Are you lonesome tonight? Do you miss me tonight?
Are you sorry? Hi, everybody.
Hi, Kelly. Hi Mel, my cousin how are?
You. I'm good.
How are you doing? I'm great.
I'm. So happy to be talking with you
tonight for the next hour or so about love.
Me too. This is a true love podcast, so
we are your hosts. We are two cousins.
My name is Mel and this is my cousin Kel.
Yep. We are Mel and Kel, and we love
talking about other people's love lives.
We do. There's always something to
learn, you know? Always.
And you might think it's none of your business.
Don't be nosy, but guys. We are social creatures and it
is a natural instinct as human beings to understand ourselves
by talking about other humans. I agree.
And this podcast, it's honestly made me grow as a person because
you really realize just how complicated life and
relationships are when you look at other people and go.
Especially it's the most beautiful famous people who seem
to have it all together. But even they have gone through
some crazy heartbreaking stuff. They do, I know.
I thought about that for today's couple, actually, that no matter
how beautiful or successful somebody is, they are still
insecure and they don't know what they're doing.
And we can all relate. And you know what?
Yeah, I mean, yeah, talking about real people has its
difficulties, but it's better than us just talking about like
fairy tales or something. I mean, we did have a Twilight
podcast. Oh, yeah.
But, you know, we're trying to learn from, like, real
relationships, you know? And I think we both think love
is real. But it's also not this fantasy
that gets fed to you in the movies, you know?
So it's not. Yeah.
Today I think, Mel, I think that we might be the first people to
do a podcast about this couple on an English speaking podcast
because I saw a Spanish one about them.
But I searched, I searched the podcast, I didn't see anything
out there. So this might be the only Alex
Turner and Alexa Chung Timeline podcast out there.
I. Know absolutely nothing about
this couple so I am so excited. OK.
Learn about them. Yeah, this is kind of a passion
project episode for me. I really exciting to really
excited to be doing it. But it's the it's the kind of
the reason I'm nervous now is I told you I was nervous because I
am so excited that I don't want to let myself down.
You know, is this going to be as great as I thought it would be?
You know, like how I felt about the Bahama McCartney one, but.
That's how I felt about the JFK Junior one.
Oh yeah, I really felt I was. I remember I was very sick
during that episode 2 and I felt like, Oh my God, I totally
botched it now with our most listened to episodes.
So you must feel good about that.
That's our number one podcast. Feel free to promote that one
more. Honestly, like, that's our top
episode. But anyway, yeah, this was, I've
been wanting to do this for a while.
I was. I I am a big fan of Arctic
Monkeys and I was a big fan of this couple back in my Tumblr
days. They were all over Tumblr.
And yeah, this episode we're going back to like indie rock
cigarettes, riptides, black combat boots, you know, that
whole vibe of the 2000s, early 20 tens, which was really
prevalent on Tumblr. You know, just imagine beer
spilled on the ground, like that kind of vibe.
What? Time it was, yes.
And. So this is about Alex Turner.
He is the lead singer of the band Arctic Monkeys and also
part of The Last Shadow Puppets, his other band with Miles Kane
who we have mentioned before he dated Suki Waterhouse in the
past, and then Alexa Chung. She is a model TV presenter,
fashion designer and IT girl, if you know what that means, just
kind of a girl that's. I love the concept of the IT
girl. It's very interesting to me, a
girl that's just known for being an individual, basically being
seen out and about just being an interesting person, being at
parties, I don't know, but. I there's something sad to me
about the IT girl because I feel like it's a temporary status.
Yes, because I mean, it's it, girl.
It's not it, woman, you know. It doesn't last forever.
It's fleeting. It's like you are the IT girl of
the moment, yes, but it will quickly pass.
Yeah, there's always an IT girl of A Moment.
She definitely was an IT girl of her moment who's who's like an
IT girl right now. I feel like Sidney Sweeney was
the IT girl at least of last year.
But now she's like, pretty big. I feel like one thing about it,
girls, is they're usually like, not that famous too.
You're so right. You know, like Sophia Richie,
she was an IT girl. And they're usually affiliated
with a specific place, too. Yes, so true.
Yeah, everybody is copying their fashion style.
Yes, Yes. Everybody wants to be like
Caroline Kennedy did an episode. She Caroline Kennedy.
Just kidding. But yeah, Caroline Kennedy, she
definitely was an IT girl. Yes, and both Alex.
OK, Alex and Alexa first, we didn't even know this yet.
Their names are basically the same.
It's so cute. That is adorable.
And they're both English. And this was definitely a time
of like one of the peaks of my Anglophile phase, like just
loving Arctic Monkeys and like British TV shows like Skins and
Keep Calm and Carry On and Keep Calm.
Harry's still single, like all this stuff.
So that's that's what we're talking about today.
And one reason Alex and Alexa are so known and so popular, I
think is because of this love letter that was written by Alex.
Apparently that was circulated around the Internet, but mostly
Tumblr. And it's a bit weird.
It was. It's on a piece of paper, and
it's written in cursive by someone who's clearly not Alex,
because at the bottom at the bottom it also says Alex
Turner's love letter to Alexa Chung.
And I saw I saw this love letter back when I was a teenager and I
never forgot it. I still think about it all the
time. Is it like fan fiction?
Well, that's what. You know what?
I in recent years, thought about this letter again.
And I wondered, was that even real?
Like that was probably fake. But I'm going to get more into
it later. But I'm going to read the the
letter right now just to kick us off.
Oh, I love. That, and this was my first, I
didn't know much about them at all.
I never really looked into their relationship.
All I really knew was this letter from Tumblr, and I think
a lot of people only knew this letter from Tumblr, so I'm going
to read it. It says my mouth hasn't shut up
about you since you kissed it. The idea that you may kiss it
again is stuck in my brain, which hasn't stopped thinking
about you since well, before any kiss.
And now the prospect of those kisses seems to wind me up, like
when you slip on the stairs and one of the steps hits you in the
middle of the back. And the notion of them
continuing for what is traditionally terrifying forever
excites me to an unfamiliar degree.
That's the letter. Oh, that's it.
Yep, that's it. It's not really a letter, you
know, it's it's like a paragraph.
But we'll we'll investigate this later where this came from.
They sound like lyrics. I know it does his it sounds a
lot like his lyrics because he is the lyricist for Arctic
Monkeys, but we'll investigate that later.
OK. Yes.
So Alex Turner and Alexa Chung, I think that they were much,
much, much more famous in England than in America.
But there were definitely some of us on on Tumblr and, you
know, watching Skins and stuff that somehow found out about
them. And we're obsessed with them
too. But.
Yeah, I feel like that time period too.
US Americans were really obsessed with England.
Yes, we really were. It was like a new British
invasion. Yeah.
I mean, like Harry Potter two, there was just so much in our
pop culture that made it seem like England was way better.
