The Phonebox Podcast With Emma Conway - Jayde Adams & Carragon Guest: Take That, Buffy & Girl Bands

Episode Date: June 19, 2023

Who can sing Never Ever at the drop of a hat? Jayde Adams (SHE IS A COMEDIAN) that's who! And who inexplicably wore hat when she was a teen? Carragon Guest! Who both join me on The Phonebox Podcast this week to chat all about the fab brand new Take That movie they star in 'Greatest Days'. Greatest Days is released in cinemas in the UK and Ireland Friday 16th June 2023, and coming to Amazon Prime at a later date!For more of me follow @brummymummyof2 on Instagram, YouTube, Facebook and TikTok and follow the all new @phoneboxpodcast account on InstagramIf you have any guest suggestions or topics you would like me to cover email [e-mail] and be sure to tag so I can see where you are listening!Editing by Soundtruism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

hello and welcome back to another episode of the phone box podcast with me emma conway how the devil are you it is buggy oh my gosh it's muggy it's muggy in my house it's raining outside i'm in my pajamas it's four o'clock but i needed all my bits to breathe i needed all my bits to breathe make sure you stop what you're doing take a picture where you're listening and show me where you are listening you're in your pajamas are you going for a run in the rain are you cleaning out your pants drawers are you with a toddler are you on the bus to college I want to see definitely go and follow the phone box podcast on instagram because we do all sorts of polls trying to find out the best girl bands talking of girl bands do in this episode i sing the beginning of never ever yeah

can i promise i won't do it again in the future no if somebody came up to me and said oh my gosh emma we're in a real dilemma nicola and natalie cannot perform tonight can you and your sister hop on and do the beginning of never ever i'll be like yes a few questions that i need to know how you could ever i could do it i'd be there i'd be part of all saints and i'd be great so yeah i do sing it in this week's episode i have jade and carrigan from greatest days which is a brand new movie set to the music by the phenomenal take that who i think won the 90s boy band in the poll it is not about take that so it's not like in 1970 a boy was bought it's not like that no it's set in the 90s about a teenage group of girls and in present day and kind of they're all going off to see a boy band that is reunioning oh my my gosh, reunioning is not a word.

Stage in a reunion? My perimenopause brain cannot think. Let me know what the word should be. But it is really, really great. I watched it twice. I cried twice. I went to the premiere and it was fab. And this episode was actually, I think it was the first in-live podcast that I've done.

And it was at a press junket on an instagram you all said i looked like i was hugh grant when he went to the press junket in nightingale and i was like you're not wrong so enjoy this podcast it's really really funny and make sure if you're on spotify i'll put some sort of poll up so definitely join in that and i will see you at the end for a chat jade and Kerrigan, thanks so much for coming on the Phone Box podcast. Thank you for having us on the Phone Box podcast. I am so thrilled. I saw the film on Friday with my husband. Sobbed.

I full sobbed. He had his little arm around me, very confused as why I was crying. You put my life on a big screen. Because when I was 14, that was my life. That was me with my friends following tape. And it was just absolute joy. Was it as joyous to make? It was gorgeous.

It was very fun. Hard work. Oh, yeah, I can imagine. Making a film ain't easy, babe. Well, I mean, I can't imagine. In Birmingham, not many films are being made, to be honest. Oh, Clitheroe. Clitheroe?

That's where it was. It was in Lancashire. Oh, so it's in Lancashire. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, in Lancashire. Yeah. Yeah, I mean, I hope I wasn't doing a Brummie accent, but who knows? I'm the Brummie accent. I'm the Brummie accent.

Do I get into a Brummie accent? All right. That's what I would do. All right. All right. All right, Bab. All right, Bab. All right, Bab.

My grandad was from Birmingham. Oh, really? Where was he from? Oh, God, I don't know. Somewhere. We'll say Sutton, that's posh. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sutton or Solihull, that's the posh places.

I just loved the film. It made me cry. I just loved seeing the songs. I loved just reminiscing about it with my friends. Was it hard to learn the dance routines and the songs and everything? I did none of those. That's over to you, Kerrigan. You did.

You did it at the end. It was like a big finale! That ain't dancing! You were kicking your leg! You lot think that is dancing, I was walking down the street. That's my kind of dancing, just a little bit of a jovial musical. Some people probably struggled with it, so. It looked phenomenal, but was it really good learning all the songs and everything? Yeah, I loved it. So I come from a musical theatre background, so I've grown up doing all styles of dance and singing. So for me, this was the perfect job, getting to work with, I was saying earlier, getting to work with Drew McHoney.

