The Overshare with Gemma Atkinson - Just Spray Around The Crotch Area… You’re Good To Go

Episode Date: May 13, 2026

The Hotel Tapes Part 2 : Gorka’s STILL away on tour, Gemma’s holding down the fort at home despite a massacre in the garden, and somehow they are still managing to argue about socks, washing machines and hummus. There's been rumours we are settling about calling of the wedding and Gorka has been spooning with someone else whilst he's been away... We're answering your dilemma's on whether its acceptable to skip a wedding for a birthday, we're reminiscing when Gorka got stuck in this 'beach' (it's not what you think) and we share one of Gorka's most sought after recipes.  Also… why does Gorka travel with opinions about coat hangers?Contact us at [e-mail] or WhatsApp on 07761039898.Producers - Henry Hewitt & Molly CarterSenior Video Producer - Elena CottonSocial Media Producer - Cassidy RebeloProduction Assistant - Emily SpunginProduction Manager - Sarah NichollsExecutive Producer - Laurence BassettHead of Production - Cat MoranChief Creative Officer - Lucie CaveFollow us on social:www.instagram.com/lost.in.podcastwww.tiktok.com/@lost.in.podcast#LostInTranslation #GemmaAtkinson #gorkamarquez

A Rio original podcast. Coming up. Proximaement. I was like, I'm going to be stuck in this bitch, you know? Stuck in what? Maybe don't say that. I came back in the house and I just heard this. Hello?

No, thank you. Is it Neil? Coming back for more. I don't want you to think that I'm being a creepy man, but sorry to interrupt you. Again, for the ninth time. You blend into the wall to do. gocker.

I'm a building to the wall? Yeah. It's nice. It looks very 70s. I'm wearing squares and that's not squares. It's just, yeah, it's actually very cozy hotel. I never heard of this brand. It's called Voco.

Voico? Yeah. Before we do get into Lost in translation, you need to explain to the good listener where you are. Where are you in the world right now? Right now, I'm in Lester. Lester? The Midlands, no? Is that where they do the cheese rolling?

No idea. I'm just in the Midlands. Oh, okay. For the Spanish people, Leicester. I'm sure they do a cheese rolling thing in Leicester. I might be wrong. You probably are wrong. This is lost in translation with myself, Gemma and Gorka. We do occasionally, very much so get lost in translation.

It's a judgment free zone. We listen, we don't judge. And this is our second recording where there's a bit of a twist. because Gorker's away on tour with Strictly. I'm at home in Manchester, but the pod must go on. So we're doing a live link up to Gawker's Hotel. I'm in the studio. We've got Gawker dressed as Rambo next to me for company.

Yeah. So if there is any sound issues, that's why. But it should be fine. It worked well last week, didn't it? Yeah, I think it sounds good. Sound check, check, check. I mean, we were both exhausted last week. I said to me, you know, we need to be more,

more alert and awake today. Last week was tough because I had the day before I have an opening night and two rounds of the show. So I was pretty much like a ghost or a zombie walking, you know? Feel better today. Even though I have a long, well, not long drive last night. I think we got around like half midnight. Can you say that? Half midnight?

Yeah, half past midnight. Yeah, in the hotel. So I done that I shower and get to bed was 1 a.m. And then this morning. morning I was doing the link check at 9.30. And they were like, how are you feeling? I was like, well, you're great. I just walked up 15 minutes ago.

I have to wait a cup because my hair was like a lion king. Look at my hair. I've still not washed it since my shoot. You look flawless. Always. If you do want to get in touch, it's lost. Dot in dot podcast on social media or you can WhatsApp us on 07-603-9898. We read out voice messages.

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Constant pinging. So please do keep them coming. And without further ado, Bomenos! Do you know what day it is, Gawker? Is it Wednesday? It is Wednesday, but more importantly,

it's an international day of hummus. Hummus? Hummus. How do you say hummus in Spanish? Umus. Umus. So the same but with no weight. Yeah, because we don't say the H and we write it with U, not O, so we will go umus. So if you don't say the H H H, would you say Hulk Ogun for Hulk Hulgan?

No, we do Hulk Hogan. So why do you say an H for Hulk but not an H for hummus? What's that about? Because this is real, it's his name, not like a word. I don't know. Don't ask me. I don't want to be wrong, you know. And then we have all these, like, FBI listeners judging pretty much, you know. I do have to say, though, when it comes to hummus, you are the best at making it. I love a bit of hummus. Mia loves hummus, don't she? Yeah.

And... Not the best, but you just like me to make it fresh. It is the best. Anytime you've made it for the family, my mum said, where's his hummus from? And I've said, Gork has made it. Yeah. I even bought a machine and purpose to make the hummus, remember? Can we have your hummus recipe really quickly?

Yeah, so it's just... Chequess, water like cooked already in water, so then you just boil them a little bit to make them softer. I put them on the blender that we have to make the hummus. Yep. And then I put that, virgin oil, extra virgin olive oil. Yeah. A little bit of, how is the herb? Yes, garlic.

Lemon juice, salt. But then is the other herbs. It's not herbs. It's the... It's not cumin. It's something like that. Coriander. Cuman. Cuman. Oh, I thought he's...

Is it coming? Maybe it's coming. I don't know. It is. A bit of paprika at the end. But one of the keys is you want to make them creamy, yeah? And we thought you put an olive oil and maybe a bit of water to do it. The key is to put ice cubes. Ice cubes in the blender with everything else.

