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David Walliams, Russell Brand and the cost of complicity
The Guardian's three-year investigation into David Walliams has finally been published, detailing allegations of grooming and sexual harassment. We unpack its biggest bombshells and ask how his alleged …
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The Guardian's three-year investigation into David Walliams has finally been published, detailing allegations of grooming and sexual harassment. We unpack its biggest bombshells and ask how his alleged behaviour could have remained an open secret for so long. On that note, we also discuss Russell Brand’s sentencing and the role the entertainment industry plays in protecting powerful men. Plus: what we learned from Kim Kardashian’s authorised new biography, as well as reviews of Black Doves series two and Netflix’s Matthew Perry documentary.
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Recs/reviews
- Black Doves, Netflix
- Citizen Kim by Jonathan Van Meter
- ‘Kim invaded her own privacy’: The biographer granted rare access to Kardashian’s inner circle, Telegraph
- The One About Matthew Perry, Netflix
- ‘It wasn’t long until he asked me if I’d ever had sex before’: David Walliams accused of preying on young women for sex, The Guardian
- No messiah: the reckoning of Russell Brand, Times
- The Russell Brand verdict is a landmark victory for the understanding of consent, The Guardian
- Is Rape a Crime? Diabolical Lies
- The crimes of Russell Brand, Today in Focus
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Robert Pattinson’s Primetime, The Celebrity Traitors final and ACOTAR 6
Primetime is being hailed as a career-best role for Robert Pattinson, yet his portrayal of real-life ‘paedophile hunter’ Chris Hansen has proved wildly divisive. Is the film’s satire of controversial noughties …
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Primetime is being hailed as a career-best role for Robert Pattinson, yet his portrayal of real-life ‘paedophile hunter’ Chris Hansen has proved wildly divisive. Is the film’s satire of controversial noughties reality show To Catch a Predator turning public humiliation into entertainment all over again? Also this week: Halloween costume controversies, The Celebrity Traitors finale, ACOTAR 6 and Jennifer Lawrence’s latest publicity blitz for her new haircare range. Does the world really need another celeb beauty brand?
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Recs/reviews
- Fatherland, in cinemas now
- Primetime, in cinemas now
- Tonight on Dateline, This Man Will Die, Esquire
- The Idiot podcast, New York Times
- A Court of Splintered Harmony, Sarah J. Maas
- Sarah J. Maas Gave Us Part of a Book, Vulture
- Jennifer Lawrence Hopes You Won't Hate Her New Project, The Cut
- Jennifer Lawrence: Hunger Games, Hot Takes & Online Hate, Call Her Daddy
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Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything, Meghan Markle and the next James Bond
The ‘dazzling’ new film about disgraced Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes has become one of the buzziest and most controversial documentaries ever made. Why is there so much hype, and what does it …
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The ‘dazzling’ new film about disgraced Silicon Valley entrepreneur Elizabeth Holmes has become one of the buzziest and most controversial documentaries ever made. Why is there so much hype, and what does it say about our fascination with famous fraudsters? Also on the show: how the serious allegations against Meghan Markle’s father could change public opinion around her, and our thoughts on the three finalists in the running to become the next James Bond. Plus: a five-star review of Disney’s comedy-mystery Phoney and our verdict on Channel 4’s star-studded series, It Gets Worse, about Gen Z disillusionment.
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Recs/reviews
- Phoney, Disney+
- It Gets Worse, Channel 4
- Gail Daughtry and the Celebrity Sex Pass
- Will the public change its mind about Meghan? BBC
- You Can See Everything, in UK cinemas Nov 20
- You Can't See Everything: Release delays are killing movie culture in the UK, GQ
- ‘A cultural moment’: smash hit doc You Can See Everything continues to dazzle America, Guardian
- Elizabeth Holmes is Literally Just a Man, Liz Plank, Substack
- The New Stanford Prison Experiment, Netflix
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The Victoria’s Secret fashion show, Sally Rooney and the Girls reboot
The Victoria’s Secret fashion show is back and seemingly more popular than ever, just years after it was dismissed as sexist and outdated. So how did we get here, and why are we suddenly celebrating a version …
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The Victoria’s Secret fashion show is back and seemingly more popular than ever, just years after it was dismissed as sexist and outdated. So how did we get here, and why are we suddenly celebrating a version of femininity we thought we’d left behind? Also this week: the newly-announced reboot of Lena Dunham’s Girls and whether it can capture the zeitgeist again, the controversy surrounding Sally Rooney’s book ban, plus reviews of Florence Pugh’s East of Eden adaptation and Ben Affleck’s new Netflix thriller.
