Ski Angels, School Nicknames & The Privilege Package

January 9, 2026·46 min·3 clips

Vogue wears a culturally inappropriate skiing hat, sparking a debate with Joanne about fashion and identity.

1. My Therapist Ghosted Me records its first episode of 2026, with Joanne McNally and Vogue Williams catching up on Christmas and New Year experiences. 2. Vogue Williams is on a ski holiday in the Alps, recording from Paris Court Hotel fresh from a 'Blue Diamond' facial she describes as a 'near-religious experience'; Joanne McNally is in London following a Lanzarote all-inclusive family trip. 3. The episode functions as a post-holiday debrief with no single thesis, covering personal anecdotes, celebrity TV news, and social media commentary. 4. Joanne describes upgrading to the hotel's Privilege Package — which came with a wristband reading 'privilege' and access to a small glass-walled box with a free pastry selection and bar — acknowledging the racial optics as 'not ideal for a white woman.' 5. Her mother Pat repeatedly sneaked into the Privilege Box without a wristband and began passing food to the wider family; Pat also complained every single day and was moved through four or five rooms before the hotel gave her a suite to stop the disruption. 6. Joanne became violently ill at Lanzarote airport before the flight home — projectile vomiting, unable to keep water down — and found no chemist in the departures zone. 7. A stranger offered her morphine tablets with the instruction '12 hours apart,' giving a 'very knowing look'; Joanne took one and immediately vomited it into the toilet and spent the rest of the delay begging tablets off Irish Instagram followers who happened to be in the same airport. 8. Vogue explains the Celebrity Gladiators 'ladder gate': she fell behind Nicola Roberts — who had a 20-second head start — failed to climb the rope, took the permitted ladder option, and won the final by one two-hundredths of a second. 9. She notes she tried the rope first unlike prior celebrity contestants who went straight to the ladder, calls herself 'probably the only person at the BBC who hasn't broken any rules in 2025,' and plans to post her trophy on Instagram to provoke the 'cheater' commenters. 10. Joanne posted a nostalgic video of her old school Loretto Derg, described as 'basically on the sea,' and asked followers in her DMs to share what boys called girls' schools. 11. The DMs returned: 'whores on the shore,' 'virgins on the rocks,' 'Virgin Megastores,' 'Pill Hill,' 'Pregnantation College,' 'Have a Child Killarney,' 'Reservoir Dogs,' 'the pound — we were all dog ugly,' 'Glenn Whore,' 'Loretta Wexford where the collars go up and the knickers go down,' and 'Taylor's Tarts.' 12. Joanne observes: 'It's men impregnating women and then judging the women for getting impregnated, even though the man didn't use protection — standard practice' and notes 'there's not much deviation from whores and sluts.' 13. On a ski lift, Vogue met 'ski angels' — medical students on gap years who work 3–9pm for a charity patrolling slopes and rescuing drunk or unconscious skiers who cannot get down the mountain. 14. Vogue announces she will begin reporting entertainment news on ITV's Lorraine every Wednesday starting the following week. 15. Joanne's sister Amber has joined Dancing with the Stars Ireland, described as going 'from zero to a hundred' — having never performed publicly before — and receiving mean comments that are upsetting her; Joanne asks listeners to vote. 16. Joanne describes doing '12 dogs on it' over Christmas — a period of heavy drinking — before sobering herself up involuntarily at the airport, and is now 'still not ready to touch it.' 17. Social media commentary includes Joanne reaching 749 blocked accounts with a goal of 1,000 by year end, Vogue satirising the performative cycle of online outrage around global events such as Venezuela. 18. The tone is warm and disorganised — long digressions, frequent interruptions, tangential anecdotes, and in-jokes referencing prior episodes. 19. Best suited to regular listeners who enjoy the rapport between Joanne and Vogue and follow their personal lives across episodes. 20. Less suited to new listeners or anyone seeking current affairs analysis, factual accuracy, or structured content.

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Holiday chaos, ski hats, morphine, and banter that works because it never pretends to be tidy.

The segment keeps circling through holiday chatter, a ski hat, a locked-out room, and the mild absurdity of dressing for a show nobody can see.

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You want ski-hat chaos, morphine confessions, and a properly messy New Year hangover.

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