Gday gday gday. We have much to discuss. On today’s show: YouTubers The Try Guys announce they’ve dumped Ned for cheating on his wife, The Bachelor has been very… suspiciously… postponed, the publicity machine of Adam Levine and Behati Prinsloo goes into overdrive, new music from Rihanna may well be on the horizon, and then! We need to talk about that viral TikTok video: is being an influencer really that hard? This week, Zara recommended watching Tell Me Lies on Disney+. Mich recommended watchi...
Sep 28, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 433
Happy Monday, everyone! Today, we’re heading back to 2018. James Charles was one of the brightest stars of YouTube’s beauty community. Only, just as he was reaching the top of the mountain, his longtime friend and competitor Tati Westbrook released a video that would bring it all crashing down. 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 Scratch for making this ep...
Sep 25, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 432
Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/6CPf7JPJv66eMj53jUNXf1?si=19ed6e08e3e3427b Hey there, book clubbers! This month, we read the debut novel from author Charmaine Wilkerson, Black Cake. Black Cake is a novel that spans 60 years in the life of one Caribbean-American family. Byron and Benny’s mum, Eleanor Bennett, has died. She has left them a voice recording in which everything Byron and Benny ever knew about their family is upended. Got ...
Sep 23, 2022•50 sec•Season 1Ep. 431
Hellooooo mates! On today’s show: Blake Lively is pregnant with baby number four, Kim Kardashian and Scott Disick are being sued for tens of millions, everyone is talking about the state of Tammy Hembrow’s relationship, Trisha Paytas’s baby name is… not what we were expecting… and then: Adam Levine has been publicly accused of cheating on his supermodel wife, Behati Prinsloo. And - apparently - he wanted to name their unborn child after his mistress. This week, Zara recommended listening to Lewi...
Sep 21, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 430
Good morning, friends! Today, we’re heading back to 1986. For almost a decade, Jenna Marbles felt like everyone’s internet best friend. But after rising through the ranks to become one of the most followed women on YouTube, one night Jenna gave it all away for good. Head here to watch Dave Portnoy’s video titled, ‘I finally got my chance to confront Jenna Marbles’. Got some thoughts on this scandal you wanna share? We’re allllll ears (also, eyes, heads, bodies, etc etc) - join in the convo over ...
Sep 18, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 429
Hellooooo, wonderful people! On today’s show: The Queen’s death sparks just about a million headlines, Gisele Bündchen’s marriage is on the rocks, we finally have the answers to a curious mid-noughties scandal involving Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston and Angelina Jolie, are Gigi Hadid and Leonardo DiCaprio dating, and the very imprecise maths behind standing ovations at Venice: what do they mean, and why? This week, Zara recommended subscribing to Jo Elvin’s newsletter called ‘My Goodness!’. Mich r...
Sep 14, 2022•1 hr•Season 1Ep. 428
Happy Monday, everyone! In 2018, Tana Mongeau was already one of YouTube’s most controversial personalities. But her decision to throw a self-titled content creator festival to rival VidCon? Well, that would make her name so notorious, even New York Magazine couldn’t look away. 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 JSHealth Vitamins’ brand new haircare range...
Sep 11, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 427
Hey, friends! On today’s show: Lea Michele addresses the bizarre but increasingly popular conspiracy theory that she can’t read, Kanye West’s years-long collab with Adidas is on the brink of collapse, Spencer Pratt says Lisa Kudrow “is one of the worst humans I’ve come in contact with”, and Don’t Worry Darling has FINALLY premiered at Venice. Only, at the last minute, “Miss Flo” pulled out of her only proper media commitment. Yet again, we have sooooo much to talk about. This week, Zara recommen...
Sep 07, 2022•1 hr 2 min•Season 1Ep. 426
Oh haaaiiii, lovely people! Welcome to the second and final part of our series on Kate Moss. She was the world’s biggest supermodel when a UK tabloid published grainy images of her snorting an illicit substance on their front page. The headline? ‘High As a Kate’. 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 Scratch for making this episode possible. Head to scratchp...
Sep 04, 2022•52 min•Season 1Ep. 425
Helloooooo, everyone! On today’s show: Taylor Swift has a new album, a Bachelor couple is engaged, and a MAFS star is going global. Plus, Shia LaBeouf and Olivia Wilde’s feud goes nuclear, and then, we take a look at Australia’s first ever “Influence Index” that ranks Australia’s most influential personalities. This week, Mich recommended Look Both Ways on Netflix. Zara recommended reading the Anna Wintour biography, Anna. Got some thoughts on today’s episode you wanna share? We’re allllll ears ...
