The 2025 Shameless End of Year Awards

This episode of Shameless is brought to you by Four Pillars. This summer, enjoy a Four Pillars GNT made with rare a dry gin and a juicy wedge of orange. Popco to podcast for smart people who love dumb stuff, you're joined as always by Melbourne writers Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonnell. Hello Zazie McDonnell, this is a video episode and I've been told to look in a camera so if you're watching me, that's your camera. You're my camera baby and Annabelle Lee, wave to your camera! And to mine, lovely doing this with you, this is the 2025 Shameless End of Year Awards. As you guys know, the CEO is acknowledged the celebrity and pop culture stories that have seized us this year. We, of course, had the Academy and the very exciting thing about the Academy this year, Tame, is usually we cappered at a thousand voters, not for any kind of poetic purpose, but purely because the subscription we had for the survey we did capped out of a thousand. And we thought that seemed good, but we changed survey platforms this year. Yeah. If this is interesting to anyone, blowing up baby and this year we had a whopping Zara McDonnell. 20,000. 20,000 votes. Actually, 20,000 people voting. So these really are the people's award. You voted on what story should win an each category. We, of course, picked the categories because that's what we always do. Belly put the award winners in the little, not golden envelopes today, Bell. And there are little gold. If you hold them on to life, they are slightly iridescent. I was hoping you wouldn't realise I went for a different envelope. And I'm also there. They're cut in half. They're yellow. They're orange. You're glad. They are in. Well, I'm glad you said that, guys, because thanks again to four pillars. We are going to be sipping four pillars, G and T's all throughout this recording. They made last year's CO as possible. They are back again making this year's CO as possible. Please watch along. This is a full-length video wherever you usually get your shameless episodes. As soon as I said that, I'm like, not really. It's not an Apple podcast in video. It is on Spotify. Yeah. It's on Spotify. Tacticality, schmecnicality. Now. Well, it's an important technicality. One thing I would like to put on the record before we begin is I am A, very excited to be here and to be recording with you both. Stoked. B, when I went through a couple of weeks ago, every single run sheet we produced for the show this year, I did have one overriding thought, and I think we need to acknowledge the elephant in the room that you are the hardest working of the three of us. Well done, Zara. Here is your award. We are. We're so grateful. No, it wasn't a particularly interesting year in pop culture. I can't wait, but I also felt beyond it wasn't a particularly interesting year, even if this will be an interesting episode. The second thing I realized is so much, and I don't know if this happens every year, but so much happened at the start of this year, or throughout this year that I thought happened two years ago. Oh, do you have some examples? Yeah. The boring New York City influencer discourse was this year. The beige New York City influences. For some reason, I remember that being this year, but I hear. What about Army Hammer on Louis Thoreau? No, it feels like forever. Yeah, we spoke about that this year. Was that this year? When was that this year? Don't have much. It's been jammed. We won't spend any time on this, but I think it has to get a special mention that we came back to work, and our first recording was, of course, around the TikTok band that didn't end up happening. Yeah, Donald Trump said he was going to ban TikTok, and then it's not been banned. No, and it's just fallen off the face of the earth. I mean, I'm sure there are also a lot more technical conversations around it, but. Technicals, mechanicals. It was actually technical, and it shouldn't be going. So, what I would say is. Culturally, in terms of social media, it fell off the conversation with influencers. Yeah. Nikki Blonsky's researches. Oh, I'm actually completely forgotten what that was about. She was doing cameos or something. Oh, we didn't really get one. We got one for Cassie. I've managed to manage a Cassie who went on Matley. Hi, Cassie. It's Nikki Blonsky here, and well, I can hear the bells. Cassie, oh my goodness, your baby bells are going off. Did you didn't pay 20, you were. Oh, baby, I paid more than that. Oh my god, that went into like a black hole in my brain. I'd completely deleted that. That conversation also around imposter syndrome and a loner mark. Do you remember that? I love doing that episode, but that does not feel like this year. It's been a slightly traumatic year. I don't remember that idea. No. It's crazy how much happened. Now, we have a lot to get through today. Five award categories. Would you like to introduce the first category? I would be fucking delighted. Okay. I'll have a sip of my juice. Oh, look at my camera. Shoot. Oh, no, am I looking at the right camera now, shall we? Shall we? Okay, shall let Tommy's look at a different camera this time. Okay. We will be looking at the wide camera when we're introducing the awards. Hello, camera C. Okay. We are doing to begin with the category. The ruff and tumble of romance. This has Zara McDonnell over it. Would you like me to say the roughly and tumble of romance? I would like you to do whatever feels right to you. Okay. This category celebrates the relationships and the relationship dramas of the year. Just relationship news. So some people that got together, some people that split. Yeah. Okay. All right. Well, our first nominee in this category. Congratulations to Katie Perry and Justin Trudeau. I know. Yes. Yeah. Who I want to win. Oh, okay. Well, given you know the answers, I feel very interesting about your input. Oh, what you want to do here. Now, we will give you very quick synopsies of what happened in each of these stories. Just in case you've forgotten, I imagine very much that you haven't forgotten what happened in this story. But I do think this is one hell of a contender I might say in June. This story on the kicked off in June. We spoke about rumours circulating that these two got together because Katie Perry was in Montreal on her lifetimes tour. She was parked out to dinner with former Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. Well, this is, I know you said the June thing. This all happens so quickly. June, we found out she and Orlando had split. Oh, sorry. July, we found out about her and Justin. I didn't remember looking back how quick it was between the two announcements. By the way, we've broken up. By the way, I'm now in a date with Justin Trudeau. You fact checked me in real time and I appreciate you did that. Because I was trying to look up at the camera and not at my nose. Thank you. That was so kind of you because I would have got that wrong. So it was July, I should say. So they had these photos. Then Justin Trudeau, of course, went to the Katie Perry