Fame

Alexandre Despallieres gets to live out his lifelong fantasy of recording a pop song when he’s just 19 years old. He thinks it’s his chance to achieve everything he’s always wanted, including music industry stardom. But when the single falls flat, Alexandre will have to find other ways of becoming rich and famous – even if it means lying, committing crimes, and swindling the wealthy benefactors who fall in love with him.

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Stardom has its advantages, but not when you take your fame for granted.  Becoming "old news" is a fast fall.  Many famous people believe they are above the risk of fallout.  Listen to us discuss stars that have dimmed on all podcast platforms and at DamnOpinion.com.

The DAMN Opinion Podcast. Where the Big, the Bold and the Bald offer entertainment on the latest society news, strange topics, human behavior, interesting facts, social dilemmas and entertaining conversation. Listen to us discuss, and debate, what's hot and what's not on all podcast platforms and at DAMNopinion.com.

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Hosts: Mark Montgomery, James Smith and William Craig

"Smarter Entertainment for a Distracted Audience"

Jim Norton is a stand-up comic, actor, broadcast personality, and podcaster. He co-hosts the "UFC Unfiltered" podcast with Matt Serra, and "Jim Norton & Sam Roberts" show on SiriusXM.

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It's an all-girl action-pack this evening as team Jane and Fi are off for their Christmas dinner!

Jane and Fi are talking about avoiding social events (we're sure it's unrelated), awkward train rides and political cutlery.

They're joined by actress Maria McErlane to discuss her new memoir ‘Bumps in the Road'.

If you want to contact the show to ask a question and get involved in the conversation then please email us: janeandfi@times.radio

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Assistant Producer: Kate Lee

Times Radio Producer: Rosie Cutler

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How does the subject of a leaked sex tape become a billionaire business mogul? Journalist Zing Tsjeng and BBC business editor Simon Jack find out how Kim Kardashian leveraged her fame and sold her privacy to earn billions, breaking the internet along the way.

They follow her money making schemes, from selling celebrities' clothes online and styling Paris Hilton, to multi-million dollar weddings and public family feuds. But they discover that Kim actually made her billions in a much more traditional way.

She's one of the most famous faces in the world, loved and loathed by millions. In the podcast that uncovers how the world's wealthiest people made their money and asks if they are good or bad for the planet, Simon and Zing judge Kim Kardashian.

You know Andy Warhol from his quip on being famous for 15 minutes and paintings of soup cans, but even as far as artists go he was an eccentric and misunderstood person. 

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In the early 2000s, an Appalachian-born sex worker named JT Leroy becomes a literary wunderkind. His gritty, buzzed-about novels and tragic backstory earn him celebrity fans like Courtney Love, Carrie Fisher, and Billy Corgan, and interest from filmmakers like Gus Van Sant and Asia Argento. But there’s something that doesn’t quite add up about the mysterious young author behind the blonde wig and dark sunglasses. And it’s just a matter of time before people find out JT’s big secret: He’s just as fictional as his novels. 

This episode discusses body image, mental health, and suicide. If you or someone you know is struggling with mental health, the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline can be reached at 1-800-273-8255. The Trevor Project, which aims to ending suicide among LGBTQ youth, offers counseling at the number 1-866-488-7386. If you or someone you know is a victim of sexual assault, you can contact the National Sexual Assault Hotline in the U.S. by calling 1-800-656-HOPE.

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Harper shares the time the paparazzi showed up at her hotel,

Everyone goes crazy on a free style rap,

The group gives their honest opinion on Mavericks Tinder profile...?

Tom Girardi dreams of being a do-gooder lawyer like his childhood hero on the TV show “Perry Mason.” When he starts his own legal firm in the 1960s, he does just that, representing clients against the huge corporations that wronged them. One of his biggest cases even gets the Hollywood treatment in the movie “Erin Brockovich.” But behind the scenes, Tom isn’t the hero he makes himself out to be. And when his extravagant home life with wife Erika Jayne gets broadcast on “The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills,” his fraudulent schemes will finally come under the microscope.

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Having risen to fame when she was just 12 years old, Rochelle Humes has gone from childhood popstar featuring in the band S Club 7 juniors to becoming a member of the hit UK girl group The Saturdays and now the best-loved online personality and TV broadcaster. Having had it all from such a young age Rochelle is transparent about the highs and lows, being raised in a single parent household and understanding the absence her father left on the family, to the hard graft of being in a pop group, meeting her now husband Marvin Humes member of the boy band JLS and sharing the journey of becoming a mother. This has prompted her online social media journey sharing her life to over 2 million Instagram followers and most recently has become a founder of the lifestyle brand My Little Coco, a skin and hair care brand aimed at families featuring in Boots. 

-Rochelle’s early life

-Rochelle’s experience being raised by a single mother

-Rochelle’s relationship with her absent father

-How Rochelle started out in the music industry

-Life in S Club Juniors 

-How early fame affected her career

-The crazy story on how Rochelle met her sister through Kem from Love Island

-What life was like in a girlband

-How Rochelle has found the media industry

-How Rochelle has found motherhood

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