Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir P...

Celebrity memoirs, pop culture, and books! Join us as we book club female celebrity memoirs through a thoughtful lens.

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Kelly Ripa’s Memoir Live Wire (with Danielle Ro...
Chelsea and Danielle Robay (PrettySmart, E!’s While You Were Streaming) wade through Kelly Ripa’s 2022 memoir Live Wire. From Mark Consuelos love stories to cringy LLC names to some masterful Regis shade, Kelly doesn’t dish it all, but we have a...
74 min
127
Love Is Blind & the Mean Girl
Season 4 of Love Is Blind just ended, and Chelsea’s got some yelling to do about Mean Girls and bullying! In this episode she catches everyone up on the most important moments of this delightfully trashy show, and what they reveal about our culture...
37 min
128
Betty Gilpin’s Memoir All The Women In My Brain...
Chelsea and Kyle Ridley (Good Day DC) get obsessively metaphorical with the absolute poetry in Betty Gilpin’s 2022 memoir. From witchy moments to workouts for Nurse Jackie and Glowc to finding out she needed a woman named Cheryl to live in her head,...
74 min
129
The Bachelor Finale & American Politics
Chelsea believes The Bachelor franchise is a cultural clock on America telling us what time it is - and damn, it's always behind! In this episode she dishes her hot bachelor takes and what she thinks this season with boring-ass Zach can tell us...
25 min
130
Alicia Keys’ Memoir More Myself (with Clara Amfo)
70 min
131
Heather Gay’s Memoir Bad Mormon (with Danny Pel...
Chelsea and Danny Pellegrino (Everything Iconic) DON'T keep it sweet with Heather Gay’s 2023 memoir Bad Mormon. From being a funny woman in an unfunny religion, to lip injections, to unexpected musical talent, to the black eye debacle, Heather tells...
72 min
132
Anne Heche’s Memoirs Call Me Crazy & Call Me An...
Chelsea and Kenzie Elizabeth (Easy on Netflix, Bless This Mess) get vulnerable with Anne Heche’s 2001 memoir Call Me Crazy, and her posthumous memoir, published January 2023. They dive into Anne’s very quick rise to fame, the Ellen DeGeneres of it...
102 min
133
Pamela Anderson’s Memoir Love, Pamela (with Lau...
Chelsea and Lauren Lapkus (Newcomers, Threedom) kick Valentine’s Day off with Pamela Anderson’s 2023 memoir Love, Pamela. From getting discovered on a Jumbotron, to her love of weddings, to a story about Jack Nicholson at the Playboy Mansion that...
94 min
134
Michelle Obama’s Memoir Becoming (with Sequoia ...
Chelsea and Sequoia Homes (Black People Love Paramour, Glass House) discuss Michelle Obama’s 2018 memoir Becoming. From racist college roommates to mentoring Obama in law school to throwing shade from the high road, they seek the answer to the only...
54 min
135
Prince Harry’s Memoir The Spare (with Nikki Gla...
Just when we thought we were done with mensmoirs…. this one was too juicy not to cover! Chelsea and Nikki Glaser promenade through Prince Harry’s 2023 memoir The Spare, covering the famous frostbitten “todger”, the royal motto “Don’t...
102 min
136
Carrie Brownstein’s Memoir Hunger Makes Me a Mo...
We’re kicking off the new year with a doozy! Chelsea and Debby Ryan get grungy with Carrie Brownstein’s 2015 memoir Hunger Makes Me a Modern Girl. We’ve got the power of creative soulmates, couples counseling with your bandmates, the power of...
74 min
137
Angela Lansbury’s Memoir Positive Moves (with M...
As we close out 2022 we're greeting 2023 with this 1990 memoirish/lifestyle guide from Angela Lansbury. Chelsea and Mattie Bayne bathe in the lotion advice, abandoned children, Malibu fires, and borderline pornographic stretching. Together they try to...
61 min
138
Billie Holiday’s Memoir Lady Sings The Blues (W...
Chelsea and Lynae (Parking Lot Pimpin’) celebrate the HOLIDAYS with a little... Billie HOLIDAY. They dive into her 1956 memoir Lady Sings the Blues which is filled with music, trauma, marriages, racism, prison, gardenias, heroin, and the infamous...
