Walking The Dog with Emily Dean - Scarlett Moffatt

Episode Date: August 24, 2020

This week, Emily has a socially distanced chat with Scarlett Moffatt and her chihuahua, Bonnie. They talk about how she was thrust into the spotlight at a young age after appearing in Gogglebox and I'm a Celebrity Get Me Out Of Here, being comfortable with her own company and why she's happiest being at home in County Durham with her boyfriend, Scott. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Scarlett Moffitt's answering the door. Bonnie! Actually who is it? As if he's still there? Who is it? Hiya! How much is the windows? 20. I'll just go and get it!

I owe the window, clean the 20 pound. Bonnie, calm down, man! Right, sorry. This week on Walking the Dog, I chatted to TV and show business queen, Scarlet Moffet. Full disclosure, this episode should probably be renamed two women lays around with their dogs whilst gossiping on the phone. But before you judge us, that's because Scarlett was in County Durham, I was in London, and we both got rained in. But it turned out we didn't need a walk to Bond,

because Scarlett is even more obsessed by dogs than me, especially her very own chihuahua, Bonnie. Scarlet was thrust into the spotlight at a fairly young age after appearing on Gogglebox and then I'm a celebrity, get me out of here. But I got the sense she's actually quite a naturally introverted, reflective person. She told me about being happy with her own company and escaping into books as a child. We also talked about her hilarious family, how her life changed so suddenly, and why she's happiest hanging out with her policeman boyfriend Scott, who she hosts a podcast with called Scarlett Moffitt Wants to Believe,

as well as her upcoming stint on ITV's Celebrity Karaoke Club, where she'll be unleashing the Moffat vocals. We had such a lovely chat, mainly because Scarlett will chat away, honestly, about anything. So I really hope you enjoy it as much as I did. If you do, please remember to rate review and subscribe. I'll hand you over to the woman herself now. Here's Scarlett and Bonnie. Oh, Bonnie, come on. I'm actually late in bed. Scarlett, today's guest, is some sleeping in bed with the dog. Yeah, we're just chilling, chilling with the dog. What's Bonnie doing? Is she jumping up next to you?

Yeah, so she's eating a treat because Bonnie, it's raining here and Bonnie just refuses to go out when it's raining, just like a princess. My dog Ray is exactly the same. Because you have a shitsuit, don't you? I have a shitsuit and he just, if it's raining at all, I say if it's raining, if it's not sort of the equivalent of a lovely day in Ibiza,

he will just stand by the door giving me an evil and won't move. That is the same as bunny. I actually have a shih Tzu as well. Oh well, Scarlett, I want to know all about your dogs. I need to properly introduce you. I'm really excited because I've been wanting to get this woman on for so long. And finally I'll have. I'm with the very wonderful Scarlet Moffat.

Oh, thank you. That was a nice introduction. Well, welcome to the podcast. And we should say we're doing this remotely because we're both responsible citizens and we don't want to be dashing here, there, all over the country, when we should be keeping travel to a minimum. So you're in, you've just said, but tell us again, You are based in at the moment.

County Durham. And talk me through Bonnie, who you're with today. So she is a little smooth-caught chihuahua, and she is like a princess. But she's five now. I actually forgot how old she was. In my head, she's still a puppy. And I keep telling everyone she's a puppy, but she's not really. She's old.

And is she your only dog, Scarlet? Have you just, you said you had a Shih Tzu? Is that right? Yeah, so I've got a Shih Tzu, but it's not. he actually lives with my mum and dad. He got his bits chopped off recently. And he's just completely changed personalities. Like he's just, he used to be super crazy.

And now he's super chilled. And like, this house is too crazy for him. So he lives with my mum and dad. I'm sure there's a lesson to be learned from that, gentleman. Just don't chop them off. And what's the shit? too called Scholar. He's called Harry. You had dogs growing up, didn't you? Yeah, so we've I've always had a dog in the house actually, so please don't laugh because everyone always

laughs when I, and I don't know why I called him this. But when I was five, I got my first dog and he was a Labrador called Glenn. Now I look back, I have no idea where that name came from. As a five-year-old shouting in the park, Glenn, it is a bit weird. Why do you think you were named him Glenn? I just really like human names. Like Bonnie, isn't it? Because I'm named after Scarlett O'Hara from Gone with the Wind. Her full name is Bonnie Blue Butler.

She's named after the first child that Scarlet O'Hara has. A friend of mine once said to me that I reminded them of Bonnie Bluebell. And seeing as her only character trait is being spoiled before she dies, I was a bit... I wasn't sure out to date that. I would take it as a compliment. So you were saying Glenn was your first dog. Yeah.

And your parents were, they love dogs. Did your parents, you know, your family love dogs? My mom didn't, I'll be honest. My mom, like, hates all animals, really, which doesn't really paint her in the best light. But she's a very caring person. But she hates like just butterflies, anything. She just hates all animals.

But she likes her own dog. but other people she's not keen on. I want to know a bit about your childhood because you've just told me that you were named after Scholar Ohara, which is so brilliant. And kind of there was a weird, unusual story behind it, wasn't there? Yeah, so my mum and dad, because my mum and dad had me when they were quite young,

so my mom was 19, and they couldn't really decide what to call me. And it's quite a big thing, isn't it? Like, naming someone, like that's the name you stuck with it for the rest of your life. So my dad wanted to call me Sagarnie because he loves the film Alien and his favourite character in that is Sagarnie Weaver. So they had a game of Scrabble to determine who would pick my first name and thankfully my mum knew the word quixitism. And that is why I'm called Scarlett Sagarney and not Sigourney-Scarliss.

Were you pleased that you got Scarlett instead of Sigourney then? Well, I mean then I learned who, Scala O'Hara was and she was like, she wasn't the best of people, was she really? She was a bit of an asshole. But I think it does explain why I got an A-star in textiles, D-CSA, because she was very good at sewing. And I think that like that side of me was because of my name's sake. So your family at that point, it was just you and your mum, Betty, am I right? Yeah, Betty.

Elizabeth. Yes, Elizabeth. I feel I can call her Betty. Yeah, you can. And your dad, all I know is that he has Alan Shearer hair, but is he called Mark, your dad? Yeah, but everyone calls them Toffo. I don't know what.

I actually have no idea, but even I call him Toffo, which I know, like, people might think, because I actually sometimes call my mom Betty and my dad Toffo, which I think it's just a northern thing because I once did that in London, And someone was like, that's really disrespectful calling your parents by the first name. I'm like, oh, everyone does it up north. I rather like it when people do that.

