The Way They Were
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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 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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Recent Episodes
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
We'll be right back!
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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