He's a musical theatre dance god. And just everyone involved in the process, it was just incredible. And me and Mervyn, one of the boy band members, we went to college together, so big full circle moment for us, and when we do the dancing in Could It Be Magic, it's me and him doing the partner work. So it was like a really like, it was so beautiful. It was like just perfect.

That is, oh my gosh, it's like 14 year old me could not imagine 45 year old me being at a take that, like this is is just like, it's like, just blows your mind, doesn't it? We asked a few questions on the podcast, so I'm going to kind of ask you those as well. When you were 14, can you recall what year it was? Can you work back when, when you were 14? Yes, 1998. So your full 90s, when were you? 2014. Okay, so there's a little bit of difference.

What were your bedrooms like? What did you have on the walls? Buffy. Buffy. Big Buffy fan. Massive. Did you have any pop bands? Nothing that even held a candle to my love of Buffy. I was more into,

oh, I really love, I mean, I wasn't a fanatic, but I loved Spice Girls and I loved All Saints. Oh, I love All Saints. Can you remember never ever? A few questions that I need to know. Ooh, how you could ever hurt me so. Ooh, I need to know

what I've done wrong. Ooh, or how long it's been going on. Come on, Caroline, you go. I don't know it! I'm doing the... Profession. Not only will your answers keep me sane, but I know never to make the same mistake again. You can tell me to my face, or even down the phone.

You can write it in a letter. Either way I have to know. How have I never heard of these? You need to see. You don't know All Saints? No! That is in us. It's just if any point if anybody stopped me and said do it I'd do it.

You love All Saints. I love Spice Girls. They were like. Yeah they're the best Spice Girls. Yeah you need to have a little bit of All Saints. The beach and everything. Oh, it was absolutely... So, Buffy, did you like the original Buffy film? Okay, sorry.

It's like just a hard pass. It's a hard pass. But it had Luke Perry in it. Who cares? Okay, no. It was just Sarah Michelle Gellar. What was the man called? What's the older man?

Giles, Anthony Stewart. Oh, yeah, okay. So, that's it. Ask me any questions. Go on. What was the baddie called? In which series? Was there more than one?

Who's the one with the blonde hair? Spike. Spike, okay. So I shall never mention the Luke Perry version. Who cares about that? It was about the seven years that Sarah Michelle Gellar and cast gave us. Seven years of some of the greatest character works anyone has ever seen in anything. Okay.

Don't at me. I won't. Okay. What did you have on your walls? Sorry. Well, no, I had, I was obsessed with like the vamps and like One Direction. East from Birmingham, Bradley. East from Birmingham. He used to fancy him a lot. Full circle, yeah. Wow, yeah. I had all their posters.

Yeah. Did you like one, too? Yeah, I did. Were you upset lot. Wow, yeah. I had all their posters. Did you like 1D? Yeah, I did. I saw them live. Did you? Which one was your one? I liked Harry. Of course you did. And him and Bradley look very similar.

If you've met my boyfriend, looks very similar. You've got little vibe babes. Oh, yeah. Cute boy. Pretty boy. I took my little girl to see Harry Styles the other week. Oh, I do want to go see. It was really for me.

It was like, come on, Erin. I'm like, yeah. It's fun. He has really fun songs. They pass me by. I probably wouldn't be... If I was stood next to one of them in a supermarket, I wouldn't recognise them.

Not even Harry? I'd recognise Harry, yeah. He's been shoved down our throats a bit. Not a vain. He seems lovely, though. He's lovely. And everyone I know who's met him, who knows him, he said he's really nice.

Oh, well that's nice to know. But the 1D fans are going to come for me now, aren't they? No, they won't. I've upset fandoms. Why? Who? I'm an Indian. Who have you upset? Apart from the Luke Perry, Buffy fans?

I can't talk about it because they'll come for me again. But basically I upset a specific girl group and it's all in my Amazon Prime special. No, you can't guess because I'm not saying it because I'll come again. I was just going to go through all the... I spent three days... Some of those days

dealt with death threats, babes. It got that intense. Fans are intense, aren't they? If you want to see the story, Amazon Prime, Serious Black Jumper. I know what I'm going to do tomorrow. I'm going to watch it.

