Chelsea and Vivian Tu (Your Rich BFF, Rich AF) sit down for five questions Chelsea would love to be asked as an author, and five questions she’d hate to be asked. From beef with Dave Ramsey, to   Rich Dad and Poor Dad, to keeping your mental health while making a living online, Vivian is here to school us in a money mindset! Where to find our Guest: Vivian Tu  Book Instagram Tik Tok Podcast _____ For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez Become...

Chelsea and Karen Chee (Late Night with Seth Meyers, Pachinko) waltz through Ginger Rogers’ 1991 memoir, My Story. From being stolen on a train as a baby, to power playing Fred Astaire with a blue feathered dress, to a truly wild lack of awareness about world events, this book had some gems! Where to find our Guest: Karen Chee Website Instagram For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez Become a member of the Celebrity Book Club...

Chelsea and Molly Quinn (Castle, Guardians of the Galaxy) dive into an oldie but a goodie, Norwegian actress Liv Ullmann’s 1977 memoir Changing. From her marriage to Ingmar Bergman, to struggling with Hollywood networking, to possibly the earliest Henry Kissinger appearance yet, this episode delivers a surprisingly poetic twist to inspire us all for the new year.  Where to find our Guest: Molly Quinn Instagram Podcast _____ For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on...

Welcome to the 2023 Glamorous Trash Celebrity Memoir Awards! Chelsea Devantez and Casey Balsham take you through a thrilling year in celebrity memoirs, from the best of the best to the worst and the weirdest. They give out awards as voted on by you, the cookies, while Chelsea was in a hot tub, as is tradition. Featuring awards like: Biggest Cash Grab Least Annoying Grandparent Story The John Mayer Award for Worst Man of the Year The Todd Gold award for the Memoir that Needed a Better...

Chelsea and Jo Feldman (Party Down, The Goldbergs) dig into the Carnie Wilson’s 2001 memoir, Gut Feelings. From her iconic girl group Wilson Phillips, to her relationship with her Beach Boys father Brian Wilson, to being buried up to her neck in sand for a Michael Bay music video, this episode is an anti diet culture anthem for the holidays!  Where to find our Guest: Jo Feldman Jo's mom Marcy's jewelry company Heartwear Designs For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on...

Chelsea sits down for Book Talk with Danny Pellegrino (Everything Iconic, and the author of the brand-new The Jolliest Bunch) for five questions she’d love to be asked as an author, and five questions she’d hate to be asked. From the trials of picking a title, to the holiday blues, to the gifts he hopes he gets this year, Danny is a delight!  Show Notes: The Jolliest Bunch – Danny’s new book out now! Where to find our Guest: Danny Pellegrino Website Instagram Podcast For more book...

Chelsea and Julieanne Smolinski (Grace and Frankie, Home Economics) read Candice Bergen’s 2016 celebrity memoir A Fine Romance, so you don’t have to. From pages-long descriptions of her tapestries, to her 11 seasons as Murphy Brown, to a willful misunderstanding of nepotism, this book has one of the wildest endings of all time!  Show Notes: One of Candice Bergen's Sprint Commercials Chloe's Vogue Wedding Feature & her Engagement Ring Feature @nightopenings Carrie Fisher...

Chelsea and Elizabeth Day (How to Fail) take a hard look at two often compared memoirs: Tara Westover’s 2018 memoir Educated, and Jeannette Wall’s 2005 memoir The Glass Castle. The Glass Castle was accepted as a true recounting of a dysfunctional childhood, while Tara Westover was accused of making up or exaggerating her accounts of her family in Educated. Why would one be believed unquestioningly, and one be controversial? Is it the internet’s fault? Backlash to the #MeToo movement in 2018?...

