The Tooney & Russo Show - Fan Q&A: Glastonbury Line-Ups & Sausage Fingers

Episode Date: June 16, 2025

Vick Hope's gathered the best (and weirdest) fan questions, and Ella Toone & Alessia Russo are answering them all!From choosing between sausage fingers or toes, to dream Glastonbury lineups, to the best compliment they’ve ever received on the pitch - nothing is off-limits.Tooney even finds the perfect excuse to debut her Cher impression, while tackling the challenge of finding positives in a London trip that isn't podcast-related or to see Alessia!Tune in for laughs, unexpected revelations, and plenty of Tooney & Russo chaos!

BBC Sounds music radio podcasts. I can pretend to be sure. You're good at that. I am, yeah. I can go into sure mode. Can you do one little? Go on, do you believe in life after love? Do you believe in life after love?

Woo! This is the person that says she doesn't want to be sent for attention. She doesn't like doing anything. Who am I trying to kid? Hello and welcome to the Toonie and Russo show with me, Nic Hope. I'm here with two of football's most famous friends, Alessia Russo and Ella Toon. Now this pod is an opportunity for me and you to get to know them a little bit better on and off the pitch. And last series we did an episode that was all questions from fans, from listeners and viewers of the podcast. And it was great because they were so random.

We covered everything from kitchen utensils to Bush tucker trials to your death row meal. It was all over the shop. Yeah, a bit of everything, weren't it? Juicy. Juicy. It was juicy. And we've got a good amount of insight, I felt. Win-win. We thought we'd do it again because whenever I put out an Instagram post or story or whatever saying that we're doing the podcast, I get so many questions, so many people who want to get their questions to you. So I've been collecting some. Can't wait.

I've had a little look over them, a little sneak peek. Right, you ready? You're in? Yeah. Let's go. Okay. This first one's from Dominique. Hit us. Hit me then, baby. I will. I'm going to hit you. You ready? Hit me then Vic. I'm going to hit you. You ready? Hit me then ****. Just to clarify, hit me then Vic. Obviously that'll be Kyle. Dominique

asks, I love collecting totes and reusable bags. I probably have about 70. Is there anything that you love to collect or have a lot of? I used to collect marbles. I used to collect bouncy balls and I used to collect rubbers. I used to collect bouncy balls. I used to collect Man United badges. Jesus, you're some collector.

I was the right old collector in my day. The list is still going. I did like to collect, I was a bit of a collectible. Go-goes, anyone play them? I used to love go-goes. They were like little mini plastic figures. You used to play flick them. Like a fog?

Maybe. I feel like I'm very old. I was quite, yeah, I was quite a collector when I was younger, you see. But now nothing. Shoes, probably. Yeah. Not by choice, but I have so many food bags when you go to the shop. Because every time I forget to take them.

So I've got hundreds of food bags at home. I have a lot of them. But that's not collectible. You've got a few mugs now. A few different kind of mugs. Yeah, no, not really collect anything now's like not collectible. You've got a few mugs now, a few different kind of mugs. Yeah, no, not really collect anything now. You are collectible. Oh my gosh, beautiful pebbles.

So whenever I'm on a beach, I don't know if this is actually illegal, but I can't help myself, shells and pebbles. And then when it's conker season, I can't help but pick them up and put them in my bag. Oh, conkers, yeah. Yeah, conkers. My husband's always like,

what are you gonna do with them? And so we've just got like rotting conkers around the house, lovely acorns, things like that. I just, I'm like a squirrel. I have to put them in my bag. Take them all home. Yeah, my mom used to do the same, she probably still does.

I think that's where I got it from. Maybe we can send Dominique a tote bag that we have. Oh yeah, I know. Where is it going? Oh yeah, I like what I like tote bag. Oh, I like what I like tote bag that we have. Oh yeah, I know. Where is it going? Oh yeah, I like what I like tote bag. Oh I like what I like tote bag, yeah. Yeah. That'll be good.

