Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S05 EP30: Simon Gregson

Episode Date: November 4, 2022

 Joining us this episode to discuss the highs and lows of parenting (and life) is the actor and Coronation Street star - Simon Gregson. 'Queens for the Night' - Saturday 5th November at 8:30pm on ITV Thanks, Rob + Josh. We're going on tour!! Fancy seeing the podcast live in some of the best venues in the UK? Of course you do, you're not made of stone! Tickets available now on the dates and at the venues below. We can't wait to see you there... ON SALE NOW  14th April 2023 - Manchester AO Arena 19th April 2023 - Nottingham 20th April 2023 - Cardiff  21st April 2023 - London (The O2) 23rd April 2023 - London (Wembley) 28th April 2023 - Birmingham Utilita Arena  If you want to get in touch with the show here's how: EMAIL: [e-mail] TWITTER: @parenting_hell INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell A 'Keep It Light Media' Production  Sales, advertising, and general enquiries: [e-mail] Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Hello, I'm Rob Beckett. And I'm Josh Widdickham. Welcome to Parenting Hell, the show in which Josh and I discuss what it's really like to be a parent, which I would say can be a little tricky. So, to make ourselves and hopefully you feel better about the trials and tribulations of modern-day parenting, each week we'll be chatting to a famous parent about how they're coping. Or hopefully how they're not coping. And we'll also be hearing from you the listener with your tips, advice, and of course,

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Turns and commissions apply. Visit A. Hello you're listening to Parenting Hill with Can you say Rob? Bob. Beckett. But. And can you say Josh? We dickum. Whidicom.

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Hi Rob Josh and sexy voice Michael. This is Lyra saying your names aged 14 months. Goa. Big fans of you guys I I listen weekly to your podcast, purchased audio books of both your books, bought the parenting house signed book and the audio book. Oh wow, thank you very much. I'm pretty much keeping you guys in business. Although I am unwilling to download a second free app to listen to your podcast. Is that what she said? No, I'm joking. Oh yeah, oh yeah. Oh, I. Oh, I. Oh, I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I th. I th. I th. I've. I've. I've. I've. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. to. to. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. th app to listen to your podcast. Is that what she said? No, I'm joking obviously. Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, I forgot that this. Because we announced that we're moving to Spotify exclusively, which is still free to listen to it. It's completely free. When we announced it, obviously we was expecting people to be a little bit confused, but then we explain that you can still download the podcast for free and download Spotify for free....... the podcast for free free free free free free free free free free free free free. the podcast for free. the podcast for free. the podcast. the podcast. the podcast for free. the podcast. the podcast. the podcast for free. the free. the free. the free. their their their th. th. the podcast the podcast th. th. th. th. th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh the the the the the the the the podcast. Oh the podcast. Oh the podcast. Oh the podcast. Oh the podcast. Oh the podcast. Oh the podcast. the podcast. the podcast. the podcast. the podcast. the podcast. the podcast. Oh the podcast. the podcast the podcast the podcast the podcast the podcast the podcast for free. the the th. th. th. th. th. th. Oh, thi. Oh, thi. Yeah. Oh, thi. Oh, the th. Oh, th. Oh, the th. Oh, the the the th. Oh, the the free and download Spotify for free, listen for free. There are adverts on Spotify.

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words? What the fuck is that? I've got Discord downloaded it, never used it, but fair enough. Anyway, from next, the next episode will be only available on Spotify. Anyway, let me talk about my day. So I've had a howler of a day. Go on. School run, walking into school. We are literally at the door where they're going, like sort of the little entrance bit. Massive Fox shit on the floor. I say, don't tread in that. A child could never have stepped in it more squarely or full-on. And then she put her foot up, absolutely covered in Fox shit. So then, but then, but then I am thinking, I had to, I, I, I, I, I, I, I, I had, I had, I had, I had to to, I had to, I had to to, I had to to go, I had to to go, I had to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to the their, at their, at their, at their, at their, at their, at their, at their, at their, at their, at their, at their, at their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their, their. their. their. their. their. their, their, their, their So then, but then I am thinking, I had to go to the like the teacher at the gate, I was like, oh, she's trodding fox poo? I don't really know what to do.

