We think stand-up comedy is possibly one of the most terrifying professions on the planet - and today, we’re speaking to a man who has mastered it. In this episode, we’re speaking to the multi-award-winning comedian, presenter, actor, author, and scriptwriter Russell Kane. He tells us about this experience growing up funny in a working class household with a hyper-masculine father and how that experience built his career and how it has been reflected in his own attitude to fatherhood. This conve...
Mar 17, 2025•1 hr 2 min•Ep. 167
Welcome to the new format of our Thursday episodes - this is where everything with Just Us will live: GBA, Is It Just Me and all our general nonsense! And - boy - we have got a lot of nonsense for you today! Al’s bads are BAD today. We find out about her very bad week - and we’re even treated to a little bit of nudity. Lucky Dex! We also discuss a mega star who gave us a ‘polite decline’ - then we catch ourselves being potentially a tiny bit problematic. Do you want to weigh in on whether it’s o...
Mar 13, 2025•39 min
She’s BACK! And we have a very special guest in the studio… Join Em and Al for a big old catch up after Em has been on maternity leave. We find out about all about Xanthe’s arrival into the world - she’s a total ray of sunshine! We also find out how Em’s feeling now she’s no longer unwell… And take a deep breath - because we have a little format update for you - we PROMISE this is the last time we’re moving things around and we promise you’re going to love it. Do you have an Is It Just Me for us...
Mar 10, 2025•46 min•Ep. 166
It’s time to dive into the mailbag! Our amazing community sent in so many brilliant messages and emails in response to our body image series - so we thought it was important to take some time to acknowledge your thoughts and feedback - both the positive and the negative. Em’s still officially on maternity leave until next week - so we’ve drafted in a VERY eager substitute - it’s Sister Jen! We always love hearing from you - whether you want to challenge us or praise us, it’s so important for us ...
Mar 06, 2025•28 min
We’re talking Ozempic, again. Our deep dive into body image may have wrapped up last week, but we all know this topic is far from over. So, we’re jumping back in… This time, we’re joined by influencer and longtime friend of the podcast, Sasha Pallari. After hearing our Ozempic episode, she reached out to share her own experience with Mounjaro — a journey she’s been candid about online over the past four months. In this conversation, Sasha opens up about why she chose to take the drug, how its im...
Mar 03, 2025•47 min•Ep. 165
Throughout our body image series - we’ve had so many powerful, inspiring and life-affirming conversations with people who have incredible advice on how we can build better relationships with our bodies. One of those people is Alice Liveing. Alice is a personal trainer, influencer, columnist, podcaster and bestselling author who has inspired thousands of people with her relatable, motivational and balanced health advice. In this conversation, we take a look back to the 2010s - when she inadverten...
Feb 27, 2025•48 min
We’ve downed tools - because it’s time to reflect on everything that we’ve learned and felt throughout our big body image series. Join Em and Al to discuss what we’ve learned through this series - from the history of diet culture to the way the diet landscape is shifting and morphing in front of our eyes. We chat about where we’re at with our own body image journeys, how we’re going to move forward from this series, and how we might be able to - as a society - fix our relationships with our bodi...
Feb 24, 2025•51 min•Ep. 164
It’s time to address the elephant in the room - Ozempic. We know that Ozempic will change - and is already changing - the body image landscape. There is so much noise online, in the media and in our personal lives about the so called ‘miracle’ drug - so we decided to call in the help of an expert, to clear up the myths from the facts. Dr Giles Yeo is a professor at the University of Cambridge, whose research focuses on food intake, genetics and obesity. We got him in the studio to answer all the...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 2 min
The body image landscape is changing in front of our eyes - and we have Ozempic to blame - or thank - for that. For the last few years - Ozempic has been the topic that has dominated the cultural conversation. Is it the silver bullet to help us with our body image or are pharmaceutical companies taking advantage of our collective desire to be thin? In this episode we speak to a doctor who is an expert on Ozempic, a psychologist and someone who has taken the drug to dig right to the core of this ...
Feb 17, 2025•1 hr 36 min•Ep. 163
After growing up in a world that teaches us to hate our bodies - how can we come to feel at peace with, or even begin to feel positive about our bodies? And what happens when the movement that made you feel better about your body shifts to a position you no longer align with? Stephanie Yeboah is a content creator, author and journalist - and we spoke to her as part of our exploration of the body positivity movement. It was a movement that she was closely associated with, but one that she has mov...
