Okay Diva

Who's spooking who? It's our Halloween episode, divas, and Scooby-Doo (Brock) and Daphne (Sam) are on the case. Shaggy and Velma are still missing, and Daphne is looking for clues to solve a sizeable mystery about Fred. The gang trades its earliest Halloween memories of halloween and uncovers the mystery of the 2016 killer clown craze that kept Daphne out of her favourite bushes. We crack...

What do you do when you're addicted to feeling? Diva Sarah, writes, blocks and keeps on winning. This week on Okay Diva we have Brisbane singer-songwriter and self-confessed emotional junkie, Sarah Hamze. We get into her songwriting process, her original song award and why the industry still has a long way togo until there’s equality. Be honest: have you ever unblocked someone just to say&quot...

What's the most diva job in the world? It's our first solo episode in a few weeks, divas, and we finally asked the question we've been sitting on for weeks. Sam relives front row for OG Slayyyter in a tiny festival tent. Brock ranks every acting agency in Brisbane (but he won't name names). Then we blind rank everything new on our screens: Avatar: Seven Havens, VisionQuest, Whalefa...

Episode 71 is the Okay Diva podcast live at Cult — Brisbane’s most underground, most unhinged, most you-genuinely-cannot-describe-it queer event, this year themed around Mulholland Drive. Sam and Brock dressed as 80s news anchors, set up a field studio in the belly of the beast, and interviewed everyone they could find while chaos unfolded around them. This episode is different gurl. No couch, no...

HELLO! This week on Okay Diva we have none other than the Thrilla from Manila herself, Miss Luna Thicc. With boundless proof to back it up, she is the dancing diva of Brisbane and it shows. Don't let the knee fool you, this Diva can GET DOWN! From folk dancing to backup dancing for the dolls across the Philippines, this Diva owns the stage and shines through everything she does. This is a deep...

Brock and Sam are back and its all about music this week.  All DIVA, no actual evidence to back it up! Who knows what we will end up saying about the absolute STATE of the music industry in its current era.  We discuss everything from VMAs to the core concept of what a deluxe album is. Going IN on how long an artist needs to wait before releasing it after the original album. Asking the hard questi...

Episode 68 features Mara Maraschino: burlesque performer, Alt co-producer, Cult co-host, Bombshell Burlesque teacher, linguistics graduate, and total diva. Mara breaks down the world of Alt and Cult, some of Brisbane's most beloved queer underground events. Come to Cult October 10th. You genuinely cannot know what happens unless you're there. Leave a comment on when you felt your hottest b...

The Emmy Awards are back divas! Its been a year for the books so what better time to make some predictions. We're going category by category through the major Emmy nominations, debating who deserves it, who they think will actually get it. Diva of the week: Jean Smart, always. And Hannah Einbender, who is extremely hot in Camp Miasma and we need her in everything immediately. Who are you rooti...

Today we’re dressed in star spangled cowgirl and cowboy fits to honour the world’s most shining, trailblazing, bold southern belle diva; the phenomenal Dolly Parton. Episode 66 features our first ever theatre director and intimacy coordinator Heidi Gledhill . Heidi gets what it means to take up space as a creative, as a celeb in your own right, and as someone who doesn’t shy away from their voice...

Trashy movies, B-grade cinema, creature features, and the eternal question: is Sharknado art? Episode 65 is Sam and Brock get into the most beloved, deranged, low-budget films ever made. It starts with Forbidden Fruits (With Lily Reinhardt, whoserole on "Riverdale really was her Juilliard"), spirals into whethercreature features are the pinnacle of trash cinema, takes a detour through Th...

She apparated onto the okay diva couch, immediately clocked us and the rest is fierce herstory. DIVA's get excited, this week we have the incomparable stunnalina diva Freya Armani! From Drag Race Down Under Season 4 and the undeniable Brisbane scene, she's here to get into her life after the show, Queensland's legendary drag scene and all things divalicious. Drop your fav Brisbane drag show below,...

The fiercest celebrity comeback moment of the year: Anne Hathaway's generational run on the silver screen, coming in swinging with five film releases in 2026 alone: Mother Mary, The Devil Wears Prada 2, The Odyssey, The End of Oak Street, and Verity. Beautiful, talented and showstopping as always but is there something else going on…? Why now? Why so many? What's the reason? We ask all the...