Robert Pattinson, Yes, even like Ed Sheeran.
Like all of those British people, they Lily.
Allen. Oh my God.
We were. We wanted to beat you guys.
Yes. And like we did.
We would wear, yeah, like British flags on our shirts,
even though we had never been there before.
You're obsessed. Take it as a compliment, guys.
I did. I did wear a Union Jack sweater
and I remember when I worked at Urban, I remember this English
guy was like, I like a jumper. But that is weird because at
that point I had not been to England yet.
I know, yeah. And our our Irish grandmother
was probably rolling over in her green.
My mom still always says that to me.
She's like my mother would be so upset yeah.
Anyway, 3 words I would use to describe Alex Turner and Alexa
Chung would be stylish festivals and young oh.
Sweet. Yes, OK.
No, no. That's an ominous.
There No dark one. I know festivals is not an
adjective, but it's just so them.
But it fits. Yeah, they would go on with
Vanessa Hudgens in that way. Oh, yes.
They love the music festivals. So, OK, who are they?
Just some quick back stories. Who's Alex Turner?
Alex Turner, You know, he's the lead singer of Arctic Monkeys.
He has these big brown eyes. He's changed his look a lot over
the years. I feel like back in the
beginning of Arctic Monkeys, he had kind of a Beatles type of
haircut, a little shaggy but not too long, but longish.
And then he had like long hair. And then later on he started
having this kind of like greaser 50s look with like a pompadour.
So now he's now he's weirdly doing a almost like Italian
mobster look. So he's had a lot of different
looks. But I would say, you know, just
from observing him over the years, he seems pretty quiet and
private. He seems polite but sometimes
serious. But he can still be like silly
and a jokester and seems like he always has friends and you know,
he parties and stuff. But he also seems kind of quiet,
some people say intimidating, and I can kind of see that Maybe
because he is quiet and he has a thick Northern English accent,
sort of like a Liverpool accent, but it's it's kind of faded a
little bit in recent years, kind of like how Robert Pattinson's
has faded. Yeah, a little sad.
Oh, actually Rob is going to tie back into this later.
Oh my God. OK.
Yep. Wait, wait, wait.
Like at the end. OK, well, let's hang on, yeah.
But his full name? Alexander David Turner.
He was born January 6th, 1986. So he's a Capricorn born in
Sheffield, England, which is where Arctic Monkeys formed.
His parents were both secondary school teachers and he grew up
an only child. So is that why he wanted to be a
star? I don't know.
He grew up next door to, or near and very close to at least Matt
Helders, who is another founding member of Arctic Monkeys.
And they were really into music with their friends as kids,
just, you know, messing around having fun.
Seems like they really hung out in the neighbourhood.
There's a lot of talk about, oh, he lived in the neighbourhood
too, so that's cute. He was a bright and popular but
reserved kid. He was into English photography
and psychology when he was older.
He did writing, but he didn't show anybody, apparently, and
apparently Alex was always the quiet one in the group.
Tim and Matt Helders and Andy Nicholson decided to start
Arctic Monkeys in mid 2002, when Alex was 16 and then Jamie Cook,
a neighbor A10, who went to a different school, was invited to
join the band too. And I guess Helders considered
Alex the obvious candidate to write the lyrics, because I knew
he had a thing for words. And Alex slowly began to share
songs with his bandmates. I have always wondered, how do
bands decide who's going to write lyrics?
That's a big deal, you know. I feel like probably.
I mean, sometimes they split that responsibility.
Right. Yeah, sometimes they do.
But I feel like sometimes they don't.
Often comes down to, I bet, just who's best at it.
Yeah, I guess that's what happened here too.
I feel like I would want, maybe I'm just, I would be a control
freak. I was like, I I want to
contribute to the lyrics. I know.
That's like, I mean, I don't know how to do the other stuff.
So, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's all I can do.
That would be awesome. I've always wanted to be like
Bernie to Elton John. I'll just write the words.
Yeah, exactly. I won't perform.
I won't write any music. Yeah, I'll just give you the
material. That would be awesome.
So Arctic Monkeys in the early days, they were playing at local
pubs. They played some original songs
and and covers. Over the summer after they first
started, Alex played as a rhythm guitarist for a funk band.
And then through that he met a record producer and he asked him
if he would produce Arctic Monkey's music and they did.
I read that they had one demo album that like nobody ever
really heard. And then they had another one, I
don't know, not important. But the guy liked their sound
and they recorded demo CD and they handed out free copies
after their shows in northern England.
And then they were playing in Manchester.
Alex was working at a bar. It was very, you know, DIY, not
that glamorous or anything. But by the end of 2004, crowds
like going to their local shows were starting to sing along to
their songs. I don't think they had that many
songs. I think they had like 1020 maybe
original songs and they were just playing the same ones over
and over. And their song I Bet You Look
Good on the Dance Floor was played on BBC Radio 1 and the
rest is history basically. It became really popular on
Myspace and sites like that and I bet you look good on the dance
floor. I love that song was #1 on the
singles chart in England. Their album Whatever they Say I
Am I'm Not was #1 on the charts in England.
They were huge, huge band in England.
Not as much here, but I think people still know them.
Like, if you're into alternative rock, like you know who they
are. Their second album, Favorite
Worst Nightmare, came out in 2007, has the song Fluorescent
Adolescent, which was a big hit for them.
And that was in my Twitter bio for years back when I had
Twitter, that was my little bio. It just said fluorescent
adolescent. God about that, yeah.
Before Alexa, he dated Johanna Bennett, the front woman of a
band. I'm sorry I didn't write what
band, but. She.
Later went on to marry one of the guys from Kings Of Leon,
which is just funny. Just seems like a small world.
Yeah, it's like similar bands. I don't know.
I know he. I'm sure he dated other girls
too, but I I'm not sure who. OK, but the lady of the hour.
Alexa Chung, So she's apparently the same height as Alex.
They're both about 5/8, so it's kind of like.
For some reason I thought she was taller.
Me too. A model.
I know. I thought she was going to be
like 6 feet tall, but I guess she has.
Very long legs. She does very, very long legs,
very thin arms and legs. Yeah, she's a model.
Or she was. Still is.
I think she still is. Alexa, from my observation,
seems like a very creative, fun, witty, down to earth person.
Even though she, you know, works with all these extremely high
fashion brands, she still seems pretty humble.
And, I don't know, pretty normal too.
I don't think she's very pretentious about it, she said.
When she was younger, she was a tomboy.
I feel like a lot of models say that, but I kind of do believe
it. For her.
She's into a lot of things, photography, fashion, and she
has said that she spends her life pretending she's in a band.
I love that. Yes, and she was born November
5th, 1983, another Scorpio. Her mother is English, her
father is 3/4 Chinese. So that's where the Chung last
name comes from. I was a graphic designer.