Well congratulations Dominique, you've just won yourself a tote bag. You've just won yourself a prize. Okay, Elise asks, what is your most useless secret talent that always comes in handy? I can make bubbles off my tongue and then they fly in the air. But not on cue. But why, how does that come in handy? It don't come in handy. I can make bubbles off my tongue and then they fly in the air.

But not on cue. But why the hell does that come in handy? It don't come in handy. That's the only talent I've got. And when you say not on cue, do you mean it just happens to you involuntarily? Well, there's a lot of cameras on me now, so I'm a bit under pressure,

so they keep popping in my mouth. Is it happening right now? No, maybe if you just carry on and they might pop them out. Take the spotlight away. Secret talent. I wish I could sing. Oh, that's really handy.

Oh my God. For anyone listening. I can make a sort of flower shell shape with my tongue. Now you might think that's genetic, like rolling the tongue, but it's not, that's muscle memory. I once saw someone do it and then I stood in front of a mirror like rolling the tongue, but it's not, that's muscle memory. I once saw someone do it, and then I stood in front of a mirror and folded my tongue into that shape

and then learned how it felt. Jesus, that's cool. Something to do. Yeah. What hidden talent does come in handy though? Do you know what I mean? What's an example? Being double jointed and scratching back.

Yeah. Something like that, yeah. Picking things up with your feet. Yeah, I could probably do that. Mary always says that. Can pick an apple up with her. Can she? An apple? Yeah. Wow, look at her toes. up with your feet. Yeah. Mary always says that. Can pick an apple up with her. Can she? An apple? Yeah. Wow, look at her toes. Not as long as two knees. I was going to say, yeah, you beat me to it. You pick an apple up with your feet? I don't

know if my toes are strong enough. They're not got the grip strength. Long but weak. Yeah. Mine could hook around my crooked toe. Yeah, less could get a toe rounded or waved. There's your hidden talent. Is it by Tripp? Oh God. Orla has asked, who would be your absolute dream two headliners for Glastonbury? And then also who would you put in the legend slot? Wow.

Or make your ideal lineup? Does legend spot mean that they've passed away? No, no, because how would they play? All right. They're not coming back from the dead. The legend slot, they have to be alive. The legend spot is an imagination spot. So a legend spot for me would be like Elton John. Yeah. Yeah. Although when he played, he just headlined it, but he is also a legend. So I think that's fine. All right. Maybe I'll put him in there then. Hey, did you see Natasha Beddingfield? Yeah, that was sick. Went in the changing rooms at Burnley and sang.

Unwritten. Yeah. That's just amazing. That would be sick. She's, for all of it, it's only a few songs. A legend, I would say. Yeah, that's a brother Daniel. Right, I'll go Elton John is my legend. Okay.

Yes. And my other two. Well, I love Coldplay. That was my favorite one ever. They've had like a lot, but they always do deliver. Yeah. And one of my other favorite ever ones that I've done is Westlife. Get them together again.

Reunite. Yeah, they were really good. I would say Luke Coombs, Morgan Wallen and Coldplay. Who's in the legend slot? Coldplay. Coldplay is a legends. Yeah. Interesting. I mean it's a quite country festival. If I could bring someone back I would say Whitney Houston. Yeah. Who would yours be? I'm still, I've been holding out. We've been promised Rihanna for how many years now? Yeah. I love Rihanna.

And she, it keeps not happening, you know, because it's on her terms. She doesn't want to. Yeah. She's got her makeup. She's got her babies. Yeah. She's pregnant isn't she? Yeah.

Just what she wants to do. And I respect that. I love Rihanna, but I would like to see her play. Like I would like that to happen eventually. The year Beyonce played was insane. I've watched that so many times on YouTube and her Coachella performance. So I think she puts on a show, but then legends. Do you want to go for a soul legend? Do I want a Stevie Wonder? Shout. If there's one thing I wish, there's probably lots of things I wish I would have loved to

have seen print on a show. Elvis, that's another one. Elvis, yeah. If you were going, I mean, do you embrace the whole festival vibe? Do you camp? Do you go a bit more pushy? We got invited to Glassing Room last time, didn't we? We were like this close, weren't we?

