Despite 2021 seeming like she might have been on the way up, she did a quick volte face at the finale and ended up being just as much of a bin fire as her predecessor.

However the diva-verse was agog with wonderful content throughout and, accordingly, this episode sees Holly & Tom (as is tradition) doing a run down of 2021's Biggest Diva Moments. However, this year, two very special EXTRA guests are with them - it's Chris & Rich of South London fame (and their coincides and whatever the plural of "bitches" is).

As such, as well as the Top 10 Diva Moments, we also share each host's Best Entertaintment, Best Song and their Dickheads and Divas of 2021.

We also have some special news meaning more diva-worship will be sashaying its way into your podcatcher in 2022 than you might have otherwise been expecting, given the imminent child in the house.

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'Tis us, the village bores, and we're here to provide you with all the news from around the Diva-dom, with a much needed catch up on a heavy month.

Ploughing on valiantly, we dive right in with everything from Shakira's bravery in the face of swine-based harassment, Ar Di getting her very own "musical" and - the two essential As in the Diva alphabet - Adele and ABBA both dropping brand new music up on us. (Plus ABBA's semi-live madness to go with it.)

Unfortunately, we do have to cover the sad state of affairs that is Jesy Nelson's solo career thus far. But to temper that, Holly tells a frankly insane story about a French village she visited whose mayor has a pet boar.

So...swings and roundabouts.

In a change to your usual programming, we've got two very special guests joining for this little slice of something extra in the form of our upstairs neighbours who just won't shut up, but we also have a seasonally spoopy coincidence from Chris and a genuine bitch from Rich.

PLUS: a very sad announcement at the end of this ep, so listen up, divas.

If you've not already read it, get your copy of Mariah's autobiography from Store 104

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This week's episode really is incredibly grand, as we begin what will come to be something of a saga.

It is, of course, the legendary tale of the eternally fabulous ELIZABETH TAYLOR.

Like our episodes on Britney, the life and career of the original TayTay has such an exceptional wealth of anecdotes that we just had to give her to you over several courses. Thus, we serve up a feast in the form of Liz's story from her birth to the first of two marriages to one Richard Burton.

And your maître d, here to oversee such a delicious banquet, is none other than writer, singer and performer, Isobel Rogers (@Isobel_Roge). So join all three (recorded IRL no less!) as they talk lavender marriages, Liz's celebrity pet hamster, Nibbles, and her devoted relationship to the Fuck You Club.

Along the way, we somehow talk a lot about guitars, even more about swimming and Tom spends most of the back-end of the episode trying to remember the name of the film Swimfan.

Much of this episode's research comes from Elizabeth Taylor: The Lady, The Lover, The Legend 1932-2011 by David Bret

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It's another Little Diva Energy and we're very excited because, not only have we got new Jesy music (feat. a certain Prime Minister-baiting diva), an upcoming ABBA Mo-Cap-a-thon, but AWARDS SEASON is of course upon us!

So many divas, so many lewks, just so much to discuss, so plug your ears and dive into this one.

Adjacent to the diva-verse, Chris is traversing the UK this week for a coincidence, Rich has got a bitch in his craw AND we wrap our chops around a bulging sack of mail.

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Well, she's back, the High Priestess of Soul..and she's talking about Nina Simone! (badum tish) That's right, we're graced once again by the fabulosity of the wondrous Bella Heesom and picking up where we left off at the beginning of the fame years for Miss Simone.

We cover Nina's tireless work in the civil rights movement, her terrible marriage to all-round shitbag, Peter Stroud, and the tragic slide into mental health difficulties. Trigger warning, there is some pretty real stuff in this episode, which covers physical, sexual and mental abuse.

However, we try to keep things as light as we can along the way, covering such topics as a Tellytubby Reboot, the little song Tom's Casio used to play and the awkward outcomes of not listening to lyrics.

Sources for this Episode include:

What Happened, Miss Simone? (dir. Liz Garbus)

Summer of Soul (...or, When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised) (dir. Questlove) Trailer here

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Because we're back with more Parisian content, as the queen of self-promotion herself drops Cooking with Paris on Netflix (and Tom is naht here for it).

Plus we discuss Rihanna's rise to billionaire status, 10 years of Little Mix and, of course, the new series of Changing Rooms.

If you want all the hot diva gossip, plus extended detours around what dogging is called in the US, LLB's ill-fitting leather trousers and Linda McCartney's vegetarian sausages, then Little Diva Energy is the podcast for you.

Not only that but Rich stops by for a bitch and - what a coincidence - it turns out Chris has a very strong connection to Nina Simone of all people!

Links:

About a Girl podcast: Linda McCartney Episode

Solve-Along-A-Murder-She-Wrote

Athena 80s

It's Got to Be Bassey

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We bloody are, because we've got an absolute hammer of an episode as we bring you part 1 of the gobsmacking life and times of absolute diva extraordinaire, Miss Nina Simone.

Not only that but our guest this week is a true friend of the pod and diva in her own right (just listen to that rider), wearer of many hats and many more divine gowns, it's the glorious, the wondrous, Bella Heesom.

Join us as we journey from Miss Simone's North Carolina birth, through her first of many stands against racists at aged 12, via smokey bar & grills and all the way to #2 in the charts with her first single.

Along the way, we hire a full staff for Bella's entourage, take our stage names from the last thing we watched, and debate the difference between jazz & folk with not a shred of expertise between us.

So, divas, crack out the lilac wine, grab some forbidden fruit and get this one in your ears (just don't smoke in bed).

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It's been a bumper month in the diva-verse, so we bring you not only news of Divas Assemble! to #FreeBritney (feat. Paris, Mariah, Miley e Christina), not just that Ben and J-Lo are back 5getha, and not simply that Little Mix have been immortalised in wax, but also Chris has a scandalous Coincidence and Rich has taken this Bitch to pay homage to the late, great X Factor.

PLUS A REALLY BIG REVEAL

Oh, it's all kicking off! Death, Birth & Divas. It's the whole gamut.

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We're finally back on track with another full episode, with the vocal stylings of deep-FOTP and resident ever-wit, Sasha Wilson.

But, what's that you say? More fuckery with the format? That's right, Holly's husband, Tom, is in fact not here this week. So, Sasha will be sliding into his chair to bring you more tales of Catherine O'Hara, from the beginning of her working relationship with Jamie Lee Curtis' husband, to her most iconic creation, actor, director, wine-taster, matriarch, icon and all-round inspiration to everyone, the Moira Rose.

Along the way there are digressions about Close vs LuPone, a Home Alone/Schitt's Creek crossover and why improv is like tantric sex.

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Like, Princes William and Harry we've got a surprise to unveil for you this week. Unfortunately, due to Sasha's commitments based on her show Louisa & Jo (& Me) (tickets here) we have to postpone the second part of Catherine O'Hara. Instead we present another Little Diva Energy.

But never fear, we run the full gamut of Diva News, from Rich's beef with Holly over Jessie J, to Britney's speaking out against the conservatorship, all the way to a diva examination of the concept of whatever "it" is "coming home".

Plus, Madonna.

Quelle surprise.

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As some of you will be aware, we have had something of a change in time management capacity and have thusly moved your regular dollop of something *extra* to monthly. We are, in fact, no longer deeting about quants, we are deeting about quals.

That means we have a bumper load of diva news to catch up on, including:

Jessie J's Eurovision potential! Lorde's Primal Sing! And has Sex & The City killed Samantha?

Plus we ask for your worst cases of "Rainbow Capitalism", Overheard Divas and the boys who always deliver, Chris and Rich, bring you coincidences and bitches galore!

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With the vigour of wartime radio operators, we bring you this week's episode, replete with musings and observations from both your customary and established hosts (the conjugal alliance of Morgan and Moores) on a particular favourite of the 80s Canada, 90s America and 00s THE WORLD, DARLINGS - it's Catherine O'Hara.

And accompanying us on our voyage through The Life O'Hara is the impulsive, the capricious, the melodramatic SASHA WILSON (actor, playwright and carnal associate of previous guest, Joe Cullen).

Join your compères as they navigate their way through SCTV, Beetlejuice and Christmas masterpiece, Home Alone, with detours via our ride-or-die unsolved historical mysteries, Holly's continual casting of the production of Carrie the Musical in her head and the true horror of allowing children to perform Oliver!

Plus, more of Tom’s tangential celebrity stories and the introduction of the enigmatic Mr Tekis the Pianist.

