From school dinners to sofa snacks – food has a huge part to play in shaping our story - and your favourite celebs have some delicious tales to tell. Join Grace Dent and celebrity guests as she throws the cupboard doors open and chats life through food. Expect to hear from guests (actors from TV, movie, theatre and film; sportspeople, comedians, chefs…) such as: Katie Price, Natalie Cassidy, Kathy Burke, Jamie Laing, Jon Ronson, Shirley Ballas, Nadiya Hussain, James Norton, Graham Norton, Mi ...
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Co-hosts and longtime beauty journalists Kirbie Johnson and Sara Tan give their perspective on all things makeup, skincare, and wellness at the intersection of pop culture and entertainment. Experts in the field and friends IRL, they pull back the curtain on trends, treatments and popular products — all the things you're likely searching or watching on TikTok. (They'd know — they've spent 10 years creating and optimizing editorial content for mainstream digital beauty publishers.) Tuesday ep ...
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This is SONGMAKERS, a podcast where musicians, producers and artists talk about their process and the songs they make. Hosted by Lex Low.
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Revisited – S3 E4: Big Zuu, rapper and TV personality
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, double Bafta winner Big Zuu goes round to Grace’s house for a plate of his ultimate comfort food. They talk about his ‘scandalous’ mother, growing up between extreme wealth and poverty, and …
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What is "Wildcrafted" Skincare? Alpyn Beauty's Kendra Kolb Butler Shares Why Her Products are Truly Unique
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Thank you Alpyn Beauty for partnering with us on this episode! Have you heard of "wildcrafting" in the beauty world? If you have, it's likely due to Alpyn Beauty. The methodology is starting to catch fire within the industry, so we wanted to have Alpyn's founder Kendra Kolb Butler on the podcast to share everything you need to know about the term, …
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Celebrity Hair Brand Battle: Blake Brown vs. Cécred vs. Fenty Beauty First Impressions
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We’re back with another update on Blake Lively, but this time, we’re not just talking about her new haircare brand Blake Brown: we’re discussing the drama surrounding her new movie ‘It Ends With Us’ and co-star Justin Baldoni. Kirbie breaks down the TikTok theories. In the last year, we’ve seen so many celebrity haircare brands launch, from Beyoncé…
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Revisited – S3 E12: Natalie Cassidy, actor
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, Eastenders actor and all-round hun Natalie Cassidy pops over for a chat with Grace. She and Grace remember the 90s London club scene, discuss the perils of having a fitness DVD, and how bein…
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What Actually Happens During a Turkish Hair Transplant
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If you've been on TikTok, you've likely seen many videos of people traveling from all over the world to Turkey to participate in their abundance of medical tourism. Kirbie and Sara recently discovered several people they knew — men, in particular — had traveled overseas to get a hair transplant, and they knew it had to be discussed on the pod. Join…
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating with Grace Dent, comedian Nish Kumar tells Grace about some of the most important moments in his life – and the comfort food that saw him through them. They lament the ‘golden years’ of Pizza…
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Why Black-Founded Brands are "Quietly Closing" in 2024 with Oui the People Founder Karen Young
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Your favorite Black-owned brand may quietly close this year — that's what Oui the People founder Karen Young shared with her followers a few weeks ago. In 2020, the beauty industry underwent a revolution of sorts. Black-owned brands became a much-needed albeit long overdue priority. Movements like Pull Up For Change encouraged brands to share what …
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What’s up with YSL Beauty’s PR? There’s something fishy going on over on Threads, according to Kirbie, and she’s determined to get to the bottom of it. Ulta Beauty Collection is getting a new look and more SKUs! We share our thoughts on the makeover and who it’s made for. And just like last year, we’re giving our mid-year report where we share the …
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The Comfort Eating team is taking a break. So for the next few weeks, we’re looking back at a few of our favourite episodes. In this episode of Comfort Eating, the pop star Rebecca Lucy Taylor, AKA Self Esteem, drops into Grace’s kitchen. Their riotous afternoon includes ‘northern women eating carbs’, the joy of buying expensive jumpers, and some u…
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Blake Lively's Foray Into Beauty and Urban Decay's Resurrection of the Naked Palette
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Blake Lively is tossing her hat — or should we say hair — into the celebrity beauty brand ring, Glams. We discuss whether this foray into hair makes sense for the actor and if we’re excited about it or not. We’re also chatting about the resurrection of Urban Decay’s formerly discontinued Naked palette AND Tweezerman’s latest collaboration with the …
