My Therapist Ghosted Me - A Pheasant, A Flamingo & A Lobster
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Welcome to My Therapist Ghosted Me with me, Joanne McNally, and all the way over there
in Jersey, it's Vogue Williams.
Yay!
It's the podcast that works on the basis of hollering, I didn't know what that word was,
I was going to say hollering, our issues into a microphone, even if we have to do it from
either side of the English channel.
I did not know I was on the other side of the English channel. Now I do.
On this week's podcast, we talk about stuffed flamingos, jobs, debbs and more.
How is it?
It's stunning. It's like being in a different world. I feel like I'm almost in Ireland.
It's hot. It's sunny.
Well, it's not hot. I mean, it's 12 degrees, but still that's hot.
It's sunny and it's just really nice and relaxing.
I'm glad to be here.
Have you done any water activities?
I did. I went swimming with the kids yesterday.
Nice.
Went to the gym.
We talk about how we, Joanne and I,
we were so excited last week about our big day out on Friday.
We went together. We went out for lunch on Friday and neither of us have recovered ever since.
Oh my God, my anxiety is through the roof.
I'm having night sweats from the alcohol. I swear I'm never doing it again. Honestly. honestly my theory on you is because you're so healthy that if your body even like smelt a
teaspoon of cow ball it would just like like it would just rebel it like you can't put any toxins
in your body because your body is just like a like a vase of Evian water at all times whereas
if I'm struggling that's a real sign that we did the dog on it because usually there's no consequences
to my actions at all,
which is why I go bananas
because I never get hangovers.
But because we did such the dog on it,
honestly, my anxiety is like,
I'm regretting things I did
at four years of age.
Like I'm genuine.
I'm wondering why I got a C
in my maths junior,
so why I didn't work harder.
Like every single thing
I've ever done in my life
is running around in my mind.
It's horrific.
I'm saging
like it's going out of fashion.
I'm listening to smooth jazz.
Like it's next level anxiety.
I have to say
I'm happy about that
because I called you on Saturday.
Honestly, I rang her about
five or six times.
I was like,
what am I going to do?
I just feel so awful.
I feel so terrible.
And she's like, oh, I'm Grant. I'm Grant. And I was like, what am I going to do? I just feel so awful. I feel so terrible. And she's like, oh, I'm Grant.
I'm Grant.
And I was like, why is this happening to me?
Why do I feel so terrible?
And now you've joined me.
Yeah, you were in a terrible way.
Sometimes I think, though,
if you're really in the horrors,
that having kids is a good thing
because you have to just get up
and like keep them alive.
You can't just roll around
and indulge your anxiety.
Do you know what I mean?
I'll tell you what happened.
This is bad parenting number one.
So Theodore had swimming on Saturday afternoon
and I couldn't take him.
I was too hungover.
I wasn't able to work the scooter.
That's how bad I was on Saturday.
How do you work?
Do you not just put them on and push them?
Listen, you heard me on Saturday.
Do you think I'd be able to go on a scooter?
No, you were close to the edge of life in fairness
and so
Sven he had to take him
to swimming
and I was like
oh god that means
I've got shishi
I lay on the floor
with her
for the whole hour
they were gone
and I was like
what can I
what can I distract her
with now
I gave her so many crisps
oh I mean
it was not a good parent
yeah yeah yeah yeah
so we're gonna stop drinking
I think that we need
to give it up for a month
I know everyone says that but we mean it oh i'm never leaving the house again like that's
it now like next time i leave the house with my own funeral i'll be wheeled out i'll be wheeled
out of the house in a coffin and put into the back of an ambulance or a hearse i'm never leaving i'm
never going out again and i i stand by it i stand by it we paid for that pain through the feckin
nose jesus vogue doesn't eat for cheap, I can tell you. Having rich
friends is an absolute pain in the hell when the bill
comes. You're like, oh yeah, that's grand.
Sorry while I just nip off and try and sell
a kidney. I'll be back in a minute.
Oh, another glass of
champagne, Vogue? Sure, work away.
Excuse me, excuse
me. We all share the
bottle of champagne and then you're the
one who decides to get,
I'm going to have, I'll have, I'll have a bit of rosé.
Oh, and I'll have a cocktail.
I had a margarita.
Did I tell you at the time I made my mother a margarita
and she came in and she went,
thanks a million, I loved that carbonara.
There was another time, the best one was,
she'll kill me for telling this story.
She goes, gorgeous carbonara.
I was like, what?
I know for sure, like, I'm not that drunk. I know I didn't make you pasta. Like, I'm not that much
in a blackout. We were watching Happy Feet and there's this scene, you know, with the penguins
or whatever. And then they were dancing and she was there to me. We'd taken a splash, as my friend
Nancy would say, we'd taken a splash of wine. And she was like, I'm very impressed with that now.
I think they're wearing like hats and everything.
I was like, why?
And she goes,
how on earth did they teach them to do that?
I was like,
are you high?
She thought it was a documentary.
Fucking cartoon.
Oh no.
Your poor mom.
