Katherine Ryan’s podcast is called Telling Everybody Everything, and she does. The comedian is honest to a fault: her comments are regularly reported out of context to create clickbait news stories that give people the wrong idea of what she meant and of her as a human, but she doesn’t stop. Her commitment to truth, especially in the celebrity world she inhabits, is as unusual as it is admirable. Topics others lie about – by omission or openly – she fronts up to as a default setting. Such as cosmetic surgery.

On her most recent podcast episode, she confirmed that the operation she had told listeners about in December – not revealing the details because she feared that documenting the surgery could turn it into a work project – was a full facelift. Ryan is 42. (Side note: does this mean it won’t be a TV show? If so, big mistake. Huge.)

It’s probably unnecessary to clarify that I’m a fan. I love her sharp wit and intelligence, but also her spirit, her boldness, her way of moving through the world. This USP of telling everybody everything means that the parasocial relationship between Ryan and me........

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