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S7, Ep8: bonus episode – a few of the tastiest bits from all seven series
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This week, Grace takes us on a trip down memory lane to hear some of the best bite-sized tidbits of food tales from seven glorious seasons of Comfort Eating, featuring the likes of Rafe Spall, Scarlett Moffatt and Russell T Davies. We hear the stories of Jay Blades’ school pudding obsession and Russell Tovey’s teenage love of brussels sprouts, and …
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Gen Z’s Favorite Beauty Influencer Katie Fang On The Best Makeup at Sephora & How Brands Should Sell to the Younger Generations
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Gen Z’s favorite beauty content creator Katie Fang is our guest today! The 18-year-old TikTok star has taken over all our FYPs with her fun, honest, and relatable beauty tutorials. She has over five million followers on TikTok, 453,000 on Instagram, and 207,000 subscribers on YouTube. Needless to say, she’s highly influential, especially when it co…
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Brands Increasing Their Prices: Greedy or Necessary? Plus More From Our Listener AMA
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This week, we're answering your questions from Slack! What's the best sunscreen to wear to the beach? How can you get affordable treatments like facials and injectables? And why are we seeing price hikes on our favorite products — and is it corporate greed or something else? We dive into all of it. Then, we're introducing a new segment: Misscontinu…
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This week, Grace is joined by east London’s plant-based princess Bimini who shot to fame in 2021, after the second season of RuPaul’s Drag Race UK, where they captivated the BBC audience with quippy one liners, high fashion runway looks, and death drops. Although Bimini didn’t snatch the crown, they remain the most-followed UK contestant. Since fil…
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Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader Beauty Secrets Revealed (and More BTS of the Show) With Victoria Kalina
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Who isn't obsessed with America's Sweethearts: Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders on Netflix? Kirbie and Sara went nuts over the seven episode docuseries and fell in love with legacy cheerleader Victoria Kalina. Victoria's vulnerability and personality made her a star of the series — and fair warning, if you haven't watched, there will be spoilers in toda…
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Scentbird's Founder and Her Problematic Spritual Teachings and Why Kirbie Isn't So Sure About Augustinus Bader
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What if we told you a certain founder has claimed the cure for cancer is aligning with your life's purpose and also claims Hitler wasn't evil? Those are just a few truly mind-boggling topics Scentbird's CEO and Founder has been posting about on Youtube. Kirbie and Sara dive into the problematic nature of it all (to say the least). But first, we sha…
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Grace welcomes the legendary DJ, producer and founder of Soul II Soul, Jazzie B, to the podcast. Over a bowl of ‘yellow’ – one of his childhood comfort foods –Jazzie takes Grace on a journey from playing his sound system, aged 12, at a silver jubilee street party for the Queen, to finding inspiration on tour in Japan and Korea, and on to Buckingham…
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Jonathan Van Ness Returns to Share What Really Happened to JVN Hair
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What really happened to JVN Hair? If you’ve listened to the pod, you know we’ve been following the celebrity haircare brand’s journey, from its launch in 2021 with Amyris to its sale at auction to Windsong Global for $1.25 million earlier this year. We’ve had experts come on to discuss the situation, like investor and advisor Maggie Sellers, but th…
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Cheers to 5 Years: Revisiting Our First Episode Plus a Q&A
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Glamgelenos, meet the new Gloss Angeles! In honor of our 5th birthday, we decided to celebrate in a big way — with a new song, a new logo, a new look, and a new way to listen to us — on video! On today’s episode, we’re sharing the behind-the-scenes details on the big photoshoot we did with our dream team: makeup artist Donni Davy, hair stylist Clay…
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Joining Grace this week is actor and director David Harewood, who found global fame in the hit CIA-thriller Homeland 13 years ago and hasn’t stopped working since. David was born and raised in Small Heath, Birmingham, where he lived with his older siblings and Barbadian parents. He tells Grace about how his mum kept the flavours of the West Indies …
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S7, Ep 4: Allan Mustafa, actor and comedian
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Allan Mustafa joins Grace to share the dish he turns to for comfort food. Allan shot to fame playing MC Grindah in People Just Do Nothing, his Bafta award-winning, semi-autobiographical mockumentary, which was inspired by his early life in south-west London. Allan talks about growing up with his Czech mum and Kurdish dad and eating the ultimate fus…
