Life with Nat - EP43: with special guest Amy Hart

Episode Date: September 16, 2024

This ep is a big chat with Amy Hart about her life after Love Island - from finding her way through the difficult times, ACTUALLY finding love, becoming a parent and learning to understand and love he...rself - we really go there! She's an absolute delight x Please subscribe, follow, and leave a review. xxx You can find us in all places here; https://podfollow.com/lifewithnat/view INSTA: @natcass1 We're also on Facebook now too: https://www.facebook.com/lifewithnatpod A 'Keep It Light Media' Production Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: hello@keepitlightmedia.com 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

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Starting point is 00:00:00 Hello and welcome to Life with Nat. I hope you're all good. Today is very exciting because I am joined by Amy Hart. Hello darling. Hello. Thank you so much for having me on. You know, I'm a big fan of the pod and now I feel like I've stepped inside my phone. It's so lovely. So you messaged me, I think, on Instagram to say you were a fan of the pod.
Starting point is 00:00:37 Yes. And I thought that was so kind of you because obviously it was early days and then we bumped into each other on Oxford Street, didn't we? Yes, on the road. I was like, oh my God, it's you days. And then we bumped into each other on Oxford Street, didn't we? Yeah, on the road. I was like, oh my God, it's you. You are real. And then I thought, well, I've got to have you on just to have a nice chat.
Starting point is 00:00:54 Yeah. How are you? I'm good, thank you. You have been so busy. So busy. Planning two weddings, two hen do's. And to be fair, I didn't plan one of the hendoos like the abroad one I didn't plan the local one I planned myself yeah did the love island podcast for eight
Starting point is 00:01:11 weeks which everyone's like oh it's so easy in the evening but because I drive I like drive for three hours a day which you know with a toddler it's such a hardship to get into my car and listen to podcasts on my own for three hours a day everyone's like oh that drive must be so hard I'm like yeah yeah it's really really hard really arduous yeah but yeah I've been doing all of that and just other work with it as well but yeah I'm here we're out in Spain so Sam and Stanley have just gone off to the shops in the park so that I can record it's so kind of you to do it whilst you're on holiday honestly thank you but it's fun isn't it it's not work I feel like we're so lucky that so much of what we do it's like oh it's so kind of you to do it whilst you're on holiday honestly thank you but it's fun isn't it it's not work i feel like we're so lucky that so much of what we do it's like oh it's work
Starting point is 00:01:49 but it's not really work is it it's not having a chat on a Sunday morning catch up yeah it's so true it's so true i don't know where to start with you at all because you've done so many different things and i think we'll go right back and we won't go into it forever. But obviously you were in series, series 5, 2019, wasn't it? Of Love Island. Some would say the best series. Well, I have to say when I looked at it, I'm not a Love Island watcher, which you're going to kill me for, but I have to be honest person, as you know. But when I looked at the list, a lot of the names you do recognize from that series right
Starting point is 00:02:25 yeah I mean I think there are so many amazing series but I think yeah like everyone says to me like oh I loved your series so much like it's like always jokingly whenever anyone says that I go oh some some say the best series yeah it was it was a magical time it was when I watched it now I feel really old because it makes me feel so young thinking about when I was on it even though I was 26 which is quite old for a love islander right okay yeah I know ridiculous um and yes I was I was 26 when I was on it which I'm so glad because I feel like if I'd gone on when I was 19 I would have just ruined my life got cancelled and just I don't know what I would have done afterwards yeah so you feel like you had a little bit more life experience and you could sort of yeah not play the game but
Starting point is 00:03:08 you were aware of what it could bring you yeah well not I knew that obviously what happens afterwards because you have done bloody well thank you I know what happened afterwards my original plan was get some more Instagram followers go back flying and then just be able to make really good content while i was away on trips and then obviously it hasn't really worked out like that it's worked out better but yeah i was i literally was going on there to find a boyfriend and people like nobody goes on there for love i literally was saying to people people do you have a boyfriend and i'd be like no but i've just applied for love island so hopefully at some point so you really honestly that's why you went on to find love?
Starting point is 00:03:46 Yeah, because they used to tell me I'm from a celebrity, but I'm a bit of a weirdo. Like I'm not a normal person. Aren't we all? Exactly, exactly. So I felt like I would meet my match in the villa because I felt like I've exhausted
Starting point is 00:03:59 all options in Worthing. Like I've even tried a bit of London and that's where I've literally flown all over the world. Still can't find a boyfriend. The only logical explanation for this is that i need to go in the love island villa but for me it was such a special time because i felt like because of again everyone used to make me feel quite weird i grew up with all the same people but again i was like the weird one what do you you fit? What do you mean the weird one? Talk to me about that. Let's go into that a bit. Just different to everybody else.
Starting point is 00:04:27 I don't know. I think, let's unpack this. Yeah. Yeah. So before I had all my therapy, I was like desperate to be liked all the time and desperate to sort of, I don't know, be noticed. But I was always wearing a weird outfit. Always, always very extra. I'm like just a bit like hyper, always, I don't know,
Starting point is 00:04:48 like singing and doing weird stuff. Like on the plane, it was literally like my stage. I used to go around, go into people, literally walk into the galley and be like, what's your favourite Nolan song? And all the boys would be like, I'm in the mood for dancing. I'm like, wrong, chemistry, goodbye. I'd be like, what's your favourite Bucks Fizz fizz song again making your mind up no it's London town obviously I love the fact that you're not talking about uh Girls Aloud and Steps you're quite an old soul
Starting point is 00:05:15 I really am um I when we went to Taylor Swift the other week I was like I loved it so much I was so lucky to go but I was oh I'm glad that like Jane Macdonald gigs aren't like fancy dress and stuff I'm glad like when I went to see Rod Stewart and Bette Midler I didn't have to wear a cowboy hat this was brilliant like when everyone's queuing for Oasis tickets I'm like there's still a few Jane Macdonald tickets left for Brighton so I'm actually all right so I'm okay I love that yeah this is the thing I'm an old soul I think that that's sort of my kookiness as well. Yeah, so I felt like when I went into the villa, I had like sort of a panic the week before
Starting point is 00:05:50 when I was in lockdown before you go in, thinking nobody's going to fancy me. I'm going to be like on the periphery because nobody's going to want to be my friend. Nobody's going to want to go out with me. Like I'm probably going to be there for a week. It's going to be so embarrassing. All my people that have been horrible to me at home are gonna be right and because a lot of people when I said I'd applied for Love Island by this point I knew I'd got it
Starting point is 00:06:13 so I had to tell people I hadn't got it because I didn't realize you weren't allowed to tell people when you applied so I've been telling everyone I enlisted all of the crew on my Maldives trip to help me film my video I literally was asking people all the time like what do you think I should answer this question then before my final uh final like audition they were like and obviously you can't tell anyone so I was like oh so I had to start posting like sad quotes on Facebook yeah to try and throw people off the set to be like like sometimes things don't work out, but it's all right because a new journey is coming.
