Mamamia Out Loud1 Sep 2025

Why We All So Desperately Wanted This Love Story To Be True

Say it's not so! Is the romance between Pamela Anderson and Liam Neeson really just a PR stunt? We investigate (through bitter tears).

Plus, the fertility test women have been paying for. Doctors now say it doesn’t actually work. Jessie, Holly and Amelia unpack what that means for women everywhere.

And, labubus. The nightmare-fuel plushies the internet can’t get enough of are... cute? Cursed? Or, literally possessed by Pazuzus requiring religious intervention? There's a sentence we never thought we'd be typing on a Monday afternoon. Whatever. We unpack WTF is going on.

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