Met Gala Hunger Games & Trumpy Bedtime Stories
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 7 May 2026
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Jemma and Marina dive headfirst into the Met Gala circus from impossible outfits and billionaires playing dress-up, to the growing backlash against celebrity excess in a world on fire.
They also tackle Trump casually floating a third term, Nigel Farage mysteriously dodging scrutiny over Reform’s mega-money backers, and why parts of the media seem determined to ignore some scandals while amplifying others.
Plus: RFK Jr’s toe-curling Trump worship, a Reform candidate’s racist tweets, LinkedIn lunacy, and the eternal question, how exactly do celebrities wee at the Met Gala?
As ever, it’s bleak, ridiculous and somehow still funny.
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| 0:00.0 | Okay, we are recording. |
| 0:03.9 | Here comes the Trulipu's music. |
| 0:05.5 | Not, however, Nigel Farage, who as we told you last week was fixed to be here, |
| 0:10.1 | this team told us he changed his mind. |
| 0:27.8 | Hello and welcome to the Troll, where we scroll through socials so you don't have to, |
| 0:31.4 | meaning we have more bookmarks than a museum gift shop. |
| 0:32.5 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:34.0 | And I'm Gemma Forte. |
| 0:39.3 | And at time of record, the local election results aren't quite in. There been a few dripping in in the morning but we're recording on Thursday so we're not psychic so we don't know what they are |
| 0:44.5 | we're all over the shop trawlers there's an awful lot going on in fact our first ever live |
| 0:51.7 | trawl show is looming some of you will be coming along to that next Friday. |
| 0:57.7 | So on that note, actually, while I've got you, Marina, while I've got you, what are you planning on wearing for that? |
| 1:03.5 | Well, you've got me. You've got me for the next 45 minutes at least. So, well, what are I wearing? What are I wearing? |
| 1:09.2 | I'm hoping it's one of those situations where you kind of open your wardrobe and your wardrobe decides for you. But if not, possibly some sort of like papier-meschet sort of statue of liberty kind of look. |
| 1:21.6 | Oh, cool. I think around my head I might have like a goldfish bowl. |
| 1:26.0 | Nice. |
| 1:27.3 | Oh, that sounds great. What I'm going to do is I'm going to go through the drawer that I've got in the kitchen and there's lots of cables in there and like old chargers and stuff. And I thought, what am I just fashion something out of those, string them together, and also ideally make something that I can't walk in and that I definitely, and this is the most important thing, |
| 1:45.0 | I can't breathe in it. Because that way, if I ever get invited to the Met Gala, which is unlikely, |
| 1:52.4 | then I can recycle my outfit. Today's episode of, what are you wearing? Met Gala edition. |
| 1:58.5 | Yep, it's that time again where I judge a bunch of rich people spending |
| 2:01.7 | a hundred thousand pound to go to an event to show off their ridiculous rich people outfits, |
| 2:07.0 | while the rest of the world starves. This year's Met Gala theme is fashion is art, |
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