Bestselling author and raconteur Jackie Collins returns to discuss "The Santangelos," featuring her iconic heroine Lucky Santangelo, and responds to listener questions and comments. Plus, Christopher and Eric discuss the cancellation of NBC's "Hannibal" and their summer hiatus plans and celebrate the Supreme Court decision legalizing gay marriage.

You have to have a passion for something. You have to work for it.Jackie Collins

The Dinner Party Show Podcast — Ep. 119: Jackie Collins Interview Transcript

{This transcript is the Jackie Collins interview portion of Episode 119}{This transcript is provided as a courtesy and was transcribed as best as possible. Any errors or omissions in the transcript are unintentional. The recorded audio file of the podcast episode is considered the master of what was said.}

Announcer: You are listening to The Dinner Party Show with Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn. And now it's time for the Dish.

Christopher Rice: Welcome back to the —

Announcer: We hope you kept your silverware...

Christopher Rice: Oh I jumped the promo on my own show! I think I've only done that once before.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Skip will be so hurt.

Christopher Rice: Skip is gonna be so hurt. Welcome back to the Dinner Party Show. I'm Christopher Rice.

Eric Shaw Quinn: And I'm Eric Shaw Quinn. Jackie's back, Jackie's back!

Jackie Collins: Good job that wasn't sex when you jumped the gun. Yeah, baby.

Christopher Rice: I jumped the promo!

Jackie Collins: Not good!

Christopher Rice: Jumpin' the promo with Jackie Collins.

Jackie Collins: Great to be back with you guys.

Christopher Rice: It's great to have you back.

Eric Shaw Quinn: It's so good to have you.

Jackie Collins: I know.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Aren't you exhausted to, you've been out promoting your new book, The Santangelos is out.

Jackie Collins: I've been everywhere, everywhere. But I came here for the sandwiches and for you guys too.

Eric Shaw Quinn: That's so great. Bobby our caterer will —

Christopher Rice: Bobby Lee of Tiny Kitchen will be so thrilled.

Eric Shaw Quinn: So touched.

Jackie Collins: Well, they're so good.

Christopher Rice: They're very good.

Jackie Collins: Really great.

Eric Shaw Quinn: And then there's cookies for dessert.

Jackie Collins: Oh, you made the cookies.

Eric Shaw Quinn: I made the cookies.

Jackie Collins: I know you did, Eric.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Yes I did.

Jackie Collins: Last time I was here, I tweeted about it.

Christopher Rice: You tweeted about them. And we all went crazy.

Eric Shaw Quinn: So honored. They've actually, some of the, we gave some away at a live remote and one of the fans of the show started a website called Eric's Cookies are, it has its own Facebook page.

Christopher Rice: I didn't know this.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Eric's cookies.

Jackie Collins: Oh my God.

Eric Shaw Quinn: They've begun promoting the, the cookies themselves I think they're trying to convince me to,

Jackie Collins: What do they do on this website?

Eric Shaw Quinn: to begin marketing the cookies or so something.

Jackie Collins: What else goes on there?

I think it's just people talking about cookies.

Christopher Rice: That's what you think, because that's the website you see, but under the surface there's a

lot more going on.

Jackie Collins: Eric's cookies. I mean, not so sure what they'll be saying on that. Yes, we have to be very

careful.

Eric Shaw Quinn: So we tempted Jackie away from her international book tour with sandwiches and cookies.

Christopher Rice: Indeed. Yes, indeed.

Eric Shaw Quinn: But they're really good sandwiches and cookies.

Jackie Collins: They're really good. They're really good.

Christopher Rice: And we just found out you have your own podcast now.

Jackie Collins: I do.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Did we inspire you?

Jackie Collins: You did inspire me, yes.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh, that's great.

Jackie Collins: And what I like about it is the fact that it's free. Yes. And you know, anybody can listen to it on iTunes.

Eric Shaw Quinn: And you have that beautiful website, jackiecollins.com anyway, so,

Jackie Collins: And Instagram, of course.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Absolutely.

Jackie Collins: Which I love JackieJCollins on Instagram and Twitter.

Christopher Rice: Yes. And you're on Facebook as well.

Jackie Collins: Fan Facebook.

Eric Shaw Quinn: You're the complete brand. Jackie Collins fabulous author and brand.

Christopher Rice: Yeah, exactly.

Jackie Collins: Well, you know, the nice thing is I can talk to the people who read my books, right? And they're all starting to read The Santangelos, and they're coming to me with their comments.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Are they upset?. I hear somebody passes away...

Jackie Collins: Somebody dies.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Is everybody furious?

Jackie Collins: We can't say who it is.

Eric Shaw Quinn: No spoilers.