She grew up in Privet, Hampshire, England, and she's
the youngest of four kids. I I thought she was going to be
more like Cara Delevingne. I thought she was going to be
kind of a almost nobility type of person.
Yeah, but she isn't. But I still think that they
probably were sort of well to do because she did have a pony
named Pippi, so. Oh yeah, she's rich.
She became a model at age 16 when take a drink.
She was spotted by a modeling scout at.
Oh my God, was it at a mall? No, it was actually at Reading
Festival, but I'm guessing maybe.
These modeling scouts, like I know, coming to you.
Guys I know. It's crazy.
They're like seeking people out. Yeah.
You'd imagine, like, everyone sending their headshots in.
Why it's like almost creepy that they're just like, going up to
people. I know there have been times
when when I was in New York, like, I would see some girl or
even guy that looked really tall and thin and beautiful.
And I would wonder to myself, are they a model?
So I wonder if scouts, when they see somebody like that, they're
just like, oh, OK, I'm going to go, yeah.
I don't know that's. So funny.
What a compliment that. Is.
I know. So she became a model, age 16.
And when she was in her late teens as a model, she started
dating the fashion photographer David Titlow, who was 20 years
her senior. Oh wow, she's kind of crazy.
In 2006, she became a presenter for the T4 show Pop World and
then Co hosted the music and comedy program on BBC called The
Wall. And she kind of pretty early on,
like in her early 20s, retired from modeling, but she kind of
kept doing it. But she was able to do these
presenter jobs and I don't think she liked modeling that much.
So Alexa, if you've never seen, I feel like I was just going to
activate the speaker. We don't even have an Alexa,
but. I know probably if someone's
listening to this live like or on speaker in their house, it
might have triggered it. She apparently gets kind of
annoyed. I mean, she wasn't rude about
it, but she gets asked a lot about the speaker and how it
feels having. I think it's terrible.
I think it's terrible that Amazon.
They should have never given. The speaker.
A real person's name and that name.
Now nobody can address. If they have a friend named
Alexa and they have an Alexa in their house, they cannot address
that person. I know it's terrible.
They should have never. I think Alexa is a beautiful
name too. It just I it stinks what they
did with that. They should have just, I don't
know, they could have used some kind of noun or made-up word or
medieval name or something that nobody uses anymore, like they
could have done anything. It's.
So crazy. But yeah, Alexa, I was going to
say, if you guys don't know, has very tall, long legs, messy Bob
hair. She often has had and known for
her style. She's a fashion girl.
She's done so many, so many collaborations with fashion
labels. And then later in the story, she
has her own fashion line. But she somehow became very
affiliated with that world. And it's kind of funny because
she also was ATV presenter and she kind of talked about her,
how all the fashion people don't seem to really pay attention to
that, or they don't really know what she's doing with that.
But that's kind of like her, or at least was her day job.
Because yeah, you don't get paid to go to parties and look.
Cute, you know? I knew she was a model, but
like, I thought of her as, like, being funny too.
Like she seemed like she was like a personality.
She is, she is funny. And I I was watching some videos
of her to prepare for this and it actually did crack me up a
couple of times. So she's very charming.
In 2008, just about her, you know, a girl status.
She was asked by the Guardian how many events she gets invited
to a night and she said there's three tonight and it's a wide
range ones like an art gallery thing, once a Mulberry party and
the other ones a friends birthday, a party party.
But you know what, recently, recently I've been staying in
because I'm working so much I can't do my job properly and be
hungover. So I'm sorry.
And then she said. I don't want to be famous for
going out. That would be so exhausting.
I'd have to go to three things in one night.
That's crazy. My social calendar is not that.
No, but we've talked about this like when we did our Lindsay
Lohan episode. Like, Oh yeah.
Celebrities do just have an endless amount of opportunities
to party and go out, so it makes sense why they get addicted to
it. Yeah, totally.
Oh, my gosh. And if you're you're kind of
nervous, if you're getting invited to things every single
night, you're probably drinking every single night, maybe doing
drugs every single night. Like, that's a lot.
So crazy. But she did have this TV job
during the day, so she couldn't be that crazy. 2008, Well, this
is actually going kind of beyond the timelines.
Maybe I shouldn't share this, but she did become the host of
the Morning Show morning music show for Channel 4 called
Freshly Squeezed, and also the face of Rimmel, London.
Some kind of like London's A Girl.
And before dating Alex, she apparently briefly dated Albert
Hammond Junior from The Strokes, which I read a book called Meet
Me in the Bathroom, which is all about rock music in so specific
rock music in New York City from 2001 to 2011.
And Hilbraham and Junior, I just remember in that book seemed
like kind of bad news, like on drugs and fighting people and
stuff. So Alexa and she also dated
British actor Douglas Booth, possibly Jared Leto, The Horrors
frontman Ferris Badman and lead singer Ian Watkins.
So she has a thing for lead singers and she will talk about
this later in the story. But I feel like this is a good
time to talk about this because I asked you guys on our Patreon
for the poll. I said would you say you have
romantic type And so far we. I'm going to refresh the page
because sometimes more come in so far.
OK, 70% of you said yes, you do have a type and 30% of you said
no. And our listener, Kate said, I
hope you don't mind I'm sharing this.
I don't have as much a physical type as a personality type.
I do find as well I can be pretty attracted to many
different personalities, but it comes down to more
comparability. I think that's a narrow,
narrower set of people than just my type.
I think. I think the same for Alexa
actually. She loves guys and bands and
lead singers specifically, but I think that they don't all look.
I mean, a lot of them are like thin, lanky white guys, but but
they don't all look exactly the same.
But Maggie Licious also commented and said, yeah, ugly
and mean to me. Sad face?
Sad. I hope that's a type that you,
you know, eventually lose interest in.
Yeah, sometimes just recognizing it is the first step.
Exactly. What do you think about all of
that, Mel? Well, yeah, I mean, my type used
to be, I guess, emotionally unavailable.
I've definitely grown out of that.
I would say, yeah. My type used to be like very
stoic and yeah, unemotional and kind of cold, but.
So. Now I don't.
I know Now. I don't think I I've I don't
think I have a type. Nice, I think.
I don't know. I think that there is something
kind of embarrassing about having a type, but I think it's
kind of helpful too. I think so as well.
I mean, for a long time I wished I had one so I could more easily
identify attraction right away. Because dating just felt so
daunting. Having to go on a couple dates
with someone to determine if I liked them because I just didn't
have like any initial feelings one way or the other.
But I definitely have things that are not my type, like I
definitely have automatic non attraction.
Me too. If that's a word for like
distaste for some, but. I mean, we're both in
relationships now. So I guess it's we're all
talking about the past here, But yeah, I mean.
Forgot I've been. Mean I've been.
I've been in the trenches like I definitely have thought long
about. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
I definitely have always liked artsy type of guys.
And I have dated several guys with glasses, but it wasn't on
purpose. It wasn't on purpose.
