Embarrassing For No Reason

Welcome back to your weekly safe space to get all the embarrassing things you can't quite explain, off your chest!

As with everywhere else in the UK this week, the John Lewis ad MUST be spoken about, and Sam's got some opinions as to when the ads peaked, Tatum's got some gossip and speculation on the new series of 'I'm A Celeb' and of course we're chatting about the end of Celebrity Traitors!

And I think we all have a story of an awkward cab journey, so this week we're hearing your story...

Has someone knocked at your door? Someone rang your bell? Maybe it was Jeff Brazier! Who Knows!

After Sam & Tatum spoke about the People's Postcode Lottery, you've got in touch with your stories of winning and what ACTUALLY happens cause I think we're all curious as to what the hell's going on there.

And as ever we'll let you know what the FRIGGIN HELL is going on in the world this week, from the government's insistence on us doomsday prepping with cans and loo roll, to finding out what Sam and Alison Hammond...

This week's main questions:

As a thank you for coming down to the live show this weekend, we're giving you a little sneak peak at our patreon exclusives with a story from Sam about a date his friend had with a tribute act and the MANY questions Tatum has about the whole situation!

So if it's your first time or hundredth time, welcome to...

Do you remember the era of queuing outside a HMV just for a meet and greet and then waiting there for HOURS?

If that was you back in the day now's the time to make yourself known, Sam & Tatum are chatting about superfans this week and getting some of the stories from you on how far you went as a superfan!

Not only that, but we gotta chat about Celebrity Traitors, how EMBARRASSING it is to cough on the tube and how easy it is to post your sausage on socials!

If you're looking for a round up on the week but really don't wanna look at the news we got you!

This week Sam & Tatum are bringing you a roundup from the Celebrity Traitors (there is spoilers btw!), to Katie Price's new duo she's being handcuffed with and what ever the bloody hell is going on with Curtis Pritchard on GB News?!

So if it's your first time or hundredth time, welcome to the place where we're finding the awkward in the everyday, and celebrating that!

If you fancy coming...

I swear I just seen GeGe & Donia walk past windah...

Today Sam & Tatum are joined by TikTok's favourite twins: GeGe & Donia for a chat about their lives and their sketches.

Welcome to the place where we're finding the awkward in the everyday, and celebrating that!

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We have so much to catch up on!

Sam & Tatum are back chatting through the awkward in the everyday, and this week we're shining a light on what's happening in the world cause we've gotta chat how you could become arse twins with Kim K, speculating on what might've been with the UNAIRED Inbetweeners pilot and what's the tea from Diana's brother's book that's making the headlines???

So if you’re finding the awkward in the everyday, this is the place for you to celebrate that!

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Your best BOG OFFS at the ready this week, because we're joined by actress Montanna Thompson who played Justine Littlewood in the BBC show Tracy Beaker back in the 00s!

Fair to say Sam & Tatum were well excited for this as we got to chat to Montanna about the behind the scenes of Tracey Beaker and get some gossip, find out what it takes to be on team Justine ANND who Montanna originally auditioned to play in Tracy Beaker!

Welcome to the place where we're finding the awkward in the everyday, and celebrating...

What’s happened to ‘getting off’ in 2026? Why is every interaction on the London Underground MORTIFYING? Are we getting judge Cheryl back? Oh and about a million reasons to get the ick from house viewings!

This week on Embarrassing For No Reason Sam & Tatum are continuing to bring you a safe space to chat about the awkward in the everyday, as this week we’re tackling house viewings.

So if you get an inny from the amount of keys an estate agent has or if you’ve had the most awkward chat with the curren...

With GTA 6 being everywhere, on this week’s episode we’re chatting about some of the weirder points that have cropped up from the Netflix exclusive, and Sam’s explaining to Tatum what he was up to on GTA V!

Plus we’ve got a Patreon story time to bring you, if you love it you can grab a FREE month subscription here: https://www.patreon.com/efnrpodcast/redeem/99550

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If you’re finding t...

Today's the day, you're finally getting what you've asked for...Sam & Tatum are dishing the radio dirt!

They're going through their radio icks, some radio fails and Sam has a surprise in store for Tatum...

