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| Chris Olsen on His Intervention, Getting Real About Addiction & The Advice he received From Meghan Trainor | 30 Sep 2026 | 00:45:41 | |
Chris Olsen has built an empire on TikTok with fourteen million followers, his own coffee brand and a bestselling memoir, and he's sitting down with Josh for a chat that goes way deeper than the algorithm usually allows.
Chris talks to Josh about his recent breakup, his close friendship with Meghan Trainor and some of the most formative conversations of his life that he had with his mum whilst she was discovering she was an alcoholic. He walks Josh through the intervention that changed everything on September 28th, 2017 and the biggest misconceptions people still have about addiction.
Josh and Chris also get into coming out at 13, the internalised homophobia that still exists within the queer community, and why Chris thinks the UK's new social media age restrictions are the right call.
Chris also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including about that viral Harry Styles "daddy" sign and the worst opening line to a TikTok video.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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If there is anything in this Great Chat that may have affected you, please see below for links that may help:
https://www.alcoholics-anonymous.org.uk
https://talktofrank.com
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Fiona Shaw on Her Killing Eve Finale Verdict, Sense and Sensibility & The Hilarious Reason Why She Made The Front Page of The Irish Times | 23 Sep 2026 | 00:36:45 | |
Fiona Shaw is an icon of stage and screen, after roles in Killing Eve, Bad Sisters, Harry Potter and now as she stars in Sense and Sensibility she joins Josh for a chat that proves she's still got the same mischief that once landed her on the front page of the Irish Times, much to her father's horror.
She and Josh dig into her scene-stealing turn as Mrs. Jennings in the new Sense and Sensibility, including how she found "the laugh" and why playing a bumbling school teacher in the 90s nearly derailed her film career before she happily returned to the theatre. Fiona also opens up about her friendships with Jodie Comer and Jodie Foster, working alongside the late Dame Maggie Smith, and that unforgettable Fleabag cameo with Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
Fiona also joins her first ever group chat to answer your questions, gives her verdict on that divisive Killing Eve finale (did Villanelle really die?!?) and shares the piece of advice from her father that she's very glad she ignored.
Sense and Sensibility is out in cinemas on 25th September.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Joanne Froggatt on her great chat with Mobland co-star Tom Hardy & why we need to stop dissecting women’s faces | 16 Sep 2026 | 00:33:39 | |
From Downton Abbey to a leading lady of Mobland season two, Joanne Froggatt sits down with Josh for a proper catch-up five years in the making.
Joanne tells Josh how she feels about the rumours about Tom Hardy’s on-set behaviour that have been following the cast of Mobland around, and the chat she had with him that put her completely at ease when she needed it most.
Josh reminds Joanne of the chat they had five years ago about the double standards women face - and how the conversation has moved on (or hasn’t!) - from the industry's obsession with how women age, to the guilt and logistics that come with being a working mum.
Plus she shares a beautiful memory of working alongside the late Dame Maggie Smith, and opens up about her new HBO series on the trial of Louise Woodward which will get us all chatting!
Joanne also joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the wildest thing she's had to learn for a role, and whether she could take Pierce Brosnan, Helen Mirren or Tom Hardy in an argument…
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Miku Martineau on Netflix’s Crew Girl, Why a Relationship Ending Isn’t a Failure & Body Image | 09 Sep 2026 | 00:38:40 | |
Miku Martineau is living out our dream life leading Netflix's new love triangle drama ‘Crew Girl’ and it’s the show we are all going to be chatting about!
In this chat with Josh, Miku opens up about growing up as a Japanese Canadian in a predominantly white neighbourhood, feeling like an outlier at school, and how the things that once made her stand out are now the things she wears as a badge of honour.
Josh and Miku also chat about why we need to stop dissecting women's bodies, after she was told she was too ‘twiggy’ growing up.
Miku also tells the story of the incredible moment at the ‘Star Trek’ wrap party when she got to tell Michelle Yeoh, in person, that she had booked her first ever lead role in Netflix series ‘Bet’. Plus she gets candid about ending a long term relationship and why walking away is a win rather than a failure.
Plus Miku joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the truth about her childhood pet eels, and whether she is Team Cam or Team Josh…
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Chaka Khan on How Etta James Saved Her Life, Prince & Almost Becoming A Nun | 02 Sep 2026 | 00:40:35 | |
Eleven Grammys. Six decades. And a life that has taken in the Black Panther Party, a brief consideration of the convent, and a farm in rural Georgia with her own well water. Chaka Khan has GREAT CHAT!
Chaka takes us back to the beginnings of her iconic journey, opening up about running away from home at 16, singing in Chicago clubs for twenty dollars a night and her time with the Black Panther Party. She reflects on why awards have never been the point for her, why she believes there is no competition in self-expression, and says plainly that if she had not had singing as an outlet, she would not be here today.
She talks candidly about her friendship with Prince and the conversations she still has with his painting on her wall. She also shares the piece of life-saving advice Etta James pulled her aside to give her the very first time they met, what she learned about Billie Holiday from her grandmother's record collection, and why sleep is the secret to her still looking great in her 70’s.
Plus she joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the ideal height for a man, the most extravagant thing she has ever bought herself, and the extraordinary story of how a psychic in Canada told her to buy her farm before she had even stepped inside the house.
Chaka Khan's new album 'Chakzilla' is out on18th September. You can pre-save on Spotify here: https://open.spotify.com/album/0dQyfJN05ICpQfK9dvKRRF?si=f75205cdd100494a
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| ‘House of The Dragon’ star Tom Glynn-Carney on THAT season finale, How Online Bullying Affected His Relationship & Therapy | 26 Aug 2026 | 00:42:51 | |
He is the man behind one of the most talked about lines on TV this year. But there is a lot more to Tom Glynn-Carney than playing Aegon Targaryen in ‘House of The Dragon’.
In this chat with Josh, Tom breaks down THAT season three finale moment and shares so many stories from filming the show. He also reflects on being cast in ‘Dunkirk’ with no film experience whatsoever and the note Christopher Nolan gave him that he has carried onto every single job since.
Tom also talks candidly about how growing up in working class northern England where men were expected to sit on their feelings affected him and why he only started properly opening up five years ago. Make sure you stick around for the best piece of advice from his therapist that we all need to take note of!
He also gets honest about the darker side of the fandom and the online bullying that spilled into his last relationship. Plus Tom joins the group chat to answer your questions, and reveals the great chat that has mattered most to him. You are going to want to know about this chat!
