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Will Bill Maher Get Loomered?

News and notes on Warner Bros. Discovery’s ‘Ugliest House in America,’ a sealed deposition in Loomer v. Maher, and the Florida man accused of hacking Tucker Carlson’s interview with Kanye West.

Bill Maher
Down in Florida, Laura Loomer’s suit against Bill Maher had survived what might be called libel law’s new groan test. Photo: Noam Galai/Getty Images
Eriq Gardner
August 5, 2025
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Of all the indignities that David Zaslav is suffering these days—splitting up Warner Bros. Discovery, fielding questions about CNN’s latest reboot, and potentially dealing with overtures from the Ellisons, as my partner Kim Masters noted last night—perhaps the most unbecoming is a looming trial in Delaware over Ugliest House in America. The show is one of the hallmarks of HGTV, which is one of the networks that Zaz is cleaving off, strapping with debt, and forking over to his current C.F.O., Gunnar Wiedenfels. But, for now, it’s his problem.