A Sally mea culpa

Shameless

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🗓️ 17 December 2025

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Hello! On today’s show: Kate Winslet has some things to say about all that Botox and plastic surgery, calling it “fucking chaos out there”. What we know about the apparent homicide of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and his wife Michele, there’s an update to that Lizzo lawsuit that’s been dragging on for years, your days of seeing George Clooney kiss are over, and finally, welcome to Zara’s algorithm! It’s the TikTok that divided Millennials and Gen Z this week. This week, Zara recommended reading this piece in The Guardian by Sarah Martin. Big thanks to Studio Canal and The Housemaid for making this episode possible. The Housemaid, based on the global phenomenon book, is hitting cinemas, and you need to see this scandal. The Housemaid is coming to Cinemas on Boxing Day. And shoutout to DoorDash! Whether it’s groceries for hosting or a last-minute takeaway, DoorDash has your back. Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1). Shameless Podcast is produced by Annabelle Lee and Eilish Gilligan, executive-produced by Lucy Hunt and audio-edited by Mike Liberale. Our social media team consists of Naima Fatema, Emily Li and Eilish Gilligan, and our partnerships manager is Cindy Luu. Want to support our show? Clicking ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify is the best way to do that, and we're super grateful to anyone who leaves a five-star review while they're at it. Also! An old-fashioned 'Tell a Friend In Real Life' is equally appreciated. Want more? We've got more… Subscribe to our newsletter Smart, Dumb Stuff: https://tinyurl.com/4yasjphn Follow us on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/2mf557ux Aaaand we’re on TikTok: https://tinyurl.com/2hchchrp Everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We’re huge fans of yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by The Housemaid coming to cinemas this boxing day.
0:09.0	Shameless Media
0:11.0	Mewy. Hello and welcome to Shameless, the pop culture podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff.
0:43.5	You're joined, as always, by Melbourne writers, Michelle Andrews, that would be me, and Zara McDonald's.
0:48.8	That would be you.
0:49.5	Hello, Michelle Andrews, and hello, producer Annabelle Lee.
0:52.3	Hello, my beautiful angels.
0:55.0	Tried it on and a fact.
0:57.0	Coming up on a space show, Kate Winslet has some things to say about all that Botox and plastic surgery.
1:03.0	She's calling it fucking chaos out there.
1:06.0	What we know about the apparent homicide of Hollywood legend Rob Reiner and his wife Michelle.
1:11.5	There's an update to that Lizzo lawsuit that's been dragging on for years.
1:15.3	Your days of seeing George Clooney kiss on screen are over.
1:18.9	And finally, welcome to Zara's algorithm.
1:22.0	It's the TikTok video that divided millennials from the Gen Zetas this week.
1:26.4	But first, Zaz, we spoke about this in our review
1:29.9	of the Taylor Swift docu series, but we wanted to touch upon it again. It's been a really tricky
1:35.3	week for a lot of Australians. So many Australians, particularly our Jewish listeners. And as you said,
1:40.5	we did touch on this in our Taylor Swift review. But I also know that perhaps if you don't love Taylor Swift, you may not have clicked into
1:45.7	that review this week.
1:47.0	So if you hadn't and you hadn't heard us talk about that and us acknowledged that, please
1:51.8	know you're all just absolutely top of mind right now.
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