Life with Nat - EP12: Stalking Romesh, the shredded duvet and Marc’s meatballs.

Episode Date: May 29, 2024

Nat is joined by friend @beffyswardrobe and producer Emma. They chat about Nats obsession with comedians, why the duvet looks like a badger is living under the bed and how you can’t not love the Beckhams. Enjoy Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view INSTA: @natcass1 A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] SHOW INFO: Life with Nat - it’s me! Natalie Cassidy and I’ll be chatting away to family, friends and most importantly YOU. I want to pick people's brains on the subjects that I care about- whether that’s where all the odd socks go, weight and food or kids on phones. Each week I will be letting you into my life as i chat about my week, share my thoughts on the mundane happenings as well as the serious. I have grown up in the public eye and have never changed because of it. Life with Nat is the podcast for proper people. Come join the community. ♥️ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

This is Beth everybody. How are you? Good thanks. Me and Beth have worked together for how many years? Four, nearly four. Yeah about four. About four. But we just hit it off, didn't we? We did. I think we've got the same opinions of things. Yes. And I think we have the same outlook on life. We do. And we like a don't get me wrong. We do like a, now don't get me wrong.

Don't get me wrong. Don't get me started. And that. So on Monday, my ep of Fashion Faux Pals went out. And I think a lot of people enjoyed it. But I think some people were a little bit upset that it wasn't visual because it was a very descriptive visual episode. Yeah.

And if you're driving along, you haven't got your Instagram open, you can't look at the photos, etc. So a lesson learned. I've got all your messages. And until I can plaster it up somewhere live, I won't be doing one like that again. You live and learn. It's a learning curve. You live and you learn.

Don't you? You do. So I asked you to come on to have a little chat about fashion because obviously my nieces pulled me apart. They did. I asked you to come on to have a little chat about fashion because obviously my nieces pulled me apart. They did. But in a lovely way. They mean well. They do.

They do mean well. But I just thought it'd be quite nice to have a little chat with you because you work with clothes. Yeah. I work with clothes every day. How is it? Yeah. I love it. Yeah. I really do.

But when it comes to my own clothes, not so much. No, I'm not having that. Just... You are very, very stylish. I try. I try very hard. I feel like at work and in lots of places when I go out and things like that, I really do try and sometimes it works and other times it really, really doesn't.

I don't know. I don't think I've ever seen you and think, oh, that doesn't work. Oh, there have been a few. Not since I've known you. I feel like you really put things together, but you do think about it, don't you? I do think about it. I am one of those the night before I'll put it together. Yeah.

I will. I will. But am one of those, the night before, I'll put it together. Yeah. I will. But that's just efficiency, no? Is that not just being organised? Yeah, I just, I get out of bed, chuck a pair of tracksuit bottoms on.

Because obviously at work, I get changed. Yeah, that's true. I feel like, I either look, very, very put together or I've got what I slept in the night before on. There is no in between with me.

I don't ever just chuck on a pair of jeans and a T-shirt. No. I'm either in... Never seen you in a jeans and a T-shirt. No. I'm either in my joggers and an unmatching jumper. I know, but that looks good. Or I'm dolled up.

There's no in-between. Well, tonight you're a bit in-betweeny. I am. Dungarees, a leopard print polo. Yeah. And a beautiful pink cardi. Yeah. But then it is a bit mix match, isn't it?

I know, but it works. I just can't do it. I just can't. No. I just can't. No, I've had some wonderful messages from lots and lots of people, and I thank my listeners so much for them. Just going to get some up. How are you, sweetheart? I am doing good.

How are you? I'm all right, sweetheart. It's a busy time. It's busy, isn't it? Life's going on. Oh, it's very, very busy. At the moment, I don't stop talking on Albert Square, which means there's a lot of line learning going on, not only at work, but at home, on top of the pods. So it is very, very busy, but

I'm not complaining. I'm very, very grateful for all of the work. Very, very grateful, but exhausted. Now, don't get me wrong. Jules said, Hi, girls. Just listening to the faux pas pod episode. Outfit one cracked me up. Your grey handbag is the same colour as the pavement behind. Alright. Alright, Jules.

Urban camouflage. Yeah. At first glance, I thought it was some weird stick shape like a Star Wars themed handbag. Hilarious. She went in. She went in. Fair enough, Jules. Well done, Jules. Let's have a listen to this a sec. Hi, Natalie. It's Kate from Letchlade in Gloucestershire. I, too, have fine hair, and my game changer is a hot air brush. Since I bought one of those, I've not looked back. It's been a real game changer.

But, yeah, lots of heat protector spray. Can't recommend a shampoo. In my 50s, still haven't found one that works but love the pod take care bye thank you for that i have a babalus um air styler it's the only thing i can use i've tried the dyson air wrap can't use it to save my life and i do like the hot brush however it lasts for about five minutes all of five minutes but is that the style or is that you it's not me it's you um it's when you say is it me i feel like i dry it quite well yeah my hair doesn't hold have you got to do hairspray and stuff are you doing all of that sometimes sometimes i put mousse in and stuff

but not often emma i need to put a load of product in it Sometimes that weights it down though doesn't it Sometimes you've got to Once you've blown it sort of put a little bit of a clip in it To hold it or Who's got time Well you know You Well yeah

Because your hair always looks absolutely Your hair is amazing It's not all real If I'm completely honest That's alright That's okay it looks great But I do I only wash it once a week, wash the whole thing once a week,

and I wash the top bit, just the top section, once a week as well. And then I just let it do what it wants to do. Elia. She's like, Elia. That thick hair. Elia only washes her hair once a week. Yeah. It makes me sick, actually. Emma, I'm afraid that you and I, I think, we've got roughly the same hair. Ellie only washes her hair once a week. Yeah. It makes me sick, actually. Emma, I'm afraid that you and I, I think we've got roughly the same hair.

