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Hello, I'm Josh Whitacombe.
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And I'm Rob Beckett.
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Welcome to Lockdown Parenting Hell. The show in which Rob
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and I discuss what it's like to be a parent
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during lockdown, which I would say can be a little tricky.
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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So, in an effort to make some kind of sense
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of the current situation... And to.
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Make me feel better about my increasingly terrible parenting skills.
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Each episode we'll be chatting to a famous parent about
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how well they're coping.
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Or hopefully not.
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And we will be hearing from you, the listener, with
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your tales of lockdown parenting woe.
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Because let's be honest, none of us know what we're doing.
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Hello and welcome to Lockdown Parenting Hell with.
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Can you say Josh Widdicombe? Can you say Rob Beckett?
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I've got to be quite sensitive here, but is he
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hitting something or is he growling like a mad dog?
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I can't put this any more sensitively, but is he
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a mad dog?
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Yeah, is your child a demon? A demon from Ghostbusters?
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Is your child the mad demon dog from Ghostbusters? Is
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that right? Oh, dear. Oh, so thanks very much. I mean,
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I assume he was hitting something or is that how
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William sounds?
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I don't know. We'll just have to jump to our
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own conclusions. Happy birthday, William. Happy third birthday. It's actually
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my daughter's birthday this week, Rob. Oh, wow. Third birthday.
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Third birthday. What are you doing? You're going to invite, what,
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two people round?
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I mean, I don't want to throw around the word loophole, Rob. Oh,
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go on. Yeah.
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It's only guidance, remember? It's only guidance. You're doing the
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best thing for your child. The Cummings law, you are
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doing what you think is best for your child. And
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if you think 100 people at air jumps are the
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best way forward, then go for it.
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I mean, the thing is, the people next door must
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be thinking they're building a very big marquee for six people. No,
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she shares her birthday with two other children who are
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also three on the same day in her nursery. Oh, wow.
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We're going to do birthday in the morning. But then
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she can go to nursery. And there's 20 kids there.
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So it's like they're having a party at nursery. So
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there's your loophole.
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Oh, what a loophole. So basically it's three kids and
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it's going to be party day.
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Yeah, it's party day at nursery.
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Oh, that's lovely. She'll have breakfast with them, presents and stuff,
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and off she goes.
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Off she goes.
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Lovely. No Zoom party?
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No Zoom party.
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I'm still waiting for those Zoom parties. I'll let you
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know how they go once I've logged in. And I'm
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a bit worried, though. I don't know if anyone that
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goes to my daughter's school listens to this. I'm going
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to have to tread carefully.
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That is a worry, isn't it? Surely it would spread
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like wildfire once they realise that someone is documenting their
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child's time at the school.
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Well, the thing is, I think you've got to go
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two ways with this. You either don't talk about it
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at all as a comedian because you want to, you know,
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you either don't talk about it at all or you
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do the Catherine Ryan approach where you absolutely rinse everyone
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and you are just isolated at the school gate.
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I'll be honest with you. I'm trying to tread carefully,
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but I haven't had too many. I mean, I've got
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some beef that I'm not going to put on here.
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Oh, I'd love to know that beef. We should do
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a charity special. We would just actually beef off everyone.
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How's your week been?
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It's been all right. We converted to a big bed
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from cot.
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Oh, how did that go?
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Two nights were tough.
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Did she come into your bed or did she just cry?
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Did you have to lay with her?
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Do you know what? This is the best thing, mate.
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She has literally no interest in our bed.
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Same here. Not yours with mine. My kids with my bed.
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That's great. Great news.
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Yeah. I'm going to let you in on a secret, Rob.
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I sat on it the other day. It's one of
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the hardest, least comfortable beds I've ever been on. But
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she doesn't know any better.
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No.
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So it's fine.
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She's lucky to have it.
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Exactly. So she's basically sleeping on a plank. But she
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doesn't realize that that's a problem. So I'm not going
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to tell her.
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What size bed did you go for? Just a single?
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King. King.
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Because we've got a double for our kids because basically
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they don't need bedroom space for a desk to work.
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So we've basically taken over most of their room with
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a double bed. They've got a room each, very lucky
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to have a room each. They've got a double bed
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in it because then when we have people to stay,
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we've got spare beds. Rather than putting your mate or
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cousin in a tiny little curl up car bed.
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So do they get lost in it? Well, not lost,
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but you know.
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Have you ever come in in the morning? It's taken
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an hour to find them. No, no, no.
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They don't get lost in it. But the beauty of
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the kids is they do grow.
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They do. That is one of the things about them.
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Oh, that's good news, though. So she's sleeping in it well.
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So that's all right. And we've more or less nailed
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potty training as well.
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Oh, mate.
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It's been a very big week.
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Through the night yet or not?
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She wears nappies, but she doesn't really do anything in them.
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And then she takes them straight off and puts them
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in the bin for us.
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Oh, excellent. With the two-year-old, we're still at the stage
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of nappy in the night, bit of wee in it.
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But I'm in no rush to sort that out. That'll
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be fine. That'll go, wouldn't it? Once she gets to uni.
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Yeah, it'll be fine. But she'll be doing uni from
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home by then. It'll be via Zoom, so it doesn't
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really matter.
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You can just sit there, piss yourself on Zoom, and
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still learn. And I think that's the future of our
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country's education. You can sit there with a nappy on
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at 18, shit and piss yourself, and still find out
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about fractions.
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Exactly, and pay nine grand a term for the thrill.
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Imagine going to uni to do maths. Fucking hell. I
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know it happens, but imagine.
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I know it happens. I've heard it happens.
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I mean, year nine maths is mental, isn't it?
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I lost... I was quite good at maths and I
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quite liked it when it was just sums. And then
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once it got into like trigonometry and they're trying to
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apply it to cake and you're like a ladder against
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a wall and you're like, this wouldn't fucking happen. At
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the moment it became unlikely. Count me out.
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I'm still furious. They never taught anyone how to do
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a self-assessment tax return. Like everyone in my fucking school
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has to do because they're all gas fitters and plumbers
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or comedians. Well, it's only me and Tom Adam, but
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you know what I mean?
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Well, that's quite a good percentage. Yeah, it is. How's
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your week been, Rob?
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Well, I've had a weird week for a parenting podcast
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is because I've been away working for 11 days in
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a row.
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Blimey, that's a packed week.
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She's a massive, massive block, right?
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Yeah.
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And you know what's weird is when you've been away
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working and Lou had to sort of do it all, right?
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I come home and it's weird. You sort of, because
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she just did it on her own, I come back
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to sort of try and help, but I sort of
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get in the way and ruin it because she's got
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a system.
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I'm sort of trying to help and then I'm sort
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of doing stuff. I'm doing it slightly wrong and the
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girls are like, oh no, but that's not how you
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do it.
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Have you been phased out basically over 11 days? I
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feel like she's.
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Left me, but we're all in the house together.
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And so you're trying to help and it gets a
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bit awkward. And then because I've been away working, I've
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not done any of my like house admin, life admin.
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And then she's not been able to do it either
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because she's been working. So it's just a horrible catch
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up and everyone's a bit like, but we've got a
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couple of days to sort of catch up and stuff.
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So it's quite, I don't know if anyone else gets that,
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but it's quite difficult to get back into the family
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routine when you've been away. And what's been difficult I
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found is, I used to go to work as, oh,
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my God, I get a break. I'm so lucky. But
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now they're older and they're going to school. And we
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don't actually see them that much in the day because
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they're at school now. I just miss them so much.
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And then when I come back, they're not here because
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they're at school and stuff. It's sort of a weird
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turning point where now work isn't, oh, I get a
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bit of a break. It's, oh, God, I'm really going
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to miss them. which when you're in the you know
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the midst of lockdown or when they're really young you
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can't ever imagine that yeah but like now i sort
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of and so it's like that work balance the work
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life balancing and i've been reading this book here called
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the cost of these dreams.
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You'll love it the cost of these dreams yeah.
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So it's basically this uh american journalist and it's basically
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um a collection of true stories about the dream of
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greatness and its cost in the world of sports So
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all these people that, because it's got like stories about Messi,
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Michael Jordan, and then also some like American college football
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coaches and about the balance of work and life, which
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I think everyone, obviously these guys are doing it to
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the extreme, but like everyone has that where you want
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to do well at work and make sure everyone has
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a holiday and everything's paid, but you also got to
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be there for them. And anyway, I'm having that existential
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crisis on like day 10 of being away from home.
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Is this how you're announcing your retirement, Rob, live on
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the podcast?
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No, no, no. Actually, I'm announcing the divorce. The fact that...
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I don't want any access to the kids. I'm just
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going to focus on my dreams.
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Life balance is all over the shop. Too much life,
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not enough work.
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Yeah, fuck the life off. Sorry, I've got to stop swearing.
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Get rid of the life. Stop swearing. Anyway, so I
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was reading this. You know you have those moments of like, oh,
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am I working too much? I'm not seeing the kids.
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I read this. It's one of those brutal passages I've
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ever read. But basically, this guy is an American. I've
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got his name. He's an urban mayor, one of the
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most successful coaches in American football, right? Basically, he's got
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four kids and he's just working all the time and
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he keeps cancelling all their stuff. Anyway, his eldest daughter
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has just got a scholarship to play volleyball at a
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big college. And in America, it's all done in a
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big hall. And basically, if you're getting a scholarship, it's
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such a big deal that you sign the contract and
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announce which college you're joining and you do a speech there.
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And he tried to get out of it. And his secretary,
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who's got four kids, went, no, you are going. And
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so forced him to go. Anyway, so there was about
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80 or so people in the school cafeteria for this
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big announcement. Urban and his wife, Shelley, joined their daughter
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at the front table watching. Anyway, so his daughter, Gigi,
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stood and spoke. She'd been nervous all day and with
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a room full of eyes on her. She thanked her
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mother for being there season after season, year after year.
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This is in front of the whole school and all
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the teachers. Then she turned to her father. He'd missed
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almost everything. You weren't there, she told him. Shelley, his wife, winced.
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Her heart broke for Urban, who sat with a thin smile, crushed.
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Moments later, Gigi high-fived her dad without making eye contact,
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then hugged her coach.
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Oh, my God. Imagine.
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Imagine that happening to you.
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Oh, my God.
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Your soul would leave your body.
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That is... Oh. Do you know what? I feel a
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lot better about myself.
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Yeah, exactly. But it turns out that what happened was
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he had a nervous breakdown, but then recovered, readdressed his balance,
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and went back to manage for a couple of years
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and retired. So it was a happy ending.
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Oh, that's nice. So... So have you been doing a
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lot of high-fiving the daughters since you got back from
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your working for 11 days, Rob?
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I've basically just been forcing them to play volleyball and
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watch them, just in case. Just laying next to him
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in bed. I'm here. I'm there. I am here. Yeah, sure,
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I wasn't here for 11 days, but I'm here now.
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But I just read that and I was like, oh,
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my God, that is not... That is what I don't
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want to be. But it's hard, isn't it? It's hard
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to balance that out and make the right decisions.
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Have you read Lily Allen's.
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Autobiography, Rob? Oh, my God. That, as a parent.
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That's some parenting right there from Keith Allen there, isn't it?
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And her mum as well.
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And her mum as well.
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The one where, basically, you know, she.
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She was at a boarding school in like Devon or somewhere.
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We should try and get her on the podcast. She
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was at a boarding school in Devon and the coach
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would bring them all up from Devon to Royal Albert
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Hall where they'd get picked up, okay, for Easter holidays
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from boarding school. And then she'd come all the way up.
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All the other girls and boys got picked up and
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she got left. Her mum or dad forgot and they
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had to just drive her back to Devon. Oh, could
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you imagine? Poor girl.
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Tip of the iceberg. There's some astonishing stories in that book.
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She's not on here promoting it, but I should say
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it is, One of the most jaw-dropping reads. Although I
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would say Harry Enfield comes out of it brilliantly.
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He does, doesn't he?
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What a guy.
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He really does.
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What a great guy.
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Oh, my God. Yeah, she thanked him for everything. No
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high fives.
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No high fives.
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The full hug.
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Right.
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Who you got for us, Rob?
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Oh, we've only got one of, I'd say, the best
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presenters of her generation. Big Breakfast, Motormouth, Children in Need.
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It's the one, the only, Gabby Roslin.
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I'm going to be honest. I'm very excited about this.
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Me and Rob will often suggest guests back and forth.
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And when Rob said Gabby Roslin, I've never applied yes
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quicker in my life. Hello, Gabby Roslin.
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I don't believe you.
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Honestly, Gabby, he is a mega fan.
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I don't believe you.
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Gabby, this is meant to be about parenting, but I'm
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mainly going to be focusing on motor mouth.
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You're not old enough to remember that.
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I am old enough to remember that, Gabby. I've just
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checked the dates on Wikipedia. It was 1989 to 1992.
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So that was, I was six to nine.
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Oh my, well, I was only, I was, I was
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a mere teenager. 12 it was amazing how much you
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did before 15.
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So Gabby let's start with your let's start with your
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your parenting um let's get that out of the way
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shall we.
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Rob yeah yeah yeah happily yeah I'm I am the
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embarrassing mum I am and I'm I'm proud of being
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the embarrassing mum and I'll always be the embarrassing.
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Mum how old are your children Gabby.
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13 and 19. So my oldest is away at university
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and she said that the thing she doesn't miss is
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the way I wake her up in the morning. And
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it's wrong and it's abusive, but I don't care.
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So how do you wake her up in the morning?
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Well, I sit on my girls and I sing musical
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theatre songs. Oh, wow.
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Old, bold start to the day.
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And I'm not lying. I mean, that is honestly, if
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you were to ask either of them How I wake
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them up, they'll say, oh, we're fast asleep. My mum
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sits on top of us. Actually, it's really weird when
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I say out loud.
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Well, they're quite old, Gabby. Not old, but they're quite
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old for sitting on them at night.
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No, but I wouldn't do it if they were little. Actually,
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I did. No, when they were really little, I'd lie
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down next to them and sing a musical theatre song.
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Because my 19-year-old, she's 19. She hasn't grown up. When
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she came home in lockdown, she was really happy about
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that after leaving home. And then suddenly, come on, you're
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coming back. I used to go in in the morning
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and I'd sit on her. She'd be on her side.
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So I'd sit on her properly on her legs. I'd
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go poof and I'd start singing. There are worse things
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I could do or anything from any musical.
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Well, what about when, you know, your daughter brings home
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a partner? Like, would you still burst into that room?
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No. No. Oh, my goodness. Well, maybe.
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I think you wouldn't the first few times. If it
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was a serious relationship and they've been together a little while,
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a year or so, I think you'll start edging into that, Gabby.
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A year? No, no, no. It'll be after a couple
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of days. I'm not waiting that long to be embarrassing. Well, no,
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you're right. But actually, I know what I've got to do.
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I've got it.
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I know exactly what I'll do. I will go, you
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know that when you close the door and there's just,
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Not the keyhole, but the line down the side of
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the door. I do that. You know when you put–
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I'll do it on the mic. When you do that
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up to the door, you know when you do that
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to talk to somebody. And I'll start singing, good morning,
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good morning.
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Oh, my God, Gabby.
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So are you doing this purely because you enjoy ruining
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their morning or are you doing it– I mean, do
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you enjoy embarrassing them?
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Yes, but also I don't take, well, Rob has known
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me a long time now, but I don't take life
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terribly seriously. And I also think a really nice way
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to start the day is to laugh and to have
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your daughter look at you in the way that my
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13-year-old this morning on a Monday morning, although she loves,
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I have to say she loves, she really does love school,
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which is fantastic. But this morning I lay down next
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to her And I started drumming a tune on her bottom.
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And I said, do you know what tune it is?
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And she went, mom. I went, no, go on. Here
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it is. And then she said, oh my God, it's
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Grease Lightning.
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And I went, yes! She got it! What time is this?
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This morning it was seven o'clock.
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Oh, wow.
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That's a pretty early start to the day, isn't it,
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with a grease lightning drummed on your arse? Gabby, you
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are so full of life and energy and everything about you,
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you want to have as much fun as you can
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in that day. And I think it's a wonderful way
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to live your life. But how do you balance that,
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especially when the kids were younger and you were tired
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and worn out when they were toddlers and then you
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had to sort of like discipline them and things like that?
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How did you manage your personality in order to do that? Yeah.
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When I remember sort of, you know, saying, for goodness sake,
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you know, do your homework, do your homework. But then
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they'll shout downstairs and go, mum, will you be quiet?
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And I'll go, I'm really sorry. I've just found something
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that's really funny. You've got to come and see that.
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So they'd probably say I'm not that stern. I leave
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that to my husband. He's not that stern either, but
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I'll leave that to him.
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But you don't really do any of that kind of stuff.
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You're just a full fun time. And then he has
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to do all that. No, no, no.
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I suppose when it comes to being careful, that sort
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of thing, I'm very... I don't want them to be
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hurt or, you know, that I'm very, I'm protective in
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that way. But when my oldest one, oh, this is
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going to sound really wrong.
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Perfect. Perfect. Start to any anecdote.
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No one was hurt in the making of this story.
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When my oldest one fell down the stairs and she
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properly fell down, fell down the stairs on, on her
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back and on the bottom. And she, she landed at
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the bottom. And she just then, you know, when a
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child sits up and shakes their head because they're completely shocked.
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And then I said, are you okay? And she went, mommy,
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I fell down the stairs. And then that was it.
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I sat on the floor and I peed myself laughing.
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And then afterwards she kept saying, and she didn't cry.
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She kept saying, mommy, what are you doing? What are
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you doing? And I said, I'm really sorry, but you're okay.
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And that made me laugh. I wish I'd filmed it.
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And I do. That's the thing that makes me laugh.
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And so they, but if she'd been hurt, I would
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have been comforting and nice.
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Of course. My daughter at her school, she started, she's
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only four, four and a half. She came over and said, yeah,
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someone fell over and the teacher said, we're not allowed
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to laugh when someone falls over. It's not funny. And
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in my head going, Well, that's incorrect. It's my favourite thing.
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It is.
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It's really, it's sick. I mean, this does sound like
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a name drop, but on my podcast, Robbie Williams was
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one of my first guests and he was saying all
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these things that make him funny. And then he asked
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me and I said, well, somebody walking into a tree.
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And he went, I was going to say that, but
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I just thought it was wrong.
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I went, no, somebody walking into a tree.
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No, it's the funniest thing. You know, there was a
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show that before both of you were born called Not
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the Nine O'Clock News and Rowan Atkinson walks along and
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walks into a tree and it made me laugh. And
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then the next clip is him walking along and thinking,
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ha ha, I'm not going to walk into the tree.
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He moves away from the tree and walks into a lamppost.
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And it is, old-fashioned funny.
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Are your daughters like you, though, like this sort of
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sense of excitement? Yes. Or have they gone... Sometimes I find...
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I've got friends of mine whose parents are like you,
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and then the kids almost become like the adults, a
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bit more serious. Or have they gone... Followed you, or
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have they gone a bit more serious because you're a
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bit more, you know, carefree?
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Well, no, they both... My husband doesn't like the fact
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that we all laugh if somebody falls over or hurts himself.
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And and he thinks it's really cruel. So if he's
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in the room and something happens, we all have that
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awful feeling of where, you know, you, you just don't
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want anybody to see you laughing and you, you, you
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bite the inside of your cheeks and you don't want
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to laugh. And then, and then he'll look up and say,
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I know you're laughing. And you have to think, I'm
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really not. And your voice gets really, No, I'm really not.
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But they're the same. They laugh at, oh, gosh, at anything.
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Somebody walking into a door, somebody falling off a chair.
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I mean, it's those things.
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And was you like this when they were little, when
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it was a bit smaller, a bit more precious?
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Oh, there's a lot of good falling over happening then, Rob.
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Gabby must have loved the first five years.
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Oh, my goodness, falling off a slide. You know, when
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they come off the end of a slide and they
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don't stop. I have, in fact, during lockdown, we used
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to go, my dad doesn't live too far away. He's
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in his 80s. And he got, he hated it. He
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hated being locked up. And so we used to go
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and we'd play outside his front door. So he'd come
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to the front door and he'd wave. And, you know,
488
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before you were allowed to see each other. And we'd
489
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talk to him from his front gate in our hour.
490
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And we'd be silly in the front, unsurprisingly. And my
491
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youngest daughter loves skateboarding. Oh, God, loves skateboarding. And her
492
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older sister, she was trying to teach us all how
493
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to skateboard. And I was saying, I can skateboard. I
494
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skateboarded when I was 15. That's only a couple of
495
00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:30.819
years ago. So I was skateboarding and I didn't mind
496
00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:31.799
taking the piss out of myself.
497
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It's fine.
498
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And I did fall over and I really can't skateboard anymore.
499
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But my youngest daughter, who's taller than her older sister, said,
500
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come on, I'll help you to jump onto a skateboard.
501
00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:49.700
It was great that her little sister was holding onto
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her arm, but nobody actually thought that you needed to
503
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to hold onto the skateboard.
504
00:21:57.049 --> 00:22:01.720
She's holding onto her big sister's arm, but the skate
505
00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:04.859
was actually jumps onto the skateboard.
506
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And it goes flying.
507
00:22:07.259 --> 00:22:09.480
And the two of them end up on the floor.
508
00:22:10.859 --> 00:22:12.779
And I sent it to my best friend who says
509
00:22:12.819 --> 00:22:17.890
she thinks it's the funniest thing she's ever seen. And
510
00:22:18.269 --> 00:22:20.880
my dad said it was the best gift we gave
511
00:22:20.930 --> 00:22:28.500
him in lockdown. And we showed my husband and said,
512
00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:29.180
what's funny?
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00:22:29.220 --> 00:22:30.920
And all of that made us laugh even more.
514
00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:31.940
What's funny?
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00:22:32.500 --> 00:22:33.299
Oh, my God.
516
00:22:34.339 --> 00:22:38.049
Gabby, have you ever seen a show called You've Been Framed?
517
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Because you fucking love.
518
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It, mate.
519
00:22:41.970 --> 00:22:43.880
Oh, do you know what? When somebody goes on a
520
00:22:43.910 --> 00:22:47.339
rope swing and they can't flip off, that's just the thought.
521
00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.200
Have you seen that lovely gif of a child that's
522
00:22:51.339 --> 00:22:54.039
on a little tractor and it falls over and the
523
00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:55.940
tractor ends up on their head and they get up
524
00:22:55.980 --> 00:23:00.650
and smile? That is just the favourite thing. I'm crying.
525
00:23:01.269 --> 00:23:05.269
Oh, my God, I'm crying.
526
00:23:05.650 --> 00:23:08.289
If social services are listening, then all of this.
527
00:23:09.369 --> 00:23:10.230
None of them were her.
528
00:23:10.430 --> 00:23:11.910
None of them were her.
529
00:23:11.970 --> 00:23:14.650
I love it if Gabby said, you've been what? What's
530
00:23:14.750 --> 00:23:20.910
it called, Joshua? I'll give that a go. And then
531
00:23:20.950 --> 00:23:24.569
you can lose. Gabby Rosson has died from laughter after
532
00:23:24.789 --> 00:23:26.890
watching 30 episodes of You've Been Framed in a Row.
533
00:23:26.910 --> 00:23:29.690
But you know, Gabby makes 10 grand a year from
534
00:23:29.710 --> 00:23:32.109
those 250 quid for submitting videos.
535
00:23:34.210 --> 00:23:37.519
Never lets a falling over go awry.
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00:23:37.539 --> 00:23:40.769
She's absolutely cleaning up. Harry Hill's got a direct line.
537
00:23:41.609 --> 00:23:43.549
Oh, I bet you love ice, didn't you? Bit of
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00:23:43.589 --> 00:23:47.589
black ice. Oh, my God. There's nothing funnier. Like waiting
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00:23:47.609 --> 00:23:50.609
for a new iPhone release. There's a tent in front
540
00:23:50.670 --> 00:23:51.289
of some snippy ice.
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00:23:52.309 --> 00:23:56.619
No, I can actually tell you a real ice story. Oh, no,
542
00:23:56.619 --> 00:23:59.559
this is the best. So we were in, you know
543
00:23:59.579 --> 00:24:02.039
when they do the pop-up ice rinks everywhere?
544
00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:02.500
Yeah.
545
00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.279
And so I took the girls and we went with
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00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:09.210
some friends of ours To the one, oh my God,
547
00:24:09.369 --> 00:24:12.599
Hampton Court one. I think it was Hampton Court. And
548
00:24:12.619 --> 00:24:16.420
this is a few Christmases ago. And I said, come on,
549
00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:18.160
you're going to be fine. And my oldest daughter was
550
00:24:18.259 --> 00:24:23.029
really scared. So she was holding on to a penguin thing.
551
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So I said, no, you don't.
552
00:24:28.619 --> 00:24:29.059
Oh, God.
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00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:33.319
You don't need a penguin thing. I'll hold on to you.
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00:24:33.460 --> 00:24:36.359
I'll hold on to you. You don't need a penguin thing.
555
00:24:36.779 --> 00:24:39.339
So he said, but, Mummy, Mummy, I'm scared.
556
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I said, don't worry.
557
00:24:41.359 --> 00:24:42.740
Why can I scare you?
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00:24:44.380 --> 00:24:45.880
I don't know what she's saying anymore.
559
00:24:46.299 --> 00:24:50.660
And my husband and my younger daughter stood there watching.
560
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I said, come on.
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This is to my eldest. He was going, but, Mummy, Mummy, please.
