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Eating For Free
Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape: Where it comes from, who wields it, and who suffers at the hands of it. Find out the stories behind the stories, as together they look beyond the headlines of troublesome YouTubers or scandal-ridden A-Listers, and delve deep into the inner workings of Hollywood's favorite pastime. The truth, they've found, is definitely stranger than any gossip.
Episodes
Eating For FreeRuPaul's America
About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape…
Eating For FreeMet Gala? I Hardly Know Her!
In which we talk Jameela Jamil's IG spiral, Bob Iger shutting down Marvel, and Andy Cohen's alleged 'reckoning'. About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and…
Eating For Free"Did You Take Ozempic?"
In which we talk stunt-qeeun Brian Cox's latest comments on the bible, Darren Criss being 'culturally queer', VPR delays, and Barbara Streisand pesting celebs…
Eating For FreeGooning Out With Anne Hathaway
About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape…
Eating For FreeVanderpump Fools: The End of Everything
About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape…
Eating For FreeVanderpump Fools: The Witch Trials of WeHo
About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape…
Eating For FreeVanderpump Fools: Lala Land
About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape…
Eating For FreeVanderpump Fools: The Haunting of Stassi
About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape…
Eating For FreeVanderpump Fools: Sexy Unique Arrakis
About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape…
Eating For FreeVanderpump Fools: Meet The Queens
It's 2012. 5 people (& friends) are cast by Bravo on Lisa Vanderpump's new show, centered on her scandalous eatery SUR. The gaggle of models, actors and sketch…
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Vanderpump Fools: Sandoval Scaries
New York, 2003. Nobody model Tom Sandoval hops off the bus to chase his dreams. After he's robbed, though, Tom finds himself living in a hostel with fellow…
Eating For FreeVanderpump Fools: Boystown, USA
It's 2010. WWHL dominates late night TV as "Scary Island" rocks RHONY and Luann de Lesseps drops "Money Can't Buy You Class," the pop anthem of gay bloggers…
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Vanderpump Fools: Enter Andy Cohen
It's 2005. An upstart TV exec with a flashy new job picks up the pilot of a no-name reality TV producer about "bitchy tennis wives" in America's largest gated…
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Vanderpump Fools: The Birth of SUR
The year is 1982. A young video vixen named Lisa Vanderpump works the door of a club, and unknowingly flirts with its enigmatic owner. They marry just six…
Eating For FreeVanderpump Fools: How Scandoval Broke Bravo
Raise your glasses high for Vanderpump Fools!🍸💃🏼 For the next 10 weeks, we're tearing into the phenomenon that changed Bravo forever. It's a tale of failed…
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How Stans Insurrected Bravo (feat. Shamira Ibrahim)
Shamira's Instagram, Twitter, and website! About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores…
Eating For FreeNew Fire Island: Or, Evil Gay Paradise?
Gay men want to colonize the Med? 🤨🕵🏼 The hellish "New Fire Island" promises "iconic" gay gentrification with beach front views! The only downside? It's backed…
Eating For FreeSelena Gomez vs. Kylie Jenner vs. Taylor Swift vs. Timothée Chalamet
Breaking! Club Chalamet reports a second private jet owned by Taylor Swift has flown into Selena Gomez's mental health! Behind the whisper heard round the…
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Comrade Monica's Liberation of RHOSLC
In which we catch up on the holiday break, the latest in RHOSLC and pop culture, and our plans for 2024! About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew…
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Patreon Exclusive: Justin Bieber's Purgatorio
What you're about to hear is a Patreon exclusive episode, in which we recap Justin Bieber's Youtube documentary series. The episode slots in right before our…
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Patreon Exclusive: Selena Gomez's Dark and Twisted Mind
What you're about to hear is an exclusive Patreon bonus episode, which slots right after the first episode from our Child Star Hell series from earlier this…
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BDS: How to Organize Friends and Influence Enemies (feat. Virgil Masters)
VIRGIL'S READING RECOMMENDATIONS!!!!!! IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER! SEE WHAT HAPPENS WHEN YOU EMAIL VIRGIL@BIGSOYNATURALS. WORLD, SAY YOU WANT TO "BORROW" A "COPY"…
