Tina Knowles' Memoir Matriarch (with Maria Randazzo and Matt Whitaker)

Glamorous Trash: A Celebrity Memoir Podcast

Chelsea Devantez

Society & Culture, Arts, Books

4.6 • 2K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2025

⏱️ 144 minutes

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Summary

Tina Knowles, mother of Beyoncé and Solange, founder of House of Deréon, and Destiny’s Child stylist, spills some Tina Tea! Chelsea is joined by writers Matt Whitaker (“The Four Seasons”) and Maria Randazzo (The List) to unpack Tina’s unreal legacy. They dive into how she became a surrogate parent to Kelly Rowland, her beauty salon ingenuity, and the wisdom embedded in every rhinestoned Destiny’s Child costume. Plus: her marriage to disastrous dad-ager Mathew Knowles, her divorce-era glow-up, and why we’re begging her for a multi-cam sitcom. Join the cookie community: Become a member of the Patreon Follow Chelsea: Instagram @chelseadevantez Show Notes: Griffin Dunne’s Memoir The Friday Afternoon Club (with Maria Randazzo) Tina Knowles interview with Oprah Winfrey about her Memoir (Video) Tina Knowles’ Corny Joke Time Beyoncé, Cowboy Carter, and Unpacking Country Music History (With Sam Sanders) Will Taylor Swift, Beyoncé & Barbie change everything?? (with Ashley Nicole Black) Jessica Simpson's Open Book (with Ashley Nicole Black) Where to find our Guests: Maria Randazzo: The List - Listen to the Podcast Instagram Website Matt Whitaker Instagram *** Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you. Thank you to our sponsors: Thrive Causemetics - Get 20% off your first order at thrivecausemetics.com/glamorous Libro.fm - Click here to get 2 audiobooks for the price of 1 with your first month of membership using code TRASH. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Glamorous Trash.
0:07.2	This is a podcast that recaps viral articles, celebrity memoirs and glamorous trash to elevate your life.
0:13.8	I'm your host, Chelsea Devontes.
0:15.3	I'm a TV writer, comedian, filmmaker, author, and sometimes I'm in stuff too.
0:19.6	And today is a celebrity memoir episode. We are book clubbing
0:24.5	the most perfect memoir you could ever book club in light of the fact that it is Mother's Day
0:30.7	coming up. We are book clubbing matriarch, a memoir by Tina Knowles, who is obviously Beyonce, Noel's mother, Destiny's
0:40.7	child's mother, Kelly Rowland's mother, I kind of found out, her pseudo mother, a mother to the
0:46.8	world might ask her to also join in be one of my mothers. She's just absolutely unreal.
0:53.1	This title, Matriarch, is fantastic, stands alone,
0:56.9	but also is thematically woven in so beautifully. The cover has the most beautiful gold
1:03.4	portrait of her. It's just stunning, one of the best memoir covers, and already Oprah's Book Club
1:09.8	sticker 2025 printed on the hard cover.
1:12.7	So it has been anointed and she is this incredible, beautiful, the inner pages are like of
1:19.6	the art that was on the cover. So it is a great book. We had so much to say. This is a real
1:26.5	doozy of an episode.
1:28.4	But I want to give you a couple pieces of hot goss right now that we didn't even get to,
1:33.2	but I feel like you should know.
1:35.5	So when Beyonce is dating Jay-Z, or I guess she says talking, when Beyonce is talking to Jay-Z,
1:43.7	and she says it's around the time that she is in
1:46.5	Los Angeles to film Austin Powers. Beyonce is also talking to another man in the industry.
1:55.1	And she has to choose between the two of them because both of them are coming to Los Angeles
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