Vault: Listeners Have Thoughts on the Cheating Scandal

Summary

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The Bert Show – Vault: Listeners Have Thoughts on the Cheating Scandal

Date: May 11, 2026
Podcast: The Bert Show
Episode Theme: Listener Reactions to the Josh Duhamel Cheating Scandal

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Episode Overview

This episode of The Bert Show takes a deep dive into ongoing listener reactions and in-studio debate over the high-profile cheating scandal involving actor Josh Duhamel and dancer Nicole Forrester. The cast fields calls, discusses listener emails, and supports a lively roundtable about the credibility, motives, and fallout for both parties involved. The tone is candid, sometimes humorous, and occasionally contentious as they weigh the evidence, consider public perception, and question celebrity accountability.

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Key Discussion Points & Insights

1. Listener Opinions on Nicole Forrester’s Motives and Credibility

• Many listeners and cast members debate whether Nicole Forrester’s decision to go public with her alleged affair with Josh Duhamel is motivated by fame, money, or a desire to tell her story.
• Some listeners argue that Forrester should "take the money and run" to protect her children (02:07), while others believe her choice to speak out damages her family's privacy and well-being.
  • Quote: “You take the money and run…she’s destroying her kids life right now with everybody knowing what she did.” – Caller, (02:11)
• The cast discusses how Forrester’s occupation as a stripper affects public perception and credibility, questioning whether she’d be judged the same way if she had a different profession (08:00; 12:59).

2. Doubt, Proof, and Public Scrutiny

• Cast and callers weigh in on whether they actually believe Forrester’s claims.
  • Quote: “There's a difference between believing her and liking her.” – Burt, (04:06)
• The group discusses her supposed evidence (saved text messages and call logs), but skepticism remains, since nobody has actually seen the proof (09:34–11:20).
  • Quote: “She says she has proof, none of which anybody's seen yet.” – Host, (11:02)
• Some argue her attorney’s presence lends her story weight, while others believe both she and her attorney could be pursuing personal gain (12:03–12:29).

3. The Celebrity Double Standard

• Several listeners call out what they feel is a bias from the show’s hosts—suggesting that the cast is "soft" on Josh Duhamel because of his image and celebrity status, while casting Forrester in a negative light (05:08).
  • Quote: “Usually guy cheating on his wife gets no love from you guys…you're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and blast this woman.” – Youssef, Caller, (05:08)
• The cast openly reflects on their own disappointment should the allegations be true, lamenting a tarnished image of a “hot couple” staying faithful (02:57–03:21).

4. The Gender and Profession Bias

• Throughout, the conversation circles back to how Forrester’s role as a stripper influences assumptions about her credibility, motives, and the media’s willingness to believe her story versus that of a teacher or another “respectable” profession (08:00; 12:59).
  • Quote: “If she was a teacher…would you have a totally different opinion?” – Burt, (12:59)

5. The Media and Fame Economy

• The roundtable speculates that Forrester may receive financial compensation—via direct payments, tabloid deals, or appearances—no matter the outcome (09:04–15:21).
  • Quote: “She’s getting paid because what she has not told…is the details of the evening and the details about Josh Duhamel. There’s plenty she get paid for.” – Jen, (15:30)
• They also discuss the realities of reality TV and media culture, predicting that Forrester's notoriety could open future opportunities (09:06).

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Notable Quotes & Memorable Moments

• (02:11) Caller: “She is totally wrong for what she did. But just take the $20,000 and go away because our kids are in middle school.”
• (04:06) Burt: “There's a difference between believing her and liking her.”
• (05:08) Youssef, Caller: “You guys…have, like, a huge crush on Josh Duhamel, the whole lot of you. And so, therefore, you're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and blast this woman.”
• (08:00) Burt: “If she was a teacher and not a stripper…”
• (09:06) Jen: “We live in a reality world and…I mean, we live in a media culture in which people would definitely pick her up for some show or interviews…because she's the girl that Josh Duhamel slept with.”
• (11:20) Tracy: “I can't imagine a situation where someone would do that for the notoriety and for the money and put themselves in a situation to be sued so significantly.”
• (12:59) Burt: “If she was a teacher, would you have a totally different opinion?”
• (15:30) Jen: “She’s getting paid because what she has not told and what she's not been paid for yet is the details of the evening and the details about Josh Duhamel. There’s plenty she has not said, there’s plenty she’d get paid for.”