So you get like two or three or three. three, when you put the chickpeas, you put two or three ice cubes to blend the ice cube with the thing because what it does is the water does make the runny and too watery. The ice gives them the cold to the chickpeas to be cold, but also gives me the creaminess. You know when you make a smoothie? It's very, very nice. And you know what's in it? That's what I like about go-kokos, umas, is that you know what's in it.

And then at the end, I put it once it's in the right texture, you can go as much as you wanted to make it more creamy or more thick, then at the end where you do, put it on a ball. And when it's on the ball, on top, a drizzle of olive bowl, sprinkle of sea salt, and then you just dip the pita bread in it. Oh, nice. Just dip the tip and eat it. Enjoy your hummus to anyone listening on International Hummus Day. How's the tour been going?

Is it still okay? Good, yeah, good. I think now is to get it on the run, because obviously now we're just all the parties like, the opening night, all the rehearsals is done. And this week has been quite chill, you know, because we didn't have a lot of traveling, even if we still travel, but it's short troubles. And we only had one show a day. So after all the Scotland section, which it was like far and up and down, and it was quite intense.

Then we came down to Oxford. We had a day off in Oxford and we just done shows in Oxford. We're going to London. So we have the big weekend in London, which is like five shows in two days. Oh, that's a lot. Yeah, plus I'm doing my workshops with Arduino and my lesson dance classes with Arduino at the weekend, so it's going to be intense.

I have to be teaching on Saturday at 9 a.m. And then I have to go to the shows and then on Sunday the same. So it's going to be interesting, but I have something to share with you about the show. It's hilarious. I have a video, I need to show you. So on the show,

for those ones who came to already watch the show after two weeks, probably they know it. So you know, remember on it strictly how we did the Eastern Dance. The Eastern dance? Yes, it was the moment on the show where all the couples have like a minute to run to wardrobe, get changed

and do a dance, improvise it. Yeah, yeah. So on the show, on the second half, there is a section of that. So we have 30 seconds. Well, Neil is the one who is hosting it. So then he has the audience to pick up, pick two pros to dance, yeah?

And then they have from four dances, they need to pick up a dance. they want the two pros to do. So then we have 30 seconds to run out of the stage, get changed and come in and dance. Okay, I like that. Yeah. So a few nights, Neil, been like picking people.

And then yesterday it was like, oh, I'm going to just let them really, really pick the audience, you know? So then they can really choose. What happened? This lady choose Neil and Lily is the host. So it was very funny. And then we were like, oh, who's going to be the nest? They pick me. So you were kneel?

Neil? To do the Rumba. So they pick us to dance, so we start dancing, and Neil goes to me, comes, yeah. We comes next to me, he was like, I'll let you lead me. And I was like, all right, fine, I'll lead you. We got to get changed, yeah. Having mine, we changed trousers, shirts are coming in, my shirt is not even close. I took my shirt off, so I was just wearing trousers. Neil comes with this blue shirt, roll up like this, like, you know, like the girls, do.

Yeah, took to him. Like this, yeah, with these tight black trousers walking like all. all like, you know, like this. We started to dance the Rumba. He didn't let me lead. Vito goes like, guys, that was very good. Beginning was a bit disconnected. But at the end, it was very impressive.

Anyway, I'm going to send you the video because one of the wardrobe girls, yeah, recorded from the wind. He sent it me on WhatsApp. We'll put this up as well for anyone watching. And send it to us. Just look at the end moment is the most, like the beginning, like Vito said, it's disconnected. But the end moment is the funniest part.

Everybody was in the stitches. Oh, the end. Oh, my gosh, Goker. To be fair, that was improvised on the spot. To anyone who can't see it, they ended up spooning, rolling around on the floor. Oh, bless. Oh, it's quite cute that you did that with Neil.

Yeah. Yeah. Oh, I want to make sure... Hello? Oh, someone's at the hotel. No, thank you. Is it Neil? Coming back for more.

Housekeeping. No, thank you. Oh, well, now I come and watch with the kids. I want to make sure they pick you for Mia and Tiago. Yeah, in Manchester, they will, yeah. I hope so. Apparently, China came to see yesterday, yeah, not yesterday the day before. So it was China, came with Havana, and then he was Kai's mom and his girlfriend.

So they picked them too to do it. It was so funny. I'm glad you're enjoying it. It's nice. I was speaking to Katie driving in. So my friend Katie, her fellow is an actor, Baz. He's been away.

He's been in the States and he's always working away on his projects. He's very, very good. And Katie was saying about his home, he's been away for 16 days and he came home last night, but he didn't get until 3 o'clock this morning. And she was saying how lovely it was. and I said that like you've been away for nearly four weeks and this and that.

Nearly five weeks? Five weeks, sorry. That's what I mean. It's been so long. I've lost count. But we both said to each other, even though like Baz has been in L.A. and then London and then home

and he's away again in a few weeks. And even that we both said we wouldn't change any of it. And we were saying how lucky we are to have partners whereby it could change anything. It's like it keeps it. exciting like she was saying to me she said can you imagine if it was nine to five and they were always there every night and they were there under your feet every night she said I've actually missed him I've missed him I said I do get it Casey I said I'm the same I said and although it's

difficult I wouldn't change any of it because it's that not knowing what time they're back or where they're going or you know I mean it's not like a yeah a routine I think with a routine I'd get comfortable and I love the fact that it's not. Yeah. I keep it on your toes, you know. I made your dinner for like three months and then I go away so you don't have dinners and then I made your dinner again, you know. Give you a bit of hummus.

