Reality Life with Kate Casey

Lacy Nicole talks about her life before stepping in front of Bravo's cameras on The Valley , what it's really like building a relationship with Jesse Lally under the glare of reality TV and internet scrutiny, and the mission driving her work off-screen: supporting women who've faced trauma and helping them find their way back to themselves.        Reality Life with Kate Ca...

True crime author, podcaster, and journalism professor Kate Winkler Dawson, host of Tenfold More Wicked , Wicked Words , and co-host of Buried Bones , joins Kate to unpack Netflix's new documentary Shipwrecked: Nightmare at Sea , which revisits the 2012 sinking of the Costa Concordia cruise ship off the coast of Italy, a disaster that killed 32 people.        Reality Life...

Producer Shannon Furman joins Kate to take listeners behind the scenes of Netflix's Quarterback , offering an intimate look at the pressure, preparation, and personal lives of four NFL quarterbacks: Baker Mayfield, Jayden Daniels, Cam Ward, and Joe Flacco. Shannon shares what it's like to earn the trust of elite athletes while documenting some of the most pivotal moments of their careers, revealin...

Jordan Belfort's story got the Scorsese treatment in 2013, but The Wolf of Wall Street was only ever half the picture. On this episode of Reality Life with Kate Casey , executive producer and investigative journalist Jason Leopold unpacks Paramount+'s new documentary The Real Wolf of Wall Street , built from over 15,000 pages of previously unreleased government documents and new interviews with th...

Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the season premiere of The Real Housewives of Orange County and The Valley on Bravo, plus Love Island on Peacock.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary &nb...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including The Real Wolf of Wall Street (Paramount+), The Ultimatum (Netflix), Dancing With the Stars: Next Pro (ABC), and Quarterback (Netflix).     Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-narrator-of-my-own-family  ...

Pamela Colloff, reporter for ProPublica and the New York Times Magazine, joins the show to discuss her debut book, Catch the Devil: A True Story of Murder, Deception, and Injustice on the Gulf Coast (Knopf). The book examines Paul Skalnik, a con man and jailhouse informant whose testimony helped convict dozens of people, including James Dailey, a Vietnam veteran sent to death row for a 1985 murder...

Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46's CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing.  She is the co-author...

Sheryl “Mac” McCollum is an Emmy Award winning CSI from CBS46's CSI Atlanta, Director of the Cold Case Investigative Research Institute (CCIRI), a writer for CrimeOnLine, Forensic and Crime Scene Expert for Crime Stories with Nancy Grace, and a CSI for a metro Atlanta Police Department. Sheryl holds a master’s degree in Criminal Justice with an emphasis on Policing.  She is the co-author...

Herb Baumeister lived a quiet family life in a nine thousand square foot estate in Westfield, Indiana, while authorities believe he secretly targeted gay men at Indianapolis nightclubs during the 1990s, luring them back to his property where he killed them before dying by suicide in 1996. Director and executive producer Alex Jablonski returns for a second conversation, this time about the follow u...

The 2026 FIFA World Cup has given us everything great unscripted television requires. Underdogs. Heartbreak. Redemption. Kate breaks down why this tournament deserves your attention, from Cabo Verde's improbable run to Erling Haaland rewriting Norway's history, and why it is citizens, not world leaders, who are bringing the world together right now.        Reality Life wit...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Orange County (Bravo), Big Brother (CBS), The Man Will Burn (HBO), and Miguel Ángel Blanco: The 48 Hours that Changed Spain (Netflix).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https://www...

After twenty-six years in the Coast Guard and a hard-earned retirement in a Margaritaville-branded community in Daytona Beach, Florida, Emily thought her next chapter was set. Then she noticed her husband's niece had vanished from his brother's Facebook page. What followed was a discovery that the seven-month-old had been placed in Florida's foster care system, and the beginning of an eighteen mon...

Kate discusses the Prime Video documentary Gloriavale and the new Paramount+ series Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal, both diving into the closed Christian community on New Zealand's West Coast.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfa...

Anna Peele, author of Enter the Villa: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island , returns to break down what is really going on behind the cameras this season, from how Casa Amor gets cast and edited to how production handles a crisis when it hits. Whether you have been watching since day one or are just catching up, this is your guide to what makes this season different.     &...

Carlos Alonso Ojea, director of Abandoned on Hulu, the real-life mystery of three siblings—aged 2, 4, and 6—who were discovered at a Barcelona train station in 1984 with no identification and no memory of who they were or where they came from.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-thi...

Sarah Galli, host of Andy’s Girls podcast joins Kate to discuss the final part of the Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion on Bravo.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary   What to W...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Rhode Island Reunion: Part 2 (Bravo), Abandoned (Hulu), Worst Neighbor Ever (Netflix), and Love Is Blind: Argentina (Netflix).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityf...

Ellen Skrmetti is a comedian, author, and viral storyteller from Ripley, Mississippi, now based in Birmingham, Alabama. She first broke through with her "If the Queen Died in the South" series on Instagram, followed by her beloved "Hey Jesus, It's Me" videos, short, sharp sketches about faith, family, and Southern life that have been viewed millions of times. Her debut book, Hey Jesus, It's Me , i...

Chris DeRosa, reality TV producer and co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, returns to discuss Season 3 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the Netflix docuseries about the iconic Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.         Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this &...

Ruby Wrenn, co-host of Bad TV podcast, joins Kate to break down Million Dollar Nannies on Hulu.     Million Dollar Nannies (Hulu / Freeform) follows a group of eight young, elite nannies, including an ex-Kardashian-Jenner family nanny, a New York City "manny" with a social media following, and a professional dancer. They head to Ibiza to launch a luxury childcare agency catering to...

Rebecca Gitlitz is the two-time Emmy-winning director of Chris & Martina: The Final Set, the new Netflix documentary about Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. The film traces their legendary rivalry, eighty matches over sixteen years, sixty of them finals, fourteen of them Grand Slam finals — and the unlikely friendship that emerged decades later when both women were diagnosed with cancer. Th...

Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion on Bravo.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey   Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Rhode Island Reunion (Bravo), Next Gen NYC (Bravo), Chris & Martina: The Final Set (Netflix), Love Island (Peacock), and Would You Rather: Decide to Survive (Prime Video).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-thi...

At 38 years old, Katie Delimon opened a DNA test expecting to confirm what she'd always believed about her heritage. Instead, she discovered the man who raised her wasn't her biological father, and that the truth had been hiding in plain sight her entire life. A man her family called "the beach guy," someone she'd actually described as "creepy" in her first memoir, turned out to be her biological...