Oh, you didn't go? We were very close to going, but we... Yeah, because we were just turning around. Yeah, because we chatted about maybe catching up or trying to do something. I would like to do it. Yeah, I would do. I would like to. It's just so hard in our summers.

Yeah. And there's a lot of walking and I don't know if I could do it. If we didn't have a tournament one summer, we need to do it. Yeah. For sure. Yeah, I would like to do it definitely. But it's not on next year, so maybe the year after. That is so annoying because we don't have a tournament next year.

Why is it not on next year? They have a couple of fallow years because it's a working farm, so they need to let the grass grow back for the cows. Not that. Typical. No, no, just move it over a year for us. But I'm hoping if we have a year off, Rhianna will finally be in a place where she's ready to headline. Yeah, true. Give her a time. Yeah. And Grace has asked, if the three of you were in a girl band, what would you be called and what would your roles be?

I'm just looking around the room for things that we could be called. I like what I like. Yeah that's a good one. Yeah. It's coming home. I like what I like. Nap Club, not a bad name. It's giving a wet leg. I'd be on tambourine at back me. No I'd be on triangle. So you would not be at the back, you'd be front and centre. Yeah, you would be front. Come on. Yeah, but I'd have to lip-sync. They will do, it's fine. God, painful. Can you sing? No.

Probably better than us, though. There's no way of us ever knowing. No. We're not doing a singing contest. No, it's not gonna happen. I can play the clarinet. Oh, nice. What would be your initiation song?

Have we already said that? No. All right, you're signing for a football team. Great. You got to do an initiation. Newcastle Manger. You got to stand on the table and sing to us. Oh, so like what was my karaoke song?

Yeah. So well, usually when I go to karaoke, I like to do all J-Lo songs, like just general J-Lo medley, because I don't know if you've noticed, not got great range. She never goes too high or too low. So it's quite easy to sing. Okay, fair. Yeah. I have to go quite low.

So which one? Oh, any of them. Don't be fooled by the rocks that I got. I'm still, I'm still Jenny from the block. Oh, I'm real the way you walk, the way you move. Nice. I like it. All right. You're getting the theme. My love don't cost a thing. Oh, still a bit high for me. But now I would like to venture out a bit. When I sing in the car,

I'm really good at Amy Winehouse songs. I can pretend to be sure. You're good at that. I am, yeah. I can go into sure mode. Can you do one little? Go on, do you believe in life after love? No matter how hard I try, you keep pushing me aside and I can't...

It's the high bit. Yeah, can't do the high bit. I'm so sad that you're leaving... You know what I mean? You see the switch between Ella and Cher there. Ella. Do you believe in life after love? Woo! How can we feel? Ha ha ha. This is the person that says she doesn't wanna be

sent to a detention. She doesn't like doing anything. Who am I trying to kid? Les, what's your initiation song? Mine would be Young Hearts Run Free. Yeah, you can get everyone involved in that though. That's a cop out, isn't it? What, can you not get everyone involved in a bit of share?

No one can do it like me. I say, hey, don't ruin it. It's my time. Nobody join in. I'll cue you in. All right. Never. Yeah, do the whole song. So I think we've established you're the lead vocalist. Right, you two are back with triangles and rockers. I'll be in the back with my clarinet. Yeah. Thomas has asked,

Ella, what was one thing you do like about London apart from seeing Alessia and Vic, obviously? Selfridges. For God's sake. Is that it? Yeah, what else is there? The Selfridges area is top notch, innit? Yeah, it is good.

