Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast episodes:

• 04.16.2024

  Rebel Wilson’s Memoir - Rebel Rising (with Misha Brown)

  Join Chelsea and The Big Flop host Misha Brown as they unpack Rebel Wilson's memoir, “Rebel Rising.”Rebel spills the tea about her sex life, body image struggles, and her battles with the media. Plus, we dive into the Sasha Baron...

  
• 04.09.2024

  Cowboy Carter: A Cookie Jar Debrief

  *Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* Join the book club as we hear from the Cookies and explore reactions to our Taylor Swift/Jessica Simpson episode, discussions on celebrity accountability, and a deep dive into the layers found in Beyoncé's latest work, “Cowboy...

  
• 04.05.2024

  Beyond the Memoir: Interpreting Britney Spears’ Instagram

  In a follow-up to our deep dive into Britney Spears' memoir, Chelsea and Sarah Fraser delve into the pop legend's current chapter after gaining her autonomy and releasing her groundbreaking memoir. Chelsea and Sarah dissect the pop star's recent Instagram...

  
• 04.02.2024

  Vanessa Williams’ Memoir - You Have No Idea (with Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett)

  Chelsea and guests, Susie Banikarim and Jessica Bennett, examine Vanessa Williams and her mother’s joint memoir “You Have No Idea: A Famous Daughter, Her No-nonsense Mother, and How They Survived Pageants, Hollywood, Love, Loss (and Each Other).” From Vanessa being...

  
• 03.26.2024

  How to Edit a Memoir: Insights from a Book Editor

  *Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* Chelsea sits down with Grace Towery, her book editor from Hanover Square Press, to peel back the layers of the book publishing process. From the initial pitches to the intricate editing phases and finally, to publication, Chelsea...

  
• 03.22.2024

  Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter, and Unpacking Country Music History (With Sam Sanders)

  Grab your hat and saddle up! Before the release of Beyonce's "Cowboy Carter," Chelsea and Sam Sanders (co-host of the Vibe Check podcast) talk about the times Beyoncé has come closest to memoir-level vulnerability. They share insights on the history...

  
• 03.19.2024

  Love is Blind: Season 6 Reactions and Revelations

  Chelsea and guest Erin Dewey Lennox review the whirlwind that was "Love is Blind” Season 6. Together they unpack the emotional highs and lows, Vanessa Lachey's dress, Nick Lachey's media training, and take a closer look at Jimmy, Jessica, and...

  
• 03.15.2024

  Snooki’s Memoir Confessions of a Guidette (with Kari Ferrell)

  We’re going back to the shore! Chelsea and guest Kari Ferrell explore Nicole “Snooki” Polizzi’s world with “Confessions of a Guidette.” The two reminisce about one of reality TV's most unforgettable personalities, get candid about adoption, and do some digital...

  
• 03.08.2024

  Book Talk with Reagan Jackson

  Chelsea and Reagan Jackson (“Still True: The Evolution of an Unexpected Journalist”) sit down for five questions Chelsea would love to be asked as an author, and five questions she’d hate to be asked. Reagan shares insights on the myth...

  
• 03.05.2024

  RuPaul’s Memoir The House of Hidden Meanings (with Wes Perry)

  Everybody say love! Join Chelsea and guest Wes Perry in their picnic day drag, as they sashay through RuPaul’s memoir “The House of Hidden Meanings.” Learn about the Drag Race superstar’s roots in San Diego, his path to sobriety, and...

  
• 03.01.2024

  Ani DiFranco’s Memoir No Walls and the Recurring Dream (with Brittany Ashley)

  Chelsea and guest Brittany Ashley (Don’t Tell The Babysitter Mom’s Dead) break down Ani DiFranco’s "No Walls and the Recurring Dream.” Take a wild journey through goats, Boofas, and open relationships, as Chelsea and Brittany examine the complexities and convictions...

  
• 02.27.2024

  Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo vs. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce

  Remember the backlash around Jessica Simpson and Tony Romo? Why does the reaction to Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce feel different? Chelsea and producer Corinne Wallace examine media coverage and public perception to uncover exactly why these celebrity romances were...

  
• 02.23.2024

  Jennifer Lopez's This Is Me... Now Decoded and Notes from the Cookie Jar

  Join us for the first-ever Cookie Jar episode where Chelsea and Glamorous Trash producer Kristina Lopez talk about the buzziest pop culture moments (like J.Lo’s new visual album This is Me… Now) and hear from the cookies themselves! We also...