Aug 31, 2022•56 min•Season 1Ep. 424
Happy Monday, legends! Today, we’re heading back to 1974. She was the world’s biggest model of the nineties and noughties. So, how did some grainy photos on the cover of a UK tabloid almost bring Kate Moss’s career completely undone? 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 Go-To Skincare for making this episode possible. Use the code ‘SHAMELESS’ on orders over...
Aug 28, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 423
Hello, everybody! Today, we’re heading back to 2011. We’ve given you the story of how Fergie and Prince Andrew met, married and broke up. Now you have that context, we have a more harrowing, but even more important story to tell: How Prince Andrew became involved with Jeffrey Epstein, and exactly the kinds of allegations levelled at him by Virginia Giuffre. Welcome to the third episode of a new series by Shameless Media - Andrew and Fergie: A Very Royal Scandal. A trigger warning for this one: i...
Aug 27, 2022•1 hr 7 min•Season 1Ep. 422
Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1absaYb3dT0XpgPniym8S0?si=e83fbbce18a64858 Happy Saturday, book club fam! This month, we read the incredible memoir from writer Amy Bloom, called In Love. In January 2020, Amy traveled to Switzerland with her husband Brian where he was helped by Dignitas to end his life after a diagnosis of Alzheimer's. The book details their love story, Brian’s slow decline, and Amy’s doggedness in ensuring her husban...
Aug 26, 2022•50 sec•Season 1Ep. 421
Happy Thursday, besties! On today’s show: The New York Times has officially jumped on the Matilda Djerf Bandwagon, Harry Jowsey’s determined to sleep with more people than his mum, it appears Abbie Chatfield and Konrad Bień-Stephen are over, Andrew Tate has been deplatformed by just about every social media site under the sun, Brooklyn Beckham has been slammed AGAIN, and then!!! The return of the Shameless Mailbag - what exactly should you do if your best friend’s fiance confesses his undying lo...
Aug 24, 2022•54 min•Season 1Ep. 420
Hi, everybody! Welcome to part two of our new series on Prince Andrew and Fergie. He was the royal bachelor turned war hero. She was the fun-loving redhead who the public adored. But after their wedding? Well, just about everything started to fall apart. 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 Calm for making this episode possible. Head over to CALM.COM/SHAMEL...
Aug 21, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 419
Hellooooo friends! On today’s show: The image of Tommy’s Lee’s peen is now forever embedded into our brains, Olivia Wilde and Jason Sudeikis’s court documents have been leaked to the media, are you guilty of “the millennial pause” and if you are, what does that mean? And then, Michelle’s Two Cents - why the hell do influencers keep trying to post on their ‘Close Friends’ Instagram story? This week, Zara recommended watching ‘Roadrunner: A Film About Anthony Bourdain’ on Amazon Prime or Apple TV....
Aug 17, 2022•57 min•Season 1Ep. 418
Hello, lovely people! Today, we’re heading back to 1960. They’re perhaps the most confusing couple to ever come out of the royal family. So how exactly did Sarah Ferguson and Prince Andrew fall in love? And how did they fall apart? 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 Extra Gum for making this episode possible. Pick up some Extra Gum at your local Coles, Wo...
Aug 14, 2022•40 min•Season 1Ep. 417
Happy Thursday, fam! On today’s show: We finally have all the details on the now-infamous Elle Ferguson and Joel Patfull Block walkout, Kim Kardashian and Pete Davidson are officially over, Kevin Federline has given a very unnecessary exclusive to the Daily Mail, there’s been a series of MAFS breakups that we are professionally obligated to talk about, the $90 million Batgirl film has been canned despite being near completion and - LAST BUT NOT LEAST - inside the bizarre world of Andrew Tate, on...
Aug 10, 2022•1 hr 3 min•Season 1Ep. 416
Hey, besties! Welcome to the final part of our series on Kim Kardashian's Paris robbery - the worst night of her life. So how, exactly, did the events of October 3rd, 2016, become a point of comedy and mockery? And how exactly did French Police track down the men who were responsible? 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 possi...
Aug 07, 2022•55 min•Season 1Ep. 415
Omg hi!!!!!! We’re back! On today’s show, we went everywhere: From the rumours around Em Rata’s cheating husband and the Wagatha Christie trial coming to an end, to one man’s quest for Sammy Robinson’s heart and the biggest offenders when it comes to celebrities and their private jets. Plus! Is Shakira going to jail, why is a Deux Moi blind item about a high-profile royal making headlines, and finally, the Harry Styles, Olivia Wilde, Florence Pugh gossip we cannot get enough of. This week, Mich ...