Yeah, it's a very good shop that. That's it, that's where the list ends. That's the LATU's year of approval. Okay, next question. I haven't done, I haven't experienced a lot of London. I come down, I come and shoot the pod, I go home. Yeah. Like, I'm not really, I've been for food in nice places,

yeah, I like Novikov, but I need to do some more stuff. Like I need to go to the theatre, for example. Have you never been to the theatre? I've watched Mamma Mia once, were you there? Oh yeah. Yeah. But yeah, I could venture out more, but for now, it's the Selfridges. Would you like to see Big Ben? No, I'm not a sightseer.

There's no point. We won't bother. I can't tell time. What's the point of being at a clock? So, they've got a digital clock on it. It'd be wasted on you. It'd be wasted. I can't tell time. So, you've got a digital clock on it. It'd be wasted on you. It'd be wasted.

You can't tell, you've literally got a watch on. I don't mean I can tell time on it. But if I'm looking at time, I look on my phone. What time is it now? I'm just looking at that. I think my clock's wrong. What time did your clock say it is? It says quarter past three. I think. It is, yeah, correct. But is it the sixth today?

Seventh. Yeah, my date's wrong. That's okay. Mia asks, who takes on the role of airport mum or dad when you travel with the England team and who is most likely to forget their passport? Forget the passport, Millie. Turner. Yeah.

Or Grace or someone like that. Airport, mum and dad. You go off in your groups in the airport, don't you? You never stay as a full team. I look after you. Yeah, Les looks after me. Mary would look after us. Yeah.

Les looks after me, Mary looks after us. Yeah. And I look after us. Yeah, that's what's after me. Mary looks after us. Yeah. And I look after Millie. Right, I've got a little quick fire round for you. So first thing that comes into your head, I just want your initial answers straight away. Madison asks, would you rather skip everywhere

or hop everywhere? Skip. Hop. I cannot hop. It hurts your accu- Yeah, I cannot, I'm not a hopper. You best not. Stay just kidding. Millie asks, what's your favourite day of the week? Saturday or Sunday? Saturday.

Friday. Oh, change of card. Summer asks, rank these biscuits. Digestive, custard cream and bourbon. Custard cream? Bottom. Digestive, custard cream and bourbon. Bourbon, digestive custard cream. Custard cream at the top. Was that going third to first? Third, second, first. All right, third, digestive, second, custard cream, first, bourbon. Because you like the chocolate.

Eve says, how many holes does a straw have? Is it two or is it one long hole? I don't know. I change my mind every time. I think two. I'll say one. Opening and closing. It's a hard question.

Your answer? One hole. Yeah, I'm gonna go one. One long hole. One hole like a chicken. You know, a chicken has just one hole for everything. Wow. It's called cloaca, and it's what they-

Cloaca? We out of, poo out of, have sex through, lay eggs, everything. Marth. One whole. Yeah, one whole. And Brittany says, one word to describe how you're feeling about defending your title at the Euros this summer. Excited.

I was just about to say that. Yeah. It's a good word. You can have the same words. Yeah. That's how you're feeling. One, two, three. Excited. In unison there. Yeah. That's practicing for the same words. That's how you're feeling. One, two, three, excited.

In unison there. That's practicing for the girl band. And that is your quick fire round done. Nice, I like quick fire. Congratulations. Yeah, me too. You're passed with flying colors. We've actually got a couple of questions

from some of your former teammates. Abby McManus, who is your former England and Manchester United teammate, has asked, how much do you miss the Willy Wagons nights out? I don't know what the Willy Wagons nights out are. That was our group chat name. I don't know where that came from. No, me neither. Probably Zell.

Yeah, probably Zell. I really miss them. That is a very, very good group of people. Very good. Very fun times. Very, you know, just we got on so well. We spent a lot of time together, didn't we? Who's in Willy Wagons? Me, Toonie, Martha, Zell, Smudge, Abby, Jess, Sigworth.

Did I say Millie? That was it. Yeah. And what did a Willy Wagons night out consist of? Probably started off at Zell and Jesse's and Mars house. Few pre-drinks then just went out. Yeah. But it was just good group of people. Yeah.