562
00:24:54.299 --> 00:24:57.789
I was going, no, come on. I think she was
563
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about seven and my youngest was about two. I said, no, no, no,
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00:25:02.009 --> 00:25:06.049
come on, hold my hand. So we started going really
565
00:25:06.089 --> 00:25:11.019
slowly around. And she went, oh, this is okay. So
566
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I said, shall I let go now? She said, if
567
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I could hold on to the side. I said, no, no,
568
00:25:20.150 --> 00:25:22.390
let go of the side. And my friends are watching
569
00:25:22.450 --> 00:25:24.609
and they're filming. And I was going, come on. And
570
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I was being really encouraging. I said, you're fine. So
571
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I said, come on, do like me. And I shut off.
572
00:25:31.329 --> 00:25:34.670
I went flying and I spun around and around and
573
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around the middle.
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And my daughter then fell asleep. And all there is
575
00:25:40.329 --> 00:25:42.069
is this footage of the.
576
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Two of us on our front spit.
577
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And she's crying out of it. She's so scared. And
578
00:25:52.630 --> 00:25:54.670
all I could do was laugh.
579
00:25:54.730 --> 00:25:57.470
She's so scared.
580
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Eventually, I crawled over to her and I said, don't worry, darling,
581
00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:04.460
everything's fine. And she just looked at me and she went, Mummy,
582
00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:07.960
sometimes you can't laugh if somebody falls over. And that
583
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.740
made it even worse. And then we tried to get up.
584
00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:13.160
And there is nothing funnier than trying to get up
585
00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:15.380
when you're lying flat on your face on the ice
586
00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:17.589
and lots of people are watching. And so I said
587
00:26:17.609 --> 00:26:18.630
to her, just smile it out.
588
00:26:18.710 --> 00:26:19.049
It's fine.
589
00:26:19.089 --> 00:26:21.609
Just smile it out. We then fell the whole time.
590
00:26:21.690 --> 00:26:25.089
And we've got the footage. I must play it about
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100 times now.
592
00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:31.309
A month. Gabby, can I suggest something? I've got a
593
00:26:31.309 --> 00:26:34.869
conspiracy here that I think you may lead your family
594
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into perilous situations with always a camera on the go
595
00:26:39.509 --> 00:26:44.170
in your own sort of semi-autobiographical prank show where, oh,
596
00:26:44.190 --> 00:26:48.769
let's go and see Grandad. Bring the tape board. Find
597
00:26:48.789 --> 00:26:51.099
that banana pill I've left on the floor, kids.
598
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:53.160
Do you know we tried that?
599
00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:54.279
We tried that on the Be Grateful list.
600
00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:58.299
No, we tried it on The Big Breakfast or a
601
00:26:58.299 --> 00:27:00.619
show like that. We tried to see whether you really
602
00:27:00.660 --> 00:27:02.099
can slip on a banana skin.
603
00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:02.359
Yeah.
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00:27:02.539 --> 00:27:04.680
And I don't think you really can.
605
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.210
It's the angriest I've ever heard you. You're absolutely livid.
606
00:27:08.069 --> 00:27:11.809
Yes. How dare it not work?
607
00:27:11.910 --> 00:27:14.150
The money you spent on banana skins on your stairs
608
00:27:14.190 --> 00:27:19.809
for your kids to go.
609
00:27:20.910 --> 00:27:21.079
On.
610
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:24.930
So sometimes you wonder... what it is about someone's sense
611
00:27:24.970 --> 00:27:26.769
of humor that leads them to start their career in
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00:27:26.789 --> 00:27:29.549
kids' television. But I've kind of managed to nail it
613
00:27:29.569 --> 00:27:30.250
with you, Gabby.
614
00:27:30.529 --> 00:27:31.849
Do you know what? When I was a child, I
615
00:27:31.869 --> 00:27:33.710
was exactly the same. And when I was a child
616
00:27:33.809 --> 00:27:35.470
at three, I used to say I wanted to be
617
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a TV presenter. There was nothing ever, ever, ever that
618
00:27:39.150 --> 00:27:41.180
I wanted to do apart from be a TV presenter.
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00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:43.940
And people used to say, why? And it was, I
620
00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:47.480
promise you, hand in my heart, it was never all
621
00:27:47.579 --> 00:27:51.349
fame or any of that rubbish. It was because I said, Well,
622
00:27:51.369 --> 00:27:53.150
because it makes me laugh and I want to make
623
00:27:53.210 --> 00:27:56.150
everybody laugh. But not as a comedian like you guys.
624
00:27:56.750 --> 00:28:00.109
I just thought kids' telly was just a laugh. And
625
00:28:00.150 --> 00:28:02.529
you'd have a laugh and you want other kids to laugh.
626
00:28:02.950 --> 00:28:05.730
I bet you absolutely love... I mean, I suppose your
627
00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:07.779
kids are too old now. But I bet you loved
628
00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:09.019
it when you were watching it with them.
629
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.460
Yeah, but there's not kids' telly. There's not a Saturday
630
00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:12.920
morning telly like there used to be.
631
00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:14.359
Preaching to the choir here, Gabby.
632
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.059
There isn't that sort of telly. And I love it.
633
00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:19.599
And I think there should be... They should bring all
634
00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:21.440
of that sort of thing back. I really do. I
635
00:28:21.460 --> 00:28:26.619
think it's a real shame that there's no anarchic, mad television.
636
00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:28.970
Everything's a little bit too straight.
637
00:28:29.289 --> 00:28:32.269
Yes, I do agree with that. We can't just have
638
00:28:32.289 --> 00:28:34.690
people falling over all the time, though. But as Josh said,
639
00:28:34.710 --> 00:28:36.309
I would redirect you to You've Been Framed.
640
00:28:36.589 --> 00:28:39.660
You must have loved Gunge, Gabby. You must have absolutely
641
00:28:39.700 --> 00:28:40.339
loved Gunge.
642
00:28:41.380 --> 00:28:43.839
Well, we did it on Motormouth. There's a thing called
643
00:28:43.940 --> 00:28:47.319
Gunjum in the Dungeon. I think I was gunjed. I
644
00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:48.900
think I have been gunjed.
645
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:50.920
Oh, I bet you can't get enough of being gunjed.
646
00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:52.619
That sounds exactly up your street.
647
00:28:52.660 --> 00:28:54.900
But we got to do some mad things on Kids Telly.
648
00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:58.220
I did Air Sea Rescue in the English Channel and
649
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.569
they took me a mile out and they said, we'll
650
00:29:00.589 --> 00:29:03.910
just drop you here. And I had the flotation devices
651
00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:06.009
and everything. And they said, don't worry, we can hear you.
652
00:29:06.970 --> 00:29:09.630
You've got a mic. And I went, okay, fine. And
653
00:29:09.670 --> 00:29:13.069
then I see the boat going away and it keeps going,
654
00:29:13.089 --> 00:29:16.130
it keeps going. And I thought, oh my God, I'm
655
00:29:16.170 --> 00:29:18.509
here on my own. So I started talking to myself
656
00:29:18.630 --> 00:29:20.170
as you do, because I thought, oh God, at least
657
00:29:20.190 --> 00:29:22.619
they can hear me. Everything's fine. I'm like, what if
658
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:25.779
there's a shark? And I was out on my own
659
00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:27.559
and I knew that the helicopter was going to come
660
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.859
and rescue me. But then next thing I see, and
661
00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:36.180
this isn't a lie, the microphone floated away. And I thought,
662
00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:38.819
how are they going to find me? And then I heard,
663
00:29:40.589 --> 00:29:44.269
and there was a sea link ferry behind me. And
664
00:29:44.329 --> 00:29:47.730
then I saw a helicopter and the man walking on
665
00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:51.220
the water and he, cause he's dangling below. And I
666
00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:53.579
got so excited that I forgot all the rules. They
667
00:29:53.619 --> 00:29:56.000
said to me, they said, whatever you do, don't open
668
00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:58.440
your mouth and shout because the water will come up
669
00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:03.170
into your mouth from the, helicopter blades and and keep
670
00:30:03.210 --> 00:30:05.599
your arms down when they strap the rope around you
671
00:30:05.630 --> 00:30:09.640
so i'm there and i'm like and i thought oh
672
00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:11.539
no i'm gonna drown i'm gonna drown i was still
673
00:30:11.579 --> 00:30:13.559
laughing and i thought oh my god oh my god
674
00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:15.799
i've got the water i can't see anything because the
675
00:30:15.859 --> 00:30:17.880
water's going in my face there's a sea link ferry
676
00:30:17.900 --> 00:30:21.059
there's a man walking towards me on he's dangling below
677
00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:24.039
a helicopter and he slipped the rope over my arms
678
00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:27.579
and he's looking at me and i'm just hysterical And
679
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:29.960
then I put my arms down and I started kissing
680
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:32.740
his helmet. I don't know, it's not, you know what
681
00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:34.779
I mean. And I kept kissing him and kissing him
682
00:30:34.819 --> 00:30:37.720
and was so relieved. I was terrified and I thought, oh,
683
00:30:37.740 --> 00:30:39.480
this is the most terrifying thing. We got to the
684
00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:41.980
top of the helicopter and I just was looking at
685
00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:44.259
all of these people at Air Sea Rescue and I was, oh,
686
00:30:44.299 --> 00:30:45.039
that was unbelievable.
687
00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:46.000
That was unbelievable.
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00:30:46.019 --> 00:30:48.220
Can we do it again? And they let me do
689
00:30:48.259 --> 00:30:54.119
it again. I've never been so scared, but it was fantastic. See,
690
00:30:54.140 --> 00:30:55.480
that's what you do on Kids Telly. Exactly.
691
00:30:55.940 --> 00:30:57.450
That's a bit of fun, isn't it? Also, I love
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00:30:57.470 --> 00:30:59.269
the fact that they had to tell you not to
693
00:30:59.329 --> 00:31:02.130
scream because of the helicopter blades because it makes you drown.
694
00:31:02.170 --> 00:31:04.269
But if you were getting rescued, you wouldn't have had
695
00:31:04.309 --> 00:31:09.460
that briefing. So imagine drowning on the helicopter blade water
696
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:12.680
once you'd been rescued.
697
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:18.099
But they probably don't go that close because there's no
698
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:19.460
camera filming there.
699
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:20.589
Yes, of course.
700
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:23.549
Yeah, that does make sense.
701
00:31:23.869 --> 00:31:26.829
When you work in Kids Tally, Gabby, Other people that
702
00:31:26.849 --> 00:31:30.970
work in kids' telly, are you slagging off the kids?
703
00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:36.059
You know how in hospitals they talk about there'll be
704
00:31:36.099 --> 00:31:38.680
quite a dark sense of humour behind it? Is the
705
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:40.740
sense of humour between all the adults and stuff, is
706
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:42.519
that much more kind of the opposite?
707
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:44.940
Josh, can I stop you there? Is that your dishwasher finishing?
708
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:46.619
That is my dishwasher finishing its cycle.
709
00:31:47.059 --> 00:31:51.349
I love that. I was worried it was your smoke alarm.
710
00:31:51.569 --> 00:31:51.950
I know.
711
00:31:51.990 --> 00:31:54.809
What a pro. It will plough on through the blaze.
712
00:31:56.589 --> 00:31:59.109
Too right. I'll run out, fall over, Gabrielle Lovett.
713
00:31:59.470 --> 00:32:04.630
Yes! But yeah, it's all right, though. What are the
714
00:32:04.650 --> 00:32:06.910
kids' TV presenters like? Is it a bit more, like,
715
00:32:07.309 --> 00:32:08.890
crazier behind the scenes?
716
00:32:09.069 --> 00:32:11.430
Or do they take it, like, really seriously? Are people going,
717
00:32:11.819 --> 00:32:14.900
I actually think the gun should fall from this place
718
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:16.759
because that's actually funnier?
719
00:32:17.099 --> 00:32:19.079
Do you know what? Let's be honest. I was working
720
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.099
with the genius that is Neil Buchanan.
721
00:32:23.019 --> 00:32:23.599
What's he like?
722
00:32:24.500 --> 00:32:26.920
A god he's a god that's what I want to
723
00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:30.259
hear he started off in a rock band and now
724
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.019
and he could paint anything with anything and to work
725
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.980
with him he was my first TV husband because I
726
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.660
did kids telly for two years before Motormouth it was
727
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.039
just me and some puppets and then I'd had my
728
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.289
first TV husband was Neil Buchanan and then I went
729
00:32:44.309 --> 00:32:46.170
to Chris Evans as the TV husband so I was
730
00:32:46.250 --> 00:32:47.170
pretty lucky.
731
00:32:47.109 --> 00:32:49.210
I heard you could confirm this that Neil Buchanan is
732
00:32:49.230 --> 00:32:51.170
the most difficult person to book in the world because
733
00:32:51.190 --> 00:32:53.869
he's so rich because Art Attack has been sold everywhere
734
00:32:55.299 --> 00:32:55.960
Is that true?
735
00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:59.039
Do you know the wonderful thing about Neil is, and
736
00:32:59.099 --> 00:33:04.960
I still call him Nellie B, but whenever I'll text
737
00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:07.130
him suddenly out the blue, I'll WhatsApp him and it
738
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.869
will just be, what was her name? So that will
739
00:33:09.910 --> 00:33:13.009
be it. Randomly the other day, I couldn't remember someone's
740
00:33:13.069 --> 00:33:16.109
name and I haven't spoken to him for maybe six months.
741
00:33:16.130 --> 00:33:18.430
So I just, I WhatsApped him, what was her name?
742
00:33:18.970 --> 00:33:21.930
And I swear to you on my life, he came
743
00:33:21.990 --> 00:33:25.250
back with Janie Grace. And that's the woman who was
744
00:33:25.470 --> 00:33:29.210
our producer or head of children's who, who offered me
745
00:33:29.250 --> 00:33:31.349
the job. And he knew who I was talking about.
746
00:33:31.430 --> 00:33:33.910
Well, you just sent him the text. What's her name?
747
00:33:33.930 --> 00:33:34.650
What was her name?
748
00:33:34.809 --> 00:33:38.069
Yeah. What was her name? I wish I could, I
749
00:33:38.109 --> 00:33:39.690
could screenshot it and send it to you. Cause I
750
00:33:39.829 --> 00:33:42.609
swear that is absolutely the God's honest truth.
751
00:33:42.730 --> 00:33:43.690
Wow.
752
00:33:43.819 --> 00:33:45.660
So then I phoned him up and I just, I
753
00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:48.160
swore a lot. Just go, how did you, what on
754
00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:50.690
earth have you just done? How did you know? He said,
755
00:33:50.730 --> 00:33:52.869
I've no idea. I just thought that's who you might
756
00:33:52.890 --> 00:33:54.529
be talking about. Wow.
757
00:33:54.549 --> 00:33:57.329
What a connection with Nellie B. What a connection.
758
00:33:57.410 --> 00:34:01.269
So was he doing Art Attack when you were doing
759
00:34:01.309 --> 00:34:02.130
Motormouth with him?
760
00:34:02.910 --> 00:34:03.660
Yeah.
761
00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:05.119
Is he really rich from it as well, Gabby? Is
762
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:05.579
that true?
763
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.179
Probably. I don't know. I don't ask it. That'd be
764
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:09.699
really weird.
765
00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:11.800
Gabby, I've heard he's the richest man in the world.
766
00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:15.780
But richer than Bezos. Let's be honest. No offence to
767
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:18.230
Neil Buchanan, but if he weren't wading, he'd be doing
768
00:34:18.269 --> 00:34:22.239
The Jungle by now. Well, Let's look at it that way, yeah?
769
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:25.500
He's invested well, the geezer. Let's just say that.
770
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:27.440
Do you know what? He'd be good in the jungle,
771
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:27.900
wouldn't he?
772
00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:30.219
Oh, think what? He'd arrange the twigs into a big
773
00:34:30.260 --> 00:34:32.019
picture of the Queen or something. It'd be amazing.
774
00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:35.300
Have your kids seen your telly stuff, Gabby?
775
00:34:35.579 --> 00:34:36.420
Yeah.
776
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:38.840
What stuff? Did they watch it? Because they would have
777
00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:40.760
been too young or not born with the kids' stuff.
778
00:34:40.780 --> 00:34:43.119
They weren't born when the kids' stuff or the big
779
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:46.079
breakfast was on. But my youngest was around when I
780
00:34:46.099 --> 00:34:48.900
did Children in Need and she loved it. But they
781
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:53.590
watch it. the magic of YouTube. And they just go, mom,
782
00:34:53.610 --> 00:34:55.889
you're mad. That's what they're used to it. So there's
783
00:34:55.989 --> 00:35:01.170
nothing really surprising. And even weirdly sort of city hospital,
784
00:35:01.190 --> 00:35:03.190
there was somebody sent me a link to something or
785
00:35:03.230 --> 00:35:06.110
city hospital, which was a daytime show I did. And
786
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:09.719
it took place in the hospital live show. And we'd
787
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:12.840
go from very heavy, serious things happening on the wards
788
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.699
to I'd get the doctors doing the can-can in the corridors.
789
00:35:16.219 --> 00:35:19.280
And and my kids they somebody sent me a clip
790
00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:21.719
and I showed them and they went mum you didn't
791
00:35:21.949 --> 00:35:25.650
actually do that yeah why they went you've got the
792
00:35:25.690 --> 00:35:28.260
doctors they're really serious things going on mum in the
793
00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:30.239
world I mean Yeah, but that's why you've got to
794
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:31.119
do the can-can.
795
00:35:33.619 --> 00:35:36.340
How do you, because Gabby, how do you manage this
796
00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:39.199
sort of like, you have quite a carefree, fun attitude
797
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:41.440
with like the admin of having kids, you know, a
798
00:35:41.460 --> 00:35:44.579
teenage daughter's going to school and all that and packing
799
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:46.420
the school bag so they've got all the right stuff. Like,
800
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:48.079
are you quite organised with it? Or is that something
801
00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:49.980
your husband does more of? Or can you still do
802
00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:52.219
both and be on it as a mum as well
803
00:35:52.260 --> 00:35:53.030
as having a laugh?
804
00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:55.739
Here's the thing that you two won't have the joy of.
805
00:35:55.969 --> 00:35:57.289
They actually pack their own.
806
00:35:57.250 --> 00:35:58.090
School bags now.
807
00:35:58.750 --> 00:35:59.250
All right.
808
00:35:59.269 --> 00:36:02.329
At 13 and 19, you don't have to do it anymore.
809
00:36:02.349 --> 00:36:05.889
You just tapped out. You don't have to do it.
810
00:36:05.909 --> 00:36:09.460
But I remember that mad rush. I mean, I suppose
811
00:36:09.539 --> 00:36:14.840
you asked if I get irritable or annoyed. My favourite sound,
812
00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:18.929
and their least favourite, is, have you brushed your teeth yet?
813
00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.010
Brush your hair, brush your teeth, brush your hair, brush
814
00:36:22.050 --> 00:36:25.559
your teeth. So that's the cry of the morning, always.
815
00:36:26.219 --> 00:36:28.480
You must be quite a good morning person then, Gabby.
816
00:36:28.860 --> 00:36:29.159
I am.
817
00:36:29.300 --> 00:36:30.000
I am annoying.
818
00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:35.469
Did you ever have a problem with the early mornings?
819
00:36:35.530 --> 00:36:37.389
I suppose you'd been getting up at like 3am for
820
00:36:37.409 --> 00:36:39.710
the big breakfast anyway, so kids was a blessed relief.
821
00:36:40.250 --> 00:36:42.980
I really am the person who... I don't like to
822
00:36:43.019 --> 00:36:44.599
go to sleep at night because I don't want the
823
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:46.860
day to end. And I don't mind getting up early
824
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:48.519
because I want the next day to start. And I
825
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:50.929
have awful things happen as well. It's not all, you know,
826
00:36:50.969 --> 00:36:54.090
I've had horrible things happen in my life. But also
827
00:36:54.190 --> 00:36:57.250
I do see, I do like to see the joy
828
00:36:57.269 --> 00:36:57.809
in everything.
829
00:36:58.469 --> 00:37:00.170
What do you use that if you are feeling like
830
00:37:00.210 --> 00:37:01.829
a bit overwhelmed or you get a bit down? Is
831
00:37:01.869 --> 00:37:04.809
there things that you talk to yourself about to do or?
832
00:37:05.210 --> 00:37:07.030
and things like that to sort of readdress it? Or
833
00:37:07.050 --> 00:37:08.730
is it just that you just naturally, you know?
834
00:37:08.809 --> 00:37:13.090
I probably naturally, I've always been a, probably wouldn't mean anything,
835
00:37:13.139 --> 00:37:15.469
but if you, there's a thing, there's a book years
836
00:37:15.489 --> 00:37:18.619
ago called Pollyanna, and she always played the glad game.
837
00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:22.579
And I always used to be called Mary Poppins or
838
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:24.440
Pollyanna when I was a child, because I liked to
839
00:37:24.500 --> 00:37:27.900
see the joy in the silliest of things. But of
840
00:37:28.019 --> 00:37:30.619
course I get really down. I remember, and I don't
841
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:32.949
want to bring it down, but when mum died, 23
842
00:37:32.949 --> 00:37:34.750
years ago of cancer. And dad had cancer at the
843
00:37:34.769 --> 00:37:39.570
same time. And I remember doing interviews afterwards and whatever
844
00:37:39.610 --> 00:37:41.269
show I was doing. And they would say, oh, I'm
845
00:37:41.309 --> 00:37:42.869
so sorry about the loss of your mom. I said, yeah,
846
00:37:42.929 --> 00:37:45.050
so am I. I mean, it's, she was very young
847
00:37:45.110 --> 00:37:47.409
and I was young when I lost her. And, um,
848
00:37:47.690 --> 00:37:51.190
they always used to say, oh, uh, you were always,
849
00:37:51.309 --> 00:37:54.250
you always say, oh, I'm so lucky or I love life.
850
00:37:54.429 --> 00:37:56.090
And I said, yeah. And I always used to say
851
00:37:56.130 --> 00:38:00.210
to every journalist, I'm so sorry. I love life. And
852
00:38:00.489 --> 00:38:02.690
when mum died, I realised I was never going to
853
00:38:02.730 --> 00:38:05.369
apologise again because life's too short. And it sounds sort
854
00:38:05.630 --> 00:38:08.110
of quite a deep thing to say, but I'm not
855
00:38:08.150 --> 00:38:11.349
apologising for loving life. And my mum didn't live as
856
00:38:11.409 --> 00:38:15.130
long as she should have. She died early 60s. I
857
00:38:15.210 --> 00:38:17.349
wish that she was still around, but I'm going to
858
00:38:17.389 --> 00:38:19.809
enjoy every moment because we're not, you know, we're not
859
00:38:19.849 --> 00:38:22.289
here forever. So that's what I really do feel that
860
00:38:22.309 --> 00:38:22.909
about life.
861
00:38:22.929 --> 00:38:24.550
Well, I think in a way as well, because really
862
00:38:24.670 --> 00:38:26.239
what happened to you is one of the worst things
863
00:38:26.260 --> 00:38:28.079
that can happen to you is losing such a close
864
00:38:28.099 --> 00:38:30.719
person to you. Well, the worst things happen now, so
865
00:38:30.739 --> 00:38:32.849
I'm just going to enjoy it. Because, you know, I
866
00:38:33.070 --> 00:38:35.909
think sometimes the anxiety of stuff happening can sort of
867
00:38:35.969 --> 00:38:37.809
stress people out and drag them down more and they
868
00:38:37.869 --> 00:38:40.780
forget to have fun. And I think, you know, it's
869
00:38:40.909 --> 00:38:42.880
such a great way to live your life. And you're
870
00:38:42.900 --> 00:38:45.179
so infectious, Gabby. Whenever I speak to you or I've
871
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:47.559
met up with you afterwards, I feel like a little buzz,
872
00:38:47.579 --> 00:38:49.420
a little glow. And I think that's such a powerful
873
00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:51.460
thing to have. And hence why you were so good
874
00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:54.059
on telly as well as in real life, because that
875
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:57.119
comes across and it makes people happy and full of joy.
876
00:38:57.139 --> 00:39:01.170
I love TV. I love TV. There is nothing... Actually,
877
00:39:01.190 --> 00:39:05.199
that's the one thing in lockdown that I always, always,
878
00:39:05.300 --> 00:39:07.880
always used to say for years. I'm going into my
879
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.619
34th year of it now. And I always said that
880
00:39:13.340 --> 00:39:17.179
I am addicted to and I'm obsessed with telly. And
881
00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:19.909
I decided in lockdown there was a sort of moment,
882
00:39:20.070 --> 00:39:24.429
realization that I love it. And actually, I'm going to
883
00:39:24.489 --> 00:39:26.369
use that word and I don't care. I don't care
884
00:39:26.389 --> 00:39:29.949
if people think that's stupid or pathetic. I don't really care.
885
00:39:30.309 --> 00:39:34.269
I I love it I love television deeply love it
886
00:39:35.179 --> 00:39:40.699
of course I love my family they do ask they
887
00:39:40.739 --> 00:39:42.860
say where do we come I go now don't be
888
00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:45.099
silly you know the answer yeah so.
889
00:39:45.059 --> 00:39:48.179
On that like because did you have like rules about
890
00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:51.119
them like watching tv or No.
891
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:51.599
No.
892
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.750
What I don't want them to see, and actually I
893
00:39:55.170 --> 00:39:58.670
still don't like the idea of them seeing anything that's...
894
00:39:58.909 --> 00:40:02.730
Art attack. No art attack at all. I don't want
895
00:40:02.750 --> 00:40:05.050
them watching, and I think when they were younger as well,
896
00:40:05.130 --> 00:40:10.059
I didn't want anything that was about cruelty, was about nasty,
897
00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:13.119
you know, nudity. We're all naked, you know. I didn't
898
00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:16.320
want them to see... I want to protect them from the...
