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Happy Monday, besties! Today, we’re heading back to the 90s. When David Beckham met Victoria Adams, he was so besotted he could barely speak. Little did the footballer know that together, they’d become one of the most powerful, famous, and yes, scandalous couples of the nineties and noughties. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc...

Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/66sRsUb76DWcJ4sKuOHGSA?si=f71eb2f8b07e4904 Why hello there, book clubbers! This month, we read ‘You and Me on Vacation’ by Emily Henry, and boy oh boy did it deliver on its promise to be a sugary, frothy read. Protagonists Alex and Poppy have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She ha...

Hiya pals! On today’s show: The Gabby Petito true crime case that tore through TikTok this week. Then, the Brownlow blue carpet begs a question about redemption stories, Kim Kardashian lets us know we’ve all been utterly deceived, and finally - magazines have called Emma Chamberlain “the most popular girl in the world”. So, who is Emma, and how has she managed to redefine influence as we know it?...

Hello, friends! Welcome to part two of our special series on Heath Ledger’s extraordinary life. On January 22, 2008, news broke: homegrown Australian actor turned Hollywood megastar Heath Ledger had been found dead in his apartment. He was just 28 years old. To read the New York Times profile we mentioned in this episode, head here. Check out Beyond Blue and all their great work right here. Got so...

Happy Thursday everyone! On today’s show: The Met Gala of course, and boy is there a bunch of stuff to unpack. Plus, Britney Spears is engaged, some thoughts on reality shows that pre-film endings, and then, the Olivia Munn/John Mulaney baby scandal that has all of Hollywood talking. This week, Mich had two recommendations! The Apple TV show Morning Wars, and the podcast episode ‘Break Ups That Bu...

Good morning everyone! Welcome to part one of our special series on the extraordinary life of Heath Ledger. Heath Ledger was seventeen when he left his hometown in Perth and traveled across the country to Sydney. There, his raw talent and iconic golden boy good looks would catapult him towards global stardom. To check out Beyond Blue and all their great work, head here. Got some thoughts on this s...

Good morning legends!!! On today’s show: Two stars get very flirty on the red carpet while their spouses look on, fans slam former Bachelorette Georgia Love’s racist Instagram post, and then, one of our favourite celebrity wedding dresses ever. Finally, we end with a biiiiiig bumper segment on the Nadia Bartel ‘white powder’ controversy that Australians of all ages are talking about - and what we’...

Hello there, fabulous friends! Welcome to part two of our Khloe Kardashian series. Khloe was hours away from going into labour when Tristan Thompson’s secrets were revealed to the world; he had cheated, and not just once. It was the beginning of a never-ending scandal that’s yet to die down, three years later. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads...

Happy Thursday, lovely people! On today’s show: Scott Disick proves why you should never, ever, take digs at your very famous ex in someone else’s Instagram DMs. The Dolce and Gabbana fashion show was paid a visit by mother nature, what to make of the semi-terrible movie that’s number one on the Netflix charts right now, and then - finally - the politics of being an “it girl”; the UK’s biggest inf...

Helloooooo everybody! Today, we’re heading back to 2009. For seven years, Khloe Kardashian’s marriage to Lamar Odom made for perfect tabloid fodder: a rapid-fire wedding, strip clubs, drug abuse, and infidelity. But have we ever had enough empathy for the woman at the centre of it all? Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join...

Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0Qt4haOvZTsnOQMw1ftiFV?si=ae117cf720ae413e Yaaaayyyyy! It’s book club day! This month, we read the debut novel from Emily Itami called Fault Lines. Fault Lines follows the story of Mizuki, a Japanese housewife with two adorable children and an extremely hardworking husband. She has everything anyone coul...

Hey there, superstars! On today’s show: The celebrities that refuse to give their children a cent of their fortunes, has the first Aussie influencer been “cancelled”?, Kylie Jenner is pregnant with baby numero two, and then, it’s back by popular demand! We answer a question from the Shameless mailbag to talk about the viral ad that made everyone in the country cry this week. This week, Zara recomm...

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...