Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan: Creators of Go Fug Yourself and Best-Selling Authors

Second Life

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4.8 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 27 July 2020

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Heather Cocks and Jessica Morgan have been writing together since they founded their witty celebrity fashion blog, Go Fug Yourself, back in 2004 as a way to procrastinate from their day jobs. Today, not only are the “Fug Girls” pioneers in the space, but they’ve also received rave reviews as novelists with the best-selling The Royal We—loosely based on the courtship of Prince WIlliam and Kate Middleton—and the highly anticipated sequel, The Heir Affair, which just hit bookshelves on July 7. But before they were writing novels, the ladies were working as TV series recappers, writing about shows such as Judging Amy and Making the Band, before parlaying that experience into working in the world of reality TV. Hear how the pair pivoted from digital to print and ultimately found their stride in balancing the two on today’s episode of Second Life.

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0:00.0	Hi everyone, I'm Hilary Kerr, the co-founder and chief content officer of Who What Wear,
0:11.5	and this is Second Life, a podcast spotlighting women who have truly inspiring careers.
0:18.7	We're talking about their work journeys, what they've learned from the process of setting
0:22.9	aside their doubts or fears, and what happens when they embark on their second life.
0:28.5	Today on the pod, I'm speaking with Heather Cox and Jessica Morgan, best-selling authors
0:33.5	and creators of the Whittiest Celebrity Fashion Blog GoFugG yourself.
0:38.2	The pair met back in 2004 at Television Without Pity, formerly known as MightyBigTV, where
0:44.8	they worked as television show recappers.
0:48.2	After starting GoFugG yourself as a creative collaboration, the blog quickly caught steam
0:53.4	and eventually became their full-time career.
0:56.4	Today, it draws millions of readers worldwide and has made entertainment weeklies
1:01.2	musclist and the Guardians List of 50 Most Powerful Blogs.
1:05.7	But this dynamic duo didn't stop there.
1:09.3	Their best-selling novel, The Royal Wee, which is loosely based on the courtship of Prince
1:13.8	William and Kate Middleton, garnered rave reviews when it debuted in 2015, and now they've
1:20.4	just released the highly anticipated sequel, The Air Affair, which hit bookshelves on July
1:27.0	7th.
1:28.0	They're also the authors of two YA novels, Spoiled and Messy, and have written for publications
1:33.8	ranging from New York Magazine to Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Washington Post,
1:38.6	W Magazine, and Glamour.
1:41.3	And did I mention that they also worked in reality TV at one point?
1:44.9	Because that is also part of their past.
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