Starting point is 00:06:48 And all these people are like, you okay, hun? I'm like, I'll DM you. I didn't get Love Island. And everyone was like, oh, it's all right. But all my haters were like, see, I told you she wasn't pretty enough. I told you, yeah, I knew she wouldn't get it. Oh, God, that's horrible. So I was like, they're all going to be right.
Starting point is 00:07:02 So then to go into Love Island and to sort of be the, obviously me and Curtis coupled up on day two. And although it didn't work out in the end, like for the vast majority of the time I was in there, I was in a strong couple. And we were sort of the nucleus of the fam. And we were friends with everyone. And yeah, it was just amazing.
Starting point is 00:07:24 I sort of, in my big leaving speech that wasn't that traumatic where I didn't have the music over it, I sort of said, you know, like you guys have changed my life. I'd never thought I'd have any friends in here. I never thought I'd meet anyone. So the fact that I literally have done that
Starting point is 00:07:40 and you've made me feel so normal and so likable was, yeah. So it really really really changed you know your life really yeah but mentally as well let's forget about kind of the celebrity status and the sort of work that's come after it we'll talk about that in a minute but it really kind of gave you a boost mentally and you realized that you were a nice person and yeah yeah because it sounds it's really horrible way me I know you're talking about it really lightly and i think we're very alike yeah i think you've got quite a thick skin and i think because you're so normal you talk about things which are actually quite distressing in a very normal manner
Starting point is 00:08:14 but to think that you're not liked and to think that you're not you know people don't find you pretty and all of those things it it's really hard yeah you know I had all the aftercare from Love Island and so I had an amazing therapist they try and put you with a therapist that's close to you but I was like no I would quite like to drive two hours or four hours a week to go to the therapist that I had in Love Island please they were like I mean if you want to do it I was like yes please because I was like she knows my story and she knows me and she was there every day with me in the villa so i need her we did cbt which i'm the nosiest person ever so to get nosy about yourself and your own brain it's the best thing ever so i found out that my four core beliefs which i've
Starting point is 00:08:56 lived my life on are i'm ugly i'm not good enough i'm a failure and i'm unlikable right so then we like unpicked it and one of the things she did was with the unlikable she's like okay how likable do you think you are and i was like you know 25 and she was like okay cool so now pick someone that you think is very likable and pick someone you think is very unlikable i had to go through and list their qualities and she was like so the likable one it was like okay so do you think you're funny i was like yeah do you think you're nice yeah do you think you're kind yeah do you think you're loyal yeah so we went through them all and she was like okay so where would you put yourself now and I was like oh okay
Starting point is 00:09:30 like 75% she's like okay then we went through the like the unlikable quality she's like do you do that I was like no no no no and there was two that I was a bit like oh yeah I think I did do that and she's like okay so would you put those two little things as 25 percent and I was like no probably not oh that's really interesting oh my god I'm likeable I'm right to have friends like oh that is so interesting really interesting so you walked out of Love Island though didn't you I did so again people were like oh I can't believe she gave it up and when I I told everyone I was leaving, one of the boys came over, grabbed me. I was like, what are you doing? What are you doing?
Starting point is 00:10:09 Like, just stay until you get voted out. You were in there for 37 days. Is that right? Yes. Yes. So it's like five and a half weeks. That must have taken so much strength to walk out. It was actually the simplest thing. so I cried for a week like literally
Starting point is 00:10:27 all day every day crying and again I was in a villa with 17 people and I was sat on my own one day because I didn't know where I could sit and like rationally now I'm like well I could have gone and sat with them I could have sat with them I could have gone and sat with them but at the time I just want to sit on my own. And I just started crying. And they were like, Amy, to the beach, please. I went in, they were like, you're right. And I was like, I just feel so lonely. I said, I'm in a villa with 17 people.
Starting point is 00:10:51 I don't know where to put myself. Like, these are all my really close friends. And I don't know where to sit. So just little things like that. I was in with the therapist. And I was sort of saying about, you know, I don't know how I'm going to cope when Curtis meets someone else. And she said, well, you might meet someone else.
Starting point is 00:11:07 And I said, no, there's only three weeks to go now. I'm not going to meet anyone. And as it came out of my mouth, I went, oh, I'm not going to be in a mental place to meet anyone now. So I should probably just go home. And you have to talk to a couple of people because once you've gone you've gone and they don't want it to be like a knee jerk reaction but I think with a lot of people I think if they say they want to leave they're like go to
Starting point is 00:11:32 bed like see how you feel in the morning but I think it'd been a week of me like in turmoil and I think they were a bit like no I think it's the right decision for you but I said can I do it my way like I want to talk I don't just want to be like I'm going I wanted to talk to everyone and sort of explain it and it's so funny because I've said this before people who've heard this would be like boring
Starting point is 00:11:53 but um when someone gets dumped on the island everyone helps them pack so like they're trying to say their goodbyes you're like I'll go into the bathroom like I'll go into this I'll put yourself in the case and stuff everyone Everyone was so furious at me. And I can picture it now in my head, clear as day. I was packing my case and everyone was just stood and sat staring at me. And nobody helped me. At one point, Anna was trying to take stuff out of my case. And Curtis went, guys, look, she wants to go.
Starting point is 00:12:23 And the girls were like, you can shut up. Like, this is your fault that she's going. I was like, guys, calm down, please. I just need to pack my stuff. And yet everyone just sat there staring at me, like unable to help. Because they were like, I don't want you to go. Well, there you go. So from you sitting, not knowing who to sit with, again,
Starting point is 00:12:44 you didn't know your worth. Because everybody was absolutely shocked and upset that you were going to head out. Yeah. And the execs come to see you the day after you've gone. And they came to visit me and they were like, you ruined last night. And I was like, I left in the afternoon. They're like, yeah. So the two New Islanders came in that night.