concert with his daughter and we were like, they are a real thing. The next week news outlets came out. People magazine came out and said, we've spoken to a anonymous source. This is calling its result. And then we said, oh, Egon asked, we got way too excited. But then we did not need to put Egon ourselves because the Daily Mail then published pap photos of the two of them kissing on that yacht on October 12th and he was wearing those jeans. He was wearing jeans. All the jeans. Since then, they've stepped out. She's in public a few times. They've uploaded Instagram carousels in Japan. Yeah, the Japan carousel was really cute. Have you guys seen the shot? I think it's four or five. Into the carousel. They're at the eating and they're eating and then they look in each other. Annabelle with such love in their eyes. Give me a recreation. I'm a little exclusive for the video. I'd hate to not be watching this right now. No, I bet a lot of love in the eyes. They're legit. Do we think they're still going to last? No, probably not. No, but I like that they've done it. I'm going to give them until 2028. Okay, I'll give them to the sort of September October next year. Same. That's the correct thing to do to move with the hour gone. Our second contender, of course, Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban. Oh, but bro. Like September. Wild. Yeah. The break up no one saw coming shortly. No, it was first announced on TMZ then the New York Times confirmed that Nicole had indeed filed for divorce. Now, obviously, what was fascinating about this story, are the stories that came after it, where you would suspect there was a leak from Nicole's camps saying she didn't want this to happen. Yeah, so people got the anonymous source who said Nicole didn't want this. She's been fighting to save the marriage. A week after that, as well as a bunch of exclusives from People magazine, we got the first of four major headlines. It was Nicole Kidman has been fighting to save her marriage to Keith Urban before separation. She didn't want this. All the headlines were of that vibe. Apparently, Keith and I, quote, hadn't been honest, but that was never really fully explored either. No, that wasn't fleshed out. In people's subsequent reporting, there were inferences made. Unsubstantiated, but inferences made that he wasn't supportive of her career. Then, of course, there's that very viral clip of him on stage performing the fighter, which is his song, which is famously a love song written by Nicole, but he changed the words to Maggie. Well, yeah. He's guitarist. He's bandmate. But then the Daily Mail spoke to Maggie's father. Yes. And he said, "I don't know anything about it other than she's a guitar player for him." It's more of a musician thing than a dating thing. I've not heard one way or the other. And that is where we sort of stumbled on one of our hottest takes of the year, which is that our father shouldn't talk to the press. Yes. But they always will. Yes. If any dad's listening, don't do that. Content number three. JoJoC were on Chris Hughes. Now, I'm kind of hoping these two don't win. Not because, like, I have anything against them. I just, I feel fatigued of these two when I don't know why. So, at the beginning she doesn't know. The beginning of this story feels like a million years ago. Back in April, the 21-year-old pop star, JoJoC were, and the 32-year-old love island star, Chris Hughes, were accused of acting a little too touchy-feely with each other. They were in the celebrity Big Brother UK house. Things were a bit weird. Yeah, they were getting really close. And then we'll never forget the cryptic message on the arm or the back or something. She wrote something on his arm later at night. But it was only a couple of letters. And then it looked like maybe a question mark. Yes. And then we know that after that, after that finale, there was the after party. She'd hit the fan because. JoJo's partner at the time. Kathy came on Instagram the next day and said, "We've broken up and essentially. " I don't even know where to begin. I mean, I don't want to put words in Kat's mouth. But it was essentially the activity that happened in the houses. The reason because of it. One of the reasons I love social media. I have a complicated relationship with it, but I love that Kat pulled out their phone and just filmed the raw, real reaction the day after the after party. This was one of those stories where we were really fed well by the celebrities. Like, they all kept us fed. It turns out JoJo and Chris are together, we're together around that time. But remember, for a while, they said they weren't. They were just really close friends, even though they were posting it to the so much on Instagram, calling it to the like the prettiest. And then they were seeing kissing on a flotation device and a pool. Yeah, a flotation device, just a floating device. I was going to say the technical word is flamingo. Yes, it was a blot flamingo and a pool. But in a public pool that's on then took a photo of us. Yes, and then, of course, we had the cover of Betty Davis Eye. Oh my god, who could forget? Oh yeah, no, this is why I think I'm sick of these two. I made comments on that and then on social media people like, "She's such a JoJo see-while-hater. I'm not a JoJo see-while-hater. I just feel confused." Yeah, well, and then also she said that she had nicknamed his balls Jimmy and Timmy. Oh, yeah. Not to be confused. Not to be confused with the future name she wants to give to her triplet sons, which also rhymed. So these two are actually still together, just doing long distance from the US and UK. And our final contender for the award, Michelle. Lily Ellen and David Harbour. I'm sitting upright. This story has evolved across the year. And dare I say, shameless podcast has kept everyone well informed. Oh, okay. Do you remember that first? We did a drip-fed celebrity divorce. We did that episode like early this year. Yeah, no, that is true. That is true. Paddle the back everyone. Yeah, so these two got married in 2020. They were quite public or at least Lily was quite public about how obsessed with him she was. Their relationship was fine until December 2024 when Lily was spotted without her wedding ring in her podcast clips and then spotted on Raya. She said on her podcast that she was taking a break from the show and shortly after the Daily Mail began whispering that Lily Ellen had found out that David Harbour was cheating on her. Yeah, and then he was spotted in India with a different woman on his arm. So then fed that their divorce announcement was properly made, hey? Yeah, so people ran this headline. Lily Ellen and David Harbour separate after four years. The marriage has been crumbling, according to a source. And anonymous source also spoke to Demois that while Lily and David had been monogamous prior to getting married, apparently as soon as they got married, David did a little switcheroo in over a first card and said he actually wanted to be nonmonog. Yeah, non-monogamami. Non-monogamami. Yeah, that's what it resulted in