Moms do say really dumb stuff
sometimes though,
don't they?
Not me.
No, I was going to say,
I was going to say,
are we including you in that? Okay, fine. Not me. So anyway was going to say I was going to say re-including you
okay fine.
So anyway yeah
back to your rich friends
you're the one that caused
the damage on Friday
it's all your fault.
It's all my fault
I take full responsibility
well I'm paying for it now
emotionally
I can tell you that much.
I feel better already
knowing that you're
now going through the pain.
My friend Susan
said the same thing
because we went out
on Thursday night
and on Friday
she was there to me
how are you?
And I was like
I'm actually grand.
And she was like
I hate you.
She was like
go home, start crying
and film yourself crying
and send it to me.
She's like
that's the only way
I'm going to feel better
about this situation.
I have such a tolerance
for it.
It's bananas.
But like I say
that's it now.
That's the end of that now
I can tell you.
That's the end.
We've turned over New Leaf.
We're only going to say it.
We're going to train loads.
You have to tell yourself
these things to make sure
that they happen.
I am wall to wall New Leaf.
Like I am a full blown
bush of New Leaf.
So in my world of pain,
actually, I let Theodore
stay up till half seven one night
because I didn't see
Jonathan Ross on Saturday
because I was so hung over.
I watched it on Sunday
with Theodore.
You were amazing on that.
Did he wreck?
He wrecked, of course he was.
He was like, Joanne!
Oh, I love it!
He says my name!
I love it so much!
But I loved it
and you were in most of it.
Like, he was talking to you so much.
He loves you.
I like Jonathan.
We get on very well.
But I think we do.
He's kind of iconic.
He's in a full,
like, head-to-toe leather suit like
he's a he's a great man for the fashion in what sense he makes bold choices he makes bold choices
yeah was he so sweaty no and I was when I was in vinyl disco leggings and I wasn't so the set was
actually quite cool because obviously they anticipated that Jonathan would be wearing
some sort of leather suit. But it was so funny
because I told the story
about that bald lad
that got me into stand-up.
And I got in a lot of trouble.
And by the way,
boy George is bald.
Is he?
Yeah, and he kept slagging
on bald people.
Oh my God,
that's,
I didn't know.
No wonder he didn't
follow me back on Instagram.
I was literally
watching.
Someone got to
give me the heads up.
The researcher
had to tell me.
I told him I was
going to tell that
bull man story.
Tell him, run us
through because that
was pretty epic.
No, but I'm like
just short story
long or whatever
that's saying.
Long story short.
Long story short.
Heavy weekend,
heavy weekend.
I'm like,
a rolling stone
gathers an early bird.
Basically,
whatever,
got dumped by a bald lab,
was raging about it
and then got all like,
do you know you're bald?
This conversation
sounds like you think
you've got a full head of hair.
Anyway,
it was telling the story
and the only abuse I got online.
Now, I never go and search my name,
or I wouldn't go and look at, like, the hat Jonathan Ross.
I only see what I'm tagged in.
Because for my mental health, I'm like, I'm not going down that sewer.
Never. I don't search my name. No way.
No. Anyway, so I was getting a lot of abuse from the bald community.
Well, in fairness now, there was only two tweets.
One lad was like,
this is a disgrace.
If a man said that about a woman,
I thought, oh, he's trying to reverse it.
And one of them was like,
anyway, I was like,
but a man didn't say it about a woman.
A woman said it about a man.
So it's grand.
That's feminism.
Fuck off.
Anyway, I just wrote back,
I'm sorry, sir.
Are you bald?
And he wrote something else.
And I said,
because you sound bald.
And then I blocked him.
And then the only other,
and also because on the show,
I said that I'm deeply attracted to hooligans,
which, as we all know, is true.
I love that kind of chavvy look.
Everybody is.
I know, aren't they?
Everybody is.
And a woman messaged me saying,
or tweeted at me going that I was glamorizing
domestic violence against women.
I was like, what a fucking leap.
It's not like I went out and said,
do you know what I think is gas? Getting the shit kicked out of you by your husband. I literally like, what a fucking leap. It's not like I went out and said, do you know what I think is gas?
Getting the shit kicked out of you by your husband.
I literally said,
I'm attracted to men who drive high-ace vans.
Like, that's literally all I said.
Honest to God.
What did Boy George tweet you?
Nothing.
He was like, we were just kind of chatting.
We were getting really well.
So I added him on the gram and I was like,
oh my God, we're like best mates now.
Hey, George.
Georgie B
BG
he is
Google is
boy George
bald
he's the most
bald man ever
and you slagged
him to his face
no well in fairness
right
at the other side
of it is
at this stage
of my life
it was an old story
he looks great for it
and what I will say now
is I'm at a stage
of my life now
where I have to accept bald men
no more than I have to accept
men with children,
men with ex-wives.
That's where I am now.
Baggage, baggage, baggage.
I love a skinhead.
I'm actually attracted to men
who kind of look like fascists.
That's kind of true.
You have a weird taste in men.
I just, at this stage,
I'd fucking take a wheelie bin.
