Parenting Hell with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe - S9 EP23: Josh and Strictly Come Dancing

Episode Date: November 12, 2024

More misadventures in parenting, life, and beyond with Rob Beckett and Josh Widdicombe... In this episode Josh discusses the huge announcement that he will be doing the Christmas special of Strictly Come Dancing!! Please follow and leave a rating and review you filthy street dogs... xx If you want to get in touch with the show with any correspondence, kids intro audio clips, small business shout outs, and more.... here's how: EMAIL: [e-mail] INSTAGRAM: @parentinghell Parenting Hell is a Spotify Podcast, available free everywhere every Tuesday and Friday. MAILING LIST: parentinghellpodcast.mailchimpsites.com Join the mailing list to be first to hear about live show dates and tickets, Parenting Hell merch and any other exciting news... 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. Hello, I'm Josh Willicombe. 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 advice and of course tales of parenting woe. Because let's be honest there are plenty of times when none of us know what we're doing. Metrolinx and Crosslinx are reminding everyone to be careful as Eglinton Crosstown LRT train testing is in progress. Please be alert as trains can pass at any time on the tracks. Remember to follow all traffic signals. Be careful along our tracks and only make left turns where it's safe to do so. Be alert, be aware and stay safe. Hello, I'm Rebecca. And I'm Josh Whitacombe. And you're listening to Now That's, I'm Rob Beckett.

And I'm Josh Whitcomb. And you're listening to Now That's What I Call Parenting Hell. Hello, you're listening to Parenting Hell with... Rose, can you say Rob? Rob. Beckett. Beckett. And can you say Josh?

Josh. Whitcomb. Well done. Widdicombe! Well done! I like this. It sounded a bit like you'd been cancelled and someone forgotten suggested you for a panel show. I thought Josh Winn... Oh no, he's done that. Give it six months. I don't know what's going to end first, when it comes to career or the panel show as a genre, which will be destroyed first? I think you'll be a liar for two more cycles of the panel show.

You'll be wheeled out like Giles Brandreth or Barry Cryer, it's an absolute smasher. Well Barry Cryer did all the panel shows, even when like in the second stage of his career. I love Barry Cryer, sadly he passed away. Yeah, he was great when like in the second stage of his career. I love Barry Crier. So sadly he passed away. Yeah, he was great wasn't he? Lovely bloke. Oh, he's so good. Do you know what I loved most about him was? He just didn't give a shit or take it too seriously. And he'd be around people that were all mental and he'd just sit there and have a beer and just giggle at them.

Loved a joke. I didn't know him very well, but apparently he'd just phone up people he knew if he had a new joke to tell them. And he just phoned them up and tell them the joke and then that's the best of all. That is wonderful if you're Barry Cryer, but there's a lot of other comedians, if they round me up with their new jokes, I'd blow them immediately. Oh my God. Anyway, Josh, who's that? This is Rose, age 20 months, giving her attempt at the intro. Rob and Josh have already met Rose. She is a parenting hell megastar. We're huge fans of the pod and listened from the start through the dark days of homeschooling and lockdown.

We bought our tickets to the live show in Cardiff as soon as they went on sale. We thought our only hurdle would be arranging some childcare for our two boys Arthur now seven Henry aged three. And lo and behold, a few weeks later, we realized we're expecting baby number three legends. Just doing a bit of shagging, not even trying to just not even trying to conceive. Not even trying to conceive, just fucking pumping out Barbara's left, right and center here, the whole power dick and

ovary queen knocking them out left, right and center. I can't tell you how divorced my life is from an accidentally having a baby. I mean, it's a really interesting way you've managed to sort of intellectualise it. You're not getting your leg over. Well, I like the word leg over, Rob. It's a lovely term for a reason. Get it back in the body. Get it back into the vogue. Get it back into the vernacular. It's hard to squeeze into a conversation that got me

leg over last. Is it derogatory? It feels like it's what Richard Madeley would argue for on Good Morning Britain. It's so much fun. It's quite kind of men behaving bad. They say it's even earlier than that. It's like the sun in the 80s, isn't it? You're getting your leg over. It's quite nice because that implies almost like a spoon or a cuddle that's developed. Oh yeah, I'm getting my leg over all the time. The classic 90s men behaving badly was, oh, I'll give her one.

