Sam Thompson and Pete Wicks are gearing up to release a book inspired by their Staying Relevant podcast.
During Thursday’s episode of their Staying Relevant podcast, the reality TV stars and podcast co-hosts announced that Staying Relevant: The Book would be released on 9 October.
They revealed that they have been working on the book for the past few months and have written a first draft containing 70,000 words.
Sharing more about the contents of the book, Sam told listeners, “It’s quite a deep dive. It’s not a deep book, it’s like a fun book, we’re having a really good time in it, but you do really delve into us and the pod and how it started and where we want to take it and the future plans and stuff.”
Strictly star Pete added, “This is a bit of a comedy podcast but we wanted to give you new things from us, our points of view on different things, what we’ve done so far, what we’re doing now what we want to do in the future… Our ideas on what fame is and whether we like it or whether we don’t. I’m sure you can imagine what the answers to that are.”
The former TOWIE personality also divulged that they went to a lot of “intense” publishing meetings and quickly completed their first draft.
“It’s been a lot of work that we’ve done very quickly because we’ve just hammered it in. It’s taken up a lot of time,” he noted.
The stars, who will also be narrating the audiobook, launched their podcast in 2022.
Pete already has experience in the publishing world as he released For the Love of Frenchies: The Dogs That Changed My Life in 2018 and the memoir Never Enough last year.