Vanity Glare, Boxing Gloves & Redactions 🎄🥊
The Trawl
Jemma Forte & Marina Purkiss
4.7 • 867 Ratings
🗓️ 24 December 2025
⏱️ 52 minutes
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Summary
It’s Christmas Eve at The Trawl HQ and the cheese is flowing, the Scrooged button is armed, and Marina and Jemma are doing their level best not to spiral.
Instead, they unwrap some unexpected festive joy as a trio of bell-ends Tommy Robinson, Jake Paul and Andrew Tate, discover the true meaning of consequences via the noble art of boxing. (Spoiler: pink gloves, broken jaws, and internet-wide schadenfreude feature heavily.)
Stateside, karma keeps busy. From the Vanity Fair brouhaha to Trump’s name mysteriously appearing on and disappearing from places it absolutely shouldn’t, including the Kennedy Center and the Epstein files. Yes, those Epstein files. Thousands released, thousands redacted, and somehow one name missing entirely.
Add in Nicki Minaj’s excruciating Trump-era foot-in-mouth moment, some festive under rateds and a Christmas 'pudding' story that may ruin your appetite entirely and you’ve got a very Trawl Christmas indeed.
Pour a stiff drink, pull on a metaphorical Christmas jumper, and join us.
We’ll be back on Boxing Day… obviously.
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Caleb has persisted with the same grift. |
| 0:03.0 | Excuse me, gift, grit. |
| 0:06.3 | It has been a long day. |
| 0:20.1 | Hello, and welcome to the troll, where we're pulling on metaphorical Christmas jumpers, |
| 0:25.5 | pouring stiff drinks and trawling through the festive feed. |
| 0:29.1 | I'm Marina Perkis. |
| 0:30.1 | And I'm Gemiforte and how we all doing? |
| 0:32.9 | Happy Christmas Eve. |
| 0:34.9 | Are we ready? |
| 0:35.7 | Are we feeling festive? |
| 0:36.9 | Or are we already looking forward to the bit where you get to drag the bloody tree down and stop eating cheese? I hate that bit. It makes the room look so empty when you take the tree down, doesn't it? I quite like it. I quite like it. I don't mind sweeping up all the needles. Either way, look, we are thrilled. I'm not going to, I'm not going to grinch it, |
| 0:54.5 | though, because it is Christmas Eve. So let's do the festive bit first. We are thrilled to be |
| 0:58.5 | in your ears this Christmas Eve trawlers. And we have got so much to cram in. It is going to be |
| 1:04.2 | a bit of a bumper episode, this one. And then we are coming your way on Boxing Day 2. And speaking |
| 1:10.3 | of boxing, we're going to be getting into some boxing drama quite literally in this episode. |
| 1:17.4 | But over the course of the week, we're also going to be talking UK politics, the Vanity Fair Brew Hara, |
| 1:22.7 | and of course, sadly, the world's most elite paedophilia ring and the grossness of the Epstein |
| 1:29.0 | files and all who protect them. But first, a special mention to anyone who's done a lot of |
| 1:34.9 | Christmas labour this year. I myself am arm deep in peeling potatoes, wiping down chairs that have been |
| 1:41.9 | rotting in the shed for the last year, but that now someone's got to |
| 1:45.2 | sit on. Could they get ringworm or something? Is that a thing? Possibly. A little added extra. |
| 1:50.6 | Yeah, or running around the shops with a sort of sense of panic getting last minute bits. |
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