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Georgia Hardstark
Hardstark at 2015 Taste Awards
Born
Georgia Hardstark

(1980-06-08) June 8, 1980 (age 44)
Irvine, California, U.S.
Occupation(s)Podcast host, writer, actress
Years active2009–present
Spouse
Vince Averill
​
(m. 2016)​

Georgia Hardstark (born June 8, 1980)[1] is an American television host and podcast personality. She is the co-host of the true crime-comedy podcast My Favorite Murder along with comedian Karen Kilgariff. In 2018, Hardstark and Kilgariff co-founded the Exactly Right podcast network.[2][3] Together, Hardstark and Kilgariff also wrote a joint memoir published in May of 2019 called Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered.[4][5]

Hardstark initially achieved notoriety while collaborating with Alie Ward on Cooking Channel programs Tripping Out with Alie & Georgia,[6] Unique Sweets,[7] and Classy Ladies,[8] as well as the Feral Audio podcast Slumber Party with Alie & Georgia.[9]

Early Life[edit]

Hardstark was born in Irvine, California, to parents Martin and Janet Hardstark. She has two older siblings, Asher and Leah. At age 5,

Hardstark's parents divorced. Growing up, she lived with her mother, while her father had custody every other weekend and two weeks out of the summer.[10]

She is quite open about her past struggles growing up. At age 13, she started regularly doing meth and developed an eating disorder. One day, she was caught doing meth at school and was sent to rehab.[11] She spent two weeks there, including her 14th birthday. After being discharged, she started using again but quit on her own,[11] crediting Ray Bradbury's book The Martian Chronicles as what saved her.[10]

After she got her life together, Hardstark graduated high school in 1998 and promptly moved to Los Angeles to live with her grandma. She attended beauty school for three months before dropping out. She then attended community college for a while before discovering blogging and decided to drop college[12] and quit her receptionist job to pursue a career in entertainment.[10]

Career[edit]

Alie and Georgia[edit]

Hardstark and Ward in 2016

In 2009, while still working at her receptionist job, Hardstark and her friend, Alie Ward, created a drink called the McNuggetini. She blogged about it on a website called This Recording,[13] and shortly after, Hardstark and Ward recorded an instructional video on how to make the drink.[14] According to Hardstark, after the video blew-up on youtube, someone from the Cooking Channel sent the pair a Facebook message asking if they would record more instructional cocktail videos online. Given that message, Hardstark quit her receptionist job to pursue this new career path.[15]

The pair appeared on shows such as Drinks with Alie and Georgia, Unique Sweets, and the web series Classy Ladies with Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark. They were in the travel series Tripping Out with Alie and Georgia and Food's Greatest Hits.[16][17][18]

In October 2016, their book, Vintage Cocktails with a Twist: 75 Traditional and Reinvented Drinks, was released by Page Street Publishing.

Hardstark co-hosted a podcast with Ward called Slumber Party with Alie & Georgia, through Feral Audio. In 2016, the series began airing on Fullscreen. The last episode was posted on January 18, 2017. The pair have not formally acknowledged the end of the show nor the apparent abrupt end to their partnership.[19]

Karen and Georgia[edit]

In 2016, Georgia and Karen Kilgariff co-created the podcast My Favorite Murder.[20]

Beginning in May 2016, it achieved very high ratings on the iTunes comedy podcast rankings, appearing as high as number one.[21] As of August 8, 2017, it was ranked #3 on the iTunes comedy charts.[22] In its 2016 year-end issue, Entertainment Weekly ranked it the second best podcast of the year.[23] The show was broadcast on the Feral Audio[24] network until September 2017, when it moved to Midroll Media.[25] In 2018, Hardstark and Kilgariff co-founded the podcast network Exactly Right, which now produces their podcast along with several others.[26]

A joint memoir by Hardstark and Kilgariff, titled Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered, was released on May 28, 2019.[27][28]

Personal Life[edit]

In March 2016, she married comedian, Vince Averill, best known for his podcast We Watch Wrestling[29]. The couple resides in California along with their two cats, Mimi and Dottie[30], and their dog, Cookie[31]. They previously had another cat named Elvis, but he passed away in December of 2020.[32] Hardstark considered having children, but decided against it, as she has said on the My Favorite Murder podcast and when she was a guest on the Spermcast.[33]

Hardstark is a public advocate of therapy. She has seen a therapist since she was six due to her parent's divorce. However, she has also gone to couples therapy with her husband and co-therapy with Karen Kilgariff[34] to maintain a healthy work relationship and friendship. Hardstark has been diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder, depression, ADHD, and OCD.[10]

Filmography[edit]

Year Title Role Notes
2011 This Week in Comedy Self 2 episodes
2011 Bitchin' Kitchen Self Episode: "Xmas Special"
2012- Classy Ladies with Alie Ward and Georgia Hardstark Self - Co-hostess 20 episodes
2013- Tripping Out with Alie and Georgia Self - Co-hostess 6 episodes
2014 Nerdterms Self 2 episodes
2014 Giada at Home Self 2 episodes
2015 Drinks with Alie and Georgia Self - Co-hostess 30 episodes
2016 Doughboys Self - Guest Episode: "Mimi's Cafe with Georgia Hardstark"
2016 Slumber Party with Alie & Georgia Self
2016 Food's Greatest Hits Self 6 episodes
2016 Harmontown Self Episode: "JonBenét Gacy"
2016 Sluber Party Self - Co-hostess 23 episodes
2011-17 Unique Sweets Self - Co-hostess, Classy Ladies 63 Episodes
2017 Inside Joke at Moontower Self Episode: "My Favorite Murder: Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark"
2017 The Real O'Neals Mother Episode: "The Real Acceptance"
2017 Life on Hold Lawyer Episode: "Job Interview"
2018 Drunk History Self - Narrator 2 episodes
2018 Fresh Off the Boat Customer #3 Episode: "We Need to Talk about Evan"
2019 CBS This Morning Self - Author Episode: "27.106"
2019 Tuca & Bertie Episode: "Plumage"
2020 In Bed with Nick and Megan Self - Guest Episode: "Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark"
2020 Craig of the Creek Courtney 4 episodes

