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• The Celebrity Traitors, Sienna Miller’s War and when Hollywood divorces get ugly

  October 8, 2026 · 57 min

  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…

• Taylor Swift’s Encore, Amelia Dimoldenberg and the female rivalry trap

  October 1, 2026 · 56 min

  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…

• Ed Sheeran, Lena Dunham and the ethics of surrogacy

  September 24, 2026 · 58 min

  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…

• THERAPY: ChatGPT, false memories and weaponised ‘therapy speak’

  September 17, 2026 · 57 min

  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…

• Alix Earle, her Alex Cooper feud and the business of influence

  September 10, 2026 · 53 min

  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…

• Ali G, the Met Gala backlash and cleavage’s big comeback

  September 3, 2026 · 53 min

  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…

• North West, Meghan Markle’s return and the man-child epidemic

  August 27, 2026 · 1 hr 3 min

  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…

• The Ariana Grande discourse, ACOTAR and Nicole Kidman’s Vogue backlash

  August 20, 2026 · 55 min

  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…