It'll tell you all about what happened. It was funny. And it's all like... It stopped after a while but it went on for a while. Yeah, fandoms are crazy. It was funny. And it's all like... It was funny. They stopped after a while, but it went on for a while. Yeah, fandoms are crazy. It's intense, isn't it? Yeah.

But take that, fans, though. We've met, and they're not like this. Oh, no, because we're older now, aren't we? Yeah. I mean, we would have been like that when we were 14. Wise women. If you'd have been like,

oh, I don't like Howard's hair, I'd have gone for you. Would you? Would you have gone for me? Perhaps not. Maybe not. Okay, so we've talked about your bedrooms. What kind of teenager were you? Would you have gone for me? Perhaps not. Maybe not. Okay, so we've talked about your bedrooms. What kind of teenager were you?

Were you cool? Were you not cool? Where were you? No, not cool. Not cool. Well, basically, I hung out with the wrong girls in year seven. Okay. They lit the school toilets on fire.

They then blamed me. My mum had to come in and fight my case. And she said, and I quote, our daughter is many things things but an arsonist she is not she looked me in the eye and she went did you do it and I said no and she trusted me because I don't lie to my mum yeah then I was on my own I had no friends and I was sat in the school playground sat with my little lunch on my knees and then these two nerds come over from the music room and they said you want to come and join us in the music room and they changed my life and I've

been I'm friends with I'm friends with them to this day. And they basically introduced me to playing piano and singing and theater and acting. Without them, I wouldn't be in this film. But it meant I was a nerd in the music room. But that's okay. That's the best place to be. I know, babe. I mean, hanging out with nerds are easier to dominate.

Yeah, I mean. Not the moral of the story. No. When my daughters listen to this, it's not the moral of the story. It's a joke. I'm a comedian, it's not the moral of the story. It's a joke. I'm a comedian, okay?

I'll put a little disclaimer. She's a comedian. Please put it in brackets. She says wild things. Take me the pinch of salt. Pinch of salt. I don't mean it. Okay, what kind of teen were you?

Oh, I don't know. Got bullied. One of them ones. What for? You're perfect. Because I used to stand up to people that bullied me. And then that caused more. You know what I mean?

What was that thing they went on? Obviously, mine was, you're fat. And I was like, yeah, tell me. Let's do a different tune, shall we, bruv? I'm on that one now. What was yours? There was one that I smelt of tomato soup. What?

That was a rumour. It's so weird. That was a rumour. That's so weird. Isn't that weird? Tomato soup. So people used to call me tomato soup. That was a rumour that went around. That's so weird. That was a rumour. That's so weird. Like, isn't that weird? Tomato soup. So like, people used to call me tomato soup. And I was like, I don't even eat tomato soup.

I don't even know, but I quite like tomato soup, to be honest. Yeah, but also like, what a weird thing. You're having to pick on me because of that. Oh yeah, that would be terrible. Like, what do you mean? When I was 10. Can I have a better insult?

When I was 10, I was called a jam tart and it was the worst thing anyone's ever said to me. Why is food like a bad thing to be called? Jam tart. If somebody called me a jam tart now, I'd be like, ooh, I'd be quite pleased. If a man went, oh, jam tart, I'd be like, ooh, that's nice. If I got cat called with that, I'd be like, get him out.

Walk straight over to him. Lads, just get it out now. You jam tart, put that away. Okay, so what kind of music? You're into the vamps. You're into Spice Girls. What other kind of music are you into? Ariana Grande, obsessed.

Yes. Marina and the Diamonds. Oh. But I love old stuff as well. Like I was saying, I love a bit of Carpenters. Yeah. Fleetwood Mac. Janis Joplin.

Yeah, just all very eclectic music taste. Yeah, I like that. What about you? Opera. Oh. And classical music alike. Musical theatre. Yeah, I like it. What about you? Opera. Oh! And classical music alike. Musical theatre. Yes, musical theatre.

Yeah, we're both into musical theatre. Something has changed within me. Something is not the same. Through with playing by the rules. Can I wait for Ariana Grande as Glinda and Cynthia Erivo? I hope she enunciates. Oh, I think she will. Yeah, rather than...

