Wrong Turns with Jameela Jamil
For anyone who feels like their life is one disaster after another: good news–you’re not alone. Jameela Jamil (The Good Place, She-Hulk) gathers her funny friends and they share their most mortifying and embarrassing stories. Crucially, there are no morals and no silver linings. They are simply here to revel in each others’ misfortune. Wrong Turns: where dignity goes to die.
Please share your own Wrong Turns with us for possible inclusion in the show, just email a voice memo to [email protected]. Wrong Turns takes over from iWeigh and Bad Dates as Jameela’s home in podcasting. You can still find the entire archive of I Weigh right here.
Wrong Turns was created and produced by Jameela Jamil and Stewart Bailey, our consulting producer is Colin Anderson.
Listen to Wrong Turns on Amazon Music or wherever you find your podcasts.
Wrong Turns takes over from I Weigh and Bad Dates as Jameela’s home in podcasting. You can still find the entire archive of I Weigh right here in the Wrong Turns feed.
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- Update frequency
- every 7 days
- Average duration
- 63 minutes
- Episodes
- 267
- Years Active
- 2020 - 2025
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