That's a bit derogatory because it's almost like it's a one way street. Well, as we know, Josh, lovemaking should be a consensual two way. It should be both, both ways. Coming together of both ways. One way, but two people. Not just a two way street, but enough lanes that people can pass by happily. I don't know what that means. That sounds like you're up for a freeway, but in your current state, you know.

No, I don't mean that. You don't want to trick all the lovemakers from what you're already for a freeway, but in your current state, you know. No, I don't mean that. You don't want to trouble the love makers from what you're currently working with. No, no. What I mean is, it's not one of those one-way streets where people going from different directions have problems with each other. Do you know what I mean? It's one of those... I feel like we're talking ourselves into a dark cancellation alley.

Once you get your heads around the idea of having 202, our next concern was how we'd managed to get to the show. We decided that Rose, at nine weeks old, would hopefully go unnoticed and would snooze straight feed for a little ear defenders on. So we decided to take a long. Well, not only did she get- Can I tell you something? As people that do a parenting podcast that do have kids,

and I think I'm a very modern parent, but I would say a baby at an evening event never goes unnoticed. Yeah. But what's happened is there is people with a young baby they can't get childcare for, they convince themselves this is a normal thing to do and it's fine. But actually it's not and could be distracting. And I know what's coming from this email.

What happened? Well, obviously the baby didn't go unnoticed and then we ended up getting the baby up on stage because it was easier to manage on stage. You spent the whole night on the bed. Yes, because in the tour, if it didn't come to the tour, we had a bed on the stage and we gave away a prize. We was giving away a weekend to Paris with free Euro Star, hotel free Euro Star weekend in Paris. But we basically got the people who thought they were the most tired onto the stage and had to lay in the bed. And if they stayed awake for the whole show, they got the prize. They weren't allowed to get their leg over. No one's getting the leg over to stay awake. So obviously, if you've got a newborn baby, you're going to win the shout for

the most tired. So we had a few babies in the crowd, didn't we? Yeah. And not only did she not go and notice, she spent the entire show in front of 5,000 people, which is more than saw the rest is politics at the 02. In Cardiff, we had an amazing night, and thankfully Rose didn't cause too much trouble for us. For us! Well, no. It got to the point where we noticed a baby and you came on stage, and at one point, one of you had to take the baby backstage to sort out what that one was that stayed in the bed. Was that Cardiff or was that another one? We're coming, yeah I think it probably was, we're coming to see you on your tours in Cardiff next year and we'll try not to have any more babies between now and then.

Bloody hell you and Sarah, stop getting your bloody leg over. Ideally don't bring babies to a comedy show is what I'd say. It's not really a suitable place to bring children. But we've rewarded you with a readout and a free trip to Paris. So who's the actual winner? Who's the fool here? Who's actually getting it right? Well, thanks, Rose. I'd like to say I feel like I met Rose, but I was quite preoccupied with the 5,000 people in the room as well.

Jack D. Joel Dommet was there, I think. Because he was doing a culprit nearby, he popped in beforehand. Anyway, let's in the room as well. Jack Deeve was it? Joel Domet was there I think. Because he was doing a culprit nearby, he popped in beforehand. Anyway, let's stop reminiscing Josh about... Life's about moving forwards, not backwards. I forgot we did an arena tour, it's a weird thing to forget about, isn't it? It's so weird. I don't know anything.