I think she's going to be incredible. She's got a lot to live up to, hasn't she, Ariana? Oh, but I feel like... Kristen Chenoweth. Yeah, she is phenomenal. But, like, I feel like them two are just going to be incredible. That movie is going to be... Yeah, my daughter loves Wicked.

It's a good one. I'm Kristen Chenoweth and Adil Dazam. Yeah. Those two, for me, I mean, they've got... That is some huge shoes to get into. Oh, God,, I mean, they've got, that is, that is some huge shoes to get into. Oh God,

yeah. It's going to be good though, isn't it? I do, I do love a bit of musical theatre. I was into that as well. Obviously,

I just loved Tate that and the boy bands and stuff like that. So, I had a Westlife moment. Did you? Yeah, I had a real,

Did you find any of them? Yeah, I call them the blonde one, the gay one. No, not Brian, no thanks. Kian. No, the other blonde one. Nicky.

Nicky. Nicky's a good one, yeah. Yeah, that one. Yeah, they had some great songs though. Me and my best friend Joe, we loved Westlife and Buffy together, so that kind of came side by side. Yeah. Did you fancy anybody in Buffy?

Yeah. Who? Spike? Everyone in Buffy. who Spike everyone in Buffy and Buffy I fancied everyone but mainly I mean at

the time I it was like 1998 so the option of fancying a multitude of people

and genders was well it wasn't something we were discussing so my love was David Burry

and as you played Angel or Anne Spike James Marsters and you were normally one or the other but also Angel left Buffy in series My love was David Boreanaz, who played Angel, Angelus. Oh, of course. Or Anne Spike, James Marsden. And you were normally one or the other, but also Angel left Buffy in Series 3 and went on to his own series. He had his own series.

It was great. It was really good. And then she ends up banging Spike for, like, a little while and stuff. It's so good, babes. You just watched Charmed. Is it as good as Charmed? Yeah, I watched Charmed. Yeah, I liked Charmed.

Who did you fancy when you were a teen? Ooh, can you remember? I used to love the Goonies, so I used to fancy... Sloth. Not Sloth! Yeah, really fast. No, the two brothers. So there was the older one who I was a bit like,

ooh, I fancy him. And then the younger one, I think he plays Mikey. Yeah, it's not Corey Haynes, it's a famous person, but I can't remember who they are. He's in Stranger Things and stuff now, and he's been in Lord the younger one, I think he plays Mikey. Yeah, it's not Corey Haynes, it's a famous person, but I can't remember who they are. He's in like Stranger Things and stuff now, and he's been in Lord of the Rings, I think. Yes, yes, yeah, yeah.

I can't remember what his name is. How is this? He plays Mikey in the Goonies. Yeah. Sean Astin. No, is that wrong? No, Samwise in Lord of the Rings, Sean Astin.

He's in Lord of the Rings. He's in Lord of the Rings. He doesn't play a hobbit though, does he? I think he does. I think he does, yeah. Oh, you mean Sam Astin? It might be, yeah. Oh, you mean Sam Aston? It might be, yeah.

Oh, yeah. Do you fancy Sam Aston? When he was younger. When I was about ten. Yeah, as a child, nine. Stranger Things, he died quite quick, didn't he? Yeah. And also, live-action Peter Pan.

Used to fancy him. That's cropped up on the podcast most of the time. No, not the hook. Live-action, like, Peter Pan. Because if we're going for a hook, I'm wondering about Rufio, babe. Rufio, Rufio, Rufio, RUFIO! Yeah and he had like big brown hair yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah. Hook was Robin Williams. Yeah. That was me with my Robin Williams impression.

International hand sign. Dustin Hoffman. Also cameo with Glenn Close. She plays the man who goes in the boob walk. Yes, she's in it isn't she she? Yeah. I saw that, yeah. She's got a beard on it. Like, you know, uncredited cameo. Ooh. We're talking about Fancy, and obviously I love, but Buffy, my love for Buffy isn't about Fancy and the boys. It's Fancy, it's all.

It was just, I loved the show. Yeah. If I were talking about Fancy and pure and adulterated, like, things I thought about when I was discovering things about myself, it was Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh, yeah, me too. And back then I was in things about myself. It was Leonardo DiCaprio. Oh yeah, me too. And back then I was in his age group for people he dates, so.

And now we are, I'm the mother of the person. You're still there. He'd love you. You're just, you've got a year. And then he's like, I think his new one's 19. No, it's Gigi Hadid.