Starting point is 00:13:00 And they always say that when they walked in, they were like, hi, everyone. Everyone was like, hi. And when they did the beach huts, were like so what happened tonight and they were like well it was a really sad night because obviously amy's over there no no amy left this afternoon like what happens tonight and they were like well two new islanders came in but you know it was just still really sad because amy's left and it's all right stop talking about amy amy's gone we've got to move on with the show like literally that's the thing is once you've gone you can't talk about like people that have gone before oh no that show business but I thought
Starting point is 00:13:32 I'd have regret as I was packing I did think oh god am I going to regret this and I thought I'm going to get down to the end of the driveway take my mic off and be like what have I done didn't happen then I was really scared to go to sleep that night because I thought I'm going to wake up tomorrow and be like what have I done best night's sleep I've had in like three months that's really good and I wake up and I just felt so calm and did you get just moving on a little bit so did you when you came out because obviously there's so so much talk of kind of the hate that comes yeah with shows like Love Island not just Love Island did you get a lot of hatred or did you come out and were you really surprised at kind of the love that you were receiving when i came because love island
Starting point is 00:14:12 is so like time sensitive so when i came out all the messages were amazing because my episode had gone out the night before where i'd left everyone was like oh my god you're amazing then i went home and spoke to my best friend who had run my Instagram and it was all gonna be so much fun she's run my Instagram we worked out where all my clothes were from and stuff and then it was like no I was at work trying to do my job trying to fend off calls from the press but also trying to deal with death threats as well at the same time trying to deal with my dad who is very likes to be very involved but also would get very upset at that so Hannah was trying to like sort of detract him from that and she didn't have a night off in the whole like six weeks she like that she would watch the episode on her laptop
Starting point is 00:14:55 she'd have her phone with Instagram she'd have her iPad with Twitter trying to do all of it at once and then once that all died down then yeah the hate does come after that I feel like now five years on it's like they say that you never kick a dead dog so when big things happen I have managed to block most people that are horrible so now I have a really lovely community on Instagram I never ever searched my own name on Twitter because that's just why we should do that. Why would you do that? It's literally like sticking pins in your arms.
Starting point is 00:15:28 Yeah. So I, not for me. So I managed to get, but then like the Love Island podcast comes along and people who aren't like part of my community remember me. And there was a thing and they were being so lovely doing it but when I got announced one of the hosts they put the icon herself Amy and when I read it I did think this is opening myself up to a lot of ag but I'm a people pleaser I don't like to I don't like to say anything so I was like um I was like I won't I was like yeah that's lovely yeah post that and then all the comments icon didn't she walk out because she couldn't hack it like I don't
Starting point is 00:16:10 really think Amy is an icon of Love Island um and yeah just when you open stuff up to like sort of going bigger isn't it then more stuff comes but I feel like I can deal with it better now I'm like okay cool you don't like me because Because I remember there was a group of people that were particularly nasty to me for about a year after I left Love Island. What sort of group? A group online you're talking about? Yeah, sort of like an online group of friends
Starting point is 00:16:34 that had made friends online and they didn't like me and they just would, yeah, be really awful about everything that I did. And it was on Twitter mainly, but they used to sometimes pop onto my Instagram inbox as well and I remember my best friend saying to me in the end Amy because I was saying going oh they've said this maybe I should do this instead and she said Amy you could donate 10 grand to charity and they'd say why didn't you do 20 anything anything you ever do
Starting point is 00:17:02 you're never gonna please the haters it haters not gonna be enough so I was like oh yeah you're right actually I'm fine I'm all right now so yes I I feel like I deal with it better now I think sometimes if people say I'm a bad mum that's that's hard but that is hard and how can they say that because your little Stanley is over one now isn't he birthday 18 months yeah 18 months bless him and you so when did you meet sam how did you meet sam who you're with now i met sam three years ago yeah it's all been quite quick um three years ago and um basically i was in london and had a few wines and i was like i'm never gonna meet anyone sorry I'm never going to meet anyone unless I put myself out there so I went on to Bumble downloaded it did my profile
Starting point is 00:17:52 put that I was an air hostess so what else do you put like occupation so I said that I was an air hostess from Worthing and did a bit of swiping did a bit of chatting that night closed the app never to return on again right sam the next day was in london because he lives like he uh grew up in Hertfordshire and Potter's Bar oh not far from me so so yeah he's a Potter's Bar boy i'm worthing so he was in london and his radius was set quite small and i came up and he was like i really recognize her maybe i've met her on a flight so So he swiped yes. And then I never swiped back. So he went onto Instagram and typed in Amy and scrolled through them all
Starting point is 00:18:32 and then found my profile. Oh, this is good work. That's how I know her. So he was like, you know what? I thought I'd take a chance. So he sent me a message on Instagram just saying, hi, Amy. I'm patiently waiting over on Bumble. I'd like to get rid of the app at some point if you come over and speak to me on there that'd be like great so I looked at it and normally I would have ignored it but I clicked
Starting point is 00:18:55 his profile he had a he had a private profile and I was like what he has a private profile on Instagram that's so weird so I googled him and he used to be a model and so it's all pictures of him in his like little white pants with this like eight pack right so I was like oh do you know what I'll give it a go I'll give him a message it's worth it isn't it just just one message anyway turns out he's like the nicest man ever and he was very I was very used to people being very non-committal and people ghosting you and stuff. And some of the things that made me be like, oh, this guy seems very different is we messaged for a little while. Then we moved on to WhatsApp message.
Starting point is 00:19:35 And he said straight away, we should probably do a call this week to check that we can actually talk on the phone rather than just texting. Oh, very good. And when we phoned each other he was like yeah we should probably arrange a date for quite soon because sometimes these things can just fizzle out and I was like what look this is amazing and then when I asked him how long he'd been single for he said um I think it's about oh and I was thinking oh here we go he's got so many irons in the fire and he went no it's about I think he said six or seven weeks um when I messaged this girl to tell her that she was a really lovely girl um but I didn't see anything romantic but I'd always be here for her if she needed a friend
Starting point is 00:20:14 or anything and I was like again sorry he was like yeah if you don't want to see any someone anymore you should like definitely tell them I was like who are you and then we planned our first day and that girl was happened to be because she was a friend of a friend of his yeah they were all going out the same night in the same restaurant he was like look I don't want to like rub her nose in it because obviously I told her that she wasn't on for me so I don't want to rub a first date in her nose so can we go somewhere different I'll take you there another day oh so he's a real real gentleman yes i was like wow okay see there are gents around there are you know you can find someone who's lovely with the fizz loyalty program you get rewarded just for having a mobile plan you know for texting and stuff and if you're not getting
Starting point is 00:21:05 rewards like extra data and dollars off with your mobile plan you're not with fizz switch today conditions apply details at fizz.ca you met him you obviously clicked and that was that really yeah i knew after two dates i was gonna marry him and all my friends were like you are nuts like you've met him twice. And I was like, no, I tell you now. So next week when I get married to him, I'll be like, ha ha. I was right, you were wrong. That is so amazing.
Starting point is 00:21:33 Is it next week? Your big day? Next week. Yeah. Oh my, what day? Saturday. Next Saturday in Spain. You're very calm.
Starting point is 00:21:41 Well, I have a wedding planner and I wouldn't be able to do it without her. Because yeah, she's done. I don't really feel calm well I have I have a wedding planner and I wouldn't be able to do it without her because yeah she's done I don't really feel like I have done I we've picked a lot of stuff but it's her that so for example our whole day is outside and we're in Spain so hopefully it won't rain it rained yesterday but it was forecast to rain so that was fine and next week it's not forecast to rain but we have to have a plan b So she's doing like the phoning around the marquee companies and getting the measurements and getting the logistics and stuff. Whereas I get to say, yes, we would like to pay a thousand euros. In case we need it. But the chance of using a marquee that is non-refundable.