I've got, it's normal thickness, but loads of it. Just way too heavy, way too much of it. And just wavy. And I'm trying to do all that curly hair routine and stuff, but it's so much work and then it doesn't last overnight. It looks amazing when it's done, when I put hours and hours and let it do all the proper thing but then there's so much product and yeah i feel like half a can of mousse and a diffuser and you'd be away and i've tried that i've done a bit of that and then it's great for the afternoon

and then the next day i i've got to figure out the overnight thing because i've i've tried the hair bonnet things but i pull that off halfway through the night and then it's all frizzy people keep saying silk pillowcases i haven't gone that far yet but i probably should well silk pillowcases meant to be very good for the wrinkles i've bought people as presents quite a few pillowcases i'll find it a lovely stocking filler i, we won't talk about your pillowcases right now. I can if you like. Right, when Beth came round last, it was dark. So she'd not seen the view.

Go on, what happened? Well, she took me into her bedroom to look at the lovely view from the window. And I heard an almighty scream. I really did. And she's holding her duvet cover and it's in tatters. Absolute tatters. You've never seen anything like it.

I'll post a picture up. It's like Jurassic Park world's been in the whole of my the corner of my duvet is ripped to shreds shreds it's to shreds so i've called joni and i said joni have you done this now now so i've shouted down to mark i said what have you done? Because it's his side of the duvet also. It was actually, babe, what have you done? So he's come up. He sort of looked at it, didn't he? He did.

He was a bit suspect. I mean, everyone's a suspect, if I'm honest, in this case. It's not me. No, no, I'm not having that. You did make the bed this morning. No, I didn't. Oh. No, I went out early doors.

That's what I mean i went out and i've left mark in bed the i'm telling you that duvet did not look like that yesterday i can assure you it did not like so i said mark come up come and have a look at this duvet it's torn to shreds he went oh oh it's the dog, we haven't got a dog. And the dog that does come round hasn't been here since last Thursday. So I said, I can assure you, Mark, that I know that Lily the dog hasn't done that because I've been making the bed for four days.

I mean, I'm busy, but I'm not stupid. Did you get a pet velociraptor? Without realising. It's the most random shredding. It's not a hole. No, it's not. It's a real incredible Hulk as he rips off his T-shirt.

It is exactly that. Multiple lines, kind of. Shredded. One line. Absolutely shredded. Has a pigeon got in overnight or something? Have you got a badger living under the bed? What's going on?

I'm just phoning Mark to see if we can get any more out of him. Could you come upstairs, please? I need to talk to you about the duvet. Please. I can't let it rest. I can't do this pod without... I think he's coming up. It's like an interrogation, isn't it?

Have you got a photo? I want to see... Do you want to quickly go and grab a photo do you mind no of course not you grab a photo are we going to turn into like one of those investigation podcasts like that who shat on the floor at my wedding one could you just pop in a sec beth's just going to take a picture of it to show emma could you sit down for a minute? Under the spotlight we've got important questions. Right it's Tuesday the 28th of May at 2020 we are showing Emma exhibit A. What do you

mean exhibit A? Oh this is a full court case now. We are going in deep to figure out what's going on. I am not going to sit here and be told that you don't know what has happened to the duvet cover. I'm not having it. I have absolutely no know what has happened to the duvet cover. I'm not having it.

I have absolutely no idea what's happened to it. Is it a joke? I've just looked at it. Yeah. It's really, all that material is extremely thin. The whole thing. I agree with you. Yeah.

But when I made it yesterday. It looks like claw marks. Okay. Yeah. Have you had the Incredible Hulk round for lunch? No. Emma, what's up with Emma? It's so boring.

Emma's, like, texting. No, I'm looking. I'm looking at the picture. I'm trying to figure it out, because it's not... There's a few bits that looks like scissor marks, but it's not. No. It is ripped. No.

And also, the bit I wanted to know was, I don't remember making the bed this morning. Did you make the bed? No, I left you in bed. No. Okay, so you've made it this evening? No, it was sort of unmade. Right.

But with the corners up. I don't think I've touched it. You've got to talk to that little chimpy. Because something's happened today. Joni. Joni. It's ridiculous. Joni.

Are you sure there's not a badger under the bed, like, that's got in? Well, I'm genuinely a little bit worried that something's in there brilliant Joni come here darling because some of it does look like cut it

but yeah the weird it's not like straight lines of ripping it's sort of zig zaggy there's also another one that's not the only hole

can I ask you something yeah do you mind the microphone do you know anything about the hole in the duvet cover? No, sorry Joni, listen to me

No, seriously You won't be in trouble Not actually But we're really worried that there's some sort of animal or dinosaur living under our bed Have you been playing in there? Do you know what? It's like Vampirina There's always a bed monster

And if it doesn't like it, it eats the duvets But it's a good bed monster It if it doesn't like it, it eats the duvets. But it's a good bed monster. It's not evil. I genuinely think what's happened, it's been wash loads, it's thin and it's just got It's just torn on its own. I think so. I think it's torn on the edge of the bed. I think Mark

has made the bed today. I actually don't remember doing that. I think it's Daddy's big elbows getting into the holes of the little fingers in his bed, getting so cosy up, moving the duvet so much he'd get comfortable. Maybe. All right, thank you. I just can't believe I've come home to a shredded duvet.

Oh, goodnight. Right, say goodnight. Off you go, then. I said goodnight, but... Come on, Daddy. I'm coming. Thank you. That's the story of the shredded goodnight, but... Come on, Daddy. I'm coming. Thank you. That's the story of the shredded duvet.

It's a cliffhanger. What have you been up to this weekend? Because I feel like we haven't really spoke a lot. No, we haven't really. It's been a busy old time, hasn't it? Yeah, what have I been up to? I'm just working. I'm buying a flat.

I'm trying to buy a flat. Yeah. And it's just so slow and weird. I don't know what I'm doing. Well, Beth's just started renting her own place, haven't you? I have. I've moved a mile away from my own mum. It's great, actually.

You're enjoying it, aren't you? I'm really enjoying it. I really am. What did you do the other day that made you feel like a grown-up? You bought a sofa. I bought a sofa. I've never done anything like it. It brought me so much.

