The Break-Up Diet - Costumes, Cake and Confidence

Episode Date: October 27, 2024

Ever wondered how a breakup could be the perfect excuse for a killer Halloween costume? With special guests Pitbull and the ever-fabulous Regina George, we kick things off by reminiscing about our wild podcast launch party. From hilarious cleanup antics to busting moves to those iconic 2000s hits, the night was a blast, thanks to our pals Estelle and Harriet. We share our cheeky "breakup diet" tactic, where buying gifts in the wrong size might just light that old flame again. Don't miss our dish on the themed cups, standout cake, and a diverse crowd that made the night one for the books.Halloween’s not just about candy and costumes; it’s about embracing your post-breakup glow-up! Whether you're rocking a cute or bold outfit, we chat about how these choices can boost your confidence and leave an ex wondering what they missed. Laugh with us as we imagine the hilarity of running into past loves while dressed as, say, a YSL model or even Regina George herself. Single and ready to mingle, the season offers the perfect backdrop for letting go of others' perceptions and focusing on your own happiness.But it’s not all fun and games—sometimes those club nights can turn spooky in all the wrong ways. We dive into some unsettling experiences at London’s infamous Cirque club, where drink safety is no joke. We spill the tea on why hosting a house party might be your safest bet for a memorable night. Wrapping up, we give a huge shout-out to all our listeners who've supported us thus far, reminding everyone to stay safe while having a blast this Halloween season.Send us a textInstagram:@the_breakup_dietTikTok:@thebreakupdietEmail: [e-mail]

You are live, coming in from Pitbull, Mr. 305, Miami, New York, Florida, with Miss Regina George from Mean Girl High. Obviously, this isn't our usual attire. Really? You look this gorgeous all the time. Yeah, so do you. So you, like, think you're really pretty? You think you're really pretty! Anyway, obviously, Pitbull, Regina George for our Halloween episode. Let's go.

Buckle up, bitches. It's going to get bumpy. This is the Breakup Diet. Before we delve into Halloween, we have a lot to catch up on, yes. So we had a podcast launch party on Saturday. I'm still hungover from it. I don't think I'm going to be normal for like the next five days. Yeah, I'm not going to lie.

Even today, I felt so bad still. And I had the whole kitchen to clean up and it was disgusting. Oh, I'm so sorry. Who cleaned up? Who helped you? My friend Estelle and Harriet. But every time we walked into the kitchen it smelled like pure alcohol that we would feel sick so we had to like walk away from it and take breaks and I was just thinking why why the mess was quite bad

I felt really bad for leaving but also it was 3m yes yeah you know what it's actually having a house party is fun when it's not at your house a hundred percent because that mess that kitchen benchtop yes it looked like as if we fed an entire college of students yeah you couldn't even put your cup down because it got lost you didn't know which one was your cup. But we had such cute cups. They were pink and it said the breakup diet. Yeah, and we had like photos up on the wall with lights. Oh, we brought the cake back. That cake is the unofficial third co-host.

Yeah. That cake has so much personality. Yeah, literally. I mean, there was quite a few people at the end. There were quite a lot of at the end there were quite a lot of boys yes i didn't expect it chill out there weren't that many boys i feel like there were some girls too oh my god the girls were great i love your girlfriends yeah they're nice they are so fun and they're so gorgeous like yeah they are And just the feedback has been really nice and quite motivating I can't

lie. Yeah because we at this point we don't we've only launched our first one. Yeah. So and then we had our launch party and now we've obviously launched a few since then. I really want to get some other guests on the podcast because I think it'd be really fun get their breakup stories how they cope. Yeah everyone else's breakup diet. We've got to share the diet around. Yeah, literally. I actually heard something really good. So basically, how to get out of the diet.

