Summer Scandal: Beyoncé, Jay-Z and Elevatorgate

Shameless

Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2026

⏱️ 88 minutes

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Hiya! Welcome to your second week of Summer Scandal… and today we’re deeping Beyoncé, Jay-Z, and Elevatorgate! When we watched Jay Z and Beyoncé walk the Met Gala in 2014, we saw a blissfully happy husband and wife. Only, when a black-and-white video leaked a week later, the public realised there had been a trick mirror all along… This episode of Shameless is brought to you by the movement to stop normalising suntanning – let’s end the trend. Also, shout-out to Disney+! 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, 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
0:05.6	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by the movement to stop normalizing sun tanning.
0:12.5	Let's end the trend.
0:15.9	Yeah, I've got the new moves.
0:18.2	Call me a renegade.
0:19.8	The one in the lion's cage,
0:21.8	Sipping on lemonade.
0:23.8	Oh, I'm a dream.
0:25.0	Got your majesty react to, yeah, you can call me the queen.
0:31.0	Hello, hello.
0:31.9	We are back for another bumper scandal episode for your summer.
0:36.1	I love this one.
1:28.9	This, out of all the scandals, when people come into our dams, like, bring back scandal. I need to hear elevator gate. It's like the number one requested one that people forget we've done. We did this so long ago. It was one of our first ones. Also, actually, sorry, I need to say we keep saying summer. You might be listening to this from winter. Oh, we're a global show. We're a global show. Hello to everyone listening. I hope you're looking out onto a field of snow. If you're not doing that, you're looking out onto a beach and it's really sunny and nice. Wherever you are, we hope you enjoy this. Now, Elevator Gate happened 11 years ago. Feels like longer. I feel like this feels like a 20-year-old story. No, you know what? I'm going to say 11 years feels bang on. 11 years feels perfect. It does feel 11 years ago. Zara's favorite thing to measure time, is to go back in time and go, does it feel like this? Okay. You have done this terribly.
1:30.0	And if we're going to do it, we're going to do it.
1:43.8	My favorite thing of all time, and this is like a really nice hack pre-holidays, is just that no one gets around it as much as I do. So let's say holidays are in three weeks. I've got three weeks left of work until holidays. I will go to my calendar and say, what was I doing three weeks ago today?
1:45.9	And then I will turn to the person around me.
1:47.1	It's either Michelle or Ollie.
1:47.0	It's often me.
1:48.0	And say, does that haircut feel like three weeks ago?
1:52.0	And every single time, Michelle or Oli go, that feels like fucking age ago.
1:56.0	And then it will ruin my game because what you want them to say is, wow, that feels like yesterday.
2:01.1	That feels like yesterday.
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