I nearly cried, actually, when it brought me so much I nearly cried actually when it got delivered because I felt really adult really adult and then the next morning I woke up and I live next to a church so I was hanging out my washing it was a nice day hanging out my smalls and the priest was opening up and I'm there hanging out my knickers you want those pegs to be quite secure you're not going to collect them off the gravestones are you no I mean I didn't really know what to do and he said lovely day isn't it and I thought yeah it's a really good day I bet you can't believe he's lucky you've moved yeah I mean we're not the quietest of households. Oh.

We do, Rhys will be at one end and I'll be at the other and we will sort of, what do you want for dinner? Well, that's normal, that's talking about... It is, it is normal. Or the occasional swear word might come out where we have to remember that... You're by the church. Right by the church.

Yeah, I think it's all right. the church. Right by the church. Yeah. I think it's all right. Especially once it's all shut up. Yeah. No-one in there, is there? Well... There's only a load of dead people in the graveyard. Well, you don't want to disrespect, though, do you? Well, I think now you've moved in,

you're going to have to just forget it, let it go. I'm trying. Let it go. Let it go. Yeah. In the words of Elsa... Let it go. Yeah. In the words of Elsa. Let it go. Leonie said,

Just seen your post about all your old outfits and had to share this. Years ago, you featured in Heat magazine's Ring of Shame. They'd basically circled your entire outfit and called it gangster crap. Me and my friends still refer to things as gangster crap because of it. Absolutely iconic look, in my opinion. Thanks for that, Leonie. It's a nice one to be told about. It really is.

It sounds like they're doing it sort of in a reverent kind of... I think they're doing it... Oh, it's endearing, isn't it? They're doing it in an iconic way. Yeah. Yeah. But yeah, the picture is just me

in a kind of baseball cap and jeans with a jacket. But that's fashion again now. Yeah. Again, not when I wear it. I've been sporting a baseball cap quite a lot recently. I've seen this.

I've seen it. I really like it. I like seen it. I really like it. I like it. Because I don't have to do my hair. Yeah. I put a little hoop on and I feel quite good in a baseball cap. Am I too old, though, for a baseball cap? Absolutely not.

Am I not? No. You wore one the other day and you had your sunglasses on, your gold hoops in. Yeah. It's Victoria Beckham. Oh! You and Mark, Porsche and Becks.

Victoria Beckham with a little bit more fat on her. Not at all. Not at all. I hope so. Hard not to. She's so small. Love David and Victoria, by the way. Oh, so do I.

Absolutely love them. They are iconic. It really annoys me when I hear people say, oh, I can't stand the Beckhams. But why? I think, why? Why can you not like David and Victoria Beckham? They come from round here.

He's done amazingly well in his footballing career. She was a Spice girl. Yeah. And then from there, they've built this brand between them and separately. Yeah. She is a high-style fashion artist. Yeah. She's a fashion designer with shops and featured in Vogue

and mixes with the best of the best in the fashion world. Yeah. How can you not like them? You just can't, can you? I mean, I feel like most teen girls, Spice Girls, was just their lives for a long time, wasn't it? And that's kind of carried on through. And then Beckham with the football,

they're just a match made in heaven, aren't they? in heaven you know the other day i was slightly younger than the whole spice girl i was sort of on the tail end of the spice girls growing up so i loved it and me and my friends used to like make dances and things like that to it and we actually the, the Spice Girls Stop video came on the other day and we were saying to, I was at a family party and me and my best friend were there and we said, we used to make a dance up to this. We know the dance, like we've made it up. So we start doing it and they're doing it on the screen.

We thought we'd made it up. No. Yeah. The whole, stop right now. I thought I'd made it up. You thought you'd made it up. Yeah. The whole stuff right now. I thought I'd made it up. You thought you'd made it up. Yeah. That is brilliant.

I'll tell you a Spice Girls story. I've got two stories. I've probably got more than two because I'm that kind of girl. However, I met the Spice Girls when Top of the Pops was being filmed at Elstree. I mean, you used to get all the stars in, you know, all the big stars. And the Spice Girls were in and I remember running down the corridor and I got Polaroids with them and I got the Polaroids signed. I've still got them somewhere.

Brilliant. Still got them and they were always lovely. And then as I grew up and started going out a bit more and what have you, I used to sort of pop down to Hampstead and Emma Bunton and Jade always used to be out around that area, so I used to see them a lot. She's amazing. She's never changed. Her and Jade have never changed. Childhood sweethearts, still together today.

Couple goals. It is couple goals, isn't it? Couple goals. But my Beckham story is about two years ago, I went to Lapland UK with the children, something I do every year. Extortionate, but once you've been, can't miss it. You know I'm a Christmas freak.

Me too. So went to Lapland UK. I usually go around 22nd, 23rd of December. Specific. It is specific. I want to go near Christmas. Yeah. I don't want to go in September. No. I don't want to go in October. However, it does get much more expensive the nearer you get to Christmas. So again, I'm very fortunate to be able to do that. If you've got to go in September, you've got to go in September. Knock yourself out. Yeah.

So I get there. We're out and about. We do all the stories. I won't go into it in case you've not been. It's amazing. And we get to a bit outside. They have an ice rink. And there the children are, skating on the ice.

And I look round and I think, I'm sure that's Brooklyn Beckham on the ice. So anyway, don't say anything. Blow me down, I turn round, Dave's there. Big Dave's leaning on the ice rink, looking at the children. Victoria's next to him. Turn round. I say hello David

He says hello Natalie, how are you? I say I'm very well thank you That man is so polite And he remembered me From years gone by Isn't that lovely? That is lovely, that is so nice Normal people I'm telling you

Very Victoria didn't say hello But throughout the years of knowing the Beckhams So nice. Normal people, I'm telling you. Very. Victoria didn't say hello, but throughout the years of knowing the Beckhams as acquaintances out in the industries that we move in, she's never said hello. She's busy, though. She's a busy lady, very stylish, and I think she likes to keep herself to herself.

Do you know what? Good luck to her. Yeah. I don't hold it against her. No. I don't mind it. But he, very, very polite. Oh, that's so good to hear that, isn't it?

