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G’day, friends! On today’s show: Taylor Swift is named TIME’s Person of the Year and takes a shot at Kim Kardashian in the process. There’s a royal photoshop fail in Will and Kate’s family Christmas card, Selena Gomez is in a relationship and letting loose in the comments section, Molly-Mae Hague says she’s “going through it”, and Hugh Grant is kinda grumpy but needs money, okay? This week, Zara r...

Hey, everybody! Welcome to the second and final part of our series on Lena Dunham. She has a brilliant mind and a knack for pissing people off. Lena is behind some of our generation’s most celebrated work, but also cringeworthy blunders. How the hell did she get so famous? And what do we make of her now? This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks...

Why hello, everyone! On today’s show: remember the ‘wedding of the century’ that we spoke about last week? Yeah, well… it turns out the groom could be looking at decades behind bars. Plus! Publicist Tree Paine has taken a big old whack at professional celebrity gossiper DeuxMoi, Billie Eilish has called out Variety for ‘outing her’, and friend of the show Dave Galafassi is BACK!!! Then we’re doing...

Happy Monday, everyone!  Lena Dunham has a brilliant mind and a knack for pissing people off. She’s behind some of our generation’s most celebrated work, but also cringeworthy blunders. How the hell did she get so famous? And what do we make of her now? This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Mejuri for making this episode possible. Head on...

Hellooooo, everybody! On today’s show: videos of Tommy Fury partying it up with Chris Brown in Dubai are making us feel… a lot of things. The wedding of the century is here and the TikToks are something else, the main takeaways from Kylie Jenner’s interview with Jennifer Lawrence, Diddy has been accused of sexual assault by two more women, and the British podcast that unwittingly cancelled the imp...

Hey, legends!  Welcome to the third and final part of our series on Justin Timberlake. Just saying his name is enough to elicit a reaction. For some, he’s the hitmaker who turned boy band adoration into pop superstardom. For others, he’s the prime example of everything to dislike in a celebrity. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Lo Br...

G’day, everyone! On today’s show: From the curious marketing campaign behind Anyone But You and The Curse, Suki Waterhouse announced she’s pregnant mid-performance, rapper Cassie accuses Diddy of sexual assault and abuse, reviews of The Crown season six are in and they are… emphatically negative, Travis Kelce has been profiled by the Wall Street Journal, and Kanye West’s Australian wife Bianca Cen...

Happy Monday, everyone!  Welcome to the second part of our series on Justin Timberlake. Just saying his name is enough to elicit a reaction. For some, he’s the hitmaker who turned boy band adoration into pop superstardom. For others, he’s the prime example of everything to dislike in a celebrity. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Meju...

Hello hello! On today’s show: What’s going on with the reports suggesting Prince Frederick has cheated on Australia’s Princess Mary? Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are giving us big romcom energy and we can’t get enough, there’s widespread mourning for Harry Styles’s hair, Mean Girls 2.0 is just around the corner, and Kim Kardashian’s hairdresser files for divorce - literal days after his televised...

Hey, friends!  Justin Timberlake: just saying his name is enough to elicit a reaction. For some, he’s the hitmaker who turned boy band adoration into pop superstardom. For others, he’s the prime example of everything to dislike in a celebrity. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Chadstone - The Fashion Capital - for making this episode...

G’day, friends! On today’s show: Troye Sivan’s fast becoming the most exciting celebrity to follow right now, Alexa Chung has shared her 40 best pieces of life advice and we are obsessed, Sophie Turner has entered her French Girl Phase, people think Emma Chamberlain should go to college, and it’s time to play Slow News Week again! This week, Mich recommended watching Love Triangle on Stan. Zara re...

Helloooo! Welcome to the second and final part of our Call Her Daddy series. They were two of the biggest names in podcasting. Together, Sofia Franklyn and Alex Cooper built a brand known around the world. But as fame, money, and attention came their way, the friendship that started it all completely crumbled. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big...

Hello, everyone! On today’s show: 1989 Taylor’s Version is here, but a Harry Styles cameo is not. The world mourns the death of FRIENDS star, Matthew Perry, there are whispers in DeuxMoi that another celebrity divorce is brewing, Kylie Jenner has launched Khy and it’s, well, kind of genius. And then: how the hell did Martin Scorcese become TikTok’s new… it boy? This week, Zara recommended Green Do...