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It's a massive week in the diva-verse, so welcome to a bumper edition.

Douze points for the Week In Diva. From the tearful (Leigh-Anne's documentary and Gaga's horrific therapy revelations) to the Tea-full (Grande's marriage, Tom accusing Rich of being "cheugy" and diva inductions into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame). Plus much (never too much) more.

Nil points for Justin Timberlake and Blink-182.

AND THEN:

We have, in the latter half, our full opinions on Eurovision 2021, which saw Gay Christmas come ROARING back in full force. Good golly Ms Dolly it was a good one.

Plus, Chris has a coincidence and Rich makes the case for 'El Diablo' being one of the Eurovision greats.

Sure.

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Self-appointed, Art Hysterian, Holly Morgan is here to teach you about ART.

Insightful? Certainly.

Interactive? Definitely.

Perhaps almost too clever? Better believe it.

That's right, divas, this is the episode that critics have called "Ep 35 - Frida Kahlo [with Ryan Lane]". So, hold on to your tote bags, because we're getting deep.

What isn’t quite so clever is the technical difficulties our equipment was having, so huge apologies for some sound issues. Tom tried his best to work it out, but some has slipped through the net.

But to make up for it we've got an absolute treat for you as the gorgeous Ryan Lane (@RyanELane) joins us to journey through the wild and oftentimes extremely sad life of one Frida Kahlo.

Along the way, we talk a lot about tote bags, the endless fabulosity of Jane Fonda and discover Madonna's deeply threatening "art test" she seems to give her sexual partners.

Two books mentioned in the pod are:

-      The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hayley Rubenhold

-      Song of Spider-Man: The Inside Story of the Most Controversial Musical in Broadway History by Glen Berger

You can order and buy a copy of either (or both!) from @Store104 here

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Tom spent the weekend in hospital after removing the top of his strummin' finger, but that's not stopped us from bringing you a little slice of something extra.

It's a big week for Little Mix, so we dissect the 'Confetti' video (you can check out the article featuring @bethsitek here) and discuss the latest Jesy controversy . Plus, news from the Britney camp, the return of @LinziHateley to Joseph, and Holly's thoughts on Madonna's casting in Carrie the Musical.

As always, Chris has a strange coincidence and Rich has...thoughts.

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And how better to do it than to bring you another solid gold episode about the early life and career of Actress AND Star Ms Britney Jean Spears with none other than our gorgeous pal across the pond, Tim Murray (@TMurray06).

Kicking off with a quick round up of movements in the Britney-verse (the conservatorship vs Drag Race 13's finale) we fire on all cylinders as we race from the deboo album ...Baby, One More Time, all the way up to her third album, Britney, and her first (of many) annus horribilis, at which point we say an Autumn Goodbye to the gorgeous Tim, and with him our Britney episodes...for now.

Along the way, we get sidetracked by Madonna vs Gaga chat, stanning Kim Petras and utterly dragging the Scourge of the Divas himself, Justin fucking Timberlake.

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Strap in, as she's very Steps-focused this week following a) Holly stepping on a proverbial land mine in our Britney episode and provoking Rich's latest bitch and b) the news that Ancient Claire from Steps will be appearing in The War of the Worlds opposite a hologram of Liam Neeson.

Whilst all this leads to an edifying debate about holograms being a form of diva grave-robbery, we also have time for the Oscars, Holly to give some Queen hate, Tom to invent Lady O'Gaga (the Irish drag queen), and plenty more bashing of Justin "Sourge of the Divas" Timberlake.

Plus Chris has a coincidence and it is wild.

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She's finally here.

And we don't just mean comedy icon and Spears stan, Tim Murray (@TMurray06) who we've secured, along with her extensive credits list.

No, we're excited because we've strapped Tim in for the first part of two episodes detailing, what we'd consider, "Phase 1" of Britney "It's Britney, Bitch" Spears.

That's right, we plan on going all the way from 1981's Mississippi Nativity, up to the 2002 masterpiece Britney in this round of episodes.

PHASE. ONE.

This week we only make it as far as '...Oops', the single, but that doesn't stop us running the early gamut of one of the seminal divas; from just-a-small-town-girl to that single, diving into the early years of Ms Spears, taking in the revamped Disney club, the ill-fated group Innosense, and Britney and Natalie Portman's Sliding Doors moment.

Don't worry, because the whole cast of the Spears Circus are here:

• Jamie
• Lynne
• Jamie-Lynne
• Brian

Meanwhile, we introduce the villain of the piece: Justin "Scourge of the Divas" Timberlake and we go into (some might say too much) detail on the Jessica Simpson B-plot that's always running in the background.

Along the way, Holly and Tim stir the transatlantic pot by pitting games against each other in "Actress or Star" vs "Can Sing or Can Sing", the gang pitch Real Housewives of Broadway as an idea that is real and a thing, and they all discuss the very real danger of Patti LuPone being angry at you.

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I'm afraid we're all booked up in our outside area until 2029, but we welcome you to take the podcast away and enjoy the freezing, damp park of this week's episode, in which we ply you with the tins of lager, dirty blankets and Karen's homemade sausage rolls of news from the diva-verse.

Have another glass of warm fizz and try to ignore the rain.

In this week's ep, among other things, Holly attempts a new route to becoming Gaga's mate (just get on one of her records!), Glenn Close reignites her infamous conflict with LuPone, and we announce a new feature: Unexpected Diva. Plus much, much more.

We also mourn the tragic passing of Nikki Grahame, a genuine icon who was taken from us far too soon. For those who might need someone to talk to in the wake of her death, our DMs are always open, but also please do consider one of the many charities who provide help to those who need it. We will share some of them on our socials.

Plus, Nikki's friends have reactivated the GoFundMe made in her name, to which you can donate here. The money goes towards helping to pay for the family's funeral costs and the remainder will be donated to charities that help those with eating disorders.

Stay safe out there. We love you all.

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We've got that burning, blue-cheese buzz, as we dive deep into the life & times of the domestic goddess herself, one Nigella Lawson.

Along for the ride is another goddess, the simply stunning Eleanor Rushton (@Wellybeana). Eleanor brings her wit, charm and blanket obsession with Nigella to the Dining Diva's, frankly, amazing life, from her birth into wealth, privilege and pure camp, to her incarceration and subsequent emancipation from Saatchi Towers - via a whole lot of personal tragedy, always met with that trademark Nigella glow.

Along the way, in keeping with Holly's tendency to invent something world-changing every 5 years, she and Eleanor pitch "The Platterpuss", the team have a cry about Judy and we get the most well-thought-out Historical Diva pitch ever.

Strap in - it's a good 'un.

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Is it the gentle cooing of a wood pigeon? Or is it Holly and Tom discussing this year’s Eurovision entries? Why, it’s both!

Once again, the pair are trying to steal Megan Mullally and Nick Offerman’s gig by podcasting from their bed.

For sex people reasons, Lynn?

Of course not, it’s just a much better acoustic and they’re TIRED.

Aside from Eurodiscourse (and a dash of Eurovisionscepticism surrounding some entrants’ blatant Dua Lipa rip offs) the other main topic is the new Tina Turner documentary, which is Simply. The. Best.

Holly and Tom wave goodbye to Tina's public profile watching the brand new, all-encompassing Tina, aka the Queen of Rock'n'Roll's leave-it-all-on-the-floor farewell to her fans.

Meanwhile, they shamelessly obsess over the seemingly-ageless Angela Bassett, discuss how Holly owes Jonny Woo quite a lot of money and ask you - the listeners - to let them know which prominent women since Diana (apart from Nigella) go by one name. Answers on a postcode please.

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Maybe you thought our episode on Marsha P. Johnson was too sad? Strap in. It's about to get even sadder.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains a number of references to the sexual abuse of children. There is also reference made to gender dysphoria, transphobic abuse and violence. In addition, the episode contains the use of homophobic slurs. If you feel this one isn't for you, maybe give it a miss.

However, the brilliant, warm light of Carrot - cabaret superstar and host of @TheEnbyShow - is here to help us all through this journey with kindness, laughter and a great, big bag full of bricks.

