“Outrageous, saucy behaviour!” What’s going down in Fearne’s WhatsApp groups?

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1:29Fearne Cotton: Well, hello there. I'm Fern Cotton and this is Happy Place. And in these episodes, what we like to do is look at the things that are making all of us feel great, putting us in our happy place, and the things that are quite frankly not, they're making us feel terrible. That's what we are chatting about again today. I'm going to start with one of my likes and it is WhatsApp groups but only the good ones. The school WhatsApp group, that's in the bin. There's too many. I'm on about eight school WhatsApp groups but the fun one, my