The Rest Is Football: Daly Brightness - Winning The WSL, Toxic Traits & Celebrity Hunted

Episode Date: May 1, 2025

How was Millie feeling in the aftermath of Chelsea winning a sixth consecutive WSL title? What are Millie and Rach’s toxic traits? How would our pair get on if they had to go on the run from the police in Celebrity Hunted? Millie and Rach also have a huge difference of opinion on what the go-to curry order should be. For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to www.goalhanger.com  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Before we get into today's episode of Daily Brightness, we just want to say a huge thank you to Shaw for helping bring our podcast to life. Obviously, this is something that we've wanted to do for a while. Teaming up with Goldhanger was an absolute no-brainer for us. But I think it's more just probably to get our points out there. I think like before, Rach, it's about bringing Daily Brightness to life. And I think when we first invented it, if you like, it was all about communicating with each other, having that safe space to kind of be a little bit vulnerable and just showing our raw authentic selves and I think for us the podcast is that and that's why I think we're extremely grateful for sure to give us that opportunity and kind of bringing it to life and allowing us to now you know have it on a

wider spectrum and connecting with the fans again but also some of the things in the women's game that really need to be better and the problems and boundaries that we still face. And I think as players, current players as well, we can really touch on that and hopefully bring a little bit of attention. But ultimately it's just about sharing who we are as people. And yeah, like I said, we're really, really grateful

that Shora have given us this opportunity and supported us since day one. Obviously it's been amazing that Shora have backed us from the start and all the way through this now, but exciting to have them be alongside us for this exciting summer of football. And they'll be with us every step of the way. So we're grateful for them to be alongside us sharing this journey as well. So thanks again to Shore and thank you all for tuning in. Hello, everyone. It's Rach here. Just a quick message from me before we start today's episode. As you

may have seen, there was some pretty big news last night. That's right, Millie and her team, Chelsea, won the WSL for the sixth consecutive season. Wow, what a brilliant achievement. It was great to even be able to offer a little helping hand on that night as our

Villaside beat Arsenal 5-2 to give Chelsea the chance to clinch the title. Bestie, you're welcome. I had a quick FaceTime call with Millie after the game and she... I can't go into it yet. Maybe that'll be on a later episode, but she was over the moon. Absolutely delighted and it was a great little FaceTime call.

But make sure you're tuning in to next week's episode as we'll be having a proper catch-up about the whole night and hear it all about their celebrations as a team for now though here's this week's episode question and answer stay tuned and let's hear millie's ridiculous curry order Hey everyone, welcome to the Restless Football Daily Brightness. This is our Q&A episode. Thank you so much to everyone for sending your questions in. Me and Rach are absolutely loving them. Rach, do you want to kick us off? Yes, we've got the first question in here from Katie Wettenhall.

If you could swap a shirt with any WSL player, past or present, who would it be? I think that's a well good question. That is a good question. And do you want to know something? What? We've not swapped club shirts. No, we never have. So I think that would be my answer.

Well, then that's got to be my answer, hasn't it? We've done England. Yeah. I was thinking about this the other day. We've not actually swapped club shirts. Yeah, true. my answer well and that's got to be my answer on it we've done england yeah well that is i was thinking about this the other day we've not actually swapped club shirts yeah true i think it's because like it's just not really the done thing is it like after a game no like if we played each other on the last game of a season maybe we would have done it but that's something we definitely need to do okay moving on we've got h bradley would you rather oh love these ones Rachel would you rather go for a month without

brushing your hair or without brushing your teeth oh my god 100% brushing my hair I don't brush my hair anyway I barely brush my hair during the week you know me I just slap it straight up in a bun I brush it once after I've washed it and that's it exactly that is literally our routine but obviously you've got to brush your teeth i'm not doing that however i'm not coming away from that sorry furry tv you're mad no disgusting paid big money for these teeth i've got a protector however i what i will say is i would be looking like hagrid because my hair is a little bit wavy naturally and with the way i wear my hair can you imagine the state i'd look like a nest well yeah if you got wet i'd be worried about you not brushing it the birds would live in there

and the bees the bees and the ants yeah the bees the birds and the bees anyone else come on in oh god good question but yeah we are brushing our teeth just 100 100%. Good wood, do you rather though? I like them. Right, next one. We've got Claire Wharton. Have you got matching tattoos? If not, would you ever get one? 100%. We've got one.