This week the Divas finally have professional HOMOSEXUAL Tony T on the couch; Brisbane radio host, Bay FM LEGEND, creative director of Bay Pride and host of the ICONIC So Bae Party Mix (Sunday nights 6-10 on Bay FM 100.3). This episode covers the full story of Bay Pride; how Tony pitched it to Wynnum Fringe on a whim, expected 50 people, got 5,500, and got protested by a chopped group carrying a V...

In 61 episodes we have never done a dedicated musical episode. That ends today. Sam and Brock go head to head in a Keep or Cut: Musical Divas: 10 each, blind draw, five must get cut from existence. Before that we get into what makes a musical a musical, whether techno can exist in a musical, the state of the movie musical in 2026, Lin-Manuel Miranda discourse, Rocky Horror vs Little Shop of Horror...

Welcome back to the divalicious Aussie pod - Okay Diva and this week we finally have drag and burlesque queen Vyse Versa on the couch! The diva we've been trying to book since we started having guests. Worth the wait. They walked in with an evil laugh they've been training to do in everyday conversation and we were immediately in love. Vyse is a drag and burlesque performer based in Brisba...

One of the most quietly fascinating celebrity moments of the year: Ariana Grande personally messaging her impersonator Paige Nieman to tell her she's beautiful as herself without all the makeup trying to make her face look like someone else's. Sweet or shady? We genuinely cannot decide. This episode is a full breakdown of the Ariana Grande and Paige Nieman situation — what Ariana actually...

Frankie Kershaw is an actor, a writer, an eshay whisperer, and the girl whose mum became Debbie Ryan's spa bestie so Frankie didn't have to introduce herself at the meet and greet. She is the main character of her own life and has been since grade five when no teacher could tell her what to do and she has never once considered changing that. This episode goes from Disney programs at 13, to...

We find ourselves deep in the Khia Asylum this week. What it is, who's in it, who built it, and who has successfully escaped. Ava Max is the final boss. Zara Larson escaped. Charli XCX was one of the founding prisoners. And Khia herself? Gets her flowers fully in this episode because that woman wrote a song that hit so hard it became the name of an entire cultural institution for struggling ar...

Episode 56 features actor Stella, who has the single most Brisbane-adjacent diva origin story we've ever heard: they were the first ever baby born into the Woodford Folk Festival. We open with the obligatory dive into their theatre diva diagnosis, which all began when mid-performance Stella broke their ankle and slayed all the way through, finishing the scene anyway, because a diva knows the s...

We just watched Disclosure Day, so naturally we have a lot to say about aliens, the universe, and the existence of extra-fiercestrials! We get into it about Disclosure Day and kiiiii over Emily Blunt (She carrieddddd) But the real conversation starts when the question comes up: do aliens actually exist? YES DIVA, obviously, and anyone who thinks Earth is the only planet with life is giving main ch...

Episode 54 features actress, writer, and producer Grace, a small country town diva with dreams too big for the backroads and who at 16 packed up her life and moved to Sydney alone to attend Newtown Performing Arts High School. No safety net. Just a gut feeling and the courage to trust it. That one decision led to everything. Her people. Her career. Her husband. A marriage proposal on the stage of...

Episode 53 and we're eating vegan pastries and connecting dots between creepypasta and cinema. We're back on our horror sh*t: movies, Silent Hill 2, all of it. Backrooms got us thinking about where it all really began for our generation... on creepypasta and the internet, and now WE are the ones making mainstream horror. We reminisce on old YouTube nostalgia, the creepypasta-to-conspiracy-video pi...

Episode 52. One year. 52 episodes. We're still here and we're still the biggest, the best, the most fierce...divas. Welcome to the First Annual Diva Awards, our one year anniversary episode special where we're going back through the archives; for the most unhinged things ever said on this podcast, and hand out awards for the most diva, most chaotic, most underrated, and most iconic moments of year...

Episode 51 features Jackson Bennett (@iamjacksonbennett) — Brisbane's foodie influencer who's having his full diva moment right now. If you live in Brisbane and follow food content, you already know Jackson. If you don't, you're about to. Jackson breaks down the food influencer life , going from casual content to full-time career, and why his diva moment is happening exactly when i...

Episode 50 features Kirstie Petrie — wine expert, entrepreneur, and the diva who paused her PhD to open a wine bar in 8 weeks. This conversation is about action over overthinking, impulsivity as strategy, and trusting yourself enough to just do the thing before your brain talks you out of it. Kirstie breaks down how taking impulsive action builds confidence faster than planning ever could, why dia...