Aug 03, 2022•1 hr 14 min•Season 1Ep. 414
Happy Monday, friends! Today, we’re heading back to 2016. In 2016, Kim Kardashian was on the cusp of legitimacy. She was making millions, scoring magazine covers, and sitting front row at Paris Fashion Week. She was also about to experience first-hand the ultimate danger of life as a celebrity. 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 and their Period Pro...
Jul 31, 2022•37 min•Season 1Ep. 412
Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4iWyeE7ZAkQCx7De1HmZ9b?si=a31f9875b4244ca4 Oh haaaaiiiii, book clubbers! This month, we read ‘The Island of Missing Trees’ by award-winning Turkish-British author Elif Shafak. The book follows the love story between two teenagers, Kostas (a Greek Cypriot) and Defne (a Turkish Cypriot), whose forbidden romance means they can only meet at a taverna on the island between their homes. Witnessing their rela...
Jul 29, 2022•50 sec•Season 1Ep. 413
Happy Monday, besties! Welcome to part two of our Ellen DeGeneres series. She was a lightning rod for queer representation on our screens, and one of the most successful talkshow hosts in history. So when allegations of workplace bullying came to light, it sent the Queen of Kind’s reputation into a tailspin. 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 Calm for mak...
Jul 24, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 411
Hey there, lovely people! Today, we’re heading back to 1958. For decades, Ellen DeGeneres has dominated the television industry. But the journey there was littered with so many highs and lows, hers is now one of the most complicated celebrity legacies. 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 Maybelline New York and their epic mascara range for making this epis...
Jul 17, 2022•41 min•Season 1Ep. 410
Hellllooooo, friends! Welcome to part two of our Anne Hathaway series. In 2012, Anne Hathaway was at the height of her career. Her performance in Les Mis was generating Oscars buzz. But as her career soared, she quickly became Hollywood’s most loathed star. 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 Extra Gum for making this episode possible. You can get your han...
Jul 10, 2022•49 min•Season 1Ep. 409
Hellooooo, legends! On today’s show: It’s our last ep for a few weeks and all we wanna do is lean into the gossip. So, what’s the deal with the rumours that Victoria Beckham and her fresh daughter-in-law Nicola Peltz Beckham don’t get along? Plus, we obviously need to talk about the Robert Irwin glow-up, a MAFS lawsuit and the worst ratings in Aussie television history. Then, we open the Shameless mailbag: how are you meant to feel when you find out your male partner spent an evening out at a st...
Jul 06, 2022•51 min•Season 1Ep. 408
Happy Monday, pals! Today, we’re heading back to 1982. We fell in love with her as the Princess of Genovia and Andy Sachs. But the real woman behind those adored characters? She had to deal with an ugly phenomenon: the rise of 'Hathahate'. 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. Check out CeraVe’s Hydrating Foaming Oil ...
Jul 03, 2022•50 min•Season 1Ep. 407
Happy Thursday, fam!!! On today’s show: Olivia Rodrigo sends a big “fuck you” to the Supreme Court justices who undid Roe vs Wade, Hailey Bieber faces a lawsuit, Kendall Jenner’s relationship status is about as confusing as the way she cuts cucumbers, Rupert Murdoch enters his fuckboy era and then, we *both* come to the table with Our Two Cents: Zara wants to talk about decision fatigue, and Mich has some thoughts on the “hot girls have IBS” trend. PARTICIPATE IN OUR 2022 LISTENER SURVEY HERE! T...
Jun 29, 2022•53 min•Season 1Ep. 406
Good morning, everybody! Welcome to the final part of our very special series on Rihanna. It’s 2014. Rihanna is already one of the biggest stars in the world. But over the next eight years? She’d rewrite history. 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 Hayu and the brand new season of ‘The Real Housewives Ultimate Girls Trip: Ex-Wives Club’ for making this epi...
Jun 26, 2022•43 min•Season 1Ep. 404
Link to this episode in the new The Shameless Book Club feed: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0upIFOFUFi4pOOPwtHuk6A?si=40e1fdacf8f64970 Happy Saturday, book club pals! This month we read ‘The Wedding Party’ by New York Times bestselling novelist Jasmine Guillory. The book follows characters Maddie and Theo, who have two things in common: they share a best friend called Alexa, and they hate each other. Yet, underneath the sharp barbs they toss at one another is a simmering attraction that build...
Jun 24, 2022•50 sec•Season 1Ep. 405