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Recs/ reviews:
- East of Eden, Netflix
- Animals, Netflix
- Jon Ronson on The Louis Theroux Podcast
- Office Romance, Netflix
- The Sheep Detectives, Amazon Prime
- So, Girls is coming back for 5 fresh eps… Lena Dunham’s substack
- Who Exactly Is The Victoria’s Secret Show For? Otegha Uwagba for Grazia
- Why terrorism laws stopped Sally Rooney selling books in the UK, Today in Focus
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Elizabeth Day’s TV thriller, Mark Zuckerberg and when comedians go too far
Elizabeth Day’s bestselling novel The Party has been turned into a glossy new TV thriller with Luke Evans, exploring toxic friendships and the dark side of the British upper classes. Plus, a comedian has …
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Elizabeth Day’s bestselling novel The Party has been turned into a glossy new TV thriller with Luke Evans, exploring toxic friendships and the dark side of the British upper classes. Plus, a comedian has sparked a furious backlash after calling women in gym shorts “whores” on SNL. Is misogyny being repackaged as edgy comedy? Also on the show: the must-watch new series of prison drama Time starring David Tennant and the questions it raises about our broken criminal justice system, a gripping new investigative podcast about an LA couple who had 21 children via surrogacy, a review of Jeremy Strong’s turn as Mark Zuckerberg in The Social Reckoning and Nara Smith’s “sexy rebrand”.
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Recs/ reviews
- Honeybloom jewellery (IG @honeybloomstore)
- The Journey, New Yorker podcast
- Time s3, BBC iPlayer
- Criminal: How Our Prisons Are Failing Us All, Angela Kirwin
- Sing Sing, Netflix
- The Party, ITVx
- Elizabeth Day: How I finally got my book The Party on TV, The Times
- The Social Reckoning, in cinemas
- The Interview, NYT, Aaron Sorkin
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The Celebrity Traitors, Sienna Miller’s War and when Hollywood divorces get ugly
Sienna Miller and Dominic West play a celebrity couple at war in Sky’s hyped new divorce drama, so this week we’re getting into some of Hollywood’s messiest breakups – not to mention the stars’ own experiences …
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Sienna Miller and Dominic West play a celebrity couple at war in Sky’s hyped new divorce drama, so this week we’re getting into some of Hollywood’s messiest breakups – not to mention the stars’ own experiences with relationship scrutiny – from Halle Berry’s current custody battle to how Olivia Wilde and Tom Cruise were both “blindsided” by their exes. Also on the show: The Celebrity Traitors is back and we couldn’t be more thrilled, why contestant Richard E. Grant has our hearts, the Fourth Wing prequel and a review of Daisy Edgar Jones’ Sense and Sensibility. Plus, we reveal all the details of our first ever virtual book club!
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Recs / reviews:
- Sense and Sensibility, in cinemas now
- War, Sky / Now TV
- ‘I’d strip for £100!’ Dominic West and Sienna Miller on nudity, narcissism and their juicy new show War, Guardian
- Threshing Day, Rebecca Yarros
- The Celebrity Traitors, BBC
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Taylor Swift’s Encore, Amelia Dimoldenberg and the female rivalry trap
Miquita Oliver went on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place pod this week, marking the end of a decades-long feud fuelled by the toxic tabloid culture of the early noughties. We debrief on their heart-warming …
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Miquita Oliver went on Fearne Cotton’s Happy Place pod this week, marking the end of a decades-long feud fuelled by the toxic tabloid culture of the early noughties. We debrief on their heart-warming reconciliation and how female rivalry is so often rooted in insecurity. Also on the show: Amelia Dimoldenberg hosted SNL, Taylor Swift has upset fans and critics alike with her latest release Encore (despite cleaning up at the VMAs on Sunday) and Vogue is engulfed in yet another controversy after the company behind Mounjaro sponsored its latest event. Plus: Colin From Accounts season three, Anne Hathaway’s dinosaur movie and a couple of great recs for weekend watching. Enjoy huns!
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Recs/reviews
- SNL UK, NOWTV
- Colin from Accounts, iPlayer
- Last Seen, AppleTV
- Wasteman, Netflix
- End of Oak Street, AppleTV
- Taylor Swift Is Losing Us, Vulture
- Taylor Swift’s Shrinking World, Substack
- Miquita Oliver on The Happy Place podcast
- ‘It’s problematic’: concern as weight-loss jab maker sponsors Vogue World event, Guardian
- I was hurt. It was spiteful: Alexandra Shulman on life after Vogue, The Times
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Ed Sheeran, Lena Dunham and the ethics of surrogacy
From Lena Dunham announcing the birth of her baby girl via surrogate in a fashion piece for Vogue, to Ed Sheeran’s PR disaster over Palestine and free speech, this week both celebs have found themselves at the …
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From Lena Dunham announcing the birth of her baby girl via surrogate in a fashion piece for Vogue, to Ed Sheeran’s PR disaster over Palestine and free speech, this week both celebs have found themselves at the centre of debates they’d tried to side-step. Is commercial surrogacy inherently “anti-feminist”? And can stars really be apolitical in this day and age? Also on the show: we review Sharon Horgan’s brilliant new series YOUTH, all about ageing anxiety and dating in your 50s.