Happy Monday! They were two of the biggest names in podcasting. Together, Sofia Franklyn and Alex Cooper built a brand known around the world. But as fame, money, and attention came their way, the friendship that started it all completely crumbled. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Thanks to SBS On Demand for making this episode possible. Head to S...

Hellooooo, everyone! On today’s show: Britney Spears’s memoir is finally out in the world, so what are the key takeaways from one of the most anticipated books of the last year? Plus, Sophia Bush has reportedly moved on with a former soccer star and, well, where do we start with the drama around that story? Then, Rebecca Loos isn’t happy with David Beckham’s documentary and Meryl Streep’s marriage...

Hello, everybody! Welcome to the third and final part of our series on Ariana Grande. She was the superstar who navigated a terrorist attack and the death of a former partner within 18 months. Ariana Grande had dealt with unimaginable heartbreak. By 2018, she was a bit of a phoenix, rising from the ashes. Only, the story was far from over. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio p...

G’day, friends! On today’s show: Well, we simply must talk about Will and Jada and the news that... actually… they’ve not been together since 2016. Plus, the questions we have after Kendall Jenner took a sizeable paycheck from Mark Zuckerberg, why on earth have Sophie Turner and Priyanka Chopra Jonas unfollowed each other, and then, Julia Fox’s very candid memoir. Oh, and you bet we’re bringing ba...

Well well well, what do we have here? This is a very special bonus episode to celebrate the fact that our new book, 4am, is out in the world today. Since 2021, tens of thousands of readers have devoured ASK SHAMELESS’s weekly columns on dating, friendship and self-development, written by Mich and Zara, along with our incredible roster of guest columnists. The book doesn’t just look beautiful, it a...

Hey, everyone! Welcome to part two of our series on Ariana Grande. A gig on Broadway, a Nickelodeon show, and a voice so powerful it was considered once in a generation: Ariana Grande was on the path to superstardom. But 2017 would show the singer just how awful - how heartbreaking - fame can be. For the link to BBC’s tribute to the Manchester attack victims, head here. To donate to Winston’s Wish...

Hello, everyone! On today’s show: the Beckham documentary has been released and we have oh so many thoughts, it appears that Gigi Hadid and Bradley Cooper are Hollywood’s newest couple, Emma Chamberlain is single, all of social media is theorising that Andy Cohen and John Mayer are more than friends, Olivia Wilde’s Instagram activity is under the microscope, and then finally: why did TikTok’s It G...

Happy Monday! She’s found herself in one of the biggest celebrity headlines of 2023. But long before her divorce from Dalton Gomez, pop star Ariana Grande had an extremely colourful life, with twists and turns that we can’t quite comprehend. This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Hayu for making this episode possible. Head to hayu.com or d...

SURPRISE! We’re so excited to be bringing you this special, jam-packed episode from the archives. As you've probably noticed, the Beckham documentary has just dropped on Netflix and is going absolutely wild right now. We binged it, and at the end of the docu-series thought: you know what? We did our own three-part series on David and Victoria Beckham's marriage years ago. It's one of our favorite...

Hiya, friends! On today’s show: *that* Kim and Kourtney Kardashian phone call and what we make of the speculation that Travis Barker is actually at the heart of it all. Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis quietly bury the hatchet, an episode of Dax Shepard’s podcast attracted some ugly headlines, we need to talk about the rise of the “girl’s girl”, and then, Zara’s got a brand new segment!!! This week...

Hello, pals! Today we are joined by Youtuber turned entrepreneur Grace Beverley. For the unacquainted, Grace is a force to be reckoned with. Grace blew up when she was studying at Oxford and decided to document her life with vlogs on YouTube. From there, she channeled her incredibly engaged audience into not one, but two, business ventures: a sustainable activewear brand called TALA and a fitness...

Hi, everybody!  Welcome to the second and final part of our series on the college admissions scandal. Olivia Jade was the ultimate aspirational Gen Z-er: the daughter of an actress and multi-millionaire entrepreneur – and an influencer with millions of followers to her name – she… kind of had it all. That is, until the US Department of Justice came knocking. This episode was researched by Eilish G...