I need to send you a video. I've not took one yet, but while you've been away, because the kids have been really good, well, I say really good. For about three days, Tiago was perfect and then he went back to being a menace. My mum said he was naughty last night. He wouldn't get in the bath. She kept trying to sit him down in the bath, but he kept putting his hands behind his head doing this

when she was trying to wash him. The hips with her out. Show your hips. Yeah. But I got me here a proper netball, like an actual game netball for her to practice with. And I got Tiago some Hulk hands, so a massive green kind of rubber hands

that he smashes with. Is he plodding everything with that? Yeah. Yeah. Probably he will be twatting everything and everywhere. Yeah. But because they're like rubber. They're not like danger.

Yeah. I don't think. I mean, I won't want to get smacked by them. But before we go on, we've kind of digress because we genuinely are catching up. Normally on FaceTime, we have like 10 minutes and then the kids running or I have to go to work or whatever. But we will go on to our dilemmas and stuff,

but before we do, we've had some really lovely messages from our listeners. Yeah, I saw them. Should read them? Yeah, do you want to read one, then I'll read one. For those who are just catching up on the podcast, this is regarding a conversation that Gemma and I had a few podcasts ago about being breakfast, lunch and dinner or in the north breakfast, dinner and tea. Yeah. So we have a misunderstood lost in translation. So Angelique or Angelica, because she lives in Gibraltar.

Gibraltar. That's where Tulans from. Yeah. So Gibraltar. I am from Gibraltar, which is a British colony, and we use breakfast, lunch and dinner. The tea is known as a high tea, which is just an English thing, but we don't use it in Gibraltar. We have lunch ladies in school. We also follow some Spanish traditions.

Yes, because you are in Spain mainland. As we share a border with Spain, we speak both languages, but we are British. Oh, okay. She said, I love hearing Gorka speak Spanish, and I follow him. on Strictly as well as being a judge in Bilando. Gorka shows such professionalism and gives the show another dimension.

I love the podcast too and follow it religiously. Well done, guys. Oh, that's lovely message. Hopefully one day I'll look down on strictly too. Give some criticism that are good. But I like that, Angelique said that because when I watch you as a judge in Spain, obviously it's in Spanish.

So whenever you do your judging, which obviously will be later on, me and me are watched the day after. online and we always go, oh, Papa was angry then. Papa was happy with that one, even though we can't work out what you're saying. But how nice of her to say you're very professional as a judge? Very kind. Thank you. Thank you, Angelica. I really appreciate that.

Muches gracias. Have you ever been to Gibraltar? Yes, I flew there. We went there? No, I'm not with you. Oh, I think that must have been your other partner. No. It was when I went with Karen for the Cruci for Strictly Cruces.

Yes. No, we went to Gibraltar. Me and my friend Carly. Me and Carly went and we got a boat to Gozo. Is that right? It's not that big. It's just literally just like a block of. Yeah, but we went to, and we went to the, they call it the leper island

where they all had leprosy and died, bless them. It was awful. But we went there. Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Because they used to send them there to die. Yeah, it was awful. Gibraltar is the one that has a massive rock and it's full of monkeys and they take your foot. Yes, yeah.

Yeah, this is from Becky in Cornwall. She says, hi, Gemma Rungoka. I've just listened to your podcast whilst on a walk in my hometown in North Cornwall. I was chuckling away as my family always have the meal name debate. My Cornish dad and his family say breakfast, dinner and tea. And my mum, who came from London, used to say breakfast, lunch and dinner. I've come to the conclusion that a hot meal at midday or in the evening is dinner and a cold meal, such as a sandwich, is lunch or tea.

I love listening to your pod when I'm out walking my dog, honey, and I always end up chuckling to myself. Here's a picture of my beautiful pooch enjoying an evening stroll in our hometown. Sorry to, sorry forgot to add my name like I'm messaging my mates. I'm Becky, and I'm from Bood in North Cornwall. Oh, I love Cornwall, you know. Oh, it's beautiful, isn't it? Look at the sunset. Look at the little dog.

Last year, I went to Trudeau, which is in Cornwall also. Yeah. I have to do it. It was when, remember when we were training for the run in Manchester, the greatest Manchester run, not run. So I have to do my long run there. And I left the hotel. And I go, oh, I'm going to run to the beach and then back a taxi, yeah?

You run, you run very further. Yes, but the run, I run the last, I did 21 kilometers in 2019. But the last two, I did it on the sun in the beach. But the beach that I went to see the sunset, it was incredible. It was just like, you know, when you feel like, it's just like raw. There was nothing. He was just sun and sea

with huge cliffs and then it was just a little bar on the beach. People was watching the sunset there. The only problem, I didn't manage to get a taxi. So thank goodness. I made a joke. I was like, hey guys, no one can drive me back. I will give you tickets for the show.

And someone said like, so sorry to bother you. We're massive fans. We really don't want you to think we are being creep. But we will love you to drive you back. We're here with the family. Did they drive you back? This lovely man with his wife and his teenager kids, yeah, it was a girl and a boy, they drove me back from the beach to the hotel.

It was 20 miles, 20 kilometers. So imagine if I didn't have how to get back. So they drove me and I got them tickets to watch the show. And they were so kind. The husband was like, sorry, I don't want you to think that I'm being a creepy man, but we listen to you and we know who you are. We'll be happy to drive you back. And I was so thankful because I was calling.