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Recs/reviews
- YOUTH, HBO Max
- Sharon Horgan: My sexual shelf life and dating over 50, The Times
- Lena Dunham Is a Mother! The Sweet, Singular Story of How She Prepared, Vogue
- Whose Babies Are These? A Chinese man hired a Florida surrogate, then didn’t pick up his kids, sparking a custody battle that could upend the industry, The Cut
- When Political Reality Collides With Ed Sheeran, New York Times
- Ed Sheeran wants to stay out of politics. By quitting his tour, his support acts have exposed the hollowness of neutrality, Guardian
- ‘With Gaza, I Couldn’t Not Speak Out’: Ms. Rachel on Controversy, Fame, and the Future, Rolling Stone
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THERAPY: ChatGPT, false memories and weaponised ‘therapy speak’
This week we’re revisiting our ep on the dark side of the therapy boom, from unqualified therapists planting false memories in vulnerable people and an obsession with labels to ‘therapy boasting’ on Hinge and …
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This week we’re revisiting our ep on the dark side of the therapy boom, from unqualified therapists planting false memories in vulnerable people and an obsession with labels to ‘therapy boasting’ on Hinge and the weaponisation of ‘therapy speak’. Plus, what makes a good therapist, and can AI offer an accessible alternative to what has become a luxury? We’ll be back with our usual pop culture debrief next Thursday!
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Recs:
- Dangerous Memories podcast
- My therapist told me Mum had abused me. She hadn’t, Times
- The therapist who planted false memories, Pandora Sykes, Substack
- How the language of therapy took over dating, NYT
- Nobody has a personality anymore, Substack
- OpenAI CEO Sam Altman warns users not to trust ChatGPT agent with sensitive or personal data, Decoder
- Chatbots Can Go Into a Delusional Spiral. Here’s How It Happens, NYT
- He Had a Mental Breakdown Talking to ChatGPT. Then Police Killed Him, Rolling Stone
- What does bad therapy actually look like? Stylist
- Can AI therapists really be an alternative to human help? BBC
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Alix Earle, her Alex Cooper feud and the business of influence
Mega-influencer Alix Earle’s new reality show has dropped on Netflix and so we’re unpacking it all, from all the details of her feud with Alex Cooper to the family’s bizarre dynamics. Could Earle Meets World be …
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Mega-influencer Alix Earle’s new reality show has dropped on Netflix and so we’re unpacking it all, from all the details of her feud with Alex Cooper to the family’s bizarre dynamics. Could Earle Meets World be Gen Z’s answer to The Kardashians? Also this week: series two of The Gentlemen starring Maya Jama, as well as the brilliant film spin-off of French comedy Call My Agent! featuring an excellent cameo from George Clooney.
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Recs/ reviews:
- Where Are The Kings, Donal Ryan
- The Gentlemen, Netflix
- Call My Agent! The Movie, Netflix
- Earle Meets World, Netflix
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Ali G, the Met Gala backlash and cleavage’s big comeback
Ali G is back after more than 20 years, sparking a backlash over the character’s racist stereotypes with cinemas saying they’ll boycott the new film. And speaking of controversial comebacks, the planned John …
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Ali G is back after more than 20 years, sparking a backlash over the character’s racist stereotypes with cinemas saying they’ll boycott the new film. And speaking of controversial comebacks, the planned John Galliano exhibition at the Met has been pulled, so this week we’re discussing cancel culture, second chances and when some things are better left in the past. Also on the show: the sky-rocketing of push-up bra sales, breastfeeding in public, Bonnie Blue’s baby announcement and Olivia Wilde’s new film, plus the Lindsay Clancy trial.
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Recs/reviews
- Get our book club pick Where Are the Kings here
- FRIENDSHIP BREAKUPS: ghosting, group dynamics and comparison culture (our ep)
- Outcome, AppleTV
- Toy Story 5, SkyTV
- Furious, Disney Plus
- I Want Your Sex, in cinemas
- Eyes Down Here: Push-up bras are back with a vengeance, The Cut
- Not My G, More Brit (ish) Than Ever Substack, Afua Hirsch
- The Metropolitan Museum of Art Is Making a Very Bad Mistake, New York Times
- Lucky Boy, Tortoise Investigates
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North West, Meghan Markle’s return and the man-child epidemic
Why do so many adult men seem stuck in arrested development? We review the buzzy new novel from the “male Sally Rooney” Jem Calder, whose rom-com I Just Want You to Be Happy charts a dysfunctional age-gap …
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Why do so many adult men seem stuck in arrested development? We review the buzzy new novel from the “male Sally Rooney” Jem Calder, whose rom-com I Just Want You to Be Happy charts a dysfunctional age-gap relationship between a 35-year-old man-child and 23-year-old woman. Also on the show: our thoughts on the backlash to North West’s “age inappropriate” Dazed cover, Meghan Markle’s new career move, Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi’s hard launch and a possible sequel to How to Lose a Guy in 10 Days.
