Saving Grace (podcast)

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Saving Grace
Presentation
Hosted by GK Barry
LanguageEnglish
Production
Audio formatMP3
Publication
Original releaseApril 2022 –
present

Saving Grace is a podcast presented by GK Barry. Launched in April 2022, the podcast had the fifth largest weekly audience of any podcast in the UK in the first quarter of 2024, and contains frequent discussion of sex lives. An October 2024 episode featuring pornographic actress Bonnie Blue went viral after she discussed who she had sex with. In addition, Barry has mounted three tours of the podcast since 2023.

History

Launched in April 2022, [1] Barry launched the podcast at the suggestion of The Fellas Studios, who were looking to diversify into video podcasts; [1] her first guest was TikTok er Max Balegde. [2] Most episodes were recorded in a studio in Hackney in London, [1] though she started touring the podcast in early 2023; [3] this sold out in two minutes. A June episode featured her then-boyfriend. [1]

By October 2023, she had interviewed Jamie Laing, Mark Wright, Katie Price, Georgia Harrison, Rob Beckett, and Mae Muller; [4] by January, the podcast had 740,000 monthly listeners and Madison Beer and Alison Hammond had appeared. [1] Barry mounted a subsequent tour, The Size Matters Tour, in February 2024; [4] its guests included Gemma Collins, Price, and Hannah Elizabeth [2] and its venues included the London Palladium. [1] She also released an episode featuring Chunkz and Yung Filly that month, but later pulled it following multiple allegations of rape against the latter. [2] In June 2024, Edison Research found that the podcast had the fifth largest weekly audience of any podcast in the UK during the first quarter of that year. [5]

On 23 October 2024, the pornographic actress Bonnie Blue appeared on the podcast. [6] During her episode, she discussed her niche of having sex with university students and recounted an occasion in which she had sex with a student and then his father. A clip of the latter went viral and was subsequently deleted. Blue attributed the criticism to the podcast's female audience [7] and stated that the backlash Barry received should have been directed at her. The episode also went viral around the time Barry was announced for the twenty-fourth series of I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! shortly afterwards [6] and was subsequently pulled; [7] by the time her participation was announced, she had recorded over 100 episodes [8] and her guests had included Alan Carr, Louise Pentland, [9] and Ella Rutherford, Barry's girlfriend. [10] Among her campmates on I'm a Celebrity was future interviewee Richard Coles. [11] She then mounted a September 2025 tour, The Jungle Fever Tour, which took its name from that series's filming location. [12]

Barry ends episodes by asking her guests what they would do to "save Grace", Barry's real name, [13] and regularly asks guests about the intimate details of their sex lives. In January 2024, Dusty Baxter-Wright of Cosmopolitan attributed Barry's ability to do this to her openness with her own private life. [1] Barry stated in July 2025 that Rutherford was used to her discussing their sex life on the podcast. [14]

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 "Inside the chaotic world of GK Barry". Cosmopolitan. 2024-01-17. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
  2. 1 2 3 "This Is How GK Barry Got Famous". Grazia. 2024-11-22. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
  3. ↑ EDITOR (2024-05-01). "GK Barry: "I'm screaming from the rooftops that I like women"" . Retrieved 2025-09-14.
  4. 1 2 "TikTok star and podcaster GK Barry announces Saving Grace tour - Buy tickets". The National. 2023-10-18. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
  5. ↑ Research, Edison (2024-06-06). "The Top 25 Podcasts in the UK for Q1 2024". Edison Research. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
  6. 1 2 "Who is GK Barry? I'm A Celebrity star faces backlash over podcast". Yahoo News. 2024-11-19. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
  7. 1 2 "Who is Bonnie Blue – and why is the OnlyFans creator facing backlash?". Cosmopolitan. 2025-02-19. Retrieved 2025-09-14.
  8. ↑ "So, what is I'm a Celebrity's GK Barry's real name?". Cosmopolitan. 2024-11-18. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
  9. ↑ "I'm a Celebrity 2024: Coleen Rooney, GK Barry and Danny Jones in line-up". BBC News. 2024-11-02. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
  10. ↑ "Who Is Ella Rutherford? GK Barry's Girlfriend And Ipswich Town Footballer". Grazia. 2024-11-26. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  11. ↑ Cotton, Elizabeth (2025-08-21). "GK Barry reunites with 'jungle bestie' Reverend Richard Coles". Manchester Evening News. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
  12. ↑ Yates, Jonny (2024-12-04). "GK Barry announces 'Saving Grace' UK tour dates for 2025". PinkNews | Latest lesbian, gay, bi and trans news | LGBTQ+ news. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
  13. ↑ "GK Barry's journey from Revs to Reality TV". Varsity Online. Retrieved 2025-09-16.
  14. ↑ "Gk barry: 'ella's used to me oversharing about my sex life' - 1 Jul 2025 - Closer UK Magazine - Readly". gb.readly.com. Retrieved 2025-09-19.
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