Very, very, very nice, polite. Spoke to the children. They haven't got a clue who he is. Hello, how are you? You look nice. Just normal. Yeah. I wasn't meant to be,

I wasn't doing a squeaky voice then, was I? I wasn't trying to do an impersonation. Hello, you all right? Oh. I didn't mean to do that. Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. Stop sitting on your aeroplane points and get big savings

so you can be somewhere you actually want to be, like on a beach. Right now you can save up to 25% in AeroPlan points when you book a trip to one of 180-plus Air Canada destinations worldwide. So stop sitting on your next trip and start saving on one. Don't miss out. Your chance to save in points ends February 23rd. Book at AirCanada.com. Conditions apply. Get groceries delivered across the GTA from Real Canadian Superstore

with PC Express. Shop online for super prices and super savings. Try it today and get up to $75 in PC Optimum Points. Visit superstore.ca to get started. Hi Nat, just had to message you. At 63, that's when my mum died, you know?

No. 63, yeah, young. At 63, I had absolutely no idea what a podcast was. Then you had my daughter, Shell, the podcast virgin, talking on your first podcast. She kept saying, mum, you have to listen, you'll love it. And although I follow you on Instagram, I kept saying, mum, you have to listen. You'll love it. And although I follow you on Instagram, I kept saying, oh God, can't be asked. I won't be interested. It's not for me. A few weeks ago, I started to listen to my first one. Since then, I've been hooked, laughing out loud when I'm walking down the street, listening, absolutely love them. And now I'm getting really angry with my friends who don't listen. Yes, Jane, this is what we want.

Get annoyed with them. Get them on the podcasts. Get them on mine. So thank you for that message. Another message here. I mentioned shorts on Monday. Yeah. And I don't like wearing shorts. It's a thing for me.

My legs, they look like cottage cheese. I mean, I did hear you say this and it did disappoint me. Why? I just don't think anyone should describe themselves as a type of cheese, especially cottage. I hear you. We could maybe think of something slightly more affectionate. What's the lumpy fruit that they eat in I'm a Celeb?

Cheese fruit. Vomit a Celeb? Cheese fruit. Vomit fruit. Vomit fruit. I don't think this is helping. This is probably worse. Come on, we're supposed to be cheerleading you. I just think if you don't want to wear shorts, that's absolutely fine. Oh gosh, Nat, just heard your fashion podcast, Cottage Cheese avoidance i'm 42 four kids five foot five and 120 pounds

and still paranoid about wearing shorts now i'm over 40 i know i shouldn't give a shit other people wear them and probably shouldn't in other people's opinions but if they don't give a shit why should i but we all do rock the shorts and cellulite life's too bloody short too right thanks for that if we all make a pact to do it to wear shorts this summer then what are they going to do who are these people mouthing off I don't even think people do

I think when you really think about it when you go down the street you don't look at other people and you don't think oh not sure she should be wearing that. Don't I? Oh.

Don't get me wrong. In some cases, maybe. You know, I'm an honest person. You are. I'm not going to sit here and say that I've never been to a beach before and look round and thought, oh, she's brave. But that's a positive spin on it. She's brave.

Very much so. But I champion everybody. I mean that. I'm just saying my first thought, you know, she's brave. She's brave. But that's because society has taught us that we have to feel bad about ourselves and for each other you know yeah we have to see it as brave because we're not allowed to just be yes

that's what we've been trained to do yeah you're so we just yeah rewire it you know just go out and wear what you want yeah i might try and put some shorts on. When we do our episode, Em, by the seaside, wherever we choose to go first, I'm going to wear shorts that day. I mean, if it's baking, I might just put a bikini on and be done with it. Bikini pod. It's efficient.

It's efficient. I'll be cool. You will. I'll get a tan. Or I'll burn to pieces. But I might do it. Might make people feel good about themselves if they see me looking about themselves they see me 100 i think you should go for it guess where i went on friday evening go on emma i've got to tell you this story oh yeah went to see romesh ranga nathan oh great stuff oh two yeah it's called hustle believe it's going to be on the television at some point

soon because my mark filmed it it was absolutely incredible i don't know if he's got how many he's got left or if he's doing many more i recommend it highly get on his website have a look if you can go he was amazing he did an hour and a half then there was an interval and he did another i reckon 35 to 45 minutes i mean that is on your own that's a lot isn't it on your own anyway rewind i've got a bit of an obsession with comedians yeah i'm a i am i'm obsessed people have their thing don't they they don't enjoy for me I'm obsessed I stalk them I want to be friends I mean I'm not doing bad I'm doing quite well you are I've got into the circle I'm collecting you know a few numbers in the phone yeah David Earl, Joe Wilkinson,

Josh Whittakin, Rob Beckett, Joe Lycett, Joe Lycett. You know, I'm doing very, very well. Haven't got Romesh's number, but we are Instagram friends, as I like to say. You're on the path. The odd direct message has been thrown. The odd watching your show tonight, thanks, mate. You've slid in.

Thumbs up. I've slid into the DM, so that's all good. So the tour was on. Going back now probably a few months. A few months? I put, oi, wrong. I'm going to read it to you. Hang on.

It is cringe-worthy. This is so bad. Like a fan. Like a groupie. A fan. Really bad. It's the amount of blue messages. Is it? Is it a lot?

Is it all? No, look. Oh, there we go. Left on red. I mentioned him in my story back in Feb 2023. He put praying hands. I was very excited. As you can see, I put a very large emoji of myself with a thumbs up.

Yours and Tom's podcast is amazing smashing the life out of it well deserved with a little thumb up i didn't get anything back july the 11th i did a little laughing face probably to his story nothing back 13th of november at 1839 i mentioned romesh in my story because i'd done the weakest link with a man I think that's fair that's not stalkerish I was on the same show

so I mentioned him in the thing he didn't get back to me on that one he didn't get back to me on that one I then mentioned him again

this is actually it's giving baby reindeer isn't it he must have fought could Natalie Cassidy fuck off? On the 7th of December at 10 o'clock, watching Taskmaster Series 1, what a line-up with Romesh added in there.