And we spent a lot of time together even like in the house as well. We'd always go around, watch the footy or whatever, and play Scrabble and play board games and stuff. So we played Monopoly quite a bit as well, didn't we? Yeah, we did. But yeah, good, good people. Very good group.

Was there ever like a group leader? Was there someone who was admin on it? Zell. Right. She was in charge of everything. She's the boss. Yeah, she's the boss. And he was best at Monopoly. There were some cheats.

Yeah, probably Zell, but did she cheat? Yeah. Maybe. She was definitely banker for a reason. Yeah. Under the table, slipping it. Maybe. She was definitely banker for a reason. Under the table, slipping it. OK, Martha Harris, your former Manchester United teammate for both of you. Who is your favourite ginger, she asks?

Martha's twin sister, Emily. Oh, Katie Reid at Arsenal. Obviously Martha. It's Martha. It's you, Martha Reid at Arsenal. Obviously, Martha. It's Martha. It's you, Martha. She knows. Yeah. Closely followed by Katie Reid, actually. Yeah, you love Katie Reid, don't you?

I'm not mad at her. She's such a good kid. You do talk about her a lot. Yeah, bless her. She's a young Academy girl at Arsenal, but she's a little superstar. Before we finish, we've got another quick fire round. So again, just first thing that comes to your mind. I love a quick fire. I know because you're on fire. Yeah. Go for it. Go on,

hit me. Ali asks, new handbag or new trainers? Handbag. Oh, that is a horrible one. Three, two, one. Shoot. I do love a handbag though. I know you do. Okay, I can see that pain you have to choose. Phoebe's asked, favorite takeaway? Oh, depends what mood I'm in, but I can see that pain you to have to choose. Phoebe's asked favourite takeaway. Depends what mood I'm in, but I'll go with Chinese. Chinese. Yeah. Demi says, who's your guilty pleasure or celebrity crush? I think they're two quite different things. So I'm going to say firstly, who's your guilty pleasure? Or what is your guilty pleasure?

What is my guilty pleasure? What's yours, Vic? You've got one. Selling Sunset. It was that. Yeah. I love that. I used to love Friends. Yeah.

Just like that telly that is, like I mean, Property Porn TV. Yeah. What about Celebrity Crush though? Demi's other district. That's a hard one as well. the moment I'm going Tom Hardy yeah good job from Mobland and just oh is it because you're watching him at the minute yeah because it's yeah the character will often do that yeah because my character would be Tommy Shelby Iki blinders

but Killian Murphy doesn't necessarily know yeah. I felt the same about Bart Simpson, who was like my first crush. Holly's asked, would you prefer sausages for hands or sausages for feet? That's our good friend. Yeah, these are from our teammates. Hands. We can play football if they're for feet. Yeah. You can't do a lot with your hands. I're a foot. I would just like to eat them.

If I was hungry. Nibble on it. Which is more likely if they're on your hands. Yeah. You can't get my foot there. Yeah. Our bigs are sausage. So we're saying hands.

Hands. But they might get a little bit. But you can't scratch. Oh yeah. That's a biggie because I love scratching. Yeah. If I'm itchy. The worst thing ever is when you're itchy and you can't get it. Oh, I've just got a real itch there.

I'm going to go hands still though. Just rub the sausage on it. Just rub the sausage. Just rub the sausage. Wipe your tears. And Sophia has asked, what is your signature perfume? I love perfumes. Yeah, Les is a bit obsessed with perfumes. Yeah. One of my favorite compliments is, oh, you smell nice.

That is the best compliment though, ever, that you can get. Oh, yeah. I wish I was one of those people who, when they walk past you, they waff, like this aroma, this smell, but I don't understand how some people, their scent really sticks to them. Like it doesn't stick to me. Well my mum said that you suit perfume

that you can't smell on yourself. That is true, that's supposed to be true. But I want to smell it on me, if I know what the people are smelling it. I wanna be one of those people. But I've also heard that you need to put it on just after you've like moisturized your body or put a bit of Vaseline.