Because I was calling to the taxis and in Trudeau, there is no Uber or anything like that. No. So I was calling to the taxi. You're right for running so far. That's why you shouldn't run more than 5K. And I was calling the taxi company. But there was like of service. They didn't have taxi.

So I was like, I'm going to be stuck in this beach now. Stuck in what? Maybe don't say that. That sounds very bad. I'm going to be stuck in this place. That was lost in translation. Stuck on this beach. Me like the beach.

Yeah. Yes, but it sounds like you say something else. But thank you for your message, Becky. Maybe I was going to stag in that place. Thank you, Becky. And that dog, look how happy that dog is in the sunset. It's smiling away. What a lovely life you have down there.

And we've had another message from Divinia. This is in response to carrying a wedding dress abroad in case you have a wedding in Spain. It says, Gemma and Gorks, it's easy to carry wedding dresses abroad. My son and daughter-in-law got married in roads three years ago. It was beautiful. Amazing weather, amazing venue. Couldn't have been more helpful and a dress went on the plane. All boxed up and looked amazing on the day. Any more thoughts on

the wedding? Someone actually messaged us and said, because we were, we said in one episode of this pod, I'd found somewhere in North Yorkshire, you'd found somewhere. And then the one after, we were joking that we're not even going to get married because we were getting on each other's fits. And someone messes and said, mate, what is it? Are you getting married or not? Like people need to know what is banter and what is sarcasm, you know? Yeah. Like we are getting married. We will get married.

But the other day we were doing the podcast where people was asking us questions. And we were just like joking about it. We're like, well, I'm definitely not getting married. Do you mean, it's just people banter. And then you, you know what? It's annoying. It's annoying them. Obviously, we're grateful that everybody listens to the podcast and everybody

listened to us. But then you wake up the next day with messages of family being like, oh my goodness, I saw this on the papers. Are you not getting married? What's happening? What is this? And I was like, oh gosh. Do you know what it is?

It's because the media takes snippets of anything. So they take snippets of this pod, which is great for us. Do you what I mean? It gets more listeners. So thank you, media, even though some of it's been snide on me. Never snide on you. It's always me. But they take only a snippet of it and people then read or watch that snippet

without the context before or after it. So there was a bit they used where a listener asked him would we get married and I said, I ain't ever marrying him. But it was because we were having jokes and banter about it beforehand. So if you'd listen to the pod, you'd get that. But the article was, Gemma, I'm never marrying Gorka. So then which people message me saying, he doesn't deserve you. You're so cold.

You're so nasty. And it's like, no, listen to the full episode and you get why. But to be honest, you're not nasty, but you're cold. Oh, I am cold. It was cold as ice. Look at me. I'm dressed as Mr. Frost. But right, thank you. Another message. Next one. You read the next one on Charlie on WhatsApp. Hi, guys. Just want to say, loving the podcast. Thank you very much, Charlie. It cracks me up as reminds me of me and my partner. I am a Brit and Jorge comes from Malaga.

So it's the call like me, Jorge. Hey, hi-five. And your best friend, Jorge? Yes, we are constantly lost in translation with Jorge's straight face. Blanness being, no, can you read me that, Gemma? Bluntness, so he's saying he's bluntless being a highlight, so he's very blunt. Like me, yeah. And he's saying it must be a Spanish trait. It is Charlie.

Also, Jorge is a total pain in the arts about how he likes his washing and clothes done. Are you sure it's not me? Gemma, did you say this? Are you sure Charlie's not you, Emma? No, this is definitely Charlie. Likes to think he's the Spanish Mario Kondo, who knew as Brits, did it so badly. See as he, chikos. What does that mean?

Keep going, keep doing this. Like, keep going the way you guys doing. To be honest, I understand Jorge, because we were talking yesterday about the washing. In fact, I was with Alexis and Julian, yeah? Yeah. And Alexis had to bring the washing to the venue. And I said to her, it's not a good venue to do the washing. And she was like, well, I need it. I need it done.

And I was like, I messers already me ahead of the thing. In the morning, I mess with Rachel, the wardrobe manager. And I was like, is it good for washing? And she was like, no, he are very bad. So I don't waste time. How can it be bad, though, in what aspect? Why is it bad? And like, because depends on the venues, they only have one washing, they have two

washings, you know what I mean? So when you go to a venue with one washing machine, it's difficult because they have to do costume washing so you won't have time. Right. Okay. Yeah, yeah. And also the washing machine was next to the catering so it smells of food. So you're washing your clothes at the same time they get in the smell. So there's a lot to think about when it comes

to washing your duds. Correct. So anyway, I said it's not the best place. Oh no, I'm just giving it to rob and they take it to the laundry place and they will pay for it. And Julian were like, oh, you can do it in my house when we go to London on Thursday. You know, you can get into my apartment and wash it there. And she was like, no, it's fine. I just get it done. And I was like, it's fine.

And I was like, oof, I would let no one wash my clothes. And she was like, oh, it's fine. It's just like, you know, like normal rehearse clothes, nothing important. I was like, nah. I just, I don't like people washing my clothes. And Julian went like, I don't even know where to start washing my clothes. And I was like, well, then he said, oh, I will bring my ones to Manchester so Gem can wash them.

And I was like, well, good luck with that. Maybe you're going to have no clothes then. See, for me, as long as they've got no visual stains, I can just mask with perfume. That's what I'm like with... No visual stains. Gemma, you're the queen of stains. You put a jumper within five minutes, you have stains.

