Clare Stephens
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4,507 appearances
20 recordings
1 series
first heard Mar 2026
last heard 3 Jul
Clare Stephens’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Mamamia Out Loud · The Influencer Who Disappeared & An Outlouder Made Clare Cry · 3 Jul 2026
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Oh.
Greta Garbo was born in 1905.
She grew up in Stockholm before she was discovered in a department store and ended up becoming one of Hollywood's leading stars in the silent and golden movie era.
Dead classy, dead beautiful.
Certainly never pooed her pants at a concert.
Oh, no, never, never.
So classy.
Her most famous line was from the 1932 film Grand Hotel and she said, I want to be let alone, which ended up perfectly encapsulating her attitude.
Despite her roles in more than 24 films, she did not like any of the elements of Hollywood life.
So she wouldn't sign autographs, she wouldn't be interviewed, she wouldn't answer fan mail, and she didn't attend premieres or award ceremonies even when she was winning.
And this is before camera phones.
Yeah, yeah.
She's like, no, not here for it.
Then in 1941, at the age of 36, she announced a temporary retirement, but it lasted 49 years until her death in 1990 in New York, where she lived by herself.
So she's been studied as an example of how her celebrity was magnified by the act of her renouncing it and it made her more appealing.
And that phenomenon has been dubbed Garbo syndrome when a notable figure in the public eye voluntarily withdraws themselves.
Now in the 21st century, we have another 36-year-old woman who has disappeared.
Her name is Zoe Sugg, also known as Zoella.
She rose to fame as a YouTuber in the 2010s, becoming the biggest YouTuber in the UK by sharing fashion and beauty hauls and her favourite products.
But she's the kind of celebrity where everything she touched
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