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Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jamie Loftus

Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil

Jameela Jamil

Society & Culture, Jameela Jamil, Storytelling, Disasters, Personal Journals, Comedians, Comedy Interviews, Conversation, Stand-up, Comedy, Funny, True Stories, Shame, Embarassing

4.73.6K Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2021

⏱️ ? minutes

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Summary

Comedian and writer Jamie Loftus joins Jameela this week to discuss what growing up with a back brace does to your high school social life, Jamie's childhood habit of documenting what everyone around her was wearing, coming up in comedy and finding her feminist voice, the problems with #girlboss culture, and Jamie's newest project Lolita Podcast. Check out Lolita Podcast wherever you get your podcasts.

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0:00.0

Hello and welcome to another episode of I Way with Jermina Jamil. There is a lot going on.

0:04.5

It's international women's month and yet it's tricky isn't it? There's so much going on in the

0:11.6

new so many difficult conversations happening, so many examples of women not being respected.

0:15.6

Look at the way that Meghan Markle was treated after her interview with Harry where she was

0:20.6

almost treated as if she was the only one who was there and he was just her puppet and the onslaught

0:26.5

against her to the point where it got so bad that one of her biggest critics, a most vocal and

0:35.1

obsessive critics, Piers Morgan ended up leaving his job at Good Morning Britain because his

0:43.3

obsession with Meghan and his disparaging comments about her and the way in which it appeared

0:50.8

that he had disregarded her comments about her mental health. He was pulled up on it by his co-anchor

0:58.8

and he just had a tantrum within about two minutes. He was up and off. Now this is a man who spends

1:05.0

a lot of time calling other people snowflakes including Meghan for struggling under the lens of

1:12.4

so much criticism and so much vitriol and so many smearing unkind campaigns. So many people, he has

1:21.1

called a snowflake for not being able to handle like global pylons and there he was on national

1:26.3

television. Just being questioned really politely and respectfully by his co-anchor who was calling

1:33.6

him out on his obsessive and disrespectful reaction to Meghan on the show, not just after

1:42.5

interview but just in general. And he just stormed off and had a tantrum like a big baby and quit

1:47.4

just like that. Now I am happy because we do not get along publicly and he has not, I mean neither

1:58.4

of us like each other, that is all I will say. That has been a very big weight off my chest

2:05.9

knowing that he will no longer have access to mainstream broadcasting TV. It is fine if he is

2:12.0

going to go off and get another job somewhere else but we are all safer with him there

2:17.1

where people who are like minded who want to stay in that kind of echo chamber of

2:21.0

whatever it is that people like that want to talk about. They can all be off together somewhere

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