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Straight Up

Straight Up

The pop culture podcast with no filter, brought to you by besties and journalists Kathleen and Ellie. New episodes out every Thursday!

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270 episodes

  1. Robert Pattinson’s Primetime, The Celebrity Traitors final and ACOTAR 6 1:10:41
  2. Elizabeth Holmes in You Can See Everything, Meghan Markle and the next James Bond 1:00:00
  3. The Victoria’s Secret fashion show, Sally Rooney and the Girls reboot 1:08:35
  4. Elizabeth Day’s TV thriller, Mark Zuckerberg and when comedians go too far 1:14:10
  5. The Celebrity Traitors, Sienna Miller’s War and when Hollywood divorces get ugly 56:48
  6. Taylor Swift’s Encore, Amelia Dimoldenberg and the female rivalry trap 55:52
  7. Ed Sheeran, Lena Dunham and the ethics of surrogacy 57:44
  8. THERAPY: ChatGPT, false memories and weaponised ‘therapy speak’ 56:33
  9. Alix Earle, her Alex Cooper feud and the business of influence 52:42
  10. Ali G, the Met Gala backlash and cleavage’s big comeback 52:48
  11. North West, Meghan Markle’s return and the man-child epidemic 1:02:56
  12. The Ariana Grande discourse, ACOTAR and Nicole Kidman’s Vogue backlash 55:23
  13. Nara Smith, the tradwife discourse and this year’s buzziest crime thriller 1:02:38
  14. FRIENDSHIP BREAKUPS: ghosting, group dynamics and comparison culture 1:05:05
  15. Our plastic surgery nightmare, Love Island and marital misery in The Invite 1:01:50
  16. Katie Price’s doc, The Odyssey and Justin Bieber vs Madonna 58:08
  17. The best books of 2026 so far 1:09:09
  18. Why we’re all bored of everything 51:30
  19. Taylor Swift’s wedding, Olivia Wilde and the rise of singles nights 1:14:06
  20. Ariana Grande, Brooklyn Beckham’s ad and reporting a police officer 1:26:46
  21. Margot Robbie, Emma Grede and the politics of pregnancy 1:06:28
  22. Dua Lipa's wedding, the Alex Cooper backlash and sex therapy 1:35:23
  23. ASK US ANYTHING: Tweakments, body image and gender disappointment 1:03:34
  24. Married at First Sight, Rivals, and Maya Jama's break up 55:58
  25. Deborah Frances-White: dating apps, manosphere ideology and Steven Bartlett 51:47
  26. Dua Lipa’s lawsuit, Britney Spears and the peptides craze 1:00:13
  27. The Devil Wears Prada 2, Anna Wintour and the Met Gala 1:10:09
  28. Half Man, Harry Styles’ engagement to Zoë Kravitz and Russell Brand’s bible 1:03:49
  29. OnlyFans, Margo’s Got Money Troubles and the D4vd charges 1:04:44
  30. Lena Dunham’s memoir, Euphoria and the Katy Perry allegations 1:14:06
  31. Zendaya’s The Drama, Kanye West and a tradwife nightmare 1:00:56
  32. Harry Potter, The Pitt and Sydney Sweeney's latest controversy 1:12:33
  33. The Chappell Roan controversy, Barry Keoghan and SNL UK 1:08:51
  34. Louis Theroux, the manosphere and the hell of being a teenage girl 1:11:16
  35. Harry Styles, Sarah J. Maas and the Timothée Chalamet backlash 1:12:40
  36. Love Story: JFK Jr & Carolyn Bessette, Olivia Dean and the Jay Shetty cult 59:42
  37. America’s Next Top Model, Gordon Ramsay and the BAFTAs 1:04:05
  38. Gisèle Pelicot, celeb power couples and splitting the bill 48:22
  39. WUTHERING HEIGHTS: chemistry, controversies and our honest review 39:36
  40. Jacob Elordi, the Wuthering Heights press tour and motherhood horrors 52:56
  41. Chappell Roan, Kim K’s Lewis Hamilton romance and Katie Price’s scammer husband 44:02
  42. Taylor vs Blake, the future of Brand Beckham and Sophie Turner’s Steal 1:00:44
  43. Harry Styles, Heated Rivalry and Paul Mescal in Hamnet 1:15:32
  44. BROOKLYN BECKHAM: the family feud goes nuclear 40:31
  45. Timothée Chalamet, Steven Bartlett and Kendall Jenner’s plastic surgery 1:04:52
  46. The Traitors, new Bond Callum Turner and The Housemaid 46:00
  47. The 10 best books of 2025 45:05
  48. The 10 best TV shows of 2025 43:08
  49. Taylor Swift’s Eras doc, Bonnie Blue and the biggest film of 2025 1:01:31
  50. The Diddy documentary, Sydney Sweeney and Miley Cyrus’ younger man 58:43