I feel like a lot of you guys have had like light brown hair.
Not all, but some. The thing is.
I have been attracted to some people that weren't that type,
but it just didn't work out with them.
Yeah, so, but honestly that type is probably also the type that
is attracted to you. Yeah, you know what?
OK, I feel kind of weird. I hope no one's listening that
knows me, but I have noticed that even my current boyfriend
or like my ex boyfriend's, like, I feel like some of the ex
girlfriends look a little similar to me.
Like we're all kind of in a similar world, so whatever.
But I think both Alex and Alexa have a type and she, you know,
he also seems to like models, so it's not just her.
But let's get into it. But before we get into the
episode, you know, on the podcast we've talked a lot about
how mental health can affect relationships and we recently
learned of an organization that is doing a lot of important work
to combat OCD in relationships. Yeah, it's called no CD.
And you know, OCD is more than what you see on TV and in the
movies. If you imagine having unwanted
thoughts about your relationship stuck in your head all day, no
matter how hard you try to make them go away, that's
relationship OCD, which I feel like is a less known about type
of OCD, but it comes with unrelenting intrusive images,
thoughts and urges about your partner, a loved one.
And breaking the OCD cycle takes effective treatment.
You can go to no CD, so that's NOCD dot com to get evidence
based treatment. And on no CD you can book a call
with a face to face licensed therapist.
And no CD is sponsored by most insurance companies.
So yeah, it's a really cool organization that I feel like is
pretty relevant to our show and anybody that's struggling with a
breakup. If you know someone, a loved one
that is maybe having issues with relationship OCD, then you
should tell them about no CD. The couple today, how did they
meet? How did they meet?
They first met at T in the Park, which is a Scottish music
festival. Oh my gosh, this was July 2007.
Alexa was 23, Alex 21. So they're pretty young.
Yeah, I mean, that's one of your adjectives.
Yeah, well, yeah, It's funny, like when I was younger, I
thought that they were older, obviously.
Yeah. But now, now that I look at the
story, you know, it sadly kind of makes sense.
Why? Spoiler they didn't end up
together. Are you serious?
Mel. I had a feeling you actually did
spoil it because you said you said earlier in episode this is
past the timeline. Oh, yes, yes, yes, according to
Digital Spy. Now, I don't know if this was at
the festival, I think it was, but I don't really get it.
But it says Alex met Alexa at a backstage karaoke party that the
group held on Friday night to celebrate guitarist Jamie
Cooke's birthday. Alex and Alexa were all over
each other backstage. He was pulling out all the stops
to impress her. She was lapping it up and
giggling at his jokes. Alex whisked her off to a quiet
corner on a bench and cuddled her as he taught her some
chords. So.
We know this is for sure. When they met, they weren't.
This is not like when the world found out about them dating.
Yeah, you know what? I don't know.
This might be just when the world found out, but.
Yeah, this is. And and that's just according to
a source, so who knows, but. Because they just sound like
they're already cozy. But I guess sometimes when
you're at an event like that, it doesn't take too long.
Yeah, yeah, it does sound a little bit cliche, like, oh,
he's going to go teach her how to play guitar.
And it says after a while they disappeared off to his tour bus
with the promise of a more of more lessons on his acoustic
guitar with some peace and quiet.
She's only too happy to accept the offer and they walked off
into the night together. So Classic went off to the tour
bus type of meeting. A couple months later it seems
like they are still together. There's a Daily Mail article
titled When Alex Met Alexa. So in theme it is Arctic Monkey
singer hand in hand with Channel 4 star.
And then also in October, apparently Arctic Monkeys was
accepting Best Band in the World award at the Q Awards.
And apparently Alex left the other lads to meet Alexa at the
Met bar, and a source said no sooner had they bought a round
of vodkas, meaning him, him and Alexa, they were snogging in the
dance floor right in the middle of the club.
She seemed totally smitten by him and was laughing at his
jokes and stroking his hair. They looked, they looked like
they really care for each other. Oh.
Yeah, so they're bopping around London.
They go into shows, bars together, nightlife, you know,
being young. And then not too long after that
they, I mean. So they met in the summer 2007.
Now it's 2008. It's pretty official because
she's in his music video for his other band, The Last Shadow
Puppets. The song's called My Mistakes
Are Made for You and it's very mysterious.
It's like a night shot retro 70s film vibe.
And in the video it's him and Alexa.
It looks like they're in a car crash and it looks like she's
dead and he leaves the car and is playing guitar with Miles
Kane and the gazebo. And then it appears that she
also walks away from the accident and is alive and she
just walks into the darkness of the woods.
Yes. I don't know what that's
supposed to mean. I don't know if we should read
into it. Probably not.
But I feel like that's pretty serious to, you know, only be
together for, you know, less than a year and you're already
like being in my music video, you know, And she's, she's right
there, front and center. It's not like she's just in the
background or something. This is a random thought I just
put in. I don't know why I put it here
in the timeline, but I guess because she's in this music
video. When I was younger, I was
interested in Alexa Chung, but I was also kind of annoyed by her
because I used. I used to be kind of annoyed by
a lot of people who were models slash DJ slash fashion designers
slash photographer, you know what I mean?
I don't know why. I know exactly what you mean.
I felt like, what's your job like?
What the heck? Yeah, it.
Seems like they have an easy life.
And like, a lot of it, I mean, a lot of it comes from privilege,
too. Like, yeah, like you said, she
probably was well to do. She had a pony.
And also she just happened to be born beautiful.
It's like easy to kind of be a hater because you're like, yeah,
God, you're not working your retail job like in the summers
paying your student debt like. I was.
It was it was so weird. Like I I was interested in her.
But I was somewhat A hater too, for that reason.
I think I was just jealous because, yeah, honestly, I want
that. Like I want to just be involved
in a ton of different creative projects.
Yeah, I mean it's good to be like self aware of that.
It's natural to be jealous. I guess so.
OK. Then February 2008, first of
all, 2008, what a time. What a twilight February. 2008
The letter OK, this is when the letter happened people.
And apparently, according to my research, the letter is real.
OK, but how did who wrote it? OK, so Alexa actually talked to
the Guardian and said there was a really upsetting tabloid story
when Alex had written me a Valentine's card and I had
accidentally left it in a bar and someone sold it to the Sun
and they printed it and they changed it so it didn't look
like a Valentine card and they just said it was a love letter.
They slated him for being really soppy.
And then she said look, it's my boyfriend and it's Alex, of
course it's going to be written like a story.
And the Guardian asked was he peeved and she said he was
really cool with it and he said I'm not upset that everyone saw
it because that's the truth and I couldn't give a shit.
And then he went on and said. But at least you have a copy of
it now, I mean. Hey, I mean it is super
personal, but it's better to be exposed for writing something
sweet to your girlfriend then something terrible and nasty.