Here are some links to resources mentioned in the episode:

You're Wrong About's episode on Stonewall is here

Sylvia's 1973 speech can be found here

“Gay Rights Before Stonewall”, by Michael Kazman, for Dissent Magazine

“5 Pre-Stonewall Events that Shaped the LGBT Community: Trailblazers” by Dan Avery, for NewNowNext

“Leslie Feinburg Interviews Sylvia Riviera: I’m Glad I was in the Stonewall Riot” for Worker’s World

“Meet the Trans Women of Color Who Helped Put Stonewall on the Map” by Jamilah King, for Identities.Mic

Please consider donating to the Trans Women of Color Collective here

Follow @CarrotDrag and @TheEnbyShow

Also, the borough that Transy House was located in was Brooklyn and it is now part of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.

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You can also reach out...]]>Grab your bricks, Divas!

Maybe you thought our episode on Marsha P. Johnson was too sad? Strap in. It's about to get even sadder.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode contains a number of references to the sexual abuse of children. There is also reference made to gender dysphoria, transphobic abuse and violence. In addition, the episode contains the use of homophobic slurs. If you feel this one isn't for you, maybe give it a miss.

However, the brilliant, warm light of Carrot - cabaret superstar and host of @TheEnbyShow - is here to help us all through this journey with kindness, laughter and a great, big bag full of bricks.

Here are some links to resources mentioned in the episode:

You're Wrong About's episode on Stonewall is here

Sylvia's 1973 speech can be found here

“Gay Rights Before Stonewall”, by Michael Kazman, for Dissent Magazine

“5 Pre-Stonewall Events that Shaped the LGBT Community: Trailblazers” by Dan Avery, for NewNowNext

“Leslie Feinburg Interviews Sylvia Riviera: I’m Glad I was in the Stonewall Riot” for Worker’s World

“Meet the Trans Women of Color Who Helped Put Stonewall on the Map” by Jamilah King, for Identities.Mic

Please consider donating to the Trans Women of Color Collective here

Follow @CarrotDrag and @TheEnbyShow

Also, the borough that Transy House was located in was Brooklyn and it is now part of the NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project.

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It's been an absolute shitter the past few weeks, hasn't it?

We encourage you to please donate to Reclaim These Streets' JustGiving here.

And, to pull us out of the funk, we get stuck into a round up of news from the Diva-verse, featuring the Head Girl of Pop, how to pronounce Emerald Fennell's name and Lexi Burke-Living-Bitch.

We are joined as ever by LDE stalwarts Rich Hawkins and Chris Adams, for a superb wig/Britney-focused bitch and a coincidence which leaves us, as ever, shook!

We are also blessed this week with one more extra special outside broadcast from our very own Anti-Royal Correspondent, Cat Loud, the true Queen of Scots!

Love you all.

RIP Sarah Everard.

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Recorded as part of LGBT+ History Month, we are thrilled to offer the first of two extra special episodes on icons of activism and queer power, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

We begin with the gorgeous Marsha, and, here to explore both the light and the dark times of this beautiful soul, is another binary-smashing beauty, an icon of drag and cabaret. It's the one and only, Carrot! (@CarrotDrag)

Join us, as we travel through what we know of Marsha's life. Trigger warning: we do cover some very dark themes, including child sex abuse, transphobia, murder and problematic mental health diagnoses. But, we also talk about the strength, the warmth, and the love that made Marsha such an icon of LBTQ+ History.

You can find a link to Tricia's Wedding here.

But, more importantly, you can donate to Trans Women of Color Collective here.

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xx

Thankfully, the season finale of Married At First Sight Australia finally aired yesterday and has been very much consumed, so Holly actually showed up for this record. (But only really so she could put a call out to get Cyrell to be her friend.)

It's Holly and her husband back in the chair this week and they sift through all the Diva news including: the Golden Globes shitty party, that Britney doc and, of course, the unfolding diva true crime drama that is the shooting of Ryan Fischer and abduction of Lady Gaga's dogs.

You can find the John Waters talk here (The Last Tuesday Society)

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XXX

Keep your dogs close and your rosary beads closer as we stick our thumbs out and hitch a ride with the divine Peaches Christ for the second leg of the divine Divine!

Peaches (world-renowned icon of drag and all-round Watersphile) throws Holly & Tom into the back seat, revs the engine and we're back out on the Divine Highway, picking up at Eat Your Make-Up, making our filthy way through the full film career, detouring for a coastal view of the (way ahead of its time) music career and tragically coming to our final stop at Divine's untimely death.

Along the way, you can sit back and enjoy the view, with such sights as the problems of creativity in a world gone mad, the wild wonders of the San Francisco public transport system and Tom's devastatingly boring story about the time he sold John Waters a book.

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xx

With us for the first Little Diva of 2021 are our two very own BDE correspondents, Chris (@ChrisA) and Rich (@RichHawkins). Because there's so much to catch up on since we've been away, one bitch/coincidence simply will not do.

Rich spends the episode trying to get around to talking about that Britney doc, but there's only one doc Chris is interested in: Ann Maurice (remember her? Almost certainly not.)

Expect lengthy detours on North London serial killers, Holly and Chris' longstanding conspiracy about foxes and the not-so-subtle differences between Anneka Rice and Anthea "The Body" Turner.

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xxx

It's been a long, cold January, presumably made all the colder without your regular dollop of diva. And we missed you all terribly. But we've returned from our self-imposed hiatus, ready to bring a bit of glitter back to the shitter.

And phwoar, have we got something special to kick off the season.

First off, our subject this week was a genuine one-of-kind. They could call him fatso, they could call him asshole, he didn't mind - but we just call him DIVINE.

And to top it off (and we can't quite believe we get to say this), but our extra-special guest this week is the equally incomparable PEACHES CHRIST (@PeachesChrist), who is not only a genuine, documentary-appearing expert on Divine but also a living, breathing friend and fiend of John Actual Waters.

We can't even.

So come with us, Divas, as we journey through Divine’s childhood in Baltimore, say hello to his fabulous ex-girlfriend and equally fabulous mother, all the way up to the world-changing moment he met pencil-moustachioed auteur himself, one John Waters.

Along the way, we discover Peaches’ early dealings with the ire of the sweater-gays, Tom’s very early introduction to Pam Anderson’s Barb Wire and, of course, we talk about the ever-changing mug of drag.

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xx

Despite 2020 being a well-documented bin fire, the diva-verse was aflame with fantastic content throughout. Which was useful for us, because, as of this month, Big Diva Energy is officially One Years Old!

As such, this feature-length episode finds Holly & Tom in their actual marital bed, doing a run down of 2020's Biggest Diva Moments, whilst hearing from many of their previous guests from a year's worth of diva-based madness.

Plus, we all know that 2021 doesn't officially kick off until 4th January (because of the Bank Holiday/weekend) so here it is, on the day it was intended. Like Jesus.

Granted, the Top 20 might be the work of Tom's drink-addled, sleep-deprived mind, and makes *some* mistakes, but - as always - the contributors really pick up the slack.

The shop where you should buy your books is here

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Quick Announcement: unlike Drag Race, we will be taking a brief hiatus this January, and returning February 2nd with a big, big, big-ass guest.

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Happy New Year and please do stay safe xxx

After an absolute shitheap of a year, in our penultimate episode of 2020, we wish a very Happy Holiday to all the Divas out there, whatever faith ye be, however ye be spending it.

So pull up a place by the Netflix Fireplace, raise a glass of something disgustingly sweet, and listen to Holly dissect her "Five Gold Rings" (aka Top 5 Christmas Divas) with language as fruity as her baked ham.

Along the way, we fit in one last festive round-up of December's diva action. And Chris and Rich, you ask? They've been! They've been! They're both here to give a festive twist on their usual features, with Chris' Christmas Coincidence and Rich's Grinch!

Please do consider donating to Shelter here as, for many, Christmas is just an even colder version of the fuckery being heaped on them by the Tories the other 364 days of the year.

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Love to one and all xxx

It's Goodbye to Showbiz this week - but not for Jake Shears. Here we come to our final part in what is clearly only the halfway point of the iconic life of one Jake Shears:

Scissor Sister, Broadway star and Masked Singer.

Joined once again by regional Attitude rep, Dr Will Jackson, the BDE team pick up at the recording sessions for Ta-Dah, work their way through to the indefinite hiatus of the band and onto Jake's post-Sisters goings on.

Along the way, we find out whatever happened to Mika, Will recommends the only books you should be putting on your Christmas list and we discover yet another way to cram Gaga into proceedings.

You can listen to three songs from Jake's Tales of the City musical here.