Starting point is 00:22:19 Yeah, no. In case we need it. It's the pits. And then it's like, that's a lot of money to spend. I know, but if you haven't got it, there's a show. So we can't chance that. No. So, yeah.
Starting point is 00:22:32 I always think about getting married to Mark, obviously. We've been engaged for eight years. And I just think the reason we haven't done it is genuinely because of that, the planning. And I know you can get a planner, but it just scares the life out of me and i don't even really want a huge wedding amy i just want all my favorite people and i i don't know why i've not done it i need to get on with it yeah you do it's amazing i mean there's stuff like coaches i decided that i wanted to like basically like next saturday i want anyone to like basically like next Saturday I want anyone to have to pay for anything right they've flown out to Spain so I was like right
Starting point is 00:23:10 I'll organize coaches I literally nearly cried doing these coaches and I'm quite an organized person I like I like organizing but coming up with the spreadsheets for the coaches because basically we made everyone because I'm a bit of a control enthusiast you couldn't RSVP to the wedding until you booked your flight um so you had to send a screenshot of your flight booking so I was not I'm not going down the road I love like 200 people saying yes and then it gets to May and everyone goes oh I've left it too late to pick my flights now they're really expensive so I said you had to give me your flight confirmation so lots of people just book their flights but we'll do accommodation later so I was having to chase like 138 people for
Starting point is 00:23:49 accommodation and then trying to work out where their closest pickup yeah no it's not how we're going to get them home and yeah honestly it's very very I'm sure you're going to have the best weekend but it's not for me it's too big yeah we've got 138 people that's lovely coming out to spain so we've got we're here on our own at the moment and then lots of people everyone's descending on wednesday oh that's lovely actually because you've got a few days can you relax a little i mean with an 18 month old not so much but we've actually we've got a babysitter for the whole weekend who i've met her a couple of barbecues before she's got mutual friends out in spain and um she works in a nursery here and she comes very highly recommended because obviously a lot of the people we know out here don't have family out here
Starting point is 00:24:34 to do their child care so she comes very highly recommended she's basically coming around for two hours a day to look after stanley while we're here so that he gets to know her oh that's really good we've done it from like four till six that we can get ready to go out in the evening to look after Stanley while we're here so that he gets to know her. Oh, that's really good. We've done it from like four till six that we can get ready to go out in the evening. But then he also naps in the daytime. So we're like straight out on the sunbeds in the garden with the baby monitor. Yeah. When he's like sitting on the playlist.
Starting point is 00:24:58 But yeah, so we can have a bit of relax. And we used to, last year when we were here, when Stanley was six months old, because mum and dad have got a place here. This is mum and dad's apartment that they're in. Oh, that's good. We come out here a lot. So we brought him here when he was eight months old because mum and dad have got a place here this is mum dad's apartment right oh that's good we come out here a lot so he brought him here when he's eight weeks old so easy but when he's six months still easy he could sit up by then so he's happy to sit and play with his toys you know what I did Amy I remember I went to Turkey with a dear friend of mine another Amy actually and we went to Turkey and Eliza was nine months old yeah and she just sat in the travel cot underneath an umbrella playing with toys all day it was the easiest holiday with a baby amazing
Starting point is 00:25:32 yeah last year was amazing we used to go out for dinner sani would go to bed at midnight wake up at 10 a.m lovely he'd just sit in his high chair play with his like little you know the wooden carrot toy it's got all the holes play with that amazing this year last night we managed an hour and 15 minutes out for dinner um because he was done so yes we're going to come back quite early and watching a lot of emily in paris can you not push the pram back and him sleep in the pram when you're out no no so at home he goes to bed at home i've made a run for my own back i've realized now i was like yeah well easy half eight to half eight he sleeps at home because i'm not putting him to bed at seven because i don't want to get up at seven i had to get up at half past eight but obviously half eight here is half nine no half eight at home is half nine here right okay so he's yeah no not ready and he's like
Starting point is 00:26:18 yesterday he naps till half four he's half one till half four. Oh. So. Forget it. Yeah. No, he just wants, what he wants is my dad and my granddad let him drink water out of glasses. Oh, okay. Like actual glasses. Yeah. So then when we're in the restaurant, all he wants is glasses of water or a glass bottle, but he wants to hold it and doesn't understand. And he's so strong.
Starting point is 00:26:46 Literally trying to get this bottle off him so he's like so yeah and well like most restaurants out here I think would be fine but last night we decided in our wisdom there's a new restaurant that's opened and it's like really posh and we decided to send him there so everyone else has gone there and left their children at home and you've got and we're there with Stanley and i i again making up my own back i'm so like determined not determined i just i am trying to do 1990s parenting so i've got sticker books i've got coloring keep him occupied for a bit and then we gave him some food and again he wants to feed himself but then everything comes in like a ceramic dish and he picks it up and I'm like oh please don't throw that anywhere so yeah so it's very different
Starting point is 00:27:31 holiday to last year but I'm sure it'll be a very different holiday next year as well and it will be it really will be all of the stages when I look back are so different and you miss them yeah and when they're when they're two and a half next year you'll find he probably will have a kip in the pram. Yeah. Because I used to do that. I used to not worry about any bedtime. You're on holiday. What does it matter about what time they're going to bed?
Starting point is 00:27:53 And I'd go out quite late for dinner. That was my trick. So we wouldn't go out till half eight, nine o'clock. Yeah. And then they'd have a little something to eat, but then be tired. Pram right back. Yeah. And you'd have the evening. And they to eat but then be tired pram right back yeah and you'd have in the pram they'd just be yeah i mean we we go on cruises we we're cruisers we love it i've never been on a cruise oh my god you've got to it's we love it so much the first time we went
Starting point is 00:28:16 we were like what is this don't you understand by day three we were like are we ever going to go on a normal holiday again i don't know know. I get really worried, right, about cruises. Yeah. I get worried that you are sort of stuck on the boat. And if there were a family that were a little bit of a fan, shall we say, would they then follow you around the boat and would you be stuck? But I suppose it's no different really to a hotel. It's no different to a hotel.
Starting point is 00:28:45 There's 6,000 people, so you don't often see the same people I mean people come up to me I mean yeah I think you actually so we work with P&O Cruises who we adore and I feel like everyone on there watches EastEnders so I do feel like actually I feel like not everyone watches Love Island but I do feel like yeah um but I we love everyone watches Love Island, but I do feel like, yeah. But I, we love it so much. But last year when Sonny was eight months old, we were like, we don't use the night nursery. We take, he comes with us.