He reacted to that story with hearts, little emoji hearts. You know, the smiley face with the hearts. 20th of Feb, I sent, Please, can I come on the 24th of May? Me and the man, after party to boot. One, two, three, four, five, six praying hands, three hearts. He got back immediately. Of course, I'll put you on. Aww.

Me, not being cool. Capital letters. O-M-F-G. Thank you so much, I'm so excited. Proud hands. He put back, lower your expectations. That's my advice. Hilarious.

I was crying with laughter. I thought, oh my God god I've got a joke from Romesh bit of a piss take asking you really but I thought at least tell me to fuck off on the weakest link

so I felt I could ask ha ha ha no man of course he doesn't want to talk to me anymore it's quite obvious he doesn't want to carry on the conversation

so I left it not for long for quite a long time actually. That was February the 20th. So it comes to the 23rd of May. Last week, last Thursday, I said to Mark, going to Romesh tomorrow,

he said, yeah, I'm rigging it. He was working on it, cameraman on it. I said, this works out perfectly. I'll meet you up there. I'll go to work, meet you at the. I'll meet you up there. I'll go to work, meet you at the O2. Once you've rigged, you can watch it. And then Saturday you can go back and film it and watch it again. He said, okay, great. Then I sort of started

to think, no, I didn't start to think. Mark said, have you heard from Romesh? Are you definitely on the guest list? I was like, yeah, I'll be on. He said, well, are you going to come all the way to the O2 to be turned away? How do you know this is happening? I know you've mentioned it, but the guy is a very, very busy man. He's never off the telly. He's either presenting the BAFTAs, he's doing comedy dramas,

he's with Rob, with Grand Prix cars, the man doesn't stop working. So I said, well, maybe he just said it out of politeness. What am I going to do? So Friday afternoon, I can't believe I did this, I text Rob Beckett. Oh, no. I said, hi, Rob, sorry to bother you.

I'm meant to be going to see Romesh tonight, but I haven't really had an answer back. Oh, no, I didn't tell you. Sorry. I'd messaged him. I thought, how can I? I don't want to message Romesh and say, hi, am I still on the list tomorrow?

The guy is so busy. I don't want to do that. So I put, you won't believe it. My fiance is working on the show. He's filming you. How amazing. See you tomorrow. No response. At that point, I was shitting it a little. So I text Rob Beckett. I said, Rob, I'm ever so sorry to bother you. I think I'm meant to be on a guest list, but I haven't heard back from Ramesh and I really don't know what to do. No worries. He said, leave it with me. He came back. I think I'm meant to be on a guest list, but I haven't heard back from Ramesh and I really don't

know what to do. No worries. He said, leave it with me. He came back. I had all the instructions, everything was sorted. And then I got there and it was fine. And we had our passes and we had a wonderful time and it was okay. So it's worth the graft. It was worth the graft. But I do feel a bit embarrassed about the whole thing. And I do maybe think there is a conversation somewhere of people going that fucking natalie cassidy drives them nuts not her again have you messaged him since no oh yeah i did i did of course i did how many times great show Great show. See you after. Great show. Following you home. Great show. Saturday at half past three. You absolutely smashed the fucking life out of that last night.

Amazing. Thank you so much. And please thank Flo for me. I think Flo's his manager. I was very excited to meet her as well. Have the best show tonight, Nat. Thank you so much for coming, mate. And I just put, no thank you.

Praying hands. That's it. Never going to message him again. Unless I see him on a show and we hit it off and I get his phone number, I'm never going to direct message the guy again. So this is a public plea? Unless he does something amazing on the television

and I have to say something. Yeah. But I feel like I've overstepped the mark with Romesh. I think you've done enough now. Yeah, me too. And you've seen him now. I've seen him and he was brilliant. I urge everyone to watch it.

Yeah, I'd like to go actually. If you don't go, it's definitely on the television. And all we have to do is message Rob Beckett for tickets. Is that what we're telling everyone? It's Rob, Romesh's piano. No, no, that's what I treated Rob as I felt really bad I did say sorry a hundred times in fact to the point where I think Rob put all right chill don't worry about it have a great weekend have you had any experiences with people that you love where you've been a bit stalkerish?

Well, I actually, when I was really young, I had a very, very strange obsession with Enrique Iglesias. Oh, OK. But I was about eight at the time. I was really young and nobody quite got it because it was all about Rihanna, Beyonce and I was very heavily in love with Enrico Iglesias at the time. My mum actually took me to a concert. It wasn't even a dedicated concert for him. It was like a, it was a few people playing. Maybe kind of a jingle bell ball type vibe. It was kind of like that, yes, yes.

And I elbowed my way to the front as far as I possibly could. And he did wave my direction. Well, that was it. I lost my cool. I did lose my cool. And that Christmas I got a clock of his face. Oh, God, you said that. Yeah, so I've actually still got the clock somewhere.

Have you? In the loft. Does Rhys know about this obsession? He does now. I can be a hero, baby. What time is it? It's always Enrique time. It really is. No, I thought that was hero, baby. What time is it? It's always Enrico time. It really is.

No, I thought it was Chico time. Oh, it was? Well, did you have a Chico clock? No, not my time. There we go. It's Enrico time. Do you know the other day, I was absolutely convinced. I was talking to Maria and she was talking.

Chico came up in conversation and I said, he's dead. And she said, oh, no, he isn't. I said, he is. He's 100% dead. She Googled it. She went, he's not dead. That was Darius. Oh, yeah, Darius Dinesh, didn't he?

Yeah. God rest his soul. But I was absolutely convinced. And you think this is how gossip starts. I think there was a fake one that went around Twitter about him oh thank you my mum does it she's terrible for it she actually phoned me one day and told me that a lady we knew passed away and I was gutted I was really really gutted and I really did get upset and she phoned me back she said oh my god false alarm false alarm she's not she's still with us I got it wrong and then about 40 minutes later she rang me back she

said no no no she is she's gone well that was it I didn't know what to do with myself wow I just I didn't know where to laugh or cry don't get me wrong don't get me wrong Wow. I just, I didn't know where to laugh or cry. Don't get me wrong. Don't get me wrong. I'm going to phone Elia. Hello, babe. You all right? Yeah, yeah. Fine, sweetheart. Sorry to bother you again in the evening.

