Draft:Fluently Forward

FluentlyForward is an American, Denver based Entertainment News podcast. The podcast debuted in October 2021, and airs twice a week, hosted by Shannon McNamara.

The show averages more than 40,000 listeners an episode and has been downloaded over 6 million times as of July 2024.

Content
FluentlyForward has published over 160 episodes covering pop culture, celebrity gossip, and trending online theories. Notable guests on FluentlyForward include Perez Hilton, Tinx, Sounds Like A Cult, We Met At Acme, Indy Blue, Beyond The Blinds, Celebrity Memoir Book Club, and more.

Host
The LA Times describes the host, Shannon McNamara, as “one of TikTok’s most followed blind-item experts” who “sifts through the blind-item archives to piece together warning signs surrounding infamous predators, such as Weinstein and the late Jeffrey Epstein. Other times, she’ll recount a history of incriminating blind items surrounding celebrities who have not faced a public scandal but are still rumored to engage in predatory behavior.”

GQ describes the host, Shannon McNamara, as thinking “blind items are especially appealing because they straddle two compulsive concepts: celebrity gossip and conspiracy theories. “It's probably one of the quickest rabbit holes to slide into because blind items have this very tantalising history where a lot of them have come true,” she says.”

Vox magazine describes the host as “a full-time celebrity sleuth” who has “taught her followers about “Friday news dumps” and how to spot PR speak in celebrity journalism.“