public breakdown on TikTok this week, and people are asking what actually happened. Chalene Johnson breaks it down with trigger warnings, including how it connects to his defamation fight with Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds and his brush with death from sepsis this past March.
Chalene also digs into why qualified applicants, including former Elle editor Stacy Deguide, who deleted 15 years off her resume just to get a callback, are vanishing into what recruiters call an AI hiring black hole. A Stanford study found that roughly one in five companies now let algorithms reject candidates before a human ever sees a resume, and Chalene walks through how hiring software like Workday's may be filtering out midlife workers, new grads, and everyone in between.
Rounding out the episode is this week's crackdown on the black market peptide trade. An Indiana company called Paradigm Peptides was sentenced after selling to 54,000 customers in 80 countries, a Michigan dealer got 20 years for relabeling semaglutide as Ozempic, Wegovy, and Retatrutide, and a licensed doctor running a Utah clinic called True Health was caught repackaging BPC-157, TB-500, and other peptides under fake labels for more than 200 patients.
Topics discussed: Perez Hilton, Blake Lively, Ryan Reynolds, Justin Baldoni, TikTok, Ariana Grande, Stacy Deguide, Elle, Stanford University, Workday, Paradigm Peptides, True Health, Justin Watkins, Ozempic, Wegovy, semaglutide, Retatrutide, BPC-157, TB-500, GLP-1, sepsis, ageism.
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Chapters
- 00:00:00 — Intro: AI job screening, the peptide crackdown, and a Perez Hilton preview
- 00:03:46 — Why AI is pushing people toward multiple income streams
- 00:05:01 — Stacy Deguide's story and the AI hiring "black hole" (Elle, Stanford study, Workday)
- 00:09:42 — Resume tips: customize, mirror keywords, use referrals
- 00:11:51 — Warning: an AI deepfake "doctor" in a fake facelift video
- 00:14:43 — Chalene's four lawsuits, four wins, two criminal convictions
- 00:17:22 — Sponsor: Midi Health on peptides and hormones
- 00:20:19 — Peptide crackdown: Paradigm Peptides, a Michigan dealer, and Dr. Justin Watkins' True Health clinic
- 00:24:41 — Peptides vs. plastic surgery: which is really more dangerous?
- 00:27:34 — Sponsor: OneSkin peptide lotion and SPF
- 00:29:36 — Perez Hilton: trigger warning and why Chalene is covering it differently
- 00:32:04 — What happened on Perez Hilton's TikTok livestream
- 00:33:30 — Who is Perez Hilton, the Blake Lively/Ryan Reynolds lawsuit, and his hospitalization
- 00:40:07 — Tuesday's Ariana Grande video, hours before the breakdown
- 00:43:24 — Why we can't look away: the psychology of "don't look"