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No receipts. Do you know what I had in there? Not one of our condoms. My today. I had my ticket to the UFC. Oh no. Oh no. And was, I love keeping my tickets when I've gone to an event. Yeah, and then the other one... Never look at them ever again, but you do put them in a box and then think, one day I'll go through and imagine, one day I'll remember all this. I think my children will launch them in a skip when I'm dead. Anyway, I thought, I know, I don't want to keep the to keep the to keep to keep the to keep the to keep the to keep the to keep the to keep the the to keep the to keep to keep the the the to keep to keep the the the to keep the to keep the the to keep the the the the the the the the th. the. th. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. to keep th. to keep to keep th. th. thef. thef. thefofof. thef. tipef. tipef.f.f.f.f.f. tipef.f. tip. th. th. theufef. th. th. I. th. I. to keep the UFC ticket, so I used what else I did in there, and I'm a bit ashamed of this, Josh. No. It was a stamp.

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flush the tissue paper and then put the shoe under a tap. Great work. How about you Josh? Yeah, it was, well, I think it's th, I's th, I's th, I's th, I's th, I's th, I th, th, th, th. th. thi, you thi, you thi, you're the the the the the thi, you're the thi, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you the the the the the the, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tod. tod. today, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you're just, you're just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, you just, the think it's time for our guest, Rob. I've got anecdotes, but I'm going to save them for Tuesday. Do you want me to redo them on my phone as a kind of little taster? Okay, cool, yeah, go and then. What, give me the headlines? Two rice's, end of play date, pack lunch and top not. So that's something to look forward to. Four anecdotes for Tuesday. Wow. What a, Joe, I literally didn't care about any of them. But no, Joe, what, two ricees got me. Yeah, excited about two rice. Two rice and top. Not, end of play date and pat lunch. I think there needs to be another

thing in there. Okay. Surprise end to play date. No, I like it. Yeah. And worrying success of Pat Lunch. Oh, that's better. Yeah. Now I'm going to change the others to the top-not debate. Like it, yep. And two rice humiliation. Oh, that's, isn't that better? We're learning to be broadcasters. Li. This is exciting, isn't it? Yeah, this is it Rob. Well, it's something to look for to on Tuesday. to. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh. Oh, to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to that. Oh, oh, that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that. Oh. Oh. Oh, that. Oh, that. Oh, that. Oh,casters. Live, this is exciting, isn't it? Yeah, this is it Rob. Well, it's something to look for on Tuesday. Do you respect it? Do you look at it? I'm buzzing.

Yeah, we're both so excited with that. We're really, we're really chuffed with ourselves. Basically, you said four things and I thought that was shit and then now you've sexed it up. Right, our guest this week, Simon Gregson, he's got three children. And he has been Steve McDonald for 20-odd years, isn't he? Yeah, I mean, probably more. And also, his first ever thing he's done, outside of Coronation Street is

Queens for the night in where he does drag a show I'm a judge on so we'll talk to him about that because that's quite a departure isn't it to go from Corrie for 25 years then drag? Yes of course. Right here's Simon Gregson. Please welcome to the podcast Simon Gregson. That that is the introduction. Is that is that right? That was perfect because it was correct wasn't it? It was very correct. Yeah can't say nothing around about it you can't you can't leave this with the ump after that? That's it's it yeah it's sent me up for the day yeah but where are you to today oh yeah where are you at home I'm at home yeah I'm at home yeah I've been up quite early helping my wife bake she's just started doing a cafe up the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the tha tha tha the tho. I tho. I tho. I to to to to to to to to to to the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. tha tha tha tha tha tape tape tape tape tape tape ttttape ttttape. tttape. ttape. ttttttttape. ttttttttape. toe started doing a cafe up the road so doing a cafe running a cafe? Yeah yeah she's taken over a cafe at Garden

Center and so I'm making scones this morning for the first time ever in my life. Oh right okay well good lunch to the people eating those scones. Exactly yeah we'll be sued by Wednesday. Now Simon I said we've we've met before because you was on Queen, well you're on Queens for the Night, which is on ITV this Saturday, in your first sort of performative role outside of Steve McDonald on Corrie. Absolutely right, yeah. And so how long have you been Steve McDonald for on Corrie? 33 years? Wow.