It literally sticks to you. I love Jo Malone. I love Jo Malone. I love, who is Elijah? Elijah, I think. I saw some girl on TikTok with it and I thought I'm gonna take a risk and buy it. And it's lovely.

It's like an OOD-y one. Oh, I love OOD. Yeah, it's a really nice OOD-y one. Oh I love ood. Yeah it's a really nice oody one. So do you have different perfumes for different occasions? Ah you're not a one cent person? No. Interesting. I have like a football perfume, evening perfume, day to day, a sleep perfume. A sleep perfume. Like a pillow spray? No like but after I get out the shower, like in an evening when I put my pajamas on, I just put a spray on. Yeah, you're mad.

Your evening aroma. Yeah. When did you start to become obsessed with perfumes? Well, my mum's always loved perfumes. She's always had loads in her little bathroom cupboard. So it must have come from her subconsciously. My mum's always had the same perfumes, like she's probably got three that are really her smells but she, yeah, like loves, like loves different perfumes but I always remember like

three certain smells. Yeah, Daisy. Her, Daisy loves it. Daisy O So Fresh loves it. And then I've just started to wear one now and I love it and she was like, oh, what's that? It's well nice, so I got it for her and then she gets all the compliments. It must suit her skin more than mine because I don't get any compliments on it. And she always gets compliments.

So much nostalgia can be wrapped up in a smell. Like for some reason it's always for me, it's like my grandma who is not with us anymore, but I will always like if I smell her scent, it'll take me back. When I smell certain scent, it'll take me back to memories. When I smell certain things, it reminds me of certain memories. Like there's this spray that Millie Turner always used to have. If I smell that smell, it gives me flashbacks to lockdown. Like it's so weird, our smell can just bring back

so many memories. Has anyone ever been an opponent, so they've like run past you during a game and you've gone, oh, you smell lovely. You smell great. Someone smells great. That happened to me in the Euros. Did it?

Yeah. But then I know when I play against Taylor Hines, she always smells nice. Yeah. She's one of our good friends. But whenever I'm near Taylor on the pitch, I can smell Taylor. Yeah. She always has a nice perfume on too. I never smell nice at football.

And Meg Finnegan. Yeah. Meg Finnegan smells nice too. Bearing in mind it is the nicest compliment. It is. I never smell nice in football. Yeah, Megan. Megan smells nice too. Bearing in mind, it is the nicest compliment. It is, yeah. It's one of the best, isn't it? It is nice. You'd say, even if you're playing against them,

you do, you smell really good. Yeah, I would start, and you know who else? I said it to her in a game once. Remember, Susoka at West Ham. Yeah. She had like this Oud on, I think it was. Oh, did she? And I was against her, and you know,

like sometimes you can chat to your opponent when the ball's down the other end or something. I said, I just said, she smells really nice. Cause I like to receive that compliment. You were trying to give her a compliment so she like, you make her and she's like. No, but I know how nice that compliment feels. So I thought, you know what you actually do.

I like to give that compliment out because I know how much it means to me when it happens. So if anyone's watching, you know what to say to us if you ever see us. We really like being told we smell nice. Don't come and smell me though, that would be weird. You've got to put your nose on me. That jumper smells awful. Does it smell good? Yeah, when my nose is on it. But that's the thing, I don't want to have to get so close.

I want to be one of those people who exudes fast. Who smells fast, yeah. Oh, I just want to like ooze a nice smell. Talking about compliments and whatever, the worst one ever. Do you know what it is? The worst thing that someone can say to you. You look tired. Yeah.

Yeah. I hate that. I hate it. Yeah, I am tired. I'm what? I'm one hour asleep. Sometimes I'm not tired. Sometimes you're like, I feel fine. Yeah, that's even worse. That's the worst. Yeah. I'm like, oh, do I? Because I actually feel great. Yeah. Well, that's all the questions we have for right now. But have you enjoyed answering the fan questions? Yeah, I always like doing that. Do we want to do it again? Yeah. Okay,

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