non-monogamami. Of course then we had the album. The album is really good. She has still listened to it. Yeah, it comes on my DJ ex quite a bit. Tell you what plays in my head before I go to sleep sometime. Who's Madeline? Who's Madeline? It's true. I think that's a good call. It's very catchy. We did find out who Madeline is. Well, she said I think I'm Madeline. A woman by the name of Natalie Tippett spoke to the Daily Mail. She said, of course, I've heard the song and apparently rolled her eyes as she said that to them. Okay, winner is going to be announced in about 10 seconds. Ooh, who do you think is going to win? Lily Allen and David Harbour should win. Oh, oh, oh, Keith and Nicole. I think it's Keith and Nicole. I'm going to go, Keith and Nicole. You know what, Australian listenership. Who's going to reveal one of you? Michelle Kapp. Thanks, that's a joy of us. Wow, these envelopes are beautiful. Beautiful hand made with love. Oh, wow. Oh my god. The winner is with 33% of the vote. That's almost seven doubt. Oh, sorry, to my camera. Which one again, Shoe? Okay, hello. Um, almost 7,000 votes went to Lily Allen and David Harbour. Got the front door, yeah. So it was Keith and Nicole. Would they run their own? I actually have the runner up. Just bear with me. Yep. See how his results runner up was Nicole and Keith and then it was JoJo. How many votes did JoJo? Yeah, Nicole and Keith got 32% of the votes. Oh, so far. Oh, yeah. Good, honestly, solid contenders for the prize. Congratulations, Lily Allen. And David Harbour. We're going to be back in a second for Orange You Glad. That happened, but first word from our sponsor. And fund that. Zaz, there are some things that just scream Aussie summer. Aren't there ever pool parties? So I'll switch to digital music festivals. Slurping. And an exceptionally major nontonic? Yeah, it's not summer unless we've got a G&T in hand. And we certainly do right now. Yeah, we're fussy with our G&T. Nothing compares to four-pooled red-ride gin. Lots of ice, good quality tonic, and an orange garnish. Four-pillars red-ride gin is their signature for a reason. They actually use whole fresh oranges in the distillation, which brings this delicious warmth to the gin. And because it's distilled with all of those lovely oranges, they encourage us to ditch the standard lemons and limes and garnish with fresh orange instead. If you have not tried this, it tastes like a G&T from a very fancy cocktail bar. Yeah, except you can make it at home and sip it outside in the sunshine. Four-pillars has won international gin producer of the year a record three times, and honestly, it's no wonder. Yeah, this summer I enjoy a four-pillars G&T with Orange. Thank you so much to four-pillars for making this episode of Shameless Possible. All right, team, we are back for award number two. This award is called. We did this one last year. Orange You Glad. That happened brought to you by four-pillars. It's the stories that made us happy. Oh, and there were so many strong contenders. It was quite a happy year in pop culture. Now, the first contender, first nominee, if you will, Jason Isaacs, who became the breakout gossip girl of 2025. Is it Isaacs or Isaac? Maybe I'm wrong. Is Isaacs? I think. She does have a computer. She does have a computer, not a fact check. I'm not connected to the Wi-Fi here, I don't know. Oh, it's so fun. Let me get you something I've prepared earlier. Oh, it's gone. I'm going for one underneath that. If I was quizzed over to say Jason Isaac. Why don't you take it away, and I'll fact check. Okay. In April, Jason's surname to be confirmed. Gave an interview to Vulture about his experience filming the White Lotus. Remember when the White Lotus was everywhere and everyone could not stop speaking about it? Absolutely, Isaacs. I don't know where you got Isaac from. Thank you so much. Okay, you famously spoke to Vulture and said, "It was like a cross between summer camp and the Lord of the Flies, but in a gilded cage. It wasn't a holiday. Some people got very close. There were friendships that were made, and friendships that were lost. All the things you would imagine were the group of people unanking from their home lives on the other side of the world, and the intense pressure cooker of the work environment with eye melting heat and insects and late nights. They say in the show what happens in Thailand stays in Thailand. But there's an off-screen White Lotus as well with fewer deaths, but just as much drama." "We guys just looking at your own camera style." "Well, you, we sort of had you out of the picture because you're reading, so I thought this is our time." "Just one and one time." It was like a cross between summer camp and the Lord of the Flies, but in a gilded cage, it wasn't a holiday. But there's an off-screen White Lotus as well. "Also, I'll have your own nose. You told me the wrong camera earlier, so I was staring at a Zara's camera. If I look like I don't know what the fuck I'm doing, blame it on Charlotte." "No, Charlotte." Charlotte knows everything. Okay, those quotes are very funny, though. He then elaborated. He did this across multiple interviews though, Jason Isaacs. He went to the New York Times and said he wasn't entirely blissful. It was a large group of people away from home, unankered from their normal lives. "I'm not going to break ranks and say who did what to whom, but it certainly wasn't a holiday." He then went on and said nobody has the slightest clue what they're talking about. First of all, it's none of your business, even though he did make it up, isn't it? I'm just saying it wasn't a holiday. Partly, I started saying that because people think we were on a seven month holiday and believe me, it felt like work a lot of the time. But for all of you that think they've cracked it, just by something you think someone is posted or is in a photo or not, you are so far from the truth, believe me. Jason has a close place in your heart. He's my winner. He's not my winner and I don't know why. Do you think this next contender might be a winner? Yeah, which I'm devastated I was not on the episode where you guys spoke about Kate Beckinsale's daughters, boyfriends, egglaying abilities. At the end of November. Abilities. Talent, so let's say. The actress Kate Beckinsale went on Jimmy Kimmel's show to promote her new movie Wildcat. Only in the interview, they never actually spoke about Wildcat because she started speaking about her 26 year old daughter's boyfriend who lays eggs, not just one multiple eggs. Two eggs with a yoke. Yeah, hard boiled. Did we consult a doctor when we covered this on the show? I didn't think we needed to. I did ask Stevie, who is a doctor. Oh, yes. I don't know his boyfriend is a doctor. What does Stevie say? He said the only way this could be possible is, well, if he's lying. If he's lying, or if he's. I'm sorry, he's saying doctor. He's a pro, what can I say? Or if the boyfriend shoved eggs up and they just came out? So a lot of people, we did get a lot of feedback, have to be honest, that we didn't give enough space for the