Hello and welcome to another episode of iWay with Jameeda Jamal, a podcast against shame.

I hope you're well. Today's episode is a bit of a different one. It's more of a human interest story

and I don't do those all the time but I think that when the world feels particularly hopeless

I want something warm and hopeful and distracting to listen to and I asked my lovely and fascinating

friend Simon Rex to come onto the podcast to tell us his life story because I think it is such a

fascinating one. Now of course this is the tale of objectively a straight handsome white man

who has had a career in the most unrelatable industry on earth, the entertainment industry

but if you dig beneath the surface history is just bananas from childhood through to his unexpected

entry into the industry and the spectacular highs and lows and then highs again of that journey

and what that does to someone psyche and the shame involved and the ego and the pride and the

excitement and the gratitude and the humility all of it and he really lays his heart wide open

in this chat. He's such an interesting and unique human being and it's really hard to find men

who are willing to really get into the nitty gritty of their journey and who aren't afraid of being

honest about the highs and lows and I love that about him and I wish there were more people especially

men in the world who were willing to do so who were willing to unpack their journey for us and so

I love this story I think he's a really interesting and integral decent human being there's

really great story towards the end about a time where at his lowest and his most completely broke

and destitute him being offered 70 grand to lie and say that he'd have sex with Meghan Markle

when the tabloids were coming after her and he talks about his decision making through that

circumstance and what led him to what he ended up doing and it's just a really sweet tale

of a good man who's had a really unbelievable life so sit back relax and enjoy the absolute

whirlwind that is the fantastically talented Simon Rex my good dear friend Simon Rex welcome

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