Episodes
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The incredibly talented and lovely author and journalist Catriona Innes joins the Hot Mess Clubhouse this week, for the final episode of the second series. Catriona talks to host, Lucy Vine about her magical and deeply emotional new novel, The Matchmaker. They chat about the rollercoaster publication process and how Catriona hid copies of her book for days before she could look at them. They also discuss her amazing dream job, as Features Director of Cosmopolitan magazine, as well as Catriona’s various undercover journalism missions. As if all that wasn’t exciting enough, Lucy and Catriona also cover terrible high-fives, her anti-dolphin agenda, and how much she lied in her own teen diary.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Hearst/Cosmopolitan offices and produced by Pineapple Audio Production.
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No-one elicits a reaction like this week’s legendary guest, author Sophie Kinsella. The prolific and hilarious writer – best known for her Shopaholic series, starring Becky Bloomwood – joins host Lucy Vine at this week’s Hot Mess Clubhouse where they discuss Sophie’s new novel, Christmas Shopaholic. Recorded at a live event at the Romantic Novelist Association Winter Party, Sophie and Lucy talk in depth about returning to an old friend in Becky and how the Shopaholic books remain so relatable and popular even after 20 years. Sophie also opens up about Googling herself, controversially not having a favourite Jane Austen book, and what she’s like when she’s angry.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Romantic Novelist Association Winter Party and produced by Pineapple Audio Production.
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Journalist and author, Terri White is this week’s guest at the Hot Mess Clubhouse. She’s the editor in chief of Empire and Pilot TV magazines, as well as the author of upcoming book, Undone. She talks to host Lucy Vine about her incredible career, editing an array of big-name magazines, as well as explaining how she harassed her way into her first journalism job and how she repeatedly upended her life in pursuit of new work challenges. Terri also opens up about being the gender underdog, cheap chocolate, poverty violence and kissing boys in trees. Be warned: there’s also a lot of shouting about feminism.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Waterstones Gower Street and produced by Pineapple Audio Production.
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Bona fide legend Jill Mansell is the latest funny woman to join the Hot Mess Clubhouse. Recorded at a live event in front of an audience at Waterstones Gower Street, host Lucy Vine talks to the author of 30+ books about her writing process, which sees her doing everything by hand with a fountain pen. The legendary and always hilarious author opens up about being more nervous than ever about her work, fancying her characters, vivid dreams, swearing, and being inspired by This Morning. She also talks about her recent book, Maybe This Time and how she got the idea from an upside down sheep.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Waterstones Gower Street and produced by Pineapple Audio Productions.
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Recorded at a special live event in front of an audience at Waterstones Gower Street, the latest Hot Mess Clubhouse welcomes three incredibly talented writers, Daisy Buchanan, Ayisha Malik and Rosie Walsh. The three authors talk to host Lucy Vine about their most recent books – The Sisterhood, This Green and Pleasant Land, and The Man Who Didn’t Call – opening up about never feeling like a proper writer, the fun of killing off characters and crying over reviews. But don’t worry, they also manage plenty of nonsense, discussing farts, the art of laughing at yourself and how rich you have to be to shop at Waitrose.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Waterstones Gower Street and produced by Pineapple Audio Production.
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The always honest and always gorgeously-fringed Dawn O’Porter is the latest member to join the exclusive Hot Mess Clubhouse. The author, writer and TV star joins host Lucy Vine to talk about her new book, So Lucky, as well as Dawn's other amazing career achievements, which include writing a musical and launching her own podcast. She also opens up about a variety of important issues close to her heart, including Beyonce, the kids question, thin eyebrows, being an annoying teenager, and other totally normal stuff like whether the moon landing really happened or not.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Waterstones Piccadilly and produced by Pineapple Audio Production.