Starting point is 00:29:14 He watches the shows. He loves the shows. He comes to all the restaurants. He loves going out for dinner. This year we're using the night nursery. This year, this is well, because we're going on like a Northern European. We're going on a christmas cruise this year christmas market stop it i am so excited because i love christmas literally the the whole ship is decked out there's like panto there's christmas shows there's christmas music all the time you still put four different christmas markets like hamburg
Starting point is 00:29:42 bruges rotterdam and lahav i mean i cannot wait but obviously no time difference so i can just keep him on his same schedule get him to sleep in the pram into the night nursery that sounds so good when are you doing that is that november december when is it december 7th to 14th december they do they do one a year of these christmas cruises i might have to look at that for next year yes last year i was on because i did the piano cruises. I might have to look at that for next year. Yes. Last year I was on, because I did the P&O Cruises podcast. Yes, I saw that. And you spoke to some amazing people, Amy.
Starting point is 00:30:10 Goodness me. Gary Barlow, Nicole Scherzinger. I'm looking at it going, oh my God, she's a podcast queen. I was quite nervous because you were like, I love your podcast. And I was like, really? Have you seen who you interviewed?
Starting point is 00:30:20 Nicole Scherzinger, I was so terrified, like so terrified. Really? And I literally had my cue card and I was shaking. And I was like, so cool. We can start with a quick turnaround, but as you love musicals as much as me. And she was like, you love musical theatre?
Starting point is 00:30:37 And I was like, yeah. And then from then on, we were like absolute besties. And we had afternoon tea afterwards and she was being introduced to all these people and she'd be like, yeah, hi, nice to meet you. And then she'd turn back to me and Sam and be like, so how long have you known each other? How's wedding planning? Tell me about your engagement.
Starting point is 00:30:53 So nice to hear, isn't it? That a real star is just normal. You just want people to be normal. Yeah, we went to the launch party of her show on board one of the ships. And this was like probably three months later. And we got put in the VIP area because someone said Nicole is comfortable around Amy and I was like this is
Starting point is 00:31:10 going to be really embarrassing because she's going to be like oh so what competition have you won to be in here yeah and yeah did you was it an Instagram competition or do you know someone and I walked in and I went oh Nicole I really enjoyed the show and I know I saw you I was trying to be all dramatic and you were there with your hair and your smile and I was like wow wow so how's Stanley oh that's so lovely the best the absolute best the two I was most worried about was Nicole and Gary Barlow yeah and they were the two like everyone was amazing I had such a good time with literally everyone but they were the two that I like just most scared of but clicked with Gary Barlow throughout my career I've always sort of bumped
Starting point is 00:31:56 in to take that yeah do you know how you just do so at Top of the Pops or you'd see them on Live and Kicking or I'd be on a guest on Live and Kicking years ago. And whenever I've seen them throughout their whole career, they have all been exactly the same. Just normal, never changed. Just lovely. Yeah. He was so lovely, but he didn't want to come to Legends with me,
Starting point is 00:32:20 which was very sad. Hello, darling. Oh, good morning. Oh. That's very nice. That's lovely. Oh, good morning. Oh. That's very nice. That's lovely. My teenager getting up at what time? 20 to 12.
Starting point is 00:32:31 I think that's acceptable for a Sunday. Go on, go and get your pencils. Look how good it is. Go and get your pencils. Yeah, I just... But yeah, he wouldn't come to Legends with me which is a bar in La Cala where they have a take that tribute band. I was like, the man that plays you, he wouldn't come to Legends with me, which is a bar in La Cala, but they have a Take That tribute band.
Starting point is 00:32:45 I was like, the man that plays you, he also plays Michael Bublé and one of the four seasons. You've got to come and see him. But he wasn't up for it, sadly. Fair enough, though. But yeah, so we actually thought, I know we don't talk about it on this podcast, but I just want to say,
Starting point is 00:32:59 because you said about bumping into people, we film Love Island after sun. Yes, I know. At Elm Street. Yeah, yeah, yeah, of course. And so whenever I walk down the corridors there's one corridor that's got some dressing rooms in it and i'm always like is anyone here on a sunday recording an extra scene gonna meet anyone hello don't really work sundays no i know so annoyed so annoying um but it's so funny because i watch
Starting point is 00:33:23 so i'll do 30 seconds and I'll sort of promise no I watch all the behind behind the square on Instagram I love it I love it so much like if one if I stop my car like in my driveway and I open my phone it's the first thing up and it's seven minutes long I will still sit in my car for seven minutes and watch it like I love it so much and the first day I got dropped off in my cab I didn't know where I was supposed to go so we just kept driving and kept driving kept driving and uh he was like I was like I think we're in the wrong place because these are the port-a-cabins these are the outside dressing rooms this is where Jackie Joshua is this is where Taker Empton lives Harriet Thorpe's up there yeah
Starting point is 00:34:01 I literally I feel like I'm in the telly. This is amazing. Right, I'll stop now. But yeah, so, but I never buttoned into anyone, sadly. Oh no, you won't do on a Sunday. No. Unless something really, really special is going down. Yeah. Oh Christ alive.
Starting point is 00:34:17 What would you like? Do you think I'll be able to stay here while Daddy goes shopping? No, absolutely not. Unless you're downstairs, darling. I'll be downstairs. Okay. I'm working. I'm going to get a lock on the door.
Starting point is 00:34:29 I've decided I'm going to have to because no one believes me. You know when you say I'm working and they just get in, coming in and out. It's like, babe, I'm actually doing something. I'm not making it up. But it's hard, isn't it? Because you're at home and they just come in. Yes. Brilliant.