Because I think it's sort of relating to them as people, isn't it? Yeah. I don't know, sort of you do things for me. It's kind of, I know we're all individuals. You know, I think it's quite nice when kids do that. And everyone has the same accent up here. We all sound exactly the same. So if everyone's shouting mom and dad, you don't know who they talk to.

So I'm interested to know, because you were an only child at that point, and obviously your parents, as you say, were pretty young when they had you. Can you remind me how old they were again? Yeah, so my mom was 19. My dad was 23 and my nanny was 37. So my nan, yeah. And it's so funny because I always remember my nan being like an old person. Like she always had chalk ices in the drawer. She taught me how to knit. She was always always. drinking snowballs but then I look back and I'm like in eight years time I will be her age when I was born what sort of effect do you think that had on you in the sense that I got the sense when I read your book of you almost being sort of curiously sophisticated and an adult almost for your age when you're a child yeah and I think that's because my mom and dad were like my best friends I was always a bit weird like my dad would take me like metal detecting that was one of our favorite things to do and we'd go

looking for crop circles with Glenn that was like my childhood so I think yeah I always have been a little bit older than my age I mean I know what type of person I was at 19 and the thought of looking after another human now we all make sense of like obviously like when you're older you know how to look after people more and I think like a big thing that all brought us together it wasn't like a strict family my dad would um a trick that he used to do is he would pretend that he was stuck down the plug hole in the bathroom and he would obviously now i know he would hide behind the door and my mom would shout of me and she'd be like Scarlett quick come through and then he'd be doing a little voice

and he'd be like i'm stuck help help and so my mom would be like you need to go and get some string you need to So I'd like run to the kitchen and get some string And then he'd quickly jump in the bath And he'd be like oh I'm saved And I'd be like oh dad I'm so pleased Because I just don't know what I'd do If you got stuck down there forever And he must have done that

And then apparently this isn't a thing that lots of people do But my mum used to pretend to be dead all the time Which actually sounds horrific But it was the funnest game as a kid So I remember being about six And she would like Put tomato sauce on her mouth as if she was like bleeding from the mouth.

And then my dad would be like, what are we going to do? And I'd like pretend to resuscitate her and stuff. And like, at the time, it was hilarious. And I'd be like, and then she'd like pretend to breathe. And I'd be like, yay, all is well. But then when I tell my friends that, they're like, are you okay? Like, that sounds horrific.

The thing is, if the people that you love the most, we can all take the mic out of each other. Anything that anyone else says can't affect you. So, for example, I had really bushy eyebrows. Like, I had a full-on mono-brow until the age of 12. And my mum and dad would call me Helga Pataki. You know, like the girl off Hay Arnold with the big eyebrow. That was my nickname until I was 12 from my own parents.

They'd go, come on, Helga. So then when other kids called me at school, I'd be like, well, I'm not really bothered because my own mom and dad called me Helga Pataki and I laugh about it. So I think, really, they just sort of taught me how to, Just have a laugh. Like, if you take back control of joking about yourself and being like an owning it, no one else can really hurt, yeah?

Yeah, yeah. And so it gives you a sort of emotional resilience, I suppose, in a way. All of us are like that. We're a really big family and we're all like that. Like, a term of endearment for us is, like, we'd call each of the lizard lips. Like, do you know what I mean? Like, so we'd be like, you all right, lizard lips?

and that's us being nice to each other. And so, yeah, I think because we all did that, and I did sort of feel invincible. I think obviously being bullied is awful, but my dad would say bullies are like sandpaper, the more they wear you down, the more polished you become. And I always took that. And so whenever anyone was like mean to me or name called,

even though it heard, I would come back home. And then, like, they'd say, well, what did they say? And I say, well, they said that my eyebrows, like, are awful. And my mom's like, well, they are a bit, aren't they? Like, you don't like them either, do you? And I'd be like, oh, yeah. And she's like, so why are you getting upset? And I'm like, oh, yeah, I suppose.

I don't know, because they're not actually saying anything that I don't think myself. Do you know what I mean? Which sounds really harsh, but actually, it just meant that I didn't really care. So, like, if someone was like, it's like now, for example. example, if someone says, oh, you're fat, I can't get offended by that because I am. I wanted to ask, because your dad was a welder and your mom was, she worked in retail, didn't she? Yeah. And they sound like they had a real work ethic, which obviously robbed off on you a bit, didn't it? Yeah. And I remember sort of being very envious of my friends because

their kids were home all the time. My mom would have to go to work. My dad always started work at six in the morning. And then my nan would take me to school. Then she'd go to work. Then I'd come back. I'd sometimes go to my aunties. She worked at an old people's home. So I would stay there until my mom and dad finished work.

And then they'd pick me up. And I used to be so envious. I used to be like, oh, I wish my mom was one of those moms where I'd come home and, like, chicken nuggets and chips would be on the table. But then I realized now it meant we could go abroad on. a holiday every year which was like a really massive thing at the time and I got to do ballroom and Latin dancing and I got to get the trainers that I wanted and things like that which I know sound like they're not important but actually when I look back and like that was really nice

of them to do that. Do you always say to my mom oh I'm so sorry because I think a lot of the time I did make them feel bad and they'd say things like well we go to work because otherwise we wouldn't be able to do nice things and I'm like, I'm not bothered about nice things. I just want you to be here. But it makes sense now that I'm older. Yeah. And I think as you say, I realise that, you know, with my own family, you only realise that with age, don't you?

Yeah. And as you get closer to the age you were when your parents were, had you, had you, you sort of think, gosh, how did they do it? You know, what they were jogging. And I remember, I'd look at my mum because she had like a diary and it would have a days off in and I remember occasionally if she was off on like a Wednesday on the Tuesday night I'd I'd pretend I was ill I'd be like I just really don't feel very well and she's like is it because I'm off work tomorrow I'm like I had no idea so

then I'd like stay off school like I'd pretend to be ill I used like put my hands near the light bulb so that it was hot then touch my forehead she'd like right well you can have a day off tomorrow then but you've got to do your work and then I'd quickly do my schoolwork on a morning and then just spend all day with her. And like I didn't do it all the time because then she would click on. But I remember doing that just so I could literally have like a full day with my man while she was off work. Well, I used to pretend to be ill quite regularly. And in fact, I'm getting the impression I relate to a lot of your behaviour as a child because you strike me as something of a

drama queen and as a fellow drama queen as a child, I can say that. So as an example of something I did and now you're going to have to confess some things. I once wrote my mother a birthday card saying, dear mommy, please have a happy birthday because if you don't dot, dot, dot, dot, in caps, it will ruin my whole life, love Emily. So that's where I am. Over to you, Scarlett, Moffat.

