Show Notes
Did Brooklyn Beckham just blow up any chance of a family reunion with his controversial $1m Door Dash ad, or is it straight out of the Victoria Beckham playbook? Also this week: the increasingly fraught discourse about Ariana Grande's weight loss, and whether Emily Ratajkowski is ragebaiting us with her viral new essay and accompanying photoshoot that’s ‘sexualising breastfeeding’. Plus, why women are obsessed with Off Campus, the must-read, five-star book about the Kardashians, and the traumatising experience of reporting sexual misconduct within the Met Police. Thank you to this week’s incredible guest co-host, broadcaster, writer, pop culture queen and OG hun Jackie Adedeji!
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Recs/reviews DeKonstructing the Kardashians, MJ Corey The Moment, AppleTV Off Campus, Amazon Prime Off Campus’s Hannah Finally Makes Me And My Big Boobs Feel Seen, Pedestrian TV Katie Price: Nothing to Hide, SkyTV (out July 8) Karen Carpenter offers a haunting warning for Ariana Grande fans, Telegraph What if we're not actually worried about Ariana Grande? Liz Plank, Substack Reporting ‘police sexual misconduct’ - my traumatic experience, Channel 4 News My Big Boobs: Untold, Channel 4 I Don't Trust My Therapist: Untold, Channel 4
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