Wow. 33 years, and then the first, because you've done like a lot of the celebrity shows like. Because, like, like, like, like, like, like, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, the, the, we thee, we th, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, we've, to to to to to to to the to Wow. 33 years and then the first you've done like a lot of the celebrity shows like catchphrase and family fortunes and those sort of things. But after 33 years you've taken on the role as a drag queen. So before we get onto the kids I just was so shocked. Well it's a natural transition. Yeah. How was that the first thing you did outside of Steve McDonald? It was it was really. It was, it. It's. It's. It's. It was, it. It was, it. It was, it. It was, it. It was, it was really, it was really, it was really really really really really really really really really really really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was really. It was, it's the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. It was. I th. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I thi. I was. I was. It's a natural transition. How was that the first thing you did outside of Steve at Donald? It was really fun, you know, I mean my agent, you know, gave me, it asked me whether I wanted to do it or not and I was like, well yeah, why wouldn't I? You've got a show you've got Range Rob, this is the opposite of what you've been speaking scones, he's a changed man. This it's yeah I was in me penny this morning I've got stopped.

So Steve anyway you was brilliant on that we can talk about that a bit more later on. It's on I today night on ITV but point of the episode. Let's talk about your kids how many kids you got at what are their ages? I've got three boys I've got Alfie who's 15. I've got Harry Harry the the the the th. H Henry the th. H Henry th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. tholny. thoes th. the. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. thoes. the. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. the th. th. That's tha. That's tha. That's tha. It's thea. It's thea. It's thea. It's thea. It's. It's toea. It's thea. It's thea. I's thea. It's thea. It've got three boys, I've got Alfie's 15, I've got Harry who is 13 and I've got Henry who is six. They're the most amazing boys, were so very, very lucky with them, most of the time. Most of the time. They get on really well. There is a lot of testosterone there, so there is a lot of fighting. Not to the point where there's blood drawn or you know they get out swords or anything. But typical brothers just rolling around and winding each other up but apart from that, they're great, they're really great. We are blessed with them, the very good point.

You said you're not very good at computers when we were setting up this zoom. And I can see on your zoom it says Alfie. So are you on your son's laptop? Yeah, well it was originally my laptop, but now it's ended up as Alfie's, like most of the things in the house. He's got a very small bedroom with all of our stuff in it. And how old's Alfie 15? 15, yeah. And what's it like with teenage?

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Yeah, absolutely. He's got no cut. It doesn't realize that the toes have got bigger, the arms have got longer and he's finding it hard to navigate, you know, so it's a lot of that And you say that they're that it's not that they're not impressed are they impressed by Steve McDonald? No, no, they're not interested in it at all. It annoys them actually when we go out it annoys to me and Harry my middle boy, we went out to supermarket the other day and of course people stop in the stare and you know, the usual. the usual, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it's the the the the the they're they're they're they're the they're they're they're they're they're, it, it's, it's, it's, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it's they's they's they's they's they's they're they're they're their their their their their their their their their their the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the their their their their thea, their their their the, the, it's the, we went out to supermarket the other day. And of course people stop and they stare and you know the usual one is the kind of double-take and the wondering whether it's you or not and that they're going is it isn't it is it even say it out loud sometimes no it is it yes it is

no it is I can I can hear you I'm not dare I mean you guys you guys get this all time but Harry finds it fi th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi thi. I mean you guys get this all time. But Harry finds it fascinating and starts to copy them and like walking round after them doing what they were doing. What then? Well yeah somebody can see is like why do they do this dad? And then walk around and look at you like this? Why do they do that? So they can't and they're all terribly embarrassed and walk away. He's being defended, he's being protective of you. They are very protective of it, yeah. Yeah, they kind of don't, it doesn't compute for them, like it doesn't compute for me, even after all these years. I kind of get it, you know, on a kind of logical level.

But I really don't understand it somehow. There is a level of that fame that I think of being on a soap like Coronation Street for that long is that everybody knows who you are it's sort of like you know a few people will say hello to me and Josh because if they watch odd programs and stuff but everyone knows who's on Corrie. It's crazy. It's almost like a bit like being a prime minister like if you're in one of the prime minister or one of the like cabinet offices everyone knows you because they're always there on a the the the the the the the their. their. their. their. I I I I I I I I I. I. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. their. th. their. their. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. I will will will will will will will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. I will. A. I will. I. A. A. I. A. A. I. I. I. A. And. And. And. And, th. And, th. And, th. And, th. t. th. t. th. t. th. th. th. th. th. A. th. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. A. you because they're always there on the tele, every night kind of thing? A mate and mine who joined the show had done a lot of film, like really big films and he'd done a lot of drama, you know, he was a very well-known actor and he said, God, when you get recognized all the time he managed to do your heading, you must come to London, it does not as bad there, I don't th.... that's that's th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th th th th th thin like, like really, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like really, like really, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. Really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, really, like, like, like, as bad. I said, listen, wait until your characters on TV, sure enough. Yeah, it was getting assled everywhere.