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Recs/reviews
- I Want You to be Happy, Jem Calder
- I Want You to Be Happy is the excruciating millennial novel everyone will be reading this summer, The Independent
- Alice and Steve, Disney Plus
- Prue Leith – On leaving Bake Off and finding love again at 70, Experience is Everything
- Kendall Jenner and Jacob Elordi’s Dating World Tour Continues in London, Vogue
- North West: ‘Music is what I wanna do with my life’, Dazed
- Fresh Hell, Tina Brown’s Substack
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The Ariana Grande discourse, ACOTAR and Nicole Kidman’s Vogue backlash
Ariana Grande’s tour has been getting rave reviews, but the increasingly feverish discussion around her weight has us asking whether it’s more harmful to comment or stay silent, and what this and the tragic …
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Ariana Grande’s tour has been getting rave reviews, but the increasingly feverish discussion around her weight has us asking whether it’s more harmful to comment or stay silent, and what this and the tragic case of Jason Arday tell us about how journalists can lose sight of the real people behind headlines. Also this week: romantasy fans rejoice as Sarah J Maas reveals the covers, titles and blurbs for ACOTAR 6 and 7, Nicole Kidman faces backlash for looking “unrecognisable” on the cover of Vogue and the passing of actor Hayden Panettiere.
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Recs/reviews
- DTF St Louis, HBO Max
- The A Court of Thorns and Roses series, Sarah J Maas
- The Last House, Netflix
- The Invite
- Camp Miasma
- How do you assign a star rating to Ariana Grande? Ellie’s Substack
- When the Snowflakes Pretend They Played No Part in the Avalanche, Conquest of the Useless Substack
- “Where Am I Going? And What’s Next?”: Nicole Kidman Is Keeping Her Heart Open, Vogue
- We call her Emma podcast
- This Is Me: A Reckoning, Hayden Panettiere
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Nara Smith, the tradwife discourse and this year’s buzziest crime thriller
Nara Smith came on Call Her Daddy to rebuke her status as “poster girl” for the tradwife movement, but do we buy her rebrand? We discuss whether her content glamourising hyper-feminine domesticity causes …
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Nara Smith came on Call Her Daddy to rebuke her status as “poster girl” for the tradwife movement, but do we buy her rebrand? We discuss whether her content glamourising hyper-feminine domesticity causes real-world harm or whether she’s being held to unfair standards. Plus, rave reviews of masterpiece non-fiction thriller London Falling, the epic third season of House of the Dragon, and Epstein-coded serial killer drama Furious.
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Recs/reviews
- London Falling by Patrick Radden-Keefe
- Patrick Radden-Keefe on How to Fail
- Where Are The Kings, Donal Ryan
- House of the Dragon, NOWTV
- The House That Dragons Built, HBO
- Furious, Disney Plus
- “Furious” Is a Crime Drama for a Post-Epstein World, New Yorker
- Cape Fear, AppleTV
- Nara Smith: Stop Calling Me a Tradwife, Call Her Daddy
- Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke
- The Tradwife Illusion Meets the Anti-Trump Reality, New York Times
- “You Can’t Just Be Showing Matcha-Pilates-Alo”, Vulture
- Influencers Are Being Paid to Spread the Mormon Church's Gospel, Bloomberg
- Emilie Kiser: The Loss That Changed Her Forever, On Purpose with Jay Shetty
- Spider-Man: Brand New Day, in cinemas
- Gary Stevenson: “I was obsessed with making money”, The Louis Theroux Podcast
- We Call Her Emma, Tortoise Investigates
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FRIENDSHIP BREAKUPS: ghosting, group dynamics and comparison culture
This week we’re revisiting one of our most popular episodes on a topic that still feels like a taboo despite its clear universality, with the help of lots of deeply honest and moving DMs from the huns. A …
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This week we’re revisiting one of our most popular episodes on a topic that still feels like a taboo despite its clear universality, with the help of lots of deeply honest and moving DMs from the huns. A friendship ‘breakup’ is an experience more than 80% of women have been through and it can be even more gut-wrenching than ending a romantic relationship. Yet in our society that prioritises romantic over platonic love, there’s no social script for dealing with it. We cover everything from ghostings and estrangement to boundaries and therapy-speak, as well as how politics, exes and different life stages can lead to rifts and resentment. If you’ve been through something similar, then hopefully this ep will help you feel less alone!
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Recs
- Bad Friend, Michelle Elman
- Bride Wars
- We Need to Talk about Our Ex Best Friends, Elle
- Bad Friend, Tiffany Watt Smith
- The Lingering Wounds of Friendship Breakups, Elle
- The White Lotus S3 E8, HBO
- Will Our Friendship Survive Your Baby, New York Magazine
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Our plastic surgery nightmare, Love Island and marital misery in The Invite
This week we’re diving into Jia Tolentino’s viral essay on the new age of cosmetic enhancement, from how algorithms are changing our faces to whether Botox really helps women get ahead at work – and why our own …
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This week we’re diving into Jia Tolentino’s viral essay on the new age of cosmetic enhancement, from how algorithms are changing our faces to whether Botox really helps women get ahead at work – and why our own feelings on tweakments have recently radically changed. Also on the show: Olivia Wilde’s brilliant new film The Invite, where she and Seth Rogen play a miserable middle-class married couple, Apple’s sci-fi dystopia Silo, dispatches from the newborn trenches, and the latest doc exploring the ethics of reality TV, The Love Island Curse. Enjoy huns!
