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4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 20 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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DUMB STUFF FRIDAYS: Soooo, Obama confessed this week that ALIENS ARE REAL. Naturally, it got us thinking about all the other times celebrities have given us so much to talk/laugh about with their bizarro admissions. Think: Matthew McConaughey’s random dream, Kate Beckinsale’s egg. Today, we’re running through some of our fave celebrity confessions from over the years. Oh, also, the return of Celebrity Blind Items!!! This week, Zara recommended this sleep mask. Mich recommended subscribing to Fix The News, and looking into Shawn Achor! Big thanks to Louenhide for making this episode possible. If you’re ready for an everyday bag upgrade, Louenhide and their new À La Française collection is a very strong place to start. 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 Annabelle Lee. Our social media team consists of Naima Fatema, Emily Li 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	Shameless Media
0:05.0	Shameless Media
0:08.0	M.
0:09.0	Ha-hae
0:10.0	Ha-hoo-ha-hoo-ha-ha-ha-ha-ha Hello and welcome to Shameless, the pop culture Podcast for Smart People who love Dumb Stuff.
0:38.3	You are joined, as always, by Melbourne Writers, Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald.
0:42.3	Hello, Zazzie McDonald, happy Friday.
0:44.3	Happy Friday. It is time for Dumb Stuff Fridays. As always, I have quite little context on this run sheet.
0:51.3	Yeah. In a good way.
0:53.3	Yeah, well, Belly puts these run shoots together for us. We come in a little blind and the episode is better for it. A bit of a surprise and delight, not just for the listeners, you guys at home, but for us. A surprise and delight for us. That's what we deserve on the mics. We were inspired with this episode because we did decide what we wanted to talk about, obviously
1:11.1	by Barack Obama's aliens admission.
1:13.9	Yeah, he thinks that aliens are real.
1:15.7	He knows that they're real.
1:17.1	He doesn't think.
1:18.0	He's met one, he just doesn't want to say it.
1:21.0	It got us thinking about all the other times, A-list celebrities have made us laugh with
1:27.3	their bizarro admissions think Matthew McConaughey's
1:31.7	random dream. That's a dot point that Annabelle's put down for us. I don't know what that is.
1:35.9	Surely you were in the episode where we spoke about that. Were you not?
1:39.7	Was I on Matleaf or was I off when? Maybe life turned to shit loss. Maybe it was when life took a turn for you.
1:45.8	Late last year, maybe. Well, in that case, Michelle, I'm so glad you're here. You're going to have a wonderful time with that story. We've got Kate Beckinsale's egg, which I don't think you were on that episode either. We spoke about that for the COers, but I think we have a build. I don't think we're stopping at Kate Beck and Sells's son-in-law's butt egg.
2:04.7	I think we have a build. I don't think we're stopping at Kate Beckin-Sell's son-in-law's butt egg. I think we're taking it to new terrain. Okay. And then we are bringing back Celebrity Blonde items, which we haven't played since 2020. We will explain what all of that means. So much good, dumb stuff. A quick shout out to today's sponsor, Lewin Hyde, the go-to for chic functional handbags
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