Oh, and he has not been on holiday in seven years. We are working on it… Jet2 if you are watching…
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| The Group Chat Special: Theo James, Dame Elaine Paige, Gemma Chan, Delta Goodrem and More | 19 Aug 2026 | 00:26:50 | |
The group chat is open and things are about to go off.
In this special, Josh revisits some of the group chat moments that have really got you talking, and answers your questions too… there is no holding back. Theo James reveals his deeply embarrassing MSN Messenger name, the last time he had his heart broken, and what people consistently get wrong about him. Dame Elaine Paige tells us exactly what she got up to with Freddie Mercury at his house, and trust us, you want to be in that room. Gemma Chan finally addresses the question everyone has been asking about a Crazy Rich Asians sequel. And Delta Goodrem agrees to perform at a fan's wedding live on air. Consider that binding.
Plus Josh opens up about the one chat he has never been able to share publicly, why interviewing Oprah was the most terrifying and most important conversation of his career, and the one guest he wants on the show more than anyone else. You need to listen to find out.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Six Months of Great Chat: Jason Isaacs, Jennifer Garner, Theo James, Katie Price and More | 12 Aug 2026 | 00:38:58 | |
Six months in and the great chats are still coming. To mark the milestone, Josh is revisiting some of the episodes that have meant the most to him and got the most of you talking.
In this special, we kick things off with Jason Isaacs, who came in saying he doesn't usually go in depth on things and then absolutely went in depth on things. Then there is Charithra Chandran, whose honesty about race, representation and the industry sparked more comments on social media than almost any other episode. Jennifer Garner tells the story of running screaming down Broadway the night she first saw herself on a cinema screen alongside Maggie Smith and Albert Finney, and why thirty years later she still cannot quite believe she is here. Theo James gets refreshingly honest about toxic masculinity and what it means to be a man right now. And Katie Price opens up about body dysmorphia, the one mirror in her house, and why she says this is finally, genuinely, the happiest she has ever been.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Michael Urie on group chats with Harrison Ford, his Ugly Betty audition and his friendship with Jessica Chastain | 05 Aug 2026 | 00:42:15 | |
From his breakout role as the unforgettable Marc St. James in Ugly Betty, to starring alongside Harrison Ford in Shrinking, Michael Urie has spent the last two decades building an acclaimed career across TV, film and Broadway. Fresh from his run in London's West End in Oh, Mary! Michael is Josh's guest on this week's episode of Josh Smith's Great Chat Show.
In this chat with Josh, Michael looks back on the audition for Ugly Betty that changed his life (and almost didn't happen!) and tells Josh what it was really like working alongside Martha Stewart and Victoria Beckham. He shares why his friendship with Jessica Chastain has stood the test of time since they met at drama school and spills on the messages he receives (or doesn't!) from Shrinking co-star Harrison Ford. He also reflects on his younger struggles to feel accepted, which so many of us will relate to.
Plus he joins the group chat to answer your questions - including about the most niche job he's ever had. Plot spoiler: it involves a pig!
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Kit Connor & Joe Locke on Heartstopper, Coming Out & Why Your Identity is Yours Alone | 29 Jul 2026 | 00:29:10 | |
As Netflix's Heartstopper comes to an end, after three seasons and now a movie, Josh revisits two of the greatest chats he has ever had on the podcast, with Kit Connor and Joe Locke, the lead actors at the heart of it all.
Kit opens up about the phone call that changed everything, what it was like to film alongside Olivia Colman, and why he will never forget the fan who used his coming out scene to come out to their own parents. He also tells Josh why your sexuality belongs to you and nobody else.
Joe and Josh discuss male body image and how eating disorders on screen are almost always shown from a dark and scary lens, and why Heartstopper dared to do it differently. Joe also tells Josh why he thinks Gen Z's willingness to talk openly about their feelings is one of the most important shifts of his lifetime.
Together they are a reminder of everything this show set out to do and everything it delivered.
Download SAILY in your app store and use code greatchat at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase! For further details go to https://saily.com/greatchat
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Gemma Chan on Crazy Rich Asians sequel, karaoke with Jennifer Garner, being allowed to fail & Anti-Asian hate | 22 Jul 2026 | 00:35:46 | |
Gemma Chan has been acting for 20 years, and right now she is having the year of her life.
In this chat with Josh, Gemma talks about her karaoke night out with Jennifer Garner on the set of Five Star Weekend, and why the central theme of sisterhood hits close to home. She talks candidly about always putting a brave face on things, why asking for help doesn't come naturally, and the impact Crazy Rich Asians had on Asian actors in Hollywood.
Then there is Josephine. A film she has been attached to since 2019, which premiered at Sundance this year, and which is already generating early Oscar buzz. She talks about why she knew from the first page of the script she had to be part of it, and what it was like filming such raw and personal scenes alongside Channing Tatum.
Plus she joins the group chat to answer your questions, including the one everyone wants to know: will there ever be a Crazy Rich Asians sequel?!
Download SAILY in your app store and use code greatchat at checkout to get an exclusive 15% off your first purchase! For further details go to https://saily.com/greatchat
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Elle star Lexi Minetree on voicenotes from Reese Witherspoon, working with James Van Der Beek & being told she wasn’t good enough | 15 Jul 2026 | 00:32:56 | |
She was a total nerd growing up, reading books about warrior cats and playing her DS. Now she's playing one of the most iconic characters in pop culture history. Lexi Minetree was handpicked by Reese Witherspoon from over 3,000 auditions to play Elle Woods in the new Legally Blonde series, and she has not looked back.
In this chat with Josh, Lexi opens up about the acting teacher who told her she wasn't the actor he thought she was, and how it almost broke her. She talks about the voice memos Reese sent her when she was doubting herself, and why she deliberately does things that terrify her.
She also tells Josh what it meant to work alongside James Van Der Beek in his final ever on-screen role, and why some of the throwbacks to 2001’s Legally Blonde - like using a payphone - stopped her in her tracks.
Plus she joins the group chat to answer your questions, including how long it took to get ready as Elle every day and why her most dreaded small talk topic right now is her own show.
Watch Elle on Prime Video now!
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| Katie Price on her relationship with Lee Andrews, what she wants to say to Gareth Gates, and why she’ll never stop having surgery | 07 Jul 2026 | 00:39:45 | |
For 30 years Katie Price has been one of the most talked about women in Britain, and rarely the one telling her own story. With a brand new tell-all documentary, she's finally taking back control of the narrative.
