Why do so many celebrities have Lyme disease?

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🗓️ 17 August 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Hello hello! On today’s show, Justin Timberlake copped a lot of flack over the break for his lacklustre tour performances. Then, came his explanation: Lyme Disease. So what is it? And why do so many celebrities say they have it? We’re diving into the facts behind this mysterious tick-borne illness. And later, Scooter Braun’s ex-wife Yael Cohen has founded a company that claims to remove the microplastics from your body – for just $13,000 per treatment, that is… Your hosts are Zara McDonald (@zamcdonald) and Michelle Andrews (@michelleandrews1). Big thanks to CeraVe for making this episode of Shameless possible. The new CeraVe Balancing Air Foam Cleanser is cleansing reinvented for combination skin – and you can grab it now at Chemist Warehouse. On today’s show, Zara recommended Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley. Mich recommended ‘Every killer comes from somewhere – but Erin’s case goes against the tide’ from The Australian. You can listen to our Scandal series on The Hadids here on Spotify and here on Apple. Also – here’s every episode of Scandal ever! 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, Emily Li 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	This episode of Shameless Media
0:05.6	This episode of Shameless is brought to you by Sarah V's new balancing airfoam cleanser
0:11.9	developed with dermatologists for combination skin. Hello and welcome to Shameless, the pop culture podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff.
0:45.7	You're joined, as always, by Melbourne writers, Michelle Andrews, that would be me.
0:50.0	And Sarah McDonald, that would be you.
0:51.4	Hello, Michelle Andrews.
0:52.4	And hello and welcome back, producer Eilish Gilligan. Yay, hi. Hi. Coming up on today's show, Justin Timberlake copped quite a bit of flack over the break for his lacklust of tour performances. Then came his explanation, Lyme disease. So what is it and why do so many celebrities say they have it? We're diving into the facts behind this mysterious tick-borne illness.
1:14.4	And then, Scooter Braun's ex-wife, Yale Cohen, has founded a company that claims to remove
1:19.0	microplastics from your body.
1:21.4	And it costs just $13,000 of treatment.
1:25.3	But first, Zazzy, where do you want to go? Do we want to talk about Taylor Swift's podcast first? We want to talk about your recommendation first. Why don't we talk about our recommendations? And then we can talk about your week, which is listening to the Taylor Swift podcast. Is that a nice way to structure this introduction? Absolutely stunning. My recommendation, I'm going to recommend another book I read over the break. It is called Consider Yourself Kist by Jessica Stanley.
1:49.5	Love that name. Yeah, I think when I picked up this book, I thought it was going to be different
1:54.5	than how it ended up. If you look at the cover, it's like yellow and very bright. And it looks
1:58.9	like a sugary book. It's not a super sugary book
2:02.9	when you actually get into it. The opening scene is a woman with kids who is planning to leave
2:10.7	her husband. And then you kind of go back in time and you learn how they met and fell in love
2:14.6	and it kind of tracks their relationship. Very nice. And I know this is so
2:20.4	silly and basic, but I always find it so sad when you have such a juxtaposition between
2:27.3	the end of relationship and the beautiful start of one. Yeah, no, I completely agree. Well,
2:33.1	it's almost terrifying because if you see in
2:35.8	your life that you're in the happy stage, it puts that little seat of doubt to be like, well,
2:39.8	what happens if we are the same? You are bang on, Mish. I think what this book kind of tells
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