You should be one wearing the beeps, not the kids. No, but I mean, like, if I was going out and like these trousers say, like if these don't get a visual stain today, I will wear them tomorrow or just spray them. Just spray around the crotch area. You're good to go. But for example, I will end up, if I give you, for me, it's like when I do the washing, I will have white socks. They will be purple because you will wash them with everything.

My socks are they? Look how clean they are. Which socks are they? Adidas. Look out, look at them. No, these are unique, the Unicuo, Uniclo, Quo. Uniclo. Uniclo. Unicolo. They're from Ryan. Oh, can I tell you, I did a shoot for this thing the other day, which I'm not supposed to say.

I nearly slipped up then and said what my photo shoot was for. but Ryan was on it and he told them in advance they were doing the prep and saying like as a stylish what do you need that this and that he told them he would bring

his he would bring his own hangars and they were like what and he said yeah I like my own hangars doll he said because certain hangers leave the clothes certain ways

and I went Ryan we're on about I said it's just a coat hanger and he went what he said it is not just no it's true he said it's basically

when it's like knitting jumpers, to be honest, you know how I said you in our wardrobe? I wanted to build some shells where it is the jumpers. It's because knitting jumpers, we shouldn't be hanging them because of the weight. And if the hanger is too thin, it leaves the dots. So then when you put it, you have like a little curve here on your shoulders. Yeah, he really said that he went, it is not just a hammer. He said different textures, different sizes, the clips. He went, I will bring my own hangers.

And then they said... suit trousers, for example, my dad had, sorry, my dad used to wear suits. He had this specific hangers for the suit trousers. They had a little dentin and a silicone elastic. So that when he hung the trousers, he put the silicone elastic over it, tight. And the trouser material doesn't sleep on the hanger. So they doesn't increase the moves on the hunger. Well, that's what he said.

And then they said to him, and socks, she just needs white socks. So we've got loads of them. And he went, no, doll. I only have Uniclo. Uniquo, whatever it's called and he went, oh right, and he said they're the best socks He went, you won't get a better sock And I said, Ryan, just buy a cheap sock

I will wear any sock and he just went No, doll, he went, not on my shoot, you won't So I've got them on now And to be honest Good, yeah I'm not going to lie, they're a bit big, look at them I mean, the heel rides up my heel So they're okay

The heel, he doesn't... Give you a pet and give the rest Yeah, they're okay But I didn't get the hype You know what I mean? Funny enough, yesterday Neil bought big packs of black and white soles from Unicola. Well, that's what Ryan wants and his own hangars. But thank you for getting in touch.

We really do appreciate it. Thank you. And, yeah, jokes aside, we do get so many lovely messages. The pod itself, the social media, we get them separately, individually. Even people coming up to us on the street talking about it. So thank you. Well, you know what, Gemma? Yeah.

Sorry to interrupt you. again for the ninth time, use that as cool. I'm snide on it. It's the distance because you know, it goes with the headphone, it goes delay. Yeah. Yeah. Many people, when I sign pictures at the end of the show

and the, you know, when I live in the stage door, everybody says, oh, love the podcast. You tune the podcasts are hilarious, keep doing the podcast, we love the podcast, I was Gemma. Yeah, everybody loves the podcast. That's nice. Well, if anyone does want to get in touch, I think we should go on tour. It's lost in translation at Bauer

Media.com.com. That's on the email. Or you can send us a WhatsApp. Morl will get it. It's 0276103-9898. You can send a voice note and we'll play that out. You can send us messages, whichever. And the social media is at lost.com.

We're nearly at 100,000 followers on that, by the way. Really? It's ridiculous. Yeah, in a good way. Amazing. But thank you. Should we move on to our dilemmas? But it's a bit of a twist this week.

Yes. So normally the dilemma is where we kind of explain what's annoyed each other about each other during the week, but we haven't been together. Gork has been on the road, I've been at home, so it's a little bit different this one. Rather than us talk about something that's annoyed us, Moll's done some little questions that we can answer about each other. Just two questions each, which we can answer about each other. So the first question is what's something that you've missed the most about me this week? Apart from piping, because obviously that's the obvious. I mean, you know what I mean?

He wouldn't. You know what I miss the most? What? The noise. The noise? The stamping, like the walking around. No, the noise. And let me explain that, not the noise that's in the noise, the comfort.

of, and you know when like, for example, like, I don't know, you go away, but then when you are home, you have the comfort and the peacefulness or like feeling like, like, as, like, at ease and relax. Yeah. And it's like, I may not be, I'm not glued to you, but if I am downstairs making something, the noise of you walking, the, you having a shower, just the comfort of like, I know she's there, that makes sense. Yeah, like the big. Yeah. Like the big. baby gate being open in the morning. Yeah, that's, that's, that's, do I mean? Like, that's what I mean.