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Screenwriter, playwright and general genius, Rose Heiney joins the Hot Mess Clubhouse this week. Speaking to host Lucy Vine she talks about her varied career starting with her first novel, The Days of Judy B, which was nominated for The Times/South Bank Show Breakthrough Award. She’s since written stage plays, radio shows, and for TV series, including Miranda and Fresh Meat. Earlier this year, Rose’s stage show Original Death Rabbit, starring Kimberley Nixon, won critical acclaim and is now available to buy from Nick Hern Books or on Amazon. She’s currently a writer on Armando Iannucci’s new HBO show Avenue 5. Listen to Lucy and Rose talk people pleasing, quitting Grease, and how Bill Bryson inspired her writing career.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Waterstones Gower Street and produced by Pineapple Audio Production.
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The truly excellent queen of podcasts (and books and journalism and being sexy), Caroline O’Donoghue joins the Hot Mess Clubhouse this week. The hilarious author of Promising Young Women – as well as her upcoming novels, Scenes of a Graphic Nature and All Our Hidden Gifts – joins host Lucy Vine to discuss her work as a writer of books and articles, as well as her brilliant podcasts, Sentimental Garbage and School for Dumb Women. But they also cover a lot of silly stuff like raging periods, their favourite swear words, proposals in graveyards and whether sexting is, in fact, sexy.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Orion Publishing and produced by Pineapple Audio Production.
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Welcome to season two of The Hot Mess Clubhouse, featuring a different funny female writer each week. In the first episode, host Lucy Vine meets writer and journalist Jessica Pan. They discuss her brilliantly funny and clever book,Sorry I’m Late, I Didn’t Want To Come: An Introvert's Year of Living Dangerously. The inspiring memoir follows Jessica’s year of trying to fight her introvert instincts as she attempts stand up comedy, takes drugs with strangers and travels alone. They discuss her misadventures – and the dickheads she meets along the way – as well as a variety of topics including flirting, rule breaking, fancying Prince Eric from The Little Mermaid, and breaking the law for money.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Jessica’s house and produced by Pineapple Audio Production.
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The most niche comedian on the circuit, Harriet Braine joins the Hot Mess Clubhouse this week to play a fake trumpet and plan her Taylor Swift-style takeover with host Lucy Vine. The comedy pioneer has been killing it since winning Best Newcomer at the Musical Comedy Awards, winning the Funny Women Stage Award in 2016 and being a finalist in So You Think You’re Funny the same year. In 2017, she was a finalist in the Amused Moose Comedy Awards and was crowned Buxton Fringe Individual Comedy Award Winner. She’s now heading to Edinburgh Fringe with her third solo show, Les Admirables, a historical and feminist musical comedy show. On this episode, she chats about sexy Nigella Lawson, lizards from outer space, snogging inappropriate people and auditioning for Britain’s Got Talent.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Orion Publishing and edited by Hannah Varrall.
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Fresh Meat star Kimberley Nixon is the totally hilarious and lovely latest addition to The Hot Mess Clubhouse. The film and TV actor has graduated from playing the likes of Lindsay in Angus, Thongs and Perfect Snogging and Kate in Wild Child, to more grown up roles, starring as Josie in Fresh Meat and more recently storming the stage in the one-woman play Original Death Rabbit. She talks to host Lucy Vine about all her roles, snogging Aaron Taylor-Johnson, swearing, memorising 53 pages and chocolate.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Waterstones Gower Street and edited by Hannah Varrall.