In this chat with Josh, Katie gets honest about her relationship with Lee Andrews, and why for the first time she says she wants a man rather than needs one. She opens up about the breakdown five years ago that nearly cost her her life, and why she wants to see Gareth Gates 25 years after their breakup. Oh, and she tells Josh what REALLY happened at the Playboy Mansion with Hugh Hefner.
Plus she joins the group chat to answer your questions, including her worst ever surgery experience and the one revelation in the new documentary she thinks will shock everyone.
Watch ‘Katie Price: Nothing To Hide’ on Sky and NOW TV from Wednesday 8th July.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Asha Banks on the ruthlessness of child auditions, the dangers of shipping culture & her friendship with ‘Your Fault’ co-star Matthew Broome | 01 Jul 2026 | 00:36:50 | |
From child auditions on the West End to starring in not just one huge movie, ‘My Fault: London’ but now its follow up ‘Your Fault: London’ Asha Banks has been working since she was seven years old! And at 22, she is only just getting started.
In this chat with Josh, Asha reveals the brutal reality of child auditions and how rejection at a young age built the resilience she relies on today. She looks back on her meteoric rise over the last 18 months, going from playing a show for 40 people to 65,000 people in Hyde Park, and tells Josh who keeps her grounded through all of it.
Asha gets into why intimacy coordinators create freedom rather than limit it, and lets Josh in on the great chat that kick-started her friendship with co-star Matthew Broome on a five hour flight to Tenerife.
Plus she joins the group chat to answer your questions. Alright then, fancy a chat?
Watch ‘Your Fault: London’ on Prime Video and stream Asha’s new song ‘Come Down’ now.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| Adam Lambert on the advice he got from Lady Gaga, toxic masculinity in the gay community, and the reality behind being the first openly gay artist to get a number one album | 24 Jun 2026 | 00:48:28 | |
From American Idol runner-up to the first openly gay man to have a number one album in the US, Adam Lambert has spent the last 17 years doing things entirely on his own terms. And with his sixth studio album ADAM out now, he's never been more honest.
In this Pride month special, Adam talks candidly about toxic masculinity within the queer community, why visibility has become a double-edged sword and what he thinks Pride really means in 2026.
Adam also tells Josh about the piece of advice Lady Gaga gave him backstage at the Oscars; how he reacted when he was told to tone himself down for a Biblical musical; and why the new album, written in the rawest moments post a five year breakup, is the most unfiltered thing he has ever made. He’s also now changing his approach to relationships too!
Plus, Adam joins the group chat to answer your questions. Alright then, fancy a chat?
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Philippa Dunne on Amandaland, Hiding from Joanna Lumley and Finally Feeling Like She Fits In | 17 Jun 2026 | 00:41:25 | |
From Derry Girls to Motherland, Amandaland, and now a BAFTA nominee, Philippa Dunne has spent years quietly becoming one of the funniest actresses on British television. But getting here wasn't easy.
In this chat with Josh, Philippa opens up about the relentless years of rejection before Motherland came along, the once a month conversation she'd have with herself about quitting acting for good, and how close she came to walking away entirely. She talks candidly about growing up desperate to fit in, why her character Anna feels like 13 year old her, and how comedy became the skill she built just to survive the playground.
Plus she joins The Group Chat to answer your questions, including which celeb fangirls over Amandaland, the moment Stephen Graham complimented her at the BAFTAs, and her ranking of the ultimate movie silver foxes.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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Josh Smith's Great Chat Show
The chats that matter
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is the podcast that reveals the chats that made our guests who they are today.
After years of interviewing some of the biggest names on the planet, Josh Smith knows how to get people talking. Known for asking the questions others don’t, he’s built a reputation for uncovering the stories, secrets and surprising moments you’ve never heard before.
In each episode, Josh gets guests to revisit the conversations that changed everything, from career-making advice and unforgettable encounters to hilarious mishaps and life-defining moments.
Full of laughs, revelations and brilliant stories that will get you talking, Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show proves that behind every great story, there’s a great chat. These are the chats that matter.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Russell T Davies on It's a Sin, Bad Script Notes and When He First Felt Seen on Screen | 14 Jun 2026 | 00:11:03 | |
You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Quick fire questions, honest answers. Anything goes in the group chat.
This week we're sliding into the DMs with Russell T Davies, the TV icon behind Queer as Folk, It's a Sin, Doctor Who and now Tip Toe. He reveals the hardest scene he has ever had to write and what he said to a TV exec who told him to give a character a tick because they were boring. He also shares the news that It's a Sin is coming to the stage as a nationwide ballet tour, and gets candid about when he first felt seen on screen as a young gay man and how that moment changed everything.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Producer: Faye Lyons-White
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| Russell T Davies on Queer as Folk, Online Hate and Why There's a Fight Coming | 10 Jun 2026 | 00:43:35 | |
From Queer as Folk to Doctor Who, It's a Sin and now Tiptoe, Russell T Davies has spent 30 years starting conversations that nobody else dares to. And he's not finished yet.
In this chat with Josh, Russell opens up about why he wrote Tip Toe, a gripping new drama about two neighbours whose feud grows darker and more dangerous, and how it reflects a world where online anger is spilling into real life with terrifying consequences.
He talks candidly about what it still feels like to come out every single day, why the MeToo movement barely scratched the surface, and why he thinks intimacy coordinators on set are essential, not optional. He also gets into why visibility, the very thing he has championed his whole career, may now be making the queer community a bigger target, and why he believes a fight is coming that we all need to be ready for.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Producer: Faye Lyons-White
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| The Group Chat! Charly Clive on Steve Carell, Recovering from A Brain Tumour and Why the Best Revenge is Living Well | 07 Jun 2026 | 00:29:55 | |
You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Quick fire questions, honest answers. Anything goes in the group chat.
This week is a special extended edition - we're sliding into the DMs with Charly Clive, the British actress you need to know from the HBO Max hit Rooster - the show that you need to be chatting about in YOUR group chats. She opens up about nearly packing it all in before landing her dream role opposite Steve Carell, what he said to her on set that changed everything, and why getting the thing you always wanted can sometimes be the hardest thing to enjoy. She also gets candid about being diagnosed with a brain tumour at 22 and how it changed her whole approach to life.
Plus she reveals her biggest onstage comedy bomb, why she'd fake her own death to get out of a group chat, and that her revenge tip is strictly for DMs only.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Faye Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Camila Mendes On How she Overcame An Eating Disorder to Become a Weight Training Superhero | 03 Jun 2026 | 00:27:14 | |
From seven years playing Veronica Lodge in Riverdale, to starring in the new movie Masters of the Universe, Camila Mendes has quietly done a lot of growing up in public.