899
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:18.780
the horrible things. And I think there are some really
900
00:40:18.860 --> 00:40:22.599
nasty things that you can find in films and TV shows.
901
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.079
And when they're older, they can make that decision themselves.
902
00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:27.019
So I think that was the only thing. And they
903
00:40:27.099 --> 00:40:34.119
loved telly. My youngest one grew up on Mary Poppins and, um, Balamory.
904
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.239
And my, uh, younger one, that was my oldest one.
905
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:42.150
My younger one loved, um, in the night garden. In fact,
906
00:40:42.190 --> 00:40:44.949
we were talking about the Ninky Nonk just the other
907
00:40:44.989 --> 00:40:46.840
day and I Maca-paca.
908
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:48.480
I can't stand in the night garden.
909
00:40:48.619 --> 00:40:50.860
Upsy-daisy. I'm not a fan of going in the night garden, Gabby.
910
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.349
I'm sorry. I can't do it. I don't get it.
911
00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:53.539
No.
912
00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:55.480
I feel like I need to be on drugs. And
913
00:40:55.539 --> 00:40:57.239
have you had any sort of big falling outs with
914
00:40:57.260 --> 00:40:59.500
your daughters, especially going through teenage years? It's when they
915
00:40:59.539 --> 00:41:03.320
start wanting their own sort of decision-making and going out
916
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:04.599
and seeing people and things like that.
917
00:41:04.909 --> 00:41:09.250
Luckily, no. But we did. I mean, my oldest one,
918
00:41:09.590 --> 00:41:13.460
the weirdest thing is, And everybody I ever talked to
919
00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:16.159
about it, there are two extraordinary things that happen when
920
00:41:16.179 --> 00:41:20.730
you have girls that they turn the light off. They say, no, no, mommy,
921
00:41:20.769 --> 00:41:23.429
love you, love you. And they come out the next
922
00:41:23.510 --> 00:41:26.349
morning and go, oh, for God's sake, you just don't
923
00:41:26.449 --> 00:41:32.039
understand me. But it's as quick as that. And you
924
00:41:32.059 --> 00:41:34.900
just think, what don't I understand? You said, no, no, mommy,
925
00:41:34.940 --> 00:41:37.889
love you. And now I don't understand you. And I
926
00:41:37.909 --> 00:41:39.190
remember being like that myself.
927
00:41:39.210 --> 00:41:40.730
I was going to say, what were you like as
928
00:41:40.789 --> 00:41:43.340
a teenager, Gabby? Because I can't imagine you being kind
929
00:41:43.380 --> 00:41:45.360
of full of teenage anxiety.
930
00:41:45.980 --> 00:41:48.500
Oh, no, I was desperate. I talk about this all
931
00:41:48.539 --> 00:41:50.840
the time. So I was desperately, desperately shy and I
932
00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:54.400
still am. So I, as a child and as a teenager,
933
00:41:54.500 --> 00:41:57.900
even though I was this giggly, I giggled all the time.
934
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.059
I loved to giggle and I always got told off
935
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:04.090
for talking and giggling at school. But I was desperately shy.
936
00:42:04.130 --> 00:42:08.280
So as a teenager, it became... unbearable shyness of sort
937
00:42:08.300 --> 00:42:08.420
of 15.
938
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.860
That's exactly how I was, Gabby, but I think both
939
00:42:10.900 --> 00:42:14.559
on paper now, people wouldn't assume that about us. So
940
00:42:14.579 --> 00:42:16.840
what was it, how did you go from that shy
941
00:42:16.900 --> 00:42:20.670
teenager to now, you know, biggest TV presenter star, full
942
00:42:20.690 --> 00:42:22.130
of confidence, full of energy?
943
00:42:22.449 --> 00:42:25.590
Well, I'm not, because I'm still, no, I'm still very shy.
944
00:42:25.989 --> 00:42:28.329
And I know that you and I have had this conversation, Rob,
945
00:42:28.349 --> 00:42:32.699
but if my husband says, oh, so-and-so's invited us to
946
00:42:32.739 --> 00:42:37.469
a house party, I will just, no. And he'll say, no, no.
947
00:42:38.010 --> 00:42:40.670
And then we'll go. And I will follow David to
948
00:42:40.690 --> 00:42:42.090
the loo because I don't want to be left on
949
00:42:42.130 --> 00:42:46.190
my own. Because sometimes that very shy me is still there.
950
00:42:46.250 --> 00:42:48.929
And actually, I've just learned now in the past few
951
00:42:48.969 --> 00:42:50.820
years to be loud and proud about it because nobody
952
00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:55.380
talks about shyness. And I think it was debilitating at 15.
953
00:42:55.380 --> 00:42:57.800
I'd go to a party. And I remember a guy
954
00:42:57.840 --> 00:42:59.500
who I ended up going out with for a short
955
00:42:59.539 --> 00:43:03.010
time years later. he was talking to me and I just,
956
00:43:03.030 --> 00:43:05.650
he said, you okay? And I just thought, my mouth
957
00:43:05.690 --> 00:43:09.769
won't open. And it just wouldn't open because I was
958
00:43:09.809 --> 00:43:11.349
so shy. And then I went into the loo and
959
00:43:11.389 --> 00:43:13.190
I looked in the mirror and I went, you're okay,
960
00:43:13.269 --> 00:43:15.070
you're okay, you're okay. And then I go back out
961
00:43:15.110 --> 00:43:17.989
there and his name was Anthony, lovely guy. And he said,
962
00:43:18.030 --> 00:43:24.719
what's the matter? And I just went, I'm shy. And
963
00:43:24.739 --> 00:43:26.880
then he said, have you always been told you're shy?
964
00:43:26.900 --> 00:43:29.039
And I said, yes. And he said, well, maybe you're
965
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:31.599
not shy. I said, but I am. And actually, Yes,
966
00:43:31.659 --> 00:43:33.599
I was always told I was shy, but I knew
967
00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:38.039
I was. And I just didn't have, I just was shy.
968
00:43:38.179 --> 00:43:39.619
I knew that's what it was. It was a sort
969
00:43:39.659 --> 00:43:41.730
of knot in my stomach. And Rob, I don't know
970
00:43:41.750 --> 00:43:43.369
if it's the same for you. At a certain age,
971
00:43:43.409 --> 00:43:47.230
you just, oh God, there's nothing worse than having to
972
00:43:47.769 --> 00:43:49.269
face people and talk.
973
00:43:49.449 --> 00:43:52.690
And how do you both end up being performers in
974
00:43:52.730 --> 00:43:54.550
that situation? I don't like that.
975
00:43:54.610 --> 00:43:57.139
Most performers are like that. Most of the people I've
976
00:43:57.219 --> 00:44:01.010
ever interviewed in my, 34 year olds have said the
977
00:44:01.030 --> 00:44:03.550
same thing they've all said the same thing.
978
00:44:03.349 --> 00:44:05.050
I used to get a knot in my stomach so
979
00:44:05.090 --> 00:44:07.150
say there was a class outing or something there'd be
980
00:44:07.170 --> 00:44:09.110
a knot in my stomach all night lots of anxiety
981
00:44:09.150 --> 00:44:10.809
about it because it was different to like just being
982
00:44:10.849 --> 00:44:13.050
in school and then I'd pretend to be ill so
983
00:44:13.070 --> 00:44:15.570
I didn't have to go and I'd all be worked
984
00:44:15.659 --> 00:44:17.199
up and sort of worried about going somewhere and then
985
00:44:17.219 --> 00:44:20.400
just not go and and I think with that sort
986
00:44:20.420 --> 00:44:22.840
of shyness and lacking that confidence I think In a way,
987
00:44:22.900 --> 00:44:26.420
it's that I was always like you, giggling, laughing, trying
988
00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:27.980
to be funny, making jokes, but on my own terms,
989
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.139
in a sort of comfort bubble of my family or
990
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:34.199
close friends. But then even stand up, essentially, I'm still
991
00:44:34.219 --> 00:44:36.840
being shy because I'm basically controlling that whole world where
992
00:44:36.900 --> 00:44:39.920
I come out and talk to someone in an environment
993
00:44:39.940 --> 00:44:41.400
where you sit there and listen and I stand here
994
00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:43.539
and talk. Do you know what I mean? And as
995
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:45.159
time went on, I got less shy and got more
996
00:44:45.219 --> 00:44:47.449
confident in myself. But it was a slow process. I
997
00:44:47.449 --> 00:44:48.699
don't know if it's the same for you, Gabby.
998
00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.989
Well, it's the weirdest story that I always say. And
999
00:44:53.619 --> 00:44:56.670
so I've been with my husband for 15 years. And
1000
00:44:57.730 --> 00:45:02.050
when we were first going out, we were invited by
1001
00:45:02.070 --> 00:45:05.710
a charity to go to an event at the Albert
1002
00:45:05.730 --> 00:45:10.329
Hall on the Sunday night. The Saturday night, David had
1003
00:45:10.429 --> 00:45:12.730
asked me to go to a party of somebody I'd
1004
00:45:12.769 --> 00:45:15.090
never met. And I just, I was in tears. I
1005
00:45:15.090 --> 00:45:17.429
just went, please don't make me, please, please, please don't
1006
00:45:17.449 --> 00:45:19.730
make me. And he was like, okay, okay. I mean,
1007
00:45:20.090 --> 00:45:22.809
I just don't know anybody there. I can't do this.
1008
00:45:22.969 --> 00:45:26.369
I just can't do this. And afterwards he said, oh,
1009
00:45:26.409 --> 00:45:28.469
that was the best part. I said, I'm so pleased.
1010
00:45:28.510 --> 00:45:30.570
I said, I hope you understand. And he did. You know,
1011
00:45:30.590 --> 00:45:32.989
I told him I'm very shy. I just couldn't handle it.
1012
00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:35.539
And then the next night we were at the Albert
1013
00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:38.780
Hall and it was one of the charities that I'm
1014
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:42.380
patron of. And we were there and they came up
1015
00:45:42.420 --> 00:45:45.139
to me about 10 minutes beforehand and they said, the
1016
00:45:45.380 --> 00:45:49.780
MC has got food poisoning. would you mind hosting the event?
1017
00:45:49.820 --> 00:45:53.039
I mean, yeah, no problem. And his face was, and
1018
00:45:53.059 --> 00:45:54.840
I said, I'll be back. I'll come back and see
1019
00:45:54.860 --> 00:45:56.820
you in the interval. So I went backstage and I
1020
00:45:56.860 --> 00:45:59.530
went out on the Albert Hall and hosted a two
1021
00:45:59.590 --> 00:46:02.750
and a half hour show in the Albert Hall with
1022
00:46:02.789 --> 00:46:05.030
no script and didn't know what was happening because I
1023
00:46:05.070 --> 00:46:07.690
wasn't meant to be doing it. And I loved every
1024
00:46:07.730 --> 00:46:10.400
moment and then came back in the interval and his, honestly,
1025
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:13.239
his sort of jaw was on the floor and he said, What?
1026
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:18.500
You just couldn't come to my mate's party last night.
1027
00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:21.900
That's different. This is me. This is what I love
1028
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:22.360
to do.
1029
00:46:22.380 --> 00:46:24.659
So is that what you're like, Rob?
1030
00:46:24.949 --> 00:46:27.969
Yeah. So for me, when Gabby said that, I went, oh,
1031
00:46:28.110 --> 00:46:30.909
for me, that's a better outcome of it. I'd rather
1032
00:46:30.949 --> 00:46:34.269
do that on the fly than go, oh, we're going
1033
00:46:34.309 --> 00:46:36.630
to a family friend's barbecue and there'll be 50 people
1034
00:46:36.650 --> 00:46:39.090
there you sort of don't really know. And I was
1035
00:46:39.210 --> 00:46:41.329
just like, oh, God. And that's not because now I
1036
00:46:41.369 --> 00:46:43.010
do a bit of sort of tennis. That would have
1037
00:46:43.030 --> 00:46:45.489
been before that growing up. It's like, oh, these new people.
1038
00:46:45.699 --> 00:46:46.880
But when I got a bit older, you could go
1039
00:46:46.900 --> 00:46:48.880
to the pub and drink. I sort of got a
1040
00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:50.659
bit of confidence through the drink because it calmed your
1041
00:46:50.699 --> 00:46:53.780
nerves to talk to people. But to go into that
1042
00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:56.059
kind of situation sober and just talk to people, it
1043
00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:59.480
makes my shoulders go up straight away. But like you say, oh,
1044
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:00.980
can you go and help us out and do that
1045
00:47:01.380 --> 00:47:03.690
hosting an event there? I'd be all over that like
1046
00:47:03.730 --> 00:47:05.730
Gabby was. But it's strange, isn't it?
1047
00:47:05.940 --> 00:47:08.659
And do you see it in your kids at all? Like,
1048
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:10.610
do you think they're shy?
1049
00:47:10.630 --> 00:47:13.789
No, they're very, no, they're not. They're very, do you
1050
00:47:13.809 --> 00:47:15.409
know what's really weird? I was just thinking about a
1051
00:47:15.449 --> 00:47:19.340
word to describe my girls and I'd say they're very caring.
1052
00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:23.519
They're very caring and they're very considerate. Wasn't that a
1053
00:47:23.539 --> 00:47:26.400
nice thing to suddenly realize? Yeah, they're really caring and considerate.
1054
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:30.170
And they're not, they're not outgoing. but I wouldn't say
1055
00:47:30.230 --> 00:47:32.130
they had the they don't have the shyness that I
1056
00:47:32.170 --> 00:47:33.750
had thank goodness I.
1057
00:47:33.730 --> 00:47:35.670
Think that's really interesting because I think a lot of
1058
00:47:35.730 --> 00:47:37.730
people would see both of you two as like you
1059
00:47:37.769 --> 00:47:42.699
know big personalities people that have got absolutely no fear
1060
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:45.539
and I think that's a really interesting thing that you
1061
00:47:45.579 --> 00:47:46.840
know people wouldn't.
1062
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:48.800
Yeah but I knew that even as a child I
1063
00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:52.260
see I even when I was three and I watch
1064
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:54.070
blue peter and i pretended i was one of the
1065
00:47:54.110 --> 00:47:57.150
presenters i knew that i was shy but i knew
1066
00:47:57.210 --> 00:47:59.250
that that's what i wanted to do well i.
1067
00:47:59.210 --> 00:48:01.329
Remember when i was like one of my earliest memories
1068
00:48:01.349 --> 00:48:04.010
was being at a kid's house for a party and
1069
00:48:04.190 --> 00:48:06.030
i was so shy to ask where the toilet was
1070
00:48:06.070 --> 00:48:10.260
i shit myself and i remember what i did was
1071
00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:12.320
it was a game that when you pressed it it
1072
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.000
would make a sound so i basically used to press
1073
00:48:15.019 --> 00:48:18.000
that when it made the sound i'd start shitting to
1074
00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:21.699
cover up the noise. How many times did you do it?
1075
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:23.760
How could he? Because I kept on letting a little
1076
00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:28.039
bit out of time. Oh, no. Oh, my God, that
1077
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:29.889
is a terrible first memory, isn't it?
1078
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:30.849
Oh, wow.
1079
00:48:31.110 --> 00:48:31.690
Oh, my God.
1080
00:48:31.710 --> 00:48:33.269
A therapist would have a field day with that.
1081
00:48:33.289 --> 00:48:36.510
Yeah, it feels like your whole life has been a
1082
00:48:36.550 --> 00:48:38.210
revenge mission for that memory, love.
1083
00:48:38.250 --> 00:48:38.369
Yeah.
1084
00:48:39.980 --> 00:48:43.090
Oh my god oh my god because imagine like also
1085
00:48:43.110 --> 00:48:44.969
like now because i imagine what if my daughter come
1086
00:48:44.989 --> 00:48:46.789
home for a party don't do that now no but
1087
00:48:46.829 --> 00:48:49.139
like at the time if my daughter come home and
1088
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:50.519
i said what happened she was like i was too
1089
00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:52.000
scared to ask for the toilet so i did a
1090
00:48:52.059 --> 00:48:54.199
poo and used the toy to cover up the noise
1091
00:48:54.260 --> 00:48:56.139
i'd be mortified yes did you.
1092
00:48:56.059 --> 00:48:57.630
Ever tell your parents yes i don't.
1093
00:48:57.550 --> 00:49:01.630
Know I don't know. I think, I can't remember. I
1094
00:49:01.650 --> 00:49:03.409
think I just went to, in the end, I think
1095
00:49:03.429 --> 00:49:05.170
someone found the toilet paper. I went there and I
1096
00:49:05.190 --> 00:49:07.480
sort of just sorted myself out. But it's weird to
1097
00:49:07.500 --> 00:49:09.780
be that shy and then go from that to, you know,
1098
00:49:09.780 --> 00:49:13.059
doing what you do. But it's just, it's a different skill,
1099
00:49:13.059 --> 00:49:13.530
I think.
1100
00:49:13.530 --> 00:49:16.260
But I'll walk into, I will talk, because I walk
1101
00:49:16.260 --> 00:49:18.860
everywhere and I i bought everybody rigid about it but
1102
00:49:18.900 --> 00:49:20.820
i bought if i can i walk sort of seven
1103
00:49:20.860 --> 00:49:24.320
miles a day and but i'll talk to anybody and
1104
00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:26.460
if i have anybody walking with me the kids always
1105
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:29.860
go mom you can't yes i can and actually most
1106
00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:32.880
people want to talk i literally anything if i see
1107
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:34.739
somebody crying i'll always go and see if they're okay
1108
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:37.619
okay nowadays obviously you have to Be careful you don't
1109
00:49:37.659 --> 00:49:40.719
go too close to somebody. But I will, when I
1110
00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:43.960
used to get the tube everywhere and people would often
1111
00:49:44.019 --> 00:49:46.519
look at me and go, oh, how come you're on
1112
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:49.389
the tube? Well, how come you're on the tube? And
1113
00:49:49.429 --> 00:49:51.110
I'm like, where are you going? And then I'll start
1114
00:49:51.139 --> 00:49:53.989
talking to them. And I've got tubes, I've got people
1115
00:49:54.110 --> 00:49:58.110
singing on the tube. I've got everybody laughing. I've done it.
1116
00:49:58.170 --> 00:49:58.849
I've done it all.
1117
00:49:58.869 --> 00:50:01.090
I'm not going to lie, Gabby. I would absolutely hate
1118
00:50:01.130 --> 00:50:02.150
that if someone did that on the tube.
1119
00:50:02.690 --> 00:50:04.670
No, do you know what? I'll tell you, there were
1120
00:50:04.710 --> 00:50:06.289
two things that happened. There was a guy, I was
1121
00:50:06.329 --> 00:50:09.210
on the overground and the guy was really rude to me.
1122
00:50:09.269 --> 00:50:12.460
And he just said, what are you doing here? This
1123
00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:15.500
isn't for people like you, you celebrities. You're not supposed to,
1124
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:18.400
you're meant to have a chauffeur driven car. And I said,
1125
00:50:18.420 --> 00:50:19.800
what do you mean I'm meant to have a chauffeur
1126
00:50:19.820 --> 00:50:22.940
driven car? And he said, well, this is not for you.
1127
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:26.050
I said, yes, it is. It's for everybody. And then
1128
00:50:26.150 --> 00:50:28.530
all these people started joining in. And I said, yeah,
1129
00:50:28.550 --> 00:50:30.329
I'm going to really annoy you now because we're all
1130
00:50:30.349 --> 00:50:35.250
going to sing together. He just looked and he said,
1131
00:50:36.030 --> 00:50:37.679
what do you mean? I said, well, I'm going to sing.
1132
00:50:37.780 --> 00:50:40.360
I'm going to get everybody singing because I'm really annoying
1133
00:50:40.380 --> 00:50:40.699
you now.
1134
00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:41.420
So we did.
1135
00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:43.679
Do you know what we sung?
1136
00:50:44.139 --> 00:50:44.400
What?
1137
00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:51.210
The most annoying thing I could think of. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. And
1138
00:50:51.230 --> 00:50:53.510
I got everyone, not everybody joined in, but a lot
1139
00:50:53.570 --> 00:50:57.530
of people did. And do you know what he did?
1140
00:50:57.610 --> 00:50:59.829
He swore at me, kept swearing at me, and he
1141
00:50:59.869 --> 00:51:02.050
got off at the next stop. And when he got off,
1142
00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:05.139
everybody cheered and clapped. And that's a true story.
1143
00:51:06.119 --> 00:51:08.280
I do think that maybe that's, if you are shy
1144
00:51:08.340 --> 00:51:10.460
to try and overcome it, we both just went, right,
1145
00:51:10.500 --> 00:51:13.260
what is the worst thing I could do? Because if
1146
00:51:13.340 --> 00:51:15.360
I'm a bit embarrassed to talk to someone at a
1147
00:51:15.460 --> 00:51:17.980
barbecue and their family friend, What's the worst thing to do?
1148
00:51:18.039 --> 00:51:20.000
Go up on stage and do it. And it was,
1149
00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:21.619
I was really nervous and stuff when I first started
1150
00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:24.460
doing all that, presenting and stuff. But I think you
1151
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:26.280
sort of counteract it by doing the worst thing you
1152
00:51:26.300 --> 00:51:27.969
could do. And for you, like if you were shy,
1153
00:51:28.010 --> 00:51:29.190
the worst thing to do is go and speak to
1154
00:51:29.210 --> 00:51:31.289
a stranger in the street. You sort of owned it
1155
00:51:31.590 --> 00:51:33.030
and then not allowed it to be the thing that
1156
00:51:33.050 --> 00:51:33.869
scares you in a way.
1157
00:51:34.369 --> 00:51:37.090
But actually, no, I think it's because I'm incredibly nosy
1158
00:51:37.130 --> 00:51:37.510
as well.
1159
00:51:37.969 --> 00:51:39.409
Fair enough.
1160
00:51:40.250 --> 00:51:42.409
Just very nosy. When I was a child, people used to,
1161
00:51:42.469 --> 00:51:44.469
I used to sit on the bus and people would say,
1162
00:51:45.019 --> 00:51:46.719
oh my God, I think my husband's going to leave
1163
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:49.050
me as a child. And people still do it now.
1164
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:53.429
So people have always told me things, always. So I
1165
00:51:53.469 --> 00:51:55.670
just made a career out of people telling me things,
1166
00:51:55.730 --> 00:51:56.110
I suppose.
1167
00:51:57.989 --> 00:51:59.849
And would you like your kids to do TV or
1168
00:51:59.869 --> 00:52:01.630
do you reckon they'll go on their own path, Gabby?
1169
00:52:01.750 --> 00:52:04.449
Well, my oldest wants to be a primary school teacher
1170
00:52:04.469 --> 00:52:06.929
and that's all she's wanted to do since she was three.
1171
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.280
And my youngest wants to be an actress and that's
1172
00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:11.820
fine if that's what she wants to do. And she
1173
00:52:11.860 --> 00:52:13.239
wants to only do comedy.
1174
00:52:14.019 --> 00:52:14.519
Oh, brilliant.
1175
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:17.409
Like physical comedy, like falling over, stuff like that.
1176
00:52:17.469 --> 00:52:19.909
Probably, yeah. Also, I don't know if you put videos
1177
00:52:19.949 --> 00:52:21.130
up of your kids, but if you want to send
1178
00:52:21.210 --> 00:52:23.570
us those falling over videos, we can put them on Instagram.
1179
00:52:23.610 --> 00:52:26.510
No, I never have done. I think they would kill me.
1180
00:52:26.550 --> 00:52:26.809
Fair enough.
1181
00:52:26.829 --> 00:52:29.519
That's skateboarding. I don't either, so I totally understand.
1182
00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:31.420
Well, if you want to recreate them and act it
1183
00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:32.679
out yourself, Gabby, then.
1184
00:52:32.699 --> 00:52:33.559
Oh, happily, I'll do that.
1185
00:52:33.699 --> 00:52:34.539
We'll do a GoFundMe.
1186
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:37.739
Yeah, if the three of us can go skateboarding together,
1187
00:52:37.860 --> 00:52:43.079
I'm very happy to reenact that moment. LAUGHTER With pleasure.
1188
00:52:43.179 --> 00:52:45.639
What a random thing to put on Instagram. Us three
1189
00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:48.340
falling over on a skateboard.
1190
00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:51.250
Rob, you have a question you'd like to ask everyone.
1191
00:52:51.489 --> 00:52:53.829
Well, yes, Gabby, this is an opportunity for you now
1192
00:52:53.849 --> 00:52:56.530
because sometimes things frustrate you about the way your partner
1193
00:52:56.550 --> 00:52:59.989
can parent. So is there something that your fella does
1194
00:53:00.050 --> 00:53:02.010
that frustrates you with parenting that you couldn't say to
1195
00:53:02.050 --> 00:53:04.710
his face without kicking off, but you can say now
1196
00:53:04.750 --> 00:53:08.489
and hopefully he may hear and adjust his ways. It's
1197
00:53:08.510 --> 00:53:11.510
your opportunity now to You know, it's a fair comment,
1198
00:53:11.590 --> 00:53:13.650
but there's never a right time.
1199
00:53:14.050 --> 00:53:16.789
Interestingly, you had dishwasher stuff going on. It's to do
1200
00:53:16.829 --> 00:53:21.210
with the dishwasher. He has to load the dishwasher. When
1201
00:53:21.269 --> 00:53:24.130
we put anything in the dishwasher, he takes it out
1202
00:53:24.530 --> 00:53:25.449
and re-does it.
1203
00:53:26.170 --> 00:53:27.170
Oh, right.