No, it's Gigi Hadid. She's older. I thought he'd swapped to a different one. No, he's gone for a granny. Yeah. He's got Gigi Hadid. So were you Leonardo and Romeo and Juliet or Titanic or across the board? It was Romeo and Juliet first, so 1996.

Yeah. That came out. Yeah, 96. Titanic was 1997. Yeah. But yeah, it was Romeo and Juliet for sure. It's the floppy hair. But also, even before that, it was the floppy hair.

He was just so cute. Basketball Diaries, he was really fitting as well. There was another film called Eclipse where he's gay in it he was quite hot in that he was great in What's Eating Gilbert Great I mean I didn't fancy him in What's Eating Gilbert Great

because that was not appropriate Johnny Depp though Johnny Depp fit yeah fit I'd love and Juliette Lewis fit both of them

lovely that's a great film have you seen it I've seen clips of it you've got to watch it it'll make you cry it's really really I have seen clips of it before it is when we do it, it'll make you cry. Yeah, I've seen clips of it before.

It is, yeah. When we did the podcast, he always comes up. It's always the floppy hair people. And Jared Leto in My So-Called Life. Oh, really? He's also popular. Oh my god, he was fit too. Yeah.

So many fit people. I don't think who else I think was fit. It's the floppy hair. What did- Oh, Dylan O'Brien. Oh my god. Who's Dylan O'Brien? Who's that?

Dylan O'Brien, oh my god. He's from like he was in Teen Wolf I used to watch Teen Wolf Teen Wolf not Michael J Fox oh I need to Google him then

Dylan O'Brien very nice is he in the Maze Runner if you've seen that oh my god guys I've got a new one who else and this

I didn't know I could still have these feelings with someone I'll never meet in my life or maybe I will meet him but I aside from Jamie Dornan, who is just delicious, but I've got one who it was a recent thing

and the feelings I had when I watched him, me and my friend were like climbing up the sofa. Austin Butler in Elvis. Those lips. Yeah, to be fair. Again, floppy hair. Those lips. He is.

But he talks like that normally now doesn't he which I find a bit well he was like doing it for like two or three years wasn't he

let's not focus on his accent or any of the stuff that's coming out of his mouth he is a great actor and when he's acting I'm in

I don't care about interviews I'm sure you guys don't need to care about me being interviewed right now but I'm enjoying the podcast guys I'm enjoying the guys don't need to care about me being interviewed right now but Austin I'm enjoying the podcast

guys enjoying the podcast guys Austin Butler acting as Elvis babe I love a bit of that if he walked in now what would you do could you imagine

knock on the door sing for me next person coming in I'd want him to kiss me to that I can't help falling in love would you sit like that

and he just bends over in a little, like that, oh lovely. He'd try and he'd just keep singing. We could take in turns, we could just go around in a circle. I'd love a little bit of that bottom lip. Yeah, I don't, well we can manifest it, you never know. Look, I've manifested this career. Yeah. I'm in the take that movie because I said one day, I'm going to be in a movie one day. Do you know I walked past the Piccadilly sign with my mum when I was 18 and she reminded me of this recently. And I looked up to it and I said, I'll be up there one day, mum. And are you up there? I don't know if this went up there.

We'll say one day. And you went up there. I was on the billboard recently. There you go then. That's enough. That's the same, isn't it? It's on the motorway. I'm not even on the billboard and I'm like, look, it's me.

That is me. It is you, babe. It's me. We're the same person. and I'm like, look, it's me. That is me. It is you, babe. Oh, a little moment. We're the same person. Fashion faux pas in your teenage years, did you have any and what were they? Never had one.

You were stylish from day to day. I'm an absolute icon my whole life. No, no shell suits? Oh, yeah, I had a shell suit, but I think they're in. Yeah, I've got a shell suit now. Yeah. I should have kept mine. It's a good festival outfit when you're at a festival. I think the worst thing I ever did to myself

was think that fat people could only wear blouses and stuff that comes down from the boob down and covers all of your... Fat people think they just have to cover all of their rolls and stuff. And actually... You're a shrug. Did you wear little cardigans? Yeah, and little cardigans and a pillow to hide. I think that my biggest faux pas is thinking I wasn't beautiful.