Feb 13, 2025•41 min
If you’re listening to this episode, we reckon it’s safe to say you’re well aware of the body positivity movement, or at the very least, one of the fractions of its evolution; whether that be the self love movement or body confidence one. It’s within those, after all, that we really made our names. Today, we’re taking you back to the inception of the body positive movement, which started by and for plus-size black women. In this episode, we dive into how the movement has changed beyond recogniti...
Feb 10, 2025•1 hr 18 min•Ep. 162
Have you ever felt bombarded by the information on the internet about heath and wellness? Today on the podcast - we’re speaking to a man who can clear everything up for us. Dr Joshua Wolrich is an NHS doctor, nutritionist and the Sunday Times bestselling author of “Food Isn’t Medicine”. When we started our body image series - we knew we had to speak to him to understand his take on the “wellness” rebrand of the 2010s - when diet culture shifted to a focus on “health”. You can go back to Monday’s...
Feb 06, 2025•50 min
Welcome back to the second part of our investigation of the “wellness” era. In the first part of this episode, we found out that the era is actually not over at all. Many of us still carry beliefs and behaviours from that time - and today we’re going to attempt to uncover what’s true and what’s just utter nonsense…. Thanks so much to our amazing guests who feature on this episode: Dr Joshua Wolrich and Tally Rye Follow @tallyrye on Instagram Find out more about Tally’s work here Follow @drjoshua...
Feb 04, 2025•41 min•Ep. 161
The 2010s is a time we have come to think of as the ‘wellness’ rebrand. The era in which we declared that we wanted to be ‘strong not skinny’ and that we discarded what we now thought of as ‘fad’ diets and traded them in for consistent ‘healthy’ living. Skin and bones were out, toned arms, visible abs and curves in all the right places were in. Today we’re investigating if by replacing thinness as the thing to which we should aspire to with “healthy”, many of us fell into a false sense of healin...
Feb 03, 2025•1 hr 13 min•Ep. 161
Colette Foster was the executive producer of Channel 4’s factual entertainment show Supersize vs Superskinny. The show was hosted by Dr Christian Jessen and each week it saw two contestants, one overweight and one underweight, swap diets whilst at a Feeding Clinic, under the supervision of Dr Jessen. Both participants were shown the extent of their poor diet. This week, we have been exploring the role that television played on how we feel about our bodies - and we were thrilled when Colette agre...
Jan 30, 2025•47 min
It’s something anthropologists will no doubt look at with bewilderment in years to come: the extraordinary breadth of TV shows that were aired during the 00s. From Fat Families to How To Look Good Naked, we’re not sure there was anything more ruthless than the presenter of a show commissioned by Channel 4 between the years of 2001 and 2010. From the endless stream of TV shows capitalising on the nation’s almost hysterical fatphobia, to the background hum of misogyny that had weaved its way into ...
Jan 27, 2025•1 hr 21 min•Ep. 160
This week, we’ve been examining the role that nurture played in building our relationships with our bodies - and specifically the role played by the tabloid media of the 90s and 00s. To really understand how that seismic impact the tabloids had on us - we had to speak to someone who knew how they work from the inside - that’s where Isabel comes in... Isabel is a writer who started her career in era-defining journalism, most notably at Heat magazine during its mid-noughties peak - where she contr...
Jan 23, 2025•40 min
At the height of their popularity newspapers like The Sun and The Mirror were selling over 5 million copies a day, while magazines like Heat were distributing over 600,00 copies weekly. As we go one step further into understanding the ways in which we feel about our own bodies - we thought we needed to explore more than just nature’s part in our story, and look at nurture’s involvement in this too. In the UK, tabloids were HUGE and as a result, were massively instrumental in informing so much of...
Jan 20, 2025•1 hr 23 min•Ep. 159
This week on Should I Delete That, we’re investigating the ‘Almond Mom’ phenomenon. This is our conversation with the brilliant Molly Forbes - she is an author, campaigner, and the founder of The Body Happy Organisation. Our chat with Molly is full of incredible practical advice and insight into how we can build positive body image for both ourselves and our children. We also spoke to Molly about how it’s not just mums who play a role in building up our body image - and why perhaps we shouldn’t ...
Jan 16, 2025•44 min
A term made famous by Yolanda Hadid, Real Housewives of Beverly Hills star and mother to supermodels Bella and Gigi Hadid, “Almond Mom” refers to the type of mother who sets their child up to be obsessed with food and their bodies in ways that are both toxic and harmful. In this, the second episode of our Body Image series, we explore generational trauma in the context of diet culture, and take a deeper look at the wounds passed down from our grandmothers, to our mothers and in turn - to us. Man...