I know, like there are worse things than being revealed to be
like a softy and a romantic and. It looks really sweet.
I mean, yeah, some people think it's cheesy, but the weird thing
is you can't. At least I couldn't.
I couldn't find anywhere a picture of the original.
I think maybe the sun just typed it up and then some girl wrote
it in cursive and put it on Tumblr.
I think that's how that happened.
Some people do wonder, or they did wonder back in the day.
Did Alexa leave it behind on purpose?
Oh, yeah, maybe. Yo, why would you, huh.
Like. How could you leave it?
Yeah, honestly, it makes her look bad that, like, I know I
would write you a really romantic down.
Take hard and you forget about it.
Leave it at the bar. That's pretty bad.
It was a really sweet, well written card and to just leave
it there, I can't believe that. But she drunk maybe.
Had to be, yeah. That's honestly, like,
regrettable on her fire, I know. Yeah, accidents happen, but.
I would be heartbroken if I wrote someone like AI know sweet
letter and they just like lost. It.
I know I can. I can just picture him being
like, oh, where's your card? Oh, oh.
Shit. And I feel like I would try to
go back and get it. I don't know.
I just like that's especially like.
Say they ended up together. Obviously they didn't, but like,
that's a relic from the early stages of dating.
I know, So special. And it's Alex Turner.
I know, gosh, sorry. But at least hey, someone did
her a favor like you saw some other.
It's like OK now I can look back and I can see what it what he
wrote. Now it's memorialized forever
online on this podcast that worked out.
Yeah. And then also February 2008,
there were the Enemy Shock Waves awards and I guess they have
fashion categories. And Alexa won best Dressed and
Alex was actually in that category too.
He was also in the best dressed category, but she won.
And there was a news story that after that enemy awards, Alexa
puked on Alex. The.
Story said Alex and Alexa were having a cheeky snog by the
lifts shortly before he was due to go on stage.
Was all getting pretty heated. Hang on, this is like, what?
Why would they be getting heated when all of a sudden Alexa began
to heave and was suddenly violently sick?
After filming her show all day, it appears she'd developed a
severe bout of food poisoning. Alex was a knight in shining
armor, though he insisted on accompanying her to the toilets
and holding her hair back as she hurled in the loo.
And that's sweet. Yeah, I I did at first think it
was because I read about it a couple places.
I thought at first is from being drunk, but OK, maybe it was food
poisoning. That's worse, honestly.
I know food poisoning is the worst.
That can come out either end that stuff I.
Know. I feel like stuff like that
happens eventually to every couple though.
Every That's what I really like about my boyfriend now.
It's like we're now at a stage where like we both get stomach
aches around each other and it's like it's just comfortable.
No, that's awesome. You need that.
I do need. Lord knows I get stomach aches a
lot, but guess what? So does he match made enough?
That's perfect, I know. OK, so back on the timeline
2009, they're still together. Arctic Monkeys release their
third album called Humbug, and this album has my favorite song
of there is Cornerstone. Love it, but I'm not going to
talk about that song, but I am going to look at one song
lyrics. You could look at a couple of
them, probably, But just for the sake of time, I'm just going to
do this one because, you know, Alex writes the lyrics so you
can assume some of them are inspired by Alexa Chung.
And there's this song called The Fire and the Thud, and there's
some cute lyrics. It says, The day after you stole
my heart. Everything I touched told me it
would be better shared with you, with you.
And now you're hiding in my soup.
And this book reveals your face. And there's a splashing in my
eyelids as this concentration continually breaks.
I did request the mark you cast didn't heal as fast.
I hear your voice in silences. So is that about Alexa?
Maybe, probably. But then also in 2009, Alexa
reveals that she's moving to New York City.
Oh no, to host. It's on with Alexa Chung on MTV.
And I actually used to watch this show randomly at lunchtime
in the summertime. Back in the day, it only ran for
two. Seasons.
This is how I know we're actually.
Yeah, it's on with Alexa Chung, and Alex agreed to move with her
to New York. Yeah, yeah.
And I'm not sure if it's true, but an Enemy magazine article
claimed it caused tension with the band, but they didn't break
up or anything. So I don't know how serious that
was. But you know, now that she has
this American show, people are over here learning who she is.
People magazine had an article about her.
They said her boyfriend is in a band.
While her love life is a hot topic back home, Chung admits
her relationship with Alex Turner, lead singer, British
rock band Arctic Monkeys is a lot more low key than people
think. It's not like we're always
breaking up and getting back together or cheating on each
other, she says. We're quite boring really.
I mean, I wouldn't assume that they were cheating on each other
like she kind of put that thought.
There, I know, right? Always.
I don't know.
And so now they're living in New York together.
And I think Alex seemed to enjoy it just based on pictures and
times. He talked about it and
everything, and she's doing her show.
And she talked about their life together again in an article
about A Day in the Life of Alexa Chung.
And she mentioned Alex. She said if we're out, I'm
always the party pooper. I like to be in by 10.
I like to be in bed by 10:00 PM. Sometimes I take my computer,
which isn't very sexy, is it? I'm obsessed with Facebook.
Alex and I like to chill out to a record and we fall asleep with
our arms around each other. He's really little and so am I.
So no one gets a dead arm. Sometimes we wake up in the same
position. It's the best thing ever.
It's very cute, very cute. There's really not a lot known
about what's going on with them. This is in 2010, but then June
2010, there's this article in the Mirror British tabloid that
said that they had a row at Glastonbury Festival.
But who knows if that's really true.
I don't know 2011 March 2011 Alex releases an EP for the
movie Submarine. It's a soundtrack that he wrote
for this movie, which is a movie that I really like.
It's really cute. It's just like a coming of age
British teenager breaks being wallflower type of movie.
And the soundtrack is so sweet and soft.
It's like this little acoustic album and it's actually my top
played songs of all time. It's still the soundtrack
because. Yeah, because it's just, you
know, like on rainy days, I don't know.
I like to listen to kind of soft music.
But but this record is really good because it's not
depressing. It's like it's great for rainy
days, but it doesn't get you too down.
Like I don't know, Bunny there or.
It's. Really good, yeah.
Even if you haven't seen the movie, the submarine soundtrack,
it's really good. And Arctic Monkeys, they've
never had any music like this. And Alex has never released
music like this ever again. I mean, they have some more slow
acoustic songs, but nothing really like this.
And you know, he's with Alexa during this time, so you have to
wonder if it could be inspired by her or feelings from her.
And I'm just going to read some lyrics from one song stuck on
the puzzle. It's called It's Cute.
It says that something in your magnetism hadn't just made him
drop whoever his hand it was that he was holding.
I've been searching from the bottom to the top for such a
sight as the one I caught when I saw your fingers dimming the
lights, like you're used to being told that you're trouble.
And I spent all night stuck on the puzzle and I don't know why.
I can just picture like sichung. I don't know.