1204
00:53:27.190 --> 00:53:27.369
Yeah.
1205
00:53:27.690 --> 00:53:29.929
So if he could stop doing that. And the kids,
1206
00:53:30.210 --> 00:53:31.849
you know, they put their plates on the side and
1207
00:53:31.869 --> 00:53:33.590
then he'll say, can you put them in the dishwasher?
1208
00:53:34.210 --> 00:53:36.090
So we'll put them in the dishwasher. And then I
1209
00:53:36.170 --> 00:53:39.050
hear that noise and I've crept up and I've looked.
1210
00:53:39.539 --> 00:53:41.539
In the kitchen, we have a very small kitchen. I've
1211
00:53:41.619 --> 00:53:44.739
crept around the corner and I found him taking it
1212
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:48.239
out of the bloody dishwasher and re-putting it in.
1213
00:53:48.989 --> 00:53:51.630
There's nothing that annoys him more than a dishwasher rearranger.
1214
00:53:51.929 --> 00:53:54.010
No, but also he's anal about the dishwasher.
1215
00:53:54.030 --> 00:53:57.469
I know, but that is a pathetic way to live
1216
00:53:57.489 --> 00:53:57.730
your life.
1217
00:53:57.769 --> 00:54:00.150
He sounds like a very different character to you, Gary.
1218
00:54:00.369 --> 00:54:03.070
He sounds like, I can't imagine you getting upset about
1219
00:54:03.289 --> 00:54:04.530
the arrangement of a dishwasher.
1220
00:54:05.179 --> 00:54:08.539
Well, put it this way, whenever he's been out or
1221
00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:11.030
away or something and he went away, he took our
1222
00:54:11.070 --> 00:54:13.889
youngest skiing, because the skiing thing I don't get. I'll
1223
00:54:13.909 --> 00:54:16.369
do zip wiring and air-sea rescue skiing, no.
1224
00:54:16.389 --> 00:54:18.829
I would have thought being on a ski slope would
1225
00:54:18.849 --> 00:54:22.420
be an absolute, like a child in a sweet shop. Stupid.
1226
00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:26.920
It's stupid. It's stupid. You put two bits of long
1227
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:29.719
things on your feet and you fly down a mountain,
1228
00:54:30.070 --> 00:54:32.889
slide down. No, if you're going to fall, that's fine.
1229
00:54:33.469 --> 00:54:36.070
Not the sliding down. No, don't like it. I like
1230
00:54:36.090 --> 00:54:37.409
the bit at the top. I like to stand at
1231
00:54:37.429 --> 00:54:40.380
the top. It's lovely. Don't like, I like the ski lift,
1232
00:54:40.420 --> 00:54:40.679
all that.
1233
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:40.860
No.
1234
00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:43.519
So he went away and you know what? I rung
1235
00:54:43.559 --> 00:54:45.659
him up and I was giggling. He went, what is it?
1236
00:54:45.659 --> 00:54:48.050
I went, I've just loaded the dishwasher and I put
1237
00:54:48.110 --> 00:54:50.710
it on all by myself and it's all hickety-pickety and.
1238
00:54:50.690 --> 00:54:54.179
Nobody can know. And he was pissing himself laughing.
1239
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:56.340
Just like put a pint glass the right way up,
1240
00:54:56.460 --> 00:54:58.599
filled with murky water.
1241
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:01.000
Most people ring up and go, oh, I decided to
1242
00:55:01.019 --> 00:55:03.199
get really pissed tonight and I've had my friends around
1243
00:55:03.260 --> 00:55:04.079
and I've got takeaways.
1244
00:55:04.380 --> 00:55:08.210
No, it was the dishwasher! Yes! Well, you know, you
1245
00:55:08.230 --> 00:55:09.550
need to have a bit of balance, the yin to
1246
00:55:09.590 --> 00:55:10.329
your yang, isn't.
1247
00:55:10.210 --> 00:55:11.570
It, Gabby? Exactly.
1248
00:55:11.869 --> 00:55:15.619
He's also pretty mad, though. He'll suddenly... start doing stupid voice.
1249
00:55:15.659 --> 00:55:17.400
He's nothing to do with the industry. And I actually,
1250
00:55:17.420 --> 00:55:19.760
I think that's probably a very good thing.
1251
00:55:20.010 --> 00:55:22.829
Yes, I think so. What does he do? Does he
1252
00:55:22.869 --> 00:55:24.210
work in sort of, he doesn't do any sort of
1253
00:55:24.289 --> 00:55:25.909
creative sort of stuff like that?
1254
00:55:25.929 --> 00:55:28.210
Yeah, he's a bit of both. He's a, he's a,
1255
00:55:28.409 --> 00:55:30.570
he's a very clever guy, but he's a, he's more,
1256
00:55:31.010 --> 00:55:32.880
he can do the academic side as well as the
1257
00:55:32.929 --> 00:55:34.860
creative side. Academic and me.
1258
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:40.179
I can't imagine you helping a, Your children with the homework. Yeah.
1259
00:55:41.059 --> 00:55:45.130
How was homeschooling with your 13-year-old? What happened? Please talk
1260
00:55:45.150 --> 00:55:50.079
me through the Gabby Roslin schedule of homeschooling. Did you bother?
1261
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.360
I'm hoping I'm just upset at Rob.
1262
00:55:53.739 --> 00:55:56.989
No, I'm laughing because you're so right. He did all
1263
00:55:57.010 --> 00:55:59.550
of the homework and I never do that. I'm not
1264
00:55:59.570 --> 00:56:00.329
very good at that.
1265
00:56:00.489 --> 00:56:01.070
I'm not.
1266
00:56:01.730 --> 00:56:02.150
No.
1267
00:56:02.210 --> 00:56:04.929
But no, the drama. I help them with their drama.
1268
00:56:05.510 --> 00:56:06.329
All right.
1269
00:56:06.369 --> 00:56:09.250
That's a tough one. That's a tough one for you.
1270
00:56:09.349 --> 00:56:11.230
And English. No, I like the English. So I love
1271
00:56:11.269 --> 00:56:14.269
all the anything to do with English literature. I love
1272
00:56:14.309 --> 00:56:16.030
all of that. So I help them with that and
1273
00:56:16.090 --> 00:56:17.860
I help them with the art. And I help them
1274
00:56:17.900 --> 00:56:19.519
with the– I'm laughing just because.
1275
00:56:19.340 --> 00:56:20.699
It's so true. What was the schedule, though, Gabby, for
1276
00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:22.000
the homeschooling?
1277
00:56:22.019 --> 00:56:25.030
Well, actually, they're very lucky because my oldest was at university,
1278
00:56:25.110 --> 00:56:28.789
so she did a few lectures online. And my youngest
1279
00:56:29.389 --> 00:56:32.730
school was three to four every day online.
1280
00:56:32.789 --> 00:56:33.150
Online.
1281
00:56:33.190 --> 00:56:34.630
Oh, okay. So you're lucky there.
1282
00:56:34.789 --> 00:56:37.750
Nailed it. When you're teaching them art, do you ever go,
1283
00:56:37.769 --> 00:56:40.760
I know literally the richest artist in the world. You
1284
00:56:40.780 --> 00:56:43.980
can speak to him. Mr. Neil Buchanan.
1285
00:56:44.300 --> 00:56:45.079
You know what?
1286
00:56:45.099 --> 00:56:45.170
Yes.
1287
00:56:45.690 --> 00:56:50.300
I actually, all jokes aside, during the lockdown, I said
1288
00:56:50.340 --> 00:56:53.400
to my oldest, should we speak to Neil and ask
1289
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:57.519
him if he'll do a lesson with our youngest and
1290
00:56:57.539 --> 00:57:00.170
see if he'll do that. And she just looked at me,
1291
00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:03.889
she went, you're going to ring up Neil Buchanan and say,
1292
00:57:04.250 --> 00:57:08.130
can you tea my youngest? I went, yeah, it's a
1293
00:57:08.170 --> 00:57:12.860
good idea, isn't it? Honestly, she just thought I'd gone
1294
00:57:12.920 --> 00:57:13.800
completely mad.
1295
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:16.380
Oh, Gabby, you've been so good. It's been an absolute pleasure.
1296
00:57:16.619 --> 00:57:18.800
I think you should write a book, Gabby, about how
1297
00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:20.750
to live life because I think you've got it nailed.
1298
00:57:21.090 --> 00:57:23.730
Oh, bless you. You're so lovely. You know, Rob, I
1299
00:57:23.769 --> 00:57:25.969
completely adore you. Josh, I do, and I've never met you.
1300
00:57:25.989 --> 00:57:28.150
I really do. No, but it's an absolute pleasure to
1301
00:57:28.170 --> 00:57:28.809
speak to you.
1302
00:57:28.909 --> 00:57:31.230
And what's your podcast, Gabby? I was on an episode
1303
00:57:31.289 --> 00:57:31.670
of it.
1304
00:57:31.969 --> 00:57:34.269
It's not out yet, Rob, your one. They've started with
1305
00:57:34.329 --> 00:57:34.809
the big names.
1306
00:57:36.630 --> 00:57:40.909
No, he was absolutely... I texted him ages ago to
1307
00:57:41.030 --> 00:57:42.840
ask him, because I ask him to do everything, because
1308
00:57:42.889 --> 00:57:45.579
I absolutely... I'm going to embarrass him now, because he
1309
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:48.179
doesn't like it. But I adore Rob. I think he's...
1310
00:57:48.710 --> 00:57:51.269
The most wonderful, glorious I've seen him do is like,
1311
00:57:51.309 --> 00:57:53.710
I'm actually, I might be your stalker because I've been
1312
00:57:53.730 --> 00:57:56.510
to all his shows. My husband's come along to his shows.
1313
00:57:56.969 --> 00:57:58.179
My family know my love.
1314
00:57:58.460 --> 00:58:00.920
And my mates go, why does Gabby Rossi always come
1315
00:58:00.940 --> 00:58:04.679
to your shows? I'm actually doing a Zoom lesson for
1316
00:58:04.699 --> 00:58:07.219
Gabby's daughters about comedy next week. She's got me lined up.
1317
00:58:07.300 --> 00:58:10.860
And what's the name of your podcast, Gabby, for people
1318
00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:11.510
to go and listen to?
1319
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:15.199
Thank you. It's that Gabby Roslin podcast. It's that simple.
1320
00:58:15.219 --> 00:58:17.519
Brilliant. Robbie Williams lined up. Dame Judi Dench is an
1321
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:19.719
absolute banger of a podcast. Thank you so much, Gabby.
1322
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:20.659
Cheers, Gabby.
1323
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:21.619
Thanks, guys.
1324
00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:22.239
Thank you.
1325
00:58:24.469 --> 00:58:26.010
Gabby Roslin. What a woman, Josh.
1326
00:58:26.389 --> 00:58:28.820
Amazing. I didn't feel it was on brand to discuss
1327
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:30.599
The Big Breakfast, but there was so much I wanted
1328
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:31.900
to discuss The Big Breakfast.
1329
00:58:32.019 --> 00:58:33.940
It was absolutely mad. I felt like a right little
1330
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:36.280
nerd going, but what about your kids? And she's talking
1331
00:58:36.300 --> 00:58:38.179
about sea rescues. I know.
1332
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:40.860
You're kind of going, are we missing the lead here?
1333
00:58:40.900 --> 00:58:43.090
Do you know what I mean? Are we completely missing what?
1334
00:58:43.769 --> 00:58:46.469
I know it's a parenting podcast. Is everyone at home going?
1335
00:58:47.179 --> 00:58:49.159
can't wait for more neil buchanan stories and we're going
1336
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:53.150
do you have a problem disciplining your children.
1337
00:58:52.489 --> 00:58:55.329
Also it's like she said she told about three stories
1338
00:58:55.389 --> 00:58:57.469
about her kids falling over that she's got on video
1339
00:58:57.510 --> 00:59:00.230
that we can't see but it's still well about so
1340
00:59:00.610 --> 00:59:00.940
far i.
1341
00:59:00.909 --> 00:59:05.139
Know you're like i'm not sure how i'm enjoying someone
1342
00:59:05.179 --> 00:59:09.420
describing someone falling over but i am enjoying it so there.
1343
00:59:10.409 --> 00:59:12.170
When you said, have you heard of You've Been Framed?
1344
00:59:12.190 --> 00:59:13.769
You'll love it. I nearly lost my mind.
1345
00:59:15.380 --> 00:59:17.929
She's the great Lost You've Been Framed host. She should
1346
00:59:17.949 --> 00:59:18.659
have been doing that.
1347
00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:20.940
You know when someone's on weed and they're really high
1348
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:26.739
and giggly, but that's her entire life. It's like that. Actually,
1349
00:59:26.760 --> 00:59:28.440
the reason why I know her is basically I used
1350
00:59:28.460 --> 00:59:31.170
to do... go on a radio show and do little
1351
00:59:31.210 --> 00:59:33.610
funny stories when it was on BBC Radio London. And
1352
00:59:33.650 --> 00:59:36.300
then I got offered a pilot for Absolute Radio and
1353
00:59:37.059 --> 00:59:38.579
I said, oh, do you mind helping me out, like,
1354
00:59:38.860 --> 00:59:40.960
put it together and advice on doing a show? And
1355
00:59:40.980 --> 00:59:42.400
she went, of course. And she took me to lunch,
1356
00:59:42.460 --> 00:59:44.800
bought my lunch, gave me so much advice about how
1357
00:59:44.820 --> 00:59:46.780
to do radio and broadcast and ideas and stuff.
1358
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:47.619
What were her top tips?
1359
00:59:48.050 --> 00:59:50.409
Just basically, if you can fall over on air, you'll
1360
00:59:50.429 --> 00:59:54.269
be great. LAUGHTER That was more like just relax and
1361
00:59:54.570 --> 00:59:57.079
be you and also try and involve, like make the
1362
00:59:57.119 --> 00:59:58.659
audience feel like they're part of a little gang. And
1363
00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:01.000
do you know what? More than anything, she was so
1364
01:00:01.659 --> 01:00:03.630
full of, really, it was just that to go and
1365
01:00:03.670 --> 01:00:05.329
be myself. But like, she calmed me down because she
1366
01:00:05.349 --> 01:00:07.440
was so positive and full of energy and, you know
1367
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:09.380
enthusiastic it just made me feel so much better but
1368
01:00:09.699 --> 01:00:11.099
she didn't need to do that no you know she
1369
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:12.619
just did that she was being a nice person and
1370
01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:14.239
stuff so and we really hit it off and sort
1371
01:00:14.260 --> 01:00:16.420
of been friends since but yeah she's she's such a
1372
01:00:16.460 --> 01:00:18.460
lovely lady but she's like that all the and she
1373
01:00:18.500 --> 01:00:21.050
does walk she walks ever on her instagram she just
1374
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:23.849
walks she just leaves her house listens to a podcast
1375
01:00:23.889 --> 01:00:27.010
or walks about five hours it just chats to people.
1376
01:00:26.630 --> 01:00:29.510
I'm absolutely following her instagram straight away mainly in case
1377
01:00:29.530 --> 01:00:32.119
there's any videos of people falling over Well, also.
1378
01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:35.460
Though, I would put myself as a number one Gabby
1379
01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:38.219
Rosling fan, but I would have been absolutely furious of
1380
01:00:38.260 --> 01:00:40.050
her singing Mary Poppins on the tube.
1381
01:00:40.570 --> 01:00:43.429
Yeah, of course. That's absolutely unacceptable behaviour. You know when
1382
01:00:43.449 --> 01:00:45.190
people talk about how people don't talk to each other
1383
01:00:45.230 --> 01:00:47.630
on public transport in London? I think, yeah, that's what
1384
01:00:47.650 --> 01:00:49.590
I want. This is my time on my own. I
1385
01:00:49.610 --> 01:00:52.449
don't want someone seeing Mary Poppins in my face, whether
1386
01:00:52.469 --> 01:00:54.050
they've been on The Big Breakfast or not.
1387
01:00:54.210 --> 01:00:56.110
It's kind of a weird thing, though, to be angry
1388
01:00:56.130 --> 01:00:58.230
at someone for using the tube. Normally it's the other way,
1389
01:00:58.250 --> 01:01:00.909
isn't it? I'm going to say it.
1390
01:01:00.949 --> 01:01:03.070
I think he had other issues going on as well.
1391
01:01:03.570 --> 01:01:05.769
Yeah. What's this really about?
1392
01:01:07.340 --> 01:01:10.079
I think it's also that shy stuff's really interesting. And
1393
01:01:10.119 --> 01:01:12.119
I think it would be really, you know, that will
1394
01:01:12.139 --> 01:01:14.679
speak to a lot of our listeners, I think. Yeah.
1395
01:01:14.699 --> 01:01:16.849
Well, I can't even really explain why, really. I just
1396
01:01:16.869 --> 01:01:19.269
was a really shy, nervous kid. And then I've just
1397
01:01:19.289 --> 01:01:21.730
sort of, I think I just love comedy and I
1398
01:01:21.769 --> 01:01:24.829
really wanted to do comedy, but I didn't want my
1399
01:01:24.869 --> 01:01:25.949
shyness to stop me doing it.
1400
01:01:26.150 --> 01:01:26.369
Yeah.
1401
01:01:26.449 --> 01:01:28.809
If you know what I mean. So, but yeah, because
1402
01:01:28.829 --> 01:01:30.150
I mean, but like when I was 18, I'd just
1403
01:01:30.170 --> 01:01:31.670
like be too scared to go in a pub on
1404
01:01:31.690 --> 01:01:33.550
my own. I'd have to wait outside to meet my
1405
01:01:33.570 --> 01:01:35.389
friends to walk in with them. because I never wanted
1406
01:01:35.469 --> 01:01:38.070
to walk in a venue on my own. But from touring,
1407
01:01:38.349 --> 01:01:41.429
like I would eat alone in a restaurant at eight o'clock,
1408
01:01:41.750 --> 01:01:43.380
wouldn't care. I'd go into a pub.
1409
01:01:43.389 --> 01:01:45.699
Which is really unprofessional because that's when your show starts.
1410
01:01:45.739 --> 01:01:48.880
Yeah, I'm normally half hour late really. I've all fit down.
1411
01:01:48.900 --> 01:01:50.639
Sorry guys, I was on Wagamama's on my own.
1412
01:01:50.900 --> 01:01:53.340
A couple of reddies in the interval, I'm raring to go.
1413
01:01:54.179 --> 01:01:57.659
But yeah, so I can talk to anyone now really.
1414
01:01:57.840 --> 01:01:59.659
But I do think though, sometimes I go into a
1415
01:01:59.659 --> 01:02:04.489
bit more of a Rob show mode headspace though. But yeah,
1416
01:02:04.570 --> 01:02:06.610
it's just, but also people grow up and they're different.
1417
01:02:06.869 --> 01:02:09.570
The person you are at 14, like you say, you're
1418
01:02:09.610 --> 01:02:11.559
never the same person throughout the whole of your life.
1419
01:02:12.039 --> 01:02:14.239
You evolve, you change. I love stand-up and I think
1420
01:02:14.260 --> 01:02:16.920
I'll do stand-up forever, but I wouldn't be surprised when
1421
01:02:16.960 --> 01:02:18.260
I'm 50 or 60, I'll just open a shop or
1422
01:02:18.280 --> 01:02:22.570
something and do something else. I think. Ed Gamble said
1423
01:02:22.610 --> 01:02:24.090
that to me for the week and I was quite
1424
01:02:24.150 --> 01:02:25.909
chilled about it. It was like, how are you so
1425
01:02:25.929 --> 01:02:28.070
relaxed about it? I went, well, the thing is, Ed,
1426
01:02:28.860 --> 01:02:31.099
I've got a few jokes. I'll say, if they work,
1427
01:02:31.139 --> 01:02:33.199
they work. If they don't, they don't. And if I
1428
01:02:33.219 --> 01:02:35.170
can't do this anymore, I'll open a shop or something.
1429
01:02:36.789 --> 01:02:37.750
What would your shop be?
1430
01:02:38.769 --> 01:02:43.550
Beckett's Bats. Sandwiches. Just a little sandwich shop. It's quite
1431
01:02:43.570 --> 01:02:46.110
an easy thing. Also, I've never eaten a sandwich I
1432
01:02:46.130 --> 01:02:47.360
couldn't have made better myself.
1433
01:02:47.380 --> 01:02:48.139
Have you?
1434
01:02:51.400 --> 01:02:53.019
I've never eaten a sandwich I thought I couldn't have
1435
01:02:53.039 --> 01:02:53.500
made that better.
1436
01:02:55.280 --> 01:02:58.719
No, I mean that. Do you think... Do you think
1437
01:02:58.760 --> 01:03:00.440
you'd do some trade because you were the guy that
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used to be on Mock the Week? Do you think
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some people would come in purely.
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For the night?
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Yeah, a couple of gags. But they'll be renamed after
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different panel shows.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I'm trying to think of some now, but I can't.
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But if anyone wants to write in with the menu
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for Beckett's back.
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What I lied to you is basically tuna surprise, but
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it's salmon.
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So that was amazing. I really enjoyed talking to Gabby Roslind.
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It's also very exciting. It's very exciting when someone knows
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Neil Buchanan.
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Having Neil Buchanan on Speed Dial, I bet his kids'
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artwork's so good. I was going to say, that'd be
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a good question for Neil Buchanan would be, when your
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kid had art homework, was you just tempted just to,
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you know... What is it? Where do you draw the line?
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Because I think if my kids start doing.
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Stand-up... Well, drawing the line is one of the things
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he's so good at.
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But if my kids did stand-up, I find it so
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hard not to give them advice of what to do.
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Because.
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you know, I don't want to blow my own trumpet,
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but after 12 years of doing it, I do know
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best if they've just started. I know exactly what you need.
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I may not be able to do it every time,
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but I know exactly what you need to do at
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that point.
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But it's very difficult for Neil Buchanan's son to submit
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for their RGCSE a 50-foot picture of a bicycle made
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up of bicycle parts on a lawn.
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Yeah, where's your coursework? Come to the park, follow me.
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Have you got scaffolding and a 20-foot ladder?
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LAUGHTER Um, thank you to Gabby. Um, thank you all
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for listening. We'll be back on Friday with, uh, you know.
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Support Instagram's correspondence. I'd say we've got a lot to
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get through. So I see bangers coming in. Um, yeah.
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So we'll see on Friday.
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Instagram, get us an email. See them. Bye. Bye.
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Hello, I'm Josh Whitacombe.
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And I'm Rob Beckett.
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Welcome to Lockdown Parenting Hell. The show in which Rob
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and I discuss what it's like to be a parent
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during lockdown, which I would say can be a little tricky.
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Yeah!
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Yeah!
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So, in an effort to make some kind of sense
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of the current situation... And to.
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Make me feel better about my increasingly terrible parenting skills.
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Each episode we'll be chatting to a famous parent about
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how well they're coping.
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Or hopefully not.
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And we will be hearing from you, the listener, with
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your tales of lockdown parenting woe.
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Because let's be honest, none of us know what we're doing.
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Hello and welcome to Lockdown Parenting Hell with.
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Can you say Josh Widdicombe? Can you say Rob Beckett?
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I've got to be quite sensitive here, but is he
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hitting something or is he growling like a mad dog?
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I can't put this any more sensitively, but is he
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a mad dog?
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Yeah, is your child a demon? A demon from Ghostbusters?
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Is your child the mad demon dog from Ghostbusters? Is
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that right? Oh, dear. Oh, so thanks very much. I mean,
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I assume he was hitting something or is that how
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William sounds?
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I don't know. We'll just have to jump to our
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own conclusions. Happy birthday, William. Happy third birthday. It's actually
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my daughter's birthday this week, Rob. Oh, wow. Third birthday.
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Third birthday. What are you doing? You're going to invite, what,
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two people round?
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I mean, I don't want to throw around the word loophole, Rob. Oh,
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go on. Yeah.
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It's only guidance, remember? It's only guidance. You're doing the
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best thing for your child. The Cummings law, you are
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doing what you think is best for your child. And
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if you think 100 people at air jumps are the
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best way forward, then go for it.
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I mean, the thing is, the people next door must
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be thinking they're building a very big marquee for six people. No,
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she shares her birthday with two other children who are
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also three on the same day in her nursery. Oh, wow.
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We're going to do birthday in the morning. But then
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she can go to nursery. And there's 20 kids there.
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So it's like they're having a party at nursery. So
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there's your loophole.
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Oh, what a loophole. So basically it's three kids and
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it's going to be party day.
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Yeah, it's party day at nursery.
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Oh, that's lovely. She'll have breakfast with them, presents and stuff,
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and off she goes.
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Off she goes.
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Lovely. No Zoom party?
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No Zoom party.
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I'm still waiting for those Zoom parties. I'll let you
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know how they go once I've logged in. And I'm
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a bit worried, though. I don't know if anyone that
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goes to my daughter's school listens to this. I'm going
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to have to tread carefully.
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That is a worry, isn't it? Surely it would spread
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like wildfire once they realise that someone is documenting their
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child's time at the school.
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Well, the thing is, I think you've got to go
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two ways with this. You either don't talk about it
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at all as a comedian because you want to, you know,
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you either don't talk about it at all or you
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do the Catherine Ryan approach where you absolutely rinse everyone
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and you are just isolated at the school gate.
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I'll be honest with you. I'm trying to tread carefully,
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but I haven't had too many. I mean, I've got
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some beef that I'm not going to put on here.
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Oh, I'd love to know that beef. We should do
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a charity special. We would just actually beef off everyone.
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How's your week been?
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It's been all right. We converted to a big bed
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from cot.
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Oh, how did that go?