I did, you know with Smart TV, our panel show, we do on Sky. Rob Beckett's Smart TV, I'd like to bring that up. He's actually the name of it. But you can't be accused of lying. You're not spinning it. You're not doing that. It's been in it. It's what it's called. Anyway, so I did Alison Hammond's podcast, which is called Smart TV podcast with Alison Hammond. So they've dropped my name from that now. Yeah, so I'm not in it. It's quite painful for me that I'm the only person who's never had my name put next to

the word Smart TV, despite being a regular. Or been asked to do the podcast, but let's not in it. It's quite painful for me that I'm the only person who's never had my name put next to the word smart TV Despite being a regular or being asked to do the podcast, but let's not get Yeah, I really who canceled Anyway, I was doing that and they said what happens on the latest series when he did the latest series two weeks ago I literally can't remember. I basically in order to survive I basically all control and delete my mind at the end of every. I basically in order to survive, I basically all control and delete my mind at the end of every day like Men In Black. Yeah. Honestly, Rob, I'm in the and apologies for the slight echo because I'm staring at staying

in an Airbnb at the moment. And we will come to that. We have a lot to get through to then not to spread it across a couple episodes. So I'm in the office of our agents. There's lots of DVDs and stuff on the wall. There's a poster for a gig. Oh yeah, I can see that. Yeah. No memory. Absolutely no memory.

No memory of doing that gig, but you're on there. Yeah. Good lineup. It's a great lineup. Um, but I have no memory of that night. And then behind you are BAFTA winners and BAFTA nominees, certificates and loads of sort of platinum gold DVD discs. You made a lot of money for DVDs back in the day Rob. I'd say we missed a few. Do you want some figures? You imagine a Bobby B DVD in

Asda a week before Christmas? Come on. Some people made three million pounds from these DVDs in sales. What's the highest number up there? Don't say it is. I think there's one for three million. think there's one for three million. No, there's one for five million. Wowee. Are you up there? You had a DVD. No, I'm not. I never had a DVD. I'm not up there. Let's not talk about the DVD boom that we missed by a whisper.

We missed the fucking thread. Fucking hell. Why were my parents not getting their Lego for three years earlier? If you were getting your Lego for three years earlier, we could be battling it out in our price. Josh, there is a lot to go through here. The swapping is massive for us, Rob. It's huge. Can I start with the most recent thing?

With what's been going on? Because we've had a couple of weeks off for half term because I was away, you was away, you're also getting work done on your house, so you're in an Airbnb. It's all been a bit fractured. I think you're going to enjoy this. So yesterday, I'm quite tired this morning. I had three hours, two hours sleep, two or three hours. Fuck off. You're right. Yeah. Well, not really, no. Absolutely exhausted. I thought you were a bit tension about that baby coming on stage and God. Yeah, I've really had a go. I've had two I see, but I've been fucking kidding to my tour.

It started two weeks. I'm a bit anxious about it. Right? So my tour started two weeks. I'm a bit anxious. I feel a bit aggy. That's probably what it is. Anyway, Rob, can I just stop you and say you will be great?

Your tour will be great. Yes, it won't make any DVD money. Yes, I'll have the tour for three years because there's no money in actually putting it anywhere. Because if I do sell it to a channel, they'll just pay for it to be filmed and I'll earn nothing from it. So it's actually better to keep touring it. So my tour's going through to the end of 2026.

Just added Glasgow, April 26th, if you fancy it. Anyway, no, can I tell you what that is? So basic, because we talk about that first, actually. So my tour starts in two weeks. I've got six more previews. I've done loads of previews. I've got loads of material. It's in really good shape and it's an exciting part where I'm sort of piecing it together and I'm not bored of it. The reason why I'm anxious about it is because this is the first tour

and stand-up comedy and touring is my sort of first love and it's the thing that I think all stand-up, except obviously second love, that you put you go well I do this other stuff at the end of the day I'm a really good stand up and that's who I am yeah you can attach a little bit of your identity to it okay so a little bit first which is absolutely all of it for a bit lived and breathed it you got you got through on King Gong for five minutes I'm king of the world here mate That's the square comedian of the year 2009.