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xx

Join hosts Chris Adams and Holly Morgan (Big Diva Energy), as they deep dive into their 20-year obsession with Carrie: The Musical, unearthing the crazy story behind the show’s creation and its infamously disastrous run, only to discover how Carrie rose from the dead to truly embrace its title as Queen of Flops.

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It's nearly Crimble and, as a way to signal death to this annus horribilis, the divas have come out in full force with their maddest contributions to culture yet!

Essentially this episode is all about Mariah Carey's Magical Christmas Special and the Dolly Parton Netflix vehicle, Christmas on the Square.

So, just to warn you: SPOILER ALERT.

We suggest you don't listen to this until you've watched both.

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xxx

And welcome to an episode we were so pleased with, we only recorded it once! Can you believe?!

Podcast PTSD-allowing, Ms Attitude herself (@Will__Jackson__) is back for Part II, to help us pick up The Wonderful Story of Shears from the moment the Gay Mafia turn up in his dressing room, all the way through to the untimely passing of his best friend Mary.

It's a rollercoaster, but, as always there are digressions aplenty, as the threesome make pitches for Kesha as the Pete Burns of 2010, Elton John as the new voice of Glastonbury Announcements and Jakes himself as the Lady Gaga of Greggs.

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xx

Divas, it's been difficult to decipher diva happenings today from those that happened 30 years ago when, like everyone else, we've spent all week devouring The Crown like a mountainside plane crash survivor desperately gnawing flesh from the thighbone of a fellow passenger.

But, amongst other things, one thing Netflix's high-gossip phenomenon has given us is an incredible Diva crossover, as a previous BDE guest ends up sharing screen time with the one and only Ms Gillian. Gosh.

Aside from our Royal Tittle-Tattle Porn (not the Andrew kind) this week we pay lip service to Jesy leaving Little Mix, the 10th Anniversary of Pink Friday and introduce a BRAND NEW feature: "Overheard Diva Energy" (send in yours now!).

Plus, all the old classics galore (Holly Morgan Reads from Maria Carey's Autobiography; Rich's Bitch; Chris' Coincidence) and we announce the pod will officially be moving to Tuesdays.

We're in love with you all (whatever "in love" means).

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And we're going to bloody need one. Then a lie down.

Recorded the day after the US election, having stayed up all night to greet an apparent victory for Donald Trump, in this episode, frankly, Holly and Tom are: All. Over. The. Place.

Emotionally, psychologically, organisationally.

And in much the same way as the whole election got flipped turned upside-down, just you wait for the twist that turns this episode on its head 30 minutes in. It's not quite in the same league, but, like Trump's presidency, listen for the sound of wheels falling off.

Here to talk about the incredible Jake Shears is the no-less incredible, long-time listener, first-time caller - Ms Attitude herself - Will Jackson! Come with, as the gang try desperately to hold it together for Jake's early-life tour of the States; from Seattle, to Arizona and finally New York, just in time for the formation of glam-rock hit-monsters, Scissor Sisters.

Along the way, we give no publicity whatsoever to erstwhile family band, the Jackson 3, Tom reveals his origin story as the Karen of Southwark and Will's fracking addiction gets a lot of airtime.

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Cuddles xx

This week we celebrate both an historical triumph and an historical failure.

Yes, Donald Trump is about to be exorcised from the White House.

Yes, Kamala Harris is set to become the first female, black and Indian-origin vice-president in history.

And yet...

Over here, across the pond, we have suffered another damaging blow to our democracy. The "Great" British Public, in their seemingly endless capacity for showing their arse, have voted for walking embodiments of crusty sheets, the cringe-inducing, sub-McFly, straight, white nonsense that is Since September to win Little Mix: The Search.

We will move forward. But, it will take time.

Meanwhile, life goes on. And so does the Week in Diva. Geri Horner's been in the dressing-up box again, Kylie's dropped a banger and we ask the question on everyone's lips: where is Jesy Nelson?

Plus, it's once more unto the Bitch, dear friends, with Rich. Chris has another spoopy coincidence for us and we spin the wheel on Excellent or Fine.

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Stay safe, stay sassy xxx

Here we are at the Devil’s crossroad. What will happen? Who knows?

But, if you need a break from endless uncertainty, we present you with our subject this week: someone who may or may not be a diva!

Strap in, it’s complex.

In our US election night episode, we get deep about a spoiled child of immense wealth and privilege. Someone who made their name in New York, then, later, reality television. Someone who has, at times, been accused of being everything that’s wrong with America, but commands immense popularity nonetheless.

Yes, it’s family-friend of the Trumps, Paris Hilton!

Two things we do know at the time of release:

1) Paris Hilton is FASCINATING

2) Lucy McCormick, our guest this episode, is an absolute legend. A stone-cold, comedy, theatre and performance-art legend.

Join Holly, Tom and Lucy as they ‘sliv through the life of the pop-culture revolutionising, cow-fisting third of the “Holy Trinity”, taking in the giant doll’s house, The Simple Life and the infamous sex tape.

Along the way, they discuss the normal age to start clubbing, the GC's handling of Brexit and why Lindsay Lohan is the Miss Haversham of Mykonos.

And that, Divas, is hot.

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Check out her website for updates here

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It's the single most Diva-fuelled children's film ever made. It's a star vehicle for three ICONS of the Diva-verse with some gloriously inappropriate plot-work and some questionable casting choices (siblings playing a married couple anyone?). We love it. We know you do too. It's Hocus Pocus!

And this is an extra-special, ultra-spoopy Hallowe'en treat (not a trick): the first ever Diva Film Club!

Your Grand High Witches, Holly & Tom - in the age-old tradition of minimal research, maximum opinions - talk through some of the background to the movie, then dive into a watch of Disney's cinematic masterpiece. Along the way, they are joined by their familiars, some amazing contributors, including drag sensation Peaches actual Christ.

If you want to watch along, divas-will-be-doing in this very order (with musical stings in between so you can pause and catch up):

1) Prologue to The 90s

2) The 90s to Appearance of the Witches

3) Appearance of the Witches to The Ball

4) The Whole Ball

4) The Ball to The End

Thank you SO MUCH to our incredible contributors, who you can follow at a safe distance in these places:

Amanda Brown is the moderator of the Hocus Pocus Facebook Group. She can be found on Facebook or Insta.

Nic Lamont is a writer-performer whose tweets are here and insta is here. (Check out her episode of Big Diva Energy on Geri Halliwell here).

Peaches Christ is a drag artist, performer and filmmaker who you can read more about here, follow on twitter here and Insta here.

The Ebert review we used is here.

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Stay spoops xx

It's nearly Hallowe'en and, as you all know, 31st October is a Diva's best friend! Dressing up, scaring children, backlighting...the list goes on.

As mentioned, we've got a very special Hallowe'en bonus episode coming out, but, until then, there's some Little Diva Energy to get to.

This episode, Holly has a breaky-d trying to compare Camden Lock to something in New York, our sweet Jade from Little Mix got her bumbum out and Holly presents her Top 3 spooky bitches (with accompanying sound board).

And of course, as per, we've got all the usual features: Excellent or Fine, Holly Reads from Mariah Carey's autobiography, Rich's Bitch and Chris' Coincidence.

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Spooky Love XOXO

In the mould of all the great trilogies (Star Wars, the Godfathers, Mighty Ducks), not only must this third instalment tie up all remaining narrative strands, but also bring to an emotional climax the relationship between its key characters.

And that is exactly what we present here:

One hour-long climax from Holly, Tom and pod-superguest and all-round championship diva, Robert Madge.

Having just got through the flashbacks from Fosse/Verdon in Part II, we're on the home stretch as we cover the purple patch of Gwen's work with Bobby ("I wanna do Chicago"), all the way up to Fosse's untimely(?) death and the lights dimming on Broadway as the Great, White Way loses the incomparable Gwen Verdon.

Along the way, we cover the deep river of diva that flows through Chicago, discover that Shirley MacLaine was married to a clone and an actual Chris's Coincidence happens in real time.

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Kisses Three xxx

We bring you good tidings of joy, which shall be to all divas.

But, before that, much movement has there been in the diva-verse.

Amongst other things, Little Mix's search continues and we talk about an even bigger fan than us.

The Voldemort of Culture Wars gets roundly whooped by - in her words - a "Z-List ex-soap actress".

And we debut brand-new segment: "Holly Morgan Reads from Mariah Carey's Autobiography".