In this chat with Josh, Camila opens up about her battle with an eating disorder in her early twenties, and the full circle moment of intentionally gaining muscle and strength for her biggest role yet. She talks candidly about the mental health retreat that changed everything, and the power of saying no. Now Camila believes if success is getting in the way of her happiness, it isn't worth it.
She also shares the advice her dad gave her about relationships that stopped her in her tracks, and why the friendships she made with her Riverdale co-stars are so important to her.
Oh, and she is now officially a Barbie doll. And yes, she has already sold out.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
Producer: Faye Lyons-White
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| The Group Chat! Dame Elaine Paige On Singing With Freddie Mercury, Her All Time Fave Musical Theatre Song, and Why She Hates Group Chats | 31 May 2026 | 00:14:22 | |
You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Quick fire questions, honest answers. Anything goes in the group chat.
This week we're sliding into the DMs with Dame Elaine Paige, the First Lady of Musical Theatre. She reveals why she absolutely cannot stand group chats, being silly with Freddie Mercury, and her top advice for acing an audition. She also opens up about the pantomime she swore she'd never do, which turned out to be her final ever performance on stage.
Oh, and Josh's fiance Tom makes a special appearance via voice note. A big day for the household.
Elaine’s album Miscellaneous Paige is out July 17th and her single Only A Lifetime is out now
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Senior Producer: Lyons-White
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| Dame Elaine Paige On Why She Hid Her Breast Cancer Diagnosis, Ageism & Gifting The King. | 27 May 2026 | 00:39:22 | |
From an unknown actress to the First Lady of Musical Theatre, Dame Elaine Paige's story is one of the great showbusiness journeys. Eighteen years of auditions, rejection, and near-quitting before one role changed her life overnight.
In this chat with Josh, Elaine opens up about the chaos that happened when the world found out she'd been cast in Evita, how she escaped a pack of journalists who chased her down the street, and the moment she burst into tears telling her mum she didn't want the fame that came with it. She tells the extraordinary story of how she came to perform the iconic song Memory in Cats, and taking to the stage in Sunset Boulevard only a few hours after recovering from breast cancer surgery.
She also reflects on meeting actress Rachel Zegler who took on Elaine’s famous role in Evita, the life-changing wisdom Stephen Sondheim passed on to her, and why she thinks music and arts in state schools should be everybody's urgent priority.
Oh, and she has a copy of her 23rd solo album, Miscellaneous Paige on its way to Buckingham Palace for the King.
Elaine’s album Miscellaneous Paige is out July 17th and her single Only A Lifetime is out now
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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#JoshSmith #GreatChatShow #Podcast #CelebrityInterviews #RepresentationMatters#Identity #SelfDevelopment #CultureConversations #EntertainmentIndustry#SocietyAndCulture #PersonalGrowth
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| The Group Chat! Lucy Halliday on The Testaments Group Chat & Wild Nights Out in Glasgow | 24 May 2026 | 00:12:00 | |
You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Anything goes in this group chat!
Today Lucy Halliday, the breakout star you know and love from The Testaments is added to the Group Chat. She reveals the name of the cast group chat, how they have gossip that could shut down the world and who sends the funniest messages. Lucy also walks us through filming the most iconic scene in the show, shares her best night out in Glasgow, and tells us exactly which Testaments castmate she'd call in a crisis. Oh, and she has a message for Theo James about replying to her texts.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| The Testaments star Lucy Halliday on Fangirling Margaret Atwood & How History is Repeating Itself | 20 May 2026 | 00:39:57 | |
Lucy Halliday lied her way into her first audition, went to medical school convinced acting would never happen for her, and is now starring opposite Elizabeth Moss in the sequel to ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’. Lucy’s journey to playing the rebel Pearl Girl Daisy in ‘The Testaments’ has been anything but straightforward.
In this chat with Josh, Lucy opens up about landing only her third professional job, what it was like to film her first week on set with Elizabeth Moss, and the life-changing advice James McAvoy gave her on the set of California Schemin’ that has become her mantra. She also talks candidly about growing up without drama school training and why she would never call herself an actor until very recently.
Lucy gets into why The Testaments feel so urgent right now, why the line between the show and reality is terrifyingly thin, and what she thinks needs to change to make young women safer in society today.
Oh, and she tells the full story of hyperventilating in Margaret Atwood's face, sitting elbow to elbow with her watching the first episodes back, and what Margaret pulled out of her bag at lunch that nobody was expecting…
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| The Group Chat! Angourie Rice on Mean Girls, Sunday Roasts and What Lindsay Lohan Said to Her on Set | 15 May 2026 | 00:11:58 | |
You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Quick fire questions, honest answers. Anything goes in the group chat.
This week Angourie Rice, the actress you know and love from Spider-Man, Mean Girls, Mare of Easttown, and her new rom-com Finding Emily joins the group chat. She reveals what Lindsay Lohan said to her when they finally met on set, reveals the fiercely competitive thing she did with her co-star Spike Fearn and shares her verdict on the British Sunday roast as an Aussie.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| Angourie Rice on Women's Safety, Body Image & Why A "Strong Female Character" Means Nothing | 13 May 2026 | 00:37:54 | |
From three Spider-Man films to Mean Girls, Mare of Easttown, and now leading the rom-com Finding Emily, Angourie Rice has been one of the most quietly compelling actresses of her generation. And she has been doing it since she was six years old.
In this chat with Josh, Angourie opens up about what it's really like being a child actor, navigating a world of adults as a child, and the people-pleasing that made it hard to stand up for herself. She talks candidly about body image and costume fittings, why comparison is something she still struggles with and the incredible advice that helped her overcome it.
Angourie also gets into what genuinely frustrates her about the way women are written on screen, why the phrase "strong female character" needs to be retired, and why the responsibility for women's safety shouldn’t fall on women.
Plus, she tells the story of her grade seven boyfriend ditching her for laser tag, reveals her karaoke go-to, and shares what she learned about British university culture filming in Manchester.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| The Group Chat! Delta Goodrem on her biggest Eurovision Rival, 'Born To Try' Fatigue & Performing at a Fan's Wedding | 08 May 2026 | 00:10:57 | |
You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Anything goes in the group chat!
