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HELLO! MAN OH MAN ARE WE HAPPY TO BE BACK! And HELLOOOO to Thursday, you fresh, sexy day! So glad we could make it! What a delight! What a time! What a year! On today’s show: A big ‘ol recap of the stories that dominated this summer and boy do we have a show for you. From Hilaria Baldwin’s Spanish controversy, to Armie Hammer’s deer heart ways, and Olivia Rodrigo’s viral chart-topping song - we’re...

We're baaaaaack and BOY is this a goodie to officially kick off 2021! Today on the show, we bring you the delightful Tayla Damir. You may know Tayla from her time on Love Island season one where she fell in love, won the reality show, and promptly found out her boyfriend - the one she won beside - actually had a girlfriend on the outside the entire time. Now, with an Instagram following of more th...

Hiya friends! Today on the show, we bring you the powerhouse that is Alyce Tran. For the unacquainted, Alyce is an entrepreneur to be reckoned with. She is the brains behind The Daily Edited, an accessories label that makes personalised, monogrammed clutches, phone cases, and luggage - the must-have pieces of the moment. In this chat, we talk about the glamour of running your own empire, but also...

Hellooooo friends! Today on the show, we bring you the glorious Allira Potter. Allira has curated an incredible career by being herself and embracing what the universe throws at her. Despite having numerous hurdles in her path since her mother’s death when she was a teenager, Allira has flourished and thrived. Allira is a body positive warrior who helps her audience practice self-love every single...

Goooood morning, everyone! HAPPY LAST DAY OF 2020! Today on the show, we bring you the formidable Samantha Wills. You likely know Samantha’s name from her eponymous jewelry line, Samantha Wills. Back in 2004, Sam decided to invest her last $500 to showcase her jewelry - jewelry she was then selling at the Bondi markets at Australian Fashion Week. People fell in love, and very soon, she was overwhe...

Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0D39Y5QgX53l9PngQlT7AS?si=239a0943f6854fef OHHH, it's the last book club for 2020, friends! This month, we read Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi - a novel that centres around Gifty, a neuroscientist at Stanford who studies addiction and depression neural circuits through experimenting with mice. This, w...

MERRY CHRISTMAS EVE, FAVOURITE PEOPLE! Today, we bring you a very special episode with you guys, the Shameless community! We think there’s no better time to reminisce on the year that was, all while hearing your thoughts on everything from your favourite pop culture stories of 2020, to which Shameless interviews have stayed with you the most, and what lessons you’ll be taking into 2021. We will be...

HELLOOOO AND MERRY CHRISTMAS TO ALL! On today’s show: Exactly what’s gone down between The Slumflower and Florence Given, Cody Simpson randomly pops up in Australian Olympic trials, a definitive ranking of all of the best and worst Christmas songs of all time, and a wrap on the year that was. What has 2020 taught us about ourselves and the world? This week, Zara recommended Zoe Foster Blake’s dinn...

Happy Thursday friends! Today on the show, we bring you the hilarious Nazeem Hussain. Nazeem is a comedian, actor and TV personality who has performed stand-up at comedy festivals all around the world. Nazeem created and starred in the SBS show ‘Legally Brown’, the sketch comedy series ‘Orange Is The New Brown’ on Channel 7, and has his very own, critically-acclaimed Netflix Special called ‘Nazeem...

Happy Monday wonderful people! On today’s show: The influencer s*x tape that’s made us see coconut oil in an entirely new light. Plus, Johnny Depp’s celeb-laden love life is outed as part of his court case against Amber Heard, Taylor Swift outdoes herself by releasing her second album in 2020, and - last but not least- the Red Table Talk that sparked a huge discussion about star power and privileg...

Hey, legends! Today on the show, we bring you the formidable Kylie Brown. Kylie is in the public eye, partly, because her husband Jonathan Brown is a well-known former AFL star and radio personality. But it’s what Kylie has managed to do with her profile and platform that has blown us away. After struggling with chronic endometriosis for two decades, and undergoing no less than nine surgeries - in...

G’day friends! On today’s show: What your Spotify Wrapped says about you, plus, Juno star Elliot Page announces he is transgender, Rhianna has a very famous new bf, and why conservatives lost their flippin’ minds over Harry Styles wearing a dress in Vogue. This week, Mich recommended The Story of Diana on Netflix, and Zara recommended reading Cazzie David’s piece, ‘Ex Dysmorphia’, in Air Mail. Tha...