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Recs/ reviews:
- On whether having a baby ruins your life or not, Sam Parker, Substack
- Silo, AppleTV
- The Invite, in cinemas
- The Drama, available to rent
- Half Man, iPlayer
- The Curse of Love Island, Prime Video
- Our incredible September book club pick Where Are the Kings, by Donal Ryan – pre-order your copy here
- Our Plastic Surgery Nightmare, The New Yorker
- How 'The Botox Psyop' Broke Our Brains in the Name of Beauty, Diabolical Lies
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Katie Price’s doc, The Odyssey and Justin Bieber vs Madonna
We are so excited to be reunited and resuming normal service this week with a very overdue pop culture catch up! First up: reviews of Christopher Nolan's much talked-about Hollywood epic The Odyssey and …
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We are so excited to be reunited and resuming normal service this week with a very overdue pop culture catch up! First up: reviews of Christopher Nolan's much talked-about Hollywood epic The Odyssey and "perimenopausal" crime caper Ride or Die starring Hannah Waddingham, before we dive into the fascinating new Katie Price docu-series. Plus: the new data showing that nine out of 10 of Britain's best-selling novels feature a murdered woman, and the Chris Martin-curated World Cup halftime show, from its bizarre performances to Madonna and Justin Bieber's reported feud. Enjoy huns and don’t forget to put Wednesday 2nd September in your diaries for our next book club at The Hoxton Holborn!
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Recs/ reviews:
- The Odyssey, in cinemas
- Sex, beds and grisly executions: what Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey changed, invented – and left out, Guardian
- Chastity, nodding and enormous pores: will women also love Nolan’s Odyssey?, Guardian
- Obsession, in cinemas
- Ride or Die, Amazon Prime
- ‘An overnight success after 25 years? Delicious’: Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham on sexism, stunts and stardom at 51, Guardian
- Lucky, Prime Video
- Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, NOWTV/ Sky
- Nine out of 10 bestselling novels in UK have one thing in common: a woman is murdered, Guardian
- 9 of Britain's 10 Bestselling Novels Begin With a Dead Woman. I Asked Authors, Literary Experts and a Criminal Behavioural Analyst Why, Marie Claire
- Hawk, Netflix
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The best books of 2026 so far
This week we’re sharing our favourite reads of the year so far, from the novels we couldn’t put down and 2026’s most-talked about titles to the memoirs that kept us up at night. Consider this your summer …
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This week we’re sharing our favourite reads of the year so far, from the novels we couldn’t put down and 2026’s most-talked about titles to the memoirs that kept us up at night. Consider this your summer reading inspo: including the ultra-hyped Strangers by Belle Burden, Lost Lambs by Madeline Cash and Devil Wears Prada-style thriller Workhorse. As promised, we’re also reviewing the trad-wife thriller Yesteryear again, as well as the addictive true story of how actor Hannah Murray found herself sucked into a creepy wellness cult. Enjoy huns and please do share your book recs in the comments!
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Recs/ reviews:
- Strangers, Belle Burden
- Belle Burden on the Collapse of Her 20 Year Marriage & Her Bestselling Memoir, The Oprah Podcast
- Why I Don't Feel Sorry for Belle Burden, Kathleen Harmer on Substack
- Yesteryear, Caro Claire Burke
- I’m obsessed by the trad wife world — this was the best way to expose it, The Times
- The Caro Episode, Diabolical Lies
- Lost Lambs, Madeline Cash
- “I Always Felt Ripe for a Cult”: Meet Madeline Cash, Author of the Year’s Buzziest Debut, Interview Magazine
- The Make-Believe: A Memoir of Magic and Madness, Hannah Murray
- Workhorse, Caroline Palmer
- Hooked, Asako Yuzuki
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Why we’re all bored of everything
We have more entertainment than any generation in history, so why does everything feel boring now? Fatigue, the death of originality and digital overwhelm are things we’ve been mulling over a lot recently …
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We have more entertainment than any generation in history, so why does everything feel boring now? Fatigue, the death of originality and digital overwhelm are things we’ve been mulling over a lot recently, after finding ourselves sick of the onslaught of mid-level media, the memeification of politics, nihilism, AI slop and remake after re-release upon algorithm-driven copycat. Is this all just a symptom of the attention economy in overdrive? And what can we do to reclaim our interest? This week we’re deep-diving into why we all feel so bored of everything and how we fight back in the age of average.
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Recs / reviews:
- “Is This the Worst-Ever Era of American Pop Culture?” The Atlantic
- The decline of Hollywood talent and originality, Brad Starks on LinkedIn
- This is what it looks like when nothing matters, The Atlantic
- What Does '6-7' Mean? Don't Expect Gen Alpha to Explain It. New York Times
- What Does Boredom Do to Us—and for Us? New Yorker
- When Did Reading Become A Competitive Sport? Elizabeth Day on Substack
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Taylor Swift’s wedding, Olivia Wilde and the rise of singles nights
Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are supposedly getting married this weekend, so we discuss how much of a spectacle it will be. Plus, what Olivia Wilde’s unfiltered Call Her Daddy episode says about the …
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce are supposedly getting married this weekend, so we discuss how much of a spectacle it will be. Plus, what Olivia Wilde’s unfiltered Call Her Daddy episode says about the demonisation of mothers, what the glamourisation of smoking says about today’s weight-loss era, and why the exploitation of Marilyn Monroe feels so deeply relevant today. Also, the return of Caroline Calloway, boyfriend shaming, and why singles nights are revolutionising dating. Thank you to this week’s wise and wonderful guest co-host Olivia Petter, award-winning journalist, author of the brilliant debut novel Gold Rush and founder of Red Lips Dating.
