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Chelsea Devantez

Biography

Chelsea Devantez

Chelsea Devantez is an Emmy-nominated writer, comedian, director and host of the podcast "Glamorous Trash." Before she entered into an overall television deal with 20th Century Fox, she was Jon Stewart’s Head Writer for Apple TV+'s "The Problem with Jon Stewart." Her other television credits include "Not Dead Yet," "Girls5Eva" and "Bless this Mess," among others. In 2020, Chelsea wrote, directed and starred in the 2020 SXSW film, Basic, and is set to direct her feature debut this fall. Chelsea’s top chart performing independent podcast, “Glamorous Trash with Chelsea Devantez," has garnered over 4 million downloads. Her memoir will be published in June 2024 by Hanover Imprint at Harper Collins.

Chelsea Devantez

Books by Chelsea Devantez

I Shouldn't Be Telling You This: (But I'm Going To Anyway)
by Chelsea Devantez - Humor, Memoir, Nonfiction, Women's Fiction

There are things Chelsea Devantez probably shouldn’t be telling you. Many of them are in this book: some are embarrassing, some are confessional and some are TMI. Then there are things Chelsea really shouldn’t be telling you: like the time her biggest family secret was publicly outed, or about the drive-by shootings and the precipitating domestic violence she survived. Yet through it all, it’s the women in Chelsea’s life who kept her going --- from the lowest points of her childhood when she and her mom had only $100 left to their name, all the way to her career highs as the Emmy-nominated Head Writer for "The Problem with Jon Stewart". In I SHOULDN'T BE TELLING YOU THIS, Chelsea centers each story around a different woman who shaped her life. Reading it will feel kinda like that moment at a party when your friend beckons you close, sloshes her martini around and covertly whispers, “I really shouldn’t say this, but…”