A wheelie bin and a pair of nightgowns, Max.
I'd be like, come on, let's go.
Let's crack the seal on this bad boy.
Spenny was saying something there the other day
about if he had set up a dating app before he broke up
and he'd hide the fact that we have kids.
I don't think I'd get away with that.
What do you mean? I don't understand.
I understand why he would hide it,
but there's no point hiding it.
You kind of need to know.
You need to know straight out if you're going to be a stepmom or not. And also, like I say, at this stage in my career, in my relationship
career, I'm not going to throw some lad out because he's got kids. Sure, what can I do?
To be honest, it's kind of weirder at this stage if they don't have kids. Why don't you
have kids? What are you, some sort of fuck boy? That's one of the terms the young kids use.
It's like me trying to go on TikTok.
And then you wouldn't have to get pregnant.
You could have like a pre-made family. Perfect.
Exactly.
Benny's basically bald
everywhere except his head.
That's amazing though. That's what I want.
Like a kind of a smooth, like a dolphin body.
No, I mean, he
is quite hairy. It was like he was never born. No, I mean, he is quite hairy.
Like, it was like he was never born.
He was knitted.
He's so hairy.
And he hates having all that hair,
but I love it.
And he just gets rid of all of it.
You should see the fucking chair
when he's finished.
Well, I'll tell you now,
when one of my ex-boyfriends
shaved his ass
and he sat three inches lower
on the chair,
I was like, I can't believe
he was literally risen
from the amount of hair in him.
What's a nose in Irish?
Schnoggin'. How many years did you learn Irish?
No one ever learned.
You don't really learn Irish though.
Shrone.
You do know what a shrone is
what's a mouth
a mothan
well you'd have to know
what a mouth is
the fucking size of yours
I think it's the first thing
I had to learn
I was thinking
because I was watching
you and Jonathan Ross
and that got me thinking
because he was saying
you were talking about
when he came and stayed with me and it's because you had to work for free all the time and that got me thinking because he was saying you were talking about when he came and stayed with me and it's because that you had to work for free all the time and it got
me thinking about all the shit jobs that we've had to do in our time like I had to work well I
wouldn't say it was a shit job but I worked on a building site for six months in London when I was
doing my degree I was a site engineer and I was just so crap.
He sent me out to measure things I didn't know how to measure.
They locked me in a digger one time.
They used to try and bribe me with things like,
we'll let you choose your own steel toe boots if you just go and do this.
I was like the worst worker ever.
Why did you end up in that world though?
Is this from what you did in college?
Yeah, to my degrees.
Yeah.
I think it's too cold
on a building site for me
it was too cold
I mean talk about
a professional pivot
you went from basically
being a builder
on a site
to now
you're basically
landed aristocracy now
and you're in a quest area
and you play polo
at the weekends
Spenny is so posh right
that he actually said to me
he was like
darling we should do polo lessons once a month together and I think Spenny is so posh right that he actually said to me he was like darling
we should do
polo lessons
once a month together
and I'm like
you're like
imagine trying to live
that down in a house
no
wait
that's too far
even for me
he's got polo boots
and everything
and he is one of the six
I remember
one of the first times
I was in your house
and you know the way he has that big
he has that big bird
that taxidermied stuffed bird
I fucking hate that bird
I read it really fast
and I thought it said
it said the first pheasant I shot
but I genuinely thought it said
the first peasant I shot
and I was like
oh my god
this is what posh English people do
they go around and shoot peasants.
The peasants in the freezer.
And then they gifted them a pheasant to mark the death of the peasants.
So funny.
I hate that pheasant.
And he's like, darling, that's not my first pheasant.
And I'm like, oh my God, why couldn't it have been something small that you shot first?
You're dragging a deer through the
door it's the first frog oh yeah okay you can stuff the frog we've room for the frog oh my god
you know what recently i should have actually asked you this because i'm after i've lost it
now i can't get it anymore basically i was in this house for a shoot and they had a stuffed
flamingo i swear it and i was like what i was like how did you get that flamingo i was like
you're not going to do that. And he was like,
if a flamingo dies of natural causes,
like in a zoo or something,
a taxidermist will take the flamingo
and like stuff it.
So I knew a taxidermist
because I got a lobster
that you've seen downstairs.
Yeah.
We have a lobster
and she had to fix it for us
because it came from St. Bart's.
And anyway,
she was like,
she told me she had a flamingo.
Sorry,
can I just say,
this is, like I know I slag a flamingo. Sorry, can I just say, this is,
I know I slag you,
but this is saying that you had a lobster
stuffed by a taxi tourist
flown in from Singapore.