I mean, whenever I got in trouble, I'm quite manipulative, actually. Like, no that I look back, I'm like, what a manipulative child I was, I would pack a bag, and it always had maybe like four pairs of pants in my noddy toy a couple of Jacqueline Wilson books you know just the essentials and then I'd write a letter and it would be like dear mom and dad

I'm going back to the shop that you bought me from please go and buy a new child that will love you more than me that will not be evil um PSI moving away like love you lots then I'd knock on the living room door post that letter and then I'd take ages to fumble with the key so gives them chance to read the letter and I'd be there with my little bag and then they'd like open the door and they'd go come on in all's forgiven and I'd be like are you sure where you can go and buy another kid if you want to be like no come on it's fine it's really evil isn't it that's so manipulative I feel I feel less bad about the card now yeah you showed honestly it's still pretty bad what sort of a child were you at school

You know, were you quite... I get the sense you were into your books and you were, not geeky, but you were quite insular in a way, weren't you? I mean, at primary school I had, like, one best friend who was Rosie and every Friday would go to her dad's house and he'd make us pancakes and would watch Bernard's Watch. Because my friends were at dancing. I didn't really have any friends at school, especially not secondary school.

Like, I know this sounds sad, but people like Tracy Beaker were my friends. To me, characters in books were my friends and that's who I related to really and I would just constantly read all the time and I mean it helped because it meant that I was good at school. I really loved school. I was the kid that we were laughing actually because me and my mum found an old project that I'd done and I'd done 50 pages including a contents page of farm diversification and that was a project that was a project that no one even had done. asked me to do. I just decided off my own back to do a 50 page project on farm diversification. Just, just for something to do. That sums my childhood up. It's escapism in a way, isn't it? Yeah, like Jacqueline, to me, Jacqueline Wilson was like my auntie. And sort of when my mum and dad were at work or I wasn't at dancing, they were my friends. That was my way of

not feeling lonely, I suppose. That was, I never felt lonely when I was. I never felt lonely when I was reading because I was so into the book. You forget where you are, so you could be anywhere. To me, I was in the dumping ground with Tracy Beaker next to her while she was kicking off rather than just sort of sat down by myself eating a kick-cat. And did you, in your group of friends at school, what was your role? Do you know what I mean? I always think everyone, you're the joker, aren't you?

I mean, it's oversimplifying stuff because you're just friends. But still, I think when you're growing up and you're sort of shaping your own identity, aren't you? There's a sense of who am I in this gang? Well, I think at dancing with my group of friends, I was definitely the joker. And I quickly found that an easy way to make friends is to make people laugh. And a lot of that actually is sort of taking the mic out of yourself. So in a way, you're sort of doing the bully's job because you're just, make jokes of yourself.

And then that way, everyone felt like, oh, well, she's okay. She can, she can make a joke out of herself. We'll let her in, in our little gang.

But yeah, I didn't really have, like, a proper group of friends until I was, like, 14. And I spent, like, a lot of time with my mom and dad.

And actually, it was, my mom always says, oh, I wish I'd never done this, but she, I sort of tried to fit in. So I remember being 14 and going through so many,

different phases so my mom went out and bought me loads of Fred Puri jackets and some pink timbulins and she'd take me to these little mini like under 18 raves and I quickly realized like I can't even pretend that I'm into this this is not me at all then I went into a got stage and my mom got me lots of eyeliner and loads of CDs and I think that's the difference between when I was a teenager and my little sister because my little sister's 14 now and we really encourage you not to fit in because you just quickly realize like that they're not real friends anyway but as a kid it means so much to fit in like you just want to I wasn't even bothered about being popular I just wanted to blend that was my goal really to blend into school sometimes I think it's going on

to do something different or creative it it requires being a bit other, you know, which means you stand out at school because you're not like everyone else. Yeah, I definitely think that, but it's just, it's so hard to explain when you're a kid. So when I try and explain that to Ava, sometimes I can see her eye roll in me.

But I'm like, just, because she does things like Dungeons and Dragons, her friends have got like an anime group. Like, they're really different. Like, I'm so happy that she's just unapologetically herself. Because I wish that I'd sort of had the confidence to do that really. I wanted to ask about when you got into ballroom dancing. How did that happen? So my mum always loved watching, like, the very, very first Strictly Come Dancing.

I'm not even sure it was called Strictly Come Dancing. It was on in the 80s. And so she loved that. So when I was full, she actually took me to my first dance lesson. And I just loved it. Like, and I can still now smell the inset hair. Like still now it is engraved in the back of my throat. We used to put shoe polish on our hair so that it was really shiny.

I remember using, you couldn't really get fake tan. So we used to get mini rollers, like what you roll paint with on walls, and bodybuilder tan. So I mean, no wonder I got picked on because like I remember once being 11 and going to school, like, full on umpulumpur style. like I could blend into mahogany furniture I was orange it was ridiculous and like it just did not come off like we used to have to have debt all baths to scrub the tan off

and your mum presumably as well you were saying you know she was working long hours as was your dad and that's that's quite a sort of a full time job almost isn't it going to the competitions and presumably there's a big financial outlayer as well is there with the clothes and the sea fins

and it's only one when I got older that I realized, like, I think practically my whole mom's wage sort of went on that dancing. And it's funny because I was one of the only kids that sort of went to, like a normal school, like a normal school. A lot of them went to private school and everything. And so really, it was quite a weird environment to be in because everyone was quite well to do. But I never ever felt like I wasn't. I never felt like an outsider or like my mum always made sure that I had private classes and I did quite well really like I was was one of the top ones in the in the dance school which

which I'm very proud of I always feel like I'm being a big head but I was really good why did you stop doing it scholar so I got to 19 and sort of got into well I was at uni and then I was like oh there's these things called men and vodka shots and I was sort of too busy going out that it just sort of took the back burner and then I always had every intention of starting again but like a year went by and then two years

and you realise that your fitness level's gone down and everyone who wasn't as good as you is now better than you because they've been gone so I just never started it again it's one of my biggest regrets really I wish that I'd kept on doing it But then hang on, you must get the strictly call every year. They must be dying for you to come on.

Or are you too professional? Do you think that's a... Well, I mean, I haven't danced for like 10 years. And I think now, if I was to dance, I probably would look like a sack of potatoes moving around the dance floor. So I don't know what I think maybe they think, oh, she's danced before.

