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Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Rue McClanahan's My First Five Husbands ... and the Ones Who Got Away (with Sofiya Alexandra)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.62K Ratings

🗓️ 8 October 2021

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

This week, Chelsea and Sofiya Alexandra (This is Not Happening, 420 Day Fiance, Private Parts Unknown) run away with Golden Girl Rue McClanahan's 2008 memoir, a book packed with enough wit, scandal, and silky negligees to make Blanche Devereaux blush.

For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez


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0:00.0

Welcome to Celebrity Book Club.

0:07.8

This is a podcast that recaps and celebrates the memoirs of badass female celebrities

0:12.3

who have been torn down by tabloids dissected by social media and faced heartaches and

0:16.0

triumphs and come out of it all even stronger.

0:18.1

I'm your host, Chelsea DeMontes, I'm a writer, comedian, and filmmaker, and this week

0:22.5

we are book clubbing Room of Clanahan's memoir titled, My First Five Husbands and the

0:27.9

ones who got away.

0:29.9

Published in 2007, I mean have there ever been a greater memoir title, but it's the

0:34.3

best memoir title I've ever read.

0:36.6

I already loved Rue just from Golden Girls and she is just as witty as her character

0:41.6

blanche if not even more so.

0:43.9

But here's what I'll say about this book, if you have a friend in a bad relationship

0:48.5

and they are ignoring the red flags, buy this book casually be like, oh my god it's

0:53.9

true, make them read it, it will cure everything.

1:19.5

That was one of Rue's many amazing lines as blanche in the Golden Girls and we are diving

1:23.1

into her book today with my amazing guest Sophia Alexandra, hi Sophia, oh my god I'm so

1:30.0

excited to be here.

1:32.4

This is such a long time coming and Sophia has headphones on with little cat ears and

1:36.8

it is so cute.

1:37.8

Okay let me give you a bio, Sophia is a writer and comedian who grew up in Odessa, Ukraine

1:42.6

and moved to Los Angeles at the age of 11.

1:44.9

You might have seen her on Comedy Central, this is not happening, talking about her

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