It's the most ludicrous thing you've ever said. Oh my god
You probably flew it first class
It didn't have its own seat
And everything
It's a fucking stuffed lobster
And it's huge
It wasn't stuffed
It's not stuffed
It's been like scraped out
Spenny still gets amazing
Birthday presents
Off his parents
That was a present
that was
great
I've seen that thing
it's the size of a
nine-year-old child
in fairness
it's spread out
that's not how big
the lobster is
anyway
back to the flamingo
so the same girl
she's emailed me
on Instagram
a while ago
and she's like
I've come across
a flamingo
I was like what
she's like yeah
there was a flamingo from a flock in Birmingham zoo or something and it's died and they've offered
it to me and I was like ah like if it's dead like is it battered and I was like what does it look
like I don't want some battered old looking flamingo and she sent me a few pictures and
she was like I was like can I have a picture she's like like dead or alive I don't know
I was like, can I have a picture?
And she's like, like dead or alive?
I was like, I don't know.
And then she sent me a picture of the flock. I just wanted to make sure it was pink enough.
But like, imagine, like you're like, you're right.
What's the point of getting it stuffed
if it's got like tire marks all over it and stuff
because it got like ran over.
Oh my God.
That makes me suspicious
because if they're selling them,
if a flamingo dies,
if natural,
they're not even going to try
and resuscitate that thing.
So the flamingo comes along.
I had to pay for it up front
and it wasn't bloody cheap.
And then I just thought,
you know what?
That one,
the flock could look like that.
It could be the ugly duckling.
I don't want it in case.
And then I asked her
to send me a picture
when it's done
haven't seen him yet
I'll be raging
if he's stunning
so how has it taken you
this long to tell me
that you've paid
to have a flamingo
stuffed
and flown to Battersea
I didn't pay
I didn't pay
I didn't get the flamingo
on the end
I'll probably be able
to get you a good deal
on it if you want
but are you not
going to take it
I think if I have a lobster
and a flamingo
it's a bit too much.
I don't know.
I actually think a stuffed flamingo
would be pretty.
People have very mixed feelings
on taxidermies.
Like it used to be considered
kind of the hobby of the rich
but now loads of people
are getting things.
Like would you get a purse and stuff?
That's what I want to know.
Have you never seen that
they do in like Brazil and stuff?
They get the person's body, right?
I think I saw it.
Yeah, and say they like going motorcycling they'll stick its body yeah onto a motorcycle and in a big glass casket and dress it all up and have it like smiling no I hate dead bodies so much
I'm gonna do that to you and then charge people to come and like stroke your hair
I'm gonna I'm gonna get you stuffed doing a squat in a gym or i'm gonna get you stuffed that's what i'm gonna do in her natural habitat in her natural habitat yeah
with an elastic band around your knees before i had kids i thought when when he died probably
get him stuffed but only his head because i just his body's not great sorry winnie's body's in
great shape it's his mind i worry about That dog is depressed out of his mind.
He just looks miserable all the time.
He is like, he's living the best life of any dog.
Got four beds or something in our house.
I know.
He's taken for three walks a day.
But would you not, I can't,
if you go to the trouble of stuffing a flamingo you've never met,
would you not just go the whole hog and stuff the body of the dog you love
rather than just cutting off the head and sticking it on the wall?
Why not just turn him into a key ring and give him to the kids?
He's not getting stuff.
What I would like to do when I die, if I die,
that I would like to have a wake and I get laid out, right?
And because the body's really cold, I'd like people to leave their wine.
So I'll have my legs spread out really far and ice put in
between the legs.
So I want like,
my coffin will have to have like,
it'll have to go spread out
like a scissors at the end
and then people,
I'm like,
they'll say their last goodbye,
say a little prayer
and take a cool Chardonnay
from the inside of my legs.
I don't want a Chardonnay
that's dead.
Oh, what?
You want your wine
at room temperature?
Don't come to my fucking funeral.
I want to be used
as an ice cube.
Ham sandwiches on the torso, wine
on the legs.
Oh, disgusting. I don't even want to know
about coffins. I don't like talking about that
stuff. Okay, well we'll cremate you real fast.
I'm gonna, no, because I still have to go in the
coffin. Yeah, we'll just fuck you out into the garden
then. Yeah, I'll just stay in the garden.
Grand. But anyway.
Back to the podcast.
Oh yeah, so my jobs
okay so
I've quit
two jobs
both from shame
one was
I was working
in a bar in Dorky
and I was the worst
bar woman
I just couldn't
pull a pint
I just couldn't do it
right
and they'd be all froth
and this
I remember the first dad
was like
he's like
fucking hell
I asked for a pint
not an ice cream
I was basically
just serving
knickerbocker glories
these old men all day I might as well have stuck a cherry in the pint of Smith because it was it was just all head I was like he's like fucking hell I asked for a pint not an ice cream I was basically just serving knickerbocker glories these old men all day
I might as well
have stuck a cherry
in the pint of smith
because it was
just all head
I was like
would you not
just have a wine
for fuck's sake
have a wine
so I quit that job
because I asked
for an extra shift
and your mom was like
to be honest
I'd rather have
no one on
than have you on
and I was like
okay I should probably go
and the second one
which was really embarrassing
I was working
in a coffee shop
in Deliri
and the boss saw me
eating a potato out of the bin.
So we used to scrape all the food into the bin.
Now, Vogue, eating out of the bin.
I eat from the bin.
Yeah, exactly.