So this is the first tour I've written since I had the mini breakdown basically just before COVID. So all my other tour shows I've basically previewed like every single night for six months to the point of exhaustion. But I've done it. So I would absolutely prepared within an inch of my life that exhausted me maybe really anxious and worried and knackered. So when the tour started, I was an absolute shell of a man and just survived it and every gig was hard because I was attaching too much self worth to it. So I've done lots of therapy, lots of meditation, and I've

actually prepared for this tour, slowly methodically and really well balanced in a way that I enjoy and I find fun. But it's the last throw of the dice of my anxiety to go, but you've not prepared like we used to prepare. And that's when it went well. That's when you sold out. So now what's happened here, Rob, you've took your foot off the pedal, and it's all going to come crumbling down because you've got lazy. Now I know that's not true, but my anxieties... But my anxieties last... It's the last thing because my new approach to life that I do in podcasting on Rob and

Ramesh and other TV shows have gone really well in the last couple of years since my little breakdown. It's great. So it's my first time doing this. Rob, you are at your Imperial phase. Yeah, I don't like it when you say that, Josh, because then it feels like I've peaked and it's all downhill from there. No, no, no. Your Imperial phase could last anything up to four years. Look at Mick Jagger. Look at Mick Jagger, Rob. Anything up to four to six months. Anything up to four to six months.

The Imperial phase is four to six months. Anything up to four to six months. The period phase is very much like months. No, you are doing much better, not as well as some people who have got DVDs. I'm an absolute idiot. I know, of course. So you are doing much better than when you were mad. Yes, yes.

Life's much more fun and relaxed. Yeah, so sometimes people, you know, when there's like people and they go, I'm much happier now. And you go, yeah, but I preferred your music before. Do you know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, but I wasn't happy then. Any chance of breaking up with the wife that's making you happy because I preferred your heartbroken songs. Do you know what though? I think it's actually, I think that is a problem for musicians because that heartbroken song is really important. But with comedy, if you're going for a night out, you want to watch someone who's happy and excited and enjoying themselves, which I wasn't always

the case, but I am at the moment. I don't want, when I go and see Rob Beckett, I don't want to howl from the abyss. Do you know what I mean? You don't want me to walk out from the shadows just wiping tears from my eyes, opening my soul. And also the other good thing is, because I don't worry too much about it now, and about that catastrophic thinking. Before I used to write routines where I'd be so worried about like pissing someone off or upsetting someone that I'd be like, oh God, what if I say that and it all got now I'm a bit more like I don't care. So

the routines are better. Is this about, have you got a routine about me? Is this your way of saying I'm wearing a MAGA hat to the show? That's all I'm saying. Anyway, I didn't have sleep. So tell you about my sleep, right? Yeah. So the kids are back in school, obviously, after half term, we come back from America. So everyone is absolutely livid first thing in the morning. Yeah, they are. Like I'm quite good with jet lag because I'm used to it from

working a lot abroad. And you just to be clear, you went to America to just vote for Donald Trump. Just a quick vote and back. No, we went. We'll talk about it more detail. I went to Florida Universal, Kissimmee, Orlando, around there on a family holiday. So back now. What's kissing me? What's that? Sorry. Kissimmee. me kiss of me is where we stayed you've never heard of kiss of me no and did you how often did you say that to Lou like was there a lot of fun to be having me I kiss you no no no no actually we slept in separate beds for

two weeks because the kids wouldn't sleep on yeah in a bed together my Airbnb actually I've never kissed Lou less than when I was in Kiss of Me. I don't actually think we actually kissed in Kiss of Me. How much do you two kiss? Not as much as we used to. I don't know how much you kiss. I think I'm into kissing more than Lou. Yeah, I like kissing. It's free fun. I'm going to'm gonna go home say to Rose I think we

should kiss a bit more yeah but you act too much pressure on the kiss then isn't it okay maybe just bring it in slowly thing what I'll do is make sure you kiss her when you get in and leave the house she'll say stuff like get off my mouth now not now too stressed now I feel itchy. Get off me. And it just basically when you kiss goodbye, but just hold the kiss longer. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. If you want it, we can get into your sex life, Josh. No, it's not about sex. It's about, no, it's not.

Anyway, no. So basically, right. I've got, um, so the kids are absolutely knackered, right? In the mornings, they're quite aggy and stuff like that. Anyway, so yesterday morning, I got up and took them to school. We left the house like 20 to eight. So I got up and took the kids to school was all quite tired and Aggie dropped them off school and then I'd come get my haircut. Because that night, I'll get Thank you. I like to go to my I'd go into town to do some recording and some meetings in the afternoon because I had a I was doing a some filming with

Lego and do some filming with Lego, I'm doing some filming with Lego, right, because they're announcing a Christmas competition thing. I'm not going into details of it now because I don't want to get it wrong and they get in trouble, but they're announcing, I'm doing something with Lego, they're announcing this Christmas competition next week.