Eating For FreeGeorge Santos and Rachel Leviss Should Queen Out
In which we talk Goerge Santos cameos, celebrity amputations, Ozempic housewives, and much more! Skips: Paris Hilton and Demi Lovato Prepare for the Holidays…
Eating For FreeJamie Lynn Spears Get A Job Challenge
We're back! From talking about The Jonas Brothers that is... In this week's hot topics special we talk about Jamie Lynn Spears' flop era, the end of…
Eating For FreeThe Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Finale)
It's the grand finale 🚨 As his band implodes, Nick Jonas begins a full frontal assault on gay people, and finds himself an unwitting conspirator in the culture…
Eating For FreeThe Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Part Eight)
On the eve of their fifth album, a stupid fight finally breaks The Jonas Brothers apart. Churned through Disney's Fame Machine and eager to shed their virginal…
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The Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Part Seven)
The Jonas Brothers are officially in free fall! As Disney cancels their contracts, sales plummet, and Joe grows chest hair, a perplexing new reality show cause…
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The Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Part Six)
With their show cancelled, tour in chaos, ticket sales drying up, and no new album in sight — walls are closing in on the Jonas Brothers in 2010! How did…
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The Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Part Five)
Chaos descends on the Jonas Brothers while tensions brew amongst the aging trio. As ticket sales dwindle and their contrived relationship drama threatens the…
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The Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Part Four)
After the Jonas Bros historic 2008 deal with Live Nation, industry gossip erupts around their credibility as tweenage rockstars. Camp Rock soon fails to make a…
Eating For FreeThe Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Part Three)
The Jonas Bros forge purity rings to mark their deal with Disney's devil, and are swiftly plugged into the fame machine built for Britney Spears. As she's put…
Eating For FreeThe Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Part Two)
Let's go back to beginning: before the Jonas Bros. were Disney virgins, they were tween Broadway extras doing anti-drug pop punk PSAs in New Jersey. But God's…
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The Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade (Part One)
We just can't help ourselves: our latest episode is the premiere of our brand new fall series, The Jonas Brothers' Chastity Crusade! In the first episode, we…
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We Forgive You Ariana Grande (Finale)
In the finale of our series on Ariana Grande, things finally fall apart. Rumors of an affair with Wicked co-star Ethan break the internet as Scooter Braun jet…
Eating For FreeWe Forgive You Ariana Grande (Part Five)
Our audio sync issues have been fixed! Fresh off more scandals than she had rings, Ariana Grande "quarantine n chills" with now ex-husband Dalton Gomez. A…
Eating For FreeWe Forgive You Ariana Grande (Part Four)
Following immense tragedy, Ariana Grande experiences a year of contrasts in 2019: record breaking achievements are overshadowed by more scandals and…
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Ariana Grande Broke Up With Scooter Braun Cuz She's Bored (Intermission)
About: Hosted by journalists Joan Summers and Matthew Lawson, Eating For Free is a weekly podcast that explores gossip and power in the pop culture landscape…
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We Forgive You Ariana Grande (Part Three)
CONTENT WARNING: This episode contains long conversations about violence, terrorist attacks, suicide, drug use, and alcohol addiction. As moral panic descends…
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We Forgive You Ariana Grande (Part Two)
As moral panic descends, let's be brave, and critically examine the mess Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater made of everything! In this week's followup to Part…
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We Forgive You Ariana Grande (Part One)
As moral panic descends, let's be brave, and critically examine the mess Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater made of everything! In this week's episode, we dig into…
Eating For FreeBarbie Girls in a Barbie World (feat. Rashida Renée)
To get things started with a bang on our return from summer vacation, we brought on the most hotly discussed and begged for guest in E4F history: Joan's…
