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Jameela Jamil: Accidentally Becoming A Hollywood Star & Why I Don’t Trust Journalists

Jameela Jamil: Accidentally Becoming A Hollywood Star & Why I Don’t Trust Journalists

Update: 2025-10-191
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What do you do if your school bully edits your Wikipedia?


Jameela Jamil chats to Romesh about her huge success in Hollywood and how she accidentally got her role in The Good Place. Jameela also tells us her problem with journalism and her embarrassing moment live on stage in front of 6,000 farmers…


A Ranga Bee Production in partnership with Listen.


00:00 Intro


01:20 Jameela Impersonates Priyanka Chopra


02:26 “No Marlon Randos”


05:00 COLONIC Irrigation!


07:50 Cake Break


09:40 Journalists and Wikipedia


17:26 “I’m not a profound thinker”


18:12 Shanthi’s Question


21:15 Jameela’s SUCCESS: "How did you do it?"


22:30 BULLIES and Standing Ovations


27:00 The Good Place AUDITION


28:20 Changing Philosophies


36:00 Outrage and LOLS


37:17 Larry David’s Wedding


38:45 On Being Brown


43:50 Turning 40


46:20 Shame and Humiliation


47:15 “Misquoted”


51:45 ORG*SMING on stage!


56:00 Laurence Fox

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Jameela Jamil: Accidentally Becoming A Hollywood Star & Why I Don’t Trust Journalists

Jameela Jamil: Accidentally Becoming A Hollywood Star & Why I Don’t Trust Journalists

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