Overview
- On Wednesday, Miquita Oliver tearfully apologised on her Miss Me? podcast for a 2005 NME comment in which she called Fearne Cotton a “she‑devil.”
- Oliver said the 2005 remark helped cost her a BBC Radio 1 role and that she has carried shame and consequence from that episode ever since.
- She told co‑host Jordan Stephens that Cotton sent her an Instagram message in 2025 after seeing a podcast clip, and that the exchange led to the two reconciling; Cotton commented online that she was “beyond grateful.”
- Oliver blamed hostile tabloid and trade‑press comparisons for fuelling resentment toward other women on TV, and accounts of both presenters point to lasting mental‑health effects from that media treatment, including Cotton saying in 2024 she would not return to live TV or radio because of severe anxiety.
- The episode shows how podcasts and social media now act as spaces for public reckonings and repair, and it underlines broader concerns about gendered press coverage and its real career and emotional costs.