Starting point is 00:34:43 I'm still working, bub. It's a lovely ring she's just made a ring it's fine it's like lovely um i have to i sort of i know with my child care i know my players because obviously because like your kids can obviously go and sit down and watch telly yes obviously stanley's 18 months he can't so i sort of know my players because my obviously same with you like your job is so like random hours yeah it's not like like sort of concrete child care is quite hard so I'm like okay so I need someone on a Friday morning who do I know that's available on a Friday morning and like I sort of have like we do it all between us
Starting point is 00:35:16 there was one day where I had to go to Liverpool for work and uh my child care fell through so Sam like I'm not gonna be able to go and um he was like no come on we can do this and my mum and dad were in spain and i put on the group chat like i'm not gonna be able to go to liverpool now because um my child has fallen through my dad was like don't worry we'll sort this together and i was like dad you're literally in spain like how are you gonna help me um but my auntie works for my mum and dad so she got given the last two hours of the day off to come around and have Stanley for two hours then someone else in two hours so I could go that is so lovely to have that support so I lost my mum at a very young age um Mark's mum Jackie
Starting point is 00:35:58 she helps when she can but she lives in Kent uh yeah and she's not you know she's busy as well and then all my family are amazing but they're all so busy with their own kids their own lives their own work so i we just have to bite the bullet and we just have to have child care that i pay for and you know what if i've got a week off i still have to pay her that's just the way it is i just have to have that in place and yeah you know my it's hard my mum sort of said to me about in future like there might come a time where you do have to like get a nanny or something because my brother's having kids now as well so my mum has Stanley a couple days a week but then from next year she's having Poppy as well absolutely so she doesn't
Starting point is 00:36:41 want to have them on the same day but she also doesn't want to do three days a week so um so yeah and also I keep saying I want four children and mum's like it's all very well for you to say because you go out to work why don't we let's just stop there a minute why would you want four of them um I don't know I just like a big busy hang I think because our house not so much anymore because a lot of people said to my mom and dad like that's quite dangerous you know but my mom and dad would always have their back door unlocked yes if someone knocks on the front door everyone's like that who is it yeah like because it would be a stranger it wouldn't be someone who knows yeah yeah yeah whereas like all my friends all my brother's friends all my dad's friends at work people know to just walk into the kitchen and shout like hi um and like my my brother when he was younger my mom and dad would be sat in the
Starting point is 00:37:31 lounge watching telly and one of my brother's friends would like pop their head around the door like hi sam's be back in an hour is it where i just go up and chill upstairs and they're like yeah that's fine i love that i love an open house and i i want my house to be like that i agree with you but you can do that just with multiple friends. I don't think I could have more than two. I think it's such hard work. I love them so much. But I think for me personally, if I had another one, and it has been spoken, me and Mark.
Starting point is 00:37:59 Yeah. So I babysat my Amelia, so my great niece, Dominic, my nephew's daughter. And I had her overnight. And she's two. She'll be three in a couple of weeks. But suddenly the whole dynamic changed at home. And Joanie became this kind of angel and was all grown up because she was looking after Amelia. And I said to her, look, this is amazing.
Starting point is 00:38:22 Maybe we should have another one. Look at this. The house is amazing. and then I thought what are you talking about she's here for 24 hours not even that 20 hours it will not be like this she's already two and a half she's not a tiny baby no stop being an idiot but there's a part of me that always thinks oh would it be really nice but I think that I would I think I'd lose myself I need to have my own time now I have to
Starting point is 00:38:47 I haven't got my own time at the moment but I really want Mark and I to enjoy ourselves because you've got to also remember when I met Mark Eliza was three so Mark and I have never had time on our own so I'm expecting and hoping
Starting point is 00:39:03 that once my kids are older and more independent that's our kind of single time I think that's the thing as well it's like me and my mum and dad my mum was 22 when she had me and my dad was 26 yeah so they did or like they like literally met got married within a year had a baby had another one and that was like their time and now they're like what 54 and 60 um so my mom must have been 22 and 28 so um 54 and 60 so they're having their time now yeah um and it's like where we're all starting to have children later it's then like oh actually it creeps on it creeps on I think we'd we'd do anything to get a second because I didn't know i could fall pregnant with stanley naturally like i thought i was gonna have to my i froze my eggs and my professor was like try for six months when you want to have a baby if you
Starting point is 00:39:53 haven't fallen pregnant in six months come straight to me we'll do ivf straight away done so then i fell pregnant by accident which was like oh okay it's amazing i've had a message for you about this oh hi nat and Amy. Amy, did you do any fertility preservation like egg freezing after you had your cute baby to make sure you've got eggs for the future? And also how did you manage your relationship and having your partner moving into your space? Thank you so much. Love you lots from Anon. Okay, perfect. So I haven't done it since because it's very costly and it's a lot of injecting and it's a lot of hormones and I've done four rounds already.
Starting point is 00:40:36 So I'm just like, you know what? I've got 12 eggs in the freezer. So my sort of go-to would be trying naturally and then trying IVF with fresh eggs and then trying IVF with frozen eggs yes so I haven't released anything since then and also just I feel like the last 18 months has gone so quickly that I'm like when would I have had time yeah but you know I think as well my egg freezing wasn't that successful I got 12 that was from four rounds like so two failed two successful so I got five and seven whereas like my friends that froze their eggs got like 30 so I'm actually
Starting point is 00:41:12 it's for me it's probably not worth it again no no and especially if in future I have to spend that money on IVF or whatever obviously this may not happen with the IVF but I just I'm always like planning ahead but and moving into my space me and Sam talked about this the other day. We only lived on our own together for four weeks before we had Stanley because I wanted to move out of my house. My mum didn't want me to live on my own. So my best friend, Luke, who I used to fly with at BA, he had a flat. So we basically coerced him into giving up his flat that he rented and moving in
Starting point is 00:41:47 and being my lodger but he was very happy to do that and he was like oh you're gonna meet the love of your life now I was like no I'm not yeah literally a week later I met Sam right and then Sam moved in as well we all lived there the three of us and Luke kept saying like do you want me to move out and we're like no don't worry we're not gonna have a baby for a long time like we're gonna get married first and then we'll have a baby so you've got like literally a couple of years just chill out you're here with us no worries and then and then I fell very not with Stanley like three months later um so he actually he moved into my mum and dad's house after living at ours because he couldn't find anywhere but the rental market i mean you need like six months deposits my mum was like
Starting point is 00:42:30 right come and live with me you can pay a minimal minimum i think she charged him something like 50 quid a week or something um and so luke moved in with her and they loved it they really miss him now that he's moved out they're like oh and like when he was going my dad was like you don't have to go you don't have to go so it was quite hard moving him in but I'd already lived with Luke so living with Luke and Sam said just living with Sam but it is I'm quite messy and Sam is really really tidy so that's that's the only thing we bicker about. That really, really surprises me. I thought you'd be a clean freak. No. I'm so bad. Oh, really?
Starting point is 00:43:09 Like, yeah. To the point, when I was a kid, my mum used to be like, you can't go out unless your room is tidy. So I used to get a black bin bag and put everything from the floor into said black bin bag and chuck it in my wardrobe. That's Eliza. And then my friends would come. Eliza does that.
Starting point is 00:43:24 And then my friends would come roundiza does yeah yeah and then my friends would come around and be like right let's go to these bags and they'd be like old like school papers and one flip-flop and this is one earring one comb yeah an earring yeah oh that's where that pair of earrings went which are really nice yeah you've chucked them in a bag instead of just putting them in the jewelry box yes so yeah i'm so messy and Sam gets really annoyed, like really, really annoyed because he loves it. And Stanley is like him now. Stanley, anything that, he doesn't like anything on his hands.