I got a tip from a mysterious person. They're trying to win back their boyfriend or girlfriend. And so they have bought them a pair of shoes in the wrong size on purpose to try to like you know then they have to contact them again and be like oh you got me the shoes in the wrong size like can we switch them so they have to reach out so i thought that was fun you know how to get a sneaky way out of the diet genius so if you've been broken up with but you want to get back in buy your partner a gift in the wrong size and keep the receipt if you really want them bad you'd get them something nice in a heartbeat yeah exactly because you can't put

a price tag on love what was your highlight of the night just dancing around the kitchen to all the fun old songs like we had all the 2000 songs on the tunes were banging and the thing is i loved how everyone was playing songs that we all know because i've been to some house parties where they play their like niche house music that not most people would know. I did make the playlist. Thank you. And the dancing, honestly, everyone's energy was so hype. Yeah, it was really fun. It was really fun.

So thank you all for coming if you came. I was on full work mode. I kept on telling people, guys, this is a work party. This is a client party. Make sure you're posting the cups. Make sure you're tagging us, you know. This is a work party. This is a client party. Make sure you're posting the cups. Make sure you're tagging us, you know. This is a job. Thank God for you because I definitely wasn't on that wavelength.

I was, like, sliding, knee sliding on the floor with the picture. Why? That was iconic. No, that was iconic. Some of the pictures that we have of you, Yaz, it was just you are the breakup diet. Like, you are queen breakup diet. you are queen breakup diet I went full ratchet I'm not gonna lie I went full ratchet and I'm quite ashamed but it's okay back to your outfit what were you wearing again I was wearing a really cute light pink mire dress that my

boyfriend got me which is very cute that's so sweet what were you wearing i was wearing this pink long sleeve maxi body contrast from asos nice lots of people liked your outfit to be fair oh everyone loved yours from my end as well from my friends oh look at us go yes did you talk to anybody that was going through a breakup at the party actually yes and they were telling me their story and yeah i think they're not ready for the diet just yet they're not ready for the diet they're in their their pre-hermiting stage i think they're kind of dwelling on the diet i mean not dwelling they are going through their emotions it's too early for me to prescribe the diet exactly but they were in the best place to be we were all about uplifting each other

all about celebrating being single being a relationship being happy I think that's what it is yeah being happy and not caring yeah I. I have learnt this last three days not to care. It's so freeing not to care. Yeah. And honestly, this is going to sound so rogue. Not rogue, but the second you stop caring, your dreams genuinely start coming true. Well, let's go.

Especially in a job like this as a creator, because you see so much of your face and you overthink so much because you care about people's perception. You know what I just thought about as well at the party? That people came up to me and they were like, happy birthday. I was like, it's not my birthday.

You're at a podcast launch. It's the birth of a podcast just not the birthday yeah i think we confuse people by putting candles in the cake but we needed to you know create some spark i love the re-return of the cake yeah it had to come out genuinely i honestly the person that makes that cake she's never received a normal order from me she did my divorce party cake then she did the breakup diet cake for party cake then she did the breakup diet cake for the shoot then she did it again for the launch party that lady will never receive a normal order from us what is she what is she gonna get next we need another one maybe we bring out

the cake for every stage i think so too maybe for our followers yeah so if somebody goes to a breakup we could send them a cake the The diet starts with the cake. Yeah, because we don't want the breakup diet to be about actual diets. Like, you're already going through such a hard time. No need to put the actual stress on yourself, you know? One of my good friends at the party was like, the breakup diet is chips, popcorn and cake. And that's what we had. Exactly.

The breakup diet is actually about eating food and scoffing our face with it no one's actually starving ourselves no it's only when you do go through the breakup you get a bit not hungry but then after you get hungry and that's when you stuff your face and it's the best phase ever I'm on that phase right now I'm not even on the diet I'm just on my period oh Oh, thanks, Hilma. Anyway, because we're in Halloween, I think we should give some of our listeners, if they're going through a breakup and they want to impress their ex or get back at their ex, what outfits are they wearing? So you're back out in the streets.

