Niamh Shackleton
Will Arnett has made a bombshell allegation about a guest he had on his SmartLess podcast — but refused to name the person.
Arnett hosts SmartLess alongside Jason Bateman and Sean Hayes, and has had a series of famous faces feature on the pod since it was launched in 2020.
Bateman has recently faced some heat after grilling 33-year-old 'Apple' hitmaker Charli XCX about having children.
"I actually don't really want to have kids," the singer said on the podcast, with Ozark star Bateman then suggesting that she might find a partner that changes her mind — not realizing that Charli XCX is newly married.
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Away from Bateman's recent faux pas, Arnett sat down with Romesh Ranganathan for his podcast and discussed some of the guests he's had on SmartLess.
Recalling having a male comedian on the show to chat to him, Hayes, and Bateman, the trio had to cut the guy off after just 10 minutes.
"We had one other very famous comedian who (I'll tell you after who) was a f**king rank a**hole recently, and we cut him off after 10 minutes," Arnett shared. "We said 'thanks so much' and ditched him."
"You'll be blown away by who it is," the Arrested Development star added and went on to joke that it was Bill Cosby.
Elsewhere, Arnett said they had an female comic on the podcast but she later asked that the episode wasn't aired.
"We had a guest, a comedian, and she asked us not to air her episode. At all," Arnett said. "We were like, 'f**k, it cost us money and the guys, we all had to do it, blah blah blah.'"
Explaining why she wanted it pulled, it was apparently because she was 'worried because she thought she was up-and-coming'.
"We were like, 'You're good' and it turns out we were right," he added in a brutal dig at the unnamed comedian.
"I won't tell you until we're absolutely cut," Arnett went to tease to Ranganathan about who this person was.
Another example of an interview that went a bit wrong on SmartLess was one with Matthew McConaughey a couple of years ago where Bateman had a 'meltdown'.
Bateman was having technical difficulties and, not realizing McConaughey was already on the line, he said he wanted to cancel the pod because he was in a 'tailspin'.
The Dallas Buyer Club actor then burst into laughter, further angering Bateman who then 'rage quit' the call.