Starting point is 00:43:56 Once he's finished, so yesterday he had a bowl of blueberries on the sofa and he got up to walk away and I was like, oh, he's going to get more. He didn't. He went and put it on the worktop. Oh, that's so cute. As soon as his nappy's done, he picks it up and goes and puts it in the bin oh that's so lovely though he's yeah he's like Sam oh that's just me I'm just on my own well that's all right that's fine but going back to how many kids just quickly yeah the reason for is because I am two or four because we are big theme park goers and who sits on their own when you go to disney
Starting point is 00:44:26 i mean that's quite a big commitment because of a theme park yeah i know but but yeah i think we'll definitely have two and then go from there oh it's lovely i've had a message here from lauren said I love Amy Hart she always seems so positive and looks on the bright side even in Love Island when she had a bit of a rubbish time does she still speak to anyone from her Love Island series yes I do so Amber is coming to the wedding she came to my hen do as well and sort of the others it's very like and I described it actually as we have with with friends we don't have like a active friendship which is really horrible thing to say to each other i know what you mean it's being an adult
Starting point is 00:45:12 um it's we i love her and i would do anything for her and if she called me at three o'clock in the morning i'd be straight in my car but it's it's life it's we live two hours away from each other you know some of the girls live up in Manchester. When I see them at events and stuff, it's so lovely to catch up. Yes. Yeah, but you can't be close with everybody. You just can't do it. No. I've got a certain amount of friends,
Starting point is 00:45:34 and some of my closest friends that I really want to see, I've not seen for six months. Yeah. And they live 15 minutes away. Yeah. This is something that me and sam go through a lot with um with so he moved down from potter's bars when i first met him i was like i will live in worthing for my entire life if you are okay with that let's continue to talk if not
Starting point is 00:45:54 let's not uh so he moved down from potter's bar and he's also you know i just really miss my friends i never get to see my friends i'm like when was the last time i saw hannah who lives 15 minutes away when was the last time i saw christy like my one of my best friends christy is a primary school teacher and i literally see her in school holidays yes yeah if there's like parties or hendoos and stuff i'll see her obviously and she's like one of my very very best friends and um when we were on my hendo in july my other best friend rihanna said to me um well i'll see you in spain and i was like we're not going to see each other between now and then she was i mean if we can find time but realistically in the next six weeks when you're doing the love island podcast you've got a baby
Starting point is 00:46:36 i work full time and you're planning two weddings like it's not gonna happen because you have to get legally married in the uk that's why that's true. I had my Elia, my niece's baby shower. Yeah, I saw that. We had such a lovely day. It was really, really great. And there's one friend of mine, right, Amy. And we just crack up because we get on like an absolute house on fire. And when I see her, we rabbit, rabbit, rabbit.
Starting point is 00:47:02 And then we just say, what, same time next year, yeah? It's really bad, really bad. But I'm like, well, I'll see you at Linda's birthday and then probably at a christening in a year's time. But we just never get the chance to meet up. She's a police officer. She's got three children, a set of twins. I'm really busy.
Starting point is 00:47:20 But what I love about that is we're not moody with each other about it. It's just the way it is. is we're not moody with each other about it it's just the way it is and if we're just honest about it so it's so lovely to see you see you at the next do yeah this thing I love I love doing do's for that reason so when Sam first met me he was like I didn't really understand the whole so I have Ames fest every year for my birthday which is a huge party in the garden um I do thanksgiving sometimes in november um just because i love and he said he didn't really understand it he's like but now i understand that you just love bringing people together and i know like at the wedding next week i've got like
Starting point is 00:47:57 130 people there and everyone will nobody is coming that knows nobody yes because yeah yeah I have mixed dinner parties and um at my parties like my friends will like again because I'm friends with a lot of lovies and a lot of crew yeah um everyone is happy to talk to people they've just met yeah it's lovely because obviously first day of rehearsals getting on a flight and you don't know the crew but you've become best friends in the next 10 minutes of course so everyone mingles so well and sam said i like that's one of his favorite things about me is like you just love bringing people together so that's why i love doing all that stuff because otherwise people don't see each other that is so lovely really really nice really good i find it hard as well with with your friends parents because you grow
Starting point is 00:48:42 up with them yes and you see them all the time. And when you're a teenager, you're around the house all the time. And I always talk to mums. I'm obsessed with people's parents. I'm always in the kitchen chatting to them. Well, that was always me. Yeah. Always me.
Starting point is 00:48:57 That's what I'm saying about you being an old soul. That's what I think we're like. Yeah. Can we quickly go on to, very quickly, fashion? I just want to have a quick chat to you about fashion because you're it's so wonderful to see you in all your outfits and you know you do all your hauls and stuff like that when did that start and you're very confident in doing that and and it really brings people joy and the comments that I read it's's just love. I just think people absolutely love that you try everything on and you feel really confident in your body
Starting point is 00:49:31 and it's positive images that we're seeing. When did you start to do that and how have you felt since being a mum, giving birth and all of that? Because you're brilliant at it. Thank you. Lockdown started because what else was there to do apart from online shop? and all of that because you're you know you're brilliant at it thank you um lockdown started uh because what else was there to do apart from online shop right and i was like and then film it like and i started doing my keep all returns and stuff and i really enjoy it and i love clothes i love fashion and it's taken me it's been a bit of a journey in that i used to because I was a size eight for my whole life until I wasn't and then I was like oh I don't want to order a size 10 so I'll just order a size eight try on the size eight it doesn't fit so I either keep it and go oh I'll sim into that and then six months later it ends
Starting point is 00:50:18 up in the charity bag with the labels still on um and then obviously I went up and up and up but then actually I was like do you know what I don't know what I did a job I can't what do it was I did a job and they measured me they did my measurements yes I knew my exact measurements I used to go onto the size guide and look at the measurements to see what size I needed and then that I was like actually it's like less painful I don't find it painful at all anymore at the beginning I was a bit like oh okay this is different but it's much better to click on the size that you actually need like even in that moment to be like oh okay I need a slightly bigger size than that but actually again I say this now but I I feel like I'm I'm not being
Starting point is 00:51:02 genuine because now I'm such a different person. Like when people say to me, oh my God, I can't believe you're a size XL in Zara. Like what does that say for society? I was like, it says that I'm a size XL in Zara. They make clothes in five different sizes and I fit in that particular one. Like it's literally a label in a dress.
Starting point is 00:51:21 Well, that's the thing. And I remember being the same as you. I remember buying things. Well, I was maybe a 14 and then I'd buy a 16. I'd that's the thing. And I remember being the same as you. I remember buying things. Well, I was maybe a 14 and then I'd buy a 16. I'd be really depressed about it. If you went in my wardrobe now, I've got XL jumpers from H&M because I really like them because that's what I like. I've got size 10 jeans from Marksies because they always come up bigger or next. They always come up bigger. 12s in here, bigger 12s in here tens in it the size doesn't matter and it is really hard to get your head around but it is just a label and the different factories cut the clothes differently therefore you're not
Starting point is 00:51:57 the same size and everything yeah i think i think it's and also it's not our fault it's like society we've like we've all grown up with magazines being like drop two dress sizes yeah it's always been on dress sizes yes it's never been on like kilos and stuff it's always been on dress size dress size so when you go up a dress size you're like oh i know up a dress size get me the special k i'm gonna have three bowls of cereal a day for six weeks. I would not do that. But again, that was a thing, wasn't it? I did try it.
