The Toast - S3 Ep176: Introducing Celebrity Book Club

Episode Date: October 29, 2020

Writer, comedian, and filmmaker Chelsea Devantez and her friends recap and celebrate the memoirs of badass celebrity womxn. These are ladies we all know and love who have been torn down by tabloids and dissected by social media—all while facing career obstacles, broken relationships, and incredible triumphs and have come out of it all even stronger. You can read along, or just listen, but either way, you definitely want to join this book club.  Celebrity Book Club is OUT NOW in Stitcher, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you listen: https://link.chtbl.com/celebritybookclubSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Hey guys, today Claude and I are really excited to bring you something very special. We want to tell you about the new podcast, Celebrity Book Club. Celebrity Book Club is hosted by writer, comedian, and filmmaker Chelsea DeVantes and her friends while they recap and celebrate the memoirs of badass celebrity women like Mariah Carey, Jessica Simpson, Demi Moore, Gabrielle Union, and many more. You know at The Toast we absolutely love and adore a celebrity memoir. Nothing better. Nothing we love more.

There's nothing we love more. So a podcast talking about the books that we love so much is a no-brainer. These are ladies we all know and love who have been torn down by the tabloids, dissected by social media, all while facing career obstacles, broken relationships, and incredible triumphs. Chelsea and her guests break down the highlights of these memoirs while incorporating stories from their own lives that made each book hit close to home. You can read along or just listen, but either way,

you'll definitely want to join this book club. You know what? Enough from us. Let's let the show speak for itself. We have here a hilarious and touching clip from Celebrity Book Club. Let's take a listen. Enjoy. I cried multiple times reading this book and because hearing her voice also, like she genuinely, like she's gone through some really crazy, really hard stuff in her life and we're skipping over a lot of it. People should buy this book. Oh yeah. As much as we're dishing so much is in the book, we're leaving behind. She's telling us about it, not because like she's a celebrity and at some point you have to write a memoir. I think she genuinely, I believe,

wants to help people with her story. And you can feel that through the whole thing that she's like, don't make this mistake. Don't do this. And she really is helping people through so many different kinds of things and the way she wrote this book. I totally agree. And this is also why this genre is my favorite genre because the best of these

books are the best self-help book you've ever read in your entire life because it's hard to take advice it's hard to change it's hard to have seismic shifts and if you're reading it through the lens of lick of nick lachey being a total piece of shit. It's easier to digest and become yours. And just the idea that like the sun will come. I just, so touching. Okay. So it's 2006. She's 25.

She's divorced and she is living it up. She alludes that she dated every single person in Hollywood that she ever wanted to date. And I just love that. I love it. She also gets her like first own house which is amazing and i truly believe every woman should live alone for some period of time and just experience aloneness and so i love when she like finally gets to have that and then she fucks every dude in town which is even better which is even better and i totally agree with you on that living

alone part um nick meanwhile writes a divorce album it's like his his big solo move is talking about his divorce um and the songs are about like how much he fucking hates her um and this dude comes over to her house and he's like jess i just want you to hear the divorce album from me he plays her the songs making eye contact with her is like and now listen to this hit now listen to this song he's like singing him to her or whatever he gets to a song where he's literally just like i hate her i'm so annoyed by her or whatever then jessica writes in the book i didn't know what to do i didn't know how to make him feel better so i slept with him and i at this point in the book i'm like running around in the house like yes yes like the amount of horrible, horrible, horrible men

who looked me in the face and then somewhere the other was like, I'm horrible. And I was like, great, let's make out. You want to fuck? I was like, like, we make it better. Yeah. Like she wanted to make it better. She didn't know what else to do. And, and the, and I just, I just loved her for admitting that. And it also made me laugh at nick lachey singing to her also like a theme in the book we're gonna talk about john mayer but with john mayer and nick lachey she's like he was such a good writer and i just wasn't that as good of a writer as him or whatever and i will give him john mayer is a very good songwriter nick lachey nick come on come on we're gonna have to have higher self-esteem than looking up to nick lachey as Lachey come on come on we're jealous of that we're gonna have

to have higher self-esteem than looking up to Nick Lachey as a songwriter I'm sorry 100% 100%

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