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? This week, Zara recommended the Schumacher documentary on Netflix. Mich recommended watching season ...
Sep 22, 2021•57 min•Season 1Ep. 320
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 some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc et...
Sep 19, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 319
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 Burn’ on Where’s Your Head At . Zara recommended listening to the podcast The Dropout by ABC News . G...
Sep 15, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 318
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 scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo...
Sep 12, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 317
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’d do if we were Nadia’s PR managers. This week, Zara recommended the new podcast, Everybody Knows by...
Sep 08, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 316
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, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to FRANKiE4 ...
Sep 05, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 315
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 influencer just made the biggest move of her career so far, but lots of people have been left feeling p...
Sep 01, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 314
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 in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to Carmex for making this episode pos...
Aug 29, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 312
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 could ever want, so why does the book open with her wanting to throw herself off a high-rise balcony rat...
Aug 27, 2021•50 sec•Season 1Ep. 313
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 recommended watching 8 Out Of 10 Cats Does Countdown on SBS On Demand . Mich recommended The White Lotus o...
Aug 25, 2021•55 min•Season 1Ep. 311
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, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to D...
Aug 22, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 310
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 anonymous listener’s conversational challenge for reconnecting. This week, Mich recommended watching ...
Aug 18, 2021•1 hr 5 min•Season 1Ep. 309
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 the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to Mecca for making this episode possible...
Aug 15, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 308
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 years. This week, Mich recommended watching Would I Lie To You on ABC iView and Cooking With Paris on N...
Aug 11, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 307
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 love for Katie, head here . Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (al...
Aug 08, 2021•53 min•Season 1Ep. 305
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. This week, Zara recommended listening to ‘The Story of Simone Biles’ on The Daily . Mich recommended ...
Aug 04, 2021•50 min•Season 1Ep. 306
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 etc) - join in the convo over on our Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to MECCA and their new podca...
Aug 01, 2021•46 min•Season 1Ep. 304
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 summer in 1983. But over the course of twenty-four hours, their lives will change forever. Today on t...
Jul 30, 2021•50 sec•Season 1Ep. 303
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 the benefit for the doubt. This week, Zara recommended Tom Daley’s interview with Desert Island Discs....
Jul 28, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 302
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. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, e...
Jul 25, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 301
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 Hopkins? This week, Zara recommended Line of Duty on Netflix. Mich recommended Luxe Listings Sydney ...
Jul 21, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 300
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 Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to CeraVe for making this episode possible. Registrations for ...
Jul 18, 2021•45 min•Season 1Ep. 299
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 Meg Mason . Mich recommended listening to the ‘Pieces of Britney’ podcast by Pandora Sykes and BBC ...
Jul 14, 2021•56 min•Season 1Ep. 298
Good morning everyone! Today, we’re heading back to 2014. When we watched Jay Z and Beyoncé walk the Met Gala in 2014, we saw a blissfully happy husband and wife. Only, when a black-and-white video leaked a week later, the public realised there had been a trick mirror all along. 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 Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to Libra for making this episode possible. Y...
Jul 11, 2021•42 min•Season 1Ep. 297
Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/29lWc3nOaDhqTcWWbSVVhd?si=d03076672f414219 Happy Saturday, book clubbers! This month, we read the debut novel ‘New Animal’ by Australian author Ella Baxter. This book, set initially in the Northern Rivers of New South Wales, then later in suburban Tasmania, follows the life of Amelia Aurelia; an embalmer who spends her days in funeral homes, painting the faces of the dead, and nights sleeping with stra...
Jun 25, 2021•50 sec•Season 1Ep. 296
Hiya everyone! Welcome to part three of our Jen, Brad and Ange series. When Brad and Angelina’s stars combined it made for the most powerful celebrity couple of the modern era. But when they turned on each other? Well, the world is still feeling the aftershocks, five years later. 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 Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to Bed Threads for making this episode poss...
Jun 20, 2021•49 min•Season 1Ep. 295
Hi friends! On today’s show: Kanye West has officially moved on from his marriage to Kim Kardashian, Megan Thee Stallion’s music video is equal parts mesmerising and traumatising, Chrissy Teigen would like to apologise, G Flip says they're a “gender smoothie” and THEN!!!! The Em Rata Instagram photo that caused such a stir, people can’t stop talking about it a week later. This week, Zara recommended David Tennant’s podcast interview with Olivia Colman . Mich recommended listening to the Sentimen...
Jun 16, 2021•52 min•Season 1Ep. 294
Happy Monday wonderful people! Welcome to part two of our Jen, Brad and Ange series. Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were Hollywood’s chosen two. Only, when Brad signed the dotted line to star in a movie called Mr. and Mrs. Smith, their public and personal lives would, quite literally, never look the same again. 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 Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to Libra fo...
Jun 13, 2021•51 min•Season 1Ep. 293
Goooood morning! On today’s show: We’re sorry to say but there’s a TikTok beekeeper feud that has the internet a-buzzing and we’re going to get you across it all. Plus, there’s another royal Lilibet on the scene, the controversy enveloping Australian Fashion Week this week, and then, are we bad people for loving a big old gossip? This week, Mich recommended ABC’s Love On The Spectrum . Zara recommended watching Broadchurch . For that Fashion Journal piece on gossip by Aastha Agrawal, head here ....
Jun 09, 2021•54 min•Season 1Ep. 292
Hiya friends! Today, we’re heading back to the 90s. They were the golden couple of all golden couples. Her, an all-American television star. Him, the world’s sexiest film heartthrob. So, when Jen and Brad’s perfect love story disintegrated in front of the eyes of the world, people wanted answers. 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 Insta @shamelesspodcast . Big thanks to the team over at Andalo...
Jun 06, 2021•44 min•Season 1Ep. 290