61 min
139
The Judds' Memoirs (with Akilah Green and Erin ...
Things got a little too wild for good audio recording at the live show, so here’s an all-new episode! Chelsea, Akilah, and Erin cover the memoirs of Naomi Judd, Wynona Judd, and Ashley Judd. This is truly a mother-daughter-daughter story for the...
84 min
140
Matthew Perry’s Memoir Friends, Lovers, and the...
Chelsea brings back two CBC all-stars for a mens-moir too juicy to ignore! From an early tennis career to whiskey dick to fame and addiction and an exploding colon, Chelsea, Ashley, and Jenni try to get to the bottom of the burning question: WHERE WAS...
99 min
141
Jenna Jameson’s Memoir How To Make Love Like a ...
Chelsea and Alexandra Corti travel back to 2004 to dissect Jenna Jameson’s memoir, How To Make Love Like a Porn Star. From “heartbreaker” butt tattoos to deep childhood trauma to early 2000s feminism and homophobia, Jenna Jameson’s story has...
57 min
142
The Planning a Wedding Episode! (w/ Caroline Cr...
It's a wedding planning episode! First, Chelsea and wedding influencer Caroline Crawford Patterson get matrimonial as they dive into Vera Wang’s wedding guide and talk about their own experiences planning their Very Special Bridal Pageants. Then,...
70 min
143
Jenny Jones’ Memoir My Story (with Yassir Lester)
It’s Wedding Month, cookies! Chelsea's guest this episode is her future husband Yassir Lester and they go on a 90s adventure, recapping talk-show star Jenny Jones’ 1997 memoir My Story. Chelsea and Yassir tell the long ass story of how they met...
94 min
144
ALL THE SPICE GIRLS MEMOIRS (with Caroline Moss...
Sooooo tell me what you want, what you really really want - the details on how the Spice Girls fired their first managers and did a heist? A final answer on how posh Posh Spice really is? Breakdowns of the girls’ pranks on Seal and Courtney Love? We...
73 min
145
Podcast Updates and Emmys Stories!
CAN YOU BELIEVE it's been two years of Celebrity Book Club??  We are about to take our first ever short break, and all it took was Chelsea and Producer Kate both getting married within 30 days of each other.  Plus, an update to the Jennette...
15 min
146
Jennette McCurdy’s Memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died ...
Chelsea and Marcella Arguello (Woke Bully, 2 Dope Queens) are blown away by Jennette McCurdy’s brand-new best-selling memoir I’m Glad My Mom Died. This once-in-a-generation memoir tracks Jennette’s experience with her deeply abusive mother...
78 min
147
Priscilla Presley’s Memoir Elvis and Me (with A...
Chelsea and Alison Rosen (Alison Rosen is Your New Best Friend, Upworthy Weekly) get raw with Priscilla Presley’s 1985 memoir Elvis and Me. This episode addresses many important questions, like: How much karate is too much karate? Does Elvis go...
66 min
148
Tori Spelling’s Memoir sTORI Telling (with June...
Chelsea and June Diane Raphael (How Did This Get Made, Grace & Frankie) get nosy with the noTORIous Tori Spelling’s 2009 memoir. This book has everything you want, and a few things don’t: mother-daughter trauma, bird bite nose jobs, nepotism,...
81 min
149
Celebrity Abortion Stories (with Alison Leiby)
In a Very Special Episode, Chelsea and Alison Leiby (Oh God, a Show About Abortion) recap EVERY ABORTION STORY ever featured on Celebrity Book Club, plus a bunch of never heard before tales. With the repeal of Roe v Wade, shame around abortion is...
84 min
150
Tunde Oyeneyin’s Memoir SPEAK (with Amy Aniobi ...
Amy Aniobi and Grace Edwards (The Antidote) introduce Chelsea to the inspiring world of Tunde Oyeneyin - Peloton’s star instructor -and her 2022 memoir SPEAK. They dive into almost having multiple reality shows, dealing with professional rejection,...
73 min