Where is Zoella?

Shameless

Shameless Media

Society & Culture

4.7 • 1.8K Ratings

🗓️ 5 July 2026

⏱️ 40 minutes

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MONDAY ANALYSIS: Coming up on today’s show: Where is Zoella? The influencer has not posted since December last year, and her audience is getting very concerned. But…this has happened before. Every time the internet gets itself into a frenzy over a ‘missing’ figure, the results usually get pretty messy… This episode of Shameless was brought to you by Elle, only on Prime Video. Also, shout-out to Nutra Naturals – use the code SHAMELESS for 20% off at Nutra Naturals! Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1). 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, Divya Simmie 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	It's up in a third time.
0:01.6	When you started staring down the barrel of me, I've saved this all morning.
0:06.8	I actually, we don't usually talk about what these pre-dinaments are going to be, but I knew
0:10.9	that this is what it was going to be.
0:12.9	What did you say?
0:14.0	You've had me blocked again.
0:16.3	Your actions.
0:18.1	Your actions, I have not had a single involvement in this particular thing. Your sole actions, actually, Gill, you're involved in this as well, your actions. Well, you're probably blocked. It has led to me being blocked. And listeners, I'll let you know, this is not the first time Zara McDonald's gotten me blocked. It's the third time Zara McDonald's got to be blocked. In eight years, that's like a long time.
0:38.9	How many times have I gotten you blocked? Well, I've just never checked. Probably heaps.
0:42.9	So here's the thing. No, please break in. Are we confusing you, Gil? Yeah, why am I in it?
0:46.3	Well, like, you're not in the first two, I suspect. So the first two is from like another era and I didn't do anything wrong. I swear.
0:56.1	She formed some enemies and the enemies blocked me because they...
0:59.8	If they didn't want to see me, they couldn't possibly see Michelle.
1:03.2	So it's been, so there was two in the short space of time and Michelle said, you need to be careful.
1:08.7	I was like, sorry. Last night, I was, I'm going to try and keep this story as fake as I can.
1:15.9	Because this person clearly hates us now.
1:18.0	I didn't know.
1:19.0	And they're really famous.
1:20.3	Someone really famous.
1:22.0	That I spoke about.
1:22.9	That Zara spoke, I wouldn't say ill of.
1:25.2	No, that's the thing I was so surprised about. I spoke about this person
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