Halloween, I can't lie, is the baddie Olympics. Competition is high, I can't lie is the baddie olympics competition is high i can't lie everyone looks 10 out of 10 and not in just like the sexy slutty way their creativity that goes behind costumes so what angle would you go if you were like newly single would you be the cute creative or slutty back to the street marking your spot the inner baddie in me wants to say you know marking my spot but the self-conscious little girl in me says um uh no so i'm not gonna lie i would probably be wearing something more cute but could still be a bit cheeky it is sexy because it's understated i love that that's an outfit even like the regina george outfit it's hot even though i'm not being slutty

i love that what what would you do oh my gosh okay so i had a phase the last like three four halloweens has been just slutty slutty slutty playboy bunny christina aguilera just the classic halloween hoe outfit this year i think my front lobe developed and i feel only now no genuinely at this ripe age it only developed and i am a bit more self-conscious about showing too much skin which is so annoying because I used to love dressing like a hoe which is why I'm dressed as pitbull this year yeah she's going from hoe to weird genuinely hoe to the pimp pitbull I like the outfit though you know you would get you actually would probably get more attention from men to be

fair wearing this because they'd be like what the actual hell you know i feel like i'd make a lot of friends out of this i don't know if i'd no because you could lead it up being like i actually look good underneath and they're like oh yeah sure and you're like no no take the bald cap out see my luscious hair there's a lot of beauty underneath there and i think the bald cap also doubles up as a vomit bag you you gotta be prepared yes come on you know the way we love our tequila don't vomit in the bald cap vomit like on the street or something come on well what was your advice i think go goofy it's funny. It's more memorable because if you really think about it, if you're truly a baddie, every other day of the year, you can dress slutty and hot.

Halloween, take the piss, be a bit goofy. So you just went through a breakup and you ran into your ex on Halloween. Hadn't seen him since. Bang. You're wearing a bald cap. What are you doing? Well, realistically, I would just scream at their face. I'm looking crazy as it is. I may as well act crazy. Or I just go on full Mr. Pitbull character and then just use Mr. Worldwide Riz on him. I might even win them back. Imagine winning your ex back with a bald cap on. That is powerful. That would be next level flexing. You might even let them back. Imagine winning your ex back with a bald cap on. That is powerful. That would be next level flexing. You might even let him slap it.

I might. Well, would you slap it? No. Why not? It's too far. Why do you think that being single and having a breakup now is actually a good time of year? Well, I think Halloween is a catalyst for cuffing season that's when it's the first event of cuffing season you've got Halloween then you've got all the Christmas parties then you've got actual Christmas New Year's Eve it's the start of dating season I can't lie

if you're based in London all the men are back from the summer holidays it's the time to be out and Halloween marks the start of cuffing season yeah it's definitely like Halloween's actually a good time to have a breakup because number one you can wear an outfit that is gonna make your ex be like oh damn that's crazy because last year I got dumped a week before Halloween and naturally I thought, okay, I'm dressing up as a Playboy bunny. And did it get back to him? No idea. Well, that's not useful, is it?

I know, but I just felt sexy. It probably did. It probably did. He probably saw it somewhere he would have been stalking you so he did get back well i am still friends with one of his friends and he'd tell me that he would ask to see my profile through his friends you see it got back he was like damn that girl is good looking and I've lost it. Perfect. Good. What would be your ideal costume?

If you were going slutty this year. Okay. If I was to be slutty, I don't know if people would know this. I'd have to insert a picture. But there's this YSL model from the 90s and she's just wearing flowers. Like flowers here, flowers flowers there flowers there and like with the white veil i think hayley bieber dressed up as her a couple of years ago like like flowers covering your bits it's cute okay fair i'd go as um serena carpenter sabrina sabrina carpenter

that'd be so hot on you that would suit you the hair and the corset and the little like skirt or something yeah she has such great fashion so fun i've seen actually that i'm actually quite on trend this year because there's like forever 21 doing a whole mean girls collab i feel like regina suits you thanks seriously like the outfit are you trying to say i'm a mean girl i'm not saying you're a mean girl i'm just saying you're a very smart assertive confident girl regina's the one to be in terms of confidence level yeah for sure she's delusional because she's so confident i think we should all learn from it yeah we should all learn from it yeah that's how you should act after a breakup just having yeah high self-esteem and good confidence.