So I just do the filming, but we're filming it in a Lego shop, but that shuts at 10 p.m. So we're filming from 10. And Lego didn't want you to have your Richard Branson haircut. Well, no, I'd been on holiday. My hair got... I could get it into a ponytail, Josh.

And my new hairstyle... Why not? Why not? Well, because my hair, I've realized at the moment, where it's a bit longer, can go from, oh, Rob's got nice new hair, to is that man a sex tourist? Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Very easily. So, basically, my new rule is,

if I can get it in a ponytail, I need an haircut. That's my sign now. So that's it. I had to get my hair cut because I didn't want to be doing some filming with Lego in a toy shop after hours of a ponytail. Yeah, yeah, exactly. Yeah, and I already had my shell suit on and a cigar on the go. So, you know, you've got to pull the drawbridge up somewhere. So, so this is so basically, so we were filming from 10pm till 2am to get it all done when the shop was shut. But then I finished my meetings at like 6pm. So I've got four hours to kill. So I didn't know what to do. So I was gonna go to the gym, but I was

so tired and also needed to eat. So I went to Nando's alone in Soho for an hour. And then I went to the cinema. And I was like, well, I'll just watch a film in Leicester Square for a couple of hours to kill some time. So basically, I went in there and I quite like Hugh Grant at the moment. Oh, yeah, that new thing where he's a baddie. Yeah, but you really know he was a baddie. And I basically sat down for two hours before I filmed in a toy shop and watched one of the most disturbing, horrific, awful horror films alone. And it absolutely sent me sideways.

And then even when that finished, I still had to sit for an hour on my own. Is this last night? Yeah. So have you ever sat alone in the View Leicester Square for an hour? No, of course not, Rob. 9pm till 2pm on a Tuesday. Of course not, no. I've just sent you a photo of where I sat for an hour.

Why didn't you do what comedians do and go backstage and hang out at the store? I'd rather be alone. No, no, to be fair, I did check that the comedy store was shut last night. So that's where I sat for an hour while I watched Arsenal lose to Inter Milan on my phone. Oh my God, that is the bleakest place. Whilst a man next to me, who I think was falling asleep between night shifts, fell asleep with some sort of news channel on really loud, but he was asleep holding

his phone. Were you not tempted to just rent a hotel room? No, I didn't really think properly, Josh. So then I thought I'd go cinema, that'd be fun, but the film was sad. And then I sat there for an hour, then I filmed the thingy and then I got home at 3am. And then I was up at six with the kids. And then I've just done a school run. And then I needed to go to the chiropractor because I'm all twisted up and my back and hips hurt. And then I've gone to the chiropractor now I'm here. So I'm a bit low on energy.

Oh, I'm sorry. And I literally dropped and there was so the kids were going mental this morning on the school run. So we're trying to get in the car and they're really tired and emotional, but my head had gone because I've had three hours sleep. And then my daughter went to put her shoes on and when she's putting her shoes on, she found these lip balms we bought from Claire's accessories about three months ago for her friends. She went, can I take these in for my friends? And I'm like, well, you can't just like turn up with gifts on a school day. And there were like four of these lip balms. And I'm like, well, no, because I'm like, if I'm

a teacher, you don't want a kid walking into a classroom with 30 kids with four lip balms. All of a sudden we're in the politics of you're my four favorite. Yeah, you're my favorite four now. She's Oprah Winfrey. I went, well, no, can we just wait? And then she's on the floor, distraught, crying. And I'm just like, that may, this is over lip balm. Like, I can't deal with this. And then they got in the car, they cried all the way to school. Then they perked up and they got near school. And then as I got them out of the car and I'm like, right, now I've got like half an

hour piece before I go to the chiropractor. And then Lou rings me. She's locked herself out. Oh God. And then I get halfway home. She finds a key. Do you know where the key was Josh? In her hand.