Jan 13, 2025•56 min•Ep. 158
Phillippa Diedrichs is a Professor of Psychology and body image and mental health expert. She works at the Centre for Appearance Research and has spent the last 20 years studying body confidence - what influences how we think and feel about how we look and what we can do as a society to create an environment where we can accept and love our bodies. She also works with brands and organisations within the beauty and fitness industries to help them think about what they put out into the world, and ...
Jan 09, 2025•57 min
New year, new me? Welcome to our expansive eight-part series deconstructing our relationships with body image. From the historical origins of diet culture, to the present day where injectable weight loss drugs are available from high street pharmacies, Alex and Em will strip back our assumptions about diet culture and body image, to find out how we got here, and how we can find a healthy way to look forward. By speaking to a range of experts, from dieticians to fitness influencers - we’ll explor...
Jan 06, 2025•52 min•Ep. 157
Today, we’re celebrating another year of lols by revisiting some of our favourite moments from this year’s Is It Just Mes! Be prepared… there’s a lot of wheezing and a *lot* of giggles in this episode. We take a look back at the best advice Al was ever given, then we ponder deep sea exploration and discover Em’s *unusual* phone contract set up. Do you have an Is It Just Me for us? Email us on shouldideletethatpod@gmail.com Follow us on Instagram: @shouldideletethat @em_clarkson @alexlight_ldn Sh...
Jan 02, 2025•30 min
Today we’re taking a look back at some of our favourite interview moments from 2024! We have had so many incredible interviews this year, and we’ve learned so much from ALL of our guests - but today, we’ve picked a selection of some of our very favourites. In this episode you will hear selections from the following episodes - follow the links if you would like to listen to any of those interviews in full! Chessie King Lorna Luxe Michelle Elman Crystal Hefner Nicky Perfect Gill Tavner Farah Benis...
Dec 30, 2024•1 hr 28 min
It’s time for the second part of our annual round up! Today, we’re going through everything that happened in the second half of 2024 in our lives and in the world of news and pop culture! This half of the year bought an ICONIC pole vaulting incident at the Olympics, a Labour general election win and the end of Molly-Mae and Tommy Fury. We discuss celebrities vocalising their boundaries, the Blake Lively controversy, and how you guys - our lovely listeners - helped us through a year that was at t...
Dec 26, 2024•52 min•Ep. 156
Welcome to our annual round up! Have we done enough of these to call it annual now? We think so! In today’s episode - we’re taking you through our biggest news, pop culture and personal moments from Q1 and Q2 of 2024. It was the year that bought us Tommy, Baby Reindeer and Brat Summer. We discuss the general feeling of discontent that we’ve felt this year, the rise in online cruelty and the absolute joy of going on our first ever podcast tour. We’ll be back on Thursday to take you from July to D...
Dec 23, 2024•37 min•Ep. 156
Happy Christmas Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve Eve (we think?!) We’re catching you up on some of our recent awkwards… we’re actually kind of mortified by all of them. But don’t worry - you’re sharing our awkward pain because we’re also reading out YOUR submissions. Do you have one for us? Email us on shouldideletethatpod@gmail.com We also dive into our Google search histories… and it’s *very* revealing. Follow us on Instagram: @shouldideletethat @em_clarkson @alexlight_ldn Should I Delete That? is produced...
Dec 19, 2024•34 min
Today, we’re going to talk about Alex’s IVF story. After watching the new Netflix film JOY - Al was inspired to speak about her journey to having IVF, after having felt like it wasn’t something she was able to discuss online. We go through the entire journey that has led to Tommy being with us here today - and we hope this conversation is helpful for anyone else who is experiencing something similar or who might not understand the complexity of IVF - and how amazing that it is that science enabl...
Dec 16, 2024•53 min•Ep. 155
After Al revealed she has *romantic feelings* for Shrek - we decided to ask you guys about your cartoon crushes… and be warned - they get a little freaky. Can you have a crush on a candle? Could you be in a long term relationship with Aladdin? Is the Beast as Beastly as he seems? We also segue into hypothetical wishes, a hilarious childhood prank and Hugh Grant’s hatred of backpacks. Does your heart yearn for a cartoon that we've forgotten to mention? Email us on shouldideletethatpod@gmail.com F...
Dec 12, 2024•32 min
Faye Winter appeared on Love Island in 2021 and when she left the villa she was faced with a lot of noise and a lot of criticism. In this episode, Faye chats candidly about seeing herself in a different light, admitting she was wrong, and how she apologised and is working towards becoming a better person. Faye tells us about her desire to live a normal life after appearing on the show - but how some people can perceive that as a failure, and how the choices that influencers make are dictated and...
Dec 09, 2024•49 min•Ep. 154