fact he, you know. Could have, yeah. Could have, yeah. Only way out. Sorry. So Stevie says he's either lying. You can't lay eggs. Or he shoved eggs up there, in which case he's also lying. Yeah, I bet we're all by our mission. He's not lying. If you shove an egg up your butt but give people the impression it just materialized. Well, he didn't tell the story, Kate. I know you guys made a point in the episode to be like, "She definitely would have gotten approval for this story." I think no. I don't think she would have asked anyone for approval. She seems so rogue to me. And a lot of celebrities are rogue. Where I think sometimes they'll just start speaking and be like, "Oh, this is just coming out of my mouth and now I'm speaking about this for 10 minutes." Because the thing about these shows is they do have these pre-production meetings. Mm-hmm. Hannah Berna, actually, you know Hannah Berna from Gigley Squad, she went to a detail about this recently. When she was on, I think it was Jimmy Fallon and how they came up with the stories with the producers that she was going to tell. And they had like a pretty long lead time. But they weren't prepared for this. Jimmy then didn't ask her about the movie. Because it's like she just dropped it in and then all of a sudden everything was D-Ray. He was absolutely prepared for this. Because if you listen to the whole thing, he asks questions about the family to get her to this point. Mm-hmm. Anyway, I also don't think she really cared about it. I think he's just that rogue. I also just wanted to make space and remember when Kate Beckinsel made that point that she's like super, super smart and has a really crazy high IQ and is a genius. Wait, was that Kate Beckinsel that said that? We covered this on the show a few years ago. I'm going to re-read the quote because this is one of my favorite things that celebrity has said. Do you reckon this made it to the CEOs that year? I suspect it may have. It's not Kate Beckinsel's first time at the CEOs. One year, I want to say this is 2021 or something. She said like her life was so hard because she's a genius. She'd done the IQ test anniversary. Yeah, I remember this. And she scored like a 151 and her mum then spoke to the media and they're like, "Yeah." She's the smartest person on the earth. She said every single doctor, every single person I've ever come across has said you'd be so much happier if you were 30% less smart. It's no good to me. It's really not helpful to me in my career. I just think it might have been a handy cap actually. I said on the show that we need this woman on our show. She is my favorite quirky aunt. My 2026 goal is to get Kate Beckinsel on this show. Because imagine what she might say, guys. She's incredible. Okay, the last one for R&G Glad that happened. Of course. Robert Erwin. Our guy. Posing for bonds. R&G Glad that happened today. So glad that happened. I'll never go to the news.com today. You had learned, which is, I can't take it anymore. Fence, big shirtless, Irwin. Just so thirsty. I don't even know if we need to say that much. He was, he was topless with a snake. I think around him. He was sitting on a deck chair in front of like a very suburbany Australianer 90s themed house. You just remember this from the get your head. I don't know. She's a not replayer for your life. Not like it is in yours, but I love this. Shall we get to the winner? He should win. I've decided. No. Robert Erwin's topless pick should win. Well, sorry. I shouldn't say no like that. I do think race and see bias will mean Kate Beckinsel wins. Interesting. Interesting. Did we get a big response from the listeners when we covered it, Kate? Yeah, because everybody did. Everyone, we got a lot of feedback that we didn't make space. Holt space. Holt space. But the fact he may have shoved it up. And the winner is. For R&G Glad, that happened presented by Four Pillars. Whoa. Is it Robert Erwin? It's Robert Erwin! Oh! Incredible. 54% of all. Yeah, closely followed by Jason Isaacs. Yeah, 37%. Oh, I couldn't have been less able to sell. Yeah, it's your first Oracle flop. Oh, yeah, yeah. Okay, well, it's got to happen to us all at some point. Yeah, flop city. And to be honest, Kate, if I may. When we before the camera started today. Where is she taking this? Charlotte, our video lead, came up to me and was playing around with this thing and she said something about, "Oh, it's giving flop." And I said, "Just like me." And so about half an hour ago, I referred to myself as a flop. And now I've had my first Oracle flop, which means the Oracle actually predicted the flop. That's an Oracle success. So, in other words, the Oracle's back on top is successfully predicting the flop. You all were there. Do you not remember me saying, "Just like me?" The Oracle has an incredible blubbless system. Post-flop back on top. Back on top. It's such a shame that we can't title this. Something fun, it's always just this year. It's because we've got lots of title options today. Let me tell you. Okay, Egg on Someone is our next award. Our third award, Egg on Someone. Who is the Egg on? Oh, my God. Sorry, I'm busy drinking a GNT for God. I'm supposed to. Egg on Someone. We introduced this to the show, "God knows when." But, it's the idea that we all get things wrong sometimes. Here at Shameless Podcast, we are not here thinking we have it right all the time. In fact, we're going to cross the years. We won't be that too many minutes. Do you want to know what comes to my mind? When I think of Egg on Someone, me earnestly predicting in an episode a couple of years ago that maybe Travis Kelsey would propose to Taylor Swift on stage at the moment. Egg on me for that. I suspect I haven't got carried away with that. We all got carried away. So, Egg on Someone is for us to decide. Is it Egg on Us? Is it Egg on the Listness? Because you guys are also not perfect. Let me tell you that much. No, no, none of us are perfect. That's the entire point. And I appreciate that it is very confusing to have an Egg themed nominee in previous category. Oh, why was Kate not able to be here? I thought about it, but anyone's for Kate. This is for Kate. Right, our first nominee for Egg on Someone. Egg on Mr. Beast for calling out the Rolling Stones. This happened at the end of August. So, Rolling Stone released their list of 25 most influential creators of 2025. This is how they decided to make the list. We started with dozens of names. Then with the help of data and software and analytics company, career IQ, way their followers engagement rate and audience growth over the past year. Then they said they used those numbers plus editorial judgment to come up with the list of all creators. So, the controversy. Mr. Beast, who is YouTube's most subscribed creator, ranked 7th. Despite the fact that comedian Caleb Heron, who runs the podcast so true with Caleb Heron, was ranked 6th. That said, Caleb is big, but he has 400,000 isht followers and Instagram 1 million on TikTok. Well, he did it at the time this list was released. Mr. Beast by comparison's ours. How many did he