Like, for example, like, let's say, for example, you miss, like, know that as much as you might annoy you, know that I'm there and I farted and it stinks. Yeah, just knowing that you're there. Yeah. The thing that I've missed about you is we've had, um, because we've got Joey and Bramble and Fuchsia, the horses, not our horses. Imagine, imagine, imagine we had three horses. They come right up to our fence

And because it's been really lovely spring nights It's been the lovely sunset The horses, I've been feeding them the apple Mia and Tiago have been running round barefoot She's been on a trampoline Benji's rolling on the grass And I've been sat there like with my dandelion tea Watching and I'm thinking

Oh the only thing missing now is that Papa's not here Do you know what I mean? I was like oh if he was here He'd be on the barbecue or it'd be you know doing whatever So I've missed you kind of like in the mundane, relaxed moment. Yeah, like the evening. Like we always say, our favorite time in the days when it's like 9 o'clock,

we are in bed, nice to each other with the book and me with my Spanish series. And it's dawned on me as well. I mean, not just now, it dawned on me about three years ago, that when you have their moments of being on your own, you think to yourself, even though someone can annoy you occasionally and still spend time apart, the alternative is this moment. moment on your own constantly, which I wouldn't, you wouldn't want, do you know what I mean? Yeah.

So, but the peacefulness, um, last weekend. Of me not been there. Yeah, it didn't last long. We had a massacre in the garden. This, but, and my uncle Clive was there who's vegan, which made this even worse. So we found a bird in the garden. Benji had it in his mouth. Benji dropped it.

I screamed. It got up, flew into our. wall and was flapping. I ran out and picked it up. I had hold of it. His heart was beating really, really quick. Anyway, it wasn't injured in any way. It was panting, panting, panting. I ended up, I asked Alexa what to do with it and it said put it in a box in a safe place. So I put it in a cardboard shoe box in a little towel and I put it in the corner of the gym outside the gym under the canopy because I thought if I put it in the gym, it could fly into the windows, the equipment. I kept checking on it every hour, literally kept checking.

on it. It was fine. Mia was beside herself. She was so upset at this little bird. And then it's awful and I shouldn't laugh because I'm obsessed with animals. We came back in the house and I just heard this and I thought, what's that? And I ran outside. Friggin magpies, three magpies on it. Literally. I ran over. Neck was like this. Blood everywhere. I had to mop the deck in. It was awful. Anyway, I went back on the security cameras to see what had actually happened. And this little bird. It had no chance. So basically on the camera outside the gym, it's dropped by another bird. So it's been taken from its nest, dropped on the decking, and it's on the decking of the gym for about eight minutes. I'm not even joking. It finally comes round, and as it starts walking,

Benji comes up, oh, what's this bird? He then grabs it in its mouth, brings it down to the grass area, lets it go, because I scream, then it flies into the wall, and then it gets a by magpies. So all of this happened in front of Mia, who's six. And actually, she wrote a letter, which again, I'm going to have to, I'm going to have to put up on the screen. My Uncle Clive, who's vegan, so he was so low for the whole afternoon. He was like mortified. But I don't know if you can see. We will pop this up. She wrote a letter and it says, hi, Bird, hope you are okay. We tried everything to help you. Bye. This was Mia. Gemma, T.O. and Clive, I love you. And she wrote that little letter for the bird. And we put it over the fence.

I was going to put it in the brown bin, but I thought that would be awful. So it went over the fence. And then a fox the night after came and got it. But yeah, that was the peaceful weekend for about 40 minutes was a severe massacre. Question two. Again, sorry, we keep digressing. What's something that's reminded. You reminded you of me this week? Many things. It reminded me of you. Toulin brought in some snacks to work the other day. And because we're training for our 10K,

you said, I'm going to bring in healthy snacks only. You normally brings in like Percy pigs, Jamie Dodgers and all that. He brought in some dips and he bought in some little Spanish teteers, little Spanish omelets. Like, for example, to me, was a video that I saw on Instagram,

you know, those reels, and then I send it to you. a coffee shop that I found, if I go to a coffee shop, if I go to a coffee, food, anything. So many things remind me of you. Food. Yeah, I will go like, oh, she will love this, like, coffee shop, or she would love this, like, breakfast that I had.

Or if I go, I don't know, if I say something close, she would like this, or she would be like, do not buy that. Well, when we drove, we went to my nieces the other day, she's heavily pregnant, my niece. And we drove up to hers, and it was the same motorway that we went to the lakes on. And I said to me, oh, that's tea-based. the services is where we start with Papa.

Yeah. Like, for example, before that, I was going to tell you when I was saying, like, so Lauren, she went to Birmingham yesterday because she lives, from here, I was not far, yeah? And she had to work. So she went to visit her mom and I stayed with a mom and come here. And I said, oh, do you live in the city? Like, in the center, she was like, no, I live like 20 minutes, but I might be going.

Why is like, well, if you go to the center, can you go to this coffee shop and bring me this? So she messes me this, boy, so I'm going. going to town, you want anything? So she went to the coffee show, the unit used to go on tour. Oh, crick.

And she's bringing me one of the pastries from there. Remember, they used to have them? Yeah, yeah. So there you go. You see, that's something that reminds me. Well, that was our dilemmas, that aren't dilemmas, but just really annoying because we're apart.

But we need to solve a listener dilemma, and it's a big one this week. So every week, we solve a dilemma. You send it us at Lost in Translation at bowermedia.com or your WhatsApp pulls on O'Dable 7-603-98998. And this week's dilemma comes from Lily. And she says, hi guys. First off, it's breakfast, dinner and tea.

Here, here, Lily. She says, I have a huge dilemma for you. I've been invited to a friend's wedding. We went to uni together and aren't super close, but are still good friends. I RSVPed a few months ago. A week ago, my best friend in the world just told me she's having her 30th birthday bash on the same day. I don't want to let both sides down

and the wedding is quite a trek away from the birthday party. What would I do in this situation? You always go with your best friend, Lily. Easy. You beth made 30th. The wedding, you don't know that well. You've not seen it for a while.

