The Way They Were

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 revisit the glittery, petty, weirdly addictive feud that defined pop’s Tumblr era and ask: was any of it ever really about the dancers?
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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 hollywood feuds in a special platonic edition of The Way They Were!

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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 her on-screen love interest Adam Driver. Chantal and Gráinne dig into the unreliable but captivating narration of one of the most fascinating celebrities of the modern era.
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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 interview and Carole Radziwill's problematic relationship with Ghislaine Maxwell.
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Hello everyone! Gráinne has, somewhat inconveniently for us but thrillingly for her, disappeared into the bright lights and late nights of Saturday Night Live UK—which means The Way They Were is entering a brief period of organised chaos.
For the next couple of weeks, we’ll be popping up in slightly odd places, like a situationship that won’t quite define itself. But we’re not leaving you stranded, we’re lining up some bonus episodes to keep things ticking over while Gráinne enjoys life as a superstar sketch writer. She will, of course, return to her true calling soon: deep, forensic dives into celebrity breakups, with all the relish of someone who’s been briefly allowed to forget them.
However look out for some Gossip episodes, a special friendship break-up episode and a reality show deep dive with some familiar faces from our recent past!
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