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Georgia Miriam Hardstark, Born 06/08/1980 in California - CaliforniaBirthIndex.org". www.californiabirthindex.org. Retrieved 18 October 2017.
  2. ^ MCDONELL-PARRY, AMELIA (28 November 2018). "'My Favorite Murder' Hosts Launch Podcast Network". rollingstone.com. Rolling Stone. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  3. ^ Quah, Nicholas (15 August 2018). "My Favorite Murder's Creators Are Launching a Podcast Network". vulture.com. Vulture. Retrieved 13 December 2018.
  4. ^ Nelso, Hillary; Sherer, Devon (2018-09-27). "My Favorite Murder Hosts Share Sneak Peek of Upcoming Memoir". Vulture. Retrieved 2021-03-13.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Penn, Farrah. "The Hosts Of "My Favorite Murder" Are Writing A Book That Will Be Released Next Year". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  6. ^ Tripping Out with Alie & Georgia, retrieved 2017-11-13
  7. ^ Unique Sweets, retrieved 2017-11-13
  8. ^ Classy Ladies, retrieved 2017-11-13
  9. ^ Audio, Feral. "Slumber Party with Alie & Georgia". Feral Audio. Retrieved 2017-11-13.
  10. ^ a b c d Kilgariff, Karen; Hardstark, Georgia (2019). Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered. Trapeze.
  11. ^ a b Hardstark, Georgia (July 14, 2018). "When I was discharged from rehab..." Twitter. Retrieved 2021-03-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  12. ^ Fitzpatrick, Molly (2017-05-30). "How Two Hilarious Women Turned a Comedy-Murder Podcast Into a Phenomenon". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 2021-03-12.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  13. ^ "In Which Georgia Gives You The McNuggetini - Food - This Recording". thisrecording.com. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  14. ^ Quenqua, Douglas (2009-12-17). "Mixing Meaty Cocktails With a Shot of Celebrity (Published 2009)". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-03-13.
  15. ^ Kilgariff, Karen; Hardstark, Georgia (2019). Stay Sexy and Don't Get Murdered. Trapeze.
  16. ^ Classy Ladies, retrieved 2021-03-15
  17. ^ Tripping Out with Alie & Georgia, retrieved 2021-03-15
  18. ^ Unique Sweets, retrieved 2021-03-15
  19. ^ "Slumber Party With Alie and Georgia". Stitcher. Retrieved 2021-03-15.
  20. ^ Audio, Feral. "My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark". Feral Audio. Archived from the original on September 15, 2016. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  21. ^ Writer, Shira Hirschman Weiss; Blogger; County, Regular contributor to local newspapers in Bergen; blogger, Beauty; Philosopher, Reality TV (2016-07-21). "Summer's Surprising Hit Podcast: My Favorite Murder". The Huffington Post. Retrieved 2017-01-04. {{cite web}}: |first3= has generic name (help)
  22. ^ "iTunesCharts.net: US Comedy Podcasts Top 40 Chart". www.itunescharts.net. Retrieved 2017-08-08.
  23. ^ "The 10 Best Podcasts of 2016". EW.com. 2016-12-14. Retrieved 2017-01-04.
  24. ^ "My Favorite Murder with Karen Kilgariff and Georgia Hardstark Archives". Feral Audio. Archived from the original on January 16, 2016.
  25. ^ "MIDROLL MEDIA ANNOUNCES NEW PROGRAMMING AND CONTENT DEALS". midroll.com. Midroll Media. Retrieved 2017-09-07.
  26. ^ "My Favorite Murder's Creators Are Launching a Podcast Network". www.vulture.com. Retrieved 2019-01-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  27. ^ Penn, Farrah. "The Hosts Of "My Favorite Murder" Are Writing A Book That Will Be Released Next Year". BuzzFeed. Retrieved 2019-01-19.
  28. ^ "My Favorite Murder Hosts Share Sneak Peek of Stay Sexy & Don't Get Murdered Memoir". www.vulture.com. Retrieved 2019-01-19.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  29. ^ Hardstark, Georgia (March 8, 2021). "Five years ago I ugly-cried myself to the alter to marry Vince..." Instagram.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  30. ^ "179 - Georgia Hardstark & Vince Averill - Iron Paw - The Purrrcast - Omny.fm". omny.fm. Retrieved 2021-03-07.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  31. ^ "259 - Fake Snow In Glendale". myfavoritemurder.com. Retrieved 2021-03-07.
  32. ^ Brand, Kara (2020-12-11). "In Memoriam Elvis the Cat From My Favorite Murder Dies at 16". The LineUp. Retrieved 2021-03-08.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  33. ^ Ep 015 - Georgia Hardstark Talks Not Wanting Kids, retrieved 2021-03-07
  34. ^ "'My Favorite Murder' Duo on Growing a Podcast Empire, New Book and Co-Therapy". The Hollywood Reporter. 2019-05-28. Retrieved 2021-03-12.
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