A Celebrity Hotels original
When a hotel became more than an address
August and Liv revisit true, source-checked moments when celebrity history and a real hotel occupied the same room.
01 / The format
Each episode begins with a documented celebrity moment at an identified hotel. August builds the scene. Liv tests the story. Together they separate what happened from what later retellings added.
Every episode comes with its full transcript, direct source links and routes back into the hotel and destination guides on Celebrity Hotels.
02 / Episodes
Michael Jackson at Hotel Adlon · 18:22
Berlin, 19 November 2002. A hotel window opened above Pariser Platz and a few dangerous seconds became one of Michael Jackson's most enduring public images. August and Liv reconstruct what happened, what remains uncertain and why Hotel Adlon gave the moment its unforgettable stage.
Play episode and read the transcript →03 / The hosts
The scene-builder: patient with chronology, architecture and the exact distance between a curtain and a crowd.
The human radar: sceptical of tidy explanations and alert to the sentence that sounds better than the evidence.
The podcast voices are generated using synthetic voice technology. The research, script, fact-checking, audio edit and final editorial decisions are made by humans.