I can picture him thinking of her like dimming the lights and
being sneaky and I don't know, so I thought that was cute.
But Alex was interviewed by Vanity Fair May 2011, and in a
very carefree way, he mentioned his girlfriend Alexa and moving
to New York for her job. And I don't think I put any
quotes from that, but it just seems like he felt very
comfortable to mention her and wasn't guarded about it or
anything. And then I read a quote from
Alexa about Alex, and I actually couldn't figure out when this
was from, So I just put it in this place in the timeline.
But I don't know if this actually happened here, but to
Vogue, she said about Alex. He's the sort of person who
reads the dictionary at night. I'm like, dude, you're 25, let's
go to the pub. I thought she goes to bed at.
I know, right? In bed by 1030, though.
I know. And she doesn't.
She bring her laptop to the pub. Too.
No. She brings her laptop to bed.
Oh, I thought. OK, that's better.
But there's no way she goes. She went to bed at 10 I.
No, I don't have to be, she said in bed by 10:30.
I know that means you have to be home by like at least 945 like.
And if she's going to all these events, I just think there's no
way. No.
Girl. No, no, no.
I thought it was funny, too. Where she in that day?
In the life. She said.
I get up really early. 9:00 AM Yeah.
I mean, I get it. I don't get up that early
because I work remotely, but that's not early.
That's so funny. Yeah, I go really early, 9:00 AM
any later than nine. I do feel like, Oh my God,
sometimes you need to sleep in later, but like later, I'm like,
I slept. In I know.
These days, I mean that's late. That's so.
Funny. So June 2011, Alex was
interviewed by the Taipei Times, apparently random interviewed by
the Taipei Times. And he talked about music but
also about Alexa and was asked, do you think that the
relationship magnifies, magnifies attention that the
band guest gets? And he said, I suppose it does,
yeah. And then they said following
your girlfriend to New York for her work is quite new man for a
Sheffield lad. I get that means but I guess
just saying that's a big deal. And he said I was glad she asked
me to go with her. And then the interviewer said,
but moving to the US for someone is pretty special, rather really
rather lovely. And he said I didn't think of it
like that. I thought the pleasure is all
mine. And then he said the first time
I went to New York it was really exciting and I thought given
half the chance it would be nice to live there.
The same with London. So if you get something to give
you the IMP impetus, that's great.
Yeah. I mean, that makes sense.
Yeah. I mean, I have a friend that
just moved to San Francisco because her boyfriend was moving
there and they, like, weren't dating super long, but she was
like, I was ready for a change. So it was nice to have, like, a
reason to move there. Cool.
But yeah, it's like sometimes it's nice to have that thing.
That is the reason to do it. But also, he was a musician.
Like, it makes sense for him to go to New York.
It's not like he's moving to. I don't know.
Like Fort Lauderdale. I know, Yeah, he's.
Dallas, TX. He seemed uncomfortable with
him, implying like that was really nice of you.
Yeah. Does he still live in New York
or is he back in England now, you know?
I think he's back in England, but I also think he then lived
in LA. For a bit, yeah.
I mean, I feel like I kind of assume that anyone who's famous
spends a lot of time in New York and LA.
Yeah, it's true. It's true, there's more music
Arctic Monkeys. So that last thing was just a
solo project. But then Arctic Monkeys this is
2011. They released the album Suck It
and See. Your love is light custodied
leather headlock. You kiss it cold, put creases in
the room, and those are the girls that just post snakes.
Which sounds really vulgar, but apparently it's a British saying
that just means like just try something and see if it works or
like, give it a try. So OK, I'm sure there's like a
double entendre, but suck It and See.
And yeah, the the title track Suck It and See It is pretty
romantic and Arctic Monkeys at this time hadn't been known for
having very romantic songs, I would say.
So I do think it could be inspired by Alexa, as well as a
couple other songs like She's Thunderstorms.
But I'm just going to read a couple lyrics for any fans
listening, He writes. Your Love is like a studded
leather headlock. Your kiss.
It could put creases in the rain.
You're rarer than a can of dandelion and boredock, which is
a old fashioned British drink. I didn't know that you're rarer
than a can of dandelion and burdock and the other.
Those other girls are just post mixed lemonade.
Suck it and see. You never know.
Sit next to me before I go. Be cruel to me because I'm a
fool for you. And then he also says I poured
my aching heart into a pop song. I couldn't get the hang of
poetry. That's not a skirt girl.
That's a son off shotgun. And I can only hope you've got
it aimed at me. Blue Moon girls from Once Upon A
Shangri-La. How often I wonder where you
are. You have that face that just
says baby, I was made to break your heart.
Oh. And maybe she did, because then
in early July, it's reported that after four years together,
Alex and Alexa have broken up. Is there any?
Do you have any sense of what happened?
Or, well, you know, there's all these, yeah, there's all these
talks from sources, 1 Insider told The Mirror.
Things haven't been going well and they haven't seemed like a
couple for the past few weeks at Glastonbury Festival, like it
always comes out in the festivals, they barely said a
word to each other. Alexa was out seeing bands with
all her buddies like Pixie Geldof and Fifi Brown while Alex
was on his tour bus chilling with his band.
They really wanted to give it a go and hold it together and
seemed to be getting back on track when things got bad again.
And they both decided enough was enough.
And then a spokesman for the couple said it's completely
amicable. But yes, it's true, they have
split. Alexa has moved all her stuff
out and is concentrating on getting her American TV career
back on track because, Oh yeah, it's almost Alexa Chung was
canceled after two seasons. The source also went on to say
Alex has gigs in America next month but none of them are on
the East Coast. Then he's planning UK tour.
They are very busy and have grown apart, but they want to
keep the news quiet. Should add that to the drinking
game, people being too busy. I know I hate.
It. It stinks.
But you know what? Like I feel like if it was meant
to be, you'd still be able to make it.
Work. Yes, I've always felt that way.
I've always felt like when someone tells you they're too
busy to date or something, I mean, I don't want to hurt
feelings if you've heard that before, but I feel like people
can always make time, You know what I mean?
Yeah, for the ones that matter most.
And if someone can't or won't, then you're better off without
them. And you know.
But I think it's just at the end of the day, in those situations
it's not a match because some people might need more from a
relationship than other people are able to give.
Like some people might might be really busy but they're OK not
speaking every day or they're OK like.
But I feel like that's a very stable person.
And like if they're used to like talking 24/7 and seeing each
other every day, then it's probably too hard to maintain
that connection. Yeah, it's just interesting
though, because, you know, they've been together for years.
They've had pretty much the same job this whole time.
You know, why could they do it in the beginning and why can't
they do it anymore? You know, maybe they just got
tired and. Yeah, that's true.
I mean, those like what? They started dating 23 and 21.
Yeah, those years. Like people drastically change
in that time. They do, they do.
And I'm going to talk about that in a minute, But Alex reportedly
moved on very quickly after this.