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Key Timestamps

• [01:30] Introduction of the Josh Duhamel–Nicole Forrester scandal on air
• [02:07]–[03:52] Listener and cast debate over motivations, impact on Forrester’s children, and whether to believe her
• [04:06]–[04:46] Dilemmas of believing/not liking Forrester, internal disagreements among cast
• [05:08]–[07:09] Accusations of celebrity bias and exploration of double standards
• [08:00]–[09:28] Stripping profession’s impact on credibility, money versus fame incentives
• [09:34]–[11:20] Host debate about evidence, legal risks, and why anyone would go public with a false story
• [12:29]–[12:59] Callers introduce further doubts and skepticism; direct comparisons to alternative professions
• [15:21]–[15:45] Final speculation on the financial and notoriety outcomes, regardless of guilt or innocence

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Summary

The Bert Show’s episode is a dynamic, honest, and sometimes heated exploration of listener and host opinions surrounding the Josh Duhamel cheating scandal. The show dissects public perceptions of women who come forward against celebrities, digs into the role of profession and gender bias, and questions the incentives created by reality TV and media culture. Carefully balancing skepticism with empathy, the cast and community illustrate how difficult it is to separate truth from motive in the public eye—especially when fame, reputation, and money are at stake.

Transcript

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[Burt]

The Birch Show People want to talk about the Josh Duhamel thing. This Nicole Forrester just came in, spent about half an hour with us and she is the dancer over at Tattletales that had one a one night stand with Josh demeller. That's what she's saying at the St. Regis. And a lot of people are very reluctant to hear her story. You know, I don't believe it, not at all. But she says that it really isn't about cash anymore. I asked her the question, if he called up tomorrow and gave you $100,000 to go away, would you? She said no. I don't know about all that. Good morning, rhonda. You're on Q100.

[Caller 1]

Good morning Burch. How are you?

[Burt]

Good, how are you?

[Caller 2]

I'm fine.

[Caller 1]

Let me preface this because I can hear Melissa.

[Melissa]

She is totally wrong for what she did.

[Caller 1]

But just take the $20,000 and go away because our kids are in middle school. And that's the hardest time, excluding high school. You take the money and run.

[Melissa]

Because if she cared about her kids,

[Caller 1]

we knowing that she's a stripper, she's destroying her kids life right now with everybody knowing what she did.

[Burt]

13 year old take the money and go away. The 13 year old boy's there. Her, her son's friends are gonna give him such a hard time about it at this point.

[Wendy]

Well, and I think we know that she wants the fame. Like she's not going away. She doesn't want to go away. She wants the fame. Because she would have put it like, you're not gonna go. Yes, I believe me or not believe me. That's just. That's life in general. People are gonna believe you sometimes. Sometimes people aren't gonna believe you. This is national news now. Just go away and let it go.

[Burt]

Do you guys believe her story?

[Jen]

I just tell Tracy in the hall. I don't want to believe it, but it seems like, I mean, it's a true story. I just, I'm like, I think the reaction comes from how much of a fan you are of, you know, Josh Duhamel and Fergie. And I like them as a couple. And I hate to, you know, I would have liked to have known a really hot guy staying faithful to his really hot wife. And they're a cute couple and they could make it work. But it doesn't sound like that's the case.

[Host]

I don't know. Believe it or not believe it. I just think that she doesn't have her kids best interests in mind because she told Bert that she was excited about now being the dancer at Tattletales. That was gonna be. Oh, that's the one that's at the center of this Josh Duhamel controversy. And that was gonna bring her more customers and more money and more fame. So her kids aren't her ultimate concern because if they're upset with her and her son said, mom, you're disgusting, and she's still gonna keep doing it. Like there's that. That's not the motive. Like her kids and her concern for her kids isn't the motive.

