ROCHELLE HUMES: My Mum is the Reason I’m Fearless | GREAT MOMENTS

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2:08Hello everyone, I'm Jamie Lang and this is Great Moments. Hey everyone, I hope you're well and welcome back to Great Moments. Now, if you're new here, this is the place where I'm going to bring you a standout moment from one of my favorite great comedy conversations. These are the moments that have stayed with me long after the recording, and I hope you can take something away from them. Now, if today's conversation leaves you wanting more, you can find the link to the full episode in the show notes. So sit back, settle in, and here it is.

2:41When we were younger, when I was younger, right? being a pop star being famous being like that was just like off the charts I know but you did it I know and do you know what I just it's so basically we we used to watch CBBC at home when we were little did you? yeah yeah yeah and it was an audition and it was called S Club Search and the actual audition was to support S Club 7 at Wembley and it wasn't for a group it was just to go and sing at Wembley and that's what I thought I was entering. These were like the days when it was pop idol kind of era. Thousands of kids queuing around the block at Wembley Arena and we went and we auditioned and I actually went to the audition with Frankie.

3:28Did you? Yeah, because we went to the same weekend dance school. So we went together, we queued together. No. Yeah, with our parents and... Are you nervous or when you had, are you thinking, I'm going to get this? I just this is a great day out like this is unbelievable what was the audition process like it's just really fun there was a few rounds and each time it was like you know if you don't get it you know and at the time I'd like audition for like West End musicals and stuff and I was in one before and I remember auditioning for Lion King oh how mad is this Marvin and I both auditioned to play Simba and Nala in the same year for Lion King but then when we went back because they they obviously have so many kids on rotation.

4:12I then grew too tall for the Simba and then he grew too tall as well. So we could have played Nala and Simba together as like 11 year olds. Soulmates. Could you imagine? Yeah, but the life didn't allow you to do it. No, because that would give me the itch. When I look back, it's cute, but it would have also been a little bit cringe. But what was it about the stage? What was it about being in that limelight that made you excited? I was you're never going to believe this but I was a really shy child I didn't believe it you know just bear with me okay so I had a really bad stammer when I was young so I went to speech therapy and my mum sent me they advised her to send me to dancing because I was that kid that hid behind my mum's legs and was very and I suppose probably because it was just me and my mum I was very sort of like obsessed with her like you know that kid that's just like oh mummy so that That was me.

5:09And then I had a bad stammer. How bad was the stammer? Bad until I was probably eight, I'd say. So I would go to speech therapy. And then that obviously worked. And they said to send me to, for my confidence, to send me to dancing. And, you know, that was an expense for my mum. So she was like, was working hard to send me, bless her. I suppose it was the worst thing she could have done. She couldn't shut me up. she's like she's gone from going come on talk talk talk to being like

5:44like some western wendy all of a sudden so yeah so i think that that was the real reason that i first started but then i just instantly had this i felt like a completely different person when I was on stage and just loved it and then became really obsessed with it and I think it's such good character building when I look back like the resilience it taught you explain that to me because that because in a parent's mind they're going oh my god your kid is going down you're exposing your child to lots of different things and it's crazy but but what are the positives that come out of something like that you're so so your yeses are so are so few like if you you'll go on an audition and you'll get sent for one because you know if you're just on an agent's books I go oh go on then you try this but really when you get there and I never forget somebody saying to me once when you arrive it might not be about anything that you've done it might be that actually you arrived and they were looking for someone with blue eyes or they were looking for someone that's a certain height and it just became about like let's just give it ago they might be after someone with curly hair today or they might be after somebody that's my height or they might be so it became no and I think when you're younger you're so what I felt my experience of the industry as a child thankfully for me and I think all of the juniors would say this I'm confident they would is that we I felt that we were really well looked after like there were no horror stories I didn't you know we were really well protected our parents were really involved and I think they were so protective and they wanted to be part of that journey.

7:27What do you think you've taken from your mum's parenting into your parenting and what haven't you taken? My mum and still now to this day is the sort of mum that I could call her at 3am and she'll be there in two minutes. Like I remember when I'd first moved out and I woke up and I threw up and I didn't know what to do how bad like I had this like phobia for a long time of being sick and I remember just I randomly caught a bug or I'd eaten something and I called my mum at 2am I was like mum you need to come here and she arrived with a bottle of jiff and a cloth at my front door and got in bed with me and that's the sort of parent that she's always been and she still is and I do I think I definitely take that from her that like if my phone went now when it was the school nurse best believe this conversation's done you know and that is the sort of parent I am but I just I think she's the reason that I'm like weirdly fearless I will just take a chance I'll take a risk I'll try something new but I definitely that is from my mum there's no two ways about it she really raised me as like her thing was always like shy kids don't get sweets and you know that like if you don't ask you don't get don't take no for an answer and she really sort of I suppose that sort of tenacity and that willpower is definitely from her like when I think about it now she raised me and my sister solo and that worked every job under the sun and we didn't have any like you know she had me in a hostel and then I remember we got a council flat and that was like such a win and then we got a council house and then she worked and she bought the house off the council and it was like we were letting off confetti cannons, you know.