Like, I would say maybe maybe I I should have gotten the actual
time stamps, guys. So I'm sorry, but maybe within
like a month or two, I don't know, was dating this girl,
Ariel Vandenberg. She's also ATV host and model,
which is weird. Oh.
That hasn't hurt. Like in a perfect world, your ex
would take a while to move on as well.
So that way, by the time you accept that, you're no longer
together, like you don't care if they're with somebody else.
Yes, in their perfect world, but that doesn't always happen.
No, because for him, people who who do that, he probably wasn't
really over it because he needed to replace her.
Alexa was linked to a lot of guys in like the following year
and they were, I think, all musicians.
Once again returns to have a fling with Albert Hammond Junior
from The Strokes, which is crazy.
I just got to say it's crazy that she had this fling with a
guy from The Strokes, because Alex has said that Arctic
Monkeys was inspired to become a band because of The Strokes, and
they even have a song where he says in the opening lines he
says. I just wanted to be one of The
Strokes. So just crazy that she would
rebound from this with one of the guys from the Strokes.
That's legendary. That's so.
Funny. Also the musician Theo
Hutchcraft and Rob Aykroyd, who's a guitarist from Florence
and Machine. And OK, that's it.
That's it for now. That's it for now.
There's going to be more. But in the October issue that
your harp is bizarre, she actually talked about all these
lead singers and musicians. She's drawn to you and she said
it's the groupie vibe that I'm attracted to.
They had these amazing love affairs and both the men and
women made amazing by them. The girls in the 60s were never
overshadowed by the men they dated.
You can talk about Jane Shrimpton without having to
mention Bailey or Terence Stamp first.
I fell out of love with the 60s for a while, I think because I
was so identified with it. It's like Sienna Miller when she
did Boho then suddenly stopped because she was like, fuck, what
else can I do? Because I've done it.
Everyone copied my sodden coat for a while too.
It was my Harrods kids vintage one.
Every girl suddenly had one and I was like, I got really bored
of smock dresses and loafers for a while.
But I feel like I'm ready to fall in love over.
I'm ready to fall in love all over again.
So that was about fashion, but I just included it because I, you
know, I feel like she was ready to change after this
relationship. And I also think her and Alex
were kind of into this like 60s thing.
So she's kind of saying she's ready to change.
And then she actually, in 2013 she released a book called it
Meaning It Girl. And I remember we sold this book
at Urban Outfitters when I worked there, and I used to look
at it when I had nothing to do. It's not exactly a memoir.
It's more of a fashion book with lots of pictures, kind of like a
scrapbook. But there's some writing in
there, too. And there's a chapter in the
book called Heartbreak, which many people assume is about Alex
Turner. And I'm just going to read a
paragraph from it. It says the problem with
Heartbreak is that nobody can help you when you're
heartbroken. Nobody.
And nothing. Not the films you watch alone,
desperately searching for a character who feels the way you
do, not the glasses or bottles of whiskey you keep by your bed.
And certainly not Instagram. Wait, I'm gonna pause.
I I've never kept whiskey by my bed.
Have you? No, I think I have had wine by
my bed just coincidentally, but like, I didn't keep it there on
purpose. I just think it's one of the
ways she says that, like as if everybody does that, like, oh.
Yeah, wait. Not the whiskey you keep handy
by your bill. Yeah, Alexa girl, check it on
that. And then she goes on to say, and
certainly not Instagram. Instagram will not mend your
broken heart despite your best efforts to post pictures of
yourself looking happy. Every time you post a picture of
yourself to Instagram looking fake happy, a fairy dies fact.
Also, scrolling through photos of girls your ex may or may not
be shagging won't help you. You need to you need to remind
yourself that the right filter can be dramatically, can be
fantastically flattering, and she probably doesn't even look
that good in real life. Which I'm also going to pause
again, because it's crazy that she literally was a model.
And she is. Self-conscious about that.
And he's even comparing herself to other girls and saying, like,
oh, she has filters on, you know, she doesn't look better.
It's crazy. That, I mean that just goes to
show that even comparing yourself, it's useless.
It's violence against yourself. It is, it is.
And she also goes on to write in one part.
I am a self confessed groupie. I have never dated a man who is
not lead singer. And then she says, boys say they
don't mind how you get your hair done, but then they leave you
for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next
thing you know, you're alone with a masculine crop cut crying
into your granola. I will say that's one thing when
it comes to like, beauty standards.
Sorry, I'm like coughing, boys will say.
They will say stuff like that, of like, because for me, like
boys will say, oh, I don't care when you wear makeup or I don't
care when you get your eyebrows done or, you know, do this, do
that. But like, actually,
subconsciously you do like when you notice.
I hate to say this, I don't want to, like, reinforce beauty
standards, but like just guys aren't aware of what goes into,
that's true, the appearance that they're attracted to.
And so, like, when they say all that stuff, it's like they they
think they want someone who's just like completely all
natural. Like they don't put any effort
into it, but they don't realize what it means.
I would agree. I would agree with that.
And it's too bad she felt that way because OK, I like Alex
Turner. I had a crush on him but I don't
think he looked the best at the end of their relationship to be
honest. No, I'm looking at him right
now. He's.
But at the end of their relationship is kind of when he
has a little makeover. I mean after their relationship.
Oh. So it's frustrating that she
feels that way because, I don't know, I don't think the long
hair suited him. But that's just me.
Yes. She was interviewed by the
Guardian, by the journalist Hadley Freeman about this book
and asked about the heartbreak section.
And Freeman asked who caused the heartbreak and she said it was
various people. There was one big thing and then
there were various ill advised flings.
I had to get over him. So yeah, oh that's funny, she
acknowledges Ill advised. Because even I was like, girl,
what were you doing with Albert Hammond junior Get away from
him. And then the journalist Freeman
says. I tell her my theory about
heartbreak, that it takes half the amount of time you were with
someone to get over them. She nods a little sadly.
And she says, yeah, I agree with that.
But is this gross to talk about? I feel like he wouldn't talk
about it. I don't know how relevant it is
now, whereas if you asked me at the time how you doing, no one
asked me. I don't know whether to be open
and vulnerable about open and vulnerable about it and say I
had a shit time or to be quiet. What do you think?
And then Freeman says it's up to you.
I say, but I guess it might be healthy for your younger fans to
know that your life is not always perfect, despite what
photos suggests. She laughs at the suggestion
that her life might be perfect, and she says, but I don't want
to imply he broke my heart. I was grieving for the loss of
for the loss of something. And she says I know how the
media does that whole poor her thing.
Like they did it with Jennifer Aniston.
Not that I'm compared to. Thinking.
No way. Not that I'm comparing myself to
her, of course, but do you see what I mean?
And then Hadley Freeman writes. Yet typically, Chung can't help
herself and carries on. And she says I'm grateful for
the experience of that shit time and for being on my own.