I keep ringing her up for these pods. Last time it was about lacmej about the old turkish bread i'm here with beth yeah i'm all good sweetheart i'm here with beth and we're just digressing obviously we're just having a chat about things and i was talking about my obsession with comedians and how when i think about it we've just gone through my DMs to Ramesh. And I don't know how he gave me tickets because I've genuinely stalked him for about a year. Wow. Like, proper fan. Hearts. Proper fan, yeah.

Hearts. Saw you on Taskmaster Series 1. It's amazing. Like, it's so embarrassing that I want to be sick. It's cringe. And then Beth was talking about... You kept that one quiet. Yeah, but do you know what?

It's one of those ones, I didn't even think I'd done it until I've looked back. Yeah, you're probably hammered, like, watching it or something. Oh, lovely. She didn't half paint a picture of me. She didn't half paint a picture. She knows you too well. Beth had a crush on Enrique Iglesias as an eight-year-old.

Interesting. And she had a clock with his face on. Yes, thank God it was a clock. That's what I said. It's an interesting one. Yeah, fair. So then I thought of you, and you've got to tell your story about Neo. Neo, yeah,

I was pretty obsessed. I still am a bit. I've seen him probably about seven times, I think. That's a lot. And I think I queued,

like the longest I queued was like a good eight hours, I think. Which I think people do a lot more. but to get front row seats. Sorry, sorry. Why did that never pop up in my queuing episode?

It's true. It's true. No, I did. I queued outside. One was Brixton and the other one was the Indigo 2. Both of those I queued up because that was um like not see you know that was standing yeah um and I got to the front once and I had a t-shirt on with um his face on it oh it's so good and I took the t-shirt off I did have a t-shirt on underneath and um

like obviously um a different one how aggravating layers oh yeah no like just a little vest top and i took the t-shirt off for it to him and he held it up and i was absolutely buzzing and then after that he had like a towel where he'd been dancing like he'd wipe his face up with a towel yeah and um he threw the towel at me and i kept it forever actually a girl tried to take it from me she like pulled it out my hand and I nearly loathed her out. I was like, that's nice. That's what happened with Liam Gallagher's tambourine? Yeah, well, yeah.

Did you not take it off someone, though? Absolutely not. And do you know how I know that? And I will put this straight on this. I had someone on Twitter tell me that I was wrong and that I'd nicked the tambourine from had someone on Twitter tell me that I was wrong and that I'd nicked the tambourine from this guy on Twitter

and I was devastated because I don't remember much but I'm telling you now I remember getting the Liam Gallagher's tambourine, I'm not going to forget that moment yeah, bit gel and he had put, slander is what it is, put it all over Twitter that I was lying on the sewing bee.

I mean, this is unravelling. I can't go into it now. I did the sewing bee. I did a Liam Gallagher jacket. Yeah, it's a lot. It's a lot. But I then did a location shoot not too long ago. And the head of the security came up to me and said, I remember you at the concert for Oasis at Wembley.

And I said, do you now? He said, I was standing very close to you when he threw the tambourine at you. And I said, wow. I said, so you're, I said, can you promise me? Honestly, I said, can you promise me? Did I nick that tambourine off anyone? He said, absolutely not.

Oh, at least you've got a witness. So I've got a witness. Excellent. Yeah, no, I've still got the towel in my little, like, I've got a memory box of all sorts of things. Did you wash it, Elle? Absolutely not. What's the point of having it?

Fine. Okay. No, I've just got his scent on it. I mean, I'm not sure what that's like, you know, about 12 years later. Yaggy. Maybe we'll get it out and have a look. I had it actually hanging. I had two pictures above my bed and I had it hanging off of the pictures.

Sweaty towel above the bed. It was like on display. Yeah, for a long time, for like a good five years, it was just hanging on. Oh, no hanging on display. And to be fair, Mum probably stuck that in the wash when I didn't know about it. I think the original Mrs Hinch got up there when you were at school and whacked that in the criminal tablet. But it's fine. What you don't know don't hurt and all that.

Yeah, no, it's good. Yeah, I've got a lot of time for it. Amazing. Well, thank you. Just had to bring up the story because I remember it, but not very well. And I just thought, as we were on the subject, that's a cracker. That's a great one. It is. No, it is a cracker.

And it's something that I am reminded of quite often. Yes. It's fine, I'll take it. Because you loved him. But I love it. And there you go. You still love it. Yeah, I do.

I might have to get that little box out, actually, when I'm at mum's next. Have a little butcher's, see what's going on. Maybe pop it round. We'll do a memory ep. Yeah. Have a little go through it. That sounds like a good episode to me. Yeah, sounds good to me. All right, my sweetheart. Well, I love you.

All right, babe. And I miss you. We'll speak. All right, sweetheart. Talk to you tomorrow. Love you. Bye. The Neo-Tale. The Neo-Tale. The Neo-Tale.

Let me know if you've got any very random items from people that you have been obsessed with in the past. 07788 20 1919. It's a good subject, really. It really is. What did you keep of Romish's? His DMs. DMs.

Photocopied. Got him up above the bed a little shrine don't worry lisa it's only a joke that's his wife's name you know her as well i don't know lisa yet we'd love to be her best mate though i'd like to get in there this isn't dissuading the rumor of your obsession helping. I just want to be friends, no, I just want to be friends with all comedians. I just want, well, not all comedians, but the ones that I like.

Oh, I'm going to get annihilated for the Romesh chat. You've got to be honest though, right? You do. I can't help it. Yeah. Oh, yeah.

What do you mean, oh, yeah? Don't get me started on obsessions. Well, why didn't you pipe up? I've got nothing to say. What obsession? Well, come on. Come on. You can't do that to us.

What obsessions did you have? I was, you know when you just cringe, it's sort of... It's niche. It's niche, isn't it? No, well, yeah, probably. I got really obsessed with the band Maroon 5 and then the Hoosiers. Yes.