Happy Thursday everyone! Today on the show, we bring you the inimitable Rupi Kaur. Rupi is the writer and poet of three best-selling books: Milk and Honey, The Sun and her Flowers, and Home Body, which have sold a cumulative 8 million copies worldwide and been translated into 42 languages. In 2017, Kaur was named in BBC’s 100 Women list, and in 2019, The New Republic named her the writer of the de...

Happy Monday lovely people! On today’s show: Do not call Justin Bieber a pop star, the bizarre backlash to Meghan Markle’s New York Times essay, and then, has Zac Efron put an end to his ‘hot normie’ relationship? Finally, we talk all about the millennial makeover of Princess Diana. This week, Zara recommended listening to the You’re Wrong About podcast. Michelle recommended keeping an eye out for...

Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5PwGumOnjhUbz2vNtWkQdS?si=90750de4c18e40ec A very happy Saturday to you, book club friends!!! This month, we’re delving into bestselling author Dolly Alderton’s fiction debut: the warm, funny, tender novel, Ghosts. Ghosts tells the story of food writer Nina Dean who enters her thirties with a successful...

HIYA FRIENDS! Today, we bring you the men behind The Inspired Unemployed, Matt Ford and Jack Steele. Matt and Jack have gone from relative obscurity to being an internationally-recognised duo in only the last year or so. They have accumulated 600,000 followers on TikTok and nearly 800,000 on Instagram, and have also fronted campaigns for Fendi, The Iconic, and Louis Vuitton. In this chat, we talk...

HEY FRIENDS! On today’s show: Nigella Lawson’s buttered toast technique becomes a very British scandal. Plus, Angie Kent rightly disparages cover story clickbait, and then, is this the end of Pete Evans as we know him? This week, Zara recommended reading our November book club pick, Ghosts by Dolly Alderton. Mich recommended this Vodka pasta recipe from Gigi Hadid. Thank you so much to today’s spo...

Happy Thursday everybody!!! Today, we bring you the enigmatic Florence Given. For the unacquainted, Florence is nothing short of a force to be reckoned with. The 21-year-old feminist illustrator, writer, and activist released her debut book, Women Don’t Owe You Pretty, in June this year, and has gone on to become a number one Sunday Times bestseller. Florence now has a social media following of mo...

Hiya friends! On today’s show: The most brutal riches to rags story that we’ve read in a very long time. Plus, the future of shoppable shows like Euphoria, an internal crisis on why we give so many effs about the love lives of teenage Tik Tokkers, and the Hillsong "hypepriest" who ruined his career with an extra-marital affair. This week, Zara recommended The Rise Of The Murdoch Dynasty on ABC iVi...

Why hello there! Today, we bring you the very warm Nakkiah Lui. Nakkiah is a Gamilaroi and Torres Strait Islander woman who writes for both the theatre and television. Nakkiah has co-written and starred in the ABC’s Black Comedy, created and starred in Kiki and Kitty for the ABC, co-hosted the Buzzfeed podcast series Pretty for an Aboriginal, and in 2019, released her debut novel, Black Is The New...

HELLO LISTENER FRIENDS! On today’s show: The explosive Bachelorette finale that took us by surprise after quite a lacklustre season. Plus, the baby rumours that Hailey Bieber is having none of, and then, how one of Netflix’s most-streamed films in 2020 also happens to be one of the worst Christmas movies we’ve ever seen. This week, Mich and Zara recommended some top-quality/kinda niche Christmas m...

Hiiiii lovely people! Today, we bring you the remarkable Sophie Delezio. If Sophie’s name sounds familiar, you were probably first introduced to her story more than 16 years ago, when a car crashed into Sophie’s daycare centre and trapped Sophie underneath. In that incident, she suffered burns to more than 85% of her body, lost both of her feet, a number of fingers, and an ear. A few years later,...

Hey there! On today’s show: Is James Corden the next to fall down to cancel culture? Plus, the celebrity baby boom, David Beckham’s massive Netflix’s deal, and the Kardashian birthday story that split Shameless listeners right down the middle. Is it a bit gross to celebrate your 40th birthday on a private island and post about it on social media, all in the midst of a pandemic? Or, should we just...

Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/600Rgh3RDus8kKPuHsfQwF?si=b78c69ef8eef4e7b HEY THERE BOOK CLUB FRIENDS! This month, we’re talking all about the critically acclaimed, worldwide bestseller from Swedish columnist and blogger Fredrik Backman - A Man Called Ove. Ove is the kind of man who points at people he dislikes as if they were burglar...

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