But I mean, let's be honest, a lot of people on that dance floor of dance before. Like, coming out, week one doing like the splits and stuff I'm like this isn't your first rodeo or is it hon I know some of the guests you're like is it like wane's sleep or it's like okay come on to do a full tap routine like just learned it in a week they've done amazing well and they'll do the video you know when they do the video of him breaking down crying saying I just can't do it I just I'm no good at dancing and I was like really by week three

the strap to the ceiling doing full flips Wayne, I thought you were the principal dance from the Royal Ballet. That's weird. You're crying. Tell me, Scarlett, you had a really difficult moment, didn't you? When you were hit by a car, when you were about 11? Yeah, so I'd actually just learnt how to ride a bike without stabilisers for about maybe a month, like, of actually being confident. And this car came whizzing around the corner and bumped my wheel.

and I just remember sort of like, it felt like about 10 seconds. It was probably half a second. I was like Peter Pan. I literally flew through the sky off this bike. And luckily I had a helmet on, but I smashed all my chin and my teeth, and I broke my front two teeth. And there was just blood everywhere. And I remember I had my favourite Tammy girl T-shirt on.

I was more gutted about my Tammy girl T-shirt, to be honest. And it was just covered in blood, and I remember a girl called Kaley. my friend was trying to pick up shards of my teeth and just had them in a hand and I ran in to see my mom and like her face just went grey and I had to have loads of surgery on my teeth and everything

and then the doctor said that possibly the trauma of that brought on Bell's palsy and so a month later I actually got Bell's palsy which I know that the treatment's better for it now but at the time that's why my face is isn't symmetrical and I have to sleep with like a sleep mask on because one of my eyes doesn't close properly. Then I lost the nerve in one of my tooth so my front tooth went black.

I had to have these plastic teeth because dentistry wasn't the greatest then. The veneas aren't like what they are now. And then I couldn't move half my face. So I mean it was like God looked down upon me and was like we're going to have to give this girl a sense of humour because if she didn't have bad look, she'd have no look at all. That must have been really tough actually. especially as you say at that age, about to enter adolescence and you're self-conscious enough anyway, you know. But I suppose your parents were just so relieved that it was nothing, I mean, it was serious for you

and it had an impact on you, but not medically serious long term. Yeah, because I remember it can be a sign of leukemia, and I remember not actually really understanding why I had to go to hospital and have all these blood tests and things. and it was one of the only, I've only ever seen my dad cry three times, and it was one of the only times I'd ever seen my dad cry, and I remember him making a joke of it

because he used my socks, because I had to take my shoes and socks off, and he used my sock to dry his eyes, and I remember him then blowing his nose in it to try and make a joke, saying, oh, you're going to have snotty feet now. But I remember feeling really weird by it. I was like, oh, why are they so upset?

But luckily it wasn't that, but I remember that was not a nice day. And I think because dancing was my safe place and it was a place where I could be my best self and I was a performer and I could sort of not be quiet geeky Scarlett, I could be like, oh, this person with like a glittery dress on living my best life, it affected that as well because I was so shy to sort of smile because my smile wasn't the best.

But it did sort of help my confidence. but I think it was just harsh because that's when you sort of start fancying boys and boys start fancying you and I always remember my cousin was just so pretty. She still is actually and she's lovely inside now but all the boys used to fancy and I always felt like the spare part like I always remember being on MSN and everyone used to say oh who do you fancy? I'd said who do you fancy and they told me and they'd put you question mark And I thought this guy called Stewie meant he fancied me, but he was just asking me the same question.

So he was like you question mark. And I remember feeling so like, I remember standing up off my computer desk, literally like swinging around in my chair. Like, yay, like Stewie fancies me. And then I was like, really? And then he was like, yeah, like let me know who you fancy. And I remember that was my first heart break. Because I think even though we'd never actually were boyfriend and girlfriend, I remember feeling, wow, someone fancies me and then realizing, oh, no, they're just asking me who I fancy.

And of course they were saying he fancied my cousin. And I was like, oh, I'm like the spare bridy party. It's when you look back on those hideous moments and, you know, what you must never tell your sister and I never tell my nieces is people say, oh, you'll forget it. You won't. You won't. You never do. You're telling me 15 years later or whatever. I mean, you've achieved quite a lot in your life,

but we haven't even got to that yet. All we care about is the fact that Stewie said you. On MSN. Tell me what happens, Scholar, after school. You got the geek's revenge with the A grades, didn't you? You completely nailed your results. and that must have been, oh, that must have been a great day. Yeah, because, and that is, and do you know what, I remember going into the school gates

and, like, and everything being set up outside because it was a really hot day and all of our results were out there. And my little sister had actually, like, just being born as well. So she was born around the same time that I was getting my grades. So I was already, like, feeling super happy. And yeah, and I got 13 A-star to be. GCSEs and I remember seeing the kids that really picked on me and some of them were upset some of them were like oh I'm not bothered I remember one girl ripping her GCSE

results up and I was like see like and I know obviously you know sometimes grades don't matter depend on what job you want to but that to me was a very small victory because it meant that I got to go to the college that I really wanted to go to and I went to a lovely six form called Queen Elizabeth and then there I made like friends for life and and I did well there and it meant that I got to go to university and that's where literally my like best best friends like came from yeah because you get to really really when you're in a school you're sort of thrown together you have got to sort of like forced friends you were doing

sports coaching you switched degrees didn't you and did you did you not exactly look like the typical person doing sports coaching and when you No, because what I did is I did a QTS because I wanted to be a primary skill teacher and they were like, right, so you're going to have to pick like a core subject and I was going to pick English

and then everyone was like, it's really difficult don't choose English so I was like what is the easiest? And I was like PE, that's really easy isn't it? That's just kicking balls about all that stuff oh my God. It was so difficult and I remember going into the first lecture and I wore a leopard print maxi dress.

I had pillar blocks red hair because my friend had helped me boxed dye my hair the night before. Full fake tan, false eyelashes. Everyone had tracksuits on. I was like the only person and the lecturer Ian, he actually went, oh, have you got this is sports coaching? I was like, yeah, I didn't get the memo of track suits. And he was like, of course we wear tracksuits.

After university You did a series of Sort of proper jobs Oh there's Bonnie Yeah she's gone crazy We'll just ignore her because she just Does she always has a mad No she just always has a mad half hour

I think it's a two hour thing Does she um Oh she might have the doorbell Get the doorbell if you need to I don't find hanging on I quite like the real life peeping in We can hang on Go and get the door Scarlett

Let's see who it is Scarlett Mawfitt's on answering the door. Who is it? Is it still there? Who is it? How much is the windows? 20.

