Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea and Vivian Tu (Your Rich BFF, Rich AF) sit down for five questions Chelsea would love to be asked as an author, and five questions she’d hate to be asked. From beef with Dave Ramsey, to   Rich Dad and Poor Dad, to keeping your mental health while making a living online, Vivian is here to school us in a money mindset! Where to find our Guest: Vivian Tu  Book Instagram Tik Tok Podcast _____...

Chelsea and Karen Chee (Late Night with Seth Meyers, Pachinko) waltz through Ginger Rogers’ 1991 memoir, My Story. From being stolen on a train as a baby, to power playing Fred Astaire with a blue feathered dress, to a truly wild lack of awareness about world events, this book had some gems! Where to find our Guest: Karen Chee Website Instagram For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on...

Chelsea and Molly Quinn (Castle, Guardians of the Galaxy) dive into an oldie but a goodie, Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann’s 1977 memoir Changing. From her marriage to Ingmar Bergman, to struggling with Hollywood networking, to possibly the earliest Henry Kissinger appearance yet, this episode delivers a surprisingly poetic twist to inspire us all for the new year.  Where to find our Guest: Molly Qu...

Chelsea and Jo Feldman (Party Down, The Goldbergs) dig into the Carnie Wilson’s 2001 memoir, Gut Feelings. From her iconic girl group Wilson Phillips, to her relationship with her Beach Boys father Brian Wilson, to being buried up to her neck in sand for a Michael Bay music video, this episode is an anti diet culture anthem for the holidays!  Where to find our Guest: Jo Feldman Jo's mom Marcy's je...

Chelsea sits down for Book Talk with Danny Pellegrino (Everything Iconic, and the author of the brand-new The Jolliest Bunch) for five questions she’d love to be asked as an author, and five questions she’d hate to be asked. From the trials of picking a title, to the holiday blues, to the gifts he hopes he gets this year, Danny is a delight!  Show Notes: The Jolliest Bunch – Danny’s new book out n...

Chelsea and Elizabeth Day (How to Fail) take a hard look at two often compared memoirs: Tara Westover’s 2018 memoir Educated, and Jeannette Wall’s 2005 memoir The Glass Castle. The Glass Castle was accepted as a true recounting of a dysfunctional childhood, while Tara Westover was accused of making up or exaggerating her accounts of her family in Educated. Why would one be believed unquestioningly...

Chelsea and Meredith Scardino (Girls5eva) sit down with Penny Marshall’s memoir My Mother Was Nuts. From Laverne and Shirley, to A League of Their Own, to lusting after football players, this book will have you laughing, crying, and even cheering for a nepo baby.  Show Notes: Gina Davis Episode Farrah Faucet and Penny Marshall's Head and Shoulder's Commercial Where to find our Guest: Meredith Scar...

Glamorous Trash Talk: Best Friend Breakups (with Sam Reece) Chelsea and Sam Reece (Shitty Craft Club) get BFF’d while discussing best friend female friendship breakups. From how best friend break ups are hardly ever covered in entertainment, to why it’s so painful to lose a best friend, to breaking up with a slow fade, this episode is like a wine fueled therapy slumber party.  Show Notes: Kim Catt...

Chelsea and Angela Tucker (You Should Be Grateful, The Adoptee Next Door) dive into the whirlpool of trauma that is Christina Crawford’s 1978 memoir Mommie Dearest, as well as her mother Joan Crawford’s 2017 autobiography A Portrait of Joan. From the infamous film based on Mommie Dearest, to the extremely damaging adoption process, this memoir has the distinction of being the first “tell all” cele...

Chelsea and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (Gordita Chronicles, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) get cozy on the Glamorous Trash couch to break down this season of the Golden Bachelor, and what it says about where we’re at with Reality TV as a whole. From whether Faith and her guitar have villain vibes, to what Gary’s lion tattoo means, to whether we’re in a new age of authenticity, is the Golden Bachelor going to s...

Cookie spokesperson Chris DeRosa (Fixing Famous People) takes over the podcast to chat with Chelsea about her upcoming memoir I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going to Anyway). Come for the celeb gossip and career tips, and stay for the life-affirming magic of owning your story. Pre-order Chelsea's memoir Pre-order a signed copy of Chelsea's memoir Enter the pre-order giveaway Click here...

Chelsea and Lauren Ash (Not Dead Yet, True Crime & Cocktails) get the New York "It Girl" experience with Julia Fox's memoir Down the Drain. From a sham kidnapping, to dominatrix fights, to the Kanye divorce tour, this book will make you realize everyone has a reason for doing what they do – even people who call themselves a muse. Show Notes: Buy Merch (pre-sale ends 11/14) Click here to get 2 audi...