I'm so grateful to be invited. However, I've got a 30th birthday. I'm going to have to go on that one first. Yeah. And also, you say it's quite difficult to get to the wedding either, no? Yeah. No, it's a trek for the birthday party,

so she can't do both. That's what I mean. She's like far from each other. Yeah. She just go with the 30th. Yeah. If it's your best friend. Yeah.

It's your best friend. She said my best friend in the whole world. So yeah, that's a no-brainer. Now that you say that, Gemma, I go invited to my friend's 40th. When? It's in Spain. Okay. It's not clashing with our wedding, so.

You're not really Are you trying to compete with Lily? No, I'm just telling you so then Because you just said you go to your friends 30 Just so you know No, if it's your best friend I'm trying to think if Laura and at Vicky or Marissa

Had a big milestone birthday Or someone who I went to school with Was having a wedding It's an no-brainer You know what I mean? Of course, of course And weddings are a bit dull If it was just the night do

That's different Or you could go to the wedding in the day, but then say to her, I'm happy to watch your nuptials. Nubtools, is that what you call them? But then I have to leave early because I'm at 30th. And she might say no. I will just go, sorry, I cannot make it. Probably they're not that close friends.

And so they might have paid for a meal. They might have done all that, Malak. I'm sure she will be able to cancel it, you know. Yeah. Yeah. It's a 30th, dirty 30. You can't miss a dirty 30 for your best mate just to go and see someone get married.

30th is a big number, you know? Yeah. It's a fab birthday, your 30th. Mind you, I only got a house party for my 30th. I got a chippy van to come and serve fishing chips on the drive. It was at Prospect. It was at our old house. Well, I say our old house.

I live there on my own then. But we got a chippy van, and you come and serve fishing chips, and then an ice cream van was on the drive. and we just had everyone in the house, it was brill. That's nice. My one was in lockdown during COVID, so... Yeah, I know.

But how funny, though, when I turned 30, so I was kind of, I was on me out, single, and I'd just got a part in Emmerdale, I think before or after it. And I remember a few people saying, oh, she's 13, she's still not settled, and da-da-da-da. And lo and behold, who knew that,

less than three years later, I'd be meeting you and having two children. And this part, do you know what I mean? The whole panic about being not settled at 30 was ridiculous. And I used to be like, I don't need to settle. What are you about? I'm fine. Well, to be honest, I feel like now 40 is the new 30s.

Yeah. 40 is still young. Yeah. That's what I mean. But no, but I feel like now, when you are 40 now, it's like when you were 30 before. That makes sense? Yeah, for example, like now, if someone says to you,

I'm on my 70s, is like you're on your 60s now. When you get to the 60s, when you start to like near retirement and you start to enjoy life because you have not to work anymore, you can go on holidays. I feel like people now are 70s

still having the energy and the quality health to live like on the 60s back to like 20 years ago. Yeah, look at my mom and Peter. My mom and Peter are mid-70s. Peter last night was on all fours being twatted by Hulk gloves.

Like loving his loving life. Do you know what I mean? He was, he was literally crawling around. So, yeah, I would be honest, Lily, and just say, you're really grateful for the invitation. I'm sorry I R-SvP'd. In between that, my best friends having a 30th. And my loyalty is obviously with her,

but I hope you have a fabulous wedding. Send her a little Amazon voucher or put some up towards the honeymoon. Bob's your uncle. Go and enjoy the 30th. That's my advice. I agree with you, Gemma. Thank you for your message. And thanks for listening.

Should we play a game? Game time. So the game this week, so you know Gorka that, I'm very much into crystals and, you know, energies, star signs, Buddhism, karma, all of that. So I thought we will match the traits of the star sign of myself and you. You're a Virgo, I'm a Scorpio. And see which star sign relates to us the most. Okay.

I mean, I'm sure Virgo relates a lot to me. Virgo? I'm like 90% Virgo. We'll do five traits each, right? And you have to guess, well, not guess, say which one match the best. So the first one is it's intense emotions, but rarely shows them. Is that a Virgo, would you say, or a Scorpio? That's a Scorpio.

As if you said it with a sigh. So that you're saying basically that's me. Yeah, every day of the week. Intense emotions, but rarely shows them. That is true. And they say Scorpio's are very hard to read. We have a very good poker face. Like, I could know, I don't, by the way, for anyone who takes this out of context,

but I could know something that you've done that's really annoyed, and I could be going, are you? So when you come home later, we'll do this, this and this. And in my mind, I'm thinking, I'm going to ask you. So do I? I will say you're just a good actress. Yeah, Scorpio. next one loves orders lists and structure

Virgo That's definitely you That is a hundred percent you isn't it You love a list He even writes a shopping list Corker When we go to the shell garage or anything If we need food

If you go Tesco You writes a paper list Rather than just tries to try it in his head Very loyal But slow to trust I would say both of us but I would say Virgo No, that's a Scorpio

Scorpio is the most loyal sign of the Zodiac They're very loyal They're very understanding in times of trouble But they're also Once you cross a Scorpio They can cut you off like that They don't need time to think about it I know that

Oh yeah Well it happened once didn't it Yes yeah You thought something And then you just like block me off And I was just getting on the train to go home Gorka was surprising me When we first got together

so he was coming up to my house to surprise me and I was ringing him and he kept cutting the phone off because he didn't want me to know he was on the train with like a lovely bouquet of flowers and all this stuff and then I facetimed him and I could hear people in the background because he was on a train

but he told me it was nothing it was a signal and he was going on and on for so long and we were still at that are we out we staged being together we hadn't had the chat had we and in the end I just thought this is bullshit I'm I'm too old for this I ain't messing around so I blocked him instantly

blocked his number and thought oh whatever I'm not asked and about two hours later I had a knock at the door and I went to the bedroom window and looked down and he went hello some flowers at the doorstep and he was on the train from London to Manchester but in my mind he was done I was going to just go out with the girls but god bless you thank goodness you knocked on and the last one is notice his tiny details that others miss. Virgo. Yes. That's like with your washing.