  
• 02.16.2024

  Crystal Hefner’s memoir Only Say Good Things (with Cookies Amy and Beth)

  Dust off your Playboy Bunny belly button rings! Chelsea tackles Crystal Hefner’s memoir along with Cookies Amy and Beth. Together they go inside Hugh Hefner’s empire and examine if there’s anything worse than a moldy mansion with boring orgies.  Show Notes: Holly...

  
• 02.13.2024

  RHOSLC Finale: Redefining Women’s Representation on TV

  Chelsea and Amir Yass break down the incredible “Real Housewives of Salt Lake City” finale and explore why the success of women’s stories in Reality TV hasn’t led to more women-centered narrative series.  Show Notes: The producers of RHOSLC talk about Reality...

  
• 02.09.2024

  Ariana Madix’s Single AF Cocktails (with Ronnie Karam)

  Chelsea and Ronnie Karam (host of "Watch What Crappens") dive into Ariana Madix's spirited book, "Single AF Cocktails: Drinks for Bad B*tches." Delight in drinks and drama as Chelsea and Ronnie pour over the "Vanderpump Rules" star's personal stories, new...

  
• 02.02.2024

  Kimberly Guilfoyle’s memoir Making the Case (with Becca Platsky)

  Chelsea and Becca Platsky (host of the Corporate Gossip podcast) work their way through Kimberly Guilfoyle’s memoir "Making the Case,” a 2015 memoir that provides a glimpse into the life of the former prosecutor turned Fox News host turned Trump...

  
• 01.30.2024

  Book Talk with Kate Kennedy

  Chelsea sits down for Book Talk with Kate Kennedy (One in a Millennial, Be There in Five podcast) for five questions she’d love to be asked as an author, and five questions she’d hate to be asked. From coming to...

  
• 01.26.2024

  Barbra Streisand’s memoir My Name Is Barbra (with Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz)

  Chelsea and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (One Day at a Time, Gordita Chronicles, Chelsea’s Bridesmaid) settle in with Barbra Streisand’s massive celebrity memoir My Name Is Barbra. It’s a book filled with steamy affairs, Big Bubbe Energy, cloned dogs, and 3.5 inch...

  
• 01.19.2024

  Gypsy-Rose Blanchard's memoir Released (with Caitie Rosen)

  *Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* Chelsea and Caitie Rosen (Cookie Extraordinaire, Woman in STEM) dive into Gypsy-Rose Blanchard's mini-memoir ebook, Released: Conversations on the Eve of Freedom. Miss G-Rose is the ultimate "woman we need to check on." It's a tale of...

  
• 01.16.2024

  Book Talk with Vivian Tu

  Chelsea and Vivian Tu (Your Rich BFF, Rich AF) sit down for five questions Chelsea would love to be asked as an author, and five questions she’d hate to be asked. From beef with Dave Ramsey, to   Rich Dad and Poor...

  
• 01.12.2024

  Ginger Rogers’ memoir My Story (with Karen Chee)

  Chelsea and Karen Chee (Late Night with Seth Meyers, Pachinko) waltz through Ginger Rogers’ 1991 memoir, My Story. From being stolen on a train as a baby, to power playing Fred Astaire with a blue feathered dress, to a truly...

  
• 01.05.2024

  Liv Ullmann’s memoir Changing (with Molly Quinn)

  Chelsea and Molly Quinn (Castle, Guardians of the Galaxy) dive into an oldie but a goodie, Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann’s 1977 memoir Changing. From her marriage to Ingmar Bergman, to struggling with Hollywood networking, to possibly the earliest Henry Kissinger...

  
• 12.29.2023

  The 2023 Celebrity Memoir Awards!

  Welcome to the 2023 Glamorous Trash Celebrity Memoir Awards! Chelsea Devantez and Casey Balsham take you through a thrilling year in celebrity memoirs, from the best of the best to the worst and the weirdest. They give out awards as...

  
• 12.22.2023

  Carnie Wilson’s memoir Gut Feelings (with Jo Feldman)

  Chelsea and Jo Feldman (Party Down, The Goldbergs) dig into the Carnie Wilson’s 2001 memoir, Gut Feelings. From her iconic girl group Wilson Phillips, to her relationship with her Beach Boys father Brian Wilson, to being buried up to her...