have? Oh, at this time, he had 77.5 Instagram. A million 120 on TikTok. And 120 million people on TikTok. And 428 million at the time on YouTube. So, the egg in it all. 7th biggest. Well, who knows? Is the egg on Rolling Stone? Or is it Mr. Beast for calling out? Rolling Stone and calling them Rolling Stones instead. He said in an out-elated tweet, "According to this list, a guy with 1 million followers is more influential in me. What did I do to piss off the Rolling Stones?" Following some backlash, he took it back. He said, "Not gonna lie after I watch some of Heron's stuff and it's actually good." So embarrassing. So embarrassing. Because I think this is big egg on Mr. Beast. For taking it back. Rolling Stone did this to bait him. And he fell for it hookline in the sinker. Big ego. Which, like, big following. So maybe it- Yeah. So maybe so. Yeah. Maybe so. All right, our second nominee. I would say our second nominee is Dolly Parton's sister. Freedom. Freedom. Pardon. I don't know if that's actually true. I don't know if it is. Let's call her "Free to Parton." Don't forget when Frida sort of publicly killed off Dolly. Yeah, she wrote on Dolly's Facebook. I'm pretty sure she wrote last night. I was up all night praying for my sister Dolly. Many of you know she hasn't been feeling her best lately. I truly believe in the power of prayer. And I've been led to ask all of the world that loves her to be prayer warriors and pray with me. She's strong. She's loved. And with all the prayers being lifted for her, I know in my heart she's going to be just fine. God speed my sister Dolly. We all love you. So obviously everybody thought- Dolly dead. Dolly dead. But she wasn't. She posted a video. Saying everyone chill out with the caption. I ain't dead yet. Yeah. Of course we actually need to also acknowledge another album. We get shares. In our episode when we spoke about this, we spoke about the fact that there was like an AI-generated image that- Dolly refers to this in her video of her and Reba McIntyre. Mm-hmm. And Reba. Oh yeah. Who's Reba? And everybody had a field day with that. Yeah, I know, but I'm also- I have the fear in my heart now because I actually can't remember. Can we run that? No, I hope so. I thought she's either dead. She's on the police. Or is she a country singer? A country singer. Who's a host? Who was a host on the police? She's dancing with the stars? They all were. No, I think there was someone else who had a name that sounded like- I'm just thinking of women with red hair. Yeah. Okay. Wow. We still don't remember. Snuckers. All right, what about Kristen Bell's run of quotes when it comes to egg on Kristen? This was from October. In the space of a week, she gave two very clunky press junk at the moment. She was promoting nobody wants this. Which is on Netflix. So, the first was her anniversary post on Instagram where she quoted her husband, "Dak, ship it." "Zaz, do you want to read it out?" Ugh. Yes, she wrote. Happy 12th wedding anniversary to the man who once said to me, "I would never kill you. A lot of men have killed their wards." At a certain point, even though I'm heavily incentivized to kill you, I never would. Response to that was not tip-top. She then, the week after, went on Kelly Clarkson's talk show where she said, "I was pregnant in Adam, as in Adam, her co-star, Adam Brody." "A co-star, I don't know if he wants this." This is like a previous thing that I'm filming. I really should have set this up with context in the way I dive into the quote, but here we are. Adam was playing my love interest on House of Lies. I was eight and a half months pregnant and we were blurring it out, as in this sex scene. Adam affectionately refers to it as our threesome, which I do not want my daughter to hear. What do you mean, I do not want my daughter to hear? Well, now she will be sharing it on Kelly Clarkson's talk show. Our final nominee is ourselves. Because, never remember, well, please. We hope you guys never remember. Do not remember. When there was that clip of Ben Affleck and Jennifer Garner, I'm pretty sure they were like paintballing in L.A. with their children and he was helping her set up and her hips definitely reciprocated when he lent in. And we said there must be something going on here because her hips reciprocated. Belly, I'm sure you have a snippet here. This was March, by the way. If you would tell me this was two years ago, I would not have blinked tonight. But yes, Belly, you've got a snippet? Yes, I do. What is going on here? Like, let's try to be rational. I know it wouldn't know how. It can be a bit exciting when stories like this come up. We can run away from ourselves a little bit. Yeah, I know. Let's really bring it back down to ground. Our Jen Garner and Ben Affleck getting back together because we cannot forget the story about the nanny when they were married. Of course. The quotes about the son casting his son. He can quiet. He can quiet the shadow. Our favorite quote of all time that I never quite remember. This is so unlikely to me that they would actually be getting back together. But my eyes don't lie. I saw a cuddle that I would not like. My partner to have with his ex or her ex. I don't think they're getting back together. I don't think we'll ever hear about this again. It was a moment. It was a moment. It's confusing. But I think we'll never get to the bottom of it. I don't see Jen Garner ever being back with him for long. Like, not publicly in a committed relationship way. No. So it all comes down to did her hips reciprocate or not. And that's the question I'm going to have at the fore. Not me actually doing the action. If anyone's wondering, Zara, just put her hands in the air. It's a little. I think we got one. My hips tingling. Lucky you couldn't see it. Now you can. This is not an egg on us. We're not getting back together. Because I only looked at the run sheet and put this in. So if everyone voted for us, this will be a travesty. Well, no, this will be a very meta egg on you guys. He's never an egg on us. OK, you all turn to an ounce, Michelle. If you guys come for us, I know we just came for us. Who do you think we'll win? I think now. Um. Who was the first nominee again? Mr. Beast. Mr. Beast. I think Mr. Beast is the winner today. You reckon I don't think. I haven't got any of these, right? Him. Don't pardon. Yes, that's what I was going to say. 33% of the vote. Dolly Parden. Well, it's actually Dolly Parden's sister, Freda Parden. Freda Parden. Firstly followed by Kristen Bell, if you were wondering. Oh, wow. Firstly followed by Kristen Bell. The ladies. So it was never an egg on us. Thank you, everyone. Thank you. Thank you so much. We agree. Coming up after the break, I've got a new category for you all. I feel a bit of a surprise from Michelle, but first away from today's sponsor. Mish, I am calling it. It is gin and tonic season. Absolutely agree. It's the drink of the summer, especially when it's made well. For us, that means the four pillars red ride gin. There's signature gin that's distilled with fresh Australian oranges. So