Strap in.

Then, finally, we get to announce the greatest addition to the Diva of the Week canon ever. Listen up to find out who it is.

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Love you all

XOXO

Turns out, almost everyone involved in Gwen Verdon's life.

Welcome then, to the second-act dream ballet of her story.

Doing our due diligence and making Poor Nicole proud, we continue our deep-dive into Gwen's life and find her on the cusp of meeting the most important creative and romantic partner in her life, the absolutely dreadful Bob Fosse.

Joining Holly and Tom once again is the most important creative and romantic partner in Big Diva Energy's life: the in-no-way-dreadful, double-diva, Robert Madge!

Working as a team, your hosts this week chart Verdon and Fosse's work together, from their meeting on Sweet Charity and subsequent love affair, through the personal fallout from that entanglement, all the way up to...the end of Sweet Charity. (Well, Redhead, technically. Ever heard of it?)

Along the way, we pitch a Serial-style, investigative one-man show - Dating Mariah - as well as a minute-by-minute Courtney, Take Your Break podcast.

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Kisses xx

This year’s AGM is now open.

Holly rattles through the agenda this week, mainly so she and Tom can wax lyrical about Little Mix: The Search, because Mariah’s autobiography isn’t arriving until tomorrow!!

As usual Rich has a bitch, Chris has a coincidence, and this week sees the return of new feature, “Excellent or Fine”. Who will it be? And will they be excellent? Or just fine?

Any Other Business?

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That’s right, we promised you Madgic and that’s what you get, as we present this week’s guest, Their Madgesty himself - the only other two-time recipient of Diva of the Week (apart from Actual Madge) - Robert Madge is in his house!

We welcome Robert via Zoom, to talk about all things Gwen Verdon: one incredible half of the Fosse-Verdon collaboration that changed the face of musical theatre forever!

Nicole might have gone to a farm, but we’re here to guide you through the Fastest Little Tapper’s days in burlesque houses, her tutoring Marilyn Monroe on how to be sexy, all the way up to the faithful meeting with one Robert Fosse.

Along the way, we form a panel of the great and good of British Theatre to save the world, we live Julie and we are presented with the most meticulously planned rider in BDE history.

Strap in Divas, because this is a lively one!

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Mwah xx

We did it again.

We were so busy trying to celebrate our anniversary - whilst also battling a twister of a personal shitstorm - that we’ve dropped this week’s serving of husband-and-wife ramblings on all things diva really quite late. Sayeee.

There is a lot of diva news and we distractedly got around to telling you all about it eventually. But, really, we just wanted to make predictions about Madonna’s self-penned, self-directed biopic. So there’s basically a lot of that: pointless, Madonna-based conjecture. No change there then.

We thought we had a lot of structure, but really we’ve got little to none.

Hope you’re all well. Be safe, be kind, stay diva.

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We’re giving birth to our TWENTIETH full episode. The big 2-0. Blimey, hasn’t it just flown by?

…ahem.

But this week is an absolute treat. A much-requested Diva is the subject, and Holly and Tom are joined by an icon of pre-corona stages, from Soho to Stirling: the fabulous Nancy Clench is here to discuss the truly unique Madame Miriam Margolyes!

Come with the threesome on a journey through the Margolmaze and learn of Miriam’s ascent from Footlights, to the Beeb and eventually Hollywood, as well as her sexual exploits with soldiers/park wardens and her penchant for making people call her characters something a bit like her own name.

Along the way, we’ll cover such essential issues as how to wank in a tree and the perils of doing housework in the nude, as well as giving Bill Oddie a thorough verbal thrashing.

[Note: This episode was initially recorded before the end of lockdown, so apologies for some sound issues (seems those shares in Zoom were useless after all!) and some references are slightly out of date.]

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Huge apologies for the delay in this week’s LDE, we’ve been a-tripping across the United Queendom, all the way to sunny, socially-distanced Wales and were missing a vital piece of equipment needed to bring you your regular little slice of something extra.

But, better late than never say never!

It’s not our finest week, admittedly, so, apologies. But, whilst there was not a huge amount of positive news to report this fortnight, Gaga and Ariana did burn another icon-sized hole in the Divaverse, with a banging set beamed straight from Chromatica into our liiiives.

We cover the goings on from that ceremony, as well as the latest fallout from Jim Corr being fully mad.

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xx

From the late sixties all the way up to present day, this week we broach the second half of DSB’s incredible life story.

Welcoming back the profoundly fabulous Paul Joseph, the gang delve into The Dame’s second and third Bond themes, her post-Propellerheads comeback and THOSE Glasto wellies.

(Trigger-warning: things get a little dark at one point, with themes of suicide.)

Along the way Holly & Tom are treated to Paul’s collection of Diva toys, the threesome bond over a shared obsession with (of course) Aldi and Tom reveals his tragic, lifelong case of “Michael Blindess”.

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As Tom went to “get a cable”, so Chris (of his many coincidences) and Rich (of his many bitches) have kindly agreed to fill in as Holly’s husbands for the week on Little Diva Energy.

Left to their own devices, she and the boys enjoy a wide-ranging natter (though never so wide-ranging it’s more than one segue from a Nolan) through all the week’s big Diva news.

Holly and Rich (@RichHawkins) team up to celebrate two other big collaborations this week: every misogynist’s favourite female sexuality empowerment anthem, ‘WAP’ and Madonna (Happy Birthday, babe) showing up, alongside Missy, on the glorious new Dua Lipa track, ‘Levitating’.

Meanwhile, Chris (@ChrisA) attempts to bring every conversation back around to the Nolan Sisters (with moderate success).

Stay tuned as well, Divas, because Holly & Chris have a big announcement to make about Out for Blood, the brand new podcast from the makers of Big Diva Energy, coming at you in Autumn 2020.

(N.B. Apologies for some sound issues this week. You honestly leave these people alone for 5 minutes… At least they weren’t eating I suppose.)

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That’s right, darlings, this is not a drill. This is no George Lazenby nonsense; oh no, this is a true Connery film of the Diva-verse.

Please welcome to the stage: DAME Shirley Bassey!

(Although her friends just call her “Dame Shirley Bassey”.)

In the first of a much deserved two-parter, we delve into the incredible early life of that most glamorous of divas with the utterly fabulous Paul Joseph - DJ, producer and official “Friend of Dame Shirley”.

Join us, as we delve into the early life of The Girl from Tiger Bay and her ascent to arch-demander of pink champagne.

Along the way we get mad about Madge (again), talk future COVID-parties and why horror queens need those nuclear codes.

Dr No she better don’t!

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This week’s ep is a little behind schedule, but only because the Divas are on the move - bringing you the bravest journalism from the frontline - as Holly & Tom travel into the eye of the storm and visit the Enfrosted North of England, so you don’t have to.

But that doesn’t stem the tide of takes, because the Diva-verse is shook. There has been (in Holly’s words) a “rat sanger” of new music dropped this fortnight: Queen B unveiled the sonic cinema of Black is King, Tay Tay got back to her “roots” on Folklore and Princess Kylie dropped a club banger with ‘Say Something’.

So…big week.

And that’s not even including Rich’s Bitch, Chris’ Coincidence or a Diva of the Week first!

Please bear with the slight rambly-ness (must be the fresh air), but hope you enjoy this Countryfile-inspired episode of Little Diva Energy.

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We’re back for Part the Second, with Anoushka Lucas, talking about the incredible Janelle Monáe and, this week, we’re actually covering her career!

Join Holly & Tom as they take Noush on a deep-dive that begins with Janelle’s introduction of android-diva doppelgänger Cindi Mayweather and counts backward from the year 2719 as Janelle gradually sheds the ego in favour of the id, trampling all over genre boundaries as she goes.

Along the way, the gang learn about Tom getting abandoned at an OutKast gig, the power of the pop-star alter-ego (aka Harry Styles’ Fashion) and a lorra lorra chat about bombastic Biblical biopera, Jesus Christ Superstar.

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It’s a quiet week for the Big Hitters, but Holly and Tom manage to find some serious Diva news all the same (largely consisting of them bitching about the Nolan sisters or accusing Prince Andrew of fucking kids).

There is some Royal news and several shouts out to “friends of the pod” but hope all you divas have a basic shoe in the door before you can say, “regional touring production of Blood Brothers”.

We, of course, have a flawless bitch from Rich while Chris achieves Double Coincidence [DC] status.