Chelsea and Meredith Scardino (Girls5eva) sit down with Penny Marshall’s memoir My Mother Was Nuts. From Laverne and Shirley, to A League of Their Own, to lusting after football players, this book will have you laughing, crying, and even cheering for a nepo baby.  Show Notes: Gina Davis Episode Farrah Faucet and Penny Marshall's Head and Shoulder's Commercial Where to find our Guest: Meredith Scardino Instagram Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Glamorous Trash Talk: Best Friend Breakups (with Sam Reece) Chelsea and Sam Reece (S****y Craft Club) get BFF’d while discussing best friend female friendship breakups. From how best friend break ups are hardly ever covered in entertainment, to why it’s so painful to lose a best friend, to breaking up with a slow fade, this episode is like a wine fueled therapy slumber party.  Show Notes: Kim Cattrall episode Where to find our Guest: Sam Reece Website Instagram Tik...

*Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* Podcast host extraordinaire Kristen Meinzer (The Daily Fail, How to Be Fine) takes over the show to talk with Chelsea about Jill Duggar's memoir Counting the Cost. From 19 Kids and Counting, to fundamentalist harems, to leading men into sin, this book will have you praying for the end.   Show Notes Kate Gosselin episode Kris Jenner episode Where to find our Guest: Kristen Meinzer Website Instagram Podcasts Books *** For more book recaps &...

Chelsea and Angela Tucker (You Should Be Grateful, The Adoptee Next Door) dive into the whirlpool of trauma that is Christina Crawford’s 1978 memoir Mommie Dearest, as well as her mother Joan Crawford’s 2017 autobiography A Portrait of Joan. From the infamous film based on Mommie Dearest, to the extremely damaging adoption process, this memoir has the distinction of being the first “tell all” celebrity memoir! Show Notes: Joyce Maynard episode Jennette McCurdy episode The Guardian Article...

Chelsea and Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz (Gordita Chronicles, Brooklyn Nine-Nine) get cozy on the Glamorous Trash couch to break down this season of the Golden Bachelor, and what it says about where we’re at with Reality TV as a whole. From whether Faith and her guitar have villain vibes, to what Gary’s lion tattoo means, to whether we’re in a new age of authenticity, is the Golden Bachelor going to save the franchise?  Where to find our Guest: Brigitte Muñoz-Liebowitz Instagram For more book...

Celebrity Book Club: John Stamos's If You Would Have Told Me (with Kate Casey) *Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* To join the community and get access to bonus episodes, click here to become a Patreon member! Chelsea and Kate Casey (Reality Life with Kate Casey) take a ride on Uncle Jesse's motorcycle with John Stamos's memoir If You Would Have Told Me. From Disneyland dates, to Broadway feuds, to serial killers, this book will either make you love celeb gossip or hate the Beach...

Cookie spokesperson Chris DeRosa (Fixing Famous People) takes over the podcast to chat with Chelsea about her upcoming memoir I Shouldn’t Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going to Anyway). Come for the celeb gossip and career tips, and stay for the life-affirming magic of owning your story. Pre-order Chelsea's memoir Pre-order a signed copy of Chelsea's memoir Enter the pre-order giveaway Click here to get 2 audiobooks for 1 when you sign up for a Libro.fm membership Learn more about...

Chelsea and Lauren Ash (Not Dead Yet, True Crime & Cocktails) get the New York "It Girl" experience with Julia Fox's memoir Down the Drain. From a sham kidnapping, to dominatrix fights, to the Kanye divorce tour, this book will make you realize everyone has a reason for doing what they do – even people who call themselves a muse. Show Notes: Buy Merch (pre-sale ends 11/14) Click here to get 2 audiobooks for 1 when you sign up for a Libro.fm membership Into the Gloss Interview Where...

Chelsea and Traci Thomas (The Stacks pod) get guru’d with Jada Pinkett Smith’s 2023 memoir Worthy. From getting proposed to by Tupac in prison, to getting really into ayahuasca, to finally addressing The Slap, this book gave us so many details, but also so many questions! Show Notes: It Was All a Dream: Biggie and the World That Made Him by Justin Tinsley Will Smith's mensmior Click here to get 2 audiobooks for 1 when you sign up for a Libro.fm membership BUY MERCH (Pre-sale ends...

*Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* To join the community and get access to bonus episodes, click here to become a Patreon member! Chelsea brings back official Monster Memoir Correspondent Chris DeRosa (Fixing Famous People) for perhaps the most monstrous memoir of all: Lynne Spears's "Through the Storm." Celebrate Halloween with the chilling stories of Lynne's fake QVC jewelry to bogus drug busts to praising Kevin Federline. This book will keep you warm at night if you use it as kindling in...

Celebrity Book Club: Britney Spears’s The Woman in Me (with Rob Anderson) Chelsea & Rob Anderson (Gay Science) get their dancing knives out for Britney Spears’s brand-new book, the best selling celebrity memoir in history The Woman in Me. We could write a description but why bother: IT’S BRITNEY, BITCH Show Notes: Click here for 13% OFF on Britney's book Click here to get 2 audiobooks for 1 when you sign up for a Libro.fm membership Britney’s notebook audition Jamie Lynn singing a...

Chelsea and Taylor Vaughn Lasley (Marvel’s Moon Girl) have a true trash talk going over the events of Love Is Blind Season 5, and the idea of “toxic settling”. They get into all the deep, important questions, like how do you know when a relationship isn’t right for you? Why does Johnie have multiple pairs of those clear shoes? And what is Stacy’s actual job anyway? For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez Become a member of the Celebrity Book Club...

Chelsea and Susie Meister (Road Rules, Brain Candy Podcast) go all “Marcia Marcia Marcia” with Maureen McCormick’s 2008 memoir Here’s The Story: Surviving Marcia Brady and Finding My True Voice. From growing up with a traumatic family secret, to having a crush on her onscreen brother who had a crush on their onscreen mom, to listing her exact weight and pants size multiple times, Maureen leaves you asking - ok but DID you find your true voice?  Show Notes: Chatty Cathy Dolls Ad (Voiced by...

Chelsea and Patty Lin (Breaking Bad, Friends) break down the cautionary tale that is Joyce Maynard’s 1998 memoir At Home in the World. From her shocking and abusive relationship with a much-older J.D. Salinger, to the backlash she faced when she finally told her story, to a truly strange story of adopting two daughters and then dissolving the adoption, this is a meta-look at the effects of telling your story. Plus, Patty Lin talks about her own memoir, End Credits: How I Broke Up With...

Chelsea and Rachel Lindsay (The Bachelorette) swim in the shallows and depths of Kerry Washington’s just-released memoir, Thicker Than Water. They focus everything from Scandal, to growing up near JLO, to learning a shocking paternity secret from her parents in her 40s, the fact the she is donor conceived.  Show Notes: Watch "Confirmation" We Are Donor Conceived - Facebook  We Are Donor Conceived - Website Where to find our Guest: Rachel...

Chelsea and Hunter Harris (Gossip Girl, Hung Up newsletter) wade through the onslaught of celebrity beauty brands - are they a scam? Feminist entrepreneurship? Or tax evasion by way of eyeshadow palettes? From Millie Bobby Brown’s makeup line to Idris and Sabrina Elba couples’ skincare, who will be shilling lipgloss next?  Where to find our Guest: Hunter Harris Instagram Substack Glamorous Trash: Where we make treasure out of pop culture garbage. Glamorous Trash is all about going high...

*Patron-only Bonus Episode Teaser* To join the community and get access to bonus episodes, click here to become a Patreon member! Chelsea and Mattie Bayne (Not Dead Yet, Never Have I Ever) get vulnerable over the 1989 celebrity memoir of comedy icon Gilda Radner. From plotting to marry Gene Wilder to fighting ovarian cancer to being reviewed with a headline saying “Gilda Radner Has Zero Talent”, this book will make you sob in the middle of the day!  Show Notes: Happy Ovarian Cancer...