This week Delta Goodrem, the Australian pop icon you know and love from Innocent Eyes, Neighbours, and soon to be representing Australia at Eurovision, joins the group chat! She gets honest about the song she sometimes never wants to sing again (but why she always falls back in love with it) and reveals who her biggest Eurovision rival is. Oh, and she agrees to perform at a fan's wedding.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| Delta Goodrem on Eurovision, Cancer, Losing Her Voice & Fighting for Equal Pay | 06 May 2026 | 00:41:28 | |
From Neighbours teen to the Australian pop icon behind Innocent Eyes, one of the best-selling debut albums of all time, Delta Goodrem has spent more of her life in the public eye than out of it. And through all of it, she has refused to stop.
In this chat with Josh, Delta opens up about the moments that tested her most: being diagnosed with cancer as a teenager at the height of her success, the quiet battle of finding her voice again after illness changed everything, losing her voice entirely in 2018 and having to relearn how to speak, and advocating for equal pay on ‘The Voice’. She reflects on why those chapters, as brutal as they were, shaped the artist and the person she is today.
She also tells the full story of how Born to Try came to be written in 20 minutes in her family home, the moment she knew her life changed, why she burst into tears when she got her Neighbours script and demanded they rewrite her character, and how she walked away from a 20-year major label deal to launch her own record label and take full control of her career.
Plus, Delta talks about representing Australia at Eurovision and why she absolutely cannot perform without a wind machine.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| Nicola Sturgeon on Dealing with Misogyny, Miscarriage, Gay Rumours & The Toxic Trans Debate | 29 Apr 2026 | 00:49:52 | |
From a working class girl in Ayrshire, fuelled by teenage rage at Margaret Thatcher, to becoming the first female First Minister of Scotland, Nicola Sturgeon has one of the most extraordinary political journeys of our time. And now, for the first time, she's telling it on her own terms.
In this chat with Josh recorded live at the Aye Write Book Festival in Glasgow, Nicola opens up about the crippling imposter syndrome that followed her all the way to the top, and how she learned to turn that inner voice from a handicap into a superpower. She talks candidly about navigating a world built for men, the double standards, the authority gap, and why Boris Johnson deliberately messes up his hair before going on camera.
She reflects on the heartbreak of the Scottish independence referendum and what that taught her about failure, her deeply personal decision to speak publicly about her miscarriage, and the unfounded rumours about her private life that spread from social media all the way to her parents' front door. She also shares what it was really like to have audiences with the late Queen, meet Hillary Clinton on a 10 out of 10 hangover, and go clubbing at university with a certain Gerard Butler.
And after a lifetime of speaking for a government, a party, and a country, she talks about what it finally feels like to speak only for herself.
P.S If you are looking for even more Great Chat, Josh Smith's audiobook ‘Great Chat: Talk To Anyone, Make New Connections, Improve Your Relationships’ is available on Spotify, free for premium subscribers. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HH55EZsUSYtajczP6yjjJ?si=0b3ec62de57148f9
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| Noah Wyle on The Pitt, His Mental Health and Why He Finally No Longer Feels Like An Imposter | 22 Apr 2026 | 00:28:20 | |
From playing Dr. Carter in ER, swearing he'd never do another medical drama, to starring in and exec producing the Emmy Award-winning HBO series The Pitt, Noah Wyle has made one of the great TV comebacks. And this time, it's personal.
In this chat with Josh, Noah opens up about why The Pitt feels different: it’s a raw, unflinching look at the American healthcare system post-Covid, tackling subjects rarely seen on screen including mass shootings, fentanyl, the border crisis, the nursing shortage, incel culture, and trans rights. He talks about why portraying doctors' mental health playing Doctor Robby on the front line matters, and why he thinks men find it so hard to talk about their own. He's candid about seeking therapy throughout his life and why it's been quietly fundamental to who he is today.
Noah also reflects on what it feels like to have found huge success in his twenties with ER, and then rediscovered it all over again in his fifties, with a Golden Globe, Emmy, and an Actor Award for his role in The Pitt. He talks about how George Clooney taught him the value of teamwork, why he felt like an imposter for years until now, why they made the decision to ban phones from the set of The Pitt and how The Pitt brought him and his mum, a former medical professional, so close that they've lobbied together in Washington for healthcare workers.
P.S If you are looking for even more Great Chat, Josh Smith's audiobook ‘Great Chat: Talk To Anyone, Make New Connections, Improve Your Relationships’ is available on Spotify, free for premium subscribers. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HH55EZsUSYtajczP6yjjJ?si=0b3ec62de57148f9
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| Halle Bailey on Hair Inequality, Motherhood, Representation and Speaking Things Into Existence | 15 Apr 2026 | 00:26:39 | |
From singing her way into our hearts with her sister Chloe to becoming the Little Mermaid — and now leading a brand new rom com, ‘You, Me and Tuscany’ which is in cinemas now— Halle Bailey is proving she's just getting started.
In this chat with Josh, Halle opens up about learning to balance a thriving career with new motherhood, the strong women who shaped her, dealing with hair inequality and why she's a firm believer in speaking things into existence. She also reflects on what it meant to step into the role of Ariel — and how she rose above the wave of criticism that came with it.
Of course we also talk about Halle’s new movie, ‘You, Me and Tuscany’ too, the white washing of rom-coms, why it shouldn't be a surprise to see two Black leads in a rom com and what made this project extra special: it was her first time ever working with a woman director.
P.S If you are looking for even more Great Chat, Josh Smith's audiobook ‘Great Chat: Talk To Anyone, Make New Connections, Improve Your Relationships’ is available on Spotify, free for premium subscribers. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HH55EZsUSYtajczP6yjjJ?si=0b3ec62de57148f9
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| The Group Chat! Theo James on Heartbreak and Why He's Not as Posh as You Think | The Group Chat | 10 Apr 2026 | 00:08:28 | |
You've been added to the group chat. Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Quick fire questions, honest answers. Anything goes in the group chat.
This week we're sliding into the DMs with Theo James — the British actor you know and love from Divergent, The White Lotus, and The Gentlemen. He reveals the last time he had his heart broken, sets the record straight on whether he's actually posh and explains why he's gone completely off the social media grid. He also shares the advice he'd give his younger self: "Don't take yourself so seriously, don't compare yourself, and enjoy the moment."
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
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| Theo James on The Manosphere and Male Body Image | 08 Apr 2026 | 00:39:21 | |
From playing Club Rep in The Inbetweeners movie to the star of Divergent, The White Lotus, The Gentlemen, and now action thriller Fuze (out in cinemas now) — Theo James has quietly won us all over.
