Reality Life with Kate Casey

Reality Life with Kate Casey

Daily podcast about unscripted television. Kate Casey interviews the talent, producers, and directors of reality shows, documentaries, and docuseries. Saturday episodes tell incredible person stories.

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June 26, 2026 73 mins

Chris DeRosa, reality TV producer and co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, returns to discuss Season 3 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the Netflix docuseries about the iconic Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders.  

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Ruby Wrenn, co-host of Bad TV podcast, joins Kate to break down Million Dollar Nannies on Hulu. 

Million Dollar Nannies (Hulu / Freeform) follows a group of eight young, elite nannies, including an ex-Kardashian-Jenner family nanny, a New York City "manny" with a social media following, and a professional dancer. They head to Ibiza to launch a luxury childcare agency catering to the world's wealthiest families. They're promised...

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Rebecca Gitlitz is the two-time Emmy-winning director of Chris & Martina: The Final Set, the new Netflix documentary about Chris Evert and Martina Navratilova. The film traces their legendary rivalry, eighty matches over sixteen years, sixty of them finals, fourteen of them Grand Slam finals — and the unlikely friendship that emerged decades later when both women were diagnosed with cancer. The documentary features never-...

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Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the Real Housewives of Rhode Island reunion on Bravo. 

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Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this 

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Real Housewives of Rhode Island Reunion (Bravo), Next Gen NYC (Bravo), Chris & Martina: The Final Set (Netflix), Love Island (Peacock), and Would You Rather: Decide to Survive (Prime Video). 

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At 38 years old, Katie Delimon opened a DNA test expecting to confirm what she'd always believed about her heritage. Instead, she discovered the man who raised her wasn't her biological father, and that the truth had been hiding in plain sight her entire life. A man her family called "the beach guy," someone she'd actually described as "creepy" in her first memoir, turned out to be her biological father. Both he and her mother had ...

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Chris DeRosa, reality TV producer and co-host of the Fixing Famous People podcast, joins Kate to discuss Season 3 of America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders, the Netflix docuseries about the iconic Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders. 

Reality Life with Kate Casey 

Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this 

Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/...

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Kate breaks down the post-Summer House reunion special about the aftermath of the West and Amanda affair and scandal. 

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Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this 

Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary 

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Patrick Hickey, co-host of the reality TV recap podcast Bad TV, joins Kate to break down the season finale of The Real Housewives of Rhode Island and the latest drama on The Valley. 

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Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this 

Vanity Fair Article: https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/story/martha-moxleys-diary 

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Jessica Dimmock, director of Maternal Instinct, a Netflix true-crime documentary that explores the chilling 2020 case of Taylor Parker, an East Texas woman who faked an elaborate pregnancy and violently murdered her pregnant friend, Reagan Simmons Hancock, to steal her unborn baby. 

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including America’s Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders (Netflix), Love Island (Peacock), Real Housewives of Rhode Island Finale (Bravo), and Million Dollar Nannies (Hulu). 

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What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com 

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Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey 

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Former Rhode Island police officer Scott Naso shares the story of his late wife Sherry, her battle with breast cancer, their journey to parenthood with daughter Laila, and the devastating discovery he made after Sherry died from a brain tumor in 2024 — when symptoms her own parents (both doctors) had dismissed as medication withdrawal turned out to be something far more serious. Scott opens up about what he witnessed the day ...

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Reality television producer and Fixing Famous People podcast co-host Chris DeRosa joins Kate to break down Love Island USA Season 8, now streaming on Peacock. They discuss what the show is, why it has exploded into one of the most-watched reality series in television history, and what to watch for this season. 

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Brian Moylan joins Kate to discuss the Summer House reunion finale. 

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What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com 

Summer Reading List: https://katecasey.substack.com/p/books-i-cant-stop-talking-about-this 

Patreon: http://www.patreon.com/katecasey 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/katecasey 

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Kate discusses her theory about Brian and Rulla on Real Housewives of Rhode Island on Bravo. 

Author Hannah Selinger, who coined the term Scandoval, joins Kate to talk about her debut novel Valley of the Moms. Set in the affluent enclave of Hamilton, Massachusetts, the thriller follows Anna and Denny in alternating timelines, unraveling the toxic power dynamics, petty grievances, and dangerous secrets simmering beneath the surf...

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June 9, 2026 50 mins

Hannah Brown, Miss Alabama USA turned Bachelorette lead turned two-time New York Times bestselling author, joins Kate to discuss what really felt like to be at the center of one of the most watched seasons in Bachelor franchise history, the very public heartbreak that followed, and how she rebuilt her life entirely on her own terms. Hannah opens up about the psychological weight of being a lead on a show like The Bachelorette, what...

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Kate discusses what to watch this week including Maternal Instinct (Netflix), Norway: The Dark Horse (Netflix), McBee Dynasty: Real American Cowboys (Bravo), Summer House Reunion (Bravo), and The Last Twins (PBS). 

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What to Watch List: https://katecasey.substack.com 

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Eli McCann, attorney and writer, went viral on TikTok for his heartfelt videos celebrating his beloved teacher, Mrs. Yates, and his story sends Kate down memory lane to her own fifth grade classroom in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where a small but mighty teacher named Helena Graham delivered one unforgettable piece of advice that changed the course of her life. This episode is a love letter to the teachers who saw something in us, ...

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Hoyt Richards was one of the world's first male supermodels, a Princeton graduate and 1980s fixture in the pages of the biggest fashion magazines in the world. However, behind the glamour was a secret life he could barely explain to himself. At 16, he met a charismatic Manhattan socialite named Frederick von Mierers on a Nantucket beach, and what began as a mentorship slowly became something far more controlling: a New Age spiritua...

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Elli Hakami and James Hobbs, the award-winning documentary duo behind Talos Films, join Kate to discuss their series Deadly Influence: The Social Media Murders, a documentary series that dives into the dark, real-world crimes and deadly deceptions that lurk behind curated digital feeds and viral internet fame. 

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