I said, that's so, you know, you're in people's front room time. And so your sons would never, would they ever watch Corey? I mean, that mean, I suppose it'd be weird for you. You don't, do you ever sit down and watch it? You know what? I don't. I used to have to have to have to sit to sit, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I don't, I, I, to, to, to, to, to, to, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you know, you know, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you, you.... to, you, you, you, you, you, you. to, you.. to, you. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. th. that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, that, you know, you know, you know friend of mine, well a couple of friends of mine, in the sound department used to set challenges for me saying I bet you can't do this. And I'd say well I better can and then I'd see if it's past the edit and got out and they always did. Well, for some reason I started going, Ah, before every sentence. Just, just for something to do,

because after 30, oh, geez, you get really bored. I was like, oh, I think I'll have a partologapy. You know, it's just stupid to have a coin and we may etch. God rest his song. He said, I bet you can't do a, uh, from the door all the way to the other side of the robe of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the road of the the the the the the road do a er from the door all the way to the other side of the robe's bar and I did and it went out. Stuff like scratching my borm and sniffing my fingers that's gone out as well. Really? It's just sneaks through the edit yeah it's great. And so when you do the

er from the door to the bar did the director not, what are you doing? Well, more than often, I'm going back quite a few years, more than often we've been out with the director the night before, so we don't have such a good laugh nobody really cared. It was like, yeah, we get it, do it. But people seem to like that anyway, so. Your character sort of gets away with that a little bit, doesn't he though? It feels bit more, you know, it feels just scary, you know, there's always like a scary one who's going to be like the end up killing someone or attacking someone if they start going like, in like, into the bar, it would be. Yeah, I've seen some really get away, especially when Ancaman came out and I was like religiously watching the Simpsons. I was like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like like the their. I was like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, like, the. I. I'm, the. So, the. So, the. So, the. So, the. So, the. And, the. So, the. So, the. And, like, And it's just made life very, very easy for me at work. But I suppose your kids aren't going to watch it. Not many teenage boys sit down and watch Corey

every night, do they? How do you, Rob? Did you when you were young? I used to love Eastenders when I was a teenager. It was, it was the biggest thing with teenagers at my school was Corrie. You're you joking? really really really really the biggest. Really the biggest. Really the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the biggest the, of course not. No. I'm going to get into that. I was really. I'm going to go down to Devon. Do some pennies. Why about blurby erasist, mate? It's about Corey the Emmerdale in my school. That was the big rivalry. I'm not going back to university to be your friend. I'm going so I can get Uber 1 for students. It saves you on Uber and Uber eats. I'm there for zero dollar delivery fee on cheeseburgers,

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Oh no. So I had Henry from the offset and Henry kind of, we had one of those cocks that attached to your bed. Yeah, yeah. So he was with us then, and he's been in our bed ever since. So, and he's still in bed with you now? He always comes in, yeah and he comes in and he goes can I get in him like no Henry and if it's like very late but like it's easier just to let him in plus

we love having him in yeah and is he the youngest did you say he's the youngest yeah but Alfie still gets in no he's like my size now he just a bloke he just gets in and he gets in for a cuddle and then the all three of and then the two dogs get in. We actually have to buy a bigger bed. We were like, we need a big bed. They're like jaws of the bedroom. Because that's the thing is like, you have this thing where it's like, don't have your children in your bed. But the fact is most parents like, I research on it, not for the, I want, what, somebody had mentioned it and I followed up on what they'd said, and apparently it's really good

for them to be in the bed, some people say, you know, it has that bond, like, you know, when you go back to being in caves or, you know, when we were, we're weird tell yourself that I tell myself that all the time when I'm looking at my wife going why is the child in between us he's been a week yeah there was a bump between us now the natural thing here and what you like is apparent you you you seem quite like the way talk about them I can imagine you're quite kind of pally and not I can't imagine you a strong figure of authority distant figure of authority is that fair I do lay down the law you know we are kind of best friends and everything but there's there is a there is a line that I won't allow to be crossed you know

because they do test your boundaries and I'm they have to pull them up and say look I'm not your mate you know so they have to to to to to to to to to to to to to the I their to their to to their I their I to to their I their I have their I have to their I have their I have their I'm their their their their their I'm their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their their to to to to to to te. I te. I te. I te. I'm te. I tell. I'm tell. I'm tell. Italk to me like that, and this, that and the other. You know, they have to do us to talk. But for most times, we do just laugh a lot. You know, we're a very cuddly house, so we do cuddle a lot. What are their sort of hobbies? Because when they get or they're gaming or off to rugby. Have they got things that they do and you have to become a fan of it? Yeah, the football mad. And I'm not a fan of football at all, never have been.