yum. Oh, yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum. I regret that immediately. I'm making the perfect summer and it's my GNT. It is so easy. Just lay our eyes, four pillars red ride gin. A fancy tonic and a juicy wedge of orange. This summer, enjoy a four pillars GNT with orange. Thank you so much to our friends and four pillars for making this episode of "Shameless Possible." Yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum yum. You can put this down for the next 10 minutes. Don't mind if I do. As I kind of breadcrumbs at the top of this episode, what I noticed when I was going through all the runchites is how slow the New Year was. I found myself perpetually shocked that there were some stories we deemed worthy of a "Shameless" episode. And so I thought, all right, our next category this year, our new category is going to be "Slow News Year" rather than "Slow News Week." And I'm going to read you some headlines of things that we unpacked on the show. And I want you to tell me what the story is about to save you forever. Belly can't partake, because she knows. Because I will say, other years, we've come to do the "See Youers." Like, the Golden See Youer has been so obvious. Like, with Barbie movie, when we had, it ends with us. When we had the. What was the film with Olivia Wilde? Don't worry, darling. Like, normally, there's some big, big stories this year. There was a couple. And also, normally, when we put together this runchite, we have just like 100 stories. And we have to whittle and whittle and whittle and whittle. It didn't feel that hard this year. No, you put it to me and I was like, "Yeah, I guess." What are you? Okay, our first "Slow News Year" story. Okay. Taylor Lautner. Where will hunter TV series in development at Amazon? What's that about? That does what it says on the tin. Yup. I have no other details to offer you. Why did we discuss that? I don't know. Not one part of this is interesting. I mean, it is strange. There's. But it is interesting because there was so this new TV show in development, but it's not definitely being made. So we also jumped to the gun. We spoke about it before. It was even a thing. And the whole idea of this show is that Taylor Lautner plays himself. And he's drawn into a secret society of werewolf trackers who need his unique expertise. As he navigates his double life, Hollywood actor by day, supernatural warrior by night, he must wrestle with the ultimate irony, fighting the very creatures that made him famous. This is vaguely coming back to me now. And it's sort of set in the years after Twilight and he'll play himself. Look, before watching the Jonas Brothers Christmas movie of 2025, I would have heard that and gone, "Hmm, doesn't sound very good." Now I've watched the Jonas Brothers movie, which strutles the light between reality and sci-fi. Someone make this fucking movie. There's potential there. Okay, well then there you go. I love that. Our second story. I'm packing those Barack Obama and Jennifer Anderson. This was actually an egg on me. Oh, I think I made a prediction in that that there were in this segment that there was trouble in the marriage between Michelle Obama and Barack Obama. You did, I remember. I did. So this was an egg on me. I think there were just some dumb headlines that speculated these two might be flirting or together. What actually happened? We spoke about this in January. This is also what's so stunning to me about this year. Usually when we get back from a break, there is just a wealth of stories rustic. So many. In January, we're usually full of them. This was mid-Jan that we spoke about this, but this story was actually from mid-2024. Grim. So there were all these rumors in mid-2024 about Jennifer Anderson and Barack Obama, just like dumb tabloid staff. And then it was Jennifer Anderson went on one of the Jimmy's and said, "That's the dumbest headline I've seen." And she said she wasn't mad about it. And then we spoke about it. I think it popped off though because Michelle Obama wasn't at the inauguration. That's right. She had a bit of a couple events in a row. Or like, "Well, where is she?" And do you know at that time, I'm sure I said this because I'm such a celeb chaser and a clout chaser, for sure. That when she didn't go to the inauguration, she was hiding out in Hawaii. And I was in Hawaii. So I drove past her house. You did say this. Yeah. Which is quite-- Did you wave at the house? It's Fort Knox. But-- Surely you gave it away. Oh, for sure. Floor down the car. Oh, yeah. I saw it. Okay. Okay, Robert Pattinson claims he can turn his sense of smell off. Do you remember this? We spoke about this? Yeah, this was in January. Did we really just cover this so we could talk about his little pastor creation that he had years ago? No, because we didn't even include that in the run sheet. A little clout thing. Because breaking the fourth wall, sometimes we may do that. It may be a slow news week. And so we'll say, this story is interesting, but it will give us the opportunity to talk about something four years ago. We had to vlog that horse again. Nothing coming to me. So he was the face of Dior Om. Men. I'm just trying to do the French thing. Yeah. Which is a fragrance. And he said in an interview that he doesn't have a good sense of smell. And he can turn it off. Sure Dior was stoked about that. I agree. That's exactly what you want in your ambassador. Yeah, he said he has sent dyslexia. Okay, great. Perfect. Perfect to be a face of the fragrance. All right, my. God, that is slow. Slow. Oh, I reckon this is slower. This is horrible. Fans react to Courtney Kardashian's Crumble Cookie. No, I remember this. And she's alive. I pitched this. Yeah, I remember this was February. This was in the era on TikTok of people's Crumble Cookie reviews going absolutely fucking off. Yes, sparked often by the festive themed Crumble Cookie collections. Because it's just come back up on my feed. The Kardashians then ran their own bespoke line of Crumble Cookies and the Chloe Kardashian woman is probably the everyone's favorite. And then Courtney Kardashians was like this healthy, no flower, no fucking taste. I think they call it gluten free. Sorry. Sorry. Just to be careful there. Okay. Okay, pause. If you see Leac. No, obviously I care for you deeply. We're all the same team here. We, we, you deserve delicious things. And Courtney didn't deliver that. No, she delivered slop. Yeah. If her and hated it, apparently it does like feet. I love that story. That's not a slow music. That's incredible. Yeah, it was um. What was it called? Courtney's gluten free, flower, chocolate cake. And it's sad because Kim got a snickerdoodle from Kate Cookie. Well, it's not sad. Courtney would have picked that for herself. Watching, having watched the latest season, update for the listeners and back. Back on the Kardashians. The bitch on the weekend. It's actually not that bad. I loved this. I know. I have loose methods. No, you don't. Not for cookies. For reality too. Our final story in this category. Okay. Why are you doing a lot