I knew you were going to say, I just didn't, I knew you ate from the bin.
So I was like, don't leave me hanging here, you bitch.
I know you eat from the bin too.
Because as I've always said, the bin is just a bowl with a bag in it.
I've always said it.
I've always said it. If you get bowl with a bag in it. I've always said it. I've always said it.
If you get in there in time,
there is no difference.
It's like a smorgasbord.
If you're working
in a restaurant as well,
when I used to be a waitress
in Scotland,
we'd no money.
So people wouldn't eat
their whole steak
and we'd be like,
weirdos.
100%.
I know.
Another job that I,
I worked in a Chinese takeaway.
Like taking the orders in over the phone.
And every night I would take home
like about 24 chicken balls
and eat them in bed like olives.
And couldn't understand
why at the end of the summer
I could wear nothing but a muumiu.
Like couldn't understand
if there was consequences
to eating 24 chicken balls a day.
Okay, here are some of, of my call outs, right?
So I asked people on Instagram
what were their worst jobs.
I worked as a chalet girl
waitressing in cleaning rooms.
Some people were pretty disgusting.
I went to make a child's bed
and they had peed in it and left it.
I would have stripped the sheets.
We were always so hungover.
We used to drink the soft drinks
the guests would leave
chilling on the windowsill
and spray their expensive perfume on it.
Oh yeah.
That's like, yeah, you're allowed to do stuff like that.
That's grand.
That's not even bad.
No.
I liked this one.
I had to sit in a factory conveyor belt line
and pick out bad peanuts.
I got hardly any and the other woman
and the other woman on the line did not speak in English
and clearly hated me and my crapness.
I fucked off at lunchtime.
I'm sure I wasn't missed.
Do you ever get fired?
I'm trying to think
if I ever got fired.
I think that guy's saying
I'd rather have no one on
than you on.
I think that was getting fired.
That's kind of fired.
And I did ask
the construction side,
I asked Rebelle,
who was my boss,
I said,
would you ever give me a job
at the end?
And he just was like,
no, but I think you're
a really nice person.
That's nice.
That's all I care about.
You did your favour.
Imagine you could be still stuck on the sites.
Oh, hang on.
One more, Joanne, one more.
Right.
Because we've been there.
I walked up and down Grafton Street dressed as a builder
holding a sign for build your own burgers at college.
Spence's friend,
do you remember him?
Who literally,
as I was about to take my brow off,
went,
I just don't think we've got any chemistry.
And I said,
well, it's a bit fucking late now, mate.
Okay,
I've never been an Oscars person.
Did you absorb that information
or were you too high in your jersey sky?
No, I was, of course, checking out
all the fashion at the Oscars.
I kind of like it because, you know,
it's where I gauge what movies I'm going to watch.
I just think it's so up its own.
Do you know what it is, right?
I've never had any interest in the Oscars.
Like, I'm not into that kind of glam life and of all the parties I've ever seen those celebrity
parties the Oscars looks like shit crack oh I mean but you'd go to have a look at everyone
surely of course I go but I also feel really sorry for actors like and I'm not going to name names
right but just say you're like a really amazing stage actor
who's a bit older
or you're not one of these kind of hot, young,
tit-bobbing, cyborg-style actresses.
And then you're all getting compared on the red carpet and all.
I'd be like, oh my God, I feel like shit.
And also, they all just kind of sit around for hours and hours
and hours and hours and hours.
And this year was even worse
because they didn't have that orchestra that plays
to get you to shut up.
You know,
they start banging on about Syria
and then they play the orchestra
because everyone's like,
yeah, you're an actor,
no, okay, okay.
And they didn't have it this year.
And I was like,
that orchestra would be great
to just bring around in life,
just play people off.
Wouldn't it?
They're just,
shut up.
If you get a switch
and you just start pointing
at somebody
and be like,
I'm trying to switch you off,
shut up.
The other point about the Oscars was
this year,
there was a kind of a scandal
because they expected
this guy,
Chadwick Bosman,
I think I'm pronouncing that correct.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Very sadly died.
I think he won the Golden Globe
for Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
and they thought
that he was going to win Best Actor.
And they do it out of respect.
I can't pronounce
what it's called
when you get an award after you've died.
I call it post hummus,
but it's called
posthumous.
Yes.
They thought he was going to get the,
he thought he was going to get the post hummus award
and then Anthony Hopkins got it
and everyone was like,
it's a disgrace
and I'm not being bad.
Is Anthony Hopkins dead?
No.
Oh.
News just in
no
Anthony is alive
but I'm not being bad
and I say this
out of love
but he's 83
everyone's like
oh Chadwick should have
gotten it because
he died
and that's so tragic
I'm not being bad
Anthony's 83
he's almost dead
at least give him
the award that he can enjoy
how do you ship
an Oscar to Wales
by the way
you didn't even go to the event.
That's how shit the Oscars is.
Anthony Hopkins is bored of them.
He's like, no thanks.
I think he did deserve it,
but the other fella probably did too.
But I quite like the glam of it.