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Through a hateful combination of scheduling and salmonella, KOK has been held for a few weeks.

But, apart from an enjoyable Snatch Game of Love episode, absolutely nothing has happened in RPDRAS5 that can’t be summed up in hour’s worth of chat masquerading as a podcast.

So, prepare yourself for a whole new hour of reading RuPaul Charles for filth, stanning Shea Coulee and even more 19th Century European nobility references.

Tip Reuben here!

Tom Walker’s Bon Jovi bit here

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This week we’ve got an absolute humdinger for you as we delve into the life and works of Kansas City sensation, Janelle Monáe Robinson. With Holly and Tom this episode to discuss the Electric Lady is another extraordinary talent: phenomenally eloquent, hilarious and all-round music machine, it’s singer and songwriter, Anoushka Lucas!

Join all three as they delve into Janelle’s background as a disappointed potential High School Dorothy, the conception of the iconic black & white “uniform” and her journey from the midwest to the booming music scene of Atlanta, Georgia.

Along the way, Anoushka comes to regret not choosing Dolly Parton as her subject, the three plot out a 6-part Netflix miniseries in which Beyoncé takes the White House and they all wax lyrical about the joy of chicken & waffles.

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Tom spent a week in confinement, while Holly ran ragged nursing him back to health, as all hell broke loose in his bowels (hence no KOK last week). But he’s back on his feet and the couple are ready to get chatting about divas once again.

That said, the humours are perhaps somewhat out of balance on the ward, so some hot takes are a blowin’. Things get a bit serious as Holly & Tom dip their toes into the J.K. Rowling debate, and get all academic about witches. But don’t worry because Jess Glynne has made an absolute tit of herself this week. So…swings and roundabouts.

We’ve also got all the old faithfuls, including a coincidence from Chris and Rich’s Bitch.

Hope you enjoy it. If not, #lookatthesky.

Links from the ep:

The Washington Post on Hamilton

Helen Lewis Article

Purple Rain Collective

Trans Women of Colour Collective

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And, this particular episode, we are giving you exactly what you want. We are, of course, returning to Dame Angela Lansbury and, let us tell you - this is what you call range.

Lovely, lovely Becks Humphries is back to discuss the Dame herself as we dive into the big musical theatre roles that defined her and, of course, THAT exercise video.

Along the way, we examine the almost-cancelling that Ange received recently, what Johnny Depp does when Helena Bonham-Carter and Tim Burton are having a blow-up on set and - realistically - who should play Ursula in the live action Little Mermaid.

Obsessed.

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Otherwise, Divas, please welcome to the floor, the newly formed House of Opportuniteez!

The incomparable Reuben Kaye once more swings by on the Zoom, to dive with Holly & Tom into a particularly meh episode of Drag Race All Stars.

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We hope you’ve been enjoying our recent Konversations On Kaye, but nothing beats that Little Diva Energy, does it?

It’s been a real humdinger of a month so there’s a lot to catch up on. Janelle Monae clarifies how she identifies, Stormy Daniels and Pink take aim at the President of the USA, and he responds by showing us all how he can totally drink a glass of water.

Plus, there’s a Rich’s Bitch, a Chris’ Coincidence AND we discuss the potentially violent fallout we’re anticipating from Madonna following ‘Babylon’, as we dig into Chromatica for the first time.

We didn’t even get started on Lea Michele.

So crack on, Divas, there’s a lot to get through!

Some charities to consider donating to:

https://www.ukblackpride.org.uk/ukbp-donate

https://www.twocc.us/donate/

https://www.sistersforchange.org.uk/project/london-black-womens-project/

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We’re back in the Zoom, with actress, model and part-time lumberjack, Reuben Kaye for an hour’s chat about his ever depleting pile of wood, that may or may not involve some conversation around Episode 2 of RuPaul’s Drag Race All Stars 5 (RPDRAS5).

So buckle in for some near the knuckle chuckles, as we present the latest helping of KOK.

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It’s a tale as old as time: the teenager from Camden who escaped the Blitz to become a multi award-winning legend of the stage and screens both silver and small. Yes, that’s right, our subject is none other than the Dame of Musical Theatre herself, Angela Lansbury!

Joining Holly & Tom for the ride is another super-classy dame - actress, activist, beauty maven and all round doll - Rebecca Humphries! Strap in, as we cover all things Lansbury: from hot pies to Mrs Potts, her brush with the Manson family and how she basically invented self care.

Along the way, we delve once more into the latest Cher tour, get some genuine candidates for a Diva Presidential team and historical beauty gets the Lizzo treatment.

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It’s the first in a series of bonus content we’re calling “Konversations on Kaye” (or KOK, for short) as we get on the Zoom (other videotelephony platforms are available) to dear, dear friend of the pod and all-round horrific individual, the outrageous Reuben Kaye.

And what better to serve as a thoroughly vague and ill-thought out framing device than every-Karen’s favourite platform for drag, RuPaul’s Drag Race?

So, strap in for SPOILERS as, in the name of talking about All Stars 5, Big Diva Energy brings you a thinly-veiled excuse to get daytime drunk and talk to one of our favourite ever guests and worst ever people.

Throw ashes, not shade - it’s Konversations on Kaye!

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To have your donation to Black Lives Matter tripled: https://twitter.com/RichHawkins/status/1269223488545607694

We’re aware that there’s a tonne of fantastic BLM-focused podcasts out there doing the Lord’s work, however, these are podcasts made by people of colour which we mentioned because we think our listenership will enjoy:

The Read

2 Dope Queens

Another Round

NPR’s Code Switch

The Receipts

Black Gals Livin’

Reni Eddo-Lodge has expressed some discomfort over the spike in book sales for Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race, so try to read a borrowed copy and donate the same amount to a charity if you can. Otherwise, the accompanying podcast to the book (with the same name) is also fantastic.

Also, check out podcast The Heart, who, recently have been doing a series called ‘The Race Traitor’ which can be an uncomfortable listen but is excellent.

For your own minds, we will keep posting podcast recommendations, as well as any links we can find to reading and watching lists, otherwise here are a few links about how to help in more urgent ways:

https://www.twocc.us/donate/

https://www.gofundme.com/f/georgefloyd

https://nymag.com/strategist/article/where-to-donate-for-black-lives-matter.html

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/black-lives-matter-charity-donate-uk-stephen-lawrence-stop-hate-a9544786.html

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/n7wnbb/tony-mcdade-nina-pop-how-to-help

https://www.thecut.com/2020/06/ways-you-can-support-the-black-lgbtq-community.html

And here is a great mood board if your mood is Taking Action:

https://www.instagram.com/p/CA8A88YD3XJ/

With love and solidarity,

The BDE team x

Crack open the Bolly, because do we have an episode for you. This week Holly & Tom are coming at you with the life and times of the Absolutely Fabulous Joanna Lumley OBE.

Joined by their very own Bubbles - writer, performer and wedding guest - Joseph Cullen (aka “that Johnny Depp-looking cunt”) the team delve into Lumley’s skint early years as an Avenger and Crouch End Bakery frequenter, her brief turn as a Doctor Who and of course the role that made her an icon, Ms Patsy Stone.

Along the way, we get political with an in depth dive into the Gurkha episode and the Garden Bridge debacle and get historical, with Joe’s diva choices, whilst seemingly always managing to come back to Miriam Margolyes.

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The day has arrived and the Divadom is SOAKED. Gaga and Ariana finally dropped ‘Rain on Me’ and Holly can barely deal.

With absolutely no hyperbole whatsoever about “the most important song ever released” (Holly Morgan, 2020), this week’s Little Diva dives into Gaga’s drowning, Britney’s crowning and Eurovision’s lockdowning. Plus we say hello to Julie Andrews’ podcast and goodbye to Schitt’s Creek.

Rain. On. Me.

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De La Cruzing!

This week’s subject is none other than the Dame of Daytime herself, Wakefield’s own, Jane McDonald. Accordingly, Holly & Tom welcome to their Zoom call, Northern Ireland’s premier club entertainer - whether that’s at a Mediterranean all-inclusive or the venue space above Peadar O'Donnell's - the original cruiser, Graham De La Cruz.

Join the lot of them as they explore the rise and rise of Loose Woman, J-Mac, as she goes from Cruise to crews and back to Cruises again. Jane’s complicated long term relationship with husband Wal/Ed/Wal gets a look in, and Graham even reveals he’s seen some program where she gets possessed by a ghost or something?

