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Apple TV+ announces Apple Original podcast “Unicorn Girl,” premiering August 18

Hosted and created by award-winning journalist Charlie Webster, the new nine-episode investigative podcast tracks the dramatic unraveling of influencer Candace Rivera
Press Release August 4, 2025
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New Apple Original podcast “Unicorn Girl” will debut on Apple TV+ on August 18, 2025.

Today, Apple TV+ announced “Unicorn Girl,” a new Apple Original podcast that tells the story of influencer and businesswoman Candace Rivera, who portrayed herself online as a “superwoman,” while hiding a darker truth behind-the-scenes. Hosted and created by award-winning journalist and broadcaster Charlie Webster (“Scamanda”), the nine-episode series will debut on August 18, 2025.

The podcast series follows Rivera, a woman who seemed to have it all and a “perfect” life. After a messy divorce, she launched multimillion-dollar businesses and a global nonprofit, all while maintaining a flawless image to her many online “besties.” Rivera was a real-life unicorn, but one manic summer, the illusion shattered. Was she a visionary — or just a master of deception? Webster investigates Rivera’s rise and fall, uncovering a mind-bending story where nothing is quite as it seems.

“Investigating Candace has not been straightforward,” said host Charlie Webster. “I’ve spent many late nights trying to understand what she did and why. This story and Rivera’s victims became personal to me, as I walked alongside them in real time. To be trusted by people who had their trust so deeply destroyed is a privilege and I am honored to tell their stories — and this story the way it deserves to be told.”

“Unicorn Girl” is a mind-bending nine-part series about a woman who made everyone think magic might just be real. “Unicorn Girl” is an Apple Original podcast produced by Seven Hills Productions. Follow and listen on Apple Podcasts.

Apple TV+ subscribers can connect their subscription on Apple Podcasts and access all nine episodes of “Unicorn Girl” on August 18. Nonsubscribers can access the first two episodes of the nine-episode podcast, with remaining episodes releasing weekly until the finale on October 6, 2025.

The podcast joins a growing offering of Apple TV+ Apple Original podcasts now streaming on Apple Podcasts, including the duPont-Columbia Award-winning “The Line,” the Webby Award-nominated “Hooked,” as well as “Run, Bambi, Run,” “Operation: Tradebom,” “My Divo,” “The Pirate of Prague,” “Magnificent Jerk” and “Missed Fortune,” alongside official companion podcasts for Apple TV+ series “Foundation,” “For All Mankind” and the docuseries “The Big Conn.”

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