He's so diplomatic.
It's like Mean Girls
when they break the crown.
Do you know when they break the crown
and give them all a bit?
That's what they should have done.
I'm that girl.
No, I like the glam of it.
I like seeing what people are wearing.
I like seeing who's going to show up.
I like hearing all the goss after. It's like that other thing, the Met Ball. I live the glam of it. I like seeing what people are wearing. I like seeing who's going to show up. I like hearing all the goss after.
It's like that other thing, the Met Ball.
Like, I live for stuff like that.
I love it so much.
And I would go to the Oscars, and I would go to the Met Ball,
but I will probably never get invited.
So I'll keep watching from the sidelines.
I don't really know if we're Met Ball material.
Excuse me?
Speak for yourself.
Oh, come on.
So basically, that was what I was thinking
I was remembering back
to my last glam event
and then it got me
thinking about
the Debs
right
so the Debs
to anyone
listening
not from Ireland
is
it's our debutante
ball
which I mean
calling it a ball
is I mean
it's
it's a stretch
it's more than a stretch
it's a flapping gaping, it's a stretch. Desperate. It's more than a stretch.
It's a flapping, gaping wound.
It's our last school.
When we, before the Leaving Cert, after the Leaving Cert?
It's after the Leaving Cert.
After, yeah.
Everyone puts on gooners gowns, floor-length ball gowns,
and it's absolute carnage.
It's carnage in a suit or carnage in a plastic crown,
whatever you want to call it.
It's carnage. So anyway, I did a little shout crown, whatever you want to call it. It's carnage.
So anyway,
I did a little shout out on my Insta.
So I was like,
oh, the Debs.
God, I love the Debs.
I wonder if there was any funny Debs stories.
I literally,
there was steam coming out of the fan.
The amount of Debs stories.
I mean, I read. No, tell us yours first.
I want to hear yours first.
Oh, yeah.
So my Debs stories were kind of tame actually
my own devs
I was a bigger girl
back then
so there was no
crack and pick in the dress
I just had to kind of
it was like you know
when Julia Roberts
goes into that shop
and they're like
we've nothing to suit you here
it was a bit like me
they were like
we've one dress here for you
and they handed me
this black sack
that someone had just like
sprayed a bit of glitter on
so I just put that on
so there was no real fun
in getting dressed up
and then
my date that I bought
was just a friend
and he was like
unconscious
within 20 minutes
of getting there
and I think he
he got kicked out
for bringing cans in
I can't remember
anyway
another Debs I went to
which was quite scandalous
I went with a friend of mine
scored some lad
all I remember is
I went
wearing a bra left with no bra.
Oh, God.
But, I know, but one of my besties,
she was there as well with her boyfriend.
It was a boys' school.
And we couldn't find him for a while.
And we found him, well, I didn't find him.
She found him scoring his French teacher.
No.
Yeah, right?
Now, we were completely shocked at the time.
They ended up going out for a while him and the teacher
but
the amount of people
sending me stories in
saying that they scored
their teacher
or someone they knew
scored their teacher
I know
what
yeah
but a lot of young teachers
like you'd have like
young teachers and stuff
that at the time
they might have only been
like 20, 21, 22
actually in fairness
we would have been
about 18 then
yeah
I went to
for my dabs right I was going out
with a boy and
he was lovely actually I was going out with
him though and I didn't actually want to be going
out with him but I didn't break up with him yet so I
invited my friend Reds
and then my mum was so annoyed that I'd invited
someone instead of my boyfriend that she made
me cancel on Reds and then I had to bring the guy
who was my boyfriend and I ended up just getting
absolutely pissed. Why wouldn't you want to bring your boyfriend? I didn't really the guy who was my boyfriend and I ended up just getting absolutely pissed.
Why wouldn't you want to bring your boyfriend?
I didn't really want him
to be my boyfriend at the time
but I hadn't
built the courage
to do the dumping yet.
Well, there was a lot
of act going on as well
but I'm going to read you
some of the ones I got.
Now, I honestly had to give up
writing back to people
because I just,
I could not keep up
with them.
By the way,
there is nothing
I love more
than doing these
call outs on Insta
I was dying
in bed laughing
at some of the ones
I was getting
they're hilarious
they are just so funny
so this is one
at my Debs
the lads got so fucked
they tore your rhino
from the wall
in the hotel
and brought it
into the dance floor
we all thought it was
hilarious
and danced around
for the night
now I posted that
to my Insta story
and I say I got
about 50 messages going,
what school is that?
Because that happened at ours as well.
So I don't know if all those people,
there's like 51 people from the same class following me,
which seems unlikely,
or it's like a thing.
Oh yeah, here we go.
Okay, she talks about how she asked,
she bought this guy she didn't really know,
blah, blah, blah.
So it all was going fine
until we got on the bus from the GIA club to the hotel
and he whipped out a pump and a pack of balloons.
Proceeded to start making balloon animals for everyone,
dogs, snakes, giraffes, whatever.
He only stopped when a girl in my ear
who was sitting about three rows behind us
started freaking out and crying
because she had a massive phobia of balloons.