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Two nights were tough.
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Did she come into your bed or did she just cry?
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Did you have to lay with her?
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Do you know what? This is the best thing, mate.
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She has literally no interest in our bed.
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Same here. Not yours with mine. My kids with my bed.
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That's great. Great news.
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Yeah. I'm going to let you in on a secret, Rob.
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I sat on it the other day. It's one of
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the hardest, least comfortable beds I've ever been on. But
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she doesn't know any better.
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No.
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So it's fine.
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She's lucky to have it.
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Exactly. So she's basically sleeping on a plank. But she
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doesn't realize that that's a problem. So I'm not going
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to tell her.
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What size bed did you go for? Just a single?
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King. King.
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Because we've got a double for our kids because basically
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they don't need bedroom space for a desk to work.
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So we've basically taken over most of their room with
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a double bed. They've got a room each, very lucky
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to have a room each. They've got a double bed
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in it because then when we have people to stay,
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we've got spare beds. Rather than putting your mate or
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cousin in a tiny little curl up car bed.
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So do they get lost in it? Well, not lost,
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but you know.
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Yeah.
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Have you ever come in in the morning? It's taken
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an hour to find them. No, no, no.
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They don't get lost in it. But the beauty of
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the kids is they do grow.
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They do. That is one of the things about them.
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Oh, that's good news, though. So she's sleeping in it well.
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So that's all right. And we've more or less nailed
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potty training as well.
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Oh, mate.
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It's been a very big week.
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Through the night yet or not?
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She wears nappies, but she doesn't really do anything in them.
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And then she takes them straight off and puts them
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in the bin for us.
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Oh, excellent. With the two-year-old, we're still at the stage
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of nappy in the night, bit of wee in it.
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But I'm in no rush to sort that out. That'll
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be fine. That'll go, wouldn't it? Once she gets to uni.
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Yeah, it'll be fine. But she'll be doing uni from
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home by then. It'll be via Zoom, so it doesn't
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really matter.
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You can just sit there, piss yourself on Zoom, and
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still learn. And I think that's the future of our
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country's education. You can sit there with a nappy on
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at 18, shit and piss yourself, and still find out
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about fractions.
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Exactly, and pay nine grand a term for the thrill.
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Imagine going to uni to do maths. Fucking hell. I
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know it happens, but imagine.
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I know it happens. I've heard it happens.
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I mean, year nine maths is mental, isn't it?
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I lost... I was quite good at maths and I
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quite liked it when it was just sums. And then
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once it got into like trigonometry and they're trying to
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apply it to cake and you're like a ladder against
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a wall and you're like, this wouldn't fucking happen. At
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the moment it became unlikely. Count me out.
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I'm still furious. They never taught anyone how to do
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a self-assessment tax return. Like everyone in my fucking school
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has to do because they're all gas fitters and plumbers
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or comedians. Well, it's only me and Tom Adam, but
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you know what I mean?
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Well, that's quite a good percentage. Yeah, it is. How's
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your week been, Rob?
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Well, I've had a weird week for a parenting podcast
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is because I've been away working for 11 days in
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a row.
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Blimey, that's a packed week.
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She's a massive, massive block, right?
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Yeah.
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And you know what's weird is when you've been away
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working and Lou had to sort of do it all, right?
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I come home and it's weird. You sort of, because
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she just did it on her own, I come back
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to sort of try and help, but I sort of
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get in the way and ruin it because she's got
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a system.
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Yeah.
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I'm sort of trying to help and then I'm sort
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of doing stuff. I'm doing it slightly wrong and the
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girls are like, oh no, but that's not how you
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do it.
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Have you been phased out basically over 11 days? I
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feel like she's.
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Left me, but we're all in the house together.
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Yeah.
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And so you're trying to help and it gets a
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bit awkward. And then because I've been away working, I've
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not done any of my like house admin, life admin.
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And then she's not been able to do it either
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because she's been working. So it's just a horrible catch
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up and everyone's a bit like, but we've got a
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couple of days to sort of catch up and stuff.
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So it's quite, I don't know if anyone else gets that,
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but it's quite difficult to get back into the family
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routine when you've been away. And what's been difficult I
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found is, I used to go to work as, oh,
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my God, I get a break. I'm so lucky. But
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now they're older and they're going to school. And we
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don't actually see them that much in the day because
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they're at school now. I just miss them so much.
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And then when I come back, they're not here because
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they're at school and stuff. It's sort of a weird
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turning point where now work isn't, oh, I get a
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bit of a break. It's, oh, God, I'm really going
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to miss them. which when you're in the you know
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the midst of lockdown or when they're really young you
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can't ever imagine that yeah but like now i sort
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of and so it's like that work balance the work
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life balancing and i've been reading this book here called
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the cost of these dreams.
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You'll love it the cost of these dreams yeah.
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So it's basically this uh american journalist and it's basically
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um a collection of true stories about the dream of
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greatness and its cost in the world of sports So
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all these people that, because it's got like stories about Messi,
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Michael Jordan, and then also some like American college football
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coaches and about the balance of work and life, which
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I think everyone, obviously these guys are doing it to
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the extreme, but like everyone has that where you want
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to do well at work and make sure everyone has
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a holiday and everything's paid, but you also got to
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be there for them. And anyway, I'm having that existential
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crisis on like day 10 of being away from home.
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Is this how you're announcing your retirement, Rob, live on
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the podcast?
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No, no, no. Actually, I'm announcing the divorce. The fact that...
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I don't want any access to the kids. I'm just
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going to focus on my dreams.
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Life balance is all over the shop. Too much life,
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not enough work.
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Yeah, fuck the life off. Sorry, I've got to stop swearing.
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Get rid of the life. Stop swearing. Anyway, so I
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was reading this. You know you have those moments of like, oh,
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am I working too much? I'm not seeing the kids.
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I read this. It's one of those brutal passages I've
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ever read. But basically, this guy is an American. I've
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got his name. He's an urban mayor, one of the
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most successful coaches in American football, right? Basically, he's got
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four kids and he's just working all the time and
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he keeps cancelling all their stuff. Anyway, his eldest daughter
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has just got a scholarship to play volleyball at a
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big college. And in America, it's all done in a
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big hall. And basically, if you're getting a scholarship, it's
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such a big deal that you sign the contract and
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announce which college you're joining and you do a speech there.
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And he tried to get out of it. And his secretary,
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who's got four kids, went, no, you are going. And
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so forced him to go. Anyway, so there was about
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80 or so people in the school cafeteria for this
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big announcement. Urban and his wife, Shelley, joined their daughter
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at the front table watching. Anyway, so his daughter, Gigi,
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stood and spoke. She'd been nervous all day and with
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a room full of eyes on her. She thanked her
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mother for being there season after season, year after year.
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This is in front of the whole school and all
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the teachers. Then she turned to her father. He'd missed
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almost everything. You weren't there, she told him. Shelley, his wife, winced.
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Her heart broke for Urban, who sat with a thin smile, crushed.
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Moments later, Gigi high-fived her dad without making eye contact,
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then hugged her coach.
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Oh, my God. Imagine.
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Imagine that happening to you.
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Oh, my God.
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Your soul would leave your body.
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That is... Oh. Do you know what? I feel a
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lot better about myself.
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Yeah, exactly. But it turns out that what happened was
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he had a nervous breakdown, but then recovered, readdressed his balance,
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and went back to manage for a couple of years
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and retired. So it was a happy ending.
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Oh, that's nice. So... So have you been doing a
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lot of high-fiving the daughters since you got back from
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your working for 11 days, Rob?
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I've basically just been forcing them to play volleyball and
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watch them, just in case. Just laying next to him
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in bed. I'm here. I'm there. I am here. Yeah, sure,
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I wasn't here for 11 days, but I'm here now.
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But I just read that and I was like, oh,
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my God, that is not... That is what I don't
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want to be. But it's hard, isn't it? It's hard
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to balance that out and make the right decisions.
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Have you read Lily Allen's.
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Autobiography, Rob? Oh, my God. That, as a parent.
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That's some parenting right there from Keith Allen there, isn't it?
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And her mum as well.
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And her mum as well.
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The one where, basically, you know, she.
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She was at a boarding school in like Devon or somewhere.
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We should try and get her on the podcast. She
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was at a boarding school in Devon and the coach
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would bring them all up from Devon to Royal Albert
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Hall where they'd get picked up, okay, for Easter holidays
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from boarding school. And then she'd come all the way up.
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All the other girls and boys got picked up and
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she got left. Her mum or dad forgot and they
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had to just drive her back to Devon. Oh, could
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you imagine? Poor girl.
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Tip of the iceberg. There's some astonishing stories in that book.
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She's not on here promoting it, but I should say
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it is, One of the most jaw-dropping reads. Although I
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would say Harry Enfield comes out of it brilliantly.
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He does, doesn't he?
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What a guy.
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He really does.
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What a great guy.
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Oh, my God. Yeah, she thanked him for everything. No
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high fives.
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No high fives.
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The full hug.
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Right.
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Who you got for us, Rob?
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Oh, we've only got one of, I'd say, the best
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presenters of her generation. Big Breakfast, Motormouth, Children in Need.
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It's the one, the only, Gabby Roslin.
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I'm going to be honest. I'm very excited about this.
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Me and Rob will often suggest guests back and forth.
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And when Rob said Gabby Roslin, I've never applied yes
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quicker in my life. Hello, Gabby Roslin.
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I don't believe you.
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Honestly, Gabby, he is a mega fan.
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I don't believe you.
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Gabby, this is meant to be about parenting, but I'm
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mainly going to be focusing on motor mouth.
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You're not old enough to remember that.
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I am old enough to remember that, Gabby. I've just
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checked the dates on Wikipedia. It was 1989 to 1992.
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So that was, I was six to nine.
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Oh my, well, I was only, I was, I was
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a mere teenager. 12 it was amazing how much you
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did before 15.
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So Gabby let's start with your let's start with your
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your parenting um let's get that out of the way
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shall we.
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Rob yeah yeah yeah happily yeah I'm I am the
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embarrassing mum I am and I'm I'm proud of being
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the embarrassing mum and I'll always be the embarrassing.
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Mum how old are your children Gabby.
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13 and 19. So my oldest is away at university
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and she said that the thing she doesn't miss is
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the way I wake her up in the morning. And
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it's wrong and it's abusive, but I don't care.
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So how do you wake her up in the morning?
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Well, I sit on my girls and I sing musical
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theatre songs. Oh, wow.
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Old, bold start to the day.
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And I'm not lying. I mean, that is honestly, if
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you were to ask either of them How I wake
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them up, they'll say, oh, we're fast asleep. My mum
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sits on top of us. Actually, it's really weird when
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I say out loud.
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Well, they're quite old, Gabby. Not old, but they're quite
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old for sitting on them at night.
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No, but I wouldn't do it if they were little. Actually,
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I did. No, when they were really little, I'd lie
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down next to them and sing a musical theatre song.
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Because my 19-year-old, she's 19. She hasn't grown up. When
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she came home in lockdown, she was really happy about
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that after leaving home. And then suddenly, come on, you're
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coming back. I used to go in in the morning
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and I'd sit on her. She'd be on her side.
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So I'd sit on her properly on her legs. I'd
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go poof and I'd start singing. There are worse things
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I could do or anything from any musical.
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Well, what about when, you know, your daughter brings home
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a partner? Like, would you still burst into that room?
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No. No. Oh, my goodness. Well, maybe.
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I think you wouldn't the first few times. If it
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was a serious relationship and they've been together a little while,
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a year or so, I think you'll start edging into that, Gabby.
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A year? No, no, no. It'll be after a couple
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of days. I'm not waiting that long to be embarrassing. Well, no,
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you're right. But actually, I know what I've got to do.
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I've got it.
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I know exactly what I'll do. I will go, you
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know that when you close the door and there's just,
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Not the keyhole, but the line down the side of
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the door. I do that. You know when you put–
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I'll do it on the mic. When you do that
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up to the door, you know when you do that
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to talk to somebody. And I'll start singing, good morning,
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good morning.
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Oh, my God, Gabby.
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So are you doing this purely because you enjoy ruining
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their morning or are you doing it– I mean, do
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you enjoy embarrassing them?
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Yes, but also I don't take, well, Rob has known
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me a long time now, but I don't take life
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terribly seriously. And I also think a really nice way
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to start the day is to laugh and to have
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your daughter look at you in the way that my
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13-year-old this morning on a Monday morning, although she loves,
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I have to say she loves, she really does love school,
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which is fantastic. But this morning I lay down next
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to her And I started drumming a tune on her bottom.
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And I said, do you know what tune it is?
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And she went, mom. I went, no, go on. Here
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it is. And then she said, oh my God, it's
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Grease Lightning.
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And I went, yes! She got it! What time is this?
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This morning it was seven o'clock.
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Oh, wow.
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That's a pretty early start to the day, isn't it,
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with a grease lightning drummed on your arse? Gabby, you
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are so full of life and energy and everything about you,
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you want to have as much fun as you can
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in that day. And I think it's a wonderful way
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to live your life. But how do you balance that,
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especially when the kids were younger and you were tired
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and worn out when they were toddlers and then you
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had to sort of like discipline them and things like that?
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How did you manage your personality in order to do that? Yeah.
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When I remember sort of, you know, saying, for goodness sake,
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you know, do your homework, do your homework. But then
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they'll shout downstairs and go, mum, will you be quiet?
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And I'll go, I'm really sorry. I've just found something
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that's really funny. You've got to come and see that.
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So they'd probably say I'm not that stern. I leave
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that to my husband. He's not that stern either, but
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I'll leave that to him.
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But you don't really do any of that kind of stuff.
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You're just a full fun time. And then he has
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to do all that. No, no, no.
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I suppose when it comes to being careful, that sort
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of thing, I'm very... I don't want them to be
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hurt or, you know, that I'm very, I'm protective in
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that way. But when my oldest one, oh, this is
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going to sound really wrong.
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Perfect. Perfect. Start to any anecdote.
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No one was hurt in the making of this story.
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When my oldest one fell down the stairs and she
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properly fell down, fell down the stairs on, on her
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back and on the bottom. And she, she landed at
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the bottom. And she just then, you know, when a
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child sits up and shakes their head because they're completely shocked.
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And then I said, are you okay? And she went, mommy,
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I fell down the stairs. And then that was it.
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I sat on the floor and I peed myself laughing.
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And then afterwards she kept saying, and she didn't cry.
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She kept saying, mommy, what are you doing? What are
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you doing? And I said, I'm really sorry, but you're okay.
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And that made me laugh. I wish I'd filmed it.
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And I do. That's the thing that makes me laugh.
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And so they, but if she'd been hurt, I would
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have been comforting and nice.
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Of course. My daughter at her school, she started, she's
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only four, four and a half. She came over and said, yeah,
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someone fell over and the teacher said, we're not allowed
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to laugh when someone falls over. It's not funny. And
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in my head going, Well, that's incorrect. It's my favourite thing.
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It is.
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It's really, it's sick. I mean, this does sound like
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a name drop, but on my podcast, Robbie Williams was
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one of my first guests and he was saying all
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these things that make him funny. And then he asked
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me and I said, well, somebody walking into a tree.
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I just thought it was wrong.
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I went, no, somebody walking into a tree.
448
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No, it's the funniest thing. You know, there was a
449
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show that before both of you were born called Not
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the Nine O'Clock News and Rowan Atkinson walks along and
451
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walks into a tree and it made me laugh. And
452
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then the next clip is him walking along and thinking,
453
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ha ha, I'm not going to walk into the tree.
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He moves away from the tree and walks into a lamppost.
455
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And it is, old-fashioned funny.
456
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Are your daughters like you, though, like this sort of
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sense of excitement? Yes. Or have they gone... Sometimes I find...
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I've got friends of mine whose parents are like you,
459
00:19:29.650 --> 00:19:31.390
and then the kids almost become like the adults, a
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bit more serious. Or have they gone... Followed you, or
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have they gone a bit more serious because you're a
462
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bit more, you know, carefree?
463
00:19:37.210 --> 00:19:41.039
Well, no, they both... My husband doesn't like the fact
464
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that we all laugh if somebody falls over or hurts himself.
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And and he thinks it's really cruel. So if he's
466
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in the room and something happens, we all have that
467
00:19:52.400 --> 00:19:55.339
awful feeling of where, you know, you, you just don't
468
00:19:55.400 --> 00:19:59.569
want anybody to see you laughing and you, you, you
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bite the inside of your cheeks and you don't want
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to laugh. And then, and then he'll look up and say,
471
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I know you're laughing. And you have to think, I'm
472
00:20:07.009 --> 00:20:10.500
really not. And your voice gets really, No, I'm really not.
473
00:20:11.140 --> 00:20:15.369
But they're the same. They laugh at, oh, gosh, at anything.
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00:20:15.789 --> 00:20:18.430
Somebody walking into a door, somebody falling off a chair.
475
00:20:18.769 --> 00:20:20.029
I mean, it's those things.
476
00:20:20.490 --> 00:20:21.769
And was you like this when they were little, when
477
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it was a bit smaller, a bit more precious?
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00:20:23.509 --> 00:20:26.430
Oh, there's a lot of good falling over happening then, Rob.
479
00:20:26.730 --> 00:20:28.680
Gabby must have loved the first five years.
480
00:20:29.160 --> 00:20:32.230
Oh, my goodness, falling off a slide. You know, when
481
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they come off the end of a slide and they
482
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don't stop. I have, in fact, during lockdown, we used
483
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to go, my dad doesn't live too far away. He's
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in his 80s. And he got, he hated it. He
485
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hated being locked up. And so we used to go
486
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and we'd play outside his front door. So he'd come
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to the front door and he'd wave. And, you know,
488
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before you were allowed to see each other. And we'd
489
00:21:00.039 --> 00:21:02.319
talk to him from his front gate in our hour.
490
00:21:02.420 --> 00:21:09.259
And we'd be silly in the front, unsurprisingly. And my
491
00:21:09.460 --> 00:21:19.220
youngest daughter loves skateboarding. Oh, God, loves skateboarding. And her
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older sister, she was trying to teach us all how
493
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to skateboard. And I was saying, I can skateboard. I
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skateboarded when I was 15. That's only a couple of
495
00:21:27.839 --> 00:21:30.819
years ago. So I was skateboarding and I didn't mind
496
00:21:30.880 --> 00:21:31.799
taking the piss out of myself.
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It's fine.
498
00:21:32.259 --> 00:21:34.779
And I did fall over and I really can't skateboard anymore.
499
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But my youngest daughter, who's taller than her older sister, said,
500
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come on, I'll help you to jump onto a skateboard.
501
00:21:46.799 --> 00:21:49.700
It was great that her little sister was holding onto
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her arm, but nobody actually thought that you needed to
503
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to hold onto the skateboard.
504
00:21:57.049 --> 00:22:01.720
She's holding onto her big sister's arm, but the skate
505
00:22:01.759 --> 00:22:04.859
was actually jumps onto the skateboard.
506
00:22:05.099 --> 00:22:06.500
And it goes flying.
507
00:22:07.259 --> 00:22:09.480
And the two of them end up on the floor.
508
00:22:10.859 --> 00:22:12.779
And I sent it to my best friend who says
509
00:22:12.819 --> 00:22:17.890
she thinks it's the funniest thing she's ever seen. And
510
00:22:18.269 --> 00:22:20.880
my dad said it was the best gift we gave
511
00:22:20.930 --> 00:22:28.500
him in lockdown. And we showed my husband and said,
512
00:22:28.519 --> 00:22:29.180
what's funny?
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00:22:29.220 --> 00:22:30.920
And all of that made us laugh even more.
514
00:22:30.960 --> 00:22:31.940
What's funny?
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00:22:32.500 --> 00:22:33.299
Oh, my God.
516
00:22:34.339 --> 00:22:38.049
Gabby, have you ever seen a show called You've Been Framed?
517
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Because you fucking love.
518
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It, mate.
519
00:22:41.970 --> 00:22:43.880
Oh, do you know what? When somebody goes on a
520
00:22:43.910 --> 00:22:47.339
rope swing and they can't flip off, that's just the thought.
521
00:22:47.599 --> 00:22:51.200
Have you seen that lovely gif of a child that's
522
00:22:51.339 --> 00:22:54.039
on a little tractor and it falls over and the
523
00:22:54.079 --> 00:22:55.940
tractor ends up on their head and they get up
524
00:22:55.980 --> 00:23:00.650
and smile? That is just the favourite thing. I'm crying.
525
00:23:01.269 --> 00:23:05.269
Oh, my God, I'm crying.
526
00:23:05.650 --> 00:23:08.289
If social services are listening, then all of this.
527
00:23:09.369 --> 00:23:10.230
None of them were her.
528
00:23:10.430 --> 00:23:11.910
None of them were her.
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00:23:11.970 --> 00:23:14.650
I love it if Gabby said, you've been what? What's
530
00:23:14.750 --> 00:23:20.910
it called, Joshua? I'll give that a go. And then
531
00:23:20.950 --> 00:23:24.569
you can lose. Gabby Rosson has died from laughter after
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00:23:24.789 --> 00:23:26.890
watching 30 episodes of You've Been Framed in a Row.
533
00:23:26.910 --> 00:23:29.690
But you know, Gabby makes 10 grand a year from
534
00:23:29.710 --> 00:23:32.109
those 250 quid for submitting videos.
535
00:23:34.210 --> 00:23:37.519
Never lets a falling over go awry.
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00:23:37.539 --> 00:23:40.769
She's absolutely cleaning up. Harry Hill's got a direct line.
537
00:23:41.609 --> 00:23:43.549
Oh, I bet you love ice, didn't you? Bit of
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00:23:43.589 --> 00:23:47.589
black ice. Oh, my God. There's nothing funnier. Like waiting
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00:23:47.609 --> 00:23:50.609
for a new iPhone release. There's a tent in front
540
00:23:50.670 --> 00:23:51.289
of some snippy ice.
541
00:23:52.309 --> 00:23:56.619
No, I can actually tell you a real ice story. Oh, no,
542
00:23:56.619 --> 00:23:59.559
this is the best. So we were in, you know
543
00:23:59.579 --> 00:24:02.039
when they do the pop-up ice rinks everywhere?
544
00:24:02.059 --> 00:24:02.500
Yeah.
545
00:24:04.000 --> 00:24:06.279
And so I took the girls and we went with
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00:24:06.319 --> 00:24:09.210
some friends of ours To the one, oh my God,
547
00:24:09.369 --> 00:24:12.599
Hampton Court one. I think it was Hampton Court. And
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00:24:12.619 --> 00:24:16.420
this is a few Christmases ago. And I said, come on,
549
00:24:16.460 --> 00:24:18.160
you're going to be fine. And my oldest daughter was
550
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really scared. So she was holding on to a penguin thing.
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So I said, no, you don't.
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Oh, God.
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00:24:29.160 --> 00:24:33.319
You don't need a penguin thing. I'll hold on to you.
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I'll hold on to you. You don't need a penguin thing.
555
00:24:36.779 --> 00:24:39.339
So he said, but, Mummy, Mummy, I'm scared.
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I said, don't worry.
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Why can I scare you?
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I don't know what she's saying anymore.
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And my husband and my younger daughter stood there watching.
560
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I said, come on.
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This is to my eldest. He was going, but, Mummy, Mummy, please.
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00:24:54.299 --> 00:24:57.789
I was going, no, come on. I think she was
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about seven and my youngest was about two. I said, no, no, no,
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come on, hold my hand. So we started going really
565
00:25:06.089 --> 00:25:11.019
slowly around. And she went, oh, this is okay. So
566
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I said, shall I let go now? She said, if
567
00:25:17.960 --> 00:25:20.130
I could hold on to the side. I said, no, no,
568
00:25:20.150 --> 00:25:22.390
let go of the side. And my friends are watching
569
00:25:22.450 --> 00:25:24.609
and they're filming. And I was going, come on. And
570
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I was being really encouraging. I said, you're fine. So
571
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I said, come on, do like me. And I shut off.
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I went flying and I spun around and around and
573
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around the middle.
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And my daughter then fell asleep. And all there is
575
00:25:40.329 --> 00:25:42.069
is this footage of the.
576
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Two of us on our front spit.
577
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And she's crying out of it. She's so scared. And
578
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all I could do was laugh.
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She's so scared.
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Eventually, I crawled over to her and I said, don't worry, darling,
581
00:26:01.279 --> 00:26:04.460
everything's fine. And she just looked at me and she went, Mummy,
582
00:26:04.519 --> 00:26:07.960
sometimes you can't laugh if somebody falls over. And that
583
00:26:08.000 --> 00:26:10.740
made it even worse. And then we tried to get up.
584
00:26:10.880 --> 00:26:13.160
And there is nothing funnier than trying to get up
585
00:26:13.200 --> 00:26:15.380
when you're lying flat on your face on the ice
586
00:26:15.460 --> 00:26:17.589
and lots of people are watching. And so I said
587
00:26:17.609 --> 00:26:18.630
to her, just smile it out.
588
00:26:18.710 --> 00:26:19.049
It's fine.
589
00:26:19.089 --> 00:26:21.609
Just smile it out. We then fell the whole time.
590
00:26:21.690 --> 00:26:25.089
And we've got the footage. I must play it about
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100 times now.
592
00:26:27.740 --> 00:26:31.309
A month. Gabby, can I suggest something? I've got a
593
00:26:31.309 --> 00:26:34.869
conspiracy here that I think you may lead your family
594
00:26:34.990 --> 00:26:39.490
into perilous situations with always a camera on the go
595
00:26:39.509 --> 00:26:44.170
in your own sort of semi-autobiographical prank show where, oh,
596
00:26:44.190 --> 00:26:48.769
let's go and see Grandad. Bring the tape board. Find
597
00:26:48.789 --> 00:26:51.099
that banana pill I've left on the floor, kids.