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Recs/reviews
- Red Lips, @redlipsdating on IG
- Gold Rush, Olivia Petter
- Olivia’s first Straight Up ep in 2024
- The Unheard Tapes, Netflix
- Marilyn Monroe–The Rest Is History
- Letters from Scamelot, Airmail
- My Week with Marilyn
- I recognise the person in Netflix’s Wellmania — it used to be me, The Times
- Olivia Wilde, Call Her Daddy
- Olivia Wilde has to disappear, The Cut
- Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma by Claire Dederer
- Two Weeks in August, ITV
- The Invite, in cinemas Friday
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Ariana Grande, Brooklyn Beckham’s ad and reporting a police officer
Did Brooklyn Beckham just blow up any chance of a family reunion with his controversial $1m Door Dash ad, or is it straight out of the Victoria Beckham playbook? Also this week: the increasingly fraught …
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Did Brooklyn Beckham just blow up any chance of a family reunion with his controversial $1m Door Dash ad, or is it straight out of the Victoria Beckham playbook? Also this week: the increasingly fraught discourse about Ariana Grande's weight loss, and whether Emily Ratajkowski is ragebaiting us with her viral new essay and accompanying photoshoot that’s ‘sexualising breastfeeding’. Plus, why women are obsessed with Off Campus, the must-read, five-star book about the Kardashians, and the traumatising experience of reporting sexual misconduct within the Met Police. Thank you to this week’s incredible guest co-host, broadcaster, writer, pop culture queen and OG hun Jackie Adedeji!
Jackie’s IG: @jackieadedeji
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Recs/reviews
- DeKonstructing the Kardashians, MJ Corey
- The Moment, AppleTV
- Off Campus, Amazon Prime
- Off Campus’s Hannah Finally Makes Me And My Big Boobs Feel Seen, Pedestrian TV
- Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, SkyTV (out July 8)
- Karen Carpenter offers a haunting warning for Ariana Grande fans, Telegraph
- What if we're not actually worried about Ariana Grande? Liz Plank, Substack
- Reporting ‘police sexual misconduct’ - my traumatic experience, Channel 4 News
- My Big Boobs: Untold, Channel 4
- I Don't Trust My Therapist: Untold, Channel 4
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Margot Robbie, Emma Grede and the politics of pregnancy
Pregnant women are being unfollowed in their droves on social media, but at the same time, pronatalist messaging has never been harder to escape. So why is it that both the child-free community and parents …
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Pregnant women are being unfollowed in their droves on social media, but at the same time, pronatalist messaging has never been harder to escape. So why is it that both the child-free community and parents alike feel so under siege? We take a look at the celebs at the centre of the discourse, from Margot Robbie facing backlash for “pretending she’s not a mum” and Emma Grede catching heat for her comments on balancing work and motherhood, to Rihanna’s body being under constant surveillance and Nara Smith-style ‘momfluencer’ culture. Plus: K’s personal experience of pregnancy, why society isn’t set up for people to procreate and postpartum representation.
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Recs/ reviews:
- Madeleine White Responds to Commenters Who Say They Are Unfollowing Her for Being Pregnant, People
- Margot Robbie, stop pretending you’re not a mum, The Courier Mail
- The Bump Watch That Won't Quit, Yahoo Entertainment
- Influencers are selling a delusional fantasy of being postpartum. Why is it so easy to believe? Substack
- The Kardashian Whisperer Who Says Three Hours With Her Kids Is Enough, WSJ
- Emma Grede: from the East End to $300m with the Kardashians, The Times
- The Big Kids Question: does anyone want to be a parent anymore? Straight Up
- Dispatches from Motherhood, Substack
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Dua Lipa's wedding, the Alex Cooper backlash and sex therapy
Did Dua Lipa just host the celebrity wedding ‘of the decade’? We rake over all the gossip from the three-day bash in Palermo and debate over whether Callum Turner’s status as ‘Mr Dua Lipa’ is reductive and …
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Did Dua Lipa just host the celebrity wedding ‘of the decade’? We rake over all the gossip from the three-day bash in Palermo and debate over whether Callum Turner’s status as ‘Mr Dua Lipa’ is reductive and career-damaging. Also on the show: how former ‘kidfluencer’ Piper Rockelle monetises a Lolita fantasy on OnlyFans (including a countdown to her 18th birthday), Bonnie Blue's 'golden' baby shower and Euphoria star Chloe Cherry’s viral interview about how we’re having the wrong conversations about sex work. Plus, Cara Delevingne’s incredible Call Her Daddy episode, the Right-wing backlash to Alex Cooper’s pregnancy, and the woman selling ‘good wife’ courses to Christian women. Thank you to this week’s very special guest Emma-Louise Boynton, journalist, broadcaster and author of the incredible new book Pleasure: The Reclamation of My Body, about how sex therapy transformed her relationship with her body and broke a 17-year-cycle with bulimia.