9:14That was like winning the Euros. So I think, yeah, when I look back now and I see not only the financial privilege that we now have, that, yeah, of course I've worked my arse off for, but she works her arse off and our finances are very different. But when I look back now and I think not only financially, because that's only half of the battle, but what she did as a single parent, I'm like I sort of when Marv's away for the weekend I'll be in a mood with him and like why? I'm like yes alright you're at work you're having a lovely time are you? Is it great DJing and Ibiza? Good you're having a ball you know and I'm like Aggie just because he's away and I think like the kind of the love and the fight that she put in but I never knew When did you recognise that?

10:05Because there's a moment right when you suddenly get a you realise you go oh wait hang on a second I think probably not until later as in like probably just before I had my own or just I think I what one thing that I'll always give her credit for is I never knew that we didn't have a lot as in like life-wise sort of financially I never knew I kind of the only thing I was ever aware of is that I stood in a different queue when we used to queue up for school dinners because I used to get mine because she I didn't pay for my school dinners because she had help with that so I can't that's the only thing that I knew that was different is that I I used to be really embarrassed about yeah what did make you feel yeah I used to be really really embarrassed about standing in the queue but it's weird I don't never do that now I don't think I mean I don't actually know because my children aren't in that situation but I can't imagine now that you'd be in a different queue if you got help with the school lunch I probably but this is where I have like I'm delusional with how positive I am I probably thought I was a VIP in the other queue like okay don't worry about me guys my name's on the list I was like cool until someone flagged that it was because my mum couldn't afford to and it's because she doesn't her dad's not around do you remember that moment yeah I do remember those conversations I remember which is actually so cute my best friend used to be really jealous that I had my mum was dating someone at the time and then there was a period of time when my dad started seeing me for the odd weekend it was only very short and I this is how kids can be also really cute that she went home to her mum who is my mum's still my mum's best friend to this day and she said um I can't believe Rochelle gets two dads so unfair she could really had um you know parents have still been married like 30 odd years now and she just thought it was so rude that I got two dads and obviously for me it's that's how kids can even be so beautiful or so awful you know and I think we do such a job in dictating that you know your your dad wasn't around no no and he left when you were one he left when I was one and so I don't really have any memory of him I remember a sort of there was a short window where I did see him at the odd weekend, but then that ended quite quickly because I remember waiting for him.

12:29And I remember then that then being like, oh, he's not coming today. Where were you waiting? Literally on the sofa by the window. And it's so weird because when I think about it now, I, there was so many years that I was like, I'd be really upset about it or really angry. and the day that I it's like you now in this era for you so the day that I sort of had a layer and we're in those first few months of that bubble I instantly had zero curiosity about ever getting to know my dad but also knowing that I don't think I'd ever respect him as a person as he wouldn't be someone that I choose to spend time with so I think I instantly became less upset when I think of the little me I think oh god that's so sad like I think of my children I think oh my gosh even if they wait for me and I'm in a traffic jam for five minutes at the school I'm like I don't want them to be left so I think yeah I just I it weirdly as a as a kid I did find it quite hard and I think he went on to have three other children who who now are like my right arms you know I'm like we're obsessed with each other but I found it really hard that the way that I saw it from the outside that it was that he was parenting them and not me who filled that space the space for your dad growing up my uncle my uncle big time yeah he would be like the one that would you know if something happened or he was kind of that male presence in my life.

14:09Because that's important. It is, yeah, it is. But really, I think my mum just wore so many hats that I just didn't know any different. So I felt so special when my Uncle Paul would come and he played football. So he was playing for England and all my friends thought that was really cool because he was Paul Ince and he was like this huge... Sorry. Hold on a second. Yeah, I know. Sorry? Oh, you didn't know this. I thought that's why you asked me. No, this is not in the notes. I don't think people really know about this, actually. But yeah, so he's, so my mum, I know, so he's, so he's close. He gave me away at our wedding.

14:50Imagine Marvin had to ask Paul to marry me. That's another story in itself. Can't wait. Yeah. Wow. So that was really exciting. So I'd get taken to West Ham every weekend. and I always think that's also why I don't like football so much because it was such, I just had to go and sit and watch. Because you were forced to go into it. It was like, yeah, I just thought we'd be just doing colouring and stuff whilst we were watching. So he really was that, like, male role model that I looked up to that was, like, there for his kids that was... Wow, and a lot of other men looked up to as well. Paul Ince is a real icon.

15:23I didn't know that until I was older, until I was, like, at secondary school and, you know, boys thought it was cool. Like, I didn't actually realise that. I just knew that he was, and I think I really saw their life as, so Claire, his wife and my mum are best friends. They grew up in the house next door to each other. He's not actually my blood uncle, but he was instantly, my mum was the first one in the group to have a child and that was it. He just became like. What a great guy. Oh, he's incredible. And he's just. That's just a big responsibility to take on. Yeah. He was just around and he was just always that person for me.

15:59always is, always will be. They both are.

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