Speaker
Lauren Laverne
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Lauren Laverne took only four weeks of maternity leave after her first son, during which colleagues sent her texts warning that others were after her job.
Lauren Laverne had her first son at approximately 28–29 and her second at 30–31, which was considered young in her social circle at the time.
Lauren Laverne argued that Amy Winehouse represents the beginning of the digital music culture where all reference points exist in perpetuity online, enabling genre-blending artists.
Rob Beckett raises a genuine ethical grey zone: when reality TV parents post sponsored content featuring their children in a bath for a bubble bath brand, who gets the five grand? The parent does — but the child is doing the work. Chantel Nash, as an actual child modeling expert, says the rules don't fully cover social media.
Chantel Nash's daughter Etta started child modeling at three months old. By under the age of two, she had been cast in Sky's Midwich Cuckoos. Etta now has a TV credit before her own mother does.
Harry Hill described the chaos of having two children just one year apart — the 'Irish twins' situation — navigating automatic doors with a side-by-side double pram. The sheer physical logistics of early parenting with two close in age come through vividly.
Lauren Laverne had planned to be a historian like her academic father. Instead she fell into TV via Never Mind the Buzzcocks, then into radio because it was 'showing off in private'. She now has the office full of books and records she always wanted — just arrived by a very different route.
Chantel Nash's partner Richie was a child model himself — the face of the Creme Egg McFlurry launch — and is the driving force behind their children's modeling careers. Chantel calls him 'the mummager', the Kris Jenner of the family. He is also an electrician.
Rob Beckett recounts being ambushed mid-shot on a golf course by a man who introduced himself while Rob was trying to hit out of someone else's fairway in the rain. The man specialised in 'high performance in sport and life' and asked if Rob was interested. Rob said no.
Harry Hill's wife sent a message to the Parenting Hell boys: any wife of a comedian knows who actually does the parenting, and it isn't the comedian. Rob Beckett immediately pointed her toward his wife Lou's book on being the 'default parent'.
Harry Hill's adult children dressed as characters from his live show and appeared on stage at Shepherd's Bush. When his daughter took his hand inside a Gary costume, he knew it was her just by the feel — a moment he describes as 'really affecting and sweet'.
Lauren Laverne pushes back against the culture of negativity around parenting teenagers. She argues teens bring exciting 'firsts', genuine companionship, and a sense of who your child is becoming — the hard part is stepping back from being the protagonist in their story.
Lauren Laverne argues that Amy Winehouse represents the cultural hinge point where digital music changed everything. When all reference points live permanently online, you get artists who fuse Shangri-La sounds with colloquial modern lyrics — and that's what modern pop music now is.
Lauren Laverne took only four weeks of maternity leave with her first son — and spent it receiving texts from colleagues warning her that people were after her job. Twenty years ago, the TV industry was a very different place for mothers.
Tom Davis's stand-up tour is called Spudgun — a nickname he got on building sites, named after the bumbling character from the sitcom Bottom. But a colleague then informed him the term actually means something rather different about watery sperm, which Tom says he covers at length in the show.
Chantel Nash was cast in a beach family campaign for Which?. On the day, an RNLI officer arrived to brief the cast on riptides. Chantel, who cannot swim, was expected to run into the sea in March. She ended up on the side of buses across the country.
Rob and Josh play Imagine This with a listener's scenario: a retired police dog looking for part-time vacancies. Rob pictures a German shepherd in a faded police shirt jogging the perimeter of a working dog compound. Josh imagines a generic medium-large dog with glasses reading the paper.
Tom Davis was 146–148 kilos going into COVID. He's now 122 — about four to five stone lighter. Stopping drinking and prioritising steps were the tools, but the real motivation was his daughter: he became a dad at 42 and knew he had to be able to run around with her.
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- Arts 25%
- Music 25%
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