Oh no. Now, I know I'm after Mark Quaven, I shouldn't be giving people shit on keys. Just put a pin in that for when Lou comes on the episode. If you can't find your keys, first place you look, last place you add them, or your own hands. Anyway, luckily, she found them before I got back, because I think I would have been quite angry. So I'm a little bit techy.'m a little bit tired, but it's gonna be alright. We're gonna work through this Josh. So this week we've got a lot to cover We're not gonna have a guest on Friday. We're just gonna blast through. Yes, so up two weeks. Let's go through What you've been up to? Yes, so I've been keeping a secret Rob. Okay But it was revealed last night on Strictly It Takes Two that I am doing the Strictly

Christmas special. Now, I'm not going to pretend to have not known that because you told me early doors, but hearing you say that out loud feels really, it fucking meant it was really good. And also makes sense now you're getting your leg over respect. So my I can tell you, tell you that. So you're sorry, let's get some questions. Yeah, I have a lot of questions about this. You are doing the Christmas special.

Okay, yeah, which is what dance I'm doing. I want to know what dance you're doing, what you're wearing, who you're with and I can't tell you what I'm wearing, but I want to know what dance you're doing, what you're wearing, who you're with. I can't tell you what I'm wearing, but I can tell you the dance and my partner. Go on. So I'm doing this... What's that? That one?

Oh God, yep. The comedy one. The comedy one. Yeah, so I'm doing this... Karen, who is just obviously one of the legends of Straitley. Karen Hauer. Right, so you've got Karen Hauer. Karen's great, she's a legend. She's a legend. Okay. She is absolutely ripped to pieces. How are you keeping up with the fitness, Josh?

I am just so much more ripped than I've ever been in my life. Really? For four sessions. Is it really? You know it's in a difference. Get your top off. So to give you an idea of the first. Get your top off in front of those platinum discs. I'm in the office. Yeah.

Oh, I can see a six pack coming there, Josh. Yeah, well, sadly I'm not beautiful. I wonder what the roses into it. Don't kiss me, just get undressed. What's wrong? Obviously I was terrified. So the reason I'm doing it is I'm just taking myself a lot less seriously these days.

Yeah, well, I think that's a great thing to do. Also, your daughter will love it. I love Strictly. You love Strictly, and it's like a new challenge. It's good to challenge yourself. And it's the Christmas special. As Ivo Graham described it, the Coward's Compromise. The Coward's Compromise. What song are you doing it, the cowards compromise. The cowards compromise.

What song are you doing it to? Let it snow. Do you want me to send you an early video of me rehearsing? And you can watch it live. I've never wanted to see a video more. If you said you could have this video or the PDD tapes before the police get them. Before it arrives, let me tell you how nervous I was on the first day.

Okay, Rob, so the first day Josh, Josh I can't believe you're doing strictly. It's fucking mental. You would have been nice if you'd done the proper one though, cuz then like Well, it doesn't preclude you from doing the proper one. It doesn't no I can't do this for 13 weeks in a couple of years when this needs a boost. I'm not that bad Rob Here we go. Let's pick us up Everyone thought I'd be shit. And everyone who's seen the video, every compliment I get is,

I thought you were gonna be shit. Now, but is that because you're really good or is it you're just not shit? This is how nervous I was on the first day. I had to go and buy some unbranded sportswear. So I went to Adidas. Yeah. So I went to Adidas.

I found some t-shirts that had just a small logo on. Yeah. So I didn't know whether I was a medium or a small, so I went to try them on. Tried on the medium, it fitted. I said, I'll have two more of them, three of those, because I'm doing three sessions this week. Ah, big bucks. It's not my thing about it.

Clean shirt, let's go. I respect that. Oh yeah. I turn up in clean clothing. So then I go down to the, and I'm just and this is like half an hour before the session. So I go to pay and the woman puts two of them through and then she gets a third t-shirt that I tried on. And she goes, oh, oh, you don't want this one.

