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Happy Monday lovely humans! Welcome to part two of our Elizabeth Taylor series. It was 1959 - and Elizabeth Taylor was the world’s most beautiful woman - when her famous best friend Debbie Reynolds called her hotel room. Only, when Debbie dialled Liz’s number, Liz didn’t pick up. Debbie’s husband - Eddie Fisher - did. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eye...

Good morning pals! On today’s show: Jennifer Klein’s Day of Indulgence is apparently one of the most coveted invitations in LA, but we have a few questions we’d like to ask. Then, Channel 10’s dire The Bachelor ratings, unpacking Bama Rush and why it took over TikTok this week, and then, a new segment that we will be dropping whenever we feel like it: we open the Shameless Mailbag, and tackle an a...

Happy Monday everyone! Today, we’re heading back to 1932. Elizabeth Taylor was one of Hollywood’s greatest icons. But despite being known as the “most beautiful woman in the world”, she had a complicated love life filled with affairs, a shock death, and - yes - many, many divorces. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in...

G’day everyone! On today’s show: Why do celebrities keep telling us how often - or not often - they bathe? Plus, an Instagram influencer calls out another for systematically copying her content, Jennifer Aniston’s very public birthday message to Justin Theroux, and then, the Good Weekend profile on Jock Zonfrillo that some are calling the most interesting and ~intriguing ~ celebrity profile in yea...

Hello wonderful humans! Welcome to the final instalment of our Scientology series. For years, Katie Holmes was renowned as the passive, mild, third wife of Tom Cruise. Then, one day in 2012, she would prove the media wrong: the meek wife of the face of Scientology had been underestimated by just about everyone. To watch that clip of Tom jumping up and down on Oprah’s couch, declaring his intense l...

Hello! Happy Thursday! On today’s show: Explaining the Emma Roberts meme all over your timeline right now, Reese Witherspoon becomes the world’s richest actress, old mate Farmer Will from Farmer Wants A Wife finally addresses the rumour that he got a contestant pregnant, and - finally - a rebuttal to the Instagram wellness warriors who are telling us that we need to go back to the good old days. T...

Happy Monday pals! Welcome to part two of our Scientology series. Tom Cruise and Nicole Kidman were married, in love, and the parents of two children when the Church of Scientology identified Nicole as a threat. They wouldn’t rest until Tom - their crown jewel - was firmly in their grasp again. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc et...

Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0UUrSdqrilCxv1tHk4DYON?si=6c33bad6f1f648e1 Happy Saturday, friends! This month we read ‘Malibu Rising’ by Taylor Jenkins Reid - the same author of our most popular book club pick yet, Daisy Jones and The Six. Malibu Rising follows four famous siblings as they throw an epic party to celebrate the end of s...

HEY BESTIES! On today’s show: How many wedding dresses are too many dresses? Ange and Brad’s never-ending divorce hits another hurdle, the strangest kind-of-feud between Lisa Wilkinson and Khloe Kardashian, an investigation into whether J Lo and Ben Affleck are absolutely trolling us and then, finally, a conversation, in the wake of The Bachelor airing, about why we so rarely give reality stars th...

Goooood morning all! It’s the church-meet-cult that’s famous for indoctrinating celebrities - Elisabeth Moss, John Travolta, and most notably, Tom Cruise. So, what the hell do we know about Scientology? And how does it have such a star-studded list of devotees? Head here to read that LA Times piece on Scientology founder L Ron Hubbard, and here for Laura Prepon’s interview with Celebrity Magazine....

Happy Thursday mates! On today’s show: Former Aussie Bachelorette Elly Miles is slammed for promoting a diet where you only eat meat, old mate Jeff Bezos popped on a cowboy hat and left the planet, a script has been leaked from the set of the new Sex and The City spinoff, and - finally - what the hell were Channel 7 and Big Brother thinking when it came to casting well-known bigot and troll Katie...

Hiya legends!!! Welcome to part two of our Elevatorgate series. When CCTV footage of Beyoncé, Solange and Jay Z in an elevator leaked to the media, the public had no idea what to make of it. Then, two years later, we were introduced to Becky with the good hair. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our...

