Josh Smith's Great Chat Show

From an unknown actress to the First Lady of Musical Theatre, Dame Elaine Paige's story is one of the great showbusiness journeys. Eighteen years of auditions, rejection, and near-quitting before one role changed her life overnight.

In this chat with Josh, Elaine opens up about the chaos that happened when the world found out she'd been cast in Evita, how she escaped a pack of journalists who chased her down the street, and the moment she burst into tears telling her mum she didn't want the fame that came with it. She tells the extraordinary story of how she came to perform the iconic song Memory in Cats, and taking to the stage in Sunset Boulevard only a few hours after recovering from breast cancer surgery.

She also reflects on meeting actress Rachel Zegler who took on Elaine’s famous role in Evita, the life-changing wisdom Stephen Sondheim passed on to her, and why she thinks music and arts in state schools should be everybody's urgent priority.

Oh, and she has a copy of her 23rd solo album, Miscellaneous Paige on its way to Buckingham Palace for the King.

Elaine’s album Miscellaneous Paige is out July 17th and her single Only A Lifetime is out now

🎥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠& ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠follow the show on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @joshsmithsgreatchatshow

📩 Business enquiries – [email protected]

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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.

After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.

Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.

If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.

Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)

Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell

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You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Anything goes in this group chat!

Today Lucy Halliday, the breakout star you know and love from The Testaments is added to the Group Chat. She reveals the name of the cast group chat, how they have gossip that could shut down the world and who sends the funniest messages. Lucy also walks us through filming the most iconic scene in the show, shares her best night out in Glasgow, and tells us exactly which Testaments castmate she'd call in a crisis. Oh, and she has a message for Theo James about replying to her texts.

🎥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠& ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠follow the show on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @joshsmithsgreatchatshow

📩 Business enquiries – [email protected]

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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.

After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.

Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.

If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.

Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)

Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell

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Lucy Halliday lied her way into her first audition, went to medical school convinced acting would never happen for her, and is now starring opposite Elizabeth Moss in the sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. Lucy’s journey to playing the rebel Pearl Girl Daisy in ‘The Testaments’ has been anything but straightforward. 

In this chat with Josh, Lucy opens up about landing only her third professional job, what it was like to film her first week on set with Elizabeth Moss, and the life-changing advice James McAvoy gave her on the set of California Schemin’ that has become her mantra. She also talks candidly about growing up without drama school training and why she would never call herself an actor until very recently.

Lucy gets into why The Testaments feel so urgent right now, why the line between the show and reality is terrifyingly thin, and what she thinks needs to change to make young women safer in society today.

Oh, and she tells the full story of hyperventilating in Margaret Atwood's face, sitting elbow to elbow with her watching the first episodes back, and what Margaret pulled out of her bag at lunch that nobody was expecting…

🎥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠& ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠follow the show on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @joshsmithsgreatchatshow

📩 Business enquiries – [email protected]

────────────────────────

About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.

After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.

Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.

If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.

Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)

Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell

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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Quick fire questions, honest answers. Anything goes in the group chat.

This week Angourie Rice, the actress you know and love from Spider-Man, Mean Girls, Mare of Easttown, and her new rom-com Finding Emily joins the group chat. She reveals what Lindsay Lohan said to her when they finally met on set, reveals the fiercely competitive thing she did with her co-star Spike Fearn and shares her verdict on the British Sunday roast as an Aussie. 

🎥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠& ⁠⁠⁠⁠follow the show on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠ @joshsmithsgreatchatshow

📩 Business enquiries – [email protected]

────────────────────────

About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.

After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.

Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.

If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.

Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)

Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell

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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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From three Spider-Man films to Mean Girls, Mare of Easttown, and now leading the rom-com Finding Emily, Angourie Rice has been one of the most quietly compelling actresses of her generation. And she has been doing it since she was six years old.

In this chat with Josh, Angourie opens up about what it's really like being a child actor, navigating a world of adults as a child, and the people-pleasing that made it hard to stand up for herself. She talks candidly about body image and costume fittings, why comparison is something she still struggles with and the incredible advice that helped her overcome it. 

Angourie also gets into what genuinely frustrates her about the way women are written on screen, why the phrase "strong female character" needs to be retired, and why the responsibility for women's safety shouldn’t fall on women.

Plus, she tells the story of her grade seven boyfriend ditching her for laser tag, reveals her karaoke go-to, and shares what she learned about British university culture filming in Manchester. 

🎥 ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Subscribe to the YouTube channel ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠& ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠follow the show on Instagram⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ &⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ TikTok:⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ @joshsmithsgreatchatshow

📩 Business enquiries – [email protected]

────────────────────────

About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.

After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.

Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.

If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.

Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.

Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)

Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell

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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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