Starting point is 00:52:28 Yeah. Special K diet. I did. I think my weirdest one that I ever did was I read in a magazine, like a woman or a woman's own or something. Because again, I'm an old soul. And when I was like 16, I was obsessed with loose women. So that had like, where are you going to get interviews with carol mcgiffin denise
Starting point is 00:52:45 welsh and jane mcdonald woman's own absolutely probably the only 16 year old buying it but there we go and they had one in there about if you had um indigestion tablets after your meal it made the food break down slower so you got less hungry wow so i was walking around with that renny's like eating renny's after my food to try and like slow down the process very strange nuts the whole thing i think look i'm not i'm getting married next saturday and i get messages i have actually got a few messages from people being like i can't believe you haven't lost more weight like your wedding wedding, like, you know, these pictures are going to stay with you forever. Why don't you fuck off?
Starting point is 00:53:26 And I'm like that. But also I'm like, do you know what? When I went on Love Island, I was 57 kilos, right? I was teeny tiny, but I got like that because I didn't do anything except for go to work and go to the gym.
Starting point is 00:53:43 Absolutely. I literally, I wouldn't go out. No. Because I was scared that I was going to get drunk and tell people and then I was scared that if I went out and I didn't drink people would be like you are going on love island right and I'd be like I could go out to this party or I could stay home and meal prep I remember I had like a week of home standby um for work and I was like actually i'm better off calling in sick for that and going to the gym twice a day every day and that's how i got like that and that is not sustainable and that is not a life it's not a life for me but some people do you know what some people love it
Starting point is 00:54:14 they'll go to work i've got listeners i promise you they say i get up at 4 30 a.m and do my 10k run before my child wakes up now credit where credit is due good luck to you yeah but i don't want to do that i'm not going to do that i want to cook food i cannot wait yeah i'm getting off the phone to you in a minute off the zoom we haven't had a sunday which is just us at home i'm so excited we're going to take, we've got, we're dog sitting today. We're going to go on a nice walk and then I'm going to cook a mean roast beef. I'm doing a massive roast dinner and I'm so excited about having a glass of red wine, cooking, being with a family.
Starting point is 00:54:58 Yeah. Loads of people I know would probably go and do pilates on a Sunday, followed by maybe a boxing and, you know know do that and do their meal prep and probably have a salad tonight I don't want to do that and that is not there's nothing wrong with that but we are all individual and we are all different and you've got to do what makes you happy yeah and my my enjoyment in life comes from like I say socializing with my friends and family cooking nice big meals for everyone um and you know i don't i just think we're all gonna die one day it's true like it's really no i'm with you i just
Starting point is 00:55:31 think i'm with you i was thinking i'm not i'm not the biggest fan what's that oh okay you're very taurean like i'm a taurus really but yeah because you're a homely down to uh i'll have to look into cancer i don't know much about it i'm like super empathetic like to the point that i have to stop thinking about things sometimes get upset to me so much um but i yeah i just think like there's i'm not the biggest fan of hamilton but there's a line in one of the songs it says look around at how lucky we are to be alive right now and i like that that like literally plays in my head over and over and over again and I just think like oh like does it like my my dress looks great I'm really happy with that you look so beautiful you look so pretty this morning you are going to have the best wedding I feel honored to speak to you whilst you're doing all your wedding planning you're in spain but we've both got lots and lots of friends around that we need to see and i know that we are
Starting point is 00:56:32 just if you like acquaintances but at some point we need if we're in town we need to get a drink together yes yes we really do we really do big shout out to madeline from river island yes because she said to me oh my goodness i love amy hart have you met amy because you're very similar and i feel like she's a little bit you know to do with and that was and that was she said that to you yeah and then you walked out of river island down oxford street and i was walking up Oxford Street to River Island. There you go. And it was that day we met. So I feel like she's got a bit of witchcraft.
Starting point is 00:57:10 We love you so much. Thank you, Mads. That is excellent and hello. We love you. But thank you. I just wanted to have a lovely chat with you. People love the pod for just a good old nag, and that's what I wanted to do with you,
Starting point is 00:57:22 and that's what we've done. And please keep listening to the pod. I hope you really will do i love it let me ask you actually what do you what are your favorites what do you like the most what do you like i'm such a weirdo so i love yours yeah i listen to for the many which is a political podcast yeah and oh it's not jackie smith anymore um i listened to that i have just had a bit of white wine question time as well yeah i love kate thornton very good um what one question time i listen to the wellness cafe it's a canadian girl it's just so easy to listen to okay um evil genius russell kane i love um i like to oh and mormon stories that's a whole different chat for another day okay mormon stories uh it's four hour episodes of people who have left the mormon church talking
Starting point is 00:58:06 about why they left and stuff i i like to i like to sort of get something for podcasts i like to come away feeling very inspired especially like driving to work and back and stuff i like to it's so funny i i was so anxious the other day and i couldn't work out why and it was just after i'd finished in the love island podcast and come back why and then I had to drive to Brighton and the traffic was so bad it took me an hour and I was like oh that's why because I haven't been in the car listening to podcasts for ages I need to drive I need to drive it's lovely but yeah so they're my favorites oh that's lovely yeah I love driving that's good I used to be a really brilliant driver and drive all over
Starting point is 00:58:46 like you all over the UK didn't bother me when I was younger and then never had the chance to do it wasn't driving long distances me and Mark if we go out for the day he'll drive it's just the way it is and last week I had to drive to Bristol and back. And I felt really anxious about it, quite nervous about it, driving that distance. But I thought, no, don't worry about it, just do it. And I thoroughly enjoyed it. And I'm really, really pleased that I've done it because I feel like I've just got through that worry about doing it.
Starting point is 00:59:18 And again, put on my parents in hell, put on my chatterbix, put on my Harry Hill. And, you know i really really enjoyed myself in the car which i haven't done for ages yeah yes i just love it i'm on a podcast where are the package things i don't know babe are they in the spare room we've got what can i do have a look for you in a little while no because we're going to i'm not this is my life. You know I keep it real.
Starting point is 00:59:49 See, maybe I'll just go for two. Maybe I'll just go for two. Well, it's up to you. It's up to you. Amy, thank you so much. Thank you so much. Have a wonderful, wonderful week. I can't wait to see all the photos.
Starting point is 01:00:03 Thank you and have a lovely Sunday with your lovely family. Thank you. See you, Angel you Angel. Bye. Hi this is Chris McCausland and this is Diane Boswell and we've got a new podcast haven't we Di? 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 of 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.

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