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Why Kylie Cosmetics’s Iconic LA Billboard Finally Got Taken Down
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What beauty products will take over the Olympics this year? (Do A/Cs count?) How is Ulta’s marketing strategy around “clean” beauty changing? What did Deinde, a new brand backed by L’Oreal, do to get Kylie Jenner’s coveted LA billboard location? Glossy’s west coast correspondent Lexy Lebsack is back to deliver lots of juicy news morsels to feast up…
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Actor Golda Rosheuvel joins Grace this week to share what she eats when the wigs are off. Golda is best known for her role as the formidable Queen Charlotte in the record-breaking Netflix series Bridgerton. Before Bridgerton fame, Golda’s breakthrough role was playing a female Othello at the Liverpool Everyman, rooting herself as an actor who chall…
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Which Facials Aren't Worth Your Money, "Ozempic Face," and More Skincare Education with Joanna Czech
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We’re back with part 2 of Joanna Czech’s interview. Joanna outlines which facials are not worth your money, why she doesn’t believe in just one skincare brand, what you should know about “Ozempic face,” which LED masks are worth the investment, what serums she'd never use, and the five things she’d never do as an esthetician. Shop her episode Gloss…
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S7, Ep 2: Joanne McNally, comedian and podcaster
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Joining Grace this week is one of Ireland’s most acclaimed comics and host of the award-winning podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me, Joanne McNally. With a number of sell-out shows and tour dates in the US later this year, they discuss how Joanne uses comedy to process difficult periods in her life, how her mum is her favourite cocktail buddy, and what…
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Celebrity Esthetician Joanna Czech On Her Famous Slapping Facial Massage and her 13,000 Hour Skincare Education
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If you've ever admired the glowing skin of Jennifer Aniston, Kim Kardashian, or Kate Winslet as they’ve walked the red carpet, you've witnessed the exceptional work of celebrity esthetician Joanna Czech. But she isn’t just famous for her signature slapping technique (also known as getting #czeched) — Joanna is a personality all on her own. Just che…
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{GLOSS ANGELES REWIND} Come back to June 2022 to hear our exclusive chat with Haiely Bieber! Hailey Bieber’s skin is as good, if not better than it appears on Instagram and TikTok. Believe (or should we say Beliebe) us — we had the chance to hang out with the newly-minted beauty entrepreneur at Rhode HQ to talk about the launch of her skincare line…
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S7, Ep 1: Katherine Ryan, comedian and writer
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Katherine Ryan joins Grace this week to share her favourite comfort foods. The Canadian comedian, writer, presenter and actor is best known for her deliciously wicked comedy, delivered with a side dish of couture. Katherine shares memories from her past, including her father’s attempts to bring Indian food to Canada via Ireland, her difficult early…
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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for more
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Comfort Eating with Grace Dent is back for a seventh course on 11 June. Join her and celebrity guests as they reveal the comfort foods that have seen them through their lives in series sevenBy The Guardian
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Creating a Successful Beauty Brand With "Brand Whisperer" and NOYZ Founder Shaun Neff
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Today’s episode is brought to you by NOYZ. If you know the beauty industry, you know the powerhouse that’s Shaun Neff. He’s created and taken brands to the next level, from Sun Bum to Pattern Beauty to Beis. Neff’s latest brand launch, NOYZ, is a fragrance brand meant to change everybody’s opinion on what fragrance should look like and make you fee…
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Gen Alpha's Latest Brand Obsession, Glossier's Big Pivot, and Child Labor Tied to Luxury Fragrance Houses
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Attention, Glams! We are taking a little summer break (for the first time ever!). For the month of June, we won’t be having any Tuesday episodes with Kirbie and Sara. But don’t worry, we’ll be back before you know it. And because we couldn’t leave you hanging, we have guest episodes coming to you on Fridays! On today’s episode, we’re chatting about…
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LASIK, Lumify, & Lash Growth Serums: What You Should Know About Eye Health
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We’re talking all things eyes on today’s episode with Dr. Rany Woo, a cataract and refractive eye surgeon who recently did Sara’s life-changing EVO ICL procedure. We ask Dr. Rany how our eyes change as we age, the differences between all the refractive eye surgeries (LASIK vs. PRK vs. Smile), and the reason you shouldn’t be using those red eye-redu…
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