Charli XCX, Billie Eilish and the new Bridgerton

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Charli XCX and Billie Eilish’s new collab might just be the hottest song of the summer – and we are here for it! We get into all the discourse surrounding the pop culture-dominating duo: from BRAT and Charli’s birthday party to Billie’s insane charisma and those absurd queer-baiting allegations. Next, we debrief on the Suki Waterhouse Vogue cover and Ryan Reynolds on Chicken Shop Date, before running through some of the best new TV series we’ve seen. My Lady Jane, a hilarious revisionist comedy recommended by lots of you lovely listeners, Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, about the con-man behind the Backstreet Boys and N’Sync, and, of course, a quick debrief on the House of the Dragon finale. Also this week: we return to one of the most inescapable topics of 2024, age gap relationships, as Leonardo DiCaprio appears to have broken his ‘25 and under only’ rule with Vittoria Ceretti, and a 21-year-old British influencer comes under fire for having a 16-year-old boyfriend.

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Culture discussed:

• May December (see our age gaps ep from Nov ‘23 for more)
• Glen Powell’s meteoric rise proves audiences don’t actually care about age gaps, Independent
• Guess (remix) featuring Billie Eilish by Charli xcx
• Twisters (2024)
• Amelia Dimoldenberg What’s in My Bag, Vogue
• Miranda Kerr, What’s in my Bag, Vogue
• Phoning It In, Billie Eilish, Elle
• Suki Waterhouse On Her Wild Ride From London It-Girl To LA Mum, British Vogue
• Chicken Shop Date with Ryan Reynolds and Hugh Jackman, YouTube
• He’s So Annoying: For years, being “sexy” didn’t work for Ryan Reynolds, Vulture
• Longlegs (2024)
• It Follows (2014)
• Dirty Pop: The Boy Band Scam, Netflix
• My Lady Jane, Amazon Prime Video
• House of the Dragon, HBO
• How House of the Dragon’s Ewan Mitchell became TV’s most chilling villain, the Times