I'll just go and get it. I owe the window, clean a 20 pound. Bonnie, calm down, man. Right, sorry. Because I didn't have any money last time he came and he just, he came randomly. But that's all right, that ain't it, 20 quid for your windows washed? Well, I don't know how many windows you've got, Scholarly. You could live in the Palace of Versailles.

I mean... It's quite a few windows like. That's decent prices, yeah. I think it's about 50 pence a window. Do you find Scarlet because you still live in your manner, as it were. Does everyone sort of know where you are and obviously they know who you are? So is there a sense of kind of being respectful of you and looking after you and do you know what I mean? Yeah, I think so.

Bonnie. I'm just, come on in here. Come on, there it's good now. Bonnie shows no such respect. Yeah, no, she doesn't. There, just chill out there. Well, I do get the odd occasional person. I've actually, it's happened about maybe ten times.

People have come to the door for jobs. So, like, they've come to the door and said, oh, would I be able to, like, do your makeup? Like, and I'm like, yes, but it's a bit weird you come into my house like I don't know who you are yeah but I understand and I completely get that like oh my god she's really going mad I think she thinks he's still there she's Bonnie come on why are you doing that you're normally good Scott just take her he's actually still in bed because he didn't finish work till

seven oh hi Scott that's um mr scarlet hi Scott there I've put her with him yeah Because he was on night, so he's still in bed. He's not lazy. It's 12 o'clock. He wouldn't normally be in bed at 12. Although I am. I've got no excuse. What does Scott do?

Are we allowed to know what Scott does? Yeah, so he's a police officer. I mean, that's the dream. I really, I always used to say when I was younger, I'd love to be with a man, and suddenly he'd get one of those lights out and just put it on the top of the car. You know, when they do that?

Oh, it's all I've ever wanted, Scarlet. You can borrow Scott whenever you want. Talk me through when you left university and you did a series of... You worked in shops, didn't you? You worked in ASDA and places like that. Yes, I've always had like... So my first job was when I was 14.

I've just always had jobs whether it was like helping out at the dance school or while I was at uni, I worked at ASDA. I worked as a shock girl. I'd handed out leaflets. I worked at Topshop, I worked a clinic for a little bit. Oh, did you? Yeah, I've literally, I'm like, I've had so many jobs.

I sort of, like, got a job to suit. So, like, for example, I got a job at Topshop so me and my friends could get discount. And then I got a job at clinic so that we could get free makeup. But, yeah, when I left uni, it was really hard because it was like there was the recession on. And I remember sort of going to the job centre

and had all these qualifications and they said, oh, we're going to send you on a CV course. And I was like, what? And they said, yeah, we're going to send you on a course. It's for a full day. And you learn how to write a CV. And I was just like, well, I know how to write a CV.

Like, what jobs are available? And like, every time I try to get a job in, teaching or coaching, they would say that I needed more experience. And I was like, well, if no one gives me a job, I'm never going to get experience. So it was like this really vicious circle and so I ended up just sort of getting lots of odd jobs And then I got a job working as a disability advisor and which was a really like fun rewarding job and I worked at a call center as well to make a bit more money And then my friend Tommy rang and said oh, I'm

Do you know quite a lot of people? Do you know anyone who Who'll do this TV show? It's like a little audition will come to the house. And I was like, oh, well, if you explain what show it is, I'll let people know. And he said, right, so you watch the telly. And I went, yeah, and he went, nah, that's it. I went bloody yell tommy, they'll make programmes about anything these days, won't be. And he was like, no, it's really good.

It's had one series out already. And I rang around and no one. Literally, everyone was like, no. So then Tommy was like, will you just do us a favour and, like, have your mum and dad round and, like, just do this little audition? And I was like, yeah, but we're not actually, it's not going on the TV, is it? He was like, no, no, it's not going on the TV. And then, yeah, me and my dad had, like, an argument about the one-bedroom tax.

I got Piers Morgan confused with David Cameron. And then the next day they rang and said, oh, we'd like you to do Gogglebox. And so that was, like, a little bit extra money. We got a free takeaway. We got 50 quid. And how did your parents, when you explained it to them, them Scarlett. Do you think there was a sense of them sort of just thinking, oh, we'll just do this as a favour for Scarlett's mate? That seems that's sort of why you went into it. So was that quite

strange when suddenly you were going to be on TV every week? Yeah, definitely. And it was actually my dad, the man who says nothing whilst filming Goggle Fox, who was like, oh, well, what's the worst that can happen, really? And it was only on on a Wednesday night when we did, it was, it wasn't like big show when we came on it so we had no idea of like the enormity of what it would become so I think we just thought oh well it'll be a bit of fun won't it 50 quid each and a takeaway we get all bond as a family and watch a bit telly and were your parents still working at the time so doing their day job and and were you still at ASDA or how do you so I was at working as a disability

advisor then and my mom worked at Burton's and my dad Yeah, my dad's still a world and how he loves it. He thinks he's in flash dance. But yeah, he, yeah, so we all were like filmed, we filmed like twice a week and then we'd all just get up and do our normal jobs, which wasn't weird at first, but after a couple of years, it was weird because, like, I'd be going to get the bus to work

and people would be asking for photos and things or did be, like, quoting something that I'd said on Gogglebox, and I'd be like, oh, this is actually. getting a bit weird now like people know who I am. Well were you quite just overwhelmed initially because I think it's fame and and any sort of attention like that focus is can be quite overwhelming initially. What aspects of it did you find I suppose tougher to deal with? I think like the whole

thing was overwhelming. When you're a kid you imagine being famous so to speak or publicly known is this really fun cool thing and people's asking for your autograph and like wow how cool is that and then when it actually happens you realize that a lot of your time is taken up and it and all of a sudden you can't just go to the shop with no makeup on and your hair on top of your head or you can't go on a night out and be silly and get drunk and dance around with a mop in case someone's there with a camera or their phone or you know and so you do start at the beginning I really like over I just kept overthinking all the time like I got to the point where I didn't really go out a lot

because I didn't like to because I'd like because I don't like to be rude to people so I'd end up chatting to people for like half an hour like the amount of trains that I'd missed because I just didn't want to go, oh yeah, I've got to go now, because in my mind, that was really rude. And like a couple of times when I had said to people, like, especially like when Ava was only little, so I think when we started, Ava was maybe eight years old. And if I was doing something with Ava,

like, I don't know, I remember taking her to paint some pottery. And people were video on us while we were painting pottery. And I remember feeling like really like angry, because I was like, oh, you know, like, she's only eight, so why are you doing this, like, to us? And I remember getting really frustrated and for a long time, like, sort of just not really wanting to go out the house because I thought, oh, well, it's not the same anymore.