[Tracy]

There are women who will go in there and try to have sex with her just because, you know, if you have sex with somebody, you've had sex with everybody they've had sex with. So they'll be able to say they

[Burt]

slept with Josh Duhamel. Do you believe her?

[Tracy]

Yes.

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Burt]

Wendy, you believe her?

[Wendy]

Yeah, I believe her. I just think her motives off.

[Burt]

Like Jen said, there's a Difference between believing her and liking her. I believe.

[Wendy]

Oh, totally.

[Host]

I don't know if I do.

[Tracy]

Really?

[Host]

Yeah.

[Caller 1]

Why?

[Host]

I think there's so much celebrity attached to all. Like, to anybody that big. I mean, he's a list. There's so much celebrity and potential money and fame attached to somebody that big. It would not surprise me if the whole thing was made up.

[Burt]

She sounded pretty confident when she was talking about having those text messages saved. The only part of the entire interview where she really sounded confident.

[Tracy]

Well, and her attorney, who was standing in the back, was, like, nodding and shake, like, confirmed that they're on there.

[Host]

Well, you guys can believe it. I don't have to.

[Burt]

Yes, you do. We have to be. It has to be unanimous.

[Tracy]

We're in this together.

[Burt]

We're not going on.

[Gary]

Good morning.

[Burt]

Q100.

[Host]

I.

[Tracy]

If it was coming in the form of a seance, you'd believe it

[Host]

if

[Burt]

Yellowtail was telling us. Good morning, Youssef. You're on Q100.

[Caller 1]

Hey, how you doing, Burchell?

[Burt]

Okay, sir. How are you?

[Caller 1]

All right. Longtime listener.

[Gary]

I'm talking.

[Caller 1]

Haven't talked to you guys in a while, but I had to call up on this. I just want to say that for the most part, usually guy cheating on his wife gets no love from you guys. You guys, it seems to me, have, like, a huge crush on Josh Duhamel, the whole lot of you. And so therefore, you're willing to give him the benefit of the doubt and blast this woman. Now, when I heard of the story was they were going to use the story anyway because he bragged about it. She didn't bring it up.

[Host]

That's the story.

[Melissa]

They were going to use the story

[Caller 1]

anyway, and she had no choice. It was either get nothing out of it except good sex from Josh Duhamel or make some cash. I can't blame her for that. They're going to use the story anyway, and her name is going to be out there, make some loot.

[Host]

That's her story came to me. I know you don't, but I do. You know, they were going to print it in that's her story. We haven't heard his side of the story.

[Tracy]

That's the only.

[Caller 1]

And you're not going to hear his side of the story because he was wrong, too, and he's got more to lose than she does. And he's not gonna say anything. He's not. Because that's just the way the stars get down. You know that. He's not gonna say a word.

[Tracy]

That was the only sweep.

[Caller 1]

It under the rug.

[Tracy]

The only part of our story that I question is how the Inquirer found out. Because if this is what he does, I don't believe if he is this type of person, I don't believe he went to the set and bragged about it to anyone. I just don't think he'd do that.

[Caller 1]

That doesn't make a lot of sense either. I do, but you know guys that do that.

[Burt]

But still, I mean, listen.

[Tracy]

Yeah, not if you have that much to lose.

[Burt]

Why does that play such a large part in the credibility or not credibility if the bottom line is still the bottom line that they did something?

[Caller 1]

The bottom line is that he cheated on his wife. She cheated with him. You know, she, she did it, she's wrong, he's wrong. But don't lambast her and say that she's like uncredible and she's a gold digger and all of that and give her the, you know, and never once say anything negative about Josh Duhamel. At one time, four or five of

[Burt]

us said that we think that she's telling the truth.

[Jen]

Yeah, that's not necessarily true. That we are not. I mean, he did cheat on his wife. And I said I didn't want to believe it because I want to believe that a good looking guy. I just said it, you know, but it doesn't look. And that's very disappointing for me. But I think that another thing, if it is true that he not only manipulated to cheat on his wife, but I also think, well, how tacky is it to go to strip clubs to find people to enjoy your time on location with? Because I think the reason she doesn't have credibility for a lot of people is because of what she does for a living. So in his case, if this is all true, then that's where he goes. Because let's say, just in case it gets out, he can say, well, I mean, she's a stripper. What else is she going to say? And it almost puts. Puts her in a position of being trapped. Like, okay, you were there for a good time. But I'm gonna make sure that it never gets out because you're a stripper. Nobody's gonna believe you.