Poor Alexis, trying to just wash her clothes, but she can't because it'll smell of catering. And the, oh, just one more, sorry, one more. Traits of this star sign is they're extremely hard on themselves. Virgo. Yeah, again, that's you. You'll do an amazing show and I'll go, oh my God, that looked amazing.

You'll go, oh, I was okay. I'd be like, what? We are very perfectionist. Yeah, very perfectionist. I'm going to read this one there for you. Yeah. How you spell this world? Grudges.

Holds grudges. Holds grudges but calls it remembering facts. That's a Scorpio, I think. Okay, I don't know, is it? Yeah, we hold grudges and it's annoying because, no, I wouldn't say hold grudges. We never forget. Yeah. That's the scorpio.

We will never ever. ever forget how you made us feel. No, neither I. I'm a virgo. So, yeah. Scorpio. Act calm, but internally, is spiraling.

Scorpio. Fix problems instead of ignoring them. That's a Virgo. Yeah. Magnetic, slightly intimidating presence.

Scorpio. Easy, Scorpio. Protective of people they love Scorpio. Yeah, very much of Scores. Or just Gemma in general. So yeah, that's the ones. I said the other week, I'd go to war for my sister.

And I would for you, for the kids, for anyone. I'll be that mom fighting teenagers in me as high school if I need to be. I like when you know what, for example, when you go to, if you go in Google and put like, for example, define Virgo, define Scorpio, I love how they put it up. when you read it, I'm reading and I'm like, yeah, that's me, yeah, that's me, yeah, yeah. I'm saying star signs are such a real thing. It's such... But it changed, from male to female, it changed.

Yeah, but it's such a significant thing, your time and your time of birth and how the alignment was and this and that, it genuinely is. Because there's also another thing that you can be a Virgo, a Scorpio, but then it's also depends on the moon that you were born into, no? Yeah, well, you're rising star, so you have your star sign, your rising sign, there's loads. The girl's got me a book for my 40s, didn't he? It's about that thick. It's about shoebox thick, and it's all about what time you were born,

what phase the moon was in, what month it was, the numerology of it all. It's really interesting. Yeah, yeah. Well, that was fun to know that we are this, yeah? You've got to check out of your hotel, and I've got to go and do the radio. Oh, wait, let me see if they want to come and say hello. Oh, you've got people there?

Not yet, but I can ask them if they want to come and say hello. Your fellow castmate? Julian. Julian. King Julian from Madagascar. We had a night out with the Strictly lot after the live tour, and I was swirled and I kept calling him King Julian. And in the end, he just went with it.

And he kept calling himself King Julian. Let me check. If no, I said, no worries. I said, if you're free coming quickly, they're not in my stress. They're probably trying to check out and stuff, aren't they? No, I was going to go for a coffee. and get flowers for his for Sophia because his girl fiance arrives today from Australia. Oh, that'd be nice. How long is he not seen her for?

Well, he came two weeks before the tour starts, so mid-March. Is she working there or does she live there? They both live in Australia, but now she's moving here. They just ran an apartment in London, so she stays here now, yeah. Oh, wow, so they've literally relocated their life strictly. Yeah, yeah, they're just ship in the boxes and everything. everything from Australia to here. She's from Colombia.

Is she Colombian? Yeah, Sophia, yeah. Sophia from Colombia. And King Julian from down under. She fly 20-something hours from Melbourne to Hong Kong, Hong Kong to London. I bet she feels like shite and he's going to want to pipe in here because he's not seen her. I bet she thinks absolutely not. Probably, and that's probably what we happen. Probably no.

I know. I bet she thinks I'm too jet lag. Leave me being King Julia. or be devastating. The other day, he was so funny, because we were talking about the dishes. We went for a coffee and then he was like, I need to go and shave. And I was like, yeah. And I was, oh, you look short.

No, no, no, no. From my neck down, you know. It's been six weeks and it's shave. Oh, I love that he's grooming himself for her. He's getting himself all prepped. Oh, so guys do that as well. Yeah. Oh, that's nice, actually.

It's a nice gesture. It's the least you can do. I'll tell him. Okay. Well, I think we're going to have to wrap it up. And if they're there, another time, we'll have to see him. Yeah, that's okay. Next time.

Next time. We'll tell him to enjoy his Colombian, Sophia, and not the coffee. Hey, you should say to him, enjoy that Colombian. And I don't mean the coffee. And I'll see you. Well, I see you next Tuesday. Oh, yeah, next Tuesday, yeah. You're coming to the show on Tuesday?

Yeah, I'm in London. No, I'm in London next week. It's the week after. Oh, yeah. else was a year, a week after year. Another two weeks, freaking hell. But I call you, I go FaceTime you in an hour. Yeah, I know, I know.

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