Pleasure: A Reclamation of My Body, by Emma-Louise Boynton is available to buy here.
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Recs/reviews
- Michael Jackson: The Verdict, Netflix
- Margot’s Got Money Troubles, AppleTV
- The strange surveilled life of Piper Rockelle: why did a former child influencer decide to go on OnlyFans?, Guardian
- Euphoria’s Chloe Cherry On Cassie’s OnlyFans Storyline: “Holy Sh*t, That’s Where We Are In Society?”. Refinery29
- The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, Netflix
- Why is the Right so mad about Alex Cooper’s pregnancy? New York Magazine
- Gen Z Women's New "Anti-Woke Voice", Diabolical Lies
- ‘A husband expects a yes’: how wife schools are shaping submissive Christian women, Guardian
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ASK US ANYTHING: Tweakments, body image and gender disappointment
Insecurities from body image in the Ozempic era to aging and whether we’d have cosmetic surgery are first up on the agenda today, huns, as we answer all your juiciest questions! We get deep into changing our …
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Insecurities from body image in the Ozempic era to aging and whether we’d have cosmetic surgery are first up on the agenda today, huns, as we answer all your juiciest questions! We get deep into changing our minds about having children, gender disappointment, pregnancy, the single life and getting back with an ex, as well as whether incel culture is making dating harder. Also: book recs, subreddits and our absolute fave things about one another! Enjoy and please do let us know any questions you might have for future ‘ask us anything’ eps x
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Married at First Sight, Rivals, and Maya Jama's break up
The BBC’s disturbing new Panorama documentary about Married at First Sight’s abuse allegations should be a watershed moment for reality TV, but will anything actually change? Plus, the problem with Harper …
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The BBC’s disturbing new Panorama documentary about Married at First Sight’s abuse allegations should be a watershed moment for reality TV, but will anything actually change? Plus, the problem with Harper Beckham’s new skincare line, the rise of tween skincare influencers and the ‘toe-dipping’ rumours around why Maya Jama split with Reuben Dias. Finally, a big debrief on Rivals s2, from Rupert Campbell Black’s potentially problematic redemption arc to the show’s female stereotypes.
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Recs/ reviews:
- 1536, Ambassador’s Theatre
- The Dark Side of Married at First Sight, iPlayer
- ‘An element of exploitation’: the world of TikTok child skincare influencers, Guardian
- Rivals s2, Disney Plus
- Rivals is a depressingly familiar study of women and the toxic workplace, Glamour
- Topology Interiors
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Deborah Frances-White: dating apps, manosphere ideology and Steven Bartlett
The Guilty Feminist, aka Deborah Frances-White, is on the show this week and we couldn’t be more excited! In this fascinating chat with the OG podcasting queen, we get into everything from whether feminism is …
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The Guilty Feminist, aka Deborah Frances-White, is on the show this week and we couldn’t be more excited! In this fascinating chat with the OG podcasting queen, we get into everything from whether feminism is currently on the defensive in mainstream culture and the eroding of women's rights, to the rise of the manosphere, ‘brocasters’ and her thoughts on Steven Bartlett. Plus: the threat of Christian nationalism, dating apps, identity politics and Deborah’s culture recs!
You can buy Deborah’s book Six Conversations We're Scared to Have: How to Change Minds, Including Your Own here. Deborah's IG: @theguiltyfeminist
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Recs/ reviews:
- Backlash: The Undeclared War Against American Women, Susan Faludi
- Feminism on the defensive in the mainstream culture, The iPaper
- Money, Lies, and God: Inside The Movement To Destroy American Democracy, Katherine Stewart
- The Conspiracists, in cinemas
- Manhunt, Apple TV
- Stalked (podcast)
- All British Comedy Explained (podcast)
- ROAD TO GILEAD: Fascism with Desiree Burch and Professor Roger Griffin, Guilty Feminism
- In The Print, King’s Head Theatre
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Dua Lipa’s lawsuit, Britney Spears and the peptides craze
Dua Lipa and Britney Spears have been embroiled in very different legal dramas this week, so we’re breaking down exactly what’s going on with both. Kris Jenner has been raving about peptides – but what actually …
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Dua Lipa and Britney Spears have been embroiled in very different legal dramas this week, so we’re breaking down exactly what’s going on with both. Kris Jenner has been raving about peptides – but what actually are these supplements and why are celebs and biohackers alike so obsessed? Plus: the tragic passing of reality TV star Jake Hall and the so-called “TOWIE curse”, those Sarah Ferguson and P Diddy romance rumours, Amandaland series two and gossip from the set of Rivals, from Alex Hassell’s prosthetic penis fitting to Danny Dyer’s return as Britain’s most unlikely heartthrob.
