The Belle Gibson story: Part one

Shameless

Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 8 September 2024

⏱️ 35 minutes

🔗️ Recording | iTunes | RSS

🧾️ Download transcript

Summary

Happy Monday, everyone! A lot has been said and written about the Belle Gibson story. We’ve had multiple documentaries, interviews, a book, and countless news stories and ‘exposés’. Today is part one of us revisiting it all… This episode was researched by Eilish Gilligan and Chloe Wilson, and audio produced by Annabelle Lee. Big thanks to Airbnb for making this episode possible. Head here to book your next relaxing trip. 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 the Shameless newsletter, Smart Dumb Stuff: http://eepurl.com/iH2sV-/ Aaaand everything else your heart could ever desire is here: https://linktr.ee/shamelesspodcast Thanks for listening! We are very big fans of yours.

Transcript

Click on a timestamp to play from that location

0:00.0	Shameless media.
0:05.6	Media. I got the new rules call me a renegade
0:13.0	the one in the lion's cage
0:15.0	sipping on lemonadeo
0:17.0	I'm a dream got your match stick the actor
0:20.0	back on the sea
0:22.0	yeah you can call me the queen Belle Gibson.
0:26.0	Belle Gibson.
0:27.0	Been on our list for quite a while.
0:29.7	For quite a long time.
0:31.9	And I think this is a story we've gone back and forth on, full transparency
0:34.8	with the listeners I think, because it's always a story we've wanted to tell, but then just as equally
0:38.9	I think one thing we say a lot is like, we only want to tell a story when we feel like we have something to add or
0:43.2	something different to talk about and for me I was like this is a well trodden path
0:47.4	this story but I think what was really interesting is when Gill our pop culture
0:52.4	journalist and researcher, went into the
0:54.7	weeds of this. She's like, I'm learning a lot that I didn't know and then I went in
0:58.2	and was like, I'm learning a lot that I didn't know and that's when we know it's
1:01.3	a story for us. Yeah, I have loved going back over this story, working with Eilish, working with you.
1:07.0	It's just been really illuminating, I think, to have this many years of hindsight to look back, it almost feels like a different universe.
1:15.0	I was going to say it feels a bit like a time warp.
1:17.0	The events that led to this entire drama and thing, I don't even know what to call it. I mean it's no secret that lots of people as I said before have and will tell this story. There's a
	...

Please login to see the full transcript.

Previous episode | Next episode

Disclaimer: The podcast and artwork embedded on this page are from Shameless Media, and are the property of its owner and not affiliated with or endorsed by Tapesearch.

Generated transcripts are the property of Shameless Media and are distributed freely under the Fair Use doctrine. Transcripts generated by Tapesearch are not guaranteed to be accurate.