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The woman in all your favourite TV shows, Tiff Stevenson is the newest hilarious member of The Hot Mess Clubhouse. You’ll know her from years as a brilliant stand-up comedian and her sell-out Edinburgh Fringe shows, but she’s also a writer and actor. She’s in the amazing BBC show People Just Do Nothing and the incredibly relatable Gameface with her friend Roisin Conaty. Clubhouse host, Lucy Vine gets serious and silly with Tiff about a range of subjects including the curse of big boobs, kink-shaming, and accidentally murdering goldfish with perfume.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Acast studios and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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Maybe the best human ever, Maisie Adam joins The Hot Mess Clubhouse this week. She won So You Think You're Funny? competition in 2017, then blew everyone away at last year’s Edinburgh Festival, getting nominated for the Best Newcomer award and winning the Amused Moose National Comic Award. She’s also swiftly become a regular on our TV screens, appearing recently on the likes of Mock the Week. Host Lucy Vine gets giggly with Maisie, talking about a variety of weird subjects, including wasps, hilarious lies, Steve Irwin and her Strictly Come Dancing ambitions.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Waterstones Gower Street and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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Genius Andi Osho is the latest addition to the Hot Mess Clubhouse. The genuinely hilarious actor and comedian has been on our screens for a while now, as a regular on the stand-up circuit and Channel 4 comedy panel shows, but in recent years she’s been focusing on acting. She’s appeared in new superhero film, Shazam, and stars in apocalyptic Sky series Curfew. And more importantly, she recently killed it on a celebrity version of The Chase. Host Lucy Vine and Andi chat about moving from comedy to acting, as well as a lot of sillier things that include zombies, sex with Bradley Walsh, and singing My Heart Will Go On.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at The Bill Murray pub in Angel and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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Hilarious Sofie Hagen joins The Hot Mess Clubhouse this week to speak to Lucy Vine about her life as a comedian, author and fat activist. Sofie is also the host of two brilliant podcasts, Made of Human, and Secret Dinosaur Cult with Jodie Mitchell. She opens up about hosting them, as well as her new book Happy Fat. Join us this week to hear a silly chat about teenage hormones, playing spin the bottle and why Ursula is the best Disney villain. Also, be warned, there is a conversation about Jessica Simpson.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Work Life Fitzrovia and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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Comedy genius Alison Spittle joins the Hot Mess Clubhouse this week. She’s a stand up comedian, TV and stage writer, as well as the brilliant human behind podcast The Alison Spittle Show. Alison and Clubhouse host Lucy Vine drink Prosecco and a G&T while also getting quite deep about Catholic guilt, fatness and – bizarrely – the night she partied with Desperate Housewives actor Teri Hatcher. Join us for a silly chat that also covers Scientology, fist fights and playing IRA games.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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The Hot Mess Clubhouse welcomes a new member this week in the form of comedian and author, Jen Brister. You will have seen her on various telly things, or maybe on Live at the Apollo, or perhaps her stand-up – where she’s supported the likes of Frankie Boyle. We talk about her new parenting book, The Other Mother, life as a mum to twins, and the comedy world. Join us for a swear-y chat about not fitting in, trying to be a decent human, and echo chambers.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at The Bill Murray Pub in Angel and produced by Hannah Varrall
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The Hot Mess Clubhouse welcomes a new member this week in the form of comedian, actor and screenwriter, Natasia Demetriou. You may know her from brilliant Channel 4 comedy Stath Lets Flats, recently commissioned for a second series. We talk about starring in that alongside her hot brother, Jamie, as well as her hysterical new vampire series What We Do in the Shadows. That - BTdubs - started last weekend on the BBC and has just been commissioned for a second series. Join us for a silly chat about horny vampires, getting off with her brother, and thanking catcallers.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Waterstones Gower Street and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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The Hot Mess Clubhouse welcomes its very first member this week: brilliant comedian and all-round excellent human being, Desiree Burch. You know Desiree from Live At The Apollo, The Mash Report, and maybe even from her recent appearance on The Jonathan Ross Show. Join us for a silly chat about what makes Desiree funny, whether she’ll get laid at this year’s Edinburgh Fringe, and her new Netflix show with Seann Walsh. There’s also a bit where we try to explain Woolworths to an American.
Music by Harry Harris. Recorded at Acast and produced by Hannah Varrall.
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Welcome to The Hot Mess Clubhouse, a weekly podcast celebrating funny women. Each week, author and journalist, Lucy Vine will be in conversation with a different hilarious female, discussing feminism, funny-ness and f**k ups.
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