Because you haven't lost anything they have. The launch party was just so wholesome. But I can't lie. I kind of thought that you would have had a friend for me. I'm sorry. I just don't. When's that gonna happen? I've always said, Yaz, if I get back into the dating scene,

I'm going to need your help. We're a partnership for a reason. I feel like we can go out and meet someone for you. You know, I'll help you that way. I don't think I have any friends. I'll go through the files again and try to find one. Oh, my God. Should we play a smash or pass with all your friends' profile?

No, that is too far. So my first date back this year is going to be through Yaz. This is exciting. And we're going to have a full debrief about it. Okay. Yeah. We need to bring it on the pod. How to go from heartbreak to healing to back to the streets.

I'm in the end of the healing stage and it's coughing season, all the Christmas parties, all the events. I need to start meeting people. Yeah. Do you think that, you know, not blocking your ex, right? One that keeps coming back and stuff is good just to boost your own ego. So you don't act on anything, but you keep them in the DMs to hit you with some wow, you're hot or fire emoji. It is nice. I am guilty of liking male validation, especially from an ex that did me wrong. It's always nice to know that I'm on their mind. And you still got it.

I still got it. But will I entertain it to the point it comes out of the DM? No. Just a quick little validation hit, but anything beyond that, hell no. And also, it's just going to make them want you more, and that is just great to know, isn't it? You can't have me, but I'm very good looking now, and I'm having my glow up. To be, yeah, fresh out the breakup diet glow up

and to be untouchable is a powerful thing to feel and I think I'm on that you're on that for sure yeah I look so good you do I will give you that you do look so good do you know what I mean okay let's go back to the ghosts back to the graveyard what's the most creepiest thing your ex has done post breakup to you i don't know what's the creepiest thing your ex has post done to you are you ready for this i'm ready i feel like you got the story i don't have a story on this we have to keep it completely unfiltered you're not bleeping anything out it's a gruesome story oh god let's go i don't even know if i've ever told you this holy shit you're not cutting any of this out yes okay

i won't cut it okay so my ex did the most disgusting thing it's so yeah you can't even make this shit up. He sends a video of him wanking. What? So my friend calls me going, hey, bleep sent me a video. They don't follow each other, none of that. And I'm like, oh, it's probably off him like hooking up with some girl just to like rub it into my face. Something immature like that. I expected that out of him but why would he send it to her anyway had they met it's one of those weird things where

when your boyfriend hates a friend of yours a lot it just makes you think do you have a crush on her because he would talk so much shit about that friend, calling her ugly, calling her a slut, even though she's not. Why? I think to compensate for the fact that he must have had a crush on her. That is the weirdest logic I've ever heard. It's a very common thing. Do you hate any of my friends, Mr. Boyfriend? Who the hell do you hate?

Because I'm going to be listening out now yeah so for him to basically commit a cyber sex crime because that's what it is an unsolidated dick pic nay a video of him wanking to fucking porn that is so outrageous dude we had to go to the police because it's not normal that is not normal it just made me i felt sick to my stomach i was paralyzed i couldn't talk for an hour then like had to pick myself up together started calling all my good friends one by one saying hey my ex might reach out to you that is so weird ilma that's not okay and i did not expect you to say that and why is he dming being rude about your friend and then dming her a video yeah of him wanking yeah that is next level gross

oh my god i'm sorry did you see it yeah she showed me the video she screen recorded it but she only screen recorded for like two seconds because obviously naturally when you see something so horrific you like get out of it yeah so she got out of it really quickly so obviously on the top of a video you can kind of see how long the video is meant to be and it was meant to be a long video from lincoln that has really really upset me a bit it's really gross well happy halloween doll like you say some gross things but that was gross no wonder you say gross things you've been traumatized oh yeah i'm just trying to rebrand the trauma into comedy did this happen like when you were doing well this was when i was in australia having the summer of my life, I was fully glowing up.

I was reunited with all my guy friends from uni. So a lot of my stories was with me and all my sexy Australian male friends. You know how hot Australian men are. The abs, the height, everything. I'm gonna disagree. They have mullets. Oh, you don't find that hot? Ew!