Got to the dinner,
he kept making balloons under the table
despite my repeated requests
for him to stop making animal balloons.
He then had one bite, got unbelievably tipsy,
went from the dinner to the nightclub,
blah, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Ended up having a great night.
He was actually lovely,
but desperately trying to make my date
stop making balloon animals
was just not a feature of my dabs I ever envisioned.
There was a nut.
There was so many of them.
You know, there were stories about a girl,
she pissed herself,
like she went under the table to take a piss.
There was one, a dab still been messed,
we were saying they were pouring Smirnoff
into their soup as the starter.
There was another group of girls
that they were pouring vodka into the sugar cubes
and just eating the cubes directly.
There was one girl said her friend vomited so badly
she then laid down
and started doing
vomit angels in it.
Like in her own vomit.
That's what the devs is like.
I think the Oscars
might be slightly better
than the devs though.
Come on.
I was pissing myself
laughing to these things.
A lot of it comes from
inviting people you don't know that well
and then it turns out
they're a freak.
So this girl saying
she went to this guy's
Debs with him
she didn't really know him
he got more and more drunk
at one point
during the excruciating meal
like he headed off
to the bathroom
where he stripped himself naked
and then came back
to the table
wrapped head to toe
in toilet paper
with his
he'd cut out
little eye holes
for himself
and everything.
See, I think he sounds like the croc.
There was another girl, I can't find it. It was kind of a long one, but she actually sent
me the photo. She says this was back in the day before we had like tanning mitts and you
just basically like, we all looked like we were doing one of those, one of those, you know,
when people smear shit on the wall.
A dirty protest.
A dirty protest, exactly.
We looked like a walking dirty protest.
There was no, like, tanning mitt
or, like, walk into the spray.
Everything was the same colour.
Everyone smelled like a wagon wheel
and you just fucking ploughed it onto yourself.
But anyway, this girl, God love her,
really went to town on it
and she said it was so bad
but she didn't really realise
because this was back in the day
you didn't take selfies
that she was like
the laughing stock of her school
but she didn't come
and everyone was trying
everyone was asking her
to get photos taken with her
and she just thought
she was really popular
it was because
she was like
such a
God love her
Ron Seal
Ron Seal thank Oh God.
Ron Seal.
Thank you to everyone who mailed me
and sorry if I didn't get back to you.
There was just so many of them,
but they gave me a great laugh.
So thank you.
I can't believe you get back to everyone.
That's so good of you.
I don't.
I just said sorry.
I'm sorry to people I didn't get back to.
Do you remember for April Fools
I kept trying to pressure you
into covering Theodore in fake tan
and saying you'd brought out a baby range
and she just wouldn't do it
and I was like
please do it
Baby Bear by Vogue
I hated the pale colour of my son's skin
so I decided to create something
to combat it
Is your child embarrassingly translucent?
Baby bear by Vogue.
For anyone who wasn't listening last week,
we kind of demanded a spoofer jingle from Joe.
And he has made one, which we have not heard.
But he keeps telling me it's absolutely horrific
and awful and terrible
and the worst thing
that's ever happened
to the world.
So let's hear it.
Okay, this is a segment
we call Spoofer of the Week.
Spoofer of the Week.
That's actually really good.
I actually,
I think that's really good.
It's so bad
but I love it. No, I think it's really good. I think it's really good. It's so bad, but I love it.
No, I think it's really good.
I think it's really catchy.
It's up there with the pennies.
Got a hell of a lot of things
for Christmas.
Things for Christmas.
A lot for the family.
No, that's really good, Jo.
Well done.
Pulled it out of the bag.
Gotcha talent.
So this week's spoofer is,
oh yeah,
so I was saying,
I think James Corden
is a little bit controversial.
I think,
do you know what?
Once I met James Corden actually at the Brits parties. Go on. And he was actually think you know what once i met james corden actually at the brits parties
go on he was actually you know he was i was about to have a little bitch about him there before i
remembered that when i actually met him in real life he was actually quite nice but he seems like
he doesn't have the best reputation yeah i feel like things piss him off quite easily yeah you
have to remember that you're lucky
and that you're in a nice position
and all the people that got you there
and you can't...
But do you know what?
It's a testimony hole.
I know, but do you know what as well?
In his defence,
and he does have quite a bad reputation in the industry
for being hard to work with and stuff,
but at the same time,
I mean, you can't spend your whole life going,
I'm so blessed, I'm so blessed.
Maybe sometimes you just need to be a bit of a dick
to get shit done
Joanne said staring Jo right in the eye
but the one thing I will say about him
is like he's obviously worked hard for his career
and he probably likes to have things done a certain way
and that's the way that they're done
and then people are like
oh he's so whingy
but actually he just wants it done a certain way
Victoria Wood apparently had a reputation
for being very difficult
to work with.
But as she said herself,
she was like,
I'm just someone who knows
how one thing's done.
And I'm a big fan of Victoria Wood.
Rest in peace, Victoria.