Along the way, we delve into Graham’s earliest onstage appearance as Mr Bumble, his 3-month stint at the Derry Academy of Dramatic Arts and the Sophie’s choice of nights out: Cher or Whoopi?

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Hope you’ve got plenty of sorts, ‘cos we’re all out them.

Today’s pod sees Holly & Tom at the tail-end of a tough old week for the country and Holly is not above making it very clear how she feels about the response from the top. So, be warned: some pretty fruity language gets used and some colours are very much nailed to the mast.

Luckily, keeping the pair sane this week is Ryan Murphy’s new wish-fulfilment period drama, Hollywood, on Netflix and ITV’s Diva on Lockdown which follows cultural icon Gemma “The GC” Collins on her insane journey into the corona-crisis.

All that, plus Diva of the Week and a brand new Chris’ Coincidence mean that, whilst Holly & Tom might be out of sorts, they are still bringing you all the Diva-based content you need throughout the Panny-D and beyond!

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The whole Minajerie is back for Round Two and Rich is just itchin’ to be bitchin’ again.

Let’s dive back into the Nickiverse, rejoining our heroine where we left off; on the cusp of dropping her first album, Pink Friday. Come with us, as we take you all the the way up to today - to her reigning status as The Queen - via all the salutes and (most importantly) all the disputes that she’s managed to have in that time.

We’ve got more feuds in this episode than Ryan Murphy has poorly-plotted TV series.

Along the way, we cover Nicki’s fried-hard breakfast order and her entirely liquid Superbowl rider, as well as musing on Rich’s second favourite conversational topic after Madonna: what constitutes a gay icon.

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In the spirit of Stephen Sondheim’s 90th Birthday Concert, Little Diva Energy is going up late due to technical issues. Apologies for that, but also - don’t worry - we’re still standing.

Yeah. Yeah. Yeah…

This week’s LDE is bookmarked by two remarkable online concerts, as we learn ever more about what technology can (or cannot) provide us in the lockdown, and more and more about what the inside of celebrities’ houses look like. Lovely stuff.

Holly debuts her sliding scale of whether people can sing and can act as Holly & Tom review the Gaga-curated One World concert and Stephen Stondheim’s 90th Birthday broadcast. All of the stars, none of the gravity.

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Just Stop It.

Everybody knows it’s a mother-fucking monster.

That’s right, for our tenth full-length, we’ve only gone and dropped the beginning of a multi-part deep-dive into the life and werk of reigning Queen of Rap, Nicki Minaj, with, none other than reigning Queen of Netflix, Rich Hawkins.

The hot takes that Rich has been serving you since Episode 1 of our bi-weekly round-up pod, Little Diva Energy, have been so damn scalding, we thought we’d just go ahead and give him his very own feature length bitch and, let me tell you, she do not disappoint.

Why y’all gagging so? She bring it to you every ball.

In Part I, Holly, Tom and Rich journey through Time & Space to Trinidad & Tobago in order to witness the birth of the Queen. They then take a leisurely tour through her family life, subsequent move to New York, several aborted attempts at early fame and the firing from - count ’em - 15 different jobs. All before the first mixtape drops.

Along the way, the trio delve into the mysterious and dangerous world of Nando’s Black Cards, Holly drops yet another obscure children’s TV reference and we introduce you to the diva you didn’t even know you were obsessed with: Kim Bell.

When I say Kim, you say…Bell.

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Holly & Tom are breaking their self-imposed embargo on popular reality television program RuPaul’s Drag Race, as this week’s episode featured an unauthorised MADONNA MUSICAL!

Nine kweens, Burning Up the stage with nine eras of iconic Madonna looks and performances. So, Open Your Heart and Cherish the thoughts and feelings of two hardcore Madonna fans thanking their Lucky Stars they get to combine a chat about two of their favourite things.

There's some good Material, Girl.

Patti LuPone’s latest vid, Lady Gaga’s charitable works and Socialist Britney also get a look-in, but it really is all about the Queen of Pop this week.

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Isolated in Diva Towers, Holly & Tom return to the scene of the crime, as Holly’s “Cabaret Wife"“, Cat Loud (there truly are three of us in this marriage.) joins them once again to chat all things Peggy Jones.

Join them as they reconvene at the point of Princess Margaret choosing the dashing, sexually-fluid AAJ (Anthony Armstrong-Jones) over an ALL (Actual Leg of Lamb), engage in a rundown of the Top 5 Moments in Which Margaret was Absolutely Appalling in a Social Situation and discover why it’s important to have Margarets as well as Elizabeths in these troubled times.

Along the way, we have a good long convo about The Archers falling behind on current affairs, Twiggy’s sassing at the hands of both Margaret AND America’s Next Top Model and stumble across a stunning new definition of the word “diva”.

Again, much of this week’s Marge content comes from the great Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. Buy it here.

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We are.

But here’s a little tonic (and lots of lovely gin): a Little Diva Energy for your nerve.

Rich has a good, old bitch, Chris has another coincidence for you and Holly & Tom dissect the week in Diva.

Britney’s come out as the Che Guevara of pop excellence, but Rihanna’s keeping her end up with charitable works (and casually calls everyone a cunt). Holly’s also discovered that a) the film Judy is rubbish and b) the X-Files is not.

Meanwhile, as we discover that Chromatica is being delayed, your hosts nervously await news if Gaga is a go-ahead and whether or not they’ll be taking her to Aldi.

Many thanks and a Big Diva welcome to new member of the BDE team, Katy Danbury, who is producing the shit out of the pod this week.

Be safe, Divas. Wash your hands. Stay inside. xx

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Despite social distancing we are very much in the presence of royalty and, in tribute to those still refusing to play by the rules of COVID-19, this week we’re covering the most irresponsible of them all: the truly fabulous - and often frankly abominable - Princess Margaret.

Like many out there, we have had to change our plans, so apologies to anyone who was looking forward to this week being all about the Williams Sisters (soon, Divas, soon), but one way or another we’ve got you a pod so fabulous we have to bring it twice.

Joining Holly & Tom for the next two episodes, via Skype (apologies for any sound issues), is indescribably brilliant friend of the pod and Holly’s cabaret-wife, Cat Loud (no apologies necessary).

Join the (house) party as we present this two-part tribute to the savagely witty Princess Pegs, as we hear stories of royal protocol abuse, Liz’s swinging left-hook and the deep tragedy of one of the world’s most speculated-upon love stories pre-KimYe.

Along the way, we hear of Billie Holiday’s unsurpassed bad-assery, being a Diva in a regional village hall and some pretty choice opinions on the Royal Family.

Much of this week’s content comes from the great Ma’am Darling: 99 Glimpses of Princess Margaret by Craig Brown. Buy it here.

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You'll be pleased to know that, apart from pretending they're Mark & Jessica in the Love is Blind pods, one thing Holly & Tom can do from their government-sanctioned lockdown in Diva Towers is broadcast to the Isolation Nation ! (But mostly they're just playing at #PodLife).

So strap in, divas, it is quite mad.

Little Diva Energy Numero 7 is about to infect your ears with extra tidbits about Patti LuPone, news for Little Monsters and all the things Holly & Tom used to do in the past - when they were free to roam wild in the big city. (Spoiler Alert: it was literally just drag shows.)

They are alive and they are broadcasting! So this one goes out to all the Divas in their self-containment chambers.

Love you all.
Be safe.
Wash your hands.

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I LuPone
You LuPone
He/She/It Lupones
We ALL LuPone

But the one who LuPones the hardest is mother herself. That’s right, it’s time for the hotly anticipated deep-dive into the life and times of a hardcore possessor of both Big Diva Energy and the biggest voice in Musical Theatre: the iconic Patti LuPone.

(Just don’t call her the D-Word.)

And sharing the journey is star of stage, screen and emergency rooms up and down the country, dear, dear friend Dr Esh Alladi.

Join all three as they hear tales of lily-white hands and softly-kissed penises, theatrical snubbings aplenty and introduce you to Persecution Patti - her LuPone worst enemy.

Along the way, Holly & Tom discover what happens when a Hindu mother finds out you’re bisexual, what kind of “roles” can be found at the Job Centre and just generally get really, really stagey.

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This week’s LDE is the usual recap of the Week in Diva (‘Stupid Love’, anyone?), but with a little extra bit of extra - the lemon peel in your martini, if you will.

