Dirty Chats

Dirty Chats

Pop culture meets marketing and business growth. Dirty Chats is the marketing podcast that turns celebrity gossip, trending scandals and viral moments into brand strategy, marketing psychology and entrepreneurial tips...so you can gossip AND grow your business. Hit follow to join founders, marketers, and creatives who want marketing advice with a side of juicy pop culture.

Episodes

September 29, 2026 • 35 mins

It's a big day, people!!! Taylor Swift has released Showgirl: The Encore, and I'm debriefing all four songs. 

Here's what's also on the ep:

  • The Laughing Cow's mysterious "Not Laughing Cow" campaign
  • The Encore song reviews
  • The science of manifesting (yes, actual science)

First up, The Laughing Cow has lost her smile for the first time in over 100 years. I've gone from not thinking about cheese wedges in decades to being com...

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It's our 50th EPISODE!! Can you believe it?!? First up in Dirty Dish: Shailene Woodley's 2026 Emmys look in Balenciaga couture was a disaster, and her stylist Karla Welch got eviscerated on the internet, got butthurt, and did the exact wrong thing. 

Naturally, I break down the exact PR play she should have run instead... seven days of it, actually.

Then Patrick Clancy sat down for his 60 Minutes interview alongside his new wife,...

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Season 5 of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives is back and I'm giving you my quickfire thoughts. 

... Taylor Frankie Paul, the engagement nobody believes, the co-parenting ick, and the one cast member I've completely changed my mind about.

Then we get to Celine Dion, who has just returned to the stage for her Celine Dion Paris 2026 residency, and I have a take that's...surprisingly. 

Because the internet has been suspiciously ...

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The Lindsay Clancy trial is officially a mistrial, Isobel Lorna launches a £300 planner that's made the internet whinge, and I break down the behind-the-scenes of my $50,000 USD launch. 

First up in Dirty Dish: the Lindsay Clancy case has been ruled a mistrial, and I get into what one holdout juror changed, whether a retrial can ever find an untainted jury, and the thing about the public reaction to this case that I genuinely c...

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Dirty Chats is back after a four week break, and Meghan and Harry are BACK IN THE UK. 

But first, how was my time away overseas? True thoughts about Powerhouse Women? And my take on the horrific true crime doco The Death of a Pastor's Wife. 

First up in Dirty Dish, Meghan Markle and Prince Harry have made a shock return to the UK. This from the man who swore he couldn't see a world where he'd bring his family back within a ...

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Kim Kardashian just dropped the most psychologically dialled ad of the year... and I'm jealous I didn't write it.

7.7 million views in nine hours (and counting). And no, it's not just because she's Kim Kardashian.

But first, Dirty Dish. This week I'm covering:

  • Robbie Williams, a FIFA interview, and the mystery white object that fell onto his mic.
  • Amanda Batula shutting down pregnancy rumours in the most Amanda way possible.
  • Kris Jen...
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Phoebe Gates raised over $35 million for her shopping app Phia. Now the whole internet is asking one question... did she commit fraud?

This week on Dirty Chats:

  • The Phia cookie stuffing scandal taking over the tech internet
  • Justin and Emily Baldoni's surprise statement after two years of silence
  • A hot take on whether you should lie in your business to get ahead

First, Justin Baldoni and Emily Baldoni broke their silence with a ...

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Taylor Swift married Travis Kelce at Madison Square Garden, and everyone (except me) is reading it wrong

Taylor Alison Swift is married, and the internet is losing its mind over a peach curtain.

In Dirty Dish, I'm unpacking the royal wedding of the year: the thousand guests, the raffle, the "T and T married" billboard in the world's most boring font, the Adam Sandler of it all. 

I've got a theory that reframes this whole thing th...

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Evan Spiegel launched Snapchat's new Specs AR glasses, and within 48 hours Snap had lost 2 billion dollars. Yes, with a B. 

This week I get into the Snap Specs launch... the keynote, the $2,195 price tag, and why everyone online blaming the "ugly" glasses has it completely wrong.

I break down the actual reason Evan Spiegel's launch tanked (it isn't the design, and it isn't the cost), then I rebuild the entire campaign the way I'...

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Olivia Rodrigo VS Taylor Swift (the whole story), how popstars market themselves, Brooklyn Beckham's DoorDash commercial annnnd I give my Summer House reunion thoughts. 

