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 voted on by you, the cookies, while Chelsea was in a hot tub, as is tradition.

Featuring awards like:

Biggest Cash Grab

Least Annoying Grandparent Story

The John Mayer Award for Worst Man of the Year

The Todd Gold award for the Memoir that Needed a Better Ghostwriter

Book that Could Have Been an Email

Best Kris Jenner Kristian

Best Sex Story… and more!

Including cameos from surprise special guests, a Golden Bachelor wrap up, and a look forward to what’s on our 2024 bookshelf.

Show Notes:

• Chris DeRosa’s Podcast

• Traci Thomas’ Podcast

• Queen V’s Instagram

Where to find our Guest: Casey Balsham

• Website

• Instagram

• Podcast

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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 neck in sand for a Michael Bay music video, this episode is an anti diet culture anthem for the holidays!

Where to find our Guest: Jo Feldman

• Jo's mom Marcy's jewelry company Heartwear Designs

For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez

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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 the trials of picking a title, to the holiday blues, to the gifts he hopes he gets this year, Danny is a delight!

Show Notes:

• The Jolliest Bunch – Danny’s new book out now!

Where to find our Guest: Danny Pellegrino

• Website

• Instagram

• Podcast

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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 dysfunctional childhood, while Tara Westover was accused of making up or exaggerating her accounts of her family in Educated. Why would one be believed unquestioningly, and one be controversial? Is it the internet’s fault? Backlash to the #MeToo movement in 2018? Or does our culture have a problem with women who cut ties with their families?

Show Notes:

• Jeannette Walls’ The Glass Castle 

• Tara Westover’s Educated

• LaRee Westover’s Educating

• Elizabeth's interview with Tara Westover on How To Fail with Elizabeth Day

• Elizabeth's book Friendaholic

• GTT: Best Friend Breakups episode

• Tara Westover's brother Tyler's full Amazon review copy-pasted into this Goodreads thread

Where to find our Guest: Elizabeth Day

• Website

• Instagram

• Podcasts

• Books

For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez

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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 for a nepo baby.

Show Notes:

• Gina Davis Episode

• Farrah Faucet and Penny Marshall's Head and Shoulder's Commercial

Where to find our Guest: Meredith Scardino

• Instagram

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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 to lose a best friend, to breaking up with a slow fade, this episode is like a wine fueled therapy slumber party.

Show Notes:

• Kim Cattrall episode

Where to find our Guest: Sam Reece

• Website

• Instagram

• Tik Tok

• Book

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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 men into sin, this book will have you praying for the end.

Show Notes

• Kate Gosselin episode

• Kris Jenner episode

Where to find our Guest: Kristen Meinzer

• Website

• Instagram

• Podcasts

• Books

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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 the infamous film based on Mommie Dearest, to the extremely damaging adoption process, this memoir has the distinction of being the first “tell-all” celebrity memoir!

Show Notes:

• Joyce Maynard episode

• Jennette McCurdy episode

• The Guardian Article by Elizabeth Day

Where to find our Guest: Angela Tucker

• Podcast

• Book

• Documentary

• Instagram

• Website

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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 Faith and her guitar have villain vibes, to what Gary’s lion tattoo means, to whether we’re in a new age of authenticity, is the Golden Bachelor going to save the franchise?

Where to find our Guest: Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz

• Instagram

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Chelsea and Kate Casey (Reality Life with Kate Casey) take a ride on Uncle Jesse's motorcycle with John Stamos's memoir If You Would Have Told Me. From Disneyland dates, to Broadway feuds, to serial killers, this book will either make you love celeb gossip or hate the Beach Boys.

Show Notes:

• Chita Rivera episode

Where to find our Guest: Kate Casey

• Podcast

• Instagram