  
• 12.19.2023

  Book Talk with Danny Pellegrino

  Chelsea sits down for Book Talk with Danny Pellegrino (Everything Iconic, and the author of the brand-new The Jolliest Bunch) for five questions she’d love to be asked as an author, and five questions she’d hate to be asked. From...

  
• 12.15.2023

  Celebrity Book Club: Candice Bergen’s memoir A Fine Romance (with Julieanne Smolinski)

  Chelsea and Julieanne Smolinski (Grace and Frankie, Home Economics) read Candice Bergen’s 2016 celebrity memoir A Fine Romance, so you don’t have to. From pages-long descriptions of her tapestries, to her 11 seasons as Murphy Brown, to a willful misunderstanding...

  
• 12.12.2023

  Educated & The Glass Castle

  Chelsea and Elizabeth Day (How to Fail) take a hard look at two often compared memoirs: Tara Westover’s 2018 memoir Educated, and Jeannette Wall’s 2005 memoir The Glass Castle. The Glass Castle was accepted as a true recounting of a...

  
• 12.08.2023

  Penny Marshall’s My Mother Was Nuts (with Meredith Scardino)

  Chelsea and Meredith Scardino (Girls5eva) sit down with Penny Marshall’s memoir My Mother Was Nuts. From Laverne and Shirley, to A League of Their Own, to lusting after football players, this book will have you laughing, crying, and even cheering...

  
• 12.05.2023

  Best Friend Breakups (with Sam Reece)

  Glamorous Trash Talk: Best Friend Breakups (with Sam Reece) Chelsea and Sam Reece (Shitty Craft Club) get BFF’d while discussing best friend female friendship breakups. From how best friend break ups are hardly ever covered in entertainment, to why it’s so painful...

  
• 12.01.2023

  Jill Duggar's Counting the Cost (with Kristen Meinzer)

  *Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* Podcast host extraordinaire Kristen Meinzer (The Daily Fail, How to Be Fine) takes over the show to talk with Chelsea about Jill Duggar's memoir Counting the Cost. From 19 Kids and Counting, to fundamentalist harems, to leading...

  
• 11.24.2023

  Christina Crawford’s memoir Mommie Dearest (with Angela Tucker)

  Chelsea and Angela Tucker (You Should Be Grateful, The Adoptee Next Door) dive into the whirlpool of trauma that is Christina Crawford’s 1978 memoir Mommie Dearest, as well as her mother Joan Crawford’s 2017 autobiography A Portrait of Joan. From...

  
• 11.21.2023

  The Golden Bachelor and the Age of Authenticity

  Chelsea and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (Gordita Chronicles, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) get cozy on the Glamorous Trash couch to break down this season of the Golden Bachelor, and what it says about where we’re at with Reality TV as a whole. From whether...

  
• 11.17.2023

  John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me (with Kate Casey)

  Celebrity Book Club: John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me (with Kate Casey) *Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* To join the community and get access to bonus episodes, click here to become a Patreon member! Chelsea and Kate Casey (Reality Life with Kate...

  
• 11.14.2023

  Behind the Scenes of Chelsea’s Memoir

  Cookie spokesperson Chris DeRosa (Fixing Famous People) takes over the podcast to chat with Chelsea about her upcoming memoir I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going to Anyway). Come for the celeb gossip and career tips, and stay for...

  
• 11.10.2023

  Julia Fox's Down the Drain (with Lauren Ash)

  Chelsea and Lauren Ash (Not Dead Yet, True Crime & Cocktails) get the New York "It Girl" experience with Julia Fox's memoir Down the Drain. From a sham kidnapping, to dominatrix fights, to the Kanye divorce tour, this book will...

  
• 11.03.2023

  Jada Pinkett Smith’s Worthy (with Traci Thomas)

  Chelsea and Traci Thomas (The Stacks pod) get guru’d with Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2023 memoir Worthy. From getting proposed to by Tupac in prison, to getting really into ayahuasca, to finally addressing The Slap, this book gave us so many...

  
• 10.31.2023

  Lynne Spears's Through the Storm (with Chris DeRosa)

  *Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* To join the community and get access to bonus episodes, click here to become a Patreon member! Chelsea brings back official Monster Memoir Correspondent Chris DeRosa (Fixing Famous People) for perhaps the most monstrous memoir of all: Lynne...