Today's episode is mostly gossip...except the part where I unpack Olivia Rodrigo's personal branding and the common marketing thread that exists between popstars like Olivia Dean, Olivia Rodrigo, Taylor Swift, Katy Perry and Chappell Roan. 

SO ON THIS EPISO...

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This week I sit down with Elijah Timmins-Scanlon, the Auckland model (signed to Red Eleven) who called out New Zealand streetwear brand Huffer of using AI to generate campaign images that looked suspiciously like him. Or like him and his brother, also a model, blended into one person.

He tells me how he found it, what he did next, and how aggressively the brand moved once he said something out loud.

(Getting blocked by a brand's own ...

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I unpack the 4 ways accounts are blowing up in 2026, and the common thread between my viral posts (that translates to reels, YAP videos and carousels).

Also, Taylor Swift gets sued and the title of her new song is suspicious. 

On Dirty Dish this week I get into:

  • Taylor's Toy Story 5 song, "I Knew It, I Knew You"... and the Gracie Abrams of it all
  • The Maren Wade lawsuit over The Life of a Showgirl

Then we get into Dirty Bus...

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There's a new most-trolled Meghan in town... and I have a full PR plan to save her.

In Dirty Dish I cover:

  • The Anne Hathaway "I swear it's just two tight braids" facelift saga
  • Marciano and Jessi from Love Is Blind and how they pulled off the redemption arc of the century

Then in Dirty Business...

I break down why Meghan Trainor's latest album Toy With Me debuted at #198 on the Billboard 200, why she cancelled her Get In Girl to...

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Spencer Pratt is running for Mayor of LA and I have become genuinely, unironically invested.

This week on Dirty Chats, I'm covering the marketing masterclass nobody saw coming, plus the unhinged economic ripple effects of one in eight Americans being on Ozempic.

In Dirty Dish I'm covering:

  • Alex Cooper's pregnancy announcement and why my PR prediction from three weeks ago has officially COME TRUE. 
  • Amanda Frances, her Abundance...
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In a move no one saw coming, Blake Lively has settled with Wayfarer Studios... and I am in mourning. That courtroom trial was the only way I was emotionally getting through May 2026.

(We're devastated. We're inconsolable. We're rewatching the Met Gala interview for forensic evidence.)

This week on Dirty Dish, I'm breaking down the settlement no one wanted: what Blake Lively actually agreed to, what Justin Baldoni's lawyer Bryan Freed...

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I'm ranting today. Women in the entrepreneurial space need to stop being put on a pedestal...because I'm starting to feel like a lot of them are being dishonest. 

Also we've got Taylor Frankie Paul and Dakota Mortensen back in court...the judge absolutely clocked what's going on there...

Plus Nike's embarrassing response to their Boston Marathon campaign backlash, and why their non-apology is a masterclass in what NOT to do when...

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ON THE POD TODAY>>>

What happened in Belle Burden's  smash hit memoir Strangers? (and why did my carousel about it go viral?) I chat about the devastating prenup, what my husband said about the husband leaving, and what my carousel angle taught me about Instagram metrics. 

The Alex Cooper Vs Alix Earle drama explained: what actually kicked the feud off, and why Matt Kaplan is all of a sudden in hot water (and why h...

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Justin Bieber's $10M Coachella Set, The Masters' No-Phone Policy, and the Marketing Power of Doing Less

Everyone has an opinion on Justin Bieber at Coachella. 

Here's mine.

This week I'm breaking down two very different events ...The Masters golf tournament and Justin Bieber's stripped-back Coachella set ....and what they both accidentally taught us about the most powerful marketing move of 2026.

(Yes, I'm talking about sport.)

Dir...

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Hold your florals, because in this episode I SAVE BLAKE LIVELY'S REPUTATION. 

Also in this ep, it's the Blake Lively Justin Baldoni case explained - well, the updates anyway. 

Because Judge Liman just gutted two thirds of Blake Lively's lawsuit against Justin Baldoni.

So, in Dirty Dish: I break down exactly what happened with the Blake Lively vs Justin Baldoni ruling. What was dismissed, why it's not as simple as "she lost,"...

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Alix Earle just sold out a skincare brand in 19 hours. Here's exactly how she did it.

In Dirty Dish, hundreds of thousands of Chinese social media users are changing their profile pictures to Kris Jenner's face....but why?

Then in Dirty Business, I break down Alix Earle's pre-launch campaign for Real Actives, her new acne skincare brand.

🧩 Alix spent months feeding people's primal brains before a single product was available to buy. ...

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