When America’s Next Top Model premiered in the early 2000s, it looked like a golden ticket: a glamorous TV show that could catapult aspiring models into fame. But two decades later, many contestants describe its aftermath as a curse. Hosted by pop-culture journalist Bridget Armstrong, Curse of: America’s Next Top Model is a deep investigation into the hidden costs of reality television, and what the show’s legacy reveals about beauty, power, and the culture that cheered it on.
Through conversations with dozens of former contestants, producers and crew members, Curse of: America’s Next Top Model explores what happened behind the scenes on one of the most iconic and problematic reality shows of our generation.
The series starts off by exploring how ANTM almost didn’t get made. You’ll get the real story behind the show’s most infamous controversies. Then, the models and producers pull back the curtain and talk about how the most outrageous photoshoots and runaways came together. You’ll hear from contestants who say ANTM saved their lives and from those who say it ruined theirs. The contestants also talk about how the body shaming they experienced on the show caused lifelong scars. Finally, we try to answer the question, is Tyra Banks the ultimate reality television villain?
Curse of: America’s Next Top Model takes you on an investigative journey to figure out if the so-called curse is real? And if so, what was the toll on the models, and us, the audience?
Behind every serial predator in entertainment and sports, there are survivors who have been silenced for too long. From Now On is a powerful podcast giving those voices the platform they deserve. This is a journey of courage, where we tell our stories, educate on the tactics of grooming and coercion by powerful men, and empower others to speak out and heal.
Hosted by Lisa Phillips, who courageously shares her own survival story about Jeffrey Epstein, From Now On dives deep into the complex dynamics of abuse, providing intimate, first-hand accounts that go beyond the headlines. Through raw storytelling and expert insights, we uncover the red flags, challenge the systems that protect predators, and give tools for self-advocacy and healing.
This podcast is not just about awareness; it’s about action. From survivors sharing their truth to experts offering guidance, we are committed to holding abusive power accountable.
From Now On is more than just a podcast. We educate. We empower. We heal. Join us and become part of the movement.
Follow Lisa Phillips @iamlisaphillips on Instagram.
If you have a survivor story you want to share to help others, send us an email at fromnowonpod@gmail.com.
This is the official audio feed of Andrew Callaghan’s weekly broadcast ‘5CAST’ featuring a wide cast of illustrious guests.
Alan Berg was starting over as a divorcee, disbarred lawyer and recovering alcoholic when he found his true calling on the radio. His brash and bold on-air persona made him one of the true renegades in a “shock jock” revolution that took over broadcast media in the 1980s. Despite the numerous enemies the brash Berg made through his radio show, the world was stunned when he was assassinated outside his Denver home. The case would languish for months before uncovering the shocking truth about the white-supremacist militia that marked Alan Berg for death.
Thought provoking narratives. Unforgettable characters. Life changing journeys. From 'Cocaine Air' to 'The Quarterback and The Con Artist' to 'The Handyman of West Texas' Johnathan Walton unearths astounding, untold stories and weaves them into incredible tales of love, loss and the ultimate triumph of the human spirit.
In February 2022, a group of professional divers were sucked hundreds of feet into an oil pipe, deep beneath the Caribbean sea off the coast of Trinidad and Tobago. They could have been saved. But they weren’t. They were left to die.
This is their story… a tale of how their ordinary day at work turned into an unimaginable horror. Following their story has led us to lucrative contracts, failing safety standards and secretive political relationships… And to a question: why were those divers left to die?
This is Pipeline.
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“Cult of Body & Soul” is a 7-part docu-series that explores how SOULCYCLE transcended fitness as it captured the New York City zeitgeist with ritual, candlelight and cult of personality.
We expose the intoxicating power dynamic between riders and instructors, the gate-kept instructor training program, the true story behind founders Julie Rice and Elizabeth Cutler, and the political scandal that torched the brand’s image.
Featuring interviews with instructors, studio managers, front desk staff, and corporate insiders.
Away Days Podcast is an episodic documentary series focused on unreported stories from the fringes of society. We’re compassionately documenting the underground without watering it down or editorially obscuring it. This is independent journalism with no filter. Real, raw, and ugly. Journalist Jake Hanrahan, the host and creator of Away Days has spent the last 10 years embedded in places he’s not meant to be. With unique access and a straightforward style of on-the-ground reporting, the listener will be taken deep into the places they didn’t know existed.
Watch Away Days documentaries at youtube.com/@awaydaystv
Scams are no longer run by individuals. Instead, the bulk of scams now come from a network of high-security compounds in SE Asia, where an estimated 400,000 people live in slavery and are forced to run scams 24/7. In this multi-part video podcast, we’ll dive into the terrifying world of ‘scammer farms’. We’ll meet people who’ve been trapped and escaped — and others who are desperately trying to rein in this exploding new business model.
Produced by Superreal
Hosted by Julian Morgans
Find us on TikTok, and YouTube
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CNN Presents is the home for powerful, narrative-driven audio storytelling, featuring in-depth reporting from CNN journalists. Leading off this feed: Civilian or Spy. When a Russian-born American citizen named Ilya Beloozerov is gunned down by the FBI in 2024, the authorities refuse to say why they’d killed him. CNN’s Isabelle Chapman embarks on a sprawling investigation that takes her from the Mississippi parking lot where he died to Washington, D.C. to unravel the mystery: Why did Ilya abruptly leave his family and his job and head for the border with laptops and cash? Why is there still no official explanation of his death? And maybe most importantly: Was Ilya a spy?
Also in this feed: Tortured Justice with Omar Jimenez, Persuadable with Donie O’Sullivan and All Over the Map with John King.
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