Oh, Bab, you are beautiful, aren't you? I'm stunning. Yeah. We've had a few people on the podcast. Do you know Laura Adlington? She's like a plus size. She's on Bake Off. And she said it used to be really hard to get clothes back in the day.

But now it's much easier. It's not for red carpets, I'm telling you. It's ours. I've got an amazing stylist who has worked with me on this called Chris-Anne Palmer. He works with Daisy May Cooper as well. Oh, yeah. But he smashed it. Izzy Miyake has dressed me for the whole day today, which is incredible because it's the first time I've worn something that designer because they just don't do my

size but it's changing. It's so bizarre isn't it? I know. Start your own fashion design. You know when they do make our clothes, should I tell you when? When they are trying to bail themselves out of bankruptcy, they then bring out a curve line because they know everybody's gonna buy it yeah well Felicity Hayworth who's a friend of mine she plus-sized model she um she does all of she's done all this research got a book you should read it she's done all this research

into the fashion industry and why they won't close women like us it's changing babes it is slowly but surely red carpet looks like i'll be like jam tart if you hear jam tart it's me triggering i shan't mention tomato soup don't worry did you have any fashion faux pas when you were a teen oh you wore a lot of hats like not good hats though like a bowler hat i was like 14 bowler hat with like a blazer and a little skater skirt. It's terrible. Is it like Zoella era kind of? Yeah. Peter Pan collar.

Hi guys, welcome to my channel. Here is some moisturiser. Here's my bowler hat. Do you want to turn up to a 1D concert wearing a bowler hat? Please tell me you did that. What did I wear? I think you would have done... No, it's definitely like a flannel shirt with some other like top and leggings

with maybe like long is anyone else oh my god I had like the most horrific like my parting started there

and I had this side fringe and she'd walk around like doing that yeah terrible oh I'll tell you what I did do

I used to cut t-shirts up this was when I was going through my like skater into goth phase I used to work at this club a night called,

it was at the Beer Keller in Bristol and the night was called Fucked, spelled P-H-U-C-H-T. And I used to like cut up my t-shirts and then pin them

back together with safety pins. But I think that's cool. That is cool. I've definitely seen something like that on the high streets. You in your flannel shirt

and your bowler hat and leggings. That was the most at the time. If I showed you pictures shirt and your bowler hat and leggings. That was the most at the time. If I showed you pictures. What time? Hideous. 2014.

I remember 2014. Not how I remembered it. You weren't wearing a bowler hat in 2000. I was having babies and I didn't have a bowler hat. Oh my God, I had dip dyed hair.

Of course you did. Like not ombre hair. Not ombre. Straight up bleach blonde from there. Like hideous. I bet you looked great. Incredible.

I was wearing nude suits and winning comedy competitions in 2014. I was just having... We looked different. I was having children whipped out of my stomach. It was just... Did you wear sunroof? Twice, yeah.

Oh, babe. I wasn't even doing my GCSEs yet. Oh, gosh. I'm such a baby. You're not that much of a... Well, that actually leads... Old maiden now. That leads on to the next question. We're talking about social media. I grew up with

no social media. I presume you grew up with no social media. Do you think it's better to grow up with no social media or would you prefer to have grown up now? I don't think that there's... We can't live a life without it now. No, you're... But are you glad you were a teenager then or do you wish you were a teenager now? I feel like millennials are the luckiest of all. Do you? Yeah. See, I consider myself as a millennial because I'm like 2000s baby. Okay.

Even though it's not technically. But like I grew up, like the majority of my childhood was with no social media. Like I didn't get a phone until I was about 11 and it was a flip up Nokia. You know what I mean? So I feel like I was quite lucky to be in that period where we didn't really have social media. And like I could do my childhood part. Because it's really hard to navigate as a child, I think, nowadays. You've got no ways to know if you're using too much social media.

You're consuming it all the time. And how do you help yourself as a child? Because you don't know that it's a bad thing. I don't think our brains are supposed to put up with it. No. The people who invented it don't let their children on it. Which is wild, isn't it? Because it's so toxic.

It's not real a lot of the time. It's so difficult because I've got a 12-year-old. It's very difficult to be like, no. Because then she'd feel like ostracised from her friends. Friends as well, isn't it? You have to kind of like really monitor it. You have to turn it off at certain times. But it is.

It's so hard. It does worry me. I prefer growing up without social media because I wouldn't want my mistakes to be around people. I think that's a big thing as well. I was just before Strictly, I went through everything and got rid of everything. Yeah. I think me and Nandi did that one night.