We got these tattoos. It's actually quite cool, wasn't it? Because we were in the World Cup in Australia. It was sick. So sick. I think it was Will,

wasn't it? Was going to get a tattoo. Yeah. And we were like, we really need to get... Oh my God. We need to get a matching tattoo. Like, how have we not got one? I can't really remember how we came up with a half.

I know the reason behind it, but I don't know why, like what made us come up with it. We knew we wanted something small and something... Yeah, so for those of you that don't know, it is literally a half, one over two. And we have it the reverse way around, don't we? Yeah, so when we put it together, it's like perfectly. Like one and two.

Yeah, so mine faces me and yours faces away, doesn't it? So my one is on top of your two and vice versa. But yeah, we wanted something really like just small and cute. And we were like, how can it be like I'm half, you're half, but when we come together, we're a whole. And then we were like, bingo, let's get half. Right, next we've got Alexi Faith and it is, would you ever go on I'm a Celeb or Traitors in the Future?

I know what you're going to say immediately because there's one show we absolutely want to go on. Hunted. Get us on now. Get us on that, honestly. That is something that we would, I don't know why we absolutely want to go on. Hunted. Get us on now. Get us on that, honestly. That is something that we would... I don't know why we would want to do it because we'd be useless.

We've said it. We'd be useless though. No, we wouldn't. Literally. Millie, your voice carries across the M6 like... Listen, I can just... You can't hide. We would laugh.

You hear me. We would laugh. You hear us before you see us so I don't think we'd be any good at it but I think we'd give it a right good go

just like when you yawned in that sleep meeting traitors I don't like I love watching it I don't think I'd be very good at it

because I think if I'm not a traitor I'd be a bit bored and then you know what I'm like I'd give I'm a celeb a bash you know what I'm like

if I was a traitor I'd just be like Millie I'm a traitor like I couldn't keep it yeah I do I'm a celeb a bash you know what I'm like if I was a traitor I'd just be like Millie I'm a traitor like I couldn't keep it yeah I do I'm a celeb but I'd prefer to do 100 with us together

yeah it'd be good to do something together I think for sure I'm not doing it individually so it's not an option you'd be well good

at that SAS thing oh yeah you'd be well good at that yeah but we could both go on that Millie I can't even lift my phone up I'd be terrible

at that I'd be terrible at that I'd be terrible at that yeah alright I'd smash that but we want to go on hunted so shout out hunted get us on now there we go get us on good question right we've got some more would you rathers Millie

this one is Izzy Pearson would you rather never be able to speak to each other again or never play football that's horrible my answer's pretty straightforward

to be honest I'd rather never play football again sorry yeah that's a that's a dark one that is isn't it

do you know what maybe if I was like 10 years younger I'd what 10 years ago you would have I'm not having it.

So our friendship is defined by our age. I knew I was going to get you. No, I'd say the same. I know what you mean, because it's like probably back end of our careers now. No, but you're like a forever... Friends are like a forever thing, like your family. That's a forever thing. Yeah, football doesn't last forever.

It's a moment. it's part of your life it's not your life like you are my life like you're my family you know what I mean so it's easy easy answer for me

I love football but I love you more love that same that was cute from me really cute I'm really cute today really cute

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If you or someone you know has concerns about gambling, visit connexontario.ca. T's and Z's apply. Welcome back, guys. We are going to get straight back into the questions. So we've got Rach, Thea Davies, and her question is, what's your toxic trait?