Anyway,
so this story is a very
James Corden story.
James Corden's cringe
confrontation with Snapper,
who was actually looking
at Leonardo DiCaprio.
So James is on a beach,
sunning himself.
He's recognised in America now, but this was kind of before Leonardo DiCaprio. So James is on a beach sunning himself. He's recognized in America now,
but this was kind of before he was really big.
And he was getting his photo taken.
There was this snap, snap, snap, snap, snap.
And he went up to the person and he said,
look, buddy, I think you've got your photo now.
And your man's like, what? Here are you.
And he's like, come on, buddy.
You've got your photos.
And he's like, no, man.
Leonardo DiCaprio's standing behind you.
Cringe bags. Now, of course, he's like no man leonardo dicaprio's standing behind you cringe bags now of course
he's all out of the place but it reminded me of a time that i was in the bank i think i was on
republica telly carver water was down and um i was getting slightly like recognized very rarely
you know what i mean like very rarely but you're always at that stage you're like what do you say
you're like you don't be they're like because it's always like do i know you it always at that stage. You're like, what do you say? You're like, you don't want to be, they're like, because it's always like, do I know you?
It's always that.
It's never,
oh my God,
I know you.
Anyway,
I was in the bank
and this girl was like,
do I know you?
And I said,
do you know what?
I'm just going to fucking own it now.
I'm in the biz now.
You just have to,
you just have to go,
yeah,
do you know what?
I'm on Republic of Italy.
And she's like,
no, no, no, no, no.
Were you not in a row to talk?
I was the year below you.
Oh no.
I know.
So from now on,
I'll just go,
if anyone goes, do I know you on I'll just go if anyone goes
do I know you
I'll just go
nope
no no no
I've done that though
like oh
I just
I was telling you that yesterday
standing in my son's nursery queue
and I'm just looking
and somebody's walking
towards the queue waving
and I'm like
woo hi
even though I don't really know
all of them
and then they walk
right by me
to a parent
about like three parents
in front of me
and you're like
oh god
that's so embarrassing
whenever I hear the story
about waving
I remember reading somewhere
was it a meme
going around
or something in a magazine
I can't remember
anyway this girl said
this guy was going down on her
and he looked up at her
and she didn't know what to do
so she just waved
hey
hiya
still here
still conscious
consent consent hi oh my god you know the way because I told that still here still conscious consent
consent
hi
oh my god
you know the way
because I told that
Fanny Shop story
do you know I'm basically
now the face of Kegels
so I'm getting sent
all these free
I'm getting
I'm contacted online
by all these pelvic floor
companies saying
thanks a mil
for raising awareness
about shit pelvic floors
and
then
Maria from Mummy M.O.T.
was on to me the other day
saying,
I've been gifted free Kegels.
Stop.
You need to get those
Pellviva tampon things.
I'm Grant.
My vagina's Grant.
Let's get those
floppy flops sorted.
I now need a little wheelbarrow to drag them around the beach
don't go out there
without your little wheels now
come on
you'll be dragging in the sand
you know the deal by now
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My boyfriend and I were talking the other night about how worldly we've been.
That's my new term
for basically being
a bit of a slut
yeah
how worldly we've both been
the final tally suggested
that he's been more worldly
but allowing for male inflation
I'm pretty sure
he was talking shite
this girl knows her stuff
as he was showing his workings
he described one girl
he'd been with at uni
as probably the hottest girl
he'd ever been with
once he realised girl he'd been with at uni as probably the hottest girl he'd ever been with.
Once he realised what he'd said, he scrabbled around
for phrases like, you know I think you're
gorgeous and what we have is far more special.
As it goes, I'm not particularly
bothered. I like this girl. We've been together for seven
years and he's a stupid man child whose mind wanders
off while his mouth carries on. I obviously made
him sleep on the sofa that night though because he absolutely
deserved it. Love the pod. Lizzie. I would have a breakdown. Like
full blown. I'd be like straight jacketed into the asylum trying to, I'd be scraping
his eyes out of his head. Give me your eyes, give me your fucking eyes. That's what I'd
be at. I'm actually grand with stuff like that unless I'm pregnant. And I like, once
I get pregnant, I am like 50,000 times more jealous than I, because I'm pregnant and I like once I get pregnant I am like 50,000 times
more jealous
because I'm not jealous
when I'm not pregnant
and when I'm pregnant
I'm like
who are you talking there
your mom
oh yeah
and you said you get much hornier
when you're pregnant
which I thought was very interesting
yeah that was a lunchtime topic
Joanne
lunchtime topic
yeah so she can't keep her
pull out of herself
when she's pregnant
that's what she said to me
no
no Vogue
huh
too honest
pulling away at herself day in day out of herself when she's pregnant. That's what she said to me. No, no Vogue. Huh? Too honest?
Porn away in herself day in, day out.
Her paw.
Her paw.
That is so funny.
Her little paw
dug into herself
day in and day out.
Oh my God.
That is...
There's more you could have said, so thank you.
She draws a little moustache on it to spice things up.
She gets bored of her own pole.
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