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Recs/ reviews:
- But First, Dinner, Eleanor Steafel
- Amandaland s2, BBC iPlayer
- Legends, Netflix
- All Consuming: Why We Eat the Way We Eat Now, Ruby Tandoh
- Britney Spears Embraces ‘Spiritual Journey’ After Pleading Guilty to Reckless Driving: ‘All a Blessing in Disguise,’ Singer Says, People
- Alex Hassell: ‘On Rivals we’re all filthy with each other’, The Times
- ‘Men are so frightened of being too cuddly or affectionate’: Danny Dyer on going from hardman to heart-throb in Rivals, Guardian
- Kris Jenner Is a Peptides Devotee, Too, The Cut
- Why Are People Injecting Themselves with Peptides? The New Yorker
- What are peptides, are they safe and is there evidence to back up the hype? Guardian
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The Devil Wears Prada 2, Anna Wintour and the Met Gala
The Devil Wears Prada 2 is out and so ofc we had to review it on today’s show! From how the sequel compares to the 2006 cult classic to Vogue’s piggy-backing of the promo cycle, we’re diving into its very …
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The Devil Wears Prada 2 is out and so ofc we had to review it on today’s show! From how the sequel compares to the 2006 cult classic to Vogue’s piggy-backing of the promo cycle, we’re diving into its very timely depiction of billionaire influence over fashion and the decline of glossy magazines – arriving in the exact same week the Met Gala faced backlash over its Bezos ties. Like Miranda Priestly, does Anna Wintour have a master plan? Plus: the return of The Celebrity Traitors, Blake Lively and Justin Baldoni have settled out of court and our thoughts on Matthew Rhys’ hit new comedy horror Widow’s Bay.
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Recs/ reviews:
- Widow’s Bay, AppleTV
- DTF St Louis, Now TV
- Should I Marry a Murderer, Netflix
- Why the Bezos-backed Met Gala is so controversial, Today In Focus
- The Devil Wears Prada 2, in cinemas now
- The Devil Wears Prada 2' Filmmakers on How They Nailed the Fall of Fashion Magazines, Back Row with Amy Odell
- Meryl Streep and Anna Wintour on Power, Fashion, and Acting the Part, Vogue
- The Devil Wears Prada 2 Is A Love Letter To Female Ambition, Grazia
- The Real-Life “Emily” From ’The Devil Wears Prada’ Publicly Reveals Her Identity Decades After Film, Hollywood Reporter
- Exclusive: Leslie Fremar on Being the Real Emily In 'The Devil Wears Prada', The Run-Through with Vogue
- Life After 'The Devil Wears Prada', Vogue
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Half Man, Harry Styles’ engagement to Zoë Kravitz and Russell Brand’s bible
Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd is back with a divisive new series about toxic masculinity: should Half Man be mandatory viewing for men or is it just trauma porn? Also on the show: Harry Styles and Zoë …
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Baby Reindeer creator Richard Gadd is back with a divisive new series about toxic masculinity: should Half Man be mandatory viewing for men or is it just trauma porn? Also on the show: Harry Styles and Zoë Kravitz seem to be engaged, what the explosive I’m a Celeb live show fallout says about reality TV and the Bloomberg expose into Alex Cooper’s company. Plus, Dan Levy’s new crime comedy, Netflix thriller Unchosen and a look at some of the creepiest real-life British cults.
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Recs / reviews:
- Strangers, Belle Burden
- Big Mistakes, Netflix
- Unchosen, Netflix
- Transmissions From Jonestown
- Inside Alex Cooper’s Unwell: Tears, Screaming and Employees Looking for the Exit, Bloomberg
- I Read Russell Brand's Unreadable New Book, For My Sins, New Statesman
- Half Man, Netflix
- Half Man review – more brave, brutal, blazing TV from the maker of Baby Reindeer, Guardian
- Half Man Is Masochism at Its Absolute Worst, Esquire
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OnlyFans, Margo’s Got Money Troubles and the D4vd charges
OnlyFans, motherhood and sex work are in the spotlight this week as one of our fave novels, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, gets an Apple TV+ adaptation starring Elle Fanning. Also on the show: the murder charges …
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OnlyFans, motherhood and sex work are in the spotlight this week as one of our fave novels, Margo’s Got Money Troubles, gets an Apple TV+ adaptation starring Elle Fanning. Also on the show: the murder charges against alt-singer D4vd dominating the pop culture news cycle, a first look at the new Kate Moss biopic, Zayn Malik allegedly punching Louis Tomlinson and the Gen Z vs millennial divide at the heart of Carey Mulligan's season of Beef.
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Recs/ reviews
- Beef S2, Netflix
- How a Gold House Dinner Helped ‘Beef’ Creator Lee Sung Jin Land Season 2 Star Charles Melton, Hollywood Reporter
- I Love My Husband (Who Hates Me), The Cut
- D4vd charged with first-degree murder over death of teenage girl, BBC
- Moss & Freud trailer
- Kate meets Lucian and they get on brilliantly with absolutely no funny business at all, Guardian
- Margo’s Got Money Troubles, Apple TV
- Elle Fanning comedy drama about OnlyFans and motherhood is five-star TV, Independent
- Margo’s Got Money Troubles actually gets OnlyFans right, GQ
- ONLYFANS: Bonnie Blue, sex stunts and the rise of the porn 'influencer'
- Behind the Scenes With Sophie Rain, the Clean Queen of the Dirty Internet, GQ
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