So if you've ever winced on Pancake Day or that phrase 'And it got me thinking' makes your hairs stand on end, you understand the feeling of embarrassing for no reason!

It's the podcast where we find the awkward in the everyday and get it off our chest, and celebrate that!

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As with every office conversation this week we're chatting:

Welcome to another chaotic week where Sam & Tatum have taken some Pro Plus, so if they sound like they're chatting fast this week, that is why!

The silly billy award's also back this week as we listen to your entries on what you find Embarrassing For No Reason about shopping centres, whether it's the...

This week Sam & Tatum are joined by our special guest...Lorraine Bowen AKA The Crumble Lady from Britain's Got Talent!

And they're finding out what her crumble recipe is, an exclusive first play of her new song, some behind the scenes on Britain's Got Talent and whether Lorraine would do another reality TV Show!

Also if you're wondering why Sam sounds different, all will be explained!

You can have a listen to Lorraine's new song 'Planet Earth' now!

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Whether it’s your mates butting in with a story midway through you chatting or you’ve gotta make excuses for someone for just being from the south… you’ve experienced the awkward in the everyday!

And right here is your place to share them with Sam Darlaston & Tatum McGreal!

As this week were covering the likes of Molly Mae’s daughter putting someone in a headlock in Pizza Express, Sam’s thoughts on people who hate on pigeons and with everyone on TikTok thinking they could fly down the stairs as a kid, we’re g...

You might be in the UK or one of our lovely listeners outside the UK thinking what the f*ck is going on right now, Andy who? Count whatface? What's the capital of Clacton?

Mate you're in the right place cause this is your safe space to educate yourself on these topics, we're not saying you'll know everything but Sam & Tatum have got you this week!

We're catching up with what the HELL is going on in the world right now, along with educating Tatum and finding out her knowledge on capital cities...

Today's definitely the Type B friend takeover!

BLESS TATUM! She's ill today! So Sam's joined by Danni Diston! And as both of them are your favourite Type B mates you can imagine today's episode is gonna cover some ground!

We're going from soggy biscuits, to Wayne Rooney and the World Cup Halftime show, to whether or not Big John was fit to favourite swear words and even Sam teaching Danni a new word!

And as we've all been out enjoying the World Cup for the past few weeks we're chatting...

Have a think back to your dream career when you were at school, and was it to be in your favourite TV show?

For Sam & Tatum it definitely was and this week, we're getting a glimpse into their previous lives from how Tatum got a U at school to Sam's first acting credit, this week we're getting the awkward in the everyday out of our system through Sam & Tatum's stories!

If you’re spending your time overthinking everything, this is the place for you to celebrate that! Cause life's awkward innit, so might as...

Welcome back to Embarrassing For No Reason, the only podcast highlighting the awkward in the everyday, on a weekly basis with Sam Darlaston & Tatum McGreal!

And this week Tatum’s finding out what happened to our ABRUPT exclusive Sam promised us, speculating on what’s gone down at Taylor Swift’s wedding and can someone go check on Jordan Henderson???

If you’re spending your time overthinking everything, this is the place for you to celebrate that! Cause life's awkward innit, so might as well have a laugh!

You can watch al...

As Tatum's ill this week, you lucky lot get a free Storytime which we usually do on our Patreon! (Manifesting her to get well soon 🙏)

This week Sam & Taum are sharing another previous life and telling you about a job behind of the scenes of Love Island in the early days!

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Is Tatum into pits? Does Sam have a 6 fingers forehead, what Prime Minster would survive you if you were Henry VIII and do you reckon we’d do well on Dragon’s Den?

This week on Embarrassing for No Reason, join Sam & Tatum as they try and keep you up to date with the world, their lives and looking at the awkward in the everyday!

We’re keeping with the World Cup theme this week as we had so many entries from you.

So if you’ve managed to survive the crin...

Sam's confronting the rumours and the stories that have been out this week about him, we're finding out why Tatum's not been allowed inside an arsehole, chatting about the UK ban for under 16s and debating if we should DM North Korea about Alan Titchmarsh!

And of course because the World Cup's kicked off, we've gotta get the awkward in the everyday off our chests and celebrate it!