In this chat with Josh, Theo opens up about the pressure of being a leading man in an industry obsessed with physicality, and why the rise of the manosphere worries him deeply. He reflects on a culture increasingly defined by money and status over relationships and morality — and what that means for young men today.
He also gets candid about his short-lived music career, his UN Ambassador work with refugees, and fighting with Anthony Hopkins.
P.S If you are looking for even more Great Chat, Josh Smith's audiobook ‘Great Chat: Talk To Anyone, Make New Connections, Improve Your Relationships’ is available on Spotify, free for premium subscribers. Listen here: https://open.spotify.com/show/1HH55EZsUSYtajczP6yjjJ?si=0b3ec62de57148f9
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Executive Producer: Carrie Rose
Head of Production: Damy McConnell
Video Editor: Guy Hamilton
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| The Group Chat! Charithra Chandran on Heartbreak, Celeb Feet Pics and Uber Ratings | The Group Chat | 02 Apr 2026 | 00:07:59 | |
You've been added to the group chat.
Each week we invite our celebrity guests into the group chat and ask them your questions. Quick fire questions, honest answers. Anything goes in the group chat.
This week we're sliding into the DMs with Charithra Chandran — the British actress you know and love from Bridgerton and One Piece. She opens up about how to get through heartbreak, reveals which celeb feet pics she’s received, and the pair go head to head over who has the worst Uber rating.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Senior Producer: Bella Neale
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| Charithra Chandran: ‘My experience post Bridgerton has tempered my ambition’ | 31 Mar 2026 | 00:38:44 | |
From starring in Bridgerton to appearing in the comic book adaptation One Piece, Charithra Chandran is one of the most exciting talents redefining what representation looks like on screen.
In this chat with Josh, Charithra opens up about the profound responsibility of being a woman of colour in an industry that wasn't built for her, including the racism, apathy, and backlash she faced when cast in One Piece.
She discusses why her post-Bridgerton journey has quietly reshaped her ambitions and gets candid about therapy, heartbreak, and learning — finally — to ‘take the wins’ and ‘let love in’.
🎥 Subscribe to the YouTube channel & follow the show on Instagram & TikTok: @joshsmithsgreatchatshow
📩 Business enquiries – carrie@thenextchapterstudios.co.uk
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Senior Producer: Bella Neale
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| Kelly Holmes on Pressure, Starting Over & Learning to Ask for Help | Chatterbox | 27 Mar 2026 | 00:09:02 | |
Kelly Holmes is known for strength - but this is the side you don’t usually hear.
In this quick-fire Chatterbox , she opens up about pressure, starting over, and why learning to ask for help changed everything.
Honest, grounded, and quietly powerful - this is Kelly, unfiltered.
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Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first. After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place. Fancy a chat?
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Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Senior Producer: Bella Neale
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| Kelly Holmes: The Hidden Struggle Behind Olympic Glory – Depression, Anxiety & Coming Out | 25 Mar 2026 | 00:31:12 | |
CW: This episode touches on some difficult topics including: mental health self harm and suicidal ideation.
Kelly Holmes has been the face of strength for decades - a double Olympic gold medalist and one of Britain’s most celebrated middle-distance runners.
On the outside: unstoppable and a national hero.
Behind it? A breakdown no one saw. Self-harm. Silence. A mind at war with itself.
In this Chat with Josh, Kelly drops the polished version and goes deeper than ever before - into the fear, the identity she hid, and the pressure to always appear “strong,” no matter the cost.
This episode isn’t about medals - it’s about survival, vulnerability, and knowing when to ask for help.
00:00 – Teaser
00:13 – Intro & Call to Action
00:32 – Content Warning
00:44 – Greatest Chat: Kelly on talking to herself in dark moments
02:05 – Breakdown, injury & self-harm during her career
03:39 – Winning silver while silently struggling
04:50 – From breakdown to Olympic champion mindset
06:12 – Building a support system (without opening up)
08:25 – Opening up for the first time in her autobiography
10:23 – Why speaking out is strength, not weakness
11:15 – How to actually ask for help (5 support systems)
12:14 – Strength, vulnerability & survival
12:45 – Childhood, identity & feeling different
15:19 – From outsider to national hero
16:04 – Fame vs hiding her true self
17:46 – Coming out later in life & internalised fear
20:46 – The toll of hiding your identity
21:12 – “I couldn’t do it anymore” – coming out at 51
22:29 – Living freely & letting go of fear
23:15 – No regrets & becoming her true self
24:11 – Embracing change & starting again
26:15 – The power of listening (to yourself & others)
27:03 – Final question: what we should talk about more
28:05 – Outro & Call to Action
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Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
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| 'Oh, Mary!' Star Mason Alexander Park: Confidence, Chaos & Gender Identity | CHATTERBOX | 20 Mar 2026 | 00:07:56 | |
Mason Alexander Park is a trailblazing trans actor making waves from Broadway to the West End, with standout roles in Cabaret, The Tempest, and Oh, Mary!
From a young age, Mason was taught to think for themself - shaping a life and career built on doing things their own way.
In this quick-fire Chatterbox with Josh, Mason opens up about identity, gender, confidence, and why labels can both help and limit us. They also get into authenticity, self-expression, and the freedom to keep evolving.
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About Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
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Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Senior Producer: Bella Neale
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| Mason Alexander Park: “I’m Proud to Be Trans - And I Didn’t Compromise To Get Here” | 18 Mar 2026 | 00:42:06 | |
Mason Alexander Park is a groundbreaking trans actor redefining what leading roles look like both on stage and on screen including Cabaret, The Tempest, Much Ado About Nothing, Netflix’s The Sandman and now, Oh Mary!
From a young age, Mason was taught to think for themselves - and that’s shaped a life and career built on doing things their own way. No labels, no boxes.
In this chat with Josh, Mason opens up about identity, gender, growing up feeling “different,” and why labels don’t always fit. Sharp, witty and eye-opening, this conversation explores the freedom to change, to question, and to become who you are on your own terms.
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Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Senior Producer: Bella Neale
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| Peaky Blinders Star Sophie Rundle on Ada Shelby, Boundaries & Power | Chatterbox | 13 Mar 2026 | 00:05:29 | |
Welcome to Chatterbox, a bite-sized taster of Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show. A quick-fire round of conversation starters. Fast questions. Instinctive answers. Real, honest chat.
From box-dye hair disasters and landing Peaky Blinders fresh out of drama school, to returning to work weeks after having a baby, Sophie reflects on the surreal journey of playing Ada Shelby for over a decade.