Oh, that's difficult. Yeah, so, and all three of them play. All right. And you live in the main city for football. Yeah, the football mad. I mean, we went, we got a takeout from a local Italian last night and Alfie went mad about an hour later saying you've got to take me back because Rinaldo had walked him. And I said, well, what do you want me to do? He said, well, I want you to drop me off. I'm going to go in and get a picture. I went, no, you're not. the guy's having a dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner dinner the dinner the dinner the the the the guy's having his dinner A and B you probably find there's a load of retired S-A-S-S that are taking to people like you don't go over and said no it's not happening. So have you had to get into football then? Yes but you know what because because the your kids you know it's very easy to do and they are

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That they're all massive. It's like the land of the giants now, isn't it? They're huge. I don't get it at all. And they're all working out as well. Yeah, Alfie's ripped. Yeah, it really does my edit. Even the six-year-olds ripped. He says he's got a two-pack. Like that. I've got a two-pack daddy. I'm like that, okay. It does film me with hope, like, you're like,

oh God, I might not have to deal with my daughter's drinking or something, because they'll be too busy, you know, being ripped. Just don't the the the the the their their their their their their the protein shakes love. It's just too much. Stay with two scoops only tonight, only two scoops and fuel. How many apples have you had? He's mental. That's nearly side and it's. That's eight balled edge you won't shit for a week. But that's one of the benefits because smoking, drinking is the furthest thing from there. What about vaping? Vaping is quite popular teenagers.

That's not massively against it. It's very, very much about fitness and football and, you know, really, really. I want to try and be like a sort of, you know, like, a bit like your parents, Josh, quite relaxed. Yeah, we'll find your own way. But if my kids came over a vapepe – I I I I, I, I, I, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, th, thin, thin, thin, th. th. th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It, it, th. It, it, it, th. It, it, th. It, it, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, th. It's, thin, thin, th. It's, tha. Va. Va. Va. Va. Vape, tha. Vaping, tha. Vaping, tha, I'll just pick I grab it off and throw it and go and just go mental but I think it's a bit of an alcoholic approach. Would you prefer a cigarette to a vape? I think I'd respect that more. I used to smoke I haven't spoke for like four months and I am drunk for longer and I used to sit there there with a glass of wine and a fag and be like that saying, don't ever drink and smoke. I'm gonna have to lead by example here.

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goes, ugh! And you're fine, it's awful. It's horrible. And if I come out, teenage boys, they're not really watching you on Corrie. How do they feel about you going in full drag for the show, the Queens for the night? They've not thanked me for it. We're getting a load of grief because I'd come second on I'm a celebrity so I was was the country's second best celebrity. All right, so they're getting hammered for that. They're getting hammered for that and now

I'm going to be dressed as a woman. Danny Miller. Danny Miller one yeah also as well you don't lose another soap person do you? Exactly yeah. So they were like your dad's shirt. Yeah so they were like your dad shit. So what the hell's going to happen this time round? I've no idea where I've got a pair of boobs on on a short skirt, you know? Will you watch it together, do you reckon? Or it's just be you and your wife and then the kids will watch it? I'll be watching it. But with it, of course it's Bonfiner isn't it? So they'll be out. I mean I was going to go with them but I broke my leg you see so. Oh you brought your leg! Yeah man, yeah. How? So walking a crack, literally I just went over on it, it's rolled my ankle outside the back of the house. No.

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When you was on Corrid, was she doing most of the sort of child care then if your days of that long? Did you feel a bit guilty at point sometimes? Yeah, well, Emma had her own company at first. She folded that when Elfie was born. And so she's only just started this cafe. Yes, so 15 years she's been housewife, you know, mom.