  
• 10.26.2023

  Britney Spears’s The Woman in Me (with Rob Anderson)

  Chelsea & Rob Anderson (Gay Science) get their dancing knives out for Britney Spears’s brand-new book, the best-selling celebrity memoir in history The Woman in Me. We could write a description but why bother: IT’S BRITNEY, BITCH Show Notes: Click here for...

  
• 10.24.2023

  Glamorous Trash Talk: Love Is Blind Season 5 and Toxic Settling

  Chelsea and Taylor Vaughn Lasley (Marvel’s Moon Girl) have a true trash talk going over the events of Love Is Blind Season 5, and the idea of “toxic settling”. They get into all the deep, important questions, like how do...

  
• 10.20.2023

  Celebrity Book Club: Maureen McCormick’s Here’s the Story (with Susie Meister)

  Chelsea and Susie Meister (Road Rules, Brain Candy Podcast) go all “Marcia Marcia Marcia” with Maureen McCormick’s 2008 memoir Here’s The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice. From growing up with a traumatic family secret, to having...

  
• 10.17.2023

  Joyce Maynard & J.D. Salinger (with Patty Lin)

  Chelsea and Patty Lin (Breaking Bad, Friends) break down the cautionary tale that is Joyce Maynard’s 1998 memoir At Home in the World. From her shocking and abusive relationship with a much-older J.D. Salinger, to the backlash she faced when...

  
• 10.13.2023

  Kerry Washington’s Thicker Than Water (with Rachel Lindsay)

  Chelsea and Rachel Lindsay (The Bachelorette) swim in the shallows and depths of Kerry Washington’s just-released memoir, Thicker Than Water. They focus everything from Scandal, to growing up near JLO, to learning a shocking paternity secret from her parents in...

  
• 10.10.2023

  Celeb Beauty Brands (with Hunter Harris)

  Chelsea and Hunter Harris (Gossip Girl, Hung Up newsletter) wade through the onslaught of celebrity beauty brands - are they a scam? Feminist entrepreneurship? Or tax evasion by way of eyeshadow palettes? From Millie Bobby Brown’s makeup line to Idris...

  
• 09.29.2023

  Gilda Radner’s Memoir It’s Always Something (with Mattie Bayne)

  *Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* To join the community and get access to bonus episodes, click here to become a Patreon member! Chelsea and Mattie Bayne (Not Dead Yet, Never Have I Ever) get vulnerable over the 1989 celebrity memoir of comedy icon...

  
• 09.26.2023

  Book Talk with London Hughes

  Chelsea sits down with London Hughes (To Catch a Dick) to ask her 10 questions for memoirists. They discuss London’s brand-new book, Living My Best Live Hun, including 24 hour meetings with Kevin Hart, racist editors, and other books we...

  
• 09.22.2023

  Tippi Hedren’s Tippi: A Memoir (with Lizzie Bassett)

  Chelsea and Lizzie Bassett (What Went Wrong) pounce on Tippi Hedren’s 2016 celebrity memoir. From coming up in the 1950s modeling scene, to being assaulted Alfred Hitchcock, to a surprising amount of lion violence, to her relationship with her daughter...

  
• 09.19.2023

  Glossier & Building a Business while Female (with Jordan Moncada)

  Chelsea and her manager and producing partner Jordan Moncada sit down to talk about Glossy, the new book about Emily Weiss and the founding of Glossier, and dish a bit about how it relates to the business we’re building here...

  
• 09.15.2023

  Celebrity Book Club: Maria Bamford’s Memoir Sure I’ll Join Your Cult (with Sierra Teller Ornelas & Caissie St. Onge)

  Chelsea and Sierra Teller Ornelas (Rutherford Falls) and Caissie St Onge (Busy Phillips is Doing Her Best) are absolutely in love with Maria Bamford’s 2023 celebrity memoir, Sure I’ll Join Your Cult. From a “Haagen-Dazs” childhood in Minnesota, to full-on...

  
• 09.12.2023

  Will Taylor Swift, Beyoncé & Barbie change everything?? (with Ashley Nicole Black)

  Chelsea and BFF Ashley Nicole Black (Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Ted Lasso) discuss how Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, and Barbie brought back the goddamn economy this summer. Women led art made for women has proven itself highly profitable time and...