So if you find it hard hearing the commentators filling the time in the hydration breaks, think sweepstakes are the OG pyramid scheme or just...

WHEEEYYY EPISODE 69!

And we’re back being the classiest show on your feed by chatting about the etiquette of your mate walking in on you having a w*nk, why Steven Bartlett might have a point with his recent viral statements and what the hell God has to do with vapes?!

So if this is your first time or 69th welcome back to Embarrassing For No Reason, with Sam Darlaston and Tatum McGreal!

This is where we gather weekly to share the awkward in the every day, and this week af...

With Sam at Primavera this week, we've decided to treat you to a Patreon exclusive we loved: Tatum's recent acting audition tape!

There's also some Sam exclusives this week, and Tatum baiting him out for an announcement he did over a year ago.

Over on our Patreon we've been following Tatum's journey to becoming an actor and this is the first audition tape she's done, let us know your feedback!

If you want more of Tatum's acting journey, support us on Patreon for bonus eps and ad free content : EMBARRASSING...

Just from the title you can tell the heats gone to our heads this week, it's too hot in the UK so we're chatting heatwaves and the embarrassing parts about them we don't always talk about, like undoing your wedgie from your shorts or how mortifying flip flops are!

If you've ever found yourself cringing at those things, you're in the right place as Sam & Tatum are taking your suggesting on the most embarrassing for no reason parts of Brits in a heatwave! Cause life's awkward innit, so might as well have a laugh!

As the official unofficial ambassadors of the awkwardness in everyday, we're celebrating something this week that affect us all: targeted ads!

Whether you get annoyed everytime they pop up with some nonsense or send them to your mate because they're that ridiculous, we wanna have a laugh about them this week with you!

And of course as we do every week we need to talk about the most important part of your timeline, what's trending! And the biggest thing this week is Venezuela Fury's wedding which Sam & Tatum have thoughts on, Sam's getting...

For our very first guests on the podcast we thought we'd lose our guest virginity to the experts...Celeste Hirschman & Danielle Harel from the Channel 4 series Virgin Island!

With season 2 coming to an end, Sam & Tatum are asking them about the show with some burning questions they've had from watching it along with chatting about virginity, our relationship with sex in UK and the Somatica method of sex & relationship coaching which Celeste & Danielle have developed and of course what they find embarrassing for no reason!

If you want to take the quiz and...

In case you missed it we've ran the London Marathon this year! 🤣

Sam & Tatum are chatting about their marathon experiences including:

Sam's encounter with Daddy Pig, how Tatum got her marathon time and finding out what Voltarol tastes like? (We definitely don't recommend you try it)

If you wanna share your marathon experiences let us know @EFNRPODCAST

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As the podcast keeping you most abreast this week we're dipping into all sorts from takeaways in politics to Primark launching in America and the theory behind Charli XCX's new song 'Rock Music'!

Welcome back to the podcast which celebrates the awkward in the everyday with Sam Darlaston & Tatum McGreal, and after we all went to our first awards show as a podcast we realised we need to do a part 2 all about awards shows, cause they are mortifying!

So whether you find yourself cringing at red carpet interviews or aren't sure when...

We really do keep to our word here...

Now that we've done the London Marathon, Sam's holding Tatum to her word from last week that if she doesn't run it in under 6 hours he's getting a guest on to host the podcast instead...annnnd guess who's hosting!

So this week we've got a special guest joining Sam, to chat about how much we overthink massages, whether or not we're now Guinness World Record breaker and did our guest audition for SNL UK?

We're also talking group holidays as the topic...

Welcome back to another week of finding the awkward in the everyday with Sam & Tatum!

This week, Tatum's adding to the list of things that are going extinct, Sam's found out that the fitting rooms in Zara have changed and made life REALLY awkward and one of us has made it...with a fan page...on reddit!

Inspired by the recent Artemis II rocket that went past the moon and came back, we're chatting conspiracy theories CAUSE WHY DIDN'T THEY LAND?! So whether you've heard someone say the earth is flat or you...

Did you know we're running the marathon? What do you call your toes? How much would it take you to be a fluffer for the Bonnie Blue queue and would you buy a Sam Darlaston cardboard cutout?

