Reality Life with Kate Casey

Reality television producer and Fixing Famous People podcast co-host Chris DeRosa joins Kate to break down Love Island USA Season 8, now streaming on Peacock. They discuss what the show is, why it has exploded into one of the most-watched reality series in television history, and what to watch for this season.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Summer Reading List:...

Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the Summer House reunion finale.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this   Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey   Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey   Instagram: htt...

Kate discusses her theory about Brian and Rulla on Real Housewives of Rhode Island on Bravo.      Author Hannah Selinger, who coined the term Scandoval, joins Kate to talk about her debut novel Valley of the Moms. Set in the affluent enclave of Hamilton, Massachusetts, the thriller follows Anna and Denny in alternating timelines, unraveling the toxic power dynamics, petty grievances...

Hannah Brown, Miss Alabama USA turned Bachelorette lead turned two-time New York Times bestselling author, joins Kate to discuss what really felt like to be at the center of one of the most watched seasons in Bachelor franchise history, the very public heartbreak that followed, and how she rebuilt her life entirely on her own terms. Hannah opens up about the psychological weight of being a lead on...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Maternal Instinct (Netflix), Norway: The Dark Horse (Netflix), McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys (Bravo), Summer House Reunion (Bravo), and The Last Twins (PBS).     Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-na...

Eli McCann, attorney and writer, went viral on TikTok for his heartfelt videos celebrating his beloved teacher, Mrs. Yates, and his story sends Kate down memory lane to her own fifth grade classroom in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where a small but mighty teacher named Helena Graham delivered one unforgettable piece of advice that changed the course of her life. This episode is a love letter to the...

Hoyt Richards was one of the world's first male supermodels, a Princeton graduate and 1980s fixture in the pages of the biggest fashion magazines in the world. However, behind the glamour was a secret life he could barely explain to himself. At 16, he met a charismatic Manhattan socialite named Frederick von Mierers on a Nantucket beach, and what began as a mentorship slowly became something far m...

Elli Hakami and James Hobbs, the award-winning documentary duo behind Talos Films, join Kate to discuss their series Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders , a documentary series that dives into the dark, real-world crimes and deadly deceptions that lurk behind curated digital feeds and viral internet fame.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  Vanity Fair Article:...

Ruby Wrenn from Bad TV podcast joins Kate to discuss Calabasas Confidential on Netflix and Summer House on Bravo.     Calabasas Confidential is a reality series about a tight-knit group of friends, exes, and rivals returning to hillside SoCal luxury and unfinished drama after college.     Kate also discusses her new Vanity Fair article, which can be found in the episo...

Kate Casey dives into Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage by Belle Burden. In March 2020, Burden was at her family's Martha's Vineyard home navigating the early days of the pandemic when her husband of twenty years announced, without warning, that he was leaving her. In the memoir, she revisits their marriage, searching for clues that her husband was not who she always thought he was, and reckons with...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Michael Jackson: The Verdict (Netflix), Bring Me the Beauties: A Model Cult (HBO), Devotion: Obedience or Betrayal (Paramount+), Love Island USA (Peacock), and Earth, Wind & Fire (HBO).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/kate...

Everyone has a ghost story. Maybe it's the door that closed by itself, the cold spot in the corner of the room, or just that feeling you can't quite shake. In this episode, Kate sits down with her close friend and medium Jonathan Mark — who works with both grieving families and law enforcement on unsolved cases, to talk about some of the places that have stayed with her.     From a...

Zach Heinzerling, the Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated director behind Netflix's new four-part documentary series Rafa. The series follows Rafael Nadal across the final year of his career, from his 2024 return through his retirement, while reaching back across two decades to tell the fuller story of one of the most decorated and most physically punished athletes in the history of tennis. The series g...

Kate unpacks the Summer House on Bravo, and Sarah Fraser of The Sarah Fraser Show joins to catch up on the Duggar family issues.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-narrator-of-my-own-family   Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey...

Executive producer Mark Infante and pro pickleball star Anna Bright join Kate to talk about PARTNERS, the six-part Prime Video documentary series following the meteoric rise of the Professional Pickleball Association (PPA), the league that, in less than five years, has gone from scrappy upstart to the center of an international phenomenon.     Anna Bright is a former Division I tenn...

Brian Moylan is back to help Kate break down The Valley, Summer House, and Real Housewives of Rhode Island on Bravo.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   The Story Behind My Podcast: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/i-was-the-narrator-of-my-own-family   Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey   Twit...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Calabasas Confidential (Netflix), The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle (ID Discovery/HBO Max), Summer House Reunion (Bravo), and World War II With Tom Hanks (History Channel).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey   Twitte...

Melissa and Kate first met when their sons played flag football together as kids. In this sobering episode, Melissa shares the terrifying story of how her 14-year-old son was approached by an older man on a public dock in Newport Beach in the middle of the day. Claiming he was suicidal, the man drew the teenager into an increasingly personal conversation, asked for his phone number, and later atte...

Shannon and Eric Evangelista, and retired FBI Special Agent Ken Maxwell, discuss the two-night docuseries about a man found naked and injured behind a rural Georgia Burger King in August 2004, a man who couldn't remember his own name, and called himself "Benjaman Kyle."     What began as a mission to help Benjaman recover his identity became something far darker. Over more than a de...

In the summer of 2023, two Utah teenagers barricaded themselves in an upstairs bedroom and livestreamed the standoff on TikTok for fifty-four days. Ty and Brynlee Larson were refusing a family court order that would have placed them in a reunification program with their father, Brent Larson, whom they had accused of sexual and emotional abuse, allegations he has consistently denied and was never c...

Patrick Hickey, co-host of the Bad TV podcast, joins Kate to give his review of The Crash on Netflix, discuss the cast dynamics of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island, and explain what Dorit needs to do before she starts filming another season of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills.        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.c...

A grown man in a swimming pool, fully clothed, hiding under a deck. That's the scene that opens Anna Peele's new book, and, depending on who you ask, the moment Love Island became one of the biggest shows in the world. Author Anna Peele joins Kaate to talk about Enter the Villa: The (Unauthorized) Reality Behind Love Island , her two-year investigation into how a canceled 2005 disaster became a cu...

Kate discusses what to watch this week including Mary: Life is Short (Netflix), Summer House Finale (Bravo), The Many Lives of Benjaman Kyle (Investigation Discovery), and Survivor 50 Finale (CBS).        Reality Life with Kate Casey  What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com   Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey   Twitter: https://twitter.com...

Sarah Caterson grew up in a small Pennsylvania town as the oldest of two, until a handwritten letter from her mother in November of 2019 changed everything. The letter revealed a fifty-year-old secret: a baby born in 1969 and forcibly given up for adoption, hidden away in a home for unwed mothers in Scranton. In this episode, Sarah shares the moment she opened that letter, the Ancestry.com match t...

The Crash (2026) is a Netflix true-crime documentary that examines the 2022 Ohio case of 17-year-old Mackenzie Shirilla, who was convicted of murder after intentionally driving her car into a building at 100 mph, killing her boyfriend Dominic Russo and his friend Davion Flanagan. Director Gareth Johnson and producer Angharad Scott join Kate to discuss the making of the film produced by Raw. ...