Eating For FreeBreaking: Kyle Richards Divorces Emotionally-Unfulfilling Mauricio Umansky
We come back from our short-lived hiatus to bring you updates on possibly the biggest news story of 2023… Links: Kyle Richards and Mauricio Umansky Have…
Eating For FreeIt's BibleGirl B*tch! (feat. BibleGirl)
This week we've got the legendary BibleGirl on to tell it. What exactly? Everything! Quitting drag, bulding a drag merch empire, the Target controversy, and…
Eating For Free#DivaDownUpdates: Live From OceanGate Crisis Control Center
This is an emergency broadcast of the E4F #DivaDown alert system! Let's dig into the OceanGate submarine disaster: a step-son's feud with Cardi B/Blink-182, a…
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Shawn Mendes Slayed for Climate Change This Pride Month
Shawn Mendes SLAYED the wildfire smoke and secured that Pride Month coin on this week's episode! Elsewhere, Demi Lovato said they're sick of you all, Kim K…
Eating For FreeTaylor Swift Invented Matty Healy In the Anti-Slay Torment Nexus
We're back this week and we mention it all! From Drew Barrymore's legendary crusade against tabloid media, Samantha Jones iconic return to SATC, to Joan's…
Eating For FreeLife After #Scandoval (feat. Shamira Ibrahim)
Our favorite guest, Shamira, is back to talk about where Bravo can possibly go after Scandoval, and how this drama has fundamentally changed the industry of…
Eating For FreeThe Great Big Writer's Strike Episode (feat. Ashlyn Thomas)
Friend of the show and Tinseltown icon Ashlyn Thomas joins us to discuss the lead up to and impact of the most prominent organized labor movement of 2023 so…
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Britney Spears' Book of Secrets
Links: BRITNEY GAGGED Britney Spears' autobiography delayed amid legal concerns about flings with two major Hollywood stars [The Sun] BOLD BRITNEY Britney…
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Teaser: Beautiful Women Updates feat. Alex V Green
Here's a little exclusive for everyone on our brand new Patreon exclusive podcast, Beautiful Women Updates, a podcast about sucking, fucking, and Sex and the…
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Sydney Sweeney and Glen Powell are F**king ... With Our Minds
Sydney Sweeney & Glen Powell have entranced people with flirty press appearances & "scandalous" pap shots. The internet's convinced they're fucking, but that's…
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Kylie Jenner, Timothée Chalamet, and Kim Kardashian Ruined My Life
Amid breaking news about Kylie Jenner and Timothée Chalamet's nothingburger romance, a man who claims Kim Kardashian ruined his life has begun to tell his…
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Pedro Pascal's Sugar Mama, Jacob Elordi's Bare Feet, & Tom Sandoval's War on Feminism
Joan's sick this week, so in lieu of our regular programming, your two favorite gay people sat down to talk about... Pedro Pascal's sugar mama, Jacob Elordi's…
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#Scandoval: A Lucrative Nightmare
A president was indicted? Who cares! We're still in #Scandoval. As the biggest news in the nation, VPR is Bravo's greatest success story, and its stars' highly…
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Child Star Hell: Justin Bieber's Paradiso
In the fourth and final part to our series on Justin Bieber (catch "Justin Bieber's Purgatorio" on our Patreon), we explore the singer's relationship with God…
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Child Star Hell: Justin Bieber's Inferno
This week on Child Star Hell, "Justin Bieber's Inferno", we begin to examine how the patron saint of "Bieber Fever" went from an unknown Youtube prodigy... to…
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Child Star Hell: Selena Gomez vs. Justin Bieber
Selena Gomez and Justin Bieber, haunted by adolescent fame, have been entangled for over a decade. Invasions of privacy, exploitation, and stints in rehab are…
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Kim Kardashian Put $350,000 of Embezzled Funds In a Garbage Bag?
Former 1MDB consultant 'Jho Low' famously embezzled billions of tax-dollars to fund his lavish Hollywood lifestyle. Celebs like Leonardo DiCaprio & Kim…
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Pop Music That F*cks: The Long War Against Rap
In 1990, a landmark case about "obscenity" in rap music sparked decades of discourse. 30 years later, hundreds of black artists have been prosecuted based on…
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The Ozempic-ification of Hollywood
From 'The Real Housewives' to A-listers, controversial diabetes drug Ozempic is the talk of TikTok and Tinseltown med-spas. This week, we trace its origins…