I like this question. Sarah, Millie, you're probably going to say exactly the same thing so you might as well just both hit me with it i'll let sarah kick it off and i'll agree she said messy yeah you listen you're very you're a very hygienic clean person but you are very messy and i know that through rooming with you honestly we'd get there we'd get there on day one the case would be empty everything's everywhere like we've been here we've been here for two hours why is everything out the case

or we'd be leaving and she'd be like i'd be like ready to be packed oh no what am i doing i'm in your room sitting on the case because you've just stuffed it all in and we've got the zip bursting i am messy i agree like that's why it's a toxic trait if I denied it it wouldn't be real I am messy like it's not like I'm not like a hoarder or like I'm not people are going to think I'm like

I've got a problem but like if I have a shower and I've like just got my towel and I've dried off I'll throw that towel on the floor

and then I'll pick it up later but just for that moment I want it there if I take my clothes off and I'm going in the shower they'll be thrown on the floor maybe for a few days and I hope that someone will pick them up for me i think you forget sometimes as well like you're always you're always like where's my phone where's that that's

the thing it's not organized chaos though is it it's just mess like i just i need to be better i do need to be better but i am very very clean very very clean i can vouch for that yeah that's definitely my messy untidy. But it's weird because my car's not messy. Like certain areas of my life aren't messy. They're very, very neat and organized. But my day-to-day, like the clothes and stuff, like if I try a hoodie on.

It's all right. If I try a hoodie on or a t-shirt on, it's not working my outfit. It just gets done. I'm not hanging it back up. I ain't got time for that. Life's too short to stuff a mushroom, bestie. You need to be better at that.

I'll try. That's my New Year's resolution from April. Right. May. Start from May. What's yours? I know yours. I feel like I have two,

and I know one that annoys you immediately. When I'm on TikTok or zoned into my phone, I can't hear anything around me no don't exist when you get your phone out thank god you haven't got it on the podcast it'd be terrible show wouldn't it yeah millie this is your part speak no i just get so zoned in and i'm like i'm fully in to like watching whatever i'm doing or playing a game people talk to me and i'm like did you just say do you just talk to me you're talking to me I'm like oh sorry and they'll be like do you know what then annoys me they'll go off forget it that's what I do I won't repeat I'm like if you

didn't listen to me the first time yeah and I'd say my second one is I'm very very stubborn like if you piss me off you better believe I will move on from it when i want to move on from it i won't do anything if you tell me to do something i don't want to do it because you've annoyed me i won't do it i'm stubborn i've got my mother's genes to a t unlucky nicola she'll be feeling my nausea is that thanks mama b and my dad's stubborn i don't even know it's not just mom i've got it from both sides. I'm screwed. No wonder I'm pickled.

Muddled Millie. Oh, yeah, that's a good name, that. There you go. Good question, though. We probably delved into some real insecurities there, didn't we? Yeah, really good. This question, love this, because my favorite food is Indian food food so from danny lockwood what is your curry order millie go on really upset everyone with your my old choices i don't care judge me all you want i do not care i am plain jane vanilla i can't handle spice

and before anyone says you need to be consistent. You need to try it. You need to keep it in. I've tried. No, you could put pepper on your plate. You'd be like, it's too hot. It's too hot. Get it off my plate. I don't react well to spice.

I can't do it. I'm sweating. I don't enjoy my food. My lips are burning. I feel like they've swollen. It's just not fun. So I would either have, I actually can do a chicken tikka masala now. Oh, well done.

That's actually a big improvement for you. Applause, please. Well done for you. That's good. Or I do like butter chicken. Banging. You're going to be like, it's got no flavour.