of work? I did. I've got a one out of like five. Man steals hat from boy. Woman steals ball from boy. This was a you story? Well, there were two stories. You loved these. Um, these occurred at some kind of sporting match. This actually happened when I was on mat leave. So, um, unfair from you, but I can succeed. I think it did. I don't think I was on this episode. You were on there were two episodes. You were on the first one, not on the second one. I was on the second one, which was the Wimbledon one. Or there was something so close. So this was September. US Open. Isn't this while that this was September? US Open. You saw that in my nose. No, I didn't. Ah, camera. We have, at least we have everything. Well, I actually think I have a, I need a, I need a pair of glasses these days. I actually can't read your notes. Is that bad? Should I be able to read them from here? So, after the US Open, the Polish tenor star Camille Mayerzak, won his game, gave his hat to like, was signing stuff in the crowd, gave his hat to this young boy, and his fan snatched it. I think you were in that recording. That's a qualified celebrity? No. Sports. And then the next week? Yeah, the next week. It happened again and we were in London. And we recorded without you in London. I'm pretty sure. And we made, make me sad all over again. And we missed you a lot. And it was a baseball game. And then a woman stole a ball from a boy. And it wasn't celebrity at all. But that's why it's in the Sloan New Year category. You were behind, that's just such distinctly Zara Mcdonald theme, or like vibe of story. Because it has absolutely nothing to do with celebrity. No. But we should have passion projects on this show. And it does, it does fill our dumb quota. Every episode we look at, we're like, "Where's the dumb? That's fucking dumb." It's also dumb. So, what do we think the audience voted for in Sloan New Year? Oh, they voted! Oh, terribly boring. I don't think I can't ask you in cookie. What do you think, Zara? Uh, I don't think they would do it to me and vote for the ball in the hat. Mm-hmm. And the things. Are they voting for the boringest? The most boring. The slowest of the year. I think they're going to vote for Taylor Lawtner. Oh, yeah, that's pretty fun. So slow, you've actually already thought about it. Okay. What? I'm not happy about it. Oh, it's a poor boy. The hat and ball seal. But nearly 50% of the votes. Let me just, uh, you cows. You give them a message. What, what do you grumpy about? That they didn't get behind your sport story? Yeah, I thought there was a lot of joy that came with those stories and it brought me a lot of joy. So, it's what I'm going to say. Um, Mish? Well, I'm back. Golden, see you over time. Fuck. Yeah, Golden. We spit. Ruthies. (Applause) Golden, see you over. Yeah, chuck it, chuck it, chuck it. Oh, I'm actually getting it. I'm so annoyed, I'm so annoyed. Oh, my God. So, off mic, I don't know if it was recording with what we'd recreate last year. And Zara accidentally hit me in the dark. So, no, no, no. For those tuning in via audio format. Last year, Zara, um, Frisbee, a envelope to the side that hit Annabelle in the face. Did you mean to hit Annabelle in the eye for the second time? No, no, you did well. I Frisbee did in a general direction as a joke from last year. Annabelle, we're obviously not for violence, but can I try and throw one your way now? No, no, no, no, no. I'd like to try. Don't try, and then you have to throw one back. Okay, I don't want to. You have to. No, no, you have to. Give me that envelope, Annabelle. We won't open it yet. I'm gonna try Frisbee it into your face. Okay, can I go look? Yeah, yeah, definitely. You can go look. Because that was incredible aim. No, no, I wasn't aiming for it. Do you like here? Okay, looking at my camera. What if you're gonna get a mark? No, no, no, no, it was impressive. I was just like, you better do it. You better do it. You better do it. Okay. And it probably won't hit your face, because I'm not very good at this. Okay. [LAUGHTER] It is quite hard to do. Why don't now do one back to us. Take the golden to your-- oh, yep. Okay. Okay. Oh, very good. Oh, very good. And what would you like as a prize? Because I hit you. And I don't think anyone deserves that. [LAUGHTER] I want the trophy. Okay, you can keep the trophy. Right. The trophy's fucking pathetic. I wasn't saying it. It is smaller than the lamps we have on the table. In front of us, it's teeny, teeny tiny. Who was responsible for the trophy? I feel sick. I think I had a podcast Lucy bought it. It's me throwing loose under the bus. Yeah. Next year, we've got to triple the trophy budget, you guys. Yeah. Less money on gold lamps, more money on-- There I say. Can I be honest? I think most of the budget this year has gone towards A-HAS. No offense. You too. I'm a shame. But we've had so much fun on A-HAS. We've been on A-HAS. All right, the golden C-O-I, our nominees, are-- Well, this is recognizing it, sorry. Obviously, like, if you're winning the golden C-O-I, you are the biggest, the best celebrity story of the year. You're the one that gave us the most juice. OK. First nominee is us. Blue origin space flight. The Katy Perry space flight, of course. So in April, the celebrities went to space. How can we forget? Nobody has. Six famous women, including Katy Perry, Gail King, Aisha Bow, Amanda Nguyen, Lauren Sanchez, and Kerry Anne Flynn, boarded Jeff Bezos' blue origin rocket. Now, beyond those celebs, we also had celebs back on Earth watching it happen. Koi Kardashian, Oprah, Orlando. They were watching on. For the 11 minutes, was it 11? Yeah. Well, I think they were in the air for 11. I think they all went to the bathroom. No time at all. Now, lots happened, but namely, Katy Perry decided to become an astronaut. Become an astronaut. While others were admiring the beautiful-- The beautiful. The beautiful, the beautiful. Oh, beautiful. This has been a beautiful episode. Do you want to do it on more time when you get-- And there she is. Do you remember when Lauren Sanchez gave those quotes to Vogue? And she's like, this hasn't just changed me spiritually, but also physically. Oh, yeah. Has one physically changed after going into space? I know. But Katy Perry held up a butterfly-shaped card to the nearest camera to release her set list from the Lifetimes tour. It was just such a shame because it was too blurry, so no one could read it. Flop. Just thinking of flops. There's this flop city. Back down on Earth, Katy and Gayle kissed the ground. And I feel bad for Katy, because no one else is giving Gayle enough plaque for kissing the ground. So true. But then to stitch this all together, in November, we had Orlando Bloom, who had then split from Katy Perry, as we know in the intervening months. He then took a photo with actress Rachel Lynn Matthews. Rachel was dressed as Katy on the space flight. And then we realized mid-story that probably all landed and know that. But it was a little cherry on top of this Sunday. So that's Blue Origin's space flight. Nobody in number two, Michelle. Taylor