Margot Robbie and unmarked motherhood

Shameless

Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 12 April 2026

⏱️ 44 minutes

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MONDAY ANALYSIS: This week, a Courier-Mail headline caught our eye: “Margot Robbie, stop pretending you’re not a mum.” What happens when women in the public eye become mothers – but don’t show their kids on camera? With the justified push to take kids off camera, are we creating a world where the actual experience of motherhood is hidden from view as well? Huge thanks to Pandora for making this episode of Shameless possible. Also, shout-out to Samsung! Margot Robbie, stop pretending you’re not a mum in the Courier Mail Dispatches from Motherhood by Grace O’Neill The Kardashian Whisperer Who Says Three Hours With Her Kids Is Enough in The Wall Street Journal Margot Robbie Is Nobody’s Barbie: The Babylon Star on Navigating Hollywood in Vanity Fair Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1). Shameless Podcast is produced by Annabelle Lee and Eilish Gilligan, executive-produced by Lucy Hunt and audio-edited by Eilish Gilligan. Our social media team consists of Naima Fatema, Divya Simmie and Eilish Gilligan, and our partnerships manager is Cindy Luu. Want to support our show? Clicking ‘follow’ on Apple and Spotify is the best way to do that, and we're super grateful to anyone who leaves a five-star review while they're at it. Also! An old-fashioned 'Tell a Friend In Real Life' is equally appreciated. Want more? We've got more… Subscribe to our newsletter Smart, Dumb Stuff: https://tinyurl.com/4yasjphn Follow us on Instagram: https://tinyurl.com/2mf557ux Aaaand we’re on TikTok: https://tinyurl.com/2hchchrp Everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We’re huge fans of yours. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	What is it with men and big TVs?
0:02.8	Oh, talk about it.
0:05.2	Okay.
0:05.8	We need to raise awareness.
0:08.1	Zara's moving house.
0:09.8	As part of moving house, Zara and Oli have decided they need a new TV.
0:14.4	Olly.
0:14.7	Hold on.
0:15.0	I'm perfectly fine with our old TV.
0:16.7	Wait, mate, same.
0:17.8	Well, I'm fine with your old.
0:19.1	Yeah, you're fine with it.
0:20.1	I can understand, though, you've had that TV for a long time. So I understand a refresh of the TV. It's a quite, no, no disrespect. Say it. It's a slightly old TV. It's just small. I'm not sure it has the smart capabilities of the modern TV. I don't know if it does. Like, I don't know if I could screen share to your TV confidently. So, Oli's like, we need 75 inch. 75 or plus. And then goes, to confirm this, obviously goes to Mitch, who's a huge fan of huge TV. Mitch, if it was up to Mitch, Mitch would just have a projector screen in front of his face 24-7.
0:55.1	And I was like, if Mitch and Michelle, sorry, I have to be honest now, if Mitch and Michelle have a 75 inch, we're not getting it because that TV is the biggest thing I've ever seen in my life. Thank you, Zara. It's too fucking big. No, I think ours is 65, babe. Then you guys came back and said 65. I said, we've got issues, babe, because their TV is the biggest movie I've ever seen in my life.
1:10.7	But our living room quite small.
1:13.2	So the TV does take up way too much real estate. It's too big. I agree with you, Zara. Unfortunately, I lost this more with Mitch because I wanted a green armchair. And he said, if we're getting the green armchair. 65 inch. Well, I'm now trying to defend my honour for 75 inch, I want 55 inch. The smaller the TV, the chic of the room. Gill, speak on it. Okay, my TV's too small. No, that's chic. No, I can't see. My eyes are so bad. I'm like squinting. How small is it? It's like 25 inches. I don't know what the inches are, but it's like that. It's a laptop up on the wall. It's like that. It's that size. Oh, that's, that is small. The girls just pointed to the desktop in the room. Can we all agree? 55 or 45. 55 is what I have at home. It's great. That's a perfect size TV. It's just too old. Okay.
2:02.1	Men.
2:03.5	Shut up.
2:06.4	I think the women are fighting for 55 inches.
2:08.2	And that's not a euphemism.
2:14.2	Shameless Media. Yeah.
2:46.8	I'm a... Shameless Pop Culture podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff.
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