Someone's tried it on and it stinks. That was you? That was me. That was the thing. Oh no, that's going to get in your head first session. That was because I had the fear sweats, Rob. You hadn't shit yourself. No, I hadn't.

You had fear sweats. Okay. And the first session- You do sweat as well. You are, I'd say, one of the sweatest people. I had a slick back haircut within 15 minutes because the sweat was so bad. But do they love that though? Because they're like athletes essentially,

that it shows that you're putting the effort in. Yeah, I am putting the effort in, yeah. No, I'm not saying, yeah, no, don't be defensive about it, mate. I'm so scared. Absolutely, but you want to win. I want to do well. Right, who would, yeah, but look, let's face it Josh, there's people that we've come across in this industry

that we may not have gotten on with. You may be up against someone you don't like and you're really going to gonna wanna put a shift in. Yeah, I wanna do really well to the point where I'm trying to do loads and loads of sessions and I'm practicing around the house. Right, wow. Here it goes. You've got it.

Have I got it? Yeah, here we go. This is me very early on, Rob. Don't judge me. Here we go. They definitely know you're a comedian, don't they? Put this dance together for a journalist. Or broadcaster. Tell you what, they got a lot of thigh out, mate. I personally would rather you not do any more practice and you just go off on this. I think that's better for the show.

From this, right? You're actually in time and quite good at the dance moves. When you're actually dancing, I'd say, oh, hang on, he knows what he's doing. And this is early on. He can dance a bit. He knows what he's doing. Oh, this bit's good. The bit where, yeah, okay. I can't say what it is, but the dancing, actually pretty good. What I'd say is, you know, that's this bit's good. The bit where yeah, okay, I can't say what it is, but that the dancing actually pretty good. What I'd say is, you know, when you're not dancing, you're doing we can't say what the bits are you're doing, but you know, in the strictly they do the dance and then they do a bit of show, character stuff, like a wave or a jump or something or you jump somewhere. That bit you look unhinged. You look like a robot that's malfunctioning. You're like, Oh God, I've got to do this bit now. But when you're actually dancing and you're in it, you're

quite, you're in the flow of it. Are you allowed any pushback? I told them I wanted big and silly. That is going to, when is that Christmas day? Yeah. I'm, I cannot, I'm going to get so pissed and watch that. And I'm gonna lose my mind. Rob, can I tell you some more things about it? It's so tiring. Yeah.

I felt just so awful. Like I've had to cancel anything I've had in the evenings after rehearsals. Yeah. Because it's so extreme. It's the most extreme thing I've ever done. Because you're using muscles you never used before, basically. Yeah, exactly. And it's cardio and it's...

And you're also thinking a lot, so that's quite a lot. Yeah, that's exhausting. And you're vulnerable, and you're scared because you're nervous, and that's hanging over you. Yeah, exactly. And you feel like an idiot. And so, at the same time, we've got no kitchen, Rob. I've been dancing every day. Yeah.

Doing last leg, doing various things that I put in not realizing how tiring the dancing was going to be. So where are you all living? Have you rented an Airbnb for a bit, did you say? So we were living in our house, right? Right. Okay. Whilst it was going on? Yeah. No, no water downstairs, washing up our plates in the bath upstairs. We had a leak, Josh. Let me send you this photo. Just a leak. The plumber come to fix something and then as he was there, it was so lucky.

Then he just started leaking from the roof. And then he just come out when you have got a car hole in your ceiling. Got a car hole in your ceiling? Yeah, to get to the pipe. It looks awful. Let me show you. Just that's what it looks like in our house at the moment. Oh, Jesus Christ.

So I can come back and see what that happened. You know what? Compared to our house, Rob, where it's stopped now, but last week we had no back to our house and they leave the front door open. So there was a, it was like our house was basically outside. Yeah. We're living in a corridor, in the sitting room,

in a windy underpass, with the doors closed, with all the kitchen stuff also in the sitting room. Right, okay. And so on Monday, I had my first day off forever, right? And I was like, and the cleaner was coming to do just the sitting room and our bedroom, the only two rooms. You've had a busy week. Yeah.

