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The Way They Were
by W!ZARD Studios
The podcast where every celebrity split is the one that got away. Each week comedians Grainne Maguire and Chantal Feduchin-Pate take a deep dive into a celebrity breakup, chosen by a special guest, that still lingers in their hearts and minds. We scour interviews, over-analyse iconic pictures and search for meaning in post-breakup media statements. Celeb gossip hounds will feel right at home, but really anyone who's experienced a breakup can appreciate hearing how the rich and famous take heartbreak to a whole new level. They might uncouple ‘amicably with love and respect for one another’ - but we never get over these lost loves! Join us every Friday for a new episode.
Episodes
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Kelly Clarkson and the Bird
Kelly Clarkson, a $15,000 mechanical bird and a Brooklyn hipster art shop owner: the celebrity feud we never knew we needed. This week, Gráinne and Chantal ask whether Kelly’s having her Pretty Woman moment or if this is her Ellen moment. Plus, Patreon subscribers get the latest from Halle…
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Madonna owns the VMAs, The Traitors Returns and Taylor won't go away
This week, Gráinne and Chantal pick through the VMAs fallout, Richard E. Grant’s gloriously crap debut on The Traitors and Nigella’s glorious arrival in the Bake Off tent. Plus, Taylor Swift continues to fight misogyny with mediocrity, and Meghan touches down in the UK. Plus a special preview of...
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Gossip! Sandra Bullock and Nicole Kidman's agonising press tour, Brad Pitt wonderful PR team & Princess Diana
A quick apology for the slightly chaotic schedule lately: babies and general life admin have been against us, but we’ll be back to our usual rhythm very soon. Thank you for bearing with us! This week, Gráinne and Chantal are finally reunited and naturally have several weeks’ worth of opinions to...
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Harry & Meghan’s UK Return: The Royal Reunion?
Breaking news! Just when we thought Harry and Meghan had settled into their Californian era, the ex royals are heading back to Britain. Even though the baby is sound asleep next door, Grainne and Chantal have called an emergency The Way They Were summit to discuss what this means for the royal...
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Earl Charles Spencer & Countess Karen Gordon with Davina Bentley
From society weddings to headline making break-ups, Earl Charles Spencer's love life has generated almost as many column inches as the royal family itself. This week, Chantal and Gráinne are joined by the hilarious Davina Bentley to untangle the many relationships of Princess Diana's younger...
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Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Divorce Crisis - Angie K, Whitney Rose and Bronwyn
Emergency episode! The Real Housewives of Salt Lake City relationship apocalypse is upon us, with Angie K and Shawn, Bronwyn and Todd, and Whitney “Wild” Rose and Justin all calling it quits. With Chantal off at a hippy festival in Sweden, Gráinne has roped in Housewives aficionado Michelle...
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Cardi B vs. Nicki Minaj
What's the T? The Girls are figthing! There was a time when Nicki Minaj and Cardi B looked like they could rule rap together. Instead, they gave us one of the defining celebrity feuds of the 2010s: diss tracks, subtweets, fan wars and, eventually, a flying shoe. This week, Chantal and Gráinne…
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: The Tackiest Celebrity Wedding Ever?
This week, she's gone too far this time. Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce's nuptials allegedly involved secret locations, cryptic travel instructions, QR codes, phone bans and enough security to make a G7 summit look chill. Is this the height of modern romance, or have celebrity weddings become a...
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Nadine Coyle and Jesse Metcalfe with Ur Welcome America!
You can't mistake their biology! This week on The Way They Were, Chantal and Gráinne are joined by Ben Anderson and Frazer York from Ur Welcome America to unpack the on-again, off-again romance between Girls Aloud icon Nadine Coyle and Desperate Housewives HUNK Jesse Metcalfe. Expect noughties...
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Chyna & Triple H with James Farmer
Before reality TV power couples and Instagram fitness influencers, there was Chyna & Triple H. She was the trailblazing superstar smashing wrestling's glass ceiling. He was the ambitious future champion climbing to the top of WWE. Together they helped define wrestling in the 90s until their love...
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Emergency Episode: Ariana Grande and Ethan "SpongeBob" Slater
Emergency episode! Ariana Grande and Ethan Slater have split, and Gráinne and Chantal are diving headfirst into the Wickedly juicy chaos. Is Ariana trapped in a cycle of whirlwind romances and reinventions? How did Ethan Slater go from respected theatre actor to the internet’s most unwilling main...
