Gossip and grit: how the Shameless podcast became the voice of two generations

The celebrity-obsessed show for ‘smart women who like dumb stuff’ created by former Mamamia writers Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald is spinning a new chapter in pop culture

It started innocently with a conversation about The Bachelor. Dissecting each episode was part of the job description for Michelle Andrews and Zara McDonald, young writers at women’s media outlet Mamamia. Their debates were not standard water-cooler musings, though. A senior member of the podcast team saw something in the duo’s sophisticated banter and gave them a chance to cut their teeth on “Bach Chat” – two 10-minute podcast slots per week.

“There’s something else here,” McDonald recalls thinking during that time. She tells Guardian Australia that she worked with Andrews on additional podcast ideas to pitch to the Mamamia team. “All of our conversations are celebrity or pop-culture focused and we were like, well, it’s not out there, let’s just try it.”

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