And then on Monday, I think, right, I'm going to get a day hotel because I can't sit in my house. It's my day off. Right. I Google, is it possible to book a hotel just for the day? Maybe you can't get in till about two o'clock, can you? No, you can book them by day. So 10 till five. Oh, I didn't know that.

Get this, when you're filling in the form, Rob. The form, sorry. You know, booking the hotel, booking the hotel online. That's not filling in the form, Rob. The form, sorry? You know, booking the hotel, booking the hotel online. That's not filling in the form is it, Granddad? I'm just filling in the form. That's Instagram, Josh. When you're filling in the form, reason for visit, one of the options is hidden relationship.

Oh my God. It's not good for my profile, Rob. Sneaking in. It might make you sound feel more dangerous. I went in. Go on. There's a hotel on your own for the day? No, Rose was going to turn up at lunchtime. Right.

But I was so excited just to sit in this hotel. Yeah. Go in, fall asleep on the bed at 11 a.m. Initially I go to the wrong hotel, obviously. So then I get there, fall asleep for an hour and a half, wake up, Rose turns up, we go for lunch. Leg over? No, we go for lunch, Rob.

Leg over plan for the afternoon. When we're at lunch, call from school, my daughter plan for the afternoon. When we're at lunch, call from school, my daughter's ill, have to go and pick her up, take her back to the actual house. Leg under. Leg under. So you have to go back to the house? Yes, I've paid basically for a hotel room so that I could have

a one and a half hour nap in the morning. And then just taking my daughter back to the house that I didn't want to be in all alone. Oh, Josh. What a life. Is she all right? She's not well? She's fine by the next day.

Oh, there's some bollocks in it when they come home. Right, Josh, we do small business and then break there and then we'll do some more half termy catch up stuff. Yeah, I'm very excited to listen about Florida. I'm very excited for this. Hi, Rob, Josh and Michael listen to you regularly and often get caught laughing out loud while driving to work. I'm looking forward to seeing you both on tour. Robin Chatham in November and Josh in Bromley in 2026.

Would love if you could shout out to my son who specializes in respraying kitchens and furniture. This is a cheaper way to freshen up a kitchen without the cost of a complete new kitchen and better for the environment. He works so hard on appreciate this. Keep sexy and relatable, Teresa. So this is revolutionfinish.co.uk where it's a kitchen respray specialist based in Kent.

There you go. So if you want to freshen up your kitchen, get it sprayed by this guy. I'll be honest, that would be very far from where our kitchen is at this moment, Rob. Yeah, you can't spray air. No. When's yours going to be finished? About three weeks.

How long you in the Airbnb for? Three weeks? Oh, fucking hell, I haven't even told you about how bad this Airbnb's worked out. Right, okay. Let's start with that on Friday. Do your small business. Okay, this is from Annie Fowler. After a career as a PA, mostly in the music business,

I thought about setting up my own business, but I think I was always a bit scared. This time I thought, if not now, then when? After years of being someone's right hand, I decided to be a pair of hands to help people for an hour a day, week or months with pretty much whatever they want. It's like a PA, Rob, but you're not hiring them full time. Okay. You could do with this. I could do with this. I've been doing research, proofreading, poetry, house sitting in the south of France, and I'm hoping to anything. www.anne, a double n i e

time.co.uk is where you'll find me. Thank you so much. And I hope this reads well. And it does. Yeah. Thank you, Danny. I'll be honest, Rob. I've met Annie and she, she said, Can I do this? That was a that was a direct request. That's fine. That happens. If you're on about we can do it. People ask me when I'm out and about she won't mind me. I hope she won't mind me saying Rob, when she said she was a PA in the music business. She did rise head Fred, actually has some incredible stories about them. So if you hire her, do ask her

about rise head Fred. Perfect. What a what a what a way to end Josh. Now I'll see you on Friday. And we'll start with Airbnb. We'll talk about your half term, talk about my half term to Merrick and see you then. Quick question before we go Rob. Have I made a terrible, terrible mistake by doing Strictly? No, it's going to be great. You're going to enjoy it. It's going to be fun. I feel the same about your tour. I feel the same about your tour Rob.

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