598
00:26:52.079 --> 00:26:53.160
Do you know we tried that?
599
00:26:53.180 --> 00:26:54.279
We tried that on the Be Grateful list.
600
00:26:55.480 --> 00:26:58.299
No, we tried it on The Big Breakfast or a
601
00:26:58.299 --> 00:27:00.619
show like that. We tried to see whether you really
602
00:27:00.660 --> 00:27:02.099
can slip on a banana skin.
603
00:27:02.140 --> 00:27:02.359
Yeah.
604
00:27:02.539 --> 00:27:04.680
And I don't think you really can.
605
00:27:04.720 --> 00:27:07.210
It's the angriest I've ever heard you. You're absolutely livid.
606
00:27:08.069 --> 00:27:11.809
Yes. How dare it not work?
607
00:27:11.910 --> 00:27:14.150
The money you spent on banana skins on your stairs
608
00:27:14.190 --> 00:27:19.809
for your kids to go.
609
00:27:20.910 --> 00:27:21.079
On.
610
00:27:21.559 --> 00:27:24.930
So sometimes you wonder... what it is about someone's sense
611
00:27:24.970 --> 00:27:26.769
of humor that leads them to start their career in
612
00:27:26.789 --> 00:27:29.549
kids' television. But I've kind of managed to nail it
613
00:27:29.569 --> 00:27:30.250
with you, Gabby.
614
00:27:30.529 --> 00:27:31.849
Do you know what? When I was a child, I
615
00:27:31.869 --> 00:27:33.710
was exactly the same. And when I was a child
616
00:27:33.809 --> 00:27:35.470
at three, I used to say I wanted to be
617
00:27:35.490 --> 00:27:39.119
a TV presenter. There was nothing ever, ever, ever that
618
00:27:39.150 --> 00:27:41.180
I wanted to do apart from be a TV presenter.
619
00:27:41.660 --> 00:27:43.940
And people used to say, why? And it was, I
620
00:27:44.279 --> 00:27:47.480
promise you, hand in my heart, it was never all
621
00:27:47.579 --> 00:27:51.349
fame or any of that rubbish. It was because I said, Well,
622
00:27:51.369 --> 00:27:53.150
because it makes me laugh and I want to make
623
00:27:53.210 --> 00:27:56.150
everybody laugh. But not as a comedian like you guys.
624
00:27:56.750 --> 00:28:00.109
I just thought kids' telly was just a laugh. And
625
00:28:00.150 --> 00:28:02.529
you'd have a laugh and you want other kids to laugh.
626
00:28:02.950 --> 00:28:05.730
I bet you absolutely love... I mean, I suppose your
627
00:28:05.779 --> 00:28:07.779
kids are too old now. But I bet you loved
628
00:28:07.799 --> 00:28:09.019
it when you were watching it with them.
629
00:28:09.279 --> 00:28:11.460
Yeah, but there's not kids' telly. There's not a Saturday
630
00:28:11.500 --> 00:28:12.920
morning telly like there used to be.
631
00:28:13.240 --> 00:28:14.359
Preaching to the choir here, Gabby.
632
00:28:14.400 --> 00:28:17.059
There isn't that sort of telly. And I love it.
633
00:28:17.279 --> 00:28:19.599
And I think there should be... They should bring all
634
00:28:19.619 --> 00:28:21.440
of that sort of thing back. I really do. I
635
00:28:21.460 --> 00:28:26.619
think it's a real shame that there's no anarchic, mad television.
636
00:28:26.660 --> 00:28:28.970
Everything's a little bit too straight.
637
00:28:29.289 --> 00:28:32.269
Yes, I do agree with that. We can't just have
638
00:28:32.289 --> 00:28:34.690
people falling over all the time, though. But as Josh said,
639
00:28:34.710 --> 00:28:36.309
I would redirect you to You've Been Framed.
640
00:28:36.589 --> 00:28:39.660
You must have loved Gunge, Gabby. You must have absolutely
641
00:28:39.700 --> 00:28:40.339
loved Gunge.
642
00:28:41.380 --> 00:28:43.839
Well, we did it on Motormouth. There's a thing called
643
00:28:43.940 --> 00:28:47.319
Gunjum in the Dungeon. I think I was gunjed. I
644
00:28:47.380 --> 00:28:48.900
think I have been gunjed.
645
00:28:48.920 --> 00:28:50.920
Oh, I bet you can't get enough of being gunjed.
646
00:28:50.940 --> 00:28:52.619
That sounds exactly up your street.
647
00:28:52.660 --> 00:28:54.900
But we got to do some mad things on Kids Telly.
648
00:28:54.920 --> 00:28:58.220
I did Air Sea Rescue in the English Channel and
649
00:28:58.240 --> 00:29:00.569
they took me a mile out and they said, we'll
650
00:29:00.589 --> 00:29:03.910
just drop you here. And I had the flotation devices
651
00:29:03.930 --> 00:29:06.009
and everything. And they said, don't worry, we can hear you.
652
00:29:06.970 --> 00:29:09.630
You've got a mic. And I went, okay, fine. And
653
00:29:09.670 --> 00:29:13.069
then I see the boat going away and it keeps going,
654
00:29:13.089 --> 00:29:16.130
it keeps going. And I thought, oh my God, I'm
655
00:29:16.170 --> 00:29:18.509
here on my own. So I started talking to myself
656
00:29:18.630 --> 00:29:20.170
as you do, because I thought, oh God, at least
657
00:29:20.190 --> 00:29:22.619
they can hear me. Everything's fine. I'm like, what if
658
00:29:22.640 --> 00:29:25.779
there's a shark? And I was out on my own
659
00:29:25.819 --> 00:29:27.559
and I knew that the helicopter was going to come
660
00:29:27.599 --> 00:29:31.859
and rescue me. But then next thing I see, and
661
00:29:31.880 --> 00:29:36.180
this isn't a lie, the microphone floated away. And I thought,
662
00:29:36.200 --> 00:29:38.819
how are they going to find me? And then I heard,
663
00:29:40.589 --> 00:29:44.269
and there was a sea link ferry behind me. And
664
00:29:44.329 --> 00:29:47.730
then I saw a helicopter and the man walking on
665
00:29:47.779 --> 00:29:51.220
the water and he, cause he's dangling below. And I
666
00:29:51.259 --> 00:29:53.579
got so excited that I forgot all the rules. They
667
00:29:53.619 --> 00:29:56.000
said to me, they said, whatever you do, don't open
668
00:29:56.039 --> 00:29:58.440
your mouth and shout because the water will come up
669
00:29:58.500 --> 00:30:03.170
into your mouth from the, helicopter blades and and keep
670
00:30:03.210 --> 00:30:05.599
your arms down when they strap the rope around you
671
00:30:05.630 --> 00:30:09.640
so i'm there and i'm like and i thought oh
672
00:30:09.880 --> 00:30:11.539
no i'm gonna drown i'm gonna drown i was still
673
00:30:11.579 --> 00:30:13.559
laughing and i thought oh my god oh my god
674
00:30:13.599 --> 00:30:15.799
i've got the water i can't see anything because the
675
00:30:15.859 --> 00:30:17.880
water's going in my face there's a sea link ferry
676
00:30:17.900 --> 00:30:21.059
there's a man walking towards me on he's dangling below
677
00:30:21.079 --> 00:30:24.039
a helicopter and he slipped the rope over my arms
678
00:30:24.160 --> 00:30:27.579
and he's looking at me and i'm just hysterical And
679
00:30:27.599 --> 00:30:29.960
then I put my arms down and I started kissing
680
00:30:30.119 --> 00:30:32.740
his helmet. I don't know, it's not, you know what
681
00:30:32.759 --> 00:30:34.779
I mean. And I kept kissing him and kissing him
682
00:30:34.819 --> 00:30:37.720
and was so relieved. I was terrified and I thought, oh,
683
00:30:37.740 --> 00:30:39.480
this is the most terrifying thing. We got to the
684
00:30:39.519 --> 00:30:41.980
top of the helicopter and I just was looking at
685
00:30:42.160 --> 00:30:44.259
all of these people at Air Sea Rescue and I was, oh,
686
00:30:44.299 --> 00:30:45.039
that was unbelievable.
687
00:30:45.259 --> 00:30:46.000
That was unbelievable.
688
00:30:46.019 --> 00:30:48.220
Can we do it again? And they let me do
689
00:30:48.259 --> 00:30:54.119
it again. I've never been so scared, but it was fantastic. See,
690
00:30:54.140 --> 00:30:55.480
that's what you do on Kids Telly. Exactly.
691
00:30:55.940 --> 00:30:57.450
That's a bit of fun, isn't it? Also, I love
692
00:30:57.470 --> 00:30:59.269
the fact that they had to tell you not to
693
00:30:59.329 --> 00:31:02.130
scream because of the helicopter blades because it makes you drown.
694
00:31:02.170 --> 00:31:04.269
But if you were getting rescued, you wouldn't have had
695
00:31:04.309 --> 00:31:09.460
that briefing. So imagine drowning on the helicopter blade water
696
00:31:10.279 --> 00:31:12.680
once you'd been rescued.
697
00:31:12.720 --> 00:31:18.099
But they probably don't go that close because there's no
698
00:31:18.279 --> 00:31:19.460
camera filming there.
699
00:31:19.480 --> 00:31:20.589
Yes, of course.
700
00:31:20.640 --> 00:31:23.549
Yeah, that does make sense.
701
00:31:23.869 --> 00:31:26.829
When you work in Kids Tally, Gabby, Other people that
702
00:31:26.849 --> 00:31:30.970
work in kids' telly, are you slagging off the kids?
703
00:31:31.740 --> 00:31:36.059
You know how in hospitals they talk about there'll be
704
00:31:36.099 --> 00:31:38.680
quite a dark sense of humour behind it? Is the
705
00:31:38.720 --> 00:31:40.740
sense of humour between all the adults and stuff, is
706
00:31:40.759 --> 00:31:42.519
that much more kind of the opposite?
707
00:31:42.880 --> 00:31:44.940
Josh, can I stop you there? Is that your dishwasher finishing?
708
00:31:44.960 --> 00:31:46.619
That is my dishwasher finishing its cycle.
709
00:31:47.059 --> 00:31:51.349
I love that. I was worried it was your smoke alarm.
710
00:31:51.569 --> 00:31:51.950
I know.
711
00:31:51.990 --> 00:31:54.809
What a pro. It will plough on through the blaze.
712
00:31:56.589 --> 00:31:59.109
Too right. I'll run out, fall over, Gabrielle Lovett.
713
00:31:59.470 --> 00:32:04.630
Yes! But yeah, it's all right, though. What are the
714
00:32:04.650 --> 00:32:06.910
kids' TV presenters like? Is it a bit more, like,
715
00:32:07.309 --> 00:32:08.890
crazier behind the scenes?
716
00:32:09.069 --> 00:32:11.430
Or do they take it, like, really seriously? Are people going,
717
00:32:11.819 --> 00:32:14.900
I actually think the gun should fall from this place
718
00:32:14.960 --> 00:32:16.759
because that's actually funnier?
719
00:32:17.099 --> 00:32:19.079
Do you know what? Let's be honest. I was working
720
00:32:19.119 --> 00:32:22.099
with the genius that is Neil Buchanan.
721
00:32:23.019 --> 00:32:23.599
What's he like?
722
00:32:24.500 --> 00:32:26.920
A god he's a god that's what I want to
723
00:32:26.940 --> 00:32:30.259
hear he started off in a rock band and now
724
00:32:30.519 --> 00:32:34.019
and he could paint anything with anything and to work
725
00:32:34.079 --> 00:32:36.980
with him he was my first TV husband because I
726
00:32:37.000 --> 00:32:39.660
did kids telly for two years before Motormouth it was
727
00:32:39.680 --> 00:32:42.039
just me and some puppets and then I'd had my
728
00:32:42.079 --> 00:32:44.289
first TV husband was Neil Buchanan and then I went
729
00:32:44.309 --> 00:32:46.170
to Chris Evans as the TV husband so I was
730
00:32:46.250 --> 00:32:47.170
pretty lucky.
731
00:32:47.109 --> 00:32:49.210
I heard you could confirm this that Neil Buchanan is
732
00:32:49.230 --> 00:32:51.170
the most difficult person to book in the world because
733
00:32:51.190 --> 00:32:53.869
he's so rich because Art Attack has been sold everywhere
734
00:32:55.299 --> 00:32:55.960
Is that true?
735
00:32:55.980 --> 00:32:59.039
Do you know the wonderful thing about Neil is, and
736
00:32:59.099 --> 00:33:04.960
I still call him Nellie B, but whenever I'll text
737
00:33:04.980 --> 00:33:07.130
him suddenly out the blue, I'll WhatsApp him and it
738
00:33:07.160 --> 00:33:09.869
will just be, what was her name? So that will
739
00:33:09.910 --> 00:33:13.009
be it. Randomly the other day, I couldn't remember someone's
740
00:33:13.069 --> 00:33:16.109
name and I haven't spoken to him for maybe six months.
741
00:33:16.130 --> 00:33:18.430
So I just, I WhatsApped him, what was her name?
742
00:33:18.970 --> 00:33:21.930
And I swear to you on my life, he came
743
00:33:21.990 --> 00:33:25.250
back with Janie Grace. And that's the woman who was
744
00:33:25.470 --> 00:33:29.210
our producer or head of children's who, who offered me
745
00:33:29.250 --> 00:33:31.349
the job. And he knew who I was talking about.
746
00:33:31.430 --> 00:33:33.910
Well, you just sent him the text. What's her name?
747
00:33:33.930 --> 00:33:34.650
What was her name?
748
00:33:34.809 --> 00:33:38.069
Yeah. What was her name? I wish I could, I
749
00:33:38.109 --> 00:33:39.690
could screenshot it and send it to you. Cause I
750
00:33:39.829 --> 00:33:42.609
swear that is absolutely the God's honest truth.
751
00:33:42.730 --> 00:33:43.690
Wow.
752
00:33:43.819 --> 00:33:45.660
So then I phoned him up and I just, I
753
00:33:45.740 --> 00:33:48.160
swore a lot. Just go, how did you, what on
754
00:33:48.279 --> 00:33:50.690
earth have you just done? How did you know? He said,
755
00:33:50.730 --> 00:33:52.869
I've no idea. I just thought that's who you might
756
00:33:52.890 --> 00:33:54.529
be talking about. Wow.
757
00:33:54.549 --> 00:33:57.329
What a connection with Nellie B. What a connection.
758
00:33:57.410 --> 00:34:01.269
So was he doing Art Attack when you were doing
759
00:34:01.309 --> 00:34:02.130
Motormouth with him?
760
00:34:02.910 --> 00:34:03.660
Yeah.
761
00:34:03.720 --> 00:34:05.119
Is he really rich from it as well, Gabby? Is
762
00:34:05.160 --> 00:34:05.579
that true?
763
00:34:06.400 --> 00:34:09.179
Probably. I don't know. I don't ask it. That'd be
764
00:34:09.199 --> 00:34:09.699
really weird.
765
00:34:09.900 --> 00:34:11.800
Gabby, I've heard he's the richest man in the world.
766
00:34:13.219 --> 00:34:15.780
But richer than Bezos. Let's be honest. No offence to
767
00:34:15.800 --> 00:34:18.230
Neil Buchanan, but if he weren't wading, he'd be doing
768
00:34:18.269 --> 00:34:22.239
The Jungle by now. Well, Let's look at it that way, yeah?
769
00:34:22.679 --> 00:34:25.500
He's invested well, the geezer. Let's just say that.
770
00:34:25.519 --> 00:34:27.440
Do you know what? He'd be good in the jungle,
771
00:34:27.480 --> 00:34:27.900
wouldn't he?
772
00:34:28.219 --> 00:34:30.219
Oh, think what? He'd arrange the twigs into a big
773
00:34:30.260 --> 00:34:32.019
picture of the Queen or something. It'd be amazing.
774
00:34:32.039 --> 00:34:35.300
Have your kids seen your telly stuff, Gabby?
775
00:34:35.579 --> 00:34:36.420
Yeah.
776
00:34:36.440 --> 00:34:38.840
What stuff? Did they watch it? Because they would have
777
00:34:38.860 --> 00:34:40.760
been too young or not born with the kids' stuff.
778
00:34:40.780 --> 00:34:43.119
They weren't born when the kids' stuff or the big
779
00:34:43.159 --> 00:34:46.079
breakfast was on. But my youngest was around when I
780
00:34:46.099 --> 00:34:48.900
did Children in Need and she loved it. But they
781
00:34:48.920 --> 00:34:53.590
watch it. the magic of YouTube. And they just go, mom,
782
00:34:53.610 --> 00:34:55.889
you're mad. That's what they're used to it. So there's
783
00:34:55.989 --> 00:35:01.170
nothing really surprising. And even weirdly sort of city hospital,
784
00:35:01.190 --> 00:35:03.190
there was somebody sent me a link to something or
785
00:35:03.230 --> 00:35:06.110
city hospital, which was a daytime show I did. And
786
00:35:06.360 --> 00:35:09.719
it took place in the hospital live show. And we'd
787
00:35:09.760 --> 00:35:12.840
go from very heavy, serious things happening on the wards
788
00:35:12.920 --> 00:35:15.699
to I'd get the doctors doing the can-can in the corridors.
789
00:35:16.219 --> 00:35:19.280
And and my kids they somebody sent me a clip
790
00:35:19.340 --> 00:35:21.719
and I showed them and they went mum you didn't
791
00:35:21.949 --> 00:35:25.650
actually do that yeah why they went you've got the
792
00:35:25.690 --> 00:35:28.260
doctors they're really serious things going on mum in the
793
00:35:28.300 --> 00:35:30.239
world I mean Yeah, but that's why you've got to
794
00:35:30.280 --> 00:35:31.119
do the can-can.
795
00:35:33.619 --> 00:35:36.340
How do you, because Gabby, how do you manage this
796
00:35:36.400 --> 00:35:39.199
sort of like, you have quite a carefree, fun attitude
797
00:35:39.239 --> 00:35:41.440
with like the admin of having kids, you know, a
798
00:35:41.460 --> 00:35:44.579
teenage daughter's going to school and all that and packing
799
00:35:44.599 --> 00:35:46.420
the school bag so they've got all the right stuff. Like,
800
00:35:46.679 --> 00:35:48.079
are you quite organised with it? Or is that something
801
00:35:48.099 --> 00:35:49.980
your husband does more of? Or can you still do
802
00:35:50.039 --> 00:35:52.219
both and be on it as a mum as well
803
00:35:52.260 --> 00:35:53.030
as having a laugh?
804
00:35:53.139 --> 00:35:55.739
Here's the thing that you two won't have the joy of.
805
00:35:55.969 --> 00:35:57.289
They actually pack their own.
806
00:35:57.250 --> 00:35:58.090
School bags now.
807
00:35:58.750 --> 00:35:59.250
All right.
808
00:35:59.269 --> 00:36:02.329
At 13 and 19, you don't have to do it anymore.
809
00:36:02.349 --> 00:36:05.889
You just tapped out. You don't have to do it.
810
00:36:05.909 --> 00:36:09.460
But I remember that mad rush. I mean, I suppose
811
00:36:09.539 --> 00:36:14.840
you asked if I get irritable or annoyed. My favourite sound,
812
00:36:14.980 --> 00:36:18.929
and their least favourite, is, have you brushed your teeth yet?
813
00:36:19.159 --> 00:36:22.010
Brush your hair, brush your teeth, brush your hair, brush
814
00:36:22.050 --> 00:36:25.559
your teeth. So that's the cry of the morning, always.
815
00:36:26.219 --> 00:36:28.480
You must be quite a good morning person then, Gabby.
816
00:36:28.860 --> 00:36:29.159
I am.
817
00:36:29.300 --> 00:36:30.000
I am annoying.
818
00:36:33.719 --> 00:36:35.469
Did you ever have a problem with the early mornings?
819
00:36:35.530 --> 00:36:37.389
I suppose you'd been getting up at like 3am for
820
00:36:37.409 --> 00:36:39.710
the big breakfast anyway, so kids was a blessed relief.
821
00:36:40.250 --> 00:36:42.980
I really am the person who... I don't like to
822
00:36:43.019 --> 00:36:44.599
go to sleep at night because I don't want the
823
00:36:44.639 --> 00:36:46.860
day to end. And I don't mind getting up early
824
00:36:46.880 --> 00:36:48.519
because I want the next day to start. And I
825
00:36:48.559 --> 00:36:50.929
have awful things happen as well. It's not all, you know,
826
00:36:50.969 --> 00:36:54.090
I've had horrible things happen in my life. But also
827
00:36:54.190 --> 00:36:57.250
I do see, I do like to see the joy
828
00:36:57.269 --> 00:36:57.809
in everything.
829
00:36:58.469 --> 00:37:00.170
What do you use that if you are feeling like
830
00:37:00.210 --> 00:37:01.829
a bit overwhelmed or you get a bit down? Is
831
00:37:01.869 --> 00:37:04.809
there things that you talk to yourself about to do or?
832
00:37:05.210 --> 00:37:07.030
and things like that to sort of readdress it? Or
833
00:37:07.050 --> 00:37:08.730
is it just that you just naturally, you know?
834
00:37:08.809 --> 00:37:13.090
I probably naturally, I've always been a, probably wouldn't mean anything,
835
00:37:13.139 --> 00:37:15.469
but if you, there's a thing, there's a book years
836
00:37:15.489 --> 00:37:18.619
ago called Pollyanna, and she always played the glad game.
837
00:37:18.880 --> 00:37:22.579
And I always used to be called Mary Poppins or
838
00:37:22.639 --> 00:37:24.440
Pollyanna when I was a child, because I liked to
839
00:37:24.500 --> 00:37:27.900
see the joy in the silliest of things. But of
840
00:37:28.019 --> 00:37:30.619
course I get really down. I remember, and I don't
841
00:37:30.639 --> 00:37:32.949
want to bring it down, but when mum died, 23
842
00:37:32.949 --> 00:37:34.750
years ago of cancer. And dad had cancer at the
843
00:37:34.769 --> 00:37:39.570
same time. And I remember doing interviews afterwards and whatever
844
00:37:39.610 --> 00:37:41.269
show I was doing. And they would say, oh, I'm
845
00:37:41.309 --> 00:37:42.869
so sorry about the loss of your mom. I said, yeah,
846
00:37:42.929 --> 00:37:45.050
so am I. I mean, it's, she was very young
847
00:37:45.110 --> 00:37:47.409
and I was young when I lost her. And, um,
848
00:37:47.690 --> 00:37:51.190
they always used to say, oh, uh, you were always,
849
00:37:51.309 --> 00:37:54.250
you always say, oh, I'm so lucky or I love life.
850
00:37:54.429 --> 00:37:56.090
And I said, yeah. And I always used to say
851
00:37:56.130 --> 00:38:00.210
to every journalist, I'm so sorry. I love life. And
852
00:38:00.489 --> 00:38:02.690
when mum died, I realised I was never going to
853
00:38:02.730 --> 00:38:05.369
apologise again because life's too short. And it sounds sort
854
00:38:05.630 --> 00:38:08.110
of quite a deep thing to say, but I'm not
855
00:38:08.150 --> 00:38:11.349
apologising for loving life. And my mum didn't live as
856
00:38:11.409 --> 00:38:15.130
long as she should have. She died early 60s. I
857
00:38:15.210 --> 00:38:17.349
wish that she was still around, but I'm going to
858
00:38:17.389 --> 00:38:19.809
enjoy every moment because we're not, you know, we're not
859
00:38:19.849 --> 00:38:22.289
here forever. So that's what I really do feel that
860
00:38:22.309 --> 00:38:22.909
about life.
861
00:38:22.929 --> 00:38:24.550
Well, I think in a way as well, because really
862
00:38:24.670 --> 00:38:26.239
what happened to you is one of the worst things
863
00:38:26.260 --> 00:38:28.079
that can happen to you is losing such a close
864
00:38:28.099 --> 00:38:30.719
person to you. Well, the worst things happen now, so
865
00:38:30.739 --> 00:38:32.849
I'm just going to enjoy it. Because, you know, I
866
00:38:33.070 --> 00:38:35.909
think sometimes the anxiety of stuff happening can sort of
867
00:38:35.969 --> 00:38:37.809
stress people out and drag them down more and they
868
00:38:37.869 --> 00:38:40.780
forget to have fun. And I think, you know, it's
869
00:38:40.909 --> 00:38:42.880
such a great way to live your life. And you're
870
00:38:42.900 --> 00:38:45.179
so infectious, Gabby. Whenever I speak to you or I've
871
00:38:45.199 --> 00:38:47.559
met up with you afterwards, I feel like a little buzz,
872
00:38:47.579 --> 00:38:49.420
a little glow. And I think that's such a powerful
873
00:38:49.460 --> 00:38:51.460
thing to have. And hence why you were so good
874
00:38:51.500 --> 00:38:54.059
on telly as well as in real life, because that
875
00:38:54.119 --> 00:38:57.119
comes across and it makes people happy and full of joy.
