Jameela Jamil on "The Ozempic Olympics", being unapologetically outspoken and unafraid to be disliked

Should I Delete That?

Alex Light & Em Clarkson

Society & Culture, Unknown

4.8 • 1.2K Ratings

🗓️ 1 December 2025

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

You asked - so we answered… Jameela Jamil is back on the podcast.

Jameela is an actor and activist - she’s unapologetic and she’s not afraid of being disliked.

There are very few people in Hollywood who speak out so openly, loudly and passionately about social justice, so we spoke to Jameela about why she feels equipped and compelled to speak out, and why others may not do the same… even when they know they should.

We also spoke to Jameela about the death of the body positivity movement, the Ozempic Era and her view on celebrities glamourising the return of ultra-thinness as the mainstream beauty ideal.

Be prepared to get angry, impassioned and ready to fight back...

If you want to get in touch you can email us on [email protected]

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Should I Delete That is produced by Faye Lawrence

Studio Manager: Elliott Mckay

Video Editor: Celia Gomez

Social Media Manager: Sarah English

Music: Alex Andrew

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0:00.0	When I'm looking at everyone being super skinny, fighting time, fighting gravity,
0:06.4	trying to achieve eternal agelessness, all I see is obedience and compliance and submissiveness.
0:12.0	Good girl, that's what they're really saying.
0:13.9	Not go girl, it's good girl.
0:15.7	And I don't want to be anyone's fucking good girl.
0:18.4	Hello, and welcome back to Shoulda Delete That? I'm Alex Light.
0:21.0	And I'm Em Clarkson.
0:22.2	One interview we had today.
0:23.8	We had Jamila Jamil on the podcast to talk about social justice, doing social justice
0:30.4	online when you have an enormous platform and how that pans out like on a day-to-day basis
0:37.1	because I was fascinated by that.
0:39.0	I think she's unusual in that. I don't know anyone with her or I don't know, I don't think
0:44.7	I know many people with her level of fame, I guess, who is so outspoken and so unapologetic
0:52.1	about what she talks about as her.
0:54.4	Do you mean it's one of those people, when I hear her speaking on something, when I see a clip,
0:57.1	I'm like, God, I've got a million things to ask you. And then as soon as the interview finished today, I was like, I have a million more. Same, same. And it's like, she's, she's kind of an enigma in so many ways and she's such an enigma. So good at speaking to so many things. But I think as ever,
1:13.2	with all good social justice, I've probably left with as many questions, with more questions than answers or than I won't in with. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, well, it's very difficult to interview someone about, like you said, that breadth of topics and spend an hour doing it. Yeah. It's impossible. Yeah. And I think
1:29.4	what she's doing in the activism space in the sort of way that she pushes forward is absolutely
1:34.5	remarkable. The position that she's in makes her such an interesting person to comment or to
1:39.8	observe the way that this all works and the way that we tie each other up and the way that the
1:44.8	patriarchy operates and the way that Hollywood is. It's like she's some sort of, I don't know, like an insider, like a spy, but like a spy that says she's a spy. Do you know what I mean? I do. I know exactly what you mean. You've got eyes on the inside, but they're not like subtle So they're not like, or report back later.
1:58.8	They're like, hey, guys, I'm here.
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