Molly Lambert | |
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| Nationality | American |
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| Known for | Night Call , HeidiWorld |
Molly Lambert is an American journalist, podcaster and social activist. She was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the San Fernando Valley. [1]
From 2010 to 2012, Lambert wrote music reviews for Pitchfork. [2] In 2014, she co-hosted the ESPN Grantland production Girls in Hoodies in which she discussed pop culture with Emily Yoshida and Tess Lynch. [3] Lambert also co-hosted the MTV Entertainment Group podcast North Mollywood with journalist Alex Pappademas in 2017. [4]
In 2016, she wrote an article for The New York Times about glass bricks - a subject she has discussed extensively, including on the podcast Why Do You Know That?. [5]
Lambert reunited with Yoshida and Lynch in 2018 to host the iHeartRadio call-in show Night Call , which ran until 2020. Since February 2020 she has also hosted Deckheads with Anna Hossnieh, a former podcast and now Twitch stream centred on the reality show Below Deck and other Bravo programming. [6] [7] Lambert also wrote the foreword for I Used to Be Charming, a 2019 collection of the work of Eve Babitz. It was later published independently in The Paris Review . [8]
In 2022, she wrote, produced and hosted HeidiWorld: The Heidi Fleiss Story, a limited series podcast about the life of Hollywood madam Heidi Fleiss. [9] The show featured an extensive voice cast playing various characters from Fleiss' life, including Rian Johnson, Karina Longworth, Paul F. Tompkins and Karen Tongson. [10]
At the end of 2023, Lambert announced on her Instagram that she is currently working on JennaWorld, a podcast about "the history of pornography and the San Fernando Valley and the last quarter century in media" centered on the life of Jenna Jameson. It was originally scheduled for a 2024 release, but Lambert's Instagram page now indicates 2025.
In 2025, Lambert published Double Acts in Pop, a book about duos in pop music. The book is a collaboration with Commercial Type and features their entire library of fonts. [11]
Lambert is a member of the Los Angeles branch of the Democratic Socialists of America. [12] She is also one of the founders of NOlympics LA, a movement which opposes the Olympic Games and seeks to cancel the 2028 Olympics in Los Angeles. [13] [14] She views the Olympics as "a scheme routinely carried out by a consortium of grotesquely wealthy oligarchs and war criminals (like Henry Kissinger), who use sports as a pretext to extract capital from poor communities around the world." [15]
Lambert is the sister of music industry executive and manager for Freddie Gibbs, Ben "Lambo" Lambert, [16] [17] the daughter and niece respectively of Grateful Dead associates Glenn and Gary Lambert [18] [19] and the granddaughter of German Jewish track and field athlete Gretel Bergmann. [20]