As tribute to Diva Jr, Billie Eilish dropping her latest single, ‘No Time to Die’, Holly and Tom have gone through and listened to every James Bond theme song ever released – from ‘Dr No’ to ‘No Time to Die’.

Why? They are asking themselves that exact same question.

Just remember, for those who think this franchise is toxic masculinity encapsulated – remember, they made a film called Octopussy and Shirley Bassey sang three – count em, three – theme tunes.

So, whether you’re listening to it in your kitchen, your commute or your invisible car, get your tux on, mix up a vesper martini and let’s get stuck into the music that defined the man who’ll “do anything for a woman with a knife.”

I think you get the point.

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It. Is. So. Fetch.

We knew you all wanted to go to there, so we brought the Queen of Vault Festival herself - writer, cheese-lover and all-round purveyor of Big Diva Energy - Camilla Whitehill round to Diva Towers, drank all the throwing wine and talked all things Bossypants. That’s right Episode 6 is all about comedy-queen herself, Tina Fey!

Perhaps, Tina Fey might not be the first person you’d think of when we say the word “Diva”, but we sure make a case for her entering the Diva Hall of Fame all the same. Because, as they say, there ain’t no party like a Liz Lemon party ‘cos a Liz Lemon party IS MANDATORY.

Come with Holly, Tom and Camilla as they learn all about how Fey quite literally bossed the writer’s room of SNL, the icky way in which most people talk about her She’s All That-type transfer to the screen, and how it kinda sorta seems like she fancies her dad.

Along the way, topics range from Cher’s Head-in-a Box Tour to a Shonda Rhimes’ bid for the presidency, via why men aren’t funny.

So get in losers, we’re going chatting.

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This week, Holly and Tom are completely obsessed with Love is Blind (quite possibly the single craziest reality show to ever hit our screens), all things awards ceremonies, and Madge's spat with the London Palladium.

Meanwhile, Rich delivers another iconic Bitch and Tom unsuccessfully attempts to debut a new jingle.

@RichHawkins

@MattRogersTho

Janelle Monae Oscars 2020

Gay Men’s Chorus of LA Celebrate Laura Dern

Madonna vs Curtain

Billie Eilish Oscars 2020

Next week, we have powerhouse playwright, Camilla Whitehill, giving us some hot hot takes on - amongst other things - SNL's most beloved alumnus, Tina Fey . That’s out Monday 24th February.

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If you thought Part the First was a blast, then brace yourselves for Part the Second, as we discuss the rise and rise of Céline as she explodes onto the English-language music scene, get a bit misty when we have to tackle the tragic loss of René, and marvel at the latter day era of Céline Unchained.

Along the way, we learn how Cher can manage a costume change every 8 minutes, the extended and boring story of Meatloaf’s relationship with ‘It’s All Coming Back to Me Now’ and why straight people shouldn’t be allowed in creative industries.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes some pretty racy humour, explicit sexual references and some language that might not be everyone’s cup of tea.

Reuben Kaye

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The first major Diva event since the podcast started and Holy Fucking Mary it was a good one.

Very little to talk about this week other than J-Lo and Shakira absolutely wrecking the place in Miami’s Double-Diva Superbowl Halftime Show.

Rich manages to squeeze in a Bitch (which is casually excellent) but Holly and Tom spend the rest of the pod discussing 15 minutes from across the pond (Top 5, easily) in its every fabulous detail.

Poles! Politics! Piñata Flags!

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Céline Marie Claudette Dion

Canada’s finest export gets the BDE treatment from Australia’s, in which we welcome to Diva Towers, cabaret and comedy royalty, all-round very naughty boy, Reuben Kaye (@ReubenKaye).

It’s rude, it’s crude, it’s better than Feud; so strap in for Part I of this two-part wild ride around the career of maybe the greatest voice on Earth, as we discuss, among other things: her mother’s poor, overworked womb, the long-lasting marriage to manager René Angélil and why Céline might just be the kindest diva there is.

Along the way, we learn what a shame it is Janis Joplin never got to be an MEP, live Reuben Kaye’s discovery of the Ark of the Gay Covenant and laud the health benefits to be found in a full pint of ejaculate.

TRIGGER WARNING: This episode includes some pretty racy humour, explicit sexual references and some language that might not be everyone’s cup of tea.

Celine Dion is Amazing

Reuben Kaye

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To the non-sponsored Super Bowl Halftime Show Retrospective!

Very few major sporting events have so consistently hosted major Diva appearances as the Super Bowl - and 2020 is no exception. As we all prepare for the Shakira/J-Lo double-header on 2nd February, Holly and Tom have watched (nearly) every Superbowl Halftime Show available so you don’t have to.

This week, join them on a whistle-stop tour through performances good, bad and downright bonkers.

The next full episode will be Part One of incredible cabaret comedian and true scholar of Diva, Reuben Kaye, on our first big-hitter - the LEGEND herself - Celine Dion. Dropping Monday 27th January.

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It’s the first big one of 2020, in which Holly and Tom are honoured to welcome a 100% real and genuine pop star into their home – recovering boy band member and casserole addict, Len Blanco (@King_Len_Blanco) - to talk about the Queen of Cardiff herself, Charlotte Church.

Very serious and important discussions are held around Cheeky Vimto fuelled nights down the Robin Hood, Charlotte’s manager’s suspicious jiffy bag expenditure and, of course, the ever-present misogynist onslaught of the right-wing media.

Along the way, we also learn of Holly’s profound respect for the Little Chef, the lasting power of Nana Blanco’s cooking and Gregg Wallace & Lorraine Kelly’s little-known Christmas #1.

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This week, Holly and Tom are obsessing about nothing other than Cats and Will & Grace (go with it; it makes sense).

PLUS a very special appearance from friend of the pod, Joe Cullen - serving his iconic poem about Carrie Fisher.

A cat is not a dog.

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Era 50/50

Karen Walker

Next week, it’s all-time pop icon Len Blanco on some-time pop icon Charlotte Church - out Monday 13th January.

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Amongst the topics of debate of are: space boobs, Gary the Emotional Support Dog and exactly how many times did Carrie date Paul Simon? Along the way, we also learn how to make a “Teenage Guinness” (and what the repercussions of that might be for mid-level panto) plus an alternate timeline in which Liza Minnelli could have been in all of us. Tom even gets in his first cry of the show, when we of course tackle the untimely death of one of the world’s best ever people.

Trigger Warning: this episode contains discussions around addiction.

Star Wars Fans: there are no spoilers in this episode as it was recorded prior to anyone involved watching it.

(Luke and Leia are brother and sister and Darth Vader is their dad. Also: Bruce Willis is a ghost, Kevin Spacey is Keyser Soze and an alleged sexual predator.)

- Old Broads

- Unfortunately, we couldn’t find the podcast with Carrie and Debbie that Holly mentioned, sorry!

- Meryl’s speech

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This week, the couple have a couple of extra Geri thoughts to untangle, Tom reveals his new religion, Balegdeh, whilst Holly is only thinking about one thing – and it ain’t dogs.

Meanwhile a new segment is born: Rich’s Bitch. In which twitter menace and all-round icon @RichHawkins is unleashed on the unsuspecting populace as he delivers his thoughts on Ep 1. -

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_xN5yUwNRZYhttps://twitter.com/BradeLeeStevens/status/1207249045581959168 -

https://www.dubaiperformingarts.com/ -

https://www.youngvic.org/whats-on/death-of-a-salesman-west-end - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKJ326AqPXE - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hF6XoYUZ7n4 - @thediyora -

https://www.rebeccapitt.co.uk/ - -

https://www.hackneybrewery.co.uk/

Happy Holidays everyone! See you in the “Merrineum” with the second full Diva episode, the one and only, Carrie Fisher – landing 30th December. Please like, subscribe and review to help other people to search for the Diva inside themselves.

They discuss the impact of the Spice Girls on our hearts and minds, Geri’s “tributes” to Madonna and Nic’s mum’s homemade Union Jack dress, as well as Geri’s hot takes on feminism, Margaret Thatcher and the Tube. Along the way we also learn why John Prescott should learn to death drop, the origins of First Lady of Camp, Dame Lamont, and why Beyoncé needs to be given the nuclear codes.

- Joe Stone on Geri Halliwell

- 73 Questions with Victoria Beckham

- What the Dolls Saw tickets

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