And then Greg James. I was a really good fan of him on Radio 1. Oh, let's just be honest. When he was early breakfast. Yeah, I mean, we all laughed. I'm still a big fan. Yeah, yeah. Oh, yeah, no, but like...

I love Greg James. Don't go through the DMs. I think Greg James... There's no DMs with Greg James. They're our text messages. Oh. I've known Greg for a long time through the radio channels and he's always been so kind and lovely about me

and he's always been, again, just... He's so good at what he does that I just am in awe of him. I think he's amazing at what he does. He is good. He's so polite. His etiquette is amazing. His career is fantastic.

He loves his wife, Bella. They have a big lab. What is there not to like? Well, there's not, is there? So I understand, Emma. Yeah. Good egg. But yeah, and comedians.

I'm a big fan of lots of comedians as well. Yeah. You've just got to try and play it cool. Or you can do what Natalie does and get tickets to stuff. Perfect. You're playing it cool. You're buttoning them up. Or the other thing to do is start a podcast and get in touch,

do a podcast with two comedians on it and then stalk the producer of that and say, I really want to do a podcast. Bob's your uncle, Fanny's your aunt. Here we are, Rob and Josh Best Mate. Hi Nat, Michelle here. hi now michelle here this is probably my third time recording because i can't get my words out i hate voice notes oh michelle just want to say that i'm really enjoying your podcast i'm currently listening to episode eight with your beautiful children joni and eliza and just wanted to say that they sound so much like you and they sound beautiful children, Joni and Eliza. And just wanted to say that they sound so much like you and they sound beautiful children.

Thank you so much for this podcast that you're doing. I'm really enjoying it. Yeah, have a good day. Oh, thank you, Michelle. I think it's lovely how people are finding it still. I know that might sound mad, but I've had messages, oh, I'm just on the queuing episode.

You go, wow, someone's right at the beginning. Yeah. I know that's probably going to happen for a very long time. Oh, yeah, we hope so. Yeah, we'll keep building. But we're still only,

what are we, five weeks, six weeks in? Five weeks in. Five weeks in. It's nothing. It's brilliant. I'm really enjoying myself. It happens with series as well, doesn't it? Yes.

People find series years after they start, don't they? I mean, I haven't watched Breaking Bad. No, I've not either. Can't wait to do that one day. I actually re-watched The Inbetweeners the other day. Never watched it. Have you not? No.

Is it brilliant? I actually watched it for the first time while I was in sort of sixth form. And that was the best time. Yeah. Kirsty, so happy you're doing two pods a week. There's only three pods I count down the days to. Parents in Hell, Chatterbix and now you. Best believe you're quickly becoming people's favourite girl.

Isn't that nice? That's lovely. Again, parents in hell and chatterbigs. I can't believe that I'm on someone's listening to my two favourite pods. It's weird, isn't it? It wigs me out. It really wigs me out.

It makes me so excited. Hi Nat. I know a message on Instagram, instagram i try and find the number because i think sometimes i'm terrible with like numbers finding things internet it boggles my mind you'd think i was about 70 but i'm not i'm really not um but i remember you said in the first one of the first episodes that you loved a jordy accent so that is me i'm nicola from we don't live in Newcastle but we live very close to Newcastle hence the accent and I just want to say the pod is unbelievable I got recommended the pod by listening to Parenting Hell with Rob and Josh love that so that's my

Tuesdays and my Fridays like you say and then I have you in between and I absolutely love it it's like having three best friends that I can listen to all week. I have quite a stressful week because I have a son who has disabilities so I'm a parent carer and sometimes you don't know whether to laugh, cry or fucking scream. But when I put you on on my days off, pot running about,

doing my jobs, I feel like me and you have gone for a cuppa and we've had a laugh. So thanks for everything you're doing now and keep going. You're doing brilliant. Thank you so much, Nicola. I will talk to you soon and I love your accent

and I hope you've had a lovely, lovely day today and I hope when you hear your voice on here, you love it. Also, you know when we were talking about Southend, Mark and I, in the episode Scraping the Barrel, we said that the Cliffs Southend Theatre, Southend Pavilion, it's actually Cliffs Pavilion. Yes. So I'm sorry about that. That's from Trudy. I was shouting that while I was listening to the edit. Sorry about that.

Got family ties to Southend. Cliffs Pavilion is a great venue. It's a great venue. Love it. Really great. Right family ties to Southend. Cliffs Pavilion is a great venue. It's a great venue. Love it. Really great. Right on the seafront. Glenn messaged. Hi Nat, my name's Glenn. I'm from North London.

Just love the podcast. Just thought I'd touch base, just to let you know how much I appreciate that it's a great podcast. And although I've been listening to another podcast for the last 15 years, that's just ended. has uh slotted in and has filled a gap and uh yeah you're the right boots to fill it so uh just thought i'd let you know and uh love what you're doing please please please keep it going thank you so much glenn what podcast finished after 15 years please emma I've got no idea 15 years yeah do you listen to many pods

I do actually yeah I do I really like James Buckley's one okay is that with his wife yeah talking of in between us that is brilliant is it really really good I heard it will listen that's really good um shits and gigs they're quite good they actually toured at the O2 the other day they've got a huge following have they

they're really funny when we do a tour you come in come in oh yeah yeah do anything do a couple of nights

yeah has she got to slide into your DMs to be allowed to come along very good very quick Beth has an Instagram page called Bethy's Wardrobe.