876
00:38:57.139 --> 00:39:01.170
I love TV. I love TV. There is nothing... Actually,
877
00:39:01.190 --> 00:39:05.199
that's the one thing in lockdown that I always, always,
878
00:39:05.300 --> 00:39:07.880
always used to say for years. I'm going into my
879
00:39:07.920 --> 00:39:12.619
34th year of it now. And I always said that
880
00:39:13.340 --> 00:39:17.179
I am addicted to and I'm obsessed with telly. And
881
00:39:17.260 --> 00:39:19.909
I decided in lockdown there was a sort of moment,
882
00:39:20.070 --> 00:39:24.429
realization that I love it. And actually, I'm going to
883
00:39:24.489 --> 00:39:26.369
use that word and I don't care. I don't care
884
00:39:26.389 --> 00:39:29.949
if people think that's stupid or pathetic. I don't really care.
885
00:39:30.309 --> 00:39:34.269
I I love it I love television deeply love it
886
00:39:35.179 --> 00:39:40.699
of course I love my family they do ask they
887
00:39:40.739 --> 00:39:42.860
say where do we come I go now don't be
888
00:39:42.940 --> 00:39:45.099
silly you know the answer yeah so.
889
00:39:45.059 --> 00:39:48.179
On that like because did you have like rules about
890
00:39:48.199 --> 00:39:51.119
them like watching tv or No.
891
00:39:51.440 --> 00:39:51.599
No.
892
00:39:52.280 --> 00:39:54.750
What I don't want them to see, and actually I
893
00:39:55.170 --> 00:39:58.670
still don't like the idea of them seeing anything that's...
894
00:39:58.909 --> 00:40:02.730
Art attack. No art attack at all. I don't want
895
00:40:02.750 --> 00:40:05.050
them watching, and I think when they were younger as well,
896
00:40:05.130 --> 00:40:10.059
I didn't want anything that was about cruelty, was about nasty,
897
00:40:10.380 --> 00:40:13.119
you know, nudity. We're all naked, you know. I didn't
898
00:40:13.179 --> 00:40:16.320
want them to see... I want to protect them from the...
899
00:40:16.760 --> 00:40:18.780
the horrible things. And I think there are some really
900
00:40:18.860 --> 00:40:22.599
nasty things that you can find in films and TV shows.
901
00:40:22.639 --> 00:40:25.079
And when they're older, they can make that decision themselves.
902
00:40:25.159 --> 00:40:27.019
So I think that was the only thing. And they
903
00:40:27.099 --> 00:40:34.119
loved telly. My youngest one grew up on Mary Poppins and, um, Balamory.
904
00:40:35.079 --> 00:40:38.239
And my, uh, younger one, that was my oldest one.
905
00:40:38.280 --> 00:40:42.150
My younger one loved, um, in the night garden. In fact,
906
00:40:42.190 --> 00:40:44.949
we were talking about the Ninky Nonk just the other
907
00:40:44.989 --> 00:40:46.840
day and I Maca-paca.
908
00:40:47.039 --> 00:40:48.480
I can't stand in the night garden.
909
00:40:48.619 --> 00:40:50.860
Upsy-daisy. I'm not a fan of going in the night garden, Gabby.
910
00:40:50.880 --> 00:40:53.349
I'm sorry. I can't do it. I don't get it.
911
00:40:53.380 --> 00:40:53.539
No.
912
00:40:53.719 --> 00:40:55.480
I feel like I need to be on drugs. And
913
00:40:55.539 --> 00:40:57.239
have you had any sort of big falling outs with
914
00:40:57.260 --> 00:40:59.500
your daughters, especially going through teenage years? It's when they
915
00:40:59.539 --> 00:41:03.320
start wanting their own sort of decision-making and going out
916
00:41:03.360 --> 00:41:04.599
and seeing people and things like that.
917
00:41:04.909 --> 00:41:09.250
Luckily, no. But we did. I mean, my oldest one,
918
00:41:09.590 --> 00:41:13.460
the weirdest thing is, And everybody I ever talked to
919
00:41:13.500 --> 00:41:16.159
about it, there are two extraordinary things that happen when
920
00:41:16.179 --> 00:41:20.730
you have girls that they turn the light off. They say, no, no, mommy,
921
00:41:20.769 --> 00:41:23.429
love you, love you. And they come out the next
922
00:41:23.510 --> 00:41:26.349
morning and go, oh, for God's sake, you just don't
923
00:41:26.449 --> 00:41:32.039
understand me. But it's as quick as that. And you
924
00:41:32.059 --> 00:41:34.900
just think, what don't I understand? You said, no, no, mommy,
925
00:41:34.940 --> 00:41:37.889
love you. And now I don't understand you. And I
926
00:41:37.909 --> 00:41:39.190
remember being like that myself.
927
00:41:39.210 --> 00:41:40.730
I was going to say, what were you like as
928
00:41:40.789 --> 00:41:43.340
a teenager, Gabby? Because I can't imagine you being kind
929
00:41:43.380 --> 00:41:45.360
of full of teenage anxiety.
930
00:41:45.980 --> 00:41:48.500
Oh, no, I was desperate. I talk about this all
931
00:41:48.539 --> 00:41:50.840
the time. So I was desperately, desperately shy and I
932
00:41:50.920 --> 00:41:54.400
still am. So I, as a child and as a teenager,
933
00:41:54.500 --> 00:41:57.900
even though I was this giggly, I giggled all the time.
934
00:41:57.920 --> 00:42:00.059
I loved to giggle and I always got told off
935
00:42:00.079 --> 00:42:04.090
for talking and giggling at school. But I was desperately shy.
936
00:42:04.130 --> 00:42:08.280
So as a teenager, it became... unbearable shyness of sort
937
00:42:08.300 --> 00:42:08.420
of 15.
938
00:42:08.400 --> 00:42:10.860
That's exactly how I was, Gabby, but I think both
939
00:42:10.900 --> 00:42:14.559
on paper now, people wouldn't assume that about us. So
940
00:42:14.579 --> 00:42:16.840
what was it, how did you go from that shy
941
00:42:16.900 --> 00:42:20.670
teenager to now, you know, biggest TV presenter star, full
942
00:42:20.690 --> 00:42:22.130
of confidence, full of energy?
943
00:42:22.449 --> 00:42:25.590
Well, I'm not, because I'm still, no, I'm still very shy.
944
00:42:25.989 --> 00:42:28.329
And I know that you and I have had this conversation, Rob,
945
00:42:28.349 --> 00:42:32.699
but if my husband says, oh, so-and-so's invited us to
946
00:42:32.739 --> 00:42:37.469
a house party, I will just, no. And he'll say, no, no.
947
00:42:38.010 --> 00:42:40.670
And then we'll go. And I will follow David to
948
00:42:40.690 --> 00:42:42.090
the loo because I don't want to be left on
949
00:42:42.130 --> 00:42:46.190
my own. Because sometimes that very shy me is still there.
950
00:42:46.250 --> 00:42:48.929
And actually, I've just learned now in the past few
951
00:42:48.969 --> 00:42:50.820
years to be loud and proud about it because nobody
952
00:42:50.860 --> 00:42:55.380
talks about shyness. And I think it was debilitating at 15.
953
00:42:55.380 --> 00:42:57.800
I'd go to a party. And I remember a guy
954
00:42:57.840 --> 00:42:59.500
who I ended up going out with for a short
955
00:42:59.539 --> 00:43:03.010
time years later. he was talking to me and I just,
956
00:43:03.030 --> 00:43:05.650
he said, you okay? And I just thought, my mouth
957
00:43:05.690 --> 00:43:09.769
won't open. And it just wouldn't open because I was
958
00:43:09.809 --> 00:43:11.349
so shy. And then I went into the loo and
959
00:43:11.389 --> 00:43:13.190
I looked in the mirror and I went, you're okay,
960
00:43:13.269 --> 00:43:15.070
you're okay, you're okay. And then I go back out
961
00:43:15.110 --> 00:43:17.989
there and his name was Anthony, lovely guy. And he said,
962
00:43:18.030 --> 00:43:24.719
what's the matter? And I just went, I'm shy. And
963
00:43:24.739 --> 00:43:26.880
then he said, have you always been told you're shy?
964
00:43:26.900 --> 00:43:29.039
And I said, yes. And he said, well, maybe you're
965
00:43:29.079 --> 00:43:31.599
not shy. I said, but I am. And actually, Yes,
966
00:43:31.659 --> 00:43:33.599
I was always told I was shy, but I knew
967
00:43:33.679 --> 00:43:38.039
I was. And I just didn't have, I just was shy.
968
00:43:38.179 --> 00:43:39.619
I knew that's what it was. It was a sort
969
00:43:39.659 --> 00:43:41.730
of knot in my stomach. And Rob, I don't know
970
00:43:41.750 --> 00:43:43.369
if it's the same for you. At a certain age,
971
00:43:43.409 --> 00:43:47.230
you just, oh God, there's nothing worse than having to
972
00:43:47.769 --> 00:43:49.269
face people and talk.
973
00:43:49.449 --> 00:43:52.690
And how do you both end up being performers in
974
00:43:52.730 --> 00:43:54.550
that situation? I don't like that.
975
00:43:54.610 --> 00:43:57.139
Most performers are like that. Most of the people I've
976
00:43:57.219 --> 00:44:01.010
ever interviewed in my, 34 year olds have said the
977
00:44:01.030 --> 00:44:03.550
same thing they've all said the same thing.
978
00:44:03.349 --> 00:44:05.050
I used to get a knot in my stomach so
979
00:44:05.090 --> 00:44:07.150
say there was a class outing or something there'd be
980
00:44:07.170 --> 00:44:09.110
a knot in my stomach all night lots of anxiety
981
00:44:09.150 --> 00:44:10.809
about it because it was different to like just being
982
00:44:10.849 --> 00:44:13.050
in school and then I'd pretend to be ill so
983
00:44:13.070 --> 00:44:15.570
I didn't have to go and I'd all be worked
984
00:44:15.659 --> 00:44:17.199
up and sort of worried about going somewhere and then
985
00:44:17.219 --> 00:44:20.400
just not go and and I think with that sort
986
00:44:20.420 --> 00:44:22.840
of shyness and lacking that confidence I think In a way,
987
00:44:22.900 --> 00:44:26.420
it's that I was always like you, giggling, laughing, trying
988
00:44:26.440 --> 00:44:27.980
to be funny, making jokes, but on my own terms,
989
00:44:28.039 --> 00:44:30.139
in a sort of comfort bubble of my family or
990
00:44:30.159 --> 00:44:34.199
close friends. But then even stand up, essentially, I'm still
991
00:44:34.219 --> 00:44:36.840
being shy because I'm basically controlling that whole world where
992
00:44:36.900 --> 00:44:39.920
I come out and talk to someone in an environment
993
00:44:39.940 --> 00:44:41.400
where you sit there and listen and I stand here
994
00:44:41.440 --> 00:44:43.539
and talk. Do you know what I mean? And as
995
00:44:43.599 --> 00:44:45.159
time went on, I got less shy and got more
996
00:44:45.219 --> 00:44:47.449
confident in myself. But it was a slow process. I
997
00:44:47.449 --> 00:44:48.699
don't know if it's the same for you, Gabby.
998
00:44:49.159 --> 00:44:52.989
Well, it's the weirdest story that I always say. And
999
00:44:53.619 --> 00:44:56.670
so I've been with my husband for 15 years. And
1000
00:44:57.730 --> 00:45:02.050
when we were first going out, we were invited by
1001
00:45:02.070 --> 00:45:05.710
a charity to go to an event at the Albert
1002
00:45:05.730 --> 00:45:10.329
Hall on the Sunday night. The Saturday night, David had
1003
00:45:10.429 --> 00:45:12.730
asked me to go to a party of somebody I'd
1004
00:45:12.769 --> 00:45:15.090
never met. And I just, I was in tears. I
1005
00:45:15.090 --> 00:45:17.429
just went, please don't make me, please, please, please don't
1006
00:45:17.449 --> 00:45:19.730
make me. And he was like, okay, okay. I mean,
1007
00:45:20.090 --> 00:45:22.809
I just don't know anybody there. I can't do this.
1008
00:45:22.969 --> 00:45:26.369
I just can't do this. And afterwards he said, oh,
1009
00:45:26.409 --> 00:45:28.469
that was the best part. I said, I'm so pleased.
1010
00:45:28.510 --> 00:45:30.570
I said, I hope you understand. And he did. You know,
1011
00:45:30.590 --> 00:45:32.989
I told him I'm very shy. I just couldn't handle it.
1012
00:45:33.679 --> 00:45:35.539
And then the next night we were at the Albert
1013
00:45:35.579 --> 00:45:38.780
Hall and it was one of the charities that I'm
1014
00:45:38.800 --> 00:45:42.380
patron of. And we were there and they came up
1015
00:45:42.420 --> 00:45:45.139
to me about 10 minutes beforehand and they said, the
1016
00:45:45.380 --> 00:45:49.780
MC has got food poisoning. would you mind hosting the event?
1017
00:45:49.820 --> 00:45:53.039
I mean, yeah, no problem. And his face was, and
1018
00:45:53.059 --> 00:45:54.840
I said, I'll be back. I'll come back and see
1019
00:45:54.860 --> 00:45:56.820
you in the interval. So I went backstage and I
1020
00:45:56.860 --> 00:45:59.530
went out on the Albert Hall and hosted a two
1021
00:45:59.590 --> 00:46:02.750
and a half hour show in the Albert Hall with
1022
00:46:02.789 --> 00:46:05.030
no script and didn't know what was happening because I
1023
00:46:05.070 --> 00:46:07.690
wasn't meant to be doing it. And I loved every
1024
00:46:07.730 --> 00:46:10.400
moment and then came back in the interval and his, honestly,
1025
00:46:10.440 --> 00:46:13.239
his sort of jaw was on the floor and he said, What?
1026
00:46:13.320 --> 00:46:18.500
You just couldn't come to my mate's party last night.
1027
00:46:18.599 --> 00:46:21.900
That's different. This is me. This is what I love
1028
00:46:21.960 --> 00:46:22.360
to do.
1029
00:46:22.380 --> 00:46:24.659
So is that what you're like, Rob?
1030
00:46:24.949 --> 00:46:27.969
Yeah. So for me, when Gabby said that, I went, oh,
1031
00:46:28.110 --> 00:46:30.909
for me, that's a better outcome of it. I'd rather
1032
00:46:30.949 --> 00:46:34.269
do that on the fly than go, oh, we're going
1033
00:46:34.309 --> 00:46:36.630
to a family friend's barbecue and there'll be 50 people
1034
00:46:36.650 --> 00:46:39.090
there you sort of don't really know. And I was
1035
00:46:39.210 --> 00:46:41.329
just like, oh, God. And that's not because now I
1036
00:46:41.369 --> 00:46:43.010
do a bit of sort of tennis. That would have
1037
00:46:43.030 --> 00:46:45.489
been before that growing up. It's like, oh, these new people.
1038
00:46:45.699 --> 00:46:46.880
But when I got a bit older, you could go
1039
00:46:46.900 --> 00:46:48.880
to the pub and drink. I sort of got a
1040
00:46:48.920 --> 00:46:50.659
bit of confidence through the drink because it calmed your
1041
00:46:50.699 --> 00:46:53.780
nerves to talk to people. But to go into that
1042
00:46:53.800 --> 00:46:56.059
kind of situation sober and just talk to people, it
1043
00:46:56.079 --> 00:46:59.480
makes my shoulders go up straight away. But like you say, oh,
1044
00:46:59.639 --> 00:47:00.980
can you go and help us out and do that
1045
00:47:01.380 --> 00:47:03.690
hosting an event there? I'd be all over that like
1046
00:47:03.730 --> 00:47:05.730
Gabby was. But it's strange, isn't it?
1047
00:47:05.940 --> 00:47:08.659
And do you see it in your kids at all? Like,
1048
00:47:08.719 --> 00:47:10.610
do you think they're shy?
1049
00:47:10.630 --> 00:47:13.789
No, they're very, no, they're not. They're very, do you
1050
00:47:13.809 --> 00:47:15.409
know what's really weird? I was just thinking about a
1051
00:47:15.449 --> 00:47:19.340
word to describe my girls and I'd say they're very caring.
1052
00:47:19.860 --> 00:47:23.519
They're very caring and they're very considerate. Wasn't that a
1053
00:47:23.539 --> 00:47:26.400
nice thing to suddenly realize? Yeah, they're really caring and considerate.
1054
00:47:26.960 --> 00:47:30.170
And they're not, they're not outgoing. but I wouldn't say
1055
00:47:30.230 --> 00:47:32.130
they had the they don't have the shyness that I
1056
00:47:32.170 --> 00:47:33.750
had thank goodness I.
1057
00:47:33.730 --> 00:47:35.670
Think that's really interesting because I think a lot of
1058
00:47:35.730 --> 00:47:37.730
people would see both of you two as like you
1059
00:47:37.769 --> 00:47:42.699
know big personalities people that have got absolutely no fear
1060
00:47:42.719 --> 00:47:45.539
and I think that's a really interesting thing that you
1061
00:47:45.579 --> 00:47:46.840
know people wouldn't.
1062
00:47:46.719 --> 00:47:48.800
Yeah but I knew that even as a child I
1063
00:47:48.840 --> 00:47:52.260
see I even when I was three and I watch
1064
00:47:52.280 --> 00:47:54.070
blue peter and i pretended i was one of the
1065
00:47:54.110 --> 00:47:57.150
presenters i knew that i was shy but i knew
1066
00:47:57.210 --> 00:47:59.250
that that's what i wanted to do well i.
1067
00:47:59.210 --> 00:48:01.329
Remember when i was like one of my earliest memories
1068
00:48:01.349 --> 00:48:04.010
was being at a kid's house for a party and
1069
00:48:04.190 --> 00:48:06.030
i was so shy to ask where the toilet was
1070
00:48:06.070 --> 00:48:10.260
i shit myself and i remember what i did was
1071
00:48:10.300 --> 00:48:12.320
it was a game that when you pressed it it
1072
00:48:12.360 --> 00:48:15.000
would make a sound so i basically used to press
1073
00:48:15.019 --> 00:48:18.000
that when it made the sound i'd start shitting to
1074
00:48:18.039 --> 00:48:21.699
cover up the noise. How many times did you do it?
1075
00:48:21.800 --> 00:48:23.760
How could he? Because I kept on letting a little
1076
00:48:23.800 --> 00:48:28.039
bit out of time. Oh, no. Oh, my God, that
1077
00:48:28.119 --> 00:48:29.889
is a terrible first memory, isn't it?
1078
00:48:30.199 --> 00:48:30.849
Oh, wow.
1079
00:48:31.110 --> 00:48:31.690
Oh, my God.
1080
00:48:31.710 --> 00:48:33.269
A therapist would have a field day with that.
1081
00:48:33.289 --> 00:48:36.510
Yeah, it feels like your whole life has been a
1082
00:48:36.550 --> 00:48:38.210
revenge mission for that memory, love.
1083
00:48:38.250 --> 00:48:38.369
Yeah.
1084
00:48:39.980 --> 00:48:43.090
Oh my god oh my god because imagine like also
1085
00:48:43.110 --> 00:48:44.969
like now because i imagine what if my daughter come
1086
00:48:44.989 --> 00:48:46.789
home for a party don't do that now no but
1087
00:48:46.829 --> 00:48:49.139
like at the time if my daughter come home and
1088
00:48:49.159 --> 00:48:50.519
i said what happened she was like i was too
1089
00:48:50.599 --> 00:48:52.000
scared to ask for the toilet so i did a
1090
00:48:52.059 --> 00:48:54.199
poo and used the toy to cover up the noise
1091
00:48:54.260 --> 00:48:56.139
i'd be mortified yes did you.
1092
00:48:56.059 --> 00:48:57.630
Ever tell your parents yes i don't.
1093
00:48:57.550 --> 00:49:01.630
Know I don't know. I think, I can't remember. I
1094
00:49:01.650 --> 00:49:03.409
think I just went to, in the end, I think
1095
00:49:03.429 --> 00:49:05.170
someone found the toilet paper. I went there and I
1096
00:49:05.190 --> 00:49:07.480
sort of just sorted myself out. But it's weird to
1097
00:49:07.500 --> 00:49:09.780
be that shy and then go from that to, you know,
1098
00:49:09.780 --> 00:49:13.059
doing what you do. But it's just, it's a different skill,
1099
00:49:13.059 --> 00:49:13.530
I think.
1100
00:49:13.530 --> 00:49:16.260
But I'll walk into, I will talk, because I walk
1101
00:49:16.260 --> 00:49:18.860
everywhere and I i bought everybody rigid about it but
1102
00:49:18.900 --> 00:49:20.820
i bought if i can i walk sort of seven
1103
00:49:20.860 --> 00:49:24.320
miles a day and but i'll talk to anybody and
1104
00:49:24.400 --> 00:49:26.460
if i have anybody walking with me the kids always
1105
00:49:26.480 --> 00:49:29.860
go mom you can't yes i can and actually most
1106
00:49:29.900 --> 00:49:32.880
people want to talk i literally anything if i see
1107
00:49:32.920 --> 00:49:34.739
somebody crying i'll always go and see if they're okay
1108
00:49:34.760 --> 00:49:37.619
okay nowadays obviously you have to Be careful you don't
1109
00:49:37.659 --> 00:49:40.719
go too close to somebody. But I will, when I
1110
00:49:40.760 --> 00:49:43.960
used to get the tube everywhere and people would often
1111
00:49:44.019 --> 00:49:46.519
look at me and go, oh, how come you're on
1112
00:49:46.559 --> 00:49:49.389
the tube? Well, how come you're on the tube? And
1113
00:49:49.429 --> 00:49:51.110
I'm like, where are you going? And then I'll start
1114
00:49:51.139 --> 00:49:53.989
talking to them. And I've got tubes, I've got people
1115
00:49:54.110 --> 00:49:58.110
singing on the tube. I've got everybody laughing. I've done it.
1116
00:49:58.170 --> 00:49:58.849
I've done it all.
1117
00:49:58.869 --> 00:50:01.090
I'm not going to lie, Gabby. I would absolutely hate
1118
00:50:01.130 --> 00:50:02.150
that if someone did that on the tube.
1119
00:50:02.690 --> 00:50:04.670
No, do you know what? I'll tell you, there were
1120
00:50:04.710 --> 00:50:06.289
two things that happened. There was a guy, I was
1121
00:50:06.329 --> 00:50:09.210
on the overground and the guy was really rude to me.
1122
00:50:09.269 --> 00:50:12.460
And he just said, what are you doing here? This
1123
00:50:12.519 --> 00:50:15.500
isn't for people like you, you celebrities. You're not supposed to,
1124
00:50:15.519 --> 00:50:18.400
you're meant to have a chauffeur driven car. And I said,
1125
00:50:18.420 --> 00:50:19.800
what do you mean I'm meant to have a chauffeur
1126
00:50:19.820 --> 00:50:22.940
driven car? And he said, well, this is not for you.
1127
00:50:22.960 --> 00:50:26.050
I said, yes, it is. It's for everybody. And then
1128
00:50:26.150 --> 00:50:28.530
all these people started joining in. And I said, yeah,
1129
00:50:28.550 --> 00:50:30.329
I'm going to really annoy you now because we're all
1130
00:50:30.349 --> 00:50:35.250
going to sing together. He just looked and he said,
1131
00:50:36.030 --> 00:50:37.679
what do you mean? I said, well, I'm going to sing.
1132
00:50:37.780 --> 00:50:40.360
I'm going to get everybody singing because I'm really annoying
1133
00:50:40.380 --> 00:50:40.699
you now.
1134
00:50:40.719 --> 00:50:41.420
So we did.
1135
00:50:41.480 --> 00:50:43.679
Do you know what we sung?
1136
00:50:44.139 --> 00:50:44.400
What?
1137
00:50:44.860 --> 00:50:51.210
The most annoying thing I could think of. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious. And
1138
00:50:51.230 --> 00:50:53.510
I got everyone, not everybody joined in, but a lot
1139
00:50:53.570 --> 00:50:57.530
of people did. And do you know what he did?
1140
00:50:57.610 --> 00:50:59.829
He swore at me, kept swearing at me, and he
1141
00:50:59.869 --> 00:51:02.050
got off at the next stop. And when he got off,
1142
00:51:02.239 --> 00:51:05.139
everybody cheered and clapped. And that's a true story.
1143
00:51:06.119 --> 00:51:08.280
I do think that maybe that's, if you are shy
1144
00:51:08.340 --> 00:51:10.460
to try and overcome it, we both just went, right,
1145
00:51:10.500 --> 00:51:13.260
what is the worst thing I could do? Because if
1146
00:51:13.340 --> 00:51:15.360
I'm a bit embarrassed to talk to someone at a
1147
00:51:15.460 --> 00:51:17.980
barbecue and their family friend, What's the worst thing to do?
1148
00:51:18.039 --> 00:51:20.000
Go up on stage and do it. And it was,
1149
00:51:20.119 --> 00:51:21.619
I was really nervous and stuff when I first started
1150
00:51:21.639 --> 00:51:24.460
doing all that, presenting and stuff. But I think you
1151
00:51:24.480 --> 00:51:26.280
sort of counteract it by doing the worst thing you
1152
00:51:26.300 --> 00:51:27.969
could do. And for you, like if you were shy,
1153
00:51:28.010 --> 00:51:29.190
the worst thing to do is go and speak to
1154
00:51:29.210 --> 00:51:31.289
a stranger in the street. You sort of owned it
1155
00:51:31.590 --> 00:51:33.030
and then not allowed it to be the thing that
1156
00:51:33.050 --> 00:51:33.869
scares you in a way.
1157
00:51:34.369 --> 00:51:37.090
But actually, no, I think it's because I'm incredibly nosy
1158
00:51:37.130 --> 00:51:37.510
as well.
1159
00:51:37.969 --> 00:51:39.409
Fair enough.