Yeah, it just tastes like yoghurt. I love, so I'd either have one of those two, onion bhaji. Oh, delightful. Naan bread, 100%. And poppadoms and mango chutney nice that's my favorite that's my favorite part of an indian so i'd have yeah start away straight away i start with poppadoms shit loads of onions mango chutney me then yeah we're not going to agree on any of

this mango chutney yeah definitely um and then i will have right so i've got a few so i i love a jalfrezi i'd be straight to toilet sweating thinking about that i like a rogan josh and i like a dupia so i might have said that wrong but i do love that with pilau rice and a garlic naan and probably probably a pint of Cobra or Kingfisher. That sounds like hell to me. That is like my, honestly, I could have that. How would you do that spice? Does it not make your lips tingle? I was brought up on it though.

Like my dad always used to go to the Indian. We used to go like once a week. So I think it's just... My mum and dad don't do any spice. My dad will have barbecue fajitas and he'll be like, bloody hell, this is hot. What have you put on it?'ll be like, bloody hell, this is hot. What you put on it? I'm like,

this barbecue dad. But I will agree, sometimes those barbecue fajitas got a little kick to them. No, they haven't. Just a little one. They do. They really do.

Do you get peritoneum at Nando's? Absolutely. Oh my God. No shame. I don't care. Judge me all you want. This hurts my heart. But it's okay.

It's fine. It's fine. I can't do spice. It's fine. We've dealt with it for long enough, haven't we? So we'll deal with it a little bit longer. But you's okay. I can't do spice. It's fine, it's fine, it's fine. We've dealt with it for long enough, haven't we? So we'll deal with it a little bit longer. But you will try.

You actually are quite good at trying though. I do try, I just suffer. I think I'm a good tester for you because I'll know that if it's... I think I know pretty well if it's too hot for you. Like straight away, like when we're on camp and we have dinner, I'm like, oh, Millie, you're not going to like this.

Yeah, you're like, Millie, put that back. Put it back. Because it's literally got pepper on it. Screw you, bestie. Right, we've got time for one more question. Hit us with it. Yep. It is from Lucy and her question is,

this is a really, really nice one. What's your proudest memory of each other? That's so hard. There's so, so many. I think that's so hard there's so so many i think that's actually really really hard i've got two i've and i've got two because they're very different well i think my absolute like ultimate proud moment of you was when you got a captain's armband for england for the first time because i know for you that's like your biggest biggest greatest achievement in football was to lead your country out. And I think seeing you have that armband

and playing under you as a captain was a really proud moment for me. So I think that's probably... Thanks, Rach. Individually, the most proud moment I've had of you. That's really cute. I've got two. I'm going to be greedy.

I've got two. I've got millions, but I'm just going to go with that one. Yeah, but these are what popped in my head. My first one is when you won Golden Boot WSL because to do that after being out of the league for so long, you came back with such a bang. That ain't easy at all. Like, at all.

And I think everyone expects someone that plays for a team that's in first place or second place to win it. But you know what I mean? I think at that point, that season, I think you were like mid-table Villa and you won the Golden Boot. Like that is incredible. And you created goals out of nothing. So that was my first moment. I was like, that's my bestie.

Get in there, girl. And then my second one would be probably the toughest moment of your life and I scored for England and you scored for England and obviously that toughest moment is when you lost your dad and to come back and put the team first but then not only to do that to then perform and to. And I scored and you scored and I dedicated my goal for you. That was one of the proudest moments, like seeing you. I've not seen anyone do that ever. Like go through that, represent your country,

ball out on the pitch, score. Like we shared a moment that was like no one else can, they can never take that from us. I was like super super proud of you I'm about to cry right now to be honest but um holding back the tears let me compose myself sorry no it's fine didn't mean to make you cry bestie yeah I think that was like obviously it's been the hardest time of my life but I think to have you next to me doing that was and I wouldn't have been able to do it without you. No way. I would not have got through that camp.

And I think that is a true, like true example of like why we're so close because like, I just remember that game and you came up to me and kissed my wristband with my dad on it. And I was just like, yeah, this girl is, she's here for life.

So. Can't get rid of me. Cute, cute moment. Yeah. I think that's a lovely way to finish the q a mill so we'll leave this one there we'll be back next week and hope you all have an amazing weekend bye guys bye