Oh, I love a mullet daddy with the mustache and everything oh my god that is gross oh my god with like an eight pack and a happy trail yep my type right there that is so rough but like my friends weren't mullet daddy looking guys they were really conventionally attractive men that my exes were always kind of wary of he would always accuse me of cheating on him with them so i spent that summer spending you know taking pics with them having fun going to the beach road trips and that's when he popped up it's always that exes always pop up when you're thriving what is that about they're like need to take you down a few steps you know take you down a few pegs remind you of how bad i treated you maybe like leave us

alone i honestly kind of feel like bringing an ex out to the pod and ask them what goes through your mind yeah maybe we should maybe we should get Maybe we should get Mr. Get his cock out. He's going to get his cock out here. We're going to get our podcast cancelled. Yeah, we're going to get banned. We can't have everyone. Watch this space, guys. We might bring an ex.

Ilma's going to have all her exes on the show. I'm just going to, I don't have any exes, but I'm just going to live through it. I'm going to stir the pot. Yeah. Okay. Let's get an ex on and ask them all the questions, all the psychological reasoning behind why they pop up when we're thriving. Yeah. Okay. Let's get an ex on and ask them all the questions, all the psychological reasoning behind why they pop up when we're thriving. Yeah. Watch the space.

There's going to be an ex. I'm ready for it. Yes. Say we're at Annabelle's Halloween party. We look insane. We run into one of your situationships from the past. What are you doing? Are you trick or treating?

Are you dishing out the candy or are you tricking them out? Tricking them out. You had me. You lost me. I'm gone. We are just not entertaining these ghosts from the past. We are not entertaining these ghosts from the past. New energy.

This cuffing season halloween we wipe the slate clean we enter the baddie era we look amazing sexy cute funny the lot out with the old in with the new oh my gosh yes i've just realized the social calendar is going to be really busy no Halloween, cuffing season. I mean, I'm already cuffed. Well, you're helping me cuff. Yeah, yeah, true. I'm on work.

I'm on work. Sorry, I forgot. I'm helping you. If anything, cuffing season is going to be more work for you because you're going to be wing-woman-ing me. I'm on it. I'm going to be in the corner like, please talk to me. You know, we've actually done that. Oh, yeah.

We have. On my birthday dinner. Yeah, you were like, oh oh that guy's kind of cute I was like okay we got this so our friend and I went up to him and was like our friend thinks you're cute what's your instagram like a 12 year old and he's like what's your friend obviously thinking that we're lying about it and that we just wanted to talk to him we didn't and he was interested but I think he was a promoter yeah yeah he was like come to dear darling and i'm like oh oh i got so many of you in my dms not another one yeah

your dms are haunted by promoters holy shit yeah that's the true ghost this season it is a weird thing a promoter table to be honest like i get going for the free drinks and whatever but it's a weird vibe because is anybody really having that much fun no and i feel like i get spiked all the time yeah it's a bit scary i don't know that would it freaks me out there's like this one club whenever i go with the promoter i always get spiked circ is not okay i don't care that i'm gonna slate it because i've been there a few times when i was younger like three times only every single time you wake up with the biggest headache it's in a dodgy area and it's not fun and it's like you get blackout

it's quite scary from like two drinks yeah i don't know what's going there but i think there's definitely something there needs to be an investigation because it's happened to not just us, so many of my girlfriends, so many girls in London in general. I think they put something like in the air con that makes you feel a bit, I don't know, loopy. Yeah, the stuffiness and there's so much like sensory overload. Don't go to Cirque for Halloween. It's not worth it yeah be safe guys pink house party to be honest yeah then you can be in your little outfit and doesn't matter and there's a bathroom if there's any wardrobe malfunction you can just get changed easily safely you're not

ditching your friends for anywhere well guys this is a wrap for the special edition halloween episode just want to shout out all our lovely friends for showing up to our launch party and also everyone else following and sending so much love and all this positive feedback on our podcast this is just the beginning thank you so much and stay safe make your ex jealous and glow up.