Hellooooo friends! On today’s show: Why Kylie Jenner and Kim Kardashian’s cosmetic brands (as we know them) are disappearing, almost overnight. Plus, Love Island is back, but is it doing enough to protect its contestants' mental health? And then, the bizarre story of Princess Charlene, Monaco’s runaway bride. This week, Zara recommended two books: Fault Lines by Emily Itami and Sorrow and Bliss by...

Good morning everyone! Today, we’re heading back to 2014. When we watched Jay Z and Beyoncé walk the Met Gala in 2014, we saw a blissfully happy husband and wife. Only, when a black-and-white video leaked a week later, the public realised there had been a trick mirror all along. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the...

Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/29lWc3nOaDhqTcWWbSVVhd?si=d03076672f414219 Happy Saturday, book clubbers! This month, we read the debut novel ‘New Animal’ by Australian author Ella Baxter. This book, set initially in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, then later in suburban Tasmania, follows the life of Amelia Aurelia; an embalmer...

Hiya everyone! Welcome to part three of our Jen, Brad and Ange series. When Brad and Angelina’s stars combined it made for the most powerful celebrity couple of the modern era. But when they turned on each other? Well, the world is still feeling the aftershocks, five years later. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in th...

Hi friends! On today’s show: Kanye West has officially moved on from his marriage to Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee Stallion’s music video is equal parts mesmerising and traumatising, Chrissy Teigen would like to apologise, G Flip says they're a “gender smoothie” and THEN!!!! The Em Rata Instagram photo that caused such a stir, people can’t stop talking about it a week later. This week, Zara recommend...

Happy Monday wonderful people! Welcome to part two of our Jen, Brad and Ange series. Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were Hollywood’s chosen two. Only, when Brad signed the dotted line to star in a movie called Mr. and Mrs. Smith, their public and personal lives would, quite literally, never look the same again. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, head...

Goooood morning! On today’s show: We’re sorry to say but there’s a TikTok beekeeper feud that has the internet a-buzzing and we’re going to get you across it all. Plus, there’s another royal Lilibet on the scene, the controversy enveloping Australian Fashion Week this week, and then, are we bad people for loving a big old gossip? This week, Mich recommended ABC’s Love On The Spectrum. Zara recomme...

Hiya friends! Today, we’re heading back to the 90s. They were the golden couple of all golden couples. Her, an all-American television star. Him, the world’s sexiest film heartthrob. So, when Jen and Brad’s perfect love story disintegrated in front of the eyes of the world, people wanted answers. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc...

Hello lovelies!!! On today’s show: Why The Veronicas didn’t talk for a year, Kylie and Travis are officially back on, Amy Schumer goes rogue on Instagram, and then! A biiiig bumper segment on the Friends reunion - how it became the biggest celebrity moment of the month, and what we make of the debate about whether the show is too outdated to be loved in 2021. This week, Zara recommended watching M...

Hey there! Welcome to part two of our Natalie Wood series. Natalie Wood, one of Hollywood’s most iconic stars, had a fear of dark water. How could it be, then, that her body was found one mile away from the boat where she was holidaying with her husband and rumoured lover? Find that Vanity Fair article we mentioned in today’s episode here. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re a...

Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/58cNGnSxs2NfIyseoL1Wjk?si=592094155913438f Happy Saturday, book clubbers! This month, we tucked into Swing Time by Zadie Smith, a novel that tells the story of two girls growing up on the wrong side of London. They meet at a community dance class and dream of being dancers, but only one of them has the t...

Happy Thursday legends! On today’s show: A relatively unexpected celebrity throuple and why an interview with Princess Diana from 26 years ago is making headlines again. Plus, a history-making Bachelorette and why Billy Porter’s recent interview with the Hollywood Reporter is one of our favourite celebrity pieces in, well, a long time. This week, Mich recommended watching Celebrity Apprentice Aust...

Hello friends! Today, we’re heading back to the 1950s and ‘60s. Natalie Wood was an icon. Beautiful, talented, electric in front of a camera. And yet, for decades, public commentary has pertained mostly to her tragic - and confusing - death. How did a woman terrified of dark water die at sea? Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc)...