I don't think that now, like, I've learned how to sort of deal with it. And now I take it as a massive compliment that actually people know that I'm approachable. Because, I mean, there's a few people I've met off the telly, and I've thought, oh no, I'll not ask them for a photo. So it's nice that actually people think, oh, yeah, we can go off to sky. she's one of us. I get this sense of you being, in a way, quite an introverted child, you know, with your head in a book,

even if you were capable of being funny and mocking him with the family, and then you find yourself in essentially an extrovert's life, you know? And I wonder if there was a bit of a process of adjustment with that as well. Do you know what, that's so nice and refreshing to hear that because so many times I try and explain that. I'm actually quite shy. people are like well you can't be because of your job and the way that but I I actually am like

I have a very small circle of friends I tend to do a lot of things in the house I'm quite an indoorsy person and I don't really like going out for drinks I sort of have house parties where I feel comfortable and stuff and yeah it is really hard to try and I think sometimes like not rude but I think sometimes when I'm sort of feeling a little bit shy or like when people come up and I'm on my own I'm not with my mum or anything like say if someone came and sat next to me on a train and chatted it would take quite a while for me to sort of like warm up

and then I'd have to and I'd constantly feel myself apologised and being oh sorry like I'm actually quite shy and so I do feel like I massively had to sort of learn how cope with being in a room with a lot of people wanting to chat together because I'd never had that before no one really wanted to chat to us before so it was fine being like an introvert when you're not on the TV because no one really wanted to know how my day was at ASDA but now all of a sudden that I'm on the TV I was having a yeah to and when people say that make that assumption

about you of course what they're forgetting is what you became best known for was doing exactly that we're sitting at home with your family talking quietly about the TV you know you weren't on the stage at the palladium going look at me everyone yeah and you know what actually bonnie i think that is why i've always loved having dogs because my safe space is just with a dog like i love just sitting and like i don't even have to be watching anything i can literally just when i go down london because i normally go to london maybe three times a week i always need a day after to do nothing and I probably come across really rude because I don't even look at my phone and then I always have to play a catch-up but it's because I always just

it's so loud to me and that's why I moved back up north because it's a lot quieter here and there is space to sort of just stick your wellies on and walk your dog and I loved London but it was just so busy all the time and so that's why I always say I'm a bit of like Miley Cyrus, I feel like I've got the best of both worlds. Like I sort of go down there and I'm like, jazz hand scarlet with like a OQ and studio floor. And then I come back home and I'm like just sitting in a dressing gown for three days, eating carbs, loving life.

Obviously everyone, as everyone want to know, you did, I'm a celebrity get me out of it. And that was huge for you, wasn't it? In terms of just, I suppose turning into this sort of national treasure really. Oh, thank you. Was that, I mean, that was a big step for you, wasn't it? That was, that was crazy.

So I got asked, like, I sort of went in to chat about doing it the year before. And it was one of the only times that I'd ever actually been to London, like, actually off the train, like, in London. So it was this like, wow, like, I'm in London, having a meeting about the jungle. And then, I don't know, like, my gut instinct was like, just don't do it because no one's going to know who you are. Like it's can you really cope? I've never been away from my mum for that long before. And but then I got asked to do it the year after and I thought I can't miss this opportunity. Like it's a show I absolutely love. My mom and dad will be going out there so I'm only not

seeing them for two weeks and if I get voted out first. And then it did give me loads of confidence. Like I think because you put in scenarios where you have to do crazy things. anything else just feels like it's tiny. Like I remember coming out of the jungle and doing karaoke for the first time. And I'd never dare do before then. And I was like, if I can eat a camel penis, I can definitely sing a bit of like Gloria Gaynor on the karaoke. That interests me.

Is there a fearlessness to you, do you think, with regards to challenges? Do you think, I'll sod it. You know, you only live once with stuff like that? I think I always just think, like, because I've never really sort of like being a cool one or like being sort of accepted, I think I just really don't care what people think. I think that's the thing. I think I just think, well, what, if I, like, what's the worst that can happen? Like, people are going to judge as well. He did that anyway, so I may as well just try it because life's too short.

But I did definitely feel more confident. Like winning that show, because it's such a huge show, I did sort of feel like, oh, it's okay to be me. Like, I can be a bit weird and a bit introverted. Because a lot of the time, I just spent sitting on my hammock talking to Joel. Like, me and Joel would just sit for hours talking on the hammock, and I thought, how am I getting through?

What are they shown? Because they must be shown me doing something interesting. So I definitely felt more accepted when I was. that so that was really nice. And presumably, there's something about that show, I suppose, because as you say, it's kind of showing, it's showing the real you because you're not in a studio, you haven't had your hair done, you haven't got anecdotes. Do you know what I mean? It's not the, there's not the option of having control over the editing or anything, you know. And when you're like, you're hungry,

you're tired, you're missing your family, like that is the realist you can get because you can't fake that. Like, if you know yourself, if you're hungry and tired and then on top of that, it's cold. you just can't pretend. I used to be so self-conscious about the way that I looked on my body and everything and so I would really try and I would never edit but I would try and like position myself in certain ways and like or I'd take it from certain angles. So now I've started like actually just doing videos because there's no hiding then. And then I just think if I do that then people can see the real me like I'm owning myself again.

So I've started doing that a lot and it has helped my confidence because I think sometimes like especially when I was younger and I constantly like filtered things or I mean there were so many if I ever went missing they would have to have used a photo of me with a like dog filter on which is like honestly I my mom would always go scallet if you went missing the posters would be you with like a dog tongue and dog ears like you need to stop using that filter so I did and like I do feel better for it because at least now if I go and They've got actual photos of what I looked like. You imagine the police issue,

your parents looking tearful at the press conference with the picture of you with the dog Tom. And then having to explain, she doesn't normally have these ears. This is just a filter. Scarlett, here's a question. What do people get most wrong about you? Oh, um,

and there's quite a lot, I suppose. I think people, well, a big one is people assuming that I'm like really loud all the time and I'm like super confident. I'm definitely not super confident. And another one like, and I don't know, maybe it's the way I've portrayed myself, but people always assume that I'm thick. Like I get quite a lot of like stereotyping of people just assuming that I'm stupid. I don't know if it's like my accent or whatever but like I always remember filming and this producer sort of explaining the same thing to me three times

and I was like oh yeah that's fine I understand and then explaining it again and I was like no really like I understand and I don't know if it's just because people just think I'm from the north therefore I must be stupid I don't know that's yeah that's well I was going to say that's interesting That's very, that's very hurtful and unfair, isn't it? How do you react in situations like that?

