The Blunt and The Beautiful

This week on The Week That Was, Dua Lipa gets married in what may be the chicest celebrity wedding of the decade, Kate accidentally gets cancelled by flower enthusiasts, and Tansy reveals she tracks Broadway ticket sales the same way some people track horse racing.
Also this week:
• Dua Lipa and Callum Turner restore our faith in love
• Cynthia Erivo heads back to Broadway and Tansy spirals into a 2am theatre research rabbit hole
• Jenny Mollen unlocks a fresh level of internet discomfort with her "boy mum" content
• Charlie D'Amelio claims millions of dollars disappeared from accounts managed by her parents
• Ashley Judd gives herself a 12th birthday party at 58 and somehow makes us all cry
• Kate and Tansy unpack toxic parenting, stage mums, Broadway flops and why some people should never be allowed near a family trust
Plus:
Ariana Grande, Icelandic poppies, Stephen Sondheim gossip, Spider-Man: The Musical accidentally launching twinks into orbit, and a passionate debate about whether Broadway grosses are basically Sportsbet for theatre kids.
Funny. Unhinged. Surprisingly emotional.

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This week on The Week That Was… Katie Price’s husband mysteriously vanishes in Dubai after allegedly texting her while tied up “behind his back,” Burning Man attendees are crowdfunding a new Orgy Dome, and Kate & Tansy expose Architectural Digest home tours for what they really are: luxury realestate.com.au ads.
Also this week:
Kate reviews what may genuinely be the worst movie ever made
Sasha Baron Cohen gets accused of having “the sex appeal of a garden hose”
Tansy reveals her childhood fear of Richard Branson
The girls unpack celebrity scam artists, fake billionaires and AI gym photos
Dakota Johnson’s lime house sparks a deep conspiracy spiral
Kiefer Sutherland apparently has a band… and apparently nobody bought tickets
Plus:
BioDad downs three champagnes in under 20 minutes, Kate loses another pair of earrings, and somewhere in the Nevada desert someone is aggressively rooting under a funded carport.
Bleak. Chaotic. Beautiful.
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We are back! Happy Friday!
James Charles gets dragged (again), Dua Lipa sues Samsung for a casual $15 million, Kesha announces she’s now “geosexual” and exclusively attracted to Italy, and Australian Fashion Week basically turns into a water park with better outfits.
This week, Kate & Tansy unpack the internet’s latest descent into chaos, including:
The James Charles GoFundMe controversy and why everyone suddenly became a financial investigator
Whether cancel culture is actually real anymore or if celebrities just take a two-week break and come back with a podcast
The Devil Wears Prada 2 backlash before the movie even exists
Dua Lipa allegedly getting done dirty by Samsung
FKA Twigs playing Josephine Baker and why she’s kind of perfect for it
And why Kate firmly believes parents need to stop posting mysterious aesthetic photos of the backs of their children’s heads online immediately
Plus:
Broadway meltdowns, celebrity nonsense, shirtless apology videos filmed under suspicious lighting, fashion week disasters, and the ongoing cultural collapse of modern society

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This week on The Week That Was… Kate and Tansy ask the important cultural questions:
Why does every reboot feel like reheated nachos?
Why are rich people dressed like dystopian wedding guests at the Met Gala?
And why does Anne Hathaway have a dead possum glued to her head?
We unpack:
The Devil Wears Prada 2 and why Miranda Priestly flying economy is apparently the collapse of modern cinema
The Met Gala becoming the Hunger Games Capitol with better contour
Lauren Sanchez getting fashion-mogged into another dimension
Why everyone at the Met either looked incredible or like they were attending a winery wedding in Daylesford
Cameron Diaz naming her baby Nautis (Aquaman Madden apparently)
Pluto going retrograde and personally attacking every rising sign
Also:
Tansy’s in tech week theatre hell, Kate’s emotionally damaged by bad writing, and somewhere in the distance Bette Midler is preparing for Hocus Pocus 47.
Cold weather. Hot takes. Absolute nonsense.
Enjoy, divas
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This week on The Blunt & The Beautiful, psych Taash Balakas (aka our new in-house therapist) is back!
And we’re diving into one of the most uncomfortable, messy, and honestly… common topics right now:
Estrangement.
Yep.
Cutting off family. Parents. Siblings. Kids. The whole emotional circus.
And before you think this is going to be neat and tidy with a bow on top… it’s not.
In this episode, we get into:
Why so many people are estranging from family right now (and no, it’s not just “this generation being dramatic”)
The reality of boundaries… and why they’re not as simple as Instagram makes them sound
The guilt. The grief. The “did I do the right thing?” spiral
What happens when the other person doesn’t get it (and probably never will)
Grey rock, emotional immaturity, and how to deal with people who refuse to do the work
And the big one… can you ever fully feel at peace with cutting someone off?
It’s honest, it’s uncomfortable, it’s a little bit confronting… and at times you’ll feel personally attacked (in a good way).
Because the truth is…Sometimes choosing yourself comes with a cost.
And sometimes that cost is people.
No quick fixes. No perfect answers.
Just a really real conversation that a lot of people need right now.

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