Reality TV is gross in many ways, but perhaps the most underrated subgenre is the gross-out series—shows about plastic surgery, medical emergencies, and other bodily horrors that pass, for the most part, as entertainment.
S-Town, the true crime podcast about an Alabama horologist who commits suicide mid-production, is involved in a lawsuit alleging that the podcast exploited its subject in life and death.
Like with any age demographic, it’s hard to characterize teens with one blanket description. Some are smart and some are dumb. Some are polite and some gather in groups and heckle you (okay, me) on the subway. There are those, like the Parkland teenagers, who are informed and brave activists and then there are others…
Instead of spending time with your own family this holiday season, find your little headphones, grab your phone, and retreat into the comforting space of British singer Jessie Ware’s podcast “Table Manners.” It’s the best thing I’ve listened to all year.
It’s the holidays, which means it’s the time of the year when many of us will be turning to the bottle—either to complement our Christmas dinners or make it through our hometown visits. So what celebrity wine (because why drink a pleb wine when you have the celebrity option?) should you turn to first?
In 2003, The Surreal Life—a reality show that cast has-been celebrities in traditional sitcom roles, forcing them to live in a house together—premiered on VH1. The show ran for six seasons and included names like MC Hammer, Corey Feldman, and Tammy Faye Messner. It also begat seemingly endless spin-offs: An unlikely…
If it wasn’t clear already (it was), the weeks following the Weinstein revelations have proven beyond doubt that the entertainment industry has a sexual harassment problem, both in the high number of perpetrators and in the way that sexual harassment complaints are handled.
To many, the term “groupie” is disparaging or derogatory, but to Pamela Des Barres—known as the most famous groupie in the world—it’s a badge of honor.
We’ve dedicated a couple episodes of DirtCast to Hollywood religions (listen to our episodes on Scientology and the rise and fall of Kabbalah here and here), but thus far we’ve yet to immerse ourselves in the fad religions ourselves. We’ll leave that to this week’s guest, E! News anchor and author of the new book The…
Ian Somerhalder and his wife Nikki Reed were guests on a podcast called Dr. Berlin’s Informed Pregnancy Podcast this week. I have no idea who Dr. Berlin is, but both he and his cohost, a midwife named Blyss Young, appear to be quite good at making their guests comfortable, because Somerhalder told an upsetting story…
Sheila Nevins, the 78-year-old President of HBO Documentary Films who has won more individual Primetime Emmys (32) than any other person (oh, she also has 46 Peabodys and 26 Oscars), was a guest on Alec Baldwin’s podcast Here’s the Thing this week to promote her new book, You Don’t Look Your Age...and Other Fairy Tales…
Think about your favorite famous person—before they became famous, glimpsed in grainy high school yearbook photos or early red carpet pictures. Compare that sacred image of their pre-fame face to their current iteration: well-rested, shiny, taut, healthy. What’s their secret? Plastic surgery, baby.
They’re making podcasts into TV shows now. Sure!
Petty though it may be, there’s comfort in watching two celebrities fight. It’s low-stakes drama that you can witness, be entertained by, and feel a part of—all from the safety of your anonymous boring life. There’s no risk of getting your hands dirty because the celebrities involved do not know or care about you.…
You’ve asked. We’ve listened. Your cries are answered. We’ve brought back someone very special to join us on this week’s episode of DirtCast.
Though he won the election, Donald Trump has been unable to get over the fact that he lost the popular vote to Hillary Clinton. His baseless claim that millions of undocumented immigrants voted illegally in the election, has, perhaps, inspired the recently-created Presidential Advisory Commission on Election Integrity…
There are a lot of people to thank for last week’s failure to pass the Obamacare replacement and repeal bill in the Senate, including the three Republican senators who broke with party lines to vote against the bill. But the role that activists played—particularly women and advocates for disability rights—cannot be…
Writers of Jezebel spend a lot of time thinking about bad men. Despite what MRA forums may tell you, it’s not that we seek them out or get pleasure from reporting on them because, in reality, it’s terribly depressing how many there are and that so many of them are powerful and seemingly untouchable.
As Donald Trump’s almost all-boys club pushes America closer and closer to a constitutional crisis, a historic number of fed up women are mulling bids for elected office. While there are more resources and organizations to help women plot this journey than ever before, it’s still daunting to think about—and…
Earlier this week, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott signed into a law House Bill 3859, which allows religious (and tax-payer funded!) foster care and adoption agencies to deny services “under circumstances that conflict with the provider’s sincerely held religious beliefs.” In other words, when this law goes into effect,…