Are you, do you, are you a confronter or are you a people pleaser? I appreciate, go on. People pleaser. Although sometimes I do just, like, because I find it really difficult to sort of be arcy with people. Like, in my head, I've got a whole sort of like, I'm almost doing a solicit. I'm not saying it out loud, but inside I'm like screaming like, I know I'm not stupid, you're the one that's doing it wrong. But then I'll just go, yeah, that's fine, okay, thanks for that.

But inside I'm screaming, but on the outside I would never show that. And I do think women have this a bit as well, is that I think as women you're slightly encouraged to not, to be good. Do you know what I mean to be the good girl? Yeah, definitely. Because if not you're a diva. not you're a diva or um you know you get like if you actually have an opinion or you have an idea sometimes it's sort of put across like oh yeah well done you're thinking like a man or it's like oh well no get back in your box because that's sort of like not your place

as i've gotten older i have just realized like it is it is quite difficult being a woman I feel like I never know what like I'm either too quiet or too loud or I'm like not pretty enough or I'm too fake enough like I just feel like you can't win so you've just got to be yourself and then not take anything personally and realise that it's other people's ignorance and then being uneducated not you tell me Scott I want to know you've been with Scott for a while now and you've been with Scott for a while now and you've even you've You guys get on so well, you even do a podcast together. Tell me how does that, what are you like to have a relationship with? What would Scott say about you? What makes it work? Well, he always says I'm very kind. He always says I'm the kindest person that he knows, which is nice.

I am a massive people pleaser and family girls. So, like, I am like a grand. Like, for example, I organise, like, family holidays. So I book family holidays for everyone. I have like Christmas at my house. I have birthday tea parties at my house. And I have done that like for eight years now. So I am quite like a nan.

I very much like being the mother all. So how did you and Scott meet? Do people always joke the fact that you're going out with a policeman? I presume every time you tell people what he does. Oh, I know how you two met, you know, etc. Yeah, they do actually. But we've known each other for 12 years, so we've known each of there, like, a very long time.

And to be honest with you, I am going to be honest to you. And he will appreciate me since, because I don't ever admit it. But I had actually tried going on a date with him a few times. But we just always sort of like, I was either, when he was single, I was dating someone. When I was dating someone, he was single. like it just never sort of like matched up but then but then now it did so we actually um we like

met in town and then started chatting and then i actually had like a weird pap outside my house that was sort of trying to take photos inside my house so i rang the local police station um i didn't i didn't nine nine nine it i was like that isn't important enough for nine nine and and scott actually came to the house to deal with that and then I was like oh and my friend was in the house with me at the time I was like he's so fit like I really fancy him and then Liam was like well why don't you just comment on his on a picture on Facebook so I actually commented on a picture of him and his dog Toby and I put oh cute and the dog you see that's quite bold I'm impressed and then I know I'd had a couple of drinks do not think I'd

that's sober. Like, on the morning, I was like, I can't believe that I'd done that. But he commented back with a smiley face. Yeah, I was absolutely wounded. But then all of his friends were messaging him saying, why are you so bad at flirting, Scott? Oh, really?

He got a couple of tips off his friends. And then we started chatting on Facebook Messenger, and I was like, he was just taking too long to ask me on a date. And I was like, look, do you want to go on a date or not? because I don't have time for pleasantries. Like, I'm just so busy. I've got an idea, Scarlett. You could have sent him a message saying,

who do you fancy? And then he could have replied you. And then I'd be like, oh, I fancy you. Oh, you meant who do I fancy? Because that always goes well for you. Yeah, that's changed. Yeah, that actually is a good line for me.

Oh, no, I'm starting to feel sick thinking about that. I'm feeling sick. I can't be, I don't feel sick for the rest of my life about this. It keeps popping into my head. So you must have with you and Scott, what do you think makes it work? What do you think? Because I don't know if you've had your heartbroken before. I have.

Yeah, I have. It's awful. When you look back on those relationships, Scarlet, when I do, I think there were red flags all along. Yeah. From the start. Honestly, like, and I just wish I'd listen to my mum. I don't know why because my mum always knows best.

And I'd constantly be, find myself lying for people. I was in a relationship with or I'd find excuses so I'd be like oh well no maybe his ex is just messaging him because you know he's a nice person and that's why he's replying or maybe he got in at like seven in the morning and and messaged his friends saying say that I was with you instead of a house party because he's trying to spare my feelings and not make me overthink and but no it turns out should I just should just listen to my gut instinct and my mom and because that's always right but yeah with Scott I just I always chose people and again I do think this is very deep but I do think subconsciously

I chose people that was sort of like aesthetically out of my league because I'd always been that kid that could never get a boyfriend so I think in my head me choosing people who were like proper gym bods and were like the popular ones in the town that was my way of like reclaiming my teenage years back I've never been able to find anyone and but with Scott like he's obviously I fancy him but he's just like a really lovely person like he's really kind I never worry and it's took me a while to get used to sort of not having drama like we'd just go on a night out or we'd go for food and then we'd come home watch a bit telly

and that's the night whereas before there would always be some sort of drama or argument and it's like I'd almost got used to that and I thought that that was aware of of them show me that they cared that they would shout or like and then I just realised no that it was just so wrong

and I wasn't really in nice relationships with people that were nice people I did get used a lot and like the fact that some of my exes you know went on take me out straight after or applied for Love Island shows the sort of reasons why they wanted to be with me really but Scott isn't like that I can't imagine it would apply just but take me out you're very um I would use the word emotionally literate you sound have you had therapy at all um so I have but only for a short time and when I first came out of the

jungle and I found every like literally the jungle I found everything very overwhelming and then I don't think I realized the massive difference of being able to walk down the street and then all of a sudden not being able to walk down the street without people known who you are or you know personal details of yourself being in the press I didn't realize how much that affected me and up until the point where I had a panic attack and I didn't actually know it was a panic attack. I thought I was having a heart attack which sounds really dramatic now but I just remember walking to the front door