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Taylor Swift and Katy Perry
In 2015, Bad Blood turned a rumoured fallout between two pop princesses into the biggest cold war of the 2010s, Taylor Swift and Katy Perry became locked in a feud fuelled by stolen dancers, subtweets, stan armies and forensic lyric analysis. This week on The Way They Were, Gráinne and Chantal...
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Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall
This week, Gráinne Maguire returns from SNL UK as we slip into the fallout between Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall. On Sex and the City, Carrie and Samantha felt unbreakable. Off-screen? Pay disputes, mean girl accusations and contract disputes. We look at one of the most high profile...
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Book Club: Famesick by Lena Dunham
Gráinne is back for a very special edition of The Way They Are book club, diving into Famesick by Lena Dunham. A memoir that reads less like a victory lap and more like a slow, uneasy unravelling, it takes in blind-item anecdotes, her breakup with Jack Antonoff, and behind-the-scenes drama with…
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Real Housewives Gossip with Michelle Shaughnessy
On this special episode, Chantal and guest Michelle Shaughnessy zoom in on the glossy excess of The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills and size up the franchise’s newest arrival, The Real Housewives of Rhode Island! Plus over on the Patreon we get into the Summer House drama, Jen Shah's post prison...
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Sabrina Carpenter and Barry Keoghan with Bella Hull
Barry Keoghan and Sabrina Carpenter looked like one of those modern celebrity pairings that somehow made sense: the brooding Irish actor and the pop star with the sharpest tongue on the charts. Two pint-sized superstars with the world at their feet, until it was all over. This week on The Way…
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Jennifer Lopez and Diddy with Esther Manito
Love might not cost a thing, but this one came with a lot of receipts. When Jennifer Lopez (back once again!) fell for Sean Combs in 1999, it felt like pop had engineered its own super-couple. She was shimmering on the brink of full-blown world domination; he was the Svengali of west coast rap....
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Napoleon and Josephine with Rosalie Minnitt
The original short king meets the ultimate revolutionary party girl and sparks one of history’s most chaotic love stories. Napoleon, the obsessive letter-writer who conquered Europe but couldn’t quite conquer matters of the heart falls hard for Josephine: glamorous, widowed, and a real good time...
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Kim Kardashian & Kanye West with Tracie Egan Morrissey
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian were never just a couple they were a full-blown cultural event. From Paris Fashion Week to reality TV, Instagram meltdowns and frequent attempts to break the internet, their relationship blurred the line between love story, brand strategy and performance art. But how...
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The Beckham Family Breakup Gossip Edition!
The Beckham family feud feels less like a falling out and more like a prestige drama about what happens when you are born into a brand. This week on The Way They Were: Gossip Edition, Gráinne and Chantal dive into the Beckham family saga, from wedding dress dramas and strategic Instagram silences...
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Tiger Woods and Elin Nordegren with Stuart McPherson
Tiger Woods sold perfection: serene, disciplined, surgically controlled. Golf’s ultimate good boy, engineered from childhood to never miss a shot. Off the course? A very different game was being played. On The Way They Were, we revisit the scandal that destroyed Tiger Woods' spotless image.…
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Ashley Tisdale vs. the Toxic Celebrity Mom Friend Group!
It’s the first episode of the year and The Way They Were is back with a special GOSSIP edition. Gráinne Maguire and Chantal Feduchin-Pate get stuck into the delicious weirdness of celebrity mum friendships, as we look at the fallout of Ashley Tisdale’s toxic mom group revelations. Then, Chantal's...
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Natalie Wood & Robert Wagner: The Mystery That Still Haunts Hollywood
This week on The Way They Were, we’re unlocking one of our most popular Patreon episodes of the year and sharing it on the free feed. We’re doing something a little different today. Chantal swaps her mic for a magnifying glass and Gráinne pulls her fedora low as they step away from the usual...
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The Way They Were at Christmas: Crimbo Films of the Past, Present and Future
This week on The Way They Were, Gráinne and Chantal hang the tinsel, spike the mulled wine, and take a sleigh ride through Christmas past, present and future via Crimbo movies. From Judy Garland’s golden-age yearning, through Jimmy Stewart’s moral reckonings, to Cate Blanchett’s ice-cool elegance...
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Love Actually: Ranking Every Awful Couple
This week on The Way They Were, we do the unthinkable: we go back to Love Actually. Gráinne and Chantal rank the couples from least offensive to “maybe we should call the police”, asking the big questions Richard Curtis never did. Who do we hate the most? Are half these characters quietly…
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Chelsea Birkby: Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom (Our first ever Kardashian episode!)
