Show Notes
Did Dua Lipa just host the celebrity wedding ‘of the decade’? We rake over all the gossip from the three-day bash in Palermo and debate over whether Callum Turner’s status as ‘Mr Dua Lipa’ is reductive and career-damaging. Also on the show: how former ‘kidfluencer’ Piper Rockelle monetises a Lolita fantasy on OnlyFans (including a countdown to her 18th birthday), Bonnie Blue's 'golden' baby shower and Euphoria star Chloe Cherry’s viral interview about how we’re having the wrong conversations about sex work. Plus, Cara Delevingne’s incredible Call Her Daddy episode, the Right-wing backlash to Alex Cooper’s pregnancy, and the woman selling ‘good wife’ courses to Christian women. Thank you to this week’s very special guest Emma-Louise Boynton, journalist, broadcaster and author of the incredible new book Pleasure: The Reclamation of My Body, about how sex therapy transformed her relationship with her body and broke a 17-year-cycle with bulimia.
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Recs/reviews
Michael Jackson: The Verdict, Netflix Margot’s Got Money Troubles, AppleTV The strange surveilled life of Piper Rockelle: why did a former child influencer decide to go on OnlyFans?, Guardian Euphoria’s Chloe Cherry On Cassie’s OnlyFans Storyline: “Holy Sh*t, That’s Where We Are In Society?”. Refinery29 The Dark Side of Kidfluencing, Netflix Why is the Right so mad about Alex Cooper’s pregnancy? New York Magazine Gen Z Women's New "Anti-Woke Voice", Diabolical Lies ‘A husband expects a yes’: how wife schools are shaping submissive Christian women, Guardian . Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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