B-E-F-F-Y-S Wardrobe. Don't you, sweetheart? I do. Tell us what you do on there because I didn't know you had this. No. For ages. And then I go on and I love it. I love the way it all pops up and I really, really like it. Well, I actually started it as a little bit of a, not a secret as such, but I just, I just wanted to have something that I was doing as a bit of a hobby. It was quite a quiet year last year. So I set it up and I just wanted to do things that I wanted to do

because I feel like on Instagram you can be a bit, you can kind of, you go with the grain and you you put up really heavily filtered pictures and things like that and actually I like putting outfits together and things like that and actually it's not cool when you've only got 10 followers so I thought I'm just gonna do it and just just see where it goes so what I do is I put a few outfits together post them up and I just kind of put some outfits on post them too and just see what people think of them and actually I've had a lot of lovely people talking about it and saying to me how much they really like it and so actually I'm really I'm really happy with that yeah good

I really like it and like you say you've got to start somewhere yeah I mean you've helped me with a few of my things I have you've gotten a few papers with that as well very very much so I had a little idea you helped me with my shirt my boots and all of that I feel like with you you're quite specific with what you want yeah go for it now you can say what you like what does that mean I feel like you you've got the vision yeah I just have to help you find that vision with you yes so you know what you want to wear you told me what you wanted to wear you just wanted me to find what you wanted to wear that's true is that really bad not at all no that's what a stylist does yeah you help people find what they always wanted anyway right okay you like a crisp white shirt I do love a crisp white shirt and

that's what we got you said you wanted to wear the silver skirt and you did yeah but it was just finding the right shirt yeah but you helped me with the boots. And the boots. They were lovely boots. Lovely boots. I could walk in them. That was the main thing for you, wasn't it? The main thing for me is to be able to walk. Yeah. I mean, I would imagine it's the main thing for a lot of people,

to be able to go around, get around. So, yeah, I did want to be able to walk. And the type of boots that will take you to many occasion. Very much so. And I think that's what you're good at. Yes. The mixing, the matching, re-wearing with different things. You're very good at it.

The staples. The staples. You've all got to have a staple, haven't you? Yeah. It's a big thing at the moment, isn't it? Capture wardrobes. I would like you to come over yeah and just go through the wardrobe with me yes i did it once but it needs to be done again it needs to be gone through

yeah sorted out there's still loads in there that i never wear anymore get it all on vinted yeah i'm not doing an advert for vinted by the way but who's not doing vinted everyone is everybody it's great it's fantastic yeah it is good it's one of those things isn't it you go why didn't I think of that yeah although I must say don't get me wrong it's a lovely idea and I put all my clothes on it and then I've got no clothes left so I end up buying loads anyway so I end up spending more than I've actually made. And I've got the clothes but putting them in the parcel and taking them to the post office, it's a lot of work.

You've got to be clever with where you want to go. Yes. Because I've done it before. Four things get sold. I've got to do a seven mile round trip to put four things in four different things for a pound 75 each. I've done more in fuel.

Yeah, exactly. And do you know what really, really grinds my gears? Go on. I put up a pair of boots, right? They're Doc Martens. I hadn't really worn them. I don't really know what I was thinking getting them.

Okay. They were like huge, chunky platform. Think I've seen you in them. Yeah. Only once. So I thought I'd pop them on Vinted and see if I could get something for them. And I put them up for 100 quid, something like that. And they were pretty much brand new.

People are sending in. Send your fiver for it. It's a piss take, isn't it? That is, isn't it? It's a piss take. I mean... The other thing I think that's similar about you and I, Beth, is how grateful we are. Yeah.

We're very grateful people. And I said to you the other day, didn't I? I saw you wandering along and I said, just wanted to say your posts, your gratitude posts, really make me smile and happy, and I genuinely mean that. When I see them, it really makes me smile. What made you start doing those? Because I know everybody's into gratitude at the moment.

It's a great thing. It is. It's brilliant. Everyone's into it. But yours are very... What was the last ones you did? know they're just very normal yeah I think there's a lot of pressure at the moment especially on social media there's a lot of manifestation and this that and the other and it will bring you some kind of happiness or it will bring you something that's that's gonna benefit you and actually if you take that away and you're just

happy about three things you did in the day it's not always I don't always say I'm so grateful for these things that have happened in my day it's just three things that may have made me happy may have made me smile yeah sometimes it's even a fresh layer of fake tan yeah you can't you can't beat it you know a nice nice hot shower after You can't beat it, you know? A nice hot shower after a long day in the rain. You know, it's little things that make you happy, that you sort of, you take for granted, don't you? Yeah.

And I just like to tap into that, just remembering that life's not that bad. It's not that bad. It's not. If you've got a nice hot shower, a layer of fake tan, and an Enrique Iglesias clock, what more could you want? Yeah. Three things I am grateful for today. Getting all my lines right.

The traffic being really, really good. And having a wonderful lunch with a dear friend of mine. There you go. Lovely. You coming go. Lovely. You coming round. Fuck me, I forgot that. That was awkward. I did, uh, to get suspended, but, uh...

Don't get me wrong. Emma, three things you've done today that you're happy about. Um, buying this flat that I've had, meeting with a mortgage advisor and all this sort of stuff. My cats have been really cute today and this recording. I did write it down before you realised that you hadn't said this recording. So I appreciate you two a lot. Thank you, Emma. Oh, we do like a giggle, don't we? We had a bit of a giggle.

What three things have made you happy today beth well number one mark's meatballs they were pretty pretty good yeah um number two i did a lovely load of washing this morning i got the the baskets empty oh i've got nothing to do when I get home now. Oh, so good. And my third one is I've just had a very productive day. Can't beat it. You just can't. You just... There's nothing better. Nothing.

Well, I thank you so much for coming round tonight. Thank you for having me. And I'm pleased you saw the view. I'm sorry about the duvet. Pleased you enjoyed Mark's meatballs, because they are a favourite of mine they were brilliant Em you've not had his meatballs yet

have you no no no I haven't next time you're around I haven't experienced the meat

no I would recommend that's a very lucky lady we're here he did say they tasted boiled but they didn't did they

I don't think they did at all Mark's boiled meatballs. It's like a carry-on film up here. The rebellions are around town. Everyone has heard. Everyone's hearing about it. Em, thank you so much.

Oh, thank you. What a laugh. What a laugh. I'll see you really soon. See you very soon. Thank you, everybody, for joining me today. I hope you've had as much fun as we have and i'll see you next monday thanks so much bye hi this is chris mccausland and this is diane boswell and we've got a new podcast haven't we

die we do what's it called winning isn't everything every week me and Diane we're going to be having a little catch up on the back here strictly aren't we Di we are I've missed you Chris

I've missed you too we're going to talk some nonsense so why not tune in available everywhere you get your podcasts