Chelsea and Traci Thomas (The Stacks pod) get guru’d with Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2023 memoir Worthy. From getting proposed to by Tupac in prison, to getting really into ayahuasca, to finally addressing The Slap, this book gave us so many details, but also so many questions! Show Notes: It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him by Justin Tinsley Will Smith's mensmior Click here to get 2...

Chelsea & Rob Anderson (Gay Science) get their dancing knives out for Britney Spears’s brand-new book, the best-selling celebrity memoir in history The Woman in Me. We could write a description but why bother: IT’S BRITNEY, BITCH Show Notes: Click here for 13% OFF on Britney's book Click here to get 2 audiobooks for 1 when you sign up for a Libro.fm membership Britney’s notebook audition Jamie Lyn...

Chelsea and Taylor Vaughn Lasley (Marvel’s Moon Girl) have a true trash talk going over the events of Love Is Blind Season 5, and the idea of “toxic settling”. They get into all the deep, important questions, like how do you know when a relationship isn’t right for you? Why does Johnie have multiple pairs of those clear shoes? And what is Stacy’s actual job anyway? For more book recaps & gentle te...

Chelsea and Susie Meister (Road Rules, Brain Candy Podcast) go all “Marcia Marcia Marcia” with Maureen McCormick’s 2008 memoir Here’s The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice. From growing up with a traumatic family secret, to having a crush on her onscreen brother who had a crush on their onscreen mom, to listing her exact weight and pants size multiple times, Maureen leaves yo...

Chelsea and Patty Lin (Breaking Bad, Friends) break down the cautionary tale that is Joyce Maynard’s 1998 memoir At Home in the World. From her shocking and abusive relationship with a much-older J.D. Salinger, to the backlash she faced when she finally told her story, to a truly strange story of adopting two daughters and then dissolving the adoption, this is a meta-look at the effects of telling...

Chelsea and Rachel Lindsay (The Bachelorette) swim in the shallows and depths of Kerry Washington’s just-released memoir, Thicker Than Water. They focus everything from Scandal, to growing up near JLO, to learning a shocking paternity secret from her parents in her 40s, the fact the she is donor conceived.  Show Notes: Watch "Confirmation" We Are Donor Conceived - Facebook  We Are Donor Conceived...

Chelsea sits down with London Hughes (To Catch a Dick) to ask her 10 questions for memoirists. They discuss London’s brand-new book, Living My Best Live Hun, including 24 hour meetings with Kevin Hart, racist editors, and other books we want to emulate in our own writing.  Show Notes: Normal Family - https://www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/chrysta-bilton/normal-family/9780316536523/?lens=little-b...

Chelsea and Lizzie Bassett (What Went Wrong) pounce on Tippi Hedren’s 2016 celebrity memoir. From coming up in the 1950s modeling scene, to being assaulted Alfred Hitchcock, to a surprising amount of lion violence, to her relationship with her daughter Melanie Griffith, and granddaughter, Dakota Johnson, this memoir is an unexpected journey!  For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on In...

Chelsea and Sierra Teller Ornelas (Rutherford Falls) and Caissie St Onge (Busy Phillips is Doing Her Best) are absolutely in love with Maria Bamford’s 2023 celebrity memoir, Sure I’ll Join Your Cult. From a “Haagen-Dazs” childhood in Minnesota, to full-on spreadsheets of her financial information, to her “mentals”, this book is hilarious, vulnerable, and life-affirming.    Where to find our Guests...

Chelsea and Beth Silvers & Sarah Stewart Holland (Pantsuit Politics) get overly self-assured with Melissa Etheridge’s new celebrity memoir, Talking To My Angels. From the minimal info on her rise to fame, to her two messy divorces, to being in a hot tub with Hollywood’s power lesbians, this book probably shouldn’t have been written.    ​​Where to find our Guests: Beth Silvers & Sarah Stewart Holla...

We’ve rebranded! The content of the podcast is staying the same, but the name is changing! For 3 years we have recapped and discussed celebrity memoirs. We have laughed about gossip, cried about trauma, and laugh-cried about our own personal obstacles, and one day it became clear that we needed a new name that would more accurately reflect the depth of the show and the thoughtful and hilarious com...

Chelsea & Rebecca Woolf (Sex & The Single Mom, The Braid) get sincere with Jewel’s 2016 memoir Never Broken. From singing in Alaska frontier bars as a child, to dating Sean Penn, to her momager stealing all her money and channeling an ancient being, this book was a sleeper hit and a new fave!    Become a member of the Celebrity Book Club Patreon!   Links: Jewel's poetry book, A Night Without Armor...

Traci Thomas (The Stacks) and Chelsea deep dive into the Bachelorette finale, whether the Bachelor has anything worthwhile in store for us, and what this season of the show can tell us about the upcoming election (yes, really). Also in the Glamorous Trash Menagerie: Britney Spears’ divorce post, book recommendations, and freediving documentaries.  Where to find our Guest: Traci Thomas The Stacks P...