Yeah, and yeah, I did feel a bit guilty because she's, you know, it's a long time to be at home and she was going a bit mad with it. So were you working literally like 11, 12 hour days, days a week on. I mean, it's, I was a while. It depends on how many episodes you're in and how many scenes per episode you're in. So basically if you're in a big storyline, you're gonna be busy. And it just so happened that around that time,

I was in big storylines. There was a Michelle with, Kim Marsh was playing my wife at the time and then Kate Kelly was playing my my girlfriend, which he cheated on with and you know all this kind of stuff so there was a lot of big storylines going on around that time but you know I've gone a lot older now and a bit plumber. I think the I think the focusing on the good-looking lads more than me. Things have things have beaten down a bit. But I think I was kind of destined to be an actor because everything I watched on TV I'd be that person as soon as the program had finished. So if Tarsome was on, I was running around in underpants

and my dad's scout knife tucked in it. I wouldn't cut myself was on, I'd leave batteries with strings on on the stairs, going like, don't step on that stairs, a bomb. So all this stuff. But I was always playing army, I was always outside me. I was completely tram-oed up in the camouflage gear, doing, you know, doing garden-hopping with a wooden gun. Really? That's what I did every night, yeah. That's what always it to be. Do you you you you you you th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th thi thi thi thi thi. thi. thoing thi. thi. thoom. thoom. thoing thoing. thoing. thoing. thoing. thoing. thoing. thoing. I's thoing. I's thoing. I's thoing. I's tho. I's Oh really? Yeah, that's what I wanted to be. Do you think you'd been a good soldier? Nothing could have been, oh, you had a lot of practice.

On this show, Josh, the Queen's for a night, each celebrity is given a category within drag. So some are doing lip-sinking, some are doing magic. You did a comedy set, and it was really good, I don't,to give away too much, but it was really good and really accomplished for someone that was their first ever gig. Is there is there a comedy career in the pipeline as the second part of Simon Gregson's career in entertainment? Well we were thinking about it quite a while I'm very good friends I've been for a while with a guy called John Maloney. Yeah I know John Maloney. Well yeah me and him were thinking of doing well writing some comedy for me and then me doing all the comedy clubs in in the UK and for charity and for charity. Yeah so I was like well

that's a nice thing to fall back on because I'm like it's for charity so people might laugh. Oh no don't do it for charity do it for you, fuck them and then you'll find out. Do the charity gig once you've got your gear together. Yeah, I've always been very interested in it because I just love comedy, you know, and I'm big fan of you guys and watch all your stuff and everybody else and you know, I just find it, I just, I just think it's a brilliant, you know, I just think, but I can imagine it's, it can't, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's, it's a brilliant you know skill you know I just think it but I can imagine it's it can be very hard. I was gonna ask as well what's holidays that like now with teenage boys are they bored they don't want to go away with you or they still loving it? No they love it we have kind of two separate holidays so Emma takes the boys on like because they love like Benadorm and parts of Spain what I can't go to because it they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they their they they they their they they they they they they they their they th th th th th th th th th th the the the the the tho the tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho tho th is th is th th is th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th th is th is just just just just the the the the the thou the to to to to to the to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to to tho th and parts of Spain. What I can't go to because it would just be like a PA.

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Yeah. But then that is a bit boring for, they like the hotels and the other kids and all that kind of stuff in the pool but as long as they've got a ball the fine I mean when Emma took them last time. Like a seal. Very much like steals yeah but yeah they were when Emma took him they found like a local five a side pitch and she had to take him every day. In fact she had to buy them football boots because there's the one thing you don't take a holiday. Oh really you should have gone to goals their their their their their their their their their their they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they they to to to to to to to to to to to their to to their to to to their to they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they're they they the buy them football boots because that's the one thing you don't take on all the day. Oh really? You should have just gone to goals for a week the father-side place. Yeah they'd love it. So where have they got this from? is you're not interested in football at all? I'm not interested in football and Emma was, Emma used to play football when up that way and of course all the mates at school play football And I guess if you start you become good at something you become a bit more popular within your kind of

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the football? Yeah, Alfie was kind of going a bit by the wayside because he got it in his head he will be a football of one day. Maybe that was my fault saying if you, if you think it and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream and dream, if you are, the to dream, if you it will happen yeah. But then I realized so I said to look you know the better you are at school the more they'll like that as well because it shows you dedicated especially in something you're not really both it you can't be bothered yeah if you show dedication towards it they'll like that his homework's improved massively since

really good to make and Harry's good in school anyway, so. Yes, yes, all right. Josh, we do the final question for Simon? It's a classic final question that we always do. So it's very simple. What one thing does your wife do, parenting that annoys you, but you haven't said it to her, but were she to listen to his podcast, that's a way to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to communicate to her, but were she to listen to his podcast? That's a way to communicate it.

