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The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Jameela Jamil: Accidentally Becoming A Hollywood Star & Why I Don’t Trust Journalists

The Romesh Ranganathan Show

Ranga Bee & Platform Media

Society & Culture, Comedy

4.6715 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2025

⏱️ 62 minutes

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Summary

What do you do if your school bully edits your Wikipedia? Jameela Jamil chats to Romesh about her huge success in Hollywood and how she accidentally got her role in The Good Place. Jameela also tells us her problem with journalism and her embarrassing moment live on stage in front of 6,000 farmers… A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Listen. 00:00 Intro 01:20 Jameela Impersonates Priyanka Chopra 02:26 “No Marlon Randos” 05:00 COLONIC Irrigation! 07:50 Cake Break 09:40 Journalists and Wikipedia 17:26 “I’m not a profound thinker” 18:12 Shanthi’s Question 21:15 Jameela’s SUCCESS: "How did you do it?" 22:30 BULLIES and Standing Ovations 27:00 The Good Place AUDITION 28:20 Changing Philosophies 36:00 Outrage and LOLS 37:17 Larry David’s Wedding 38:45 On Being Brown 43:50 Turning 40 46:20 Shame and Humiliation 47:15 “Misquoted” 51:45 ORG*SMING on stage! 56:00 Laurence Fox Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I did talk about having an orgasm in front of 6,000 farmers.

0:06.0

What?

0:07.0

They give me a standing ovation in the room and I'm going, oh, sit down.

0:12.0

Come on, it's not that good.

0:15.0

Let's just get a clip of them eating some cake and then we can let her go.

0:18.0

Just clip that out. That's all I want them to do now. It's a great on only band. The best promo for your f*** bakery. You can't be serious. I am the most unpopular person in this industry. Well, not being funny, based on those two stories, rightly so. Yeah, exactly. I'm right. I mean, it's insane. Hello, I am Priyanka Shopra, and I'm here with Ramesh.

0:40.0

I think it's good, right?

0:45.9

It's the Romish, Rangar, Nathan, Shl.

0:51.6

Oh, shut up, Ramesh.

0:54.2

Just for me, can I just get the intro again?

0:56.3

Yeah.

0:57.3

With my actual name.

0:58.4

Just with one with your name.

0:59.6

I feel like probably it's worth it.

1:01.0

A bit weird.

1:01.6

Yeah, I know.

1:02.6

Because there'll be some people that be going, this is so confusing.

1:06.4

She's talking about Jamila Jamil's career, but that's not who she is. But you know I like doing that. I met this famous director, like the most famous director in the world at a party. I was at this award ceremony and it was like a luncheon and one of the most famous directors in the world was there. Now, when I worked at a video shop, he was one of my kind of customers.

1:28.3

He would come in all the time and I would have bans with him.

1:30.3

I was like, you know, 15, 16, and then again, I was 19, 20. And he was all just really nice. I think he was shooting a big movie in London at the time, American director. And I'm at this lunch and I'm there for the good place, place and we're winning like one of the most prestigious awards, awards you can get in Hollywood.

1:45.3

And so it's, you know, it's a very small room of people. And he's spot... for the good place and we're winning like one of the most prestigious awards awards you can get

1:44.2

in Hollywood and so it's you know it's a very small room of people and he spots me and he goes

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