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Cats and Other Celebrities
Forget everything you know about celebrity podcasts. This one's got claws.
Award-winning journalist Chrissy Iley has spent decades getting the world's biggest stars to say things they've never said anywhere else, to her, to anyone. Barbra Streisand. Bono. Hillary Clinton. Now she's found the question that gets past every rehearsed answer: tell me about the animal in your life.
Some guests are household names. Others are cult heroes, brilliant eccentrics and unlikely outsiders you've never heard…
Episodes
Cats and Other CelebritiesArran Day of These Wicked Rivers on His No.1 Album and the Demon Cat Who Thinks She’s His Wife
Arran Day's cat rides the roof of his narrowboat in a tiny life jacket, flirting with strangers on the towpath. Meet Luna: fluffy, black and pure demon energy…
Cats and Other CelebritiesNick Egan, Punk’s Cover Artist, on Oasis, Bob Dylan’s 3am Phone Call and Iggy Pop’s Frilly Apron
Nick Egan watched Iggy Pop answer the door in a frilly apron covered in flowers, then vacuum the entire flat in front of him. The ultimate punk rocker said it…
Cats and Other CelebritiesCatalina Guirado, TFI Friday's Gorgeous Girl, Traded Her Father's Art for a Hollywood Horse
Catalina Guirado was TFI Friday's Gorgeous Girl at the height of Cool Britannia, then walked away from it all for Hollywood. Booked for one show, she stayed…
Cats and Other CelebritiesDr Aseem Malhotra: the most influential doctor on X, and the pug who changed him.
Dr Aseem Malhotra, ranked the world's most influential doctor on X in July 2026, was bitten by a dog as a boy, and for years afterwards he kept animals firmly…
Cats and Other CelebritiesPatricia Quinn, Magenta in The Rocky Horror Show, still touring fifty years on, and married actor Robert Stephens the day before his knighthood.
Patricia Quinn does not love cats, and Rocky Horror fans have loved her regardless for fifty years. She originated Magenta in The Rocky Horror Picture Show…
Cats and Other CelebritiesSmutty Smiff a pioneer of Neo-Rockabilly talks being discovered in 1977
A founding member of the first Neo-Rockabilly band put together by Leee Black Childers in 1977, who was Andy Warhols stage manager at the Factory, David Bowies…
Cats and Other CelebritiesAdil Ray OBE went from Citizen Khan to broadcast legend. A cat finally won him over.
He built the first Muslim sitcom British television ever had, out of pure defiance, and became a national radio broadcaster long before most people knew his…
Cats and Other CelebritiesDJ Smokin Jo: World's No.1, Flash the Chihuahua, and Grace Jones
DJ Smokin Jo wrote a book called You Don't Need a Dick to DJ. She meant every word. She is the only woman ever voted world's number one DJ, and she is still…
Cats and Other CelebritiesArya Goggin on SKINDRED’s battles and Disney cats
Arya Goggin spent years trying to make a cat love him. She never did. He grew up around dogs, then met Trixie, who tolerated him out of what he suspects was…
Cats and Other CelebritiesRichard E Grant Answers to a Blue-Eyed Ragdoll Called Neo
The most vicious cat in London adored Richard E Grant. She adored no one else. Her name was Shiksa, she belonged to Chrissy, and she once worked a dinner table…