We're answering the big questions this week with Sam & Tatum! Along with highlighting the awkward in the everyday, and celebrating it!

And as we're leading up the London Marathon, Sam & Tatum are sh*tting it and looking to you for some help. So, whether you overthink prams overtaking you when you're at parkun or you've ever...

We're having pandemic flashbacks this week! As Tatum's ill Sam's getting her to do a COVID test and we've done the podcast remote this week!

So this week, we're taking a look back at how awful zoom calls were, some of the wild memories we have from the pandemic and still bringing you some of the slightly mortifying things in life you just can't explain.

And as Gemma Collins has dropped a new quote, Sam's seeing if Tatum shares a similar opinion to the GC, we're asking if Pasta King's gone extinct from...

Whether you think this podcast is all the rave or go white as a sheep when we chat about the awkwardness in everyday! Sam & Tatum are bringing you this week's topic...phrases we get wrong!

And as the biggest new this week has been the launch of the Artemis II, Sam's bringing a theory to share with us, ArrDee's gone viral for how he announced becoming a dad and we've got a story from one of you to make Tatum feel better about her accidental DM!

If you're finding yourself getting mortified over...

You’re now listening to an award nominated podcast! Yeah we’ve finally made it to the Golden (G)Lobes!

All for the chat we do like, Tatum sending a shocker of a DM to a celeb this week, why we’re now SNL UK fans and Sam’s got some explaining to do about his role in Eastenders!

And this week Sam’s had something absolutely mortifying happen to him involving a nosebleed and Andrew Garfield, so we’re celebrating the nosebleed kids and taking your stories of the most embarrassing and awkward time...

Parallel parking when someone’s watching. Waving to get the bus driver to stop. Dropping something and having to pick it back up. It’s not just you, we know life is embarrassing for no reason.

Sam Darlaston and Tatum McGreal are two best mates bringing you a safe space to overthink things that don’t really matter (but we all know they do). Life’s awkward innit, so we might as well laugh.

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Welcome back to the 107th most popular podcast in the Cayman Islands!

It's another week of Sam & Tatum helping you get the day to day struggles that aren't quite big enough to moan about, off your chest! Along with your pop culture needs so you don't feel out of the loop.

So obviously we need to talk about 2 mad worlds colliding, in Footballer Jorginho v Chappell Roan this week and why Sam's playing devil's advocate, Netflix's new dating show involving age gaps and we might've found an ex of Jedward, and they work...

This week Sam & Tatum are bringing you a safe space to chat about what you find embarrassing for no reason, along with Sam's legs being back for Summer!

We've also got to chat about a UK institution branching out into a new business outside of carvery's, a game to celebrate involving 'Beep' to celebrate The Pussy Cat Dolls making a comeback, Louis Theroux's new documentary about the "manosphere" and Sam's got some ghost stories he needs to get off his chest!

And as we get so many voice notes from you with things...

If memories of putting your hand up to go to the loo or the rules of knowing what the hell to do on a dress up day still haunt you, then this is the place to get it off your chest! Cause this week Sam & Tatum are chatting about those mortifying moments at school!

We've also got to chat about Harry Styles' new album and Tatum having a very controversial take on it involving Jason Derulo, the beef Timothee Chalamet's found himself in with the entire Opera & Ballet community and what do you do on a...

The phobia clinic is BACK, it's our 2nd week on the trot cause there's been so many of your phobias you've sent in!

So whether you're not quite sure why you find cotton wool a bit creepy or hate wet cutlery, Sam Darlaston & Tatum McGreal are bringing you a safe space to share it, and have a laugh about how weird it is to be mortified by the smallest things!

As it's just been the BRITs as well, we've gotta talk about something mortifying Sam's noticed with it and whether Tatum's done it...

WE'RE BACK ON CAM!

This week, Sam & Tatum want you to get your weird and wonderful phobias off your chest. Apparently, humans are only born with two fears... crumpets and velcro?

We've also got the Brits this week, so Sam & Tatum are sharing their stories on how their Brits outfits were an absolute shambles, the new Toy Story trailer and why Woody might be considering a flight to Turkey, Tatum's managed to the train with a footballer and would you get in the Bonnie Blue queue for a grand!

If you...