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Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show is a podcast built on one belief: connection comes first.
After decades as a journalist interviewing some of the world’s most recognisable faces - from Jennifer Aniston to Timothée Chalamet - Josh has learned that great conversations don’t just happen. There’s an art to a truly great chat, and when you join the conversation, it might just spark something in your own life.
Each week, Josh sits down with actors, musicians, athletes, creators and cultural voices for honest conversations about resilience, identity, ambition, advocacy, mental health and the moments that shape who we become. Guests drop their guard and open up about the setbacks, breakthroughs and defining experiences behind the public persona.
If you’re looking for depth, vulnerability, reinvention and meaningful human connection, you’re in the right place.
Fancy a chat? Hit subscribe and join us every week.
Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show (@joshsmithsgreatchatshow)
Brought to you by Next Chapter Studios (@theNextChapterStudios)
Host: Josh Smith (@joshsmithhosts)
Creative Director: Carrie Rose
Senior Producer: Bella Neale
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| Peaky Blinders Star Sophie Rundle: Motherhood, Losing Helen McCrory & Learning to Speak Up | 11 Mar 2026 | 00:33:25 | |
In this episode Josh chats with Peaky Blinders star Sophie Rundle - and the oversharing starts almost immediately.
From box-dye hair disasters and landing Peaky Blinders fresh out of drama school, to returning to work weeks after having a baby, Sophie reflects on the surreal journey of playing Ada Shelby for over a decade.
They talk motherhood, beauty standards, social anxiety, and why actors are actually terrible at small talk. Plus Sophie shares memories of the incredible Helen McCrory and what it really means to be part of the Peaky Blinders family.
00:00 – Teaser trailer
00:52 – What’s the best conversation you’ve ever had?
02:21 – The powerful bond between strangers during childbirth
03:42 – Social anxiety, oversharing & making real conversation
05:34 – Returning to work weeks after giving birth
08:12 – The pressure of appearance in a visual industry
10:12 – Ageing on screen & beauty standards in your 30s
12:20 – Growing up during a toxic era of body image
14:01 – Oversharing, humour & podcast chaos1
4:27 – Landing Peaky Blinders straight out of drama school
19:04 – Watching Peaky Blinders become a global phenomenon
21:05 – Learning the Birmingham accent for Ada Shelby
22:02 – Finding your voice in the industry
23:39 – Standing up for yourself & the impact of the MeToo movement
25:05 – Sophie on Helen McCrory’s legacy
26:43 – Honouring Polly Gray in the Peaky Blinders story
27:39 – What we can expect from the Peaky Blinders movie
28:51 – The conversations the world should be having right now
29:50 – What’s should we be talking about more?
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| CHATTERBOX | Malachi Kirby: The Power of Being Underestimated | 06 Mar 2026 | 00:05:26 | |
Welcome to Chatterbox, a bite-sized taster of Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show. A quick-fire round of conversation starters. Fast questions. Instinctive answers. Real, honest chat.
Today's Chatterbox is Malachi Kirby, BAFTA-winning actor Malachi Kirby - known for Roots, Black Mirror, Small Axe, and now leading Disney+’s A Thousand Blows - sits down with Josh for an honest conversation about masculinity, identity, and ambition.
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| Gillian Anderson: “I Don’t Usually Get That Political… But F*** This.” | 04 Mar 2026 | 00:19:58 | |
In this episode, Josh sits down for a great chat with Gillian Anderson - aka the iconic Dana Scully from The X-Files, the steely Margaret Thatcher in The Crown, and everyone’s favourite sex-positive therapist Jean Milburn in Sex Education.
A two-time Emmy and Golden Globe winner (plus four SAG Awards for good measure), Gillian gets properly candid with Josh about AI actresses, billionaires playing space wars, phone addiction, equal pay rage and why she’s finally done shrinking herself.
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00:00 I Don’t Usually Get That Political
00:41 The Most Extraordinary Great Chat (Breakfast with Jane Fonda)
02:14 Why She Said Yes to Tron
03:30 When Sci-Fi Stops Feeling Like Fiction
04:24 AI, Acting & The Fear Around Technology
05:33 Have We Lost The Art of Connection?
07:09 Forced Offline: The Battle With Presence
08:23 When Are You Proudest of Using Your Voice?
10:04 Equal Pay & “This Is Still New News”
11:57 Learning to Say Yes
12:16 Becoming Authentic in the Spotlight
13:47 Sharing, Shame & Empowerment
15:19 The Power of Great Conversations
15:38 Where Are the Good Leaders?
16:28 “We Have to Keep Our Voices Loud”
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| Chatterbox | Golda Rosheuvel (Bridgerton) on Love, Red Flags & Trusting Your Heart | 27 Feb 2026 | 00:04:24 | |
Welcome to Chatterbox, a bite-sized taster of Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show. A quick-fire round of conversation starters. Fast questions. Instinctive answers. Real, honest chat.
As Bridgerton makes waves again with Part 2, we’re bringing back one of our favourite guests for something a little extra. Golda Rosheuvel (aka Queen Charlotte) is as thoughtful as she is powerful.
In this episode, she opens up about following your heart, falling fast, spotting red flags - and trusting your instincts when it matters most.
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| Jennifer Garner On Sisterhood: “I Needed Her - And Reese Was There.” | 25 Feb 2026 | 00:26:57 | |
Jennifer Garner joins Josh for a funny, heartfelt and unexpectedly emotional chat - yes, she cries twice. From the legacy of 13 Going on 30 to leading The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2 on Apple TV, she reflects on longevity in Hollywood and why women over 50 are finally being centred as the heroes of their own stories.
She reveals how Reese Witherspoon “rejected outright” Hollywood’s outdated belief that female-led stories don’t sell - and addresses the rumour about her “rough patch,” confirming Reese showed up when she needed her most.
Jennifer also shares the bold letter she wrote to fight for her latest role, and speaks honestly about the constant tension between motherhood and ambition.
The Last Thing He Told Me” Season 2 is out now on Apple TV
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00:00 Teaser Trailer
00:16 Intro
00:44 Meeting Jennifer Garner
01:08 The Greatest Chat That Changed Her Life
01:22 $150 a Week & Broadway Beginnings
02:29 “How Am I Still Working?”