Jackie Collins: But they're all saying to me, can we have another Lucky book soon? Oh, now, like I've written nine books about Lucky Santangelo.

Nine books. Too many series, right? I don't know. Yes. Maybe I'll bring back Bobby Santangelo. Stanalapoulus. Oh, the gorgeous son.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Is Bobby gay? I couldn't quite...

Jackie Collins: No, Bobby is straight. He's very straight.

Eric Shaw Quinn: It was Dario...

Jackie Collins: Dario was gay. That was Lucky's brother. And in Confessions of a Wild Child, I showed how protective she was of him, the, and that she looked after him, you know, know she had this gangster father and he would not be pleased. So she had to protect Dario. But unfortunately Dario got murdered and so did her mother, and so did her fiancé. She had to take revenge.

Christopher Rice: Of course.

Jackie Collins: Cause I like a woman that takes revenge.

Eric Shaw Quinn: And revenge is so much fun.

Jackie Collins: Oh, yes, yes.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Such a great plot point.

Christopher Rice: It's fun when Jackie Collins is doing that.

Jackie Collins: Well, she got away with it too.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Not if somebody's trying to take revenge on me. That would be horrible. Yeah.

Jackie Collins: Because Lucky can do anything she wants to do. And does.

Eric Shaw Quinn: She's a powerful woman. She, she's not just cook. What was it you said the last time you were on the show? You said the choice was between cooking...

Jackie Collins: Oh, cooking and sex!

Eric Shaw Quinn: And cooking and sex.

I was like, oh, that was so brilliant. And you were like, I'm gonna, I'm gonna write a different book about a different kind of woman who's maybe got some more options than cooking or sex.

Jackie Collins: Oh, I have to tell you, uh, about a funny story. That, um, a friend of mine was not on Grindr. I thought you would appreciate this story. I haven't told it anywhere else and I thought you would like it.

Christopher Rice: Another Jackie Collins Grindr story!

Eric Shaw Quinn: An original!

Christopher Rice: This is gonna be great.

Jackie Collins: A friend of mine was not on Grindr. Oh. So we're having, we're having a dinner right. With a, another friend of mine, a female friend from New York. So the two of us are sitting there and we ask our gay friend, are you on Grindr? And he says, no. And he wasn't with anybody at the time, so we said, we're gonna put you on Grindr. So we grab his phone, we put him on Grindr. Right. He's very excited by this. And he starts looking at pictures.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Oh well I'm glad he's pleased.

Jackie Collins: And he sees this picture of this great looking guy, fabulous.

And the guy says, I'm 200 yards away. And I go, well you have to follow this up. You can, you know, leave dinner and go find him and have a fantastic time. Uhhuh . So my friend from New York says to me, let me see the picture. So I pass her the picture and she goes, oh my God, it's my driver. He's waiting outside.

Christopher Rice: That's fantastic. See, you just never know with those apps, know you just never know.

Jackie Collins: Have you been on it?

Eric Shaw Quinn: There was one that I, I went on one of the sites. Um, I think it's called Adam for Adam.

Christopher Rice: Yes.

Eric Shaw Quinn: It, it, it, it locates where people are in vicinity and I just went to see who in the neighborhood was, you know, doing, and there was naked pictures of this man in the laundry room at my building.

Jackie Collins: Oh my goodness.

Christopher Rice: Yeah.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Wow. He's like, yeah. Showing it all off. Wow. Downstairs in the laundry room. I thought that was, that's my favorite.

Jackie Collins: But I think Wiener started all that, don't you, dick pics?

Christopher Rice: Oh yeah.

Jackie Collins: Yes. And there's a new flasher in town because my godfather . No, seriously.

Eric Shaw Quinn: Just the one?

Jackie Collins: No, there's a lot of them.

Eric Shaw Quinn: I would figure, this is Hollywood.

Jackie Collins: My goddaughter came out of her apartment one day and this guy was standing in a very nice suit, all like dressed up and everything, and he had his phone and he's frowning and she says, can I help you? And he goes, uh, yeah. Could you just take a look at my phone for a minute? Something's wrong with it. And he hands her the phone and there is this huge picture of his dick.

Christopher Rice: Oh, I see. Right. This is, it's the new flashing.

Eric Shaw Quinn: High tech flash flashing.

Jackie Collins: Yeah, that's, it's all the rage now.

Eric Shaw Quinn: It's all the rage.

Christopher Rice: For the 21st century. I am not on Grindr. I have Grindr on my phone. I have a black square. That's my profile because I live close to a gym. So I just like to look and see who's at the gym.

Jackie Collins: Oh my goodness.

Christopher Rice: I but I don't engage with anyone....