I'd never really been on my own. I'd always gone from one
relationship to the next, so I had to learn all this stupid
stuff. Like how do you work my how do I
work my fucking TV? And now there isn't a dude to
tell me how to put up the blinds.
But it's good to learn how to work your way around a drill.
She called. She and Al, as she calls him,
are still friends. Oh yeah, he's my best friend,
she says quietly, and she's currently single.
And she says, she says proudly and feels much calmer for it.
For how long? I ask.
About a month, she replies, and looks a little confused when I
laugh. So yeah, life.
Life went on. She dated other guys.
Alexander Skarsgard actually, and Matt Hits, and he dated that
girl, Arielle Vandenberg for a while.
And then Louise Verneux. They both had a lot of
professional success. After this she launched her own
fashion label and she had a Netflix show called Next in
Fashion with Tan France and he's released bunch more albums with
Arctic Monkeys and The Last Shadow Puppets.
In September 2013, Arctic Monkeys released their AM album,
which is very iconic. I feel like it was super, super
popular in the US has songs like Do I Want to know Are You Mine?
Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High?
But you know, I would like to look into these songs and wonder
if they're about her. They're a lot.
They're really like sexy songs, like very different vibe than
the other albums. But he had been dating somebody
else, so. Yeah.
I don't know. I don't think he can say that
it's about her or anything so sadly.
We've talked about this like music you can only interpret so
much, like even songs that are, like, widely believed to be
about. Someone, yeah, yeah, yeah, you
can't know. And I will say like, during
starting in 2012, which would be, I guess like a year, they
broke up in 2011. OK, they broke up like summer
2011, at least publicly 2012, but maybe it started 2011, I
don't know. But I would say that's when Alex
changed. Like he had a new persona.
He used to be. He seemed like so shy, quiet.
And then with this AM album, suddenly he's wearing like a
leather jacket, this greaser hairdo, sunglasses, even at
night, and he just seems like so much more confident and sexier
and even more intimidating. And it is just interesting.
It's like post breakup. He suddenly is totally
different. Breakup will do that.
It will. It will.
Quite the time to reinvent yourself.
It is. So you know what?
They're not together anymore, but to the shock and delight of
Alex and Alexa shippers worldwide, they were spotted
together in New York in June 2014, three years after their
split. They were photographed during
the daytime, standing on the sidewalk talking and smoking
cigarettes together. And there were rumors flying
around that they were getting back together, and some people
even say they saw them at Heathrow Airport.
But I don't think it was true. And he was actually dating a
model named Taylor Badgley at the time.
So I don't know. I think that I don't even know
if they really were at the airport together.
And I think maybe they were just catching up.
Yeah, that happens. Yeah.
And. The odds that people spotted
them at that. Time.
There's a bunch of pictures. And she was 30 when that
happened and he was 28. So, you know, I'm a bit older,
OK? And I have just like a weird
Side Story to tell about his girlfriend at the time.
In 2014 he was dating this model, Taylor Badgley, and
apparently they got tattoos of each other's names.
But then they broke up in 2018 and she changed her tattoo of
his name to be a gravestone that says RIP Alex.
Oh, that's tacky. Isn't that crazy?
That is crazy. That's honestly worse, though.
I think that is worse because that's like a bigger tattoo now.
I know. I think there's a lot of other
things like you could just like, fill it, like have a solid thing
around it. I know like just get hurt around
it. Fill it in.
It's a short. It's only. 4 letters I know,
unless it was a really big tag. It was kind, it was just on the
arm, but the letters were pretty spread out.
Oh. No, you got to.
You got to do that. Yeah. close spacing for.
I don't. Know what he did with his guys?
Be careful about getting be really tattoo careful.
We've talked about like. A common name.
And you know somebody else with that name and you could like,
play it off like that's who it was.
But like, what if that suck to be dating someone and they have
a tattoo of their ex's name on them?
That would be horrible. God I.
Would be don't. Set your yeah, don't set your
future significant other up for that type of jealousy.
Wait till you're married. A couple years, yes.
So then there's there's one more instance in this story in 2017.
So this is 6 years after their breakup.
Apparently. There's a story that Alexa was
at Paris Fashion Week at the Shay Away Hotel when apparently
Alex's song from Arty Monkey's fluorescent adolescent was
playing. And I guess she went up and
requested that the DJ change it. And he did.
Oh, I mean, hey, it's only a couple minutes go to the
bathroom. It's kind of worse that's.
But you know when you're a few drinks and.
Can't stand and listen to this right now.
Yeah. Today, Alex.
Oh, I mentioned her earlier. Alex is dating French musician
Louise Renu. Happy for you guys.
And Alexa is actually apparently I didn't know about this as
dating Tom Sturridge. Who's Robert Pattinson's friend?
I was thinking about him earlier because you mentioned Sienna
Miller. Yes, Who he has a baby with.
Yes. So she definitely knows Robert
Pattinson. She must.
Is that how is that what you said?
Robert Pattinson will come up? Yep.
And Tom Sturge is an actor.
I feel like he's maybe dabbled in music, but he's not a lead
singer. He's not, you know, in a touring
band. Super famous.
No, he's not. He's not.
So that's a little different from her.
And yeah, I wish them the. Best I wish them the best.
I actually saw. I've never seen this before.
I'm sure people have done this, but I saw somebody photoshopped
a picture of Alex and Alexa what they look like now together and
captioned it how Alex and Alexa would look if they were together
now and made me feel so sad. Yeah.
Oh, someone should do that for Robin, Kristen.
It made me. Feel really sad.
But you know what? We always have these memories.
Odd they get back together. Not nothing, but I would say 8%.
That's a good guess. That's maybe I'll just be
optimistic and I'll say 10% to be different, but.
I like we've said 5 for some people.
I for some reason don't think it's that low because neither of
them are married. No, they're not.
Either of them have kids like it's.
Yeah, but it has been a while, so it's it's sometimes hard to
open the door again. Yeah.
So that much time passes. We don't really know each other
anymore. Yeah, it ended.
It ended for a reason. It did.
And it seems like they're OK, hopefully.
But yeah, that is Alex Turner and Alexa Chung.
That was so fun. Thanks.
Mel. I like learning about these
couples. I know absolutely nothing about
SO. Yeah, me too.
It keeps. It keeps me on my toes, 'cause I
don't know how it will end. And I'm, I forget.
I don't even know if you've told me, probably.
I did, I did. But I think this will spark your
memory next week. I said that we we feel loud next
week on Patreon bonus episode. This will be about two
directors. Oh, I know.
And that could be a couple of couples.
It could be there's there's actually a few couples that fit
that description, but you'll just have to find out.
All right. Well, all right.
Thank you guys for listening. We love you.
And we'll get back together next week.
Is your heart filled with pain? Shall I come back again?
Tell me dear, how are you lonesome?