We were like, should we just go through Facebook? And it was like, oh my God, like 2011 Facebook going with the bowler hats. Deleting all the bowler hat pictures. Bowler hats, flannel and leggings. Look, I feel like social media is probably one of the worst things

we did to ourselves yeah but I feel like the generations that are going to come are going to be really like bored of it and I think they're going to be

bored of the vanity I think we're heading into an era where people are just going to be sick and tired of staring at themselves sick and tired of thinking of me

me me me me all the time and how I fit into this and how I fit into that. I think the generation, my friends of mine are having babies now and these kids that are being born, I think they're going to be so different to anything we know. We're 20 to 30 years older than these children and I think that there, you know, like,

I think that there's going to be a... It won't last forever. I hope not. I think AI is about to take over anyway. Oh, that's terrifying. It's coming, babe. We can't stop it. The man invented it.

It's so terrifying. He said it's done. AI just is there. It should never have been put into, like, mainstream. Have you seen Terminator? No. Skynet, babes. It's terrifying, though, just the idea of it. Like, we don't know what we're playing with. It should never have been put into mainstream. Have you seen Terminator? No. Skynet, babes.

It's terrifying though, just the idea of it. We don't know what we're playing with. We are playing with fire. It only takes one thing for us to get in the way of something that AI needs to do and it'll just destroy us. But I am... Isn't it scary? It's terrifying. And everyone's just like, it's AI, it's great.

No! I'm officiating my friend's wedding soon. I do that quite a lot. I used to be a priest in an inflatable church at festivals. Long story. I've been to an inflatable church that you were a priest at. Oh, what? In Camp Festival.

I've been there. Babe, did I marry someone in front of you? I don't think, I don't, maybe. I went there a couple of times, yeah. Oh, is it? Yeah. Big inflatable church. You turn up at the wedding and you watch them get married

and there's like a DJ and stuff. I know that. It's really fun. So you officiate. But I'm officiating my friend's, why was I talking about this? AI. AI.

So I'm officiating my friend's wedding and I just wanted to have a little look at what the AI would do as a sermon. So I just wrote in like, Lizzie and Dickie are getting married. I want a sermon. I need to mention that they have known each other for 16 years but been together in the last three.

And then it started talking about all this stuff to do with when your love at first sight doesn't exist. And I was like, wow, this is really clever. It sort of conceptualised it. It learns, doesn't it? Yeah, it learns. It's really clever. I've nicked a few bits from it, lovely.

I hate AI, but I kind of love it as well. To be honest with you, AI won't affect my job because AI cannot be funnier than me because I am a human being that has had to live the experiences I have in order to make people relate. AI can't do that.

There's no way. No, it's not going to have a sense of humour. The last question. Oh, actually, I've got two. First of all, favourite take of that song, Go. Babe. The Flood. Oh, a good one. I'm going to say Sure. I've got two. First of all, favourite take of that song, go. Babe. The Flood.

Oh a good one. I'm going to say Sure. I like that one. And if you could go back in time and tell you when you were 14 something, and you when you were 14, what would you tell yourselves? Carry on girl, you're going to be in a movie. That's a really good one. You went a little bit American then as well. Carry on girl, you're going to be in a movie. On a wink. It was Bristolian but I'll take it. Carry on girl. I'm going to be in a movie. I'm going to be in a movie. On a wink.

It was Bristolian, but I'll take it. Carry on girl, you're going to be in a movie. What would you tell yourself? I think I'd just be like, accept all the bad days, because you need the bad for the good,

to appreciate the good. You know what I mean? Yeah, I love it. The hard times make you. You should write songs for Take That. I'm so wise, guys. I'm so wise guys I'm so wise thanks so much

for coming on the podcast it has been lovely to speak to you thank you for having us everybody go and see the film it is fantastic it will make you cry in a good way

yeah thank you so much thanks so much it's been a pleasure there we go I hope you enjoyed this week's podcast the film is

really really fun watch it with your girlfriends watch it with I don't know a big cup of tea and a big smile on your face it's got loads of great take that songs in and a really really fun plot that you can relate to if you kind of grew up in that era and if you did grow up in that era and you just like that take that songs it's just a fun it's just a fun film so thanks for listening to this week's podcast i would love it if you would leave me a five star review

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