Back in the early 2010s, few celebrity romances burned brighter (or faster) than Khloé Kardashian and Lamar Odom. She was the breakout star of reality TV’s royal family; he was the NBA hero. One month in, they were married. Soon after, their love life was a franchise. For a moment, it looked like...
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Ian Smith: Effie Gray & John Ruskin (A Very Victorian Scandal)
Effie Gray and John Ruskin looked like the perfect Victorian power couple: she, bright and brilliant; he, the era’s leading art critic. But behind the portraits was one of history’s strangest age-gap marriages. Unconsummated, uncomfortable, and the sort of story that would make Gen Z turn away in...
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Michael Clarke: Prince Andrew & Fergie
Now this is a right royal mess. Before it all went spectacularly wrong. Before Epstein, before the exile, before the Palace decided Prince Andrew should probably just be Andrew: there was “Randy Andy” and Fergie. The cheeky, chaotic couple who briefly made the monarchy look like a Jilly Cooper...
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Gossip! Lily Allen and David Harbour Fallout, Ariana Grande's New Look and Hugh Jackman and Sutton Foster Are Official
This week on The Way They Were, we’re catching up on all the heartbreak, hair dye, and high drama of the celebrity world. Lily Allen’s West End Girl has landed, a sharp, funny, furious record that lays her split from David Harbour bare. We talk through the fallout, the shock, and the pussy…
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Emergency Episode! Lily Allen and David Harbour with Rosemary Mac Cabe
This week on The Way They Were, we’re diving into the breakup that everyone’s talking about: Pop Princess Lily Allen and Stranger Things star David Harbour. It was the lockdown love story that looked like a rom-com London girl meets Hollywood nice-guy, until it all went a little bit strange. Now...
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Jen Ives: Truman Capote & Jack Dunphy
This week we step back in time to the 1940s to meet the literary it-couple: Truman Capote and Jack Dunphy. Truman was the sharp-tongued genius and Jack existed in his shadow. So how did the socialite and the introverted novelist make it work for so long? This week, Chantal and Gráinne are joined…
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Emergency Episode! Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban Breakup Special
Sometimes the gossip gods hand you something so big you have to drop everything and run straight to the mics. . . Several days after the event (sorry we had a busy week) Keith Urban and Nicole Kidman. Over. Finished. Kaput. Was it the hair? The cowboy boots? The fact she's constantly working?…
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Kevin Bennett: Rita Hayworth & Orson Welles
She was Hollywood’s “most agreeable” girl, he was cinema’s golden boy genius. Rita Hayworth and Orson Welles looked like the dream couple – but behind the glamour it was all drama, long distance, and the inability to separate work from pleasure. This love story from the golden age of Hollywood…
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Chris DeRosa: Brittany Murphy & Ashton Kutcher
A whirlwind romance that burned bright, fizzled fast, and left the tabloids confused as to what just happened. Ashton and Brittany gave us chaos, comedy, and a very short-lived love story. This week, Gráinne and Chantal are joined by Chris De Rosa, cohost of Fixing Famous People, to relive the...
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Natasha Devon: Dawn French and Lenny Henry
She was the Vicar of Dibley and he the king of Comic Relief. Together, they were the King and Queen of British comedy. Dawn French and Lenny Henry were the nation’s funniest couple but behind the gags and the glitter, their marriage had ups, downs and an unforgettable night out with John…
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Claire Parker: Britney Spears and Kevin Federline
Oh baby baby, how was she supposed to know that something wasn’t right? Britney Spears thought Kevin Federline was her happily-ever-after but soon turned into a one of the biggest breakups of the 00s. This week on The Way They Were, Chantal and Gráinne are joined by guest of honour Claire Parker,...
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Bryan Safi: Kelsey & Camille Grammer
Before the Frasier reboot, before the Tony Awards, before the dinner party from hell - there was just Kelsey and Camille. This week, comedian, agony aunt and Attitudes! host Bryan Safi joins us to revisit the unforgettable union of sitcom royalty and a dancer on club MTV who would go on to become...
