Tales from the Celebrity Trenches

Taylor Swift finally did it… and somehow turned Madison Square Garden into the most over-the-top wedding venue of all time! Jamie and Alice unpack THE celebrity event of the century, from Adam Sandler officiating and Paul McCartney performing, to Cartier claw machines, and one very questionable white tuxedo. Also is someone selling wedding napkins on eBay? Jamie nerds-out, transatlantic style, wit...

Jamie and Alice are back in the Celebrity Trenches with Daily Mail US Showbiz Correspondent, Margaret Abrams – to talk about the one story taking over New York right now. Is Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's wedding really happening this weekend... at Madison Square Garden? As rumours reach fever pitch, Jamie and Margaret separate fact from fiction, unpacking everything we know so far. From reports...

Jamie East and Alice Brine are back in the Celebrity Trenches, unpacking another week of pop culture chaos. We’re all missing Glastonbury atm - but Jamie makes a bold prediction about Glasto 2027 claiming he's worked out who’s gonna be headlining the Pyramid Stage! As it’s officially gig season, we get the latest on the Bad Bunny gigs in London. Plus, Alice drops a bombshell on how to pronounce hi...

Jamie East and Alice Brine are back with another Weekly Dispatch, unpacking the week's essential celebrity stories. Jamie reports back from Harry Styles' huge Wembley show, where the pair debate whether he's officially the world's biggest male pop star and should we bring back the cheap seats at arena gigs? The Lee Andrews saga gets even weirder - mainly as Jamie attempts a glow-up to look like Le...

Jamie East and Alice Brine are back with another Weekly Dispatch, diving headfirst into the weirdest corners of celebrity culture. This week we unpack the New York Knicks' NBA win - with the real action taking place courtside, on celeb row, where Taylor Swift, Timothée Chalamet, Sydney Sweeney and a host of A-listers turned basketball into the hottest ticket in town. Jamie wonders which British sp...

Jamie East & comedian Alice Brine are back with another Weekly Dispatch, serving up their hot takes on the strangest stories in showbiz this week. Katie Price once again proves she’s the greatest tabloid character Britain has ever produced. The pair unpack her latest Lee-in-prison saga, a Pride crowd being asked whether she should dump him, and why Pricey may actually be a marketing genius pla...

This week GK Barry joins Jamie East for a completely chaotic episode and within minutes they’re discussing UFO pranks, ghost encounters, conspiracy theories and whether Britain’s Got Talent is secretly a money laundering operation. GK spills on the reality of internet fame, the accidental TikTok that changed her life, and why Loose Women is even more unhinged behind the scenes than viewers imagine...

Another week, another trip into the Celebrity Trenches. Jamie & Alice start by discussing Susan Boyle’s much-teased comeback which turned out to be less chart domination and more ice cream advert. We celebrate Jane McDonald’s Mighty Hoopla triumph and ask the important question, why isn’t she headlining Glastonbury by now? There’s an update on Katie Price’s elusive billionaire boyfriend, who s...

This week in the Celebrity Trenches, Alice & Jamie dive headfirst into the wild world of celebrity apology videos. The strange ones, the surprising ones! Alice breaks down the Ariana Grande donut licking moment, the apology video vibes, and introduces Jamie to her theory of “llama humour”. The pair unpack why celebrity apologies became such a thing & is “I’m sorry if you were offended” the...

This week it’s a HUGE Celebrity Trenches special as Jamie is joined by Big Brother 5 winner Nadia Almada, Fight Night icon Victor Ebuwa, legendary narrator Marcus Bentley and former Big Brother director Ben Hardy to unpack the most chaotic era in reality TV history. Victor reveals producers gave the housemates an “apocalyptic amount of booze” before the infamous Fight Night kicked off. Jamie also...

This week on Celebrity Trenches we dive headfirst into the absolute madness of 2000s reality TV with comedian and presenter Matt Richardson, broadcaster and reality TV expert Jamie East and consultant psychiatrist Dr Gareth Smith. From contestants being kept awake for seven days in Shattered, to Space Cadets convincing people they’d gone to space from an airbase in Suffolk, we revisit the era when...

Another big week in the Celebrity Trenches!  Jamie & Alice unpack the Eurovision aftermath, from Australia somehow still competing to the UK coming last AGAIN. Nul, indeed, points. We delve into the internet-breaking wedding of Tyson Fury’s daughter Venezuela Fury: 18 bridesmaids, Biggie Smalls down the aisle, Peter Andre performing, and a 16-year-old bride casually carrying her phone at...

Jamie East & comedian Alice Brine bring you their razor-sharp hot takes on the last seven days in showbiz in our new pod, ‘Celebrity Trenches: Weekly Dispatch’. It’s a bumper week to unpack: Jamie went to the BAFTAs & has the BTS goss about what it’s *really like* to be there. It was long, he got hungry, but he DID see celebs behaving badly with their (packets of) nuts. Jamie spoke to a Ce...

Simon Cowell welcomes Jamie East into his home to launch 'Tales from the Celebrity Trenches'! It's his most honest, entertaining & revealing interview in years. Expect all sorts - the inside scoop on what it was *really like* backstage at X-Factor. Including the time Jamie hung out in Simon’s dressing room & Simon couldn’t get YouTube to work on his new laptop - you HOWL when you hear the...

Coming Soon... Got a tale from the trenches? Get in touch! Either leave a comment, drop an email to hello@celebritytrenches.com or WhatsApp us on: +44 7796 65712 starting with the word CELEB. Follow us on socials @celebritytrenches A Seriously Popular production. Host and Producer: Jamie East Co-Hosts: Alice Brine, Matt Richardson Producer: Phil Stocker Assistant Producer: Tippi Willard Additional...