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Dec 2023
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The 2023 Celebrity Memoir Awards!

Chelsea Devantez
About this episode

Welcome to the 2023 Glamorous Trash Celebrity Memoir Awards! Chelsea Devantez and Casey Balsham take you through a thrilling year in celebrity memoirs, from the best of the best to the worst and the weirdest. They give out awards as voted on by you, the cookies, while Chelsea was in a hot tub, as is tradition.


Featuring awards like:

Biggest Cash Grab

Least Annoying Grandparent Story

The John Mayer Award for Worst Man of the Year

The Todd Gold award for the Memoir that Needed a Better Ghostwriter

Book that Could Have Been an Email

Best Kris Jenner Kristian 

Best Sex Story… and more! 


Including cameos from surprise special guests, a Golden Bachelor wrap up, and a look forward to what’s on our 2024 bookshelf. 


Show Notes:


Where to find our Guest: Casey Balsham


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For more book recaps & gentle tea, follow Chelsea on Instagram @chelseadevantez

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Glamorous Trash: Where we make treasure out of pop culture garbage. Glamorous Trash is all about going high and low at the same time— Glam and Trash. We recap and book club celebrity memoirs, deconstruct pop culture, and sometimes, we cry! If you've ever referenced Mariah Carey in therapy... then this is the podcast for you.


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