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Bobbi Althoff on Exactly How She Got Rich—and How Rich, Exactly
From Mommy TikTok to that Drake interview and beyond, the podcast host is proof you can brute-force your way to online fame—and make a shit ton of money along the way.
Indeed, little of Althoff’s signature brand was on display during WIRED’s photo shoot (even when we forced her to stand behind a wall of dangling plants or pose thoughtfully next to a filthy bathroom) or the subsequent on-camera interview we did right after that. In addition to her podcast, Althoff recently inked a development deal to produce, write, and star in a TV comedy, which she describes as “a cross between Dave and The Office,” based loosely on her own rise to fame. So when I decided to post an Instagram Story two weeks ago and be like, “I have never slept with someone I interviewed,” I did not expect to wake up to an email from my PR team being like, “Here’s all the news, the press you got from this.” Or when I got a divorce, having paparazzi show up at my house, I was like: “A.
Or read this on Wired