Scheana Spills On Holiday Chaos, Stepping Away From Reality TV, and What’s Next
Scheananigans with Scheana Shay
Dear Media
3.2 • 8.6K Ratings
🗓️ 9 January 2026
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
This week, Scheana is answering your listener questions and catching you up on a holiday season that was equal parts magical and chaotic — including a hit-and-run, a broken window, two surgeries, and a holiday that is still not over yet for the Davies household (darn those naughty elves). Scheana reflects on some of her favorite VPR moments, clears up some long-standing misconceptions, and opens up about what stepping away from reality TV has taught her. She also dishes on finding (and setting) boundaries, seasoned vs seasonal friendships, mental health, and why her healing era is her happiest one yet. She answers your questions about motherhood, internet trolls, and what the future may hold — including when you might see her back on your screens again. Tune in to find out!
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| 0:00.0 | The following podcast is a Dear Media production. |
| 0:14.0 | From Vanderpump rules to motherhood and everywhere in between. |
| 0:19.1 | Warm up the kettle. It's time to spill some tea. |
| 0:22.6 | Let's get into some shenanigans with Sheena Shea. |
| 0:26.0 | Welcome back to shenanigans. Happy New Year. It feels good to be back. I hope you all had a great holiday. I'm here solo in the studio today. I thought I would just kick it off with y'all with all of the questions you sent in talk about the holidays and all of the |
| 0:54.9 | things and you guys send in so many questions i'm just going to get right into it i'm going to |
| 1:00.8 | probably be long-winded with some answers but i have a lot of cards as you see and i'm going to |
| 1:06.6 | try and get there as many of these as i can. First up, how are your holidays? Honestly, comical, |
| 1:14.8 | I swear. There was a series of unfortunate events, which I will get into. But with that said, |
| 1:20.5 | I really want to start with the positives because there were a lot. We had such a sweet Christmas with |
| 1:26.4 | summer. It just makes everything feel more magical. |
| 1:29.9 | You know, when you're seeing Christmas through a child's eyes, I will say, I still feel guilty lying to my kid about Santa and Elf and all of the things. |
| 1:40.6 | But that's the magic of Christmas, you know, and I hope one day she's not in therapy |
| 1:45.0 | for it. Like, my mom told me there was this elf and all of those things. But, you know, once that |
| 1:51.0 | guilt feeling bad, feeling passes, then I'm like, it's so cute to just see her watching the Santa |
| 1:57.9 | tracker. And we had a very different Christmas this year. I don't even know |
| 2:03.1 | if I've talked about this yet because I've been off for a couple weeks. But we stayed in L.A., |
| 2:07.6 | which we, I've honestly in my entire life, in my 40 years, I've never had a Christmas in Los Angeles |
| 2:15.1 | until this year. I've been in Azusa. I've been in Palm Springs, |
| 2:20.1 | maybe Vegas. I've been everywhere except L.A. So that was different, but I loved it. It put me in |
| 2:28.8 | a bit of a funk at first because my family was all in Palm Springs at my house without us, but it's what my daughter |
| 2:35.3 | wanted. And what my daughter wants, my daughter gets most of the time. And Christmas Eve went, spent it |
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