This episode of Shameless is brought to you by Four Pillars.

This summer, enjoy a Four Pillars G&T made with rare dry gin and a juicy wedge of orange. Hello and welcome to Shameless Pop Culture Podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff.

You're joined as always by Melbourne writers, Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald.

Hello, Zazzie McDonald.

This is a video episode and I've been told to look in a camera.

So if you're watching me, you're my camera baby.

And Annabelle Lee, wave to your camera.

Hi!

And to mine, lovely doing business with you.

This is the 2025 Shameless End of Year Awards.

As you guys know, the CEO is acknowledged the celebrity and pop culture stories that have

seized us this year.

We, of course, had the Academy.

And the very exciting thing about the Academy this year, team is usually we cap it at

1,000 voters. Not for any kind of poetic purpose, but purely because the subscription. and the very exciting thing about the Academy this year team is usually we cap it at a thousand

voters. Not for any kind of poetic purpose, but purely because the subscription we had for the survey

we did capped out of a thousand and we thought that seemed good. But we changed survey platforms

this year. Yeah. If this is interesting to anyone. We're glowing up, baby. And this year we had a whopping

Zara McDonald. 20,000. 20 a whopping, Sarah McDonald, 20,000.

20,000 votes. Actually, 20,000 people voting. So these really are the people's award.

You voted on what story should win in each category. We, of course, picked the categories,

because that's what we always do. Belly put the award winners in the little, not golden envelopes today, Bell. They're a little gold. If you hold them up to light, they are slightly iridescent. I was one, I was hoping, I was hoping you wouldn't realize I went for a different envelope. And I also, they're cutting half. They're yellow. They're orange. You're glad. They're orange. You're glad that happened. Well, I'm glad you said that, guys, because thanks again to Four Pillars, we are going to be sipping Four Pillars G&Ts all throughout this recording. They made last year's CO as possible. They are back again making this year's CO as possible. Please watch along. This is a full-length video wherever you usually get your shameless episodes. As soon as I said that, I'm like, not really. It's not an Apple podcast and video. It is on Spotify. Yeah, you know, Spotify. Tacticality, schmecticality. Now, what? Well, it's an important technicality. One thing I would like to put on the record before we begin is I am A, very excited to be here and to be recording with you both stoked B when I went through a couple of weeks ago every

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