Celeb Journalist Spills All! Beckhams, Katie Price, Harry Styles & more! Part 1
Private Parts
Peter Cowley
4.7 • 3.9K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2026
⏱️ 23 minutes
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Summary
Closer Magazine Editor Katie Banks is on the sofa this week to spill all of the celebrity gossip and what its like behind the scenes of huge A List events like the Oscars from Tom Cruise & Leo Dicaprio to Harry Styles and Meghan Markle, she has met them all!
Plus, Katie will open up on her journey and what it was studying alongside Prince William and Kate at St Andrews and spending a week partying with Katie Price in Ibiza! NOTHING is off limits so make sure you like, follow and subscribe wherever your get yours!
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome back to a brand new episode of Private Parts with me, Live Bentley. |
| 0:13.3 | This is the podcast where nothing is off limit. |
| 0:16.6 | Make sure you subscribe and follow us wherever it is that you get your podcast. |
| 0:20.3 | And you can watch each glorious episode on our YouTube, which is at Private Parts Pod. |
| 0:26.4 | Today I've got a very special guest and she is the editor of Closer magazine. |
| 0:31.1 | It's Katie Banks. |
| 0:34.0 | I'm buzzing for this because I want to know all the gossip. |
| 0:37.1 | Thanks for having me on. |
| 0:38.3 | Well, thanks for coming on. |
| 0:39.3 | Right, let's start from the beginning. |
| 0:40.4 | How long have you been a journalist? |
| 0:43.0 | I've been a journalist for ages, probably about two decades. |
| 0:46.9 | So I started off as a junior reporter and then just sort of worked my way up to being the editor. |
| 0:51.6 | And where did you start? |
| 0:53.0 | I actually started in the glossy monthly magazines. Right. So it was quite cool. I entered a competition to become an intern and went down to London, started in one of the big fashion mags. And yet it was a bit like Devil Wears Prada back then. Really? But yeah, times have changed. |
| 1:29.0 | It's not really like that now. Well, no, I know because now you hear it's more just like sitting on TikTok getting stories there. But in the beginning, why was it? What interested you in journalism? Well, I just thought it was such a fun career. You get to meet lots of different people from all different backgrounds, different stories. And I just, I love the idea of sort of breaking news stories and getting out there and seeing what was going on and |
| 1:34.7 | going to these amazing events. Like, I've been very lucky to get to go to some really glamorous |
| 1:39.4 | dues. Who was like the first big celebrity you met? I'm trying to think who was the first big one. |
| 1:45.1 | I met Michelle Pfeiffer. Oh my God, stunning. She's amazing. I do love her. I've got to say Greece too is still one of my favorite films. I don't think I've ever got over that. But yeah, I used to do red carpet interviews. It's one of my first gigs as a showbus journalist. So I've met Ben Stiller, Michelle |
| 2:02.8 | Fifea, Angelina Jolie. I'm like a really famous people. So you meet really big people on these |
| 2:07.7 | red carpets, but you just get five minutes with them. But you do get to see them as they actually are, |
| 2:12.3 | which is quite bizarre after you've just been used to seeing them kind of in films or in like |
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