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Falling in love is funny, weird, awkward, happy, or sad. It’s a vibe where IYKYK...or do you? But more than anything it’s PERSONAL and ALL AROUND US. Inspired by true events and performed with love by professional actors, Meet Cute presents: When I Met You. Debuting on February 14, the inaugural season of “When I Met You” brings ten unique love stories that drop you right into the moment where people fell in love with each other, themselves, or their passion. Listen along as Meet Cute delivers a new type of love story each week beginning February 14th.

Ever wish that rom-coms could be reclaimed as pleasures? And not the guilty kind? Well pals, you’re in luck. Tune in to Meet Cute’s new talk show podcast, The Rom-Com Room, where rom-com connoisseurs Kendra Okereke and Mercedes Gonzales Bazan unite each Friday to nerd out about their favorites, their love-to-hates, and every crush and rom-com in between. So follow The Rom-Com Room on the Meet Cute channel, wherever you get your podcasts, to come hang on January 28th, and every Friday after!

This week on “What She’s Having,” celebrity dating coach and OK Cupid dating expert, Damona Hoffman, dives deep with Ashley to discuss all things love, including: running into the paparazzi with Real Housewives of Beverly Hill’s Garcelle Beauvais, Drew Barrymore’s dating priorities, and how to establish your dating “brand”. But that’s not all…stick around for bonus content from Sydney Morton & Ayodele Casel, from Idina Menzel’s A BroaderWay Foundation, as they chat about playing Meghan Markle in Lifetime’s upcoming "Harry and Meghan: Escape from the Palace," ABW’s recent collaboration with Meet Cute, and more. 

This week on "What She's Having," actor, producer and former The Real World: DC fan fave, Mike Manning, joins Ashley to discuss bisexual representation in Romantic Comedies, his rom-com crushes, how he fell in love on national television, and his meet cute with his husband – a marriage he went public with in his Emmy acceptance speech, this past July.

This week on “What She’s Having,” Ashley is joined by Bustle’s Entertainment Editor at Large, Samantha Leach, and Meet Cute’s Creative Producer, Lucie Ledbetter, to discuss our favorite BFF-centric rom-coms: SOMEONE GREAT, BOOKSMART and MY BEST FRIEND’S WEDDING. Is Jennifer Kaytin Robinson the next Judd Apatow? What’s the greatest makeover montage of all time? They chat about all of this and more in Say Anything: An Ode to BFF’s.

This week on “What She’s Having,” Katy McCaffrey, the co-head of Literary at the Gersh Agency, joins Ashley to discuss how Hollywood is searching for the formula to rom-com TV, why Thelma & Louise DID NOT have a happy ending, her love of The Princess Bride, and how her foundation, We For She is trying to change who is telling our favorite stories.

This week on “What She’s Having,” CEO of The Dipp and pop culture queen Kate Ward joins Ashley to discuss the evolution of rom-coms, from MGM to Apatow, how we needed that female host energy on The Bachelorette, the necessity of character driven buddy comedies like “Barb and Star” after 2020, and why Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson is her dream leading man.

This week on "What She's Having", the New York Times #1 Bestselling author of Pretty Little Liars, Sara Shepard joins Ashley to discuss how her big break came by crashing a Christmas Party, all things PLL—including her first impression of Shay Mitchell and the inside scoop on her brand new 9 episode series with Meet Cute, "Cruise Ship" debuting July 6.

This week on “What She’s Having,” Hollywood legend Marlo Thomas joins Ashley to discuss the groundbreaking feminist themes her hit television series “That Girl” explored in the ’70s, how her now husband Phil Donahue first saw her as an “impure thought”, the lesson on love she’ll never forget from Richard Burton and the origin story of why her father Danny Thomas started St. Jude Children’s Hospital.

On this week's "What She's Having," cult-classic queen, Jenna Leigh Green shares how the inspiration for her iconic mean girl, Libby Chessler on "Sabrina the Teenage Witch" and her experience as Elphaba in "Wicked."

This week on "What She's Having" Ashley is joined by BFF's Alex Mohajer and Rebecca Warm to answer the ultimate question: What is the best 90's rom com? They nominate six of your favorites, whittle it down to three, then decide once and for all what film reigns supreme. Do you think we'll tell you the winner here? AS IF!

This week on “What She’s Having” trans actor and activist Corey Rae joins Ashley to discuss her upcoming feature “Queen” based on her experience as the first openly transgender prom queen, her love of rom-com royalty Blake Lively & Cameron Diaz, spills about her Golden Globes red carpet debut with Amber Heard and opens up about why she is a “Meet Cute Queen.”