Swift, buying back her masters, releasing an album and getting engaged. Very big year for T-Swiz. Yes. Look, we'll give you the quick headlines. We'll get through it quickly. As we know, she bought back her masters. Life of a showgirl came out. Yup. 100%. She's got engaged to Travis to the English teacher. He's the gym teacher. Yeah, your English teacher and your gym teacher are getting married. We also had the dock of the eras to up. So that's Taylor. We can't forget that Denise Welch entered the chat. Oh yeah, Maddie Healy's mum. Now, a friend of the show, Dylan Denise Welch. Since the weekend. Yeah, did you miss this? What the fuck up? Denise Welch, a friend of the show. What did she do? She commented on our Instagram. No, she did it. Or did it? Tick tock? One of them. Where was I? Was this on Slack? I just didn't see it. Zara's-- No, no, no, no. Zara's a Achilles Healy since I've been gone. My type being a subscribe back in. And I'm just not across anything anymore. You're allowed to. You get free passes for a long time. We're on Slack? Shameless pod socials. So what did she comment? Here's something I prepared earlier. But Maddie Healy's mum knows who we are. I think it was in Shameless pod socials or was it Shameless podcast. As a fried and mentally anguish 67-year-old, I think he's great. It was on the Timmy Chalamet video. Wow, I know. Now, yeah. OK, OK. That's big. That's big. Not golden teo, a big, big, big. And Michelle, our final story. The Cold Plate concert. Hello, guys, randomly coming into your ears from a time after we recorded the sewers to let you know that before the next section, this was recorded before Kristen Cavett, who was at the center of the Cold Plate story, came out and did a profile. So we don't have those details all that context in this conversation. This conversation was had before. All of that. OK, back to the show. Well, it wasn't specifically the Cold Plate concert. It was the affair, quote unquote, the jumbo tron. Yeah, I've really fixed it on jumbo trons. This is like-- This is not an IR, yes. She doesn't think jumbo trons get enough airtime. No. But he doesn't want it to be called a jumbo tron. He doesn't think against it. It's a kiss cam. But everyone keeps calling it a jumbo tron, and people need to stop. Oh, sorry. So I got my concert in July. I have to go easy on her. I hit her in bed. She's concussed from the flying envelope. The jumbo tron-- oh, we call it kiss cam. Kiss cam. The kiss cam landed on two middle-edged people out of Cold Plate concert. Oh, my God. They're trying to drive by for their ages. A middle-edged. As soon as the couple clocked that they were on camera, he released his arms and she covered her face. Yes, now, these two, I don't think, are actually together. In October, it was revealed he may Mr. Mann-- whose name I've actually already forgotten-- which is good, actually. Found her of a-- see you over the start. Yeah. He got released. All billion dollars' data, I guess. Yeah. Astronomer. Astronomer. See you. Andy Cohen. Andy. Wasn't it Andy Byron? Oh, my God. You guys keep talking. You keep talking. No, I think it was. Sometimes my brain-- So speaking of brains, I actually think I'm wrong about the kiss cam jumping from me. It's the other way around. Not that it matters, but I think I am-- No, thank you. Andy fucking Byron. No, it's not a kiss cam. He didn't want to be kiss cam because he's a very serious rock star. And they wouldn't have a kiss cam. But as someone who went to the concert, I can tell you now, it's a kiss cam. It's a kiss cam. They're like, now cuddle the person closest to you. Anyway. OK, Golden Tear Time for Shell. I think you know what, Annabelle, you can do the other way. Wait, look at this. Oh, sorry. I'm going to go the first one, Blurring. Oh. I think, though, I think maybe to give some annoying nuance. I think for the shameless listenership, it should be Blue Origin Space Flight. I think for the general public, it should be Coldplay concert. Well, and that's a good point, Michelle. What should they be voting for? Us as a community or the community at large? Us as a community. Because we're beautiful together. OK. I get to do it. Yeah, do you get to do it? Shall we? Can we hear what you think we'll win? Shall I think it's Coldplay, kiss cam? Oh, jump a drum. Oh, do you think it's that much? I know it's that much. Oh, thank you. How much? 41%, so 8,000 people voted for this. OK. An emphatic victory for Coldplay concert. Well, well, congratulations for Golden C.O.R. Who do we send Andy Byron? Congratulations, Kelly. Thank you, everyone. I'd like to thank you. Yeah, it's up to you guys. Give us a speech. Andy. Charlotte. Who else? Maybe a four-pill is mentioned. Of course, four-pill is orangey-glout about them. Who do we send this to? Because I think this should end up in someone's hands. Do we send it to Andy? We promised her a five-minute ago that she could hold onto it because we hit her in the head. Oh, gee. Oh, you promised her that. That's fine. I thought she was meant to be. We hit her in the head. OK, never mind. If you do want to send it out somewhere, Andy will be my first. The creators of Jumpatron. Yes. Yeah, or if you wanted to find another and send that out. Yeah, I'll get a big-- Oh, great idea. I'll get a bigger one for myself. On the company car. I'm not trying. And I'll send this to Andy. Beautiful stuff, guys. Thank you so much. This is our final. It's not our final-- oh, it is our final episode of this year. Yeah, because we are coming back maybe on the first day of the new year. I can't quite remember. We're doing a little bit of a news themed episode in the main feed. Yes, but this is the final episode of 2025. Thank you so much, as always, for coming on the 2025 journey with us. You guys are the best. So great. You're having really great for us this year, haven't they? Oh, my God. Well, and truly, I bloody love this show. I love it. How many years in a week now? We're coming up to eight years in March. But this almost might be-- We're currently in our eighth year. This only occurred to me when I had a baby. When you celebrate a birthday, you've already done that. It's like SEA, right? We're in year eight. When we turn eight. We're tied. We celebrate. Oh, and we turn eight. It's like all we've completed eight years. Oh, so technically, I'm 29. Yeah, well, you already-- I love that. Wait, what? What? I've been confused. OK, no one is taking this seriously. No, I need the record to show she is not. Can we actually play in post a slowdown rewind? I think it's awful. Sorry, it feels really bad, and I think it's all there. I'd also like the slowdown voices to be like, no. Yeah, track it, track it, track it. It's so good. We might one more time, try and hit it all the head one more time. Yeah, you're good. Grabby one more slow. And about grab that, let's hit-- let's both aim for Zara. Hang on. We'll go at the same time. OK, three, two, one. Yay! Cute. I'll see you guys. We'll see you next year. Stay safe, guys. Bye. Love you, Mike. We'll see you guys next year. We'll see you guys next year.