1160
00:51:40.250 --> 00:51:42.409
Just very nosy. When I was a child, people used to,
1161
00:51:42.469 --> 00:51:44.469
I used to sit on the bus and people would say,
1162
00:51:45.019 --> 00:51:46.719
oh my God, I think my husband's going to leave
1163
00:51:46.800 --> 00:51:49.050
me as a child. And people still do it now.
1164
00:51:49.199 --> 00:51:53.429
So people have always told me things, always. So I
1165
00:51:53.469 --> 00:51:55.670
just made a career out of people telling me things,
1166
00:51:55.730 --> 00:51:56.110
I suppose.
1167
00:51:57.989 --> 00:51:59.849
And would you like your kids to do TV or
1168
00:51:59.869 --> 00:52:01.630
do you reckon they'll go on their own path, Gabby?
1169
00:52:01.750 --> 00:52:04.449
Well, my oldest wants to be a primary school teacher
1170
00:52:04.469 --> 00:52:06.929
and that's all she's wanted to do since she was three.
1171
00:52:07.360 --> 00:52:10.280
And my youngest wants to be an actress and that's
1172
00:52:10.320 --> 00:52:11.820
fine if that's what she wants to do. And she
1173
00:52:11.860 --> 00:52:13.239
wants to only do comedy.
1174
00:52:14.019 --> 00:52:14.519
Oh, brilliant.
1175
00:52:15.119 --> 00:52:17.409
Like physical comedy, like falling over, stuff like that.
1176
00:52:17.469 --> 00:52:19.909
Probably, yeah. Also, I don't know if you put videos
1177
00:52:19.949 --> 00:52:21.130
up of your kids, but if you want to send
1178
00:52:21.210 --> 00:52:23.570
us those falling over videos, we can put them on Instagram.
1179
00:52:23.610 --> 00:52:26.510
No, I never have done. I think they would kill me.
1180
00:52:26.550 --> 00:52:26.809
Fair enough.
1181
00:52:26.829 --> 00:52:29.519
That's skateboarding. I don't either, so I totally understand.
1182
00:52:29.559 --> 00:52:31.420
Well, if you want to recreate them and act it
1183
00:52:31.480 --> 00:52:32.679
out yourself, Gabby, then.
1184
00:52:32.699 --> 00:52:33.559
Oh, happily, I'll do that.
1185
00:52:33.699 --> 00:52:34.539
We'll do a GoFundMe.
1186
00:52:34.559 --> 00:52:37.739
Yeah, if the three of us can go skateboarding together,
1187
00:52:37.860 --> 00:52:43.079
I'm very happy to reenact that moment. LAUGHTER With pleasure.
1188
00:52:43.179 --> 00:52:45.639
What a random thing to put on Instagram. Us three
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00:52:45.679 --> 00:52:48.340
falling over on a skateboard.
1190
00:52:48.400 --> 00:52:51.250
Rob, you have a question you'd like to ask everyone.
1191
00:52:51.489 --> 00:52:53.829
Well, yes, Gabby, this is an opportunity for you now
1192
00:52:53.849 --> 00:52:56.530
because sometimes things frustrate you about the way your partner
1193
00:52:56.550 --> 00:52:59.989
can parent. So is there something that your fella does
1194
00:53:00.050 --> 00:53:02.010
that frustrates you with parenting that you couldn't say to
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00:53:02.050 --> 00:53:04.710
his face without kicking off, but you can say now
1196
00:53:04.750 --> 00:53:08.489
and hopefully he may hear and adjust his ways. It's
1197
00:53:08.510 --> 00:53:11.510
your opportunity now to You know, it's a fair comment,
1198
00:53:11.590 --> 00:53:13.650
but there's never a right time.
1199
00:53:14.050 --> 00:53:16.789
Interestingly, you had dishwasher stuff going on. It's to do
1200
00:53:16.829 --> 00:53:21.210
with the dishwasher. He has to load the dishwasher. When
1201
00:53:21.269 --> 00:53:24.130
we put anything in the dishwasher, he takes it out
1202
00:53:24.530 --> 00:53:25.449
and re-does it.
1203
00:53:26.170 --> 00:53:27.170
Oh, right.
1204
00:53:27.190 --> 00:53:27.369
Yeah.
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00:53:27.690 --> 00:53:29.929
So if he could stop doing that. And the kids,
1206
00:53:30.210 --> 00:53:31.849
you know, they put their plates on the side and
1207
00:53:31.869 --> 00:53:33.590
then he'll say, can you put them in the dishwasher?
1208
00:53:34.210 --> 00:53:36.090
So we'll put them in the dishwasher. And then I
1209
00:53:36.170 --> 00:53:39.050
hear that noise and I've crept up and I've looked.
1210
00:53:39.539 --> 00:53:41.539
In the kitchen, we have a very small kitchen. I've
1211
00:53:41.619 --> 00:53:44.739
crept around the corner and I found him taking it
1212
00:53:45.000 --> 00:53:48.239
out of the bloody dishwasher and re-putting it in.
1213
00:53:48.989 --> 00:53:51.630
There's nothing that annoys him more than a dishwasher rearranger.
1214
00:53:51.929 --> 00:53:54.010
No, but also he's anal about the dishwasher.
1215
00:53:54.030 --> 00:53:57.469
I know, but that is a pathetic way to live
1216
00:53:57.489 --> 00:53:57.730
your life.
1217
00:53:57.769 --> 00:54:00.150
He sounds like a very different character to you, Gary.
1218
00:54:00.369 --> 00:54:03.070
He sounds like, I can't imagine you getting upset about
1219
00:54:03.289 --> 00:54:04.530
the arrangement of a dishwasher.
1220
00:54:05.179 --> 00:54:08.539
Well, put it this way, whenever he's been out or
1221
00:54:08.599 --> 00:54:11.030
away or something and he went away, he took our
1222
00:54:11.070 --> 00:54:13.889
youngest skiing, because the skiing thing I don't get. I'll
1223
00:54:13.909 --> 00:54:16.369
do zip wiring and air-sea rescue skiing, no.
1224
00:54:16.389 --> 00:54:18.829
I would have thought being on a ski slope would
1225
00:54:18.849 --> 00:54:22.420
be an absolute, like a child in a sweet shop. Stupid.
1226
00:54:23.440 --> 00:54:26.920
It's stupid. It's stupid. You put two bits of long
1227
00:54:27.000 --> 00:54:29.719
things on your feet and you fly down a mountain,
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00:54:30.070 --> 00:54:32.889
slide down. No, if you're going to fall, that's fine.
1229
00:54:33.469 --> 00:54:36.070
Not the sliding down. No, don't like it. I like
1230
00:54:36.090 --> 00:54:37.409
the bit at the top. I like to stand at
1231
00:54:37.429 --> 00:54:40.380
the top. It's lovely. Don't like, I like the ski lift,
1232
00:54:40.420 --> 00:54:40.679
all that.
1233
00:54:40.719 --> 00:54:40.860
No.
1234
00:54:41.199 --> 00:54:43.519
So he went away and you know what? I rung
1235
00:54:43.559 --> 00:54:45.659
him up and I was giggling. He went, what is it?
1236
00:54:45.659 --> 00:54:48.050
I went, I've just loaded the dishwasher and I put
1237
00:54:48.110 --> 00:54:50.710
it on all by myself and it's all hickety-pickety and.
1238
00:54:50.690 --> 00:54:54.179
Nobody can know. And he was pissing himself laughing.
1239
00:54:54.559 --> 00:54:56.340
Just like put a pint glass the right way up,
1240
00:54:56.460 --> 00:54:58.599
filled with murky water.
1241
00:54:59.199 --> 00:55:01.000
Most people ring up and go, oh, I decided to
1242
00:55:01.019 --> 00:55:03.199
get really pissed tonight and I've had my friends around
1243
00:55:03.260 --> 00:55:04.079
and I've got takeaways.
1244
00:55:04.380 --> 00:55:08.210
No, it was the dishwasher! Yes! Well, you know, you
1245
00:55:08.230 --> 00:55:09.550
need to have a bit of balance, the yin to
1246
00:55:09.590 --> 00:55:10.329
your yang, isn't.
1247
00:55:10.210 --> 00:55:11.570
It, Gabby? Exactly.
1248
00:55:11.869 --> 00:55:15.619
He's also pretty mad, though. He'll suddenly... start doing stupid voice.
1249
00:55:15.659 --> 00:55:17.400
He's nothing to do with the industry. And I actually,
1250
00:55:17.420 --> 00:55:19.760
I think that's probably a very good thing.
1251
00:55:20.010 --> 00:55:22.829
Yes, I think so. What does he do? Does he
1252
00:55:22.869 --> 00:55:24.210
work in sort of, he doesn't do any sort of
1253
00:55:24.289 --> 00:55:25.909
creative sort of stuff like that?
1254
00:55:25.929 --> 00:55:28.210
Yeah, he's a bit of both. He's a, he's a,
1255
00:55:28.409 --> 00:55:30.570
he's a very clever guy, but he's a, he's more,
1256
00:55:31.010 --> 00:55:32.880
he can do the academic side as well as the
1257
00:55:32.929 --> 00:55:34.860
creative side. Academic and me.
1258
00:55:35.719 --> 00:55:40.179
I can't imagine you helping a, Your children with the homework. Yeah.
1259
00:55:41.059 --> 00:55:45.130
How was homeschooling with your 13-year-old? What happened? Please talk
1260
00:55:45.150 --> 00:55:50.079
me through the Gabby Roslin schedule of homeschooling. Did you bother?
1261
00:55:50.719 --> 00:55:53.360
I'm hoping I'm just upset at Rob.
1262
00:55:53.739 --> 00:55:56.989
No, I'm laughing because you're so right. He did all
1263
00:55:57.010 --> 00:55:59.550
of the homework and I never do that. I'm not
1264
00:55:59.570 --> 00:56:00.329
very good at that.
1265
00:56:00.489 --> 00:56:01.070
I'm not.
1266
00:56:01.730 --> 00:56:02.150
No.
1267
00:56:02.210 --> 00:56:04.929
But no, the drama. I help them with their drama.
1268
00:56:05.510 --> 00:56:06.329
All right.
1269
00:56:06.369 --> 00:56:09.250
That's a tough one. That's a tough one for you.
1270
00:56:09.349 --> 00:56:11.230
And English. No, I like the English. So I love
1271
00:56:11.269 --> 00:56:14.269
all the anything to do with English literature. I love
1272
00:56:14.309 --> 00:56:16.030
all of that. So I help them with that and
1273
00:56:16.090 --> 00:56:17.860
I help them with the art. And I help them
1274
00:56:17.900 --> 00:56:19.519
with the– I'm laughing just because.
1275
00:56:19.340 --> 00:56:20.699
It's so true. What was the schedule, though, Gabby, for
1276
00:56:20.719 --> 00:56:22.000
the homeschooling?
1277
00:56:22.019 --> 00:56:25.030
Well, actually, they're very lucky because my oldest was at university,
1278
00:56:25.110 --> 00:56:28.789
so she did a few lectures online. And my youngest
1279
00:56:29.389 --> 00:56:32.730
school was three to four every day online.
1280
00:56:32.789 --> 00:56:33.150
Online.
1281
00:56:33.190 --> 00:56:34.630
Oh, okay. So you're lucky there.
1282
00:56:34.789 --> 00:56:37.750
Nailed it. When you're teaching them art, do you ever go,
1283
00:56:37.769 --> 00:56:40.760
I know literally the richest artist in the world. You
1284
00:56:40.780 --> 00:56:43.980
can speak to him. Mr. Neil Buchanan.
1285
00:56:44.300 --> 00:56:45.079
You know what?
1286
00:56:45.099 --> 00:56:45.170
Yes.
1287
00:56:45.690 --> 00:56:50.300
I actually, all jokes aside, during the lockdown, I said
1288
00:56:50.340 --> 00:56:53.400
to my oldest, should we speak to Neil and ask
1289
00:56:53.440 --> 00:56:57.519
him if he'll do a lesson with our youngest and
1290
00:56:57.539 --> 00:57:00.170
see if he'll do that. And she just looked at me,
1291
00:57:00.159 --> 00:57:03.889
she went, you're going to ring up Neil Buchanan and say,
1292
00:57:04.250 --> 00:57:08.130
can you tea my youngest? I went, yeah, it's a
1293
00:57:08.170 --> 00:57:12.860
good idea, isn't it? Honestly, she just thought I'd gone
1294
00:57:12.920 --> 00:57:13.800
completely mad.
1295
00:57:13.920 --> 00:57:16.380
Oh, Gabby, you've been so good. It's been an absolute pleasure.
1296
00:57:16.619 --> 00:57:18.800
I think you should write a book, Gabby, about how
1297
00:57:18.840 --> 00:57:20.750
to live life because I think you've got it nailed.
1298
00:57:21.090 --> 00:57:23.730
Oh, bless you. You're so lovely. You know, Rob, I
1299
00:57:23.769 --> 00:57:25.969
completely adore you. Josh, I do, and I've never met you.
1300
00:57:25.989 --> 00:57:28.150
I really do. No, but it's an absolute pleasure to
1301
00:57:28.170 --> 00:57:28.809
speak to you.
1302
00:57:28.909 --> 00:57:31.230
And what's your podcast, Gabby? I was on an episode
1303
00:57:31.289 --> 00:57:31.670
of it.
1304
00:57:31.969 --> 00:57:34.269
It's not out yet, Rob, your one. They've started with
1305
00:57:34.329 --> 00:57:34.809
the big names.
1306
00:57:36.630 --> 00:57:40.909
No, he was absolutely... I texted him ages ago to
1307
00:57:41.030 --> 00:57:42.840
ask him, because I ask him to do everything, because
1308
00:57:42.889 --> 00:57:45.579
I absolutely... I'm going to embarrass him now, because he
1309
00:57:45.679 --> 00:57:48.179
doesn't like it. But I adore Rob. I think he's...
1310
00:57:48.710 --> 00:57:51.269
The most wonderful, glorious I've seen him do is like,
1311
00:57:51.309 --> 00:57:53.710
I'm actually, I might be your stalker because I've been
1312
00:57:53.730 --> 00:57:56.510
to all his shows. My husband's come along to his shows.
1313
00:57:56.969 --> 00:57:58.179
My family know my love.
1314
00:57:58.460 --> 00:58:00.920
And my mates go, why does Gabby Rossi always come
1315
00:58:00.940 --> 00:58:04.679
to your shows? I'm actually doing a Zoom lesson for
1316
00:58:04.699 --> 00:58:07.219
Gabby's daughters about comedy next week. She's got me lined up.
1317
00:58:07.300 --> 00:58:10.860
And what's the name of your podcast, Gabby, for people
1318
00:58:10.880 --> 00:58:11.510
to go and listen to?
1319
00:58:12.199 --> 00:58:15.199
Thank you. It's that Gabby Roslin podcast. It's that simple.
1320
00:58:15.219 --> 00:58:17.519
Brilliant. Robbie Williams lined up. Dame Judi Dench is an
1321
00:58:17.559 --> 00:58:19.719
absolute banger of a podcast. Thank you so much, Gabby.
1322
00:58:19.800 --> 00:58:20.659
Cheers, Gabby.
1323
00:58:20.679 --> 00:58:21.619
Thanks, guys.
1324
00:58:21.679 --> 00:58:22.239
Thank you.
1325
00:58:24.469 --> 00:58:26.010
Gabby Roslin. What a woman, Josh.
1326
00:58:26.389 --> 00:58:28.820
Amazing. I didn't feel it was on brand to discuss
1327
00:58:28.840 --> 00:58:30.599
The Big Breakfast, but there was so much I wanted
1328
00:58:30.639 --> 00:58:31.900
to discuss The Big Breakfast.
1329
00:58:32.019 --> 00:58:33.940
It was absolutely mad. I felt like a right little
1330
00:58:34.000 --> 00:58:36.280
nerd going, but what about your kids? And she's talking
1331
00:58:36.300 --> 00:58:38.179
about sea rescues. I know.
1332
00:58:38.199 --> 00:58:40.860
You're kind of going, are we missing the lead here?
1333
00:58:40.900 --> 00:58:43.090
Do you know what I mean? Are we completely missing what?
1334
00:58:43.769 --> 00:58:46.469
I know it's a parenting podcast. Is everyone at home going?
1335
00:58:47.179 --> 00:58:49.159
can't wait for more neil buchanan stories and we're going
1336
00:58:49.440 --> 00:58:53.150
do you have a problem disciplining your children.
1337
00:58:52.489 --> 00:58:55.329
Also it's like she said she told about three stories
1338
00:58:55.389 --> 00:58:57.469
about her kids falling over that she's got on video
1339
00:58:57.510 --> 00:59:00.230
that we can't see but it's still well about so
1340
00:59:00.610 --> 00:59:00.940
far i.
1341
00:59:00.909 --> 00:59:05.139
Know you're like i'm not sure how i'm enjoying someone
1342
00:59:05.179 --> 00:59:09.420
describing someone falling over but i am enjoying it so there.
1343
00:59:10.409 --> 00:59:12.170
When you said, have you heard of You've Been Framed?
1344
00:59:12.190 --> 00:59:13.769
You'll love it. I nearly lost my mind.
1345
00:59:15.380 --> 00:59:17.929
She's the great Lost You've Been Framed host. She should
1346
00:59:17.949 --> 00:59:18.659
have been doing that.
1347
00:59:18.800 --> 00:59:20.940
You know when someone's on weed and they're really high
1348
00:59:21.000 --> 00:59:26.739
and giggly, but that's her entire life. It's like that. Actually,
1349
00:59:26.760 --> 00:59:28.440
the reason why I know her is basically I used
1350
00:59:28.460 --> 00:59:31.170
to do... go on a radio show and do little
1351
00:59:31.210 --> 00:59:33.610
funny stories when it was on BBC Radio London. And
1352
00:59:33.650 --> 00:59:36.300
then I got offered a pilot for Absolute Radio and
1353
00:59:37.059 --> 00:59:38.579
I said, oh, do you mind helping me out, like,
1354
00:59:38.860 --> 00:59:40.960
put it together and advice on doing a show? And
1355
00:59:40.980 --> 00:59:42.400
she went, of course. And she took me to lunch,
1356
00:59:42.460 --> 00:59:44.800
bought my lunch, gave me so much advice about how
1357
00:59:44.820 --> 00:59:46.780
to do radio and broadcast and ideas and stuff.
1358
00:59:46.800 --> 00:59:47.619
What were her top tips?
1359
00:59:48.050 --> 00:59:50.409
Just basically, if you can fall over on air, you'll
1360
00:59:50.429 --> 00:59:54.269
be great. LAUGHTER That was more like just relax and
1361
00:59:54.570 --> 00:59:57.079
be you and also try and involve, like make the
1362
00:59:57.119 --> 00:59:58.659
audience feel like they're part of a little gang. And
1363
00:59:59.000 --> 01:00:01.000
do you know what? More than anything, she was so
1364
01:00:01.659 --> 01:00:03.630
full of, really, it was just that to go and
1365
01:00:03.670 --> 01:00:05.329
be myself. But like, she calmed me down because she
1366
01:00:05.349 --> 01:00:07.440
was so positive and full of energy and, you know
1367
01:00:07.480 --> 01:00:09.380
enthusiastic it just made me feel so much better but
1368
01:00:09.699 --> 01:00:11.099
she didn't need to do that no you know she
1369
01:00:11.119 --> 01:00:12.619
just did that she was being a nice person and
1370
01:00:12.639 --> 01:00:14.239
stuff so and we really hit it off and sort
1371
01:00:14.260 --> 01:00:16.420
of been friends since but yeah she's she's such a
1372
01:00:16.460 --> 01:00:18.460
lovely lady but she's like that all the and she
1373
01:00:18.500 --> 01:00:21.050
does walk she walks ever on her instagram she just
1374
01:00:21.119 --> 01:00:23.849
walks she just leaves her house listens to a podcast
1375
01:00:23.889 --> 01:00:27.010
or walks about five hours it just chats to people.
1376
01:00:26.630 --> 01:00:29.510
I'm absolutely following her instagram straight away mainly in case
1377
01:00:29.530 --> 01:00:32.119
there's any videos of people falling over Well, also.
1378
01:00:32.159 --> 01:00:35.460
Though, I would put myself as a number one Gabby
1379
01:00:35.480 --> 01:00:38.219
Rosling fan, but I would have been absolutely furious of
1380
01:00:38.260 --> 01:00:40.050
her singing Mary Poppins on the tube.
1381
01:00:40.570 --> 01:00:43.429
Yeah, of course. That's absolutely unacceptable behaviour. You know when
1382
01:00:43.449 --> 01:00:45.190
people talk about how people don't talk to each other
1383
01:00:45.230 --> 01:00:47.630
on public transport in London? I think, yeah, that's what
1384
01:00:47.650 --> 01:00:49.590
I want. This is my time on my own. I
1385
01:00:49.610 --> 01:00:52.449
don't want someone seeing Mary Poppins in my face, whether
1386
01:00:52.469 --> 01:00:54.050
they've been on The Big Breakfast or not.
1387
01:00:54.210 --> 01:00:56.110
It's kind of a weird thing, though, to be angry
1388
01:00:56.130 --> 01:00:58.230
at someone for using the tube. Normally it's the other way,
1389
01:00:58.250 --> 01:01:00.909
isn't it? I'm going to say it.
1390
01:01:00.949 --> 01:01:03.070
I think he had other issues going on as well.
1391
01:01:03.570 --> 01:01:05.769
Yeah. What's this really about?
1392
01:01:07.340 --> 01:01:10.079
I think it's also that shy stuff's really interesting. And
1393
01:01:10.119 --> 01:01:12.119
I think it would be really, you know, that will
1394
01:01:12.139 --> 01:01:14.679
speak to a lot of our listeners, I think. Yeah.
1395
01:01:14.699 --> 01:01:16.849
Well, I can't even really explain why, really. I just
1396
01:01:16.869 --> 01:01:19.269
was a really shy, nervous kid. And then I've just
1397
01:01:19.289 --> 01:01:21.730
sort of, I think I just love comedy and I
1398
01:01:21.769 --> 01:01:24.829
really wanted to do comedy, but I didn't want my
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shyness to stop me doing it.
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Yeah.
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If you know what I mean. So, but yeah, because
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I mean, but like when I was 18, I'd just
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like be too scared to go in a pub on
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my own. I'd have to wait outside to meet my
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friends to walk in with them. because I never wanted
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to walk in a venue on my own. But from touring,
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like I would eat alone in a restaurant at eight o'clock,
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wouldn't care. I'd go into a pub.
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Which is really unprofessional because that's when your show starts.
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Yeah, I'm normally half hour late really. I've all fit down.
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Sorry guys, I was on Wagamama's on my own.
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A couple of reddies in the interval, I'm raring to go.
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But yeah, so I can talk to anyone now really.
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But I do think though, sometimes I go into a
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bit more of a Rob show mode headspace though. But yeah,
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it's just, but also people grow up and they're different.
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The person you are at 14, like you say, you're
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never the same person throughout the whole of your life.
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You evolve, you change. I love stand-up and I think
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I'll do stand-up forever, but I wouldn't be surprised when
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I'm 50 or 60, I'll just open a shop or
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something and do something else. I think. Ed Gamble said
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that to me for the week and I was quite
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chilled about it. It was like, how are you so
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relaxed about it? I went, well, the thing is, Ed,
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I've got a few jokes. I'll say, if they work,
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they work. If they don't, they don't. And if I
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can't do this anymore, I'll open a shop or something.
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What would your shop be?
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Beckett's Bats. Sandwiches. Just a little sandwich shop. It's quite
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an easy thing. Also, I've never eaten a sandwich I
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couldn't have made better myself.
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Have you?
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I've never eaten a sandwich I thought I couldn't have
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made that better.
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No, I mean that. Do you think... Do you think
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you'd do some trade because you were the guy that
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used to be on Mock the Week? Do you think
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some people would come in purely.
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For the night?
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01:03:05.139 --> 01:03:08.400
Yeah, a couple of gags. But they'll be renamed after
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different panel shows.
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Yeah, exactly.
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I'm trying to think of some now, but I can't.
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But if anyone wants to write in with the menu
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for Beckett's back.
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What I lied to you is basically tuna surprise, but
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it's salmon.
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So that was amazing. I really enjoyed talking to Gabby Roslind.
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It's also very exciting. It's very exciting when someone knows
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Neil Buchanan.
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Having Neil Buchanan on Speed Dial, I bet his kids'
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artwork's so good. I was going to say, that'd be
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01:03:38.099 --> 01:03:40.320
a good question for Neil Buchanan would be, when your
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kid had art homework, was you just tempted just to,
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you know... What is it? Where do you draw the line?
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Because I think if my kids start doing.
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Stand-up... Well, drawing the line is one of the things
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he's so good at.
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But if my kids did stand-up, I find it so
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hard not to give them advice of what to do.
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Because.
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you know, I don't want to blow my own trumpet,
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but after 12 years of doing it, I do know
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best if they've just started. I know exactly what you need.
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I may not be able to do it every time,
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but I know exactly what you need to do at
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that point.
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But it's very difficult for Neil Buchanan's son to submit
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for their RGCSE a 50-foot picture of a bicycle made
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up of bicycle parts on a lawn.
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Yeah, where's your coursework? Come to the park, follow me.
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Have you got scaffolding and a 20-foot ladder?
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LAUGHTER Um, thank you to Gabby. Um, thank you all
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for listening. We'll be back on Friday with, uh, you know.
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Support Instagram's correspondence. I'd say we've got a lot to
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get through. So I see bangers coming in. Um, yeah.
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So we'll see on Friday.
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Instagram, get us an email. See them. Bye. Bye.