and literally not being able to turn the handle like really having to coax myself into to stepping outside and that was becoming a daily occurrence where I was having to ring my mom and being like I can't do it and she would have to really sort of just get me out the house like try and persuade me that everything was going to be okay and I realised then that I needed to speak to someone and I'm so pleased that I did because it didn't it did massively help and it made me realize that I wasn't alone and that I wasn't sort of having out-of-body experiences because I was crazy it's just because that was how my mind was dealing with things that were

going on and but it's always good to it's always good to talk and and when I felt sad in the past I've always rang the Samaritans. They're like a lifeline for me where I always feel better if I'm feeling overwhelmed and I feel like I don't want to be sort of a burden on my family even though I know they would never see it as that. I always ring the Samaritans just to offload a little bit. Well so I've rung the Samaritans when I went through a tough time and you know what I think more people I think I suspect more people than you probably are realised that

have contacted the Samaritans and I'm a big believer in people opening up about that because I think it can be the difference between well being here one day and not here the next you know I'm not suggesting that was how you felt but I mean I just mean it's it can stop you descending

into a darker place was how my personal experience of it it was an objective voice saying I'm listening and yeah because I think that's the thing I always thought right well a way to cope is to be on my own but then I realised actually that's what's making me worse is that I'm not answering my phone that I'm not going out that I am just sitting in bed for days on end that that it does make you feel worse so now whenever I do start to feel a little bit

like that I always just take things in a little step so I'll go right go and brush your teeth that's the first thing and then once you brush your teeth you find that you can go and brush your hair then you can find you can put clothes on and then all of a sudden it doesn't feel like this big massive thing going to the shops it's just you're taking it in little steps then you pat yourself on the back you say oh I've got my dressing gown on that's good I'm not sitting there yeah tell me about your podcast with Scott I mean I've always wanted to do something to do with conspiracy theories because I mean I'm named after an alien hunter Sagani I am my fondest

memories with my dad was making notes on cross circles and and I once fell on a plug and he convinced me that I'd been probed by an alien because it was in a perfect symmetrical triangle but even though I was the one that fell on the plug I still believe my dad so I just wanted to especially during lockdown I think people were just running out of things to talk about things to watch so I wanted to get a conversation started of different things things that maybe people didn't realize were a theory or that they go Google.

So, yeah, we went from like the Illuminati to Royal Conspiracies to Moonlandings. And doing it with Scott was really fun. I mean, it was never the plan, actually, but obviously lockdown happened. And I'm so pleased we did because he is the complete opposite of me and he is very, like, methodical, factual. And he sees things in a different way to me.

So it was good. It was a good contrast because I'm constantly trying to persuade them to believe in at least one conspiracy. I haven't managed it yet, but maybe next series I will. Tell me about Celebrity Karaoke Club, because you know what? This is a series that's happening soon, isn't it? And I've always thought you look like you've got a bit of a voice on you. Oh, thanks.

Well, my mum always says I would make it to judges' houses on X Factor, but I wouldn't get any further. I mean, your mum. I need your mom in my life. Whenever I have a man and I want her honest opinion and I want her to see... Betty, you'll tell you. What would she say? What would she say?

No. Betty would be like straight away she'd go, no, I've got a bad feeling. Like you literally just met him for a cup of tea. Nah, get shot of him. Did she like Scott? What was her view of Scott though? She loves Scott. So actually our first date was an absolute disaster.

Like everything that could have went wrong, went wrong. Oh good. Let me look. Hang on, let me just curl up by the fireside with a cup of tea. my favourite story so like the place that we were going to eat wasn't open and then he made a joke about taking me to macdonalds which i didn't know was a joke i thought he was being serious which actually would have been a decent day but i didn't really fancy sitting in a car park eating chicken selects on our first date um he told me i reminded him of albert einstein

so i was like nah i think we're just best as friends and it was my mom that went no i've got a really good feeling. I think he should give him another chance. So I'm pleased that she did, because I listened for once. You see, your mum is good at these things. So tell me about Celebrity Karaoke Club. So the singing thing. Oh, honestly, in my head, I am Liza. Liza Minnelli, Liza with a Z. That's who I am in my head. Like, I'm full on. I just go into a different character. But I did love it. Like, it was just so fun and, like, everyone was proper up for a laugh and I'm a huge drag race fan and Courtney Act done it. Oh yes.

And I got to duet with her and she's like drag royalty so I had a little bit of like a week of out when I got to duet with her. Even Jason Donovan popped up at one point. I want you just to tell me what is it about having Bonnie? Because I wanted to ask what happened to Scott still have his dog then or is it just Bonnie that you've got? So we just have Bonnie because Toby is lives with Scott's mom and dad.

But we go and visit him all the time. And what kind of dog is Toby? He's a Jack Russell, so he's crazy. He just runs around in circles. Literally, just runs in circles. You're going to have to apologise to Scott because I made the very lazy assumption that he'd obviously have a German shepherd

because he's a policeman. Isn't that terrible? He has actually had a German Shepherd. As a kid, that's so funny. He has actually had a German Shepherd. Tell me why Chihuahua and why Bonnie and what does Bonnie mean to you, I guess? I mean, I am a dog man. Like, I've even, that is on my bio on Instagram.

Like, to me, Bonnie is my child and I do put a lot of, like, time and effort into her. And she just makes me forget about bad stuff. Like, this is the beauty of having a pet is that they love you no matter what, when you have morning breath, when your hair's on. over if you're hung over like they just love you no matter what as long as they get in love back and I mean I even have a voice for Bonnie in my head like obviously she doesn't talk back but in my head she does and I just never feel alone like that's the thing you never feel lonely when when you've got a pet

around like I can be in the house on my own all day because Scott's at work and not hear you from another soul on my phone but I've got Bonnie so I'm fine you just Never on your own. What's your dog voice? I'm going to do mine, Scarlett, because I feel in a safe space with you because you're a dog mum and you understand. So when I'm calling Raymond,

I say, I don't talk ever like this in the rest of my life. And I say, goodbye Ray Ray, Ray. You good boy? Hey, good boy, Ray, Ray. Yes, Raywayway. Okay, over to you, Scarlet Moffat with your Bonnie voice.

Do Bonnie. Where's your bunny? Yeah, you realise actually when you talk to other humans about it, I go, the bunny, where's the bunny? No wonder she looks at me like, bye, you're talking like that. She must like it, though, tailwags when I do that voice. She's just trying to keep you happy. Yeah, she is, isn't she?

Secretly, she's going, oh, this woman and that stupid voice. She doesn't do that voice when she's talking to other people. Why is she talking to me like that? I really hope you enjoyed listening to that And do remember to rate, review and subscribe on iTunes.