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Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson? Special Gossip Edition
To get the latest episode of the podcast early and ad free, visit our Patreon here: patreon.com/TheWayTheyWere By popular demand, Gráinne and Chantal dive into the unlikely, unbelievable, and utterly adorable romance between Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson. With both stars carrying enough…
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Dane Buckley: Madonna and Warren Beatty
She’s the Queen of Pop. He’s the matinee idol who didn’t want to be filmed feeling things. This week on The Way They Were, Chantal and Gráinne are joined by comedian and lifelong Madonna fanatic Dane Buckley to relive the high-camp, high-conflict love affair between Madonna and Warren Beatty.…
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Bonus: Ozzy and Sharon Osbourne
This week on a very special The Way They Were, we’re lighting a black candle and cranking up the Sabbath, because Ozzy Osbourne has taken his final bow. In honour of the man, the myth, the prince of Darkness, Gráinne and Chantal dive into his decades-long, chaotic, and somewhat violent marriage…
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Katy Perry and Orlando Bloom? Special Gossip Preview
Welcome to the very first edition of THE GOSSIP — where Chantal and Gráinne crack their knuckles, flip open the tabloids, and say the quiet bits out loud. You asked for it. And by asked, we mean demanded in the DMs. This week: Katy and Orlando’s break-up comes under the microscope as our cupids…
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Top 5 Sex and the City Breakups: Patreon Preview!
In New York, love is everything — until it isn’t. This week on The Way They Were, Chantal and Gráinne celebrate the return of And Just Like That by taking a walk down memory lane. So pour the cosmos and let’s count down the top five Sex and the City breakups. From Post-it notes to wedding day...
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Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce: Patreon Preview!
We’ve just dropped our very first Patreon-exclusive episode—and trust us, you’re going to want in on this. In the full episode: Gráinne reignites her long-running feud with Taylor Swift, Chantal digs up the reality TV roots of Travis Kelce's love life, and absolutely nobody cares about Matt…
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Stuart Laws: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner
It’s the season finale, and it’s time for Bennifer! No, not that Bennifer. We’re talking about the sequel duo: Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner — and things are getting messy. Gráinne and Chantal have called in Alias superfan and casual observer of all things Affleck, Stuart Laws, to help make…
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Emergency Episode! Jojo Siwa, Kath Ebbs & Chris Hughes
STOP THE PRESS! Another celebrity breakup has rocked our world, so Gráinne and Chantal dropped everything to bring you this emergency episode on a Sunday morning. Karmas a bitch, and she's with us right now as we dive into the end of the relationship between 'gay pop princess' Jojo Siwa and...
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Nikki Druce: George IV and Caroline of Brunswick
Put on your best powdered wig, pour a generous brandy, and brace yourself for scandal as we revisit one of history's messiest royal romances: the unholy matrimony of King George IV and Caroline of Brunswick. It’s a love story makes Charles and Diana look dull. Gráinne Maguire and Chantal...
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Alice Hopkins: Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin
Light a pungent candle, get yourself comfortable perched on a jade egg, and prepare to consciously uncouple as The Way They Were dives into the iconic noughties love story of Gwyneth Paltrow & Chris Martin. Just remember, nobody said it was easy... Hosts Gráinne Maguire and Chantal Feduchin-Pate...
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Paul F. Tompkins and Janie Haddad Tompkins: Captain & Tennille
They thought that love could keep them together, but not even a Captain could weather this romantic storm. So pour yourself a piña colada, weigh anchor, and yacht rock into the night for the spectacular 100th episode of The Way They Were! Our very own centurions, Gráinne Maguire and Chantal...
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Eleanor Morton: Princess Margaret & Lord Snowdon
Pour yourself a gin, pop on your pearls, and dust off your stiff upper lip as hosts Gráinne Maguire and Chantal Feduchin-Pate peer behind the velvet curtains of royal heartbreak in this special episode of The Way They Were. Joining them for a jolly good gossip is comedian, author, and undisputed...
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Jonn Elledge: Jeremy Corbyn & Diane Abbott
Crack open a tin of M&S cocktails and hop aboard the love train, because this week we’re diving into a political pairing that’s had more ups and downs than the Spring statement. Yes, it’s the low-key, long-rumoured, and quietly history-making relationship between Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott....
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ABOUT THIS SHOW
The podcast where every celebrity split is the one that got away. Each week comedians Grainne Maguire and Chantal Feduchin-Pate take a deep dive into a celebrity breakup, chosen by a special guest, that still lingers in their hearts and minds. We scour interviews, over-analyse iconic pictures and search for meaning in post-breakup media statements. Celeb gossip hounds will feel right at home, but really anyone who's experienced a breakup can appreciate hearing how the rich and famous take heartbreak to a whole new level. They might uncouple ‘amicably with love and respect for one another’ - but we never get over these lost loves! Join us every Friday for a new episode.
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The podcast where every celebrity split is the one that got away. Each week comedians Grainne Maguire and Chantal Feduchin-Pate take a deep dive into a celebrity breakup, chosen by a special guest, that still lingers in their hearts and minds. We scour interviews, over-analyse iconic pictures and...
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