Speaker
Louis Theroux
Appearances over time
6 episodes
Episodes
6
S8 EP5: Melanie C on Spiceworld, comparing muscles with Arnold Schwarzenegger and why she’ll always be a Spice Girl
S8 EP4: Cara Delevingne discusses getting sober, engagement rumours, and being Karl Lagerfeld's muse
S8 EP3: Andrew Callaghan on the ‘cancelverse’, lizard people, and whether he’s being sued by Melania Trump
S8 EP2: Marco Pierre White discusses his rift with Gordon Ramsay, retiring from cooking, and having lunch with Margaret Thatcher
S8 EP1: Gary Lineker on England’s losing streak, leaving the BBC, and his frosty relationship with Cristiano Ronaldo
S7 EP8: Yorgos Lanthimos discusses working with Emma Stone, suffering for his art, and directing a Bourne movie
Podcasts
Quotes & moments
Marco Pierre White won three Michelin stars in 1995, becoming the youngest person in history and the first British chef to achieve the accolade.
Cara Delevingne was named British Fashion Awards Model of the Year twice, in 2012 and 2014, cementing her status as the defining face of early-2010s fashion.
The Spice Girls' first album sold 23 million copies, making it the highest-selling album by a girl band of all time.
Erling Haaland reportedly earns £525,000 per week at Manchester City, approximately £27.3 million annually, potentially doubling with sponsorships.
The entire peak Spice Girls era — from Wannabe in 1996 to Geri Halliwell leaving the band in 1998 — lasted less than two years.
The word 'dogtooth' is not spoken until 55 minutes into the film, more than halfway through, when the audience finally understands the world's internal rules.
Andrew Callaghan's independent journalism platform Channel 5 has 3.5 million followers on YouTube.
Marco's Italian mother died of a brain haemorrhage shortly after the birth of his youngest brother, leaving his father to raise three children alone.
Gary Lineker presented Match of the Day for 26 years before his departure following the Instagram Zionism post controversy.
London Fields (2018), in which Cara starred, holds a rare 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes, placing it among the worst-reviewed films of all time.
Callaghan's 2020 Flat Earth Conference video on All Gas No Brakes accumulated 7 million YouTube views and is considered a formative piece of his work.
England's only major international football tournament win was the 1966 World Cup, and they have not won one since.
Following sexual misconduct allegations in 2023, Callaghan took approximately nine months away from filmmaking before returning to his work.
David Lynch called Dogtooth 'a fantastic comedy', a characterisation Lanthimos embraced as proof that the film's humour was always intentional.
UK savers can place up to £20,000 in a Cash ISA tax-free; Moneybox notes this is the last year before the allowance is reduced for under-65s in April 2027.
Karl Lagerfeld compared Cara to Charlie Chaplin, called her 'not a standout beauty', and dressed her as his Chanel muse. When he died and Jameela Jamil immediately called him a fatphobic misogynist, Cara — freshly landed in Milan — fired back on Twitter. She says the fashion industry may be inherently misogynistic, but the day after a death isn't the time.
Before modelling took off, Cara had a shot at a music career via Simon Fuller, the man behind the Spice Girls. He liked her songs but wanted to cut her hair, dye it green, and rename her Spike — or possibly Spark. She turned it down because music was too precious to hand over to someone else's vision. She always knew she'd do it, just not like that.
Cara says her current relationship feels like the first time she has ever truly been in love, because she is finally experiencing it without substances blurring the signal. In every previous relationship, drugs or work were always the priority. Now, if the relationship isn't okay, she isn't okay — and she's fully aware that might tip into codependency.
Cara revealed she had been previously engaged — and it wasn't publicly known. But the reasoning behind it was raw: she didn't believe in marriage, but engagement gave her one more hoop for a partner to jump through before leaving. It was about buying time against the inevitable abandonment she expected from everyone she loved.
Cara overdosed — likely on fentanyl-laced cocaine — and was revived with Narcan by paramedics at her home. Waking up restrained, surrounded by people and shame, her first conscious thought was that she wanted to die. That moment of absolute bottom became the turning point that sent her to residential treatment.
A sober mentor made Cara a wild offer: stay clean for a year, and he'd buy her a kilo of cocaine to see if she still wanted it. The point wasn't provocation — it was certainty. He knew that anyone who reached that milestone would never go back. Cara says it was true for her. That offer, and the year that followed, changed everything.
Harvey Weinstein called Cara directly and told her to never be seen in a relationship with a woman, warning that being perceived as gay would end her acting career. She says she genuinely believed him and took it to heart. The call captures a broader industry pressure on gay performers that persisted long after audiences had supposedly moved on.
Cara had always loved music but didn't believe in herself enough to pursue it until sobriety forced her to confront and accept every part of who she was. The polarities she'd spent years numbing — the dark, the light, the shame — became the raw material for her debut album. Loving all of it, not just the palatable bits, was the precondition for making anything real.
Cara didn't take ketamine recreationally — she used it to disappear. She describes doing enormous lines not for a buzz but to fully tranquilise herself, developing a tolerance so extreme that a dose she considered small would knock out a six-foot-five man. She wore it as bravado at the time. In retrospect, it was terrifying.
London Fields, the 2018 adaptation of Martin Amis's novel starring Cara, Billy Bob Thornton and Jason Isaacs, holds a 0% rating on Rotten Tomatoes. Cara's take: the book is incredible, the script seemed great, and sometimes you just have to try to adapt an unadaptable book to prove how unadaptable it is. She takes the distinction with disarming good humour.
Cara says sexual assault was rampant in the fashion world when she was coming up. Test shoots were a common vector: young photographers would offer underage girls alcohol and then push boundaries — including asking 15-year-old girls to get naked in a bathtub together while their mothers watched. Cara, the oldest person present, refused. The photos still exist.
After days without sleep at Burning Man, Cara had a seizure, scored more drugs at her LA home, and arrived at the airport barefoot, wild-eyed, smoking in a Free Britney t-shirt. The photos went viral, brands quietly dropped her contracts, and the silence from the industry was deafening. That public collapse became the catalyst for everything that followed.
Four days after allegations broke, Callaghan lost his agent, every sponsor, and all his friends. He now describes his key mistake as hooking up with fans as a 22-year-old internet celebrity without recognising the power dynamic — not because he believed he'd done anything criminal, but because he failed to see how fans might feel obligated by his fame.
Callaghan arrived in South Minneapolis three days after George Floyd's murder, asked a man with a gas can why he was burning things, and got one of the most poetic lines in modern documentary journalism: 'Everybody feel like that.' That single video transformed All Gas No Brakes from a comedy platform into a serious journalistic outlet overnight.
Cara grew up checking whether her mother was still breathing before she could sleep, terrified of finding her dead in the night. Her mother's illness — physical and mental, including a near-fatal reaction to a monk's herbal tea — made Cara so focused on her mother's survival that her own needs simply didn't register. The anger that couldn't go anywhere else went inward.
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- Society & Culture 40%
- Arts 20%
- Education 20%
- Technology 20%
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