03:32 The Surprise Was Bigger Than the Dream
04:15 Her First Movie & Running Down Broadway
06:22 Chasing “That Feeling”
07:26 Women Over 50 Leading in Hollywood
07:48 How Reese Witherspoon Rejected Hollywood’s View
09:19 “There Have Been Times I’ve Needed Her”
09:38 The Broken Foot Story
10:07 Using Her Voice for Kids & Rural America
12:06 The Last Thing He Told Me Season 2 (Apple TV+)
14:05 The Bold Letter She Wrote to Land the Role
16:00 Producing Her Own Projects
17:46 13 Going on 30 – The Legacy
19:01 The Joy of Making 13 Going on 30
20:29 Building Once Upon a Farm – $700M Business
22:57 Why We Should Be Talking About Early Education
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| Chatterbox | Mia McKenna-Bruce on Motherhood, Saying Yes & Trusting Timing | 20 Feb 2026 | 00:06:03 | |
Welcome to Chatterbox - a bite-sized taster of Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show.
It’s quick-fire conversation starters. Instinctive answers. Real, honest chat.
From Tracy Beaker to a BAFTA Rising Star win and a leading role in Netflix’s Agatha Christie’s Seven Dials, Mia McKenna-Bruce has grown into one of Britain’s most exciting young talents.
In this episode, she opens up about being a “yes queen,” constantly thinking about the future, and her unstoppable need to talk. Mia is a natural Chatterbox. And she shares how becoming a mum has helped her feel more grounded - and more herself than ever before.
There’s so much more to this conversation - catch Mia McKenna-Bruce’s full episode on Josh Smith's Great Chat Show.
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| Malachi Kirby On Toxic Masculinity: “The Pressure to Be 100% Masculine Is Destructive” | 18 Feb 2026 | 00:42:42 | |
BAFTA-winning actor Malachi Kirby - known for Roots, Black Mirror, Small Axe, and now leading Disney+’s A Thousand Blows - sits down with Josh for an honest conversation about masculinity, identity, and ambition.
In this chat, Malachi reflects on being warned about the “glass ceiling” for Black actors - and why he chose not to live under it. From the freedom and unwavering belief instilled in him by his mother to rejecting the idea that your circumstances define your future, this is a conversation about refusing limitation.
He also dives into toxic masculinity, the pressure to be “100% masculine,” growing up as an introvert and lifelong observer, and why setting boundaries - in life and on set - might be the ultimate power move.
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00:00 Teaser Trailer
00:42 Podcast Intro
02:05 Malachi's Greatest Chat
02:58 The “glass ceiling” advice he chose to ignore
04:29 Why you shouldn’t internalise other people’s limitations
05:10 Dreaming big vs having vision
06:31 His mum’s belief changed everything
08:11 The introvert who never planned to be an actor
09:33 Finding a safe space in drama class
11:14 When acting became serious
11:31 Giving his BAFTA to his mum
14:25 Why being an introvert is a power
19:00 The moment he almost quit acting
21:06 Learning to set boundaries on set
24:19 What listening really teaches you
26:47 Toxic masculinity and redefining manhood
31:30 “No man is 100% masculine”
33:18 A Thousand Blows and daring to dream
37:17 Forgiveness, second chances and compassion
38:43 Why forgiving yourself matters
40:21 What we should be talking about more
43:10 Outro
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| Chatterbox | Jason Isaacs: Power, Villains & Dobby | 13 Feb 2026 | 00:07:11 | |
Welcome to Chatterbox - a bite-sized taster of Josh Smith’s Great Chat Show. Josh dives into a round of conversation starters. Quick questions. Instinctive answers. Real, honest chat.
We’re throwing it back to our very first episode with Jason Isaacs.
From Lucius Malfoy to a darkly unforgettable Captain Hook, Isaacs has built an iconic career playing characters you love to hate - most recently earning a Golden Globe nomination for The White Lotus.
In this chat, he opens up about why silence can be more powerful than words, why he’s always been drawn to questioning authority - and whether he feels even slightly guilty about pushing Dobby down the stairs.
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| 28 Years Later Star, Erin Kellyman, On What Black Talent Is Taught to Accept | 11 Feb 2026 | 00:31:04 | |
Erin Kellyman is currently slaying it in 28 Years Later, cementing her place as one of the UK’s most exciting rising talents. Before 27, she’s built a remarkable CV - from Solo: A Star Wars Story to Marvel’s The Falcon and the Winter Soldier, and Eleanor the Great, the directorial debut of Scarlett Johansson.
In this conversation with Josh, Erin opens up about growing up with anxiety, finding confidence through acting, the complexities of embracing queerness and female rage.
Erin also reveals the moment she realised she didn’t have to accept being treated differently on set - after doing her own hair for years - and why advocacy and allies matter. From female rage, to working on 28 Years Later, this is an honest, funny, and deeply human conversation about finding your voice and unlearning what you’ve been taught to tolerate.
00:00 – Teaser Trailer
00:53 – Guest Intro
01:11 – Fear of Fame & Stepping Into Visibility
02:17 – From Anxious Child to Confident Actor
04:13 – How Acting Found Erin
07:11 – Being Kicked Out Of Drama School
08:27 – Representation & Being Seen
10:14 – Identity, Sexuality & Coming Out
17:45 – Advocating for Yourself on Set
20:28 – Queer Visibility & Everyday Discrimination
26:22 – “What Should We Be Talking About More?”
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| Golda Rosheuvel, Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte: “I was told not to come out, but I did it anyway” | 04 Feb 2026 | 00:49:02 | |
Bridgerton’s Queen Charlotte, Golda Rosheuvel, has built a formidable career across stage and screen.
In this chat with Josh, she reveals how ‘Bridgerton’ changed her life - for better and for worse, opens up about the love-altering conversation she had with her wife, fame’s hidden costs, and why vulnerability is her true power.
Golda also unpacks living with dyslexia, therapy, why imposter syndrome can actually be a good thing, and why vulnerability is the gateway to real human connection.
00:00 – Trailer
00:30 – Intro
1:05 – The chat that led to marriage
05:05 – Letting go of control
06:40 – Childhood, migration & the power of community
08:40 – Discipline, sport & training the mind
09:30 – Living and working with dyslexia
11:40 – The power of storytelling
13:20 – The failed audition that led to Queen Charlotte
15:45 – How Bridgerton changed her life (and made it smaller)
18:30 – Being queer & being told not to come out
21:30 – Therapy, mental health & imposter syndrome
30:00 – Vulnerability, friendship & real connection
34:30 – Fear, dreaming big & staying grounded
42:20 – Loneliness, fame & Queen Charlotte’s humanity
44:30 – Final question & outro
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