What's the T? The Girls are figthing! There was a time when Nicki Minaj and Cardi B looked like they could rule rap together. Instead, they gave us one of the defining celebrity feuds of the 2010s: diss tracks, subtweets, fan wars and, eventually, a flying shoe. This week, Chantal and Gráinne trace how admiration curdled into all-out warfare, ask whether there was ever room for two queens, and wonder if there's any way Nicki Minaj can come back from her MAGA downward spiral.

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This week, she's gone too far this time. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's nuptials allegedly involved secret locations, cryptic travel instructions, QR codes, phone bans and enough security to make a G7 summit look chill. Is this the height of modern romance, or have celebrity weddings become a little... gauche?

Plus, don't miss a very special announcement... there's a new baby joining The Way They Were family.

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You can't mistake their biology! This week on The Way They Were, Chantal and Gráinne are joined by Ben Anderson and Frazer York from Ur Welcome America to unpack the on-again, off-again romance between Girls Aloud icon Nadine Coyle and Desperate Housewives HUNK Jesse Metcalfe. Expect noughties nostalgia, Hollywood gossip, plenty of false starts, and a relationship that proved love isn't always Something Kinda Ooooh.

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Before reality TV power couples and Instagram fitness influencers, there was Chyna & Triple H. She was the trailblazing superstar smashing wrestling's glass ceiling. He was the ambitious future champion climbing to the top of WWE. Together they helped define wrestling in the 90s until their love affair became suprise triple threat.

Gráinne and Chantal are joined by iconic comedy writer James Farmer (SNL UK) to revisit one of wrestling's most infamous break-ups and why, despite changing the industry forever, Chyna never got the ending she deserved.

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Emergency episode! Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater have split, and Gráinne and Chantal are diving headfirst into the Wickedly juicy chaos. Is Ariana trapped in a cycle of whirlwind romances and reinventions? How did Ethan Slater go from respected theatre actor to the internet’s most unwilling main character? And can Arianna ever recover from the reputation her most recent relationship has saddled her with?

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In 2015, Bad Blood turned a rumoured fallout between two pop princesses into the biggest cold war of the 2010s, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry became locked in a feud fuelled by stolen dancers, subtweets, stan armies and forensic lyric analysis. This week on The Way They Were, Gráinne and Chantal revisit the glittery, petty, weirdly addictive feud that defined pop’s Tumblr era and ask: was any of it ever really about the dancers?

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This week, Gráinne Maguire returns from SNL UK as we slip into the fallout between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall. On Sex and the City, Carrie and Samantha felt unbreakable. Off-screen? Pay disputes, mean girl accusations and contract disputes. We look at one of the most high profile hollywood feuds in a special platonic edition of The Way They Were!

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Gráinne is back for a very special edition of The Way They Are book club, diving into Famesick by Lena Dunham. A memoir that reads less like a victory lap and more like a slow, uneasy unravelling, it takes in blind-item anecdotes, her breakup with Jack Antonoff, and behind-the-scenes drama with her on-screen love interest Adam Driver. Chantal and Gráinne dig into the unreliable but captivating narration of one of the most fascinating celebrities of the modern era.

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On this special episode, Chantal and guest Michelle Shaughnessy zoom in on the glossy excess of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and size up the franchise’s newest arrival, The Real Housewives of Rhode Island!

Plus over on the Patreon we get into the Summer House drama, Jen Shah's post prison interview and Carole Radziwill's problematic relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.

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Hello everyone! Gráinne has, somewhat inconveniently for us but thrillingly for her, disappeared into the bright lights and late nights of Saturday Night Live UK—which means The Way They Were is entering a brief period of organised chaos.

For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be popping up in slightly odd places, like a situationship that won’t quite define itself. But we’re not leaving you stranded, we’re lining up some bonus episodes to keep things ticking over while Gráinne enjoys life as a superstar sketch writer. She will, of course, return to her true calling soon: deep, forensic dives into celebrity breakups, with all the relish of someone who’s been briefly allowed to forget them.

However look out for some Gossip episodes, a special friendship break-up episode and a reality show deep dive with some familiar faces from our recent past!

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