And also as a kind of, because we felt that was too negative, we realized that two and a half years into the podcast. What one thing does she do? How would you phrase this bit, Rob? Well, one thing she does, that's amazing and you absolutely laugh, but you don't always tell her how good that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that that to to that to to to to to tho tho tho tho the first one. Yeah. I think the first one is if I get a bit too shouty with them,

it looge too shouty with them, it looze my temper too much, I'm told, you know, like, you know, just calm down a bit and I'm like, but when you lose your temper, there are people on the space station that can hear it. Yeah. It's like, hang in a minute. So there is that. But the one thing she does, which is amazing, is that she never lets them sit still or be bored. You know, she'll take them here, there and everywhere. You know, if it's a school holidays, it's like they have to be doing something every day. And you know, she, she, regards to how tired she is or anything, she'll always make time

and do something with them, you know. Oh, it's nice. Yeah, it's good. Not with me. She hates the kids. Are you making the scones? That's the main thing. This is it, yeah, I'm just the guy with the flower. Do you want to give the cafe a shout out so the listeners can come and buy a scone?

Oh yeah, go on then, Morley tea rooms in Wimslow. Morley teaones are the best. Thank you. More these tea rooms. Brilliant. Cheers, thanks. That's amazing. It's an absolutely pleasure to taught you. You too, Josh, you too, Rob. I can't wait to see the show on Saturday. Saturday night, ITV, we get to see Simon Gregson as, what's your trag name? BDee, BDa, B. B. D. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. B. the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the t. t. t. t. t. t. te. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. C. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. I. T. T. T. T. T. T. t. T. T. T. t........................................ B-Day Bardo. Obviously. Cheers, Simon. Thanks, man. Thanks, man. Cheers, guys.

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And for someone who's been on tele for 33 years and so famous, he's so level-headed. How do you feel if your daughters were playing football six nights a week, Rob? Would you find it thrilling or stressful? Or both? As long as they're enjoying it and they're focused and sort of engage with it, then I don't mind because you've got to do something with your time. I mean I was gigging that much when I was becoming a comedian, so if you've got a passion for it, I'd much rather my kids have a passion for something and we're out every night the week doing it than just sit at home going, I don't know what want to do. Yeah. And also I love, it depends, I like like, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, it, I th th th th th th thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I th, I was thi, I was th, I was th, I was, I was, I was, I was th, I was, I was, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I th, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thi, I thin, I thi, I thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. thi. I was thi. I was thi, I was it was rugby I think I'd be livid. Oh my god the thought of six nights in rugby a week.

Luckily, my jeans have made sure that that's not going to happen with my children. My daughter's really are quite good at swimming so I'm a bit worried about that. Swimming's a boring one because you've got to sit in a fucking boiling room. Oh God. Because I don't mind the outside watching the football when it's like. th. th. th. th. I's. I's. I's. I's. I's. I's. I's th. I's th. I's th. th. I's not. th. th. th. th. Oh th. Oh th. Oh thin's not that's not that's not that's not that's not thin's not that's not that's not that's not that's not that's not that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that's that right clothes for it. Yeah yeah that's nice a nice bit fresh I was excited I see some park football if I'm running past or something. I love it I'll drive I slow down when I'm driving I'm driving the dog if I see some park football I love it. I always dream of driving past a Sunday league game and seeing a goal going oh yeah what a thrill that is never happened never happened but yeah uh the that the that that that that the that that that that that the that the that that that the that that that the that that that the that that the the that that that the that that that that that that that that that that that that the the the that that that that that that that that that that that I'll that I'll that I'll that I'll that I'll that I'll that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that I that's I I I I I I I I I I I the the the the the the the the the the the the the the the th I the th I th I th I th I th th thr I thr I thro. thro. thro. the. the. I'll the. I'll the. I'll thro. I'll thrown I'll thrown I'll the I'll that's thrill that is. Never happened. But yeah, rugby would do my fucking nut in. Right, we'll see you on Tuesday. See you on Tuesday. Bye.