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VOGUE WILLIAMS AND JOANNE McNally’s podcast My Therapist Ghosted Me has been named the winner of the champion award at the 2023 British Podcast Awards.
Model and media personality Williams, 37, and comedian McNally, 40, have hosted the podcast since April 2021 and recently toured the weekly podcast around the UK, with upcoming dates in Australia and Ireland.
A number of celebrities presented at this year’s podcast awards, including reality stars Jamie Laing and Sophie Habboo from the NewlyWeds podcast and TV and radio presenter Miquita Oliver who co-hosts the podcast Stirring It Up With Andi And Miquita Oliver.
Williams and her husband Spencer Matthews – who both co-host podcast Spencer And Vogue – also presented an award at the ceremony for best wellbeing podcast.
Taking home the podcast of the year award was BBC production A Positive Life: HIV From Terrence Higgins To Today, which also won a gold award for best factual podcast.
British pop star Sam Smith presented the podcast and spoke about HIV stories, beginning with the life of Terrence Higgins, one of the first British people to die of an Aids-related illness.
In the listeners’ choice category, the true-crime podcast RedHanded came out on top, while Partygate: The Inside Story for ITV News, about the UK-based scandal which ensued following reports that there were Downing Street parties during the Covid-19 pandemic lockdown, won the spotlight award.
Elsewhere, The News Agents, which is hosted by journalists Emily Maitlis, Jon Sopel and Lewis Goodall, won the gold award for best daily podcast, while My Dad Wrote A Porno won the hall of fame award.
Persevering: Grief As Told By Young People, Let’s Talk About Loss came home with the best specialist podcast and the rising star gong was gifted to Chante Joseph at The Guardian, who hosts podcast Pop Culture.
The gold award for the best news and current affairs podcast was won by The Guardian for Today In Focus and the best entertainment podcast was won by Elis James and John Robins’ show for BBC Radio 5 Live and BBC Sounds.
Other categories included best kids podcast, best parenting podcast, best sex and relationships podcast, best sports podcast, and best true crime podcast.
There were also categories for best climate podcast, best business podcast, best fiction podcast, best history podcast, best interview podcast, best network/publisher, best new podcast and best wellbeing podcast.
The awards were held this evening at Outernet London with British comedians Zoe Lyons and Stephen Bailey hosting the awards.
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Ohhh my gawwwwddddd
@Anthony Curran: Hahaha love it..
@Anthony Curran: Perfect
@Anthony Curran: Don’t worry Anto, she’d laugh at your best.
@Anthony Curran: If you want a good laugh,look for Fade Street is sh*t on YouTube, very funny stuff!
@Anne Collins: Laurence Fox, is that you?
@Anthony Curran: janice?
That’s good for her fragile ego. Her voice even upsets my cat.
Here comes another Late Late Show love in…..
Both of them seriously annoying
@Tom Mc Sweeney: Irish stuff is always inexplicably critically acclaimed in the UK and abroad. Apart from Fr Ted, which is objectively brilliant, I cant understand foreigners love for stereotypical Irish tropes of being loud, every sentence is a wise cracking punchline, we all drink ourselves silly, and we all love to be profane. Whether its true or not isnt even the point, its just not particularly funny, or witty.
They definitely paid for that
Cringe alert. Modern Ireland must be lost on me.
It’s an upper middle class thing.
Fantastic, congratulations and well done Vogue and Joanne
What were the other shortlisted candidates for “award”?
Perspective would be helpful.
OMG!!!!! My weekend is like soooooo complete now
Sure that’s great stuff isn’t it not…..
Incel alert in 3..2..1
@: did you just count yourself in there?
@mainmsam: hardly, I refer to the myriad of insecure little boys such as yourself. You didn’t disappoint either.
Mostly guys commenting on this article.. interesting..
@Irene Hickey: Don’t assume their gender, very NOT cool.
@Irene Hickey: can’t be assuming gender anymore, u could be cancelled for such a comment
Why is everyone so angry and mean in the comments because someone won a podcast award?
No luck for the 2 Johnnies……must have busted unfortunately
@Stephen McGrath: two teabags
Pat on the back time, there seems to be an award for everything these days. We’ll shortly have one for tying your shoes. Everything nowadays is about self promotion and affirmation, it’s like oxygen to these podcasters and influencers, they can’t do without it. I wonder in 2073 will anyone even remember their names?
Marble in the mouth
Heard her a few times in passing on TV interviews or radio etc. She seems alright. Not something I would listen to but people listen to some outrageous auld plop
2 absolute melts loike
How can a podcast by 2 Irish women win a British podcast award?
They still did not get the message from people I think… useless, uninteresting and still have to pay the TV tax …
Take a well deserved bow girls
All da boyzzz commenting with their usual drivel. Still ride them though, wouldn’t ye!
Christ on a bike..they want us to pay for this
Jaysus
Vogue and Joanne who???
Her mouth is massive.
The two of them have done well for themselves, the Dosh is rolling in especially for Vogue.
Alway remember to click, click.
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