[Burt]

Jen, if she was a teacher and not a stripper.

[Host]

To me, it doesn't have to do with her, it has to do with him and the mega amounts of celebrity and fame and money attached to him. I think anybody can make up any story, regardless of what it is.

[Tracy]

So you think this story is completely made up?

[Host]

I don't know. What to believe. But I think it is absolutely possible that he's that famous and he's got that much money and that much attention in the spotlight that somebody could completely fabricate it all.

[Burt]

Hey, Ronnie, good Morning. You're on Q100.

[Caller 1]

How you doing?

[Burt]

All right, good.

[Caller 1]

I don't agree with what this girl is doing, but for the part, she's playing smart. Because if she takes the money that this guy's offering her, she is going to be gone. But this girl, she wants to be famous, she wants to be out there, she wants people to see her. And I think, I mean, by playing it this way, she gonna get more money and more attention. And then later on her 50 minute, you know, fame is gonna be gone. But still, I mean, she gonna be trash.

[Burt]

Yeah. I don't even think she's got 15 minutes ahead of her. I think she's probably done over the next 48 hours.

[Wendy]

I don't know about that.

[Burt]

Stick around for a while.

[Jen]

Yeah, because we live in a reality world and I think people, you know, she, you know, she made a comment based on what she thought you said, Bart, which you didn't say was about making a movie out of it. But I mean, we live in a media culture in which people would definitely pick her up for some show or interviews or to be a guest celebrity, you know, celebrity, quote, unquote, on something. Because she's the girl that Josh Duhamel slept with. Absolutely.

[Tracy]

But if.

[Host]

Why does she have more credibility to you than his camp?

[Burt]

Well, she's got details and she says she's got logs and she's got texts. Have we seen them? No, but I just felt like the story could be.

[Tracy]

I can't believe that someone would come on the radio and tell the story with that much detail. Days, times, claim to have proof to an A list celebrity who would sue her to shut her up.

[Burt]

And she's with her attorney and she's

[Tracy]

here with an attorney. So like, not saying that that gives her credibility, but.

[Host]

But you are saying that. Cuz all of you guys believe her story, right?

[Tracy]

Because top to bottom parts of it. I believe the majority of it because I don't know what type of person and what type of lawyer would put themselves in a situation where they are saying such blatant untruths. If that story is not true, we will hear from Camp Duhamel today, probably telling us never to play that again and offering us proof that this lady is a complete psychopath and liar.

[Host]

So I guess we'll see what happens.

[Tracy]

Yeah, but See, I think if she comes out and says it, and then we're like, well, did he text it? Yes, I deleted him. Okay, well, do you have phone records? Well, see, it was a temporary phone that I don't have anymore.

[Host]

Well, that's what she started to say. I was calling him from my friend's phone.

[Tracy]

She said that once leaving the St.

[Burt]

Regis, but she said she has text

[Tracy]

messages saying she has the text messages and she has numbers that he called.

[Host]

I'm just asking, why is she more

[Jen]

credible than his story?

[Tracy]

Yeah, I just answered that.

[Host]

Cause she says she has proof, none of which anybody's seen yet.

[Burt]

He just gave you four or five different examples of why.

[Tracy]

Yeah, she came on the air and said publicly, this is all fact. And I.

[Jen]

But I can see where Jen's coming from. I agree. She's saying it. And she had a lawyer in the corner of the room nodding. That's all we've got.

[Tracy]

And I can't imagine a situation where someone would do that for the notoriety and for the money and put themselves in a situation to be sued so significantly.

[Burt]

Here is Mary. She wants to be on the voice disguiser. She's with Jen. Hey, Mary.

[Caller 2]

Hello.

[Burt]

Hi. You're on the voice disguise, so we can't recognize your voice.

[Caller 2]

Yeah, look, my roommate is working on the movie. I want to say what she's doing on a movie because it's, you know, confidential information. She's in a position where she's had some, you know, one on one time with Joshua while waiting for the next, you know, wherever assignment he has to be in. And he's just torn up by this whole story. He wasn't even staying at the St. Regis that night. He was at a different hotel. All he ever talks about is Fergie, you know, before this whole story came up. And so it's just. I mean, I don't believe one second of her story. And like you guys were saying, I mean, even if she doesn't get money from Josh Duhamel people, I mean, look at all the people that they put on reality shows these days. And as for the lawyer, I mean, he also has something to gain because, you know, he can start representing celebrity clients or whatever. So, I mean, that's my take.

[Burt]

Okay. Thank you for calling.

[Caller 1]

Mm.

[Caller 2]

Thank you.

[Burt]

Welcome. Good morning, Gary. You're part of the Burt Show. Hello.

[Caller 1]

Hello.

[Burt]

Morning.

[Gary]

Good morning, Bircho.

[Burt]

What's going on, Gary?

[Gary]

It's amazing. I was listening to that.

[Caller 1]

She's a stripper.

[Gary]

She hit her goal. That's her.

[Caller 1]

That's Her.

[Gary]

That's what she's been waiting on. Everybody in the club recognized him. And like she said, she's aggressive. She was the first one to jump on. And then she just. I believe she was in hot pursuit the whole time. And she was setting this up from the beginning.

[Burt]

And that's. Again, I'll ask you the same question that I asked Jen. If she was a teacher, would you have a totally different opinion?

[Gary]

Well, I mean, I guess it depends in that scenario, but I believe that when he walks into an establishment looking for the attention of another woman and she spotted him and she had the ability to pursue him in that manner, then so be it. But I believe, you know, if the teacher would have had that and she thought she could have made a quick 20 off of it, then, you know, that's the scenario that we'd have to deal with then, too.

[Jen]

Well, my thing is that, you know, like a couple. A couple sides of it, like, she could make a quick 20. But let's say that she said, you know, I could get more than 20 for this. And that's why she's doing what she's doing, because she can get more than 24.

[Tracy]

Now you think she'll get paid to

[Jen]

shut up something, you know, because I thought when she said 20, I thought, 20 for an A list celebrity, you know, scandal. And, you know, so I think that she may be going after more money for this. But I also was telling Tracy in the hallway, like, I think we all judge people based on if they come forward with too much information, we criticize them. But if people are chased down, they're like, I'd rather not talk about it. It was private. I don't want to think about it. We would give her more credibility. So you say if it's a teacher. Well, let's say it's a teacher that didn't talk to anybody. And people kept camping out on her front lawn, and she kept trying to get to her car and said, I don't want to talk about it. I have nothing to say. I have nothing to say. We'd give them credibility. We'd say, okay, well, you know, it's okay because she's not after money. And I think the reason that this woman is being so criticized, one, because she's a stripper, and two, because she's so aggressive with the story and proactive about it.

[Caller 1]

Yeah.

[Melissa]

Hey, I gotta tell you guys, I believe her a hundred percent, 100%. I think that the fact that, well, I mean, you know, anybody could be a liar, but the Fact that she swore on the souls of her children is number one. Number two, she's gotta be very angry because she's, you know, trying to hide the fact that she's doing this thing she's obviously not too proud of for a living from her kids. Now her kids know. So she's got to have. I think her agenda is twofold. I think one is that she's angry and she wants to get something out of it. And if, even if it's just salvaging that little piece of credibility that she's telling the truth is number one. And number two is that she wants to, I think, think probably get some sort of compensation for it at some point. I think that, well, she's going to

[Burt]

get paid one way or the other. I mean, if it's not going to be from a tabloid giving her $50,000, then it's going to be in people coming to Tattletales to see her.

[Jen]

She's getting paid because what she has not told and what she's not been paid for yet is the details of the evening and the details about Josh Du. There's plenty she has not said, there's plenty she get paid for or the

[Wendy]

text messages, the call logs, all of that is worth money to her.

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