Pinup Palmer’s World: How It Led to Svengoolie

Pinup Palmer is a vintage-style performer, content creator, and horror host known for building a colorful world where classic Hollywood glamour meets all things pink and spooky. After years of portraying iconic characters at Universal Studios Hollywood—including Marilyn Monroe, Princess Fiona, Martha May, Lucille Ball, and the Bride of Frankenstein—she stepped into her dream role as Gwengoolie alongside legendary horror host Svengoolie. Through television, YouTube, social media, modeling, and live events, Palmer continues to celebrate classic monsters, vintage beauty and Halloween. In this conversation, we cover: Building Pinup Palmer’s pink-and-spooky world Her career at Universal Studios Hollywood Becoming Gwengoolie and joining Svengoolie The audition process and getting the life-changing call Her creative influences and love of horror hosts What goes into creating her characters and videos 0:00 Booking Svengoolie 1:16 Pinup Palmer’s world 6:31 Becoming a horror host 10:29 The Svengoolie audition 17:20 Getting the call 18:24 Creating Gwengoolie 20:20 What is a horror host? 24:43 Working with Rich Koz 30:20 Gwengoolie’s inspiration 37:14 Getting into performing 44:04 Her biggest influences 51:23 Universal Studios career 58:46 Hair and makeup secrets 1:08:19 Creating her videos 1:16:01 Behind the glamour 1:26:23 Monsterpalooza 1:30:56 What’s next 1:33:43 Advice for performers 1:37:03 Final message Follow Pinup Palmer Instagram: https://linkly.link/2mds9 Subscribe Here -    / @howtheystartedpodcast   NEW EPISODES EVERY TUESDAY! Personal IG: https://linkly.link/2ijZb PODCAST IG: https://linkly.link/2ijZd ⁠ ⁠SPOTIFY: https://linkly.link/2ijZk APPLE PODCAST: https://linkly.link/2ijZT