Summer Scandal: The many iterations of Ariana Grande

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🗓️ 4 January 2026

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Well, hello hello! Welcome to the first mega-sode of your Summer Scandal series…all about Ariana Grande! Looooong before her divorce from Dalton Gomez and her starring turn as Galinda Upland in the Wicked movies, pop star Ariana Grande had an extremely colourful life, with twists and turns that we can’t quite comprehend. Stay tuned until the end of this three-part Scandal to catch our 2026 updates on Ariana Grande’s story so far. This episode of Shameless is brought to you by the movement to stop normalising suntanning – let’s end the trend. Also, shout out to Sydney Opera House! This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan. 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.
0:06.4	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by the movement to stop normalizing sun tanning.
0:11.5	Let's end the trend.
0:14.8	Yeah, I've got the new rules.
0:17.0	Call me a renegade.
0:18.7	The one in the lion's cage, sipping on lemonade, oh.
0:22.6	I'm a dream of your majesty reactor.
0:25.6	Yeah, you can call me the queen.
0:28.6	Hello, hello everyone.
0:30.6	Welcome to our bumper scandal series on none other than Ariana Grande's as.
0:35.6	I know.
0:36.6	Guys, as you know over summer, what we try to do
0:39.6	is really some of our most popular scandal series ever. Put them in one gigantic episode so you
0:45.4	don't need to click on anything else. This is for like your long road trip. Great for a summer
0:50.1	road trip. Now, there's also a lot that we're going to catch you up on with Ari
0:54.1	because we did drop this series back in October 2023. Wicked Part 1 was like still over a year away.
1:00.9	We'd only recently found out about Ariana and Ethan Slater. A lot was still to come.
1:06.9	October 2020, 3, that's over two years ago. That's insane. So make sure you stay tuned to the end of the third
1:12.8	episode in this series, which, as I said, will still be condensed into one file so that you can hear
1:16.8	our updates. Of course, we have to talk about that exchange with the horror hostess Elvira.
1:22.2	That feels like a blast in the past. Also, don't forget the holding space for defying gravity. Of course, Michelle.
1:28.9	Oh, God. Then we also have the reception to Ariana's performance, actually, in the movie,
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