Horrifying Perez Hilton Video, and Disturbing Ariana Grande Appearance, with Glenn Greenwald, Plus Surrogate Fights to Protect Baby | Ep. 1375
August 6, 2026
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5 min readThe Jason Arday Scandal and the Collapse of Meritocracy
The University of Cambridge's youngest-ever Black professor, Jason Arday, has resigned—not because the allegations against him were false, but because the scrutiny became too much to bear. In his resignation letter, Arday wrote of "unrelenting" attacks and a need to "reclaim some peace," casting himself as a victim of relentless persecution. But the evidence against him is staggering: plagiarized academic papers, fabricated athletic achievements (including claiming to have run 30 marathons in 35 days, the last nine on a broken leg), invented charitable fundraising, and a biography that appears to be almost entirely fictional. As Glenn Greenwald put it on the show, "It seems like huge parts of it are just false and fabricated."
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What you'll learn
- 1 (01:14) **Show Open & Member Content** - Megan Kelly introduces the show and promotes exclusive content for YouTube channel members, including a documentary about the show’s journey on gender issues.
- 2 (05:39) **Perez Hilton’s Mental Health Breakdown** - Megan introduces the shocking story of celebrity blogger Perez Hilton, who livestreamed a disturbing and apparent suicide attempt on TikTok.
- 3 (07:37) **Ariana Grande's Concerning Appearance** - Megan pivots to growing public concern for pop star Ariana Grande, whose inner circle is reportedly exploring treatment options as she appears "skin and bones."
- 4 (08:01) **The Jason Arday Scandal at Cambridge** - The segment shifts to the resignation of Jason Arday, the youngest black professor in Cambridge history, amid a massive fraud scandal involving his entire biography.
- 5 (11:39) **Arday's Lies and Institutional Complicity** - Megan and Glenn detail the specific, provable lies in Arday’s biography and how the university and police system worked to shield him.
- 6 (20:04) **Arday's Faked Attacks and Victimhood** - Megan exposes the next layer of the scandal: Arday fabricated stories of being attacked to maintain his victim status and silence critics.
- 7 (54:08) **Ariana Grande & Hollywood Exploitation** - Returning from break, Megan and Glenn dive deeper into the Ariana Grande situation, linking her physical deterioration to her child star past.
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Show Notes
Megyn Kelly is joined by Glenn Greenwald, host of “System Update” on Substack, to discuss Cambridge professor Jason Arday resigning after mounting plagiarism accusations and lies piling up, him continuing to play the victim and lean on claims of racism, how Arday and his supporters allegedly used accusations of racism to silence critics questioning his credentials, the role elite institutions played in protecting Arday, Ariana Grande's disturbing new music video and increasingly concerning appearance, questions about who is enabling this situation, Perez Hilton's horrifying livestream before he was hospitalized, how a nonstop life on the internet may have contributed to the crisis, Whoopi Goldberg's claim that she shares the struggles of working-class Americans despite earning millions each year, Martha Stewart's swipe at Meghan Markle after Markle's attempts to build a lifestyle brand, and more. Then McKenna West, surrogate mother, her lawyer, Lincoln Wilson, and Lila Rose of Live Action, joins to discuss West's fight against an attempt to force her to have an abortion after the baby was diagnosed with a heart defect, the legal battle over parental rights and the surrogacy contract, and more.
Greenwald- https://greenwald.substack.com/
West- https://www.givesendgo.com/help-mckenna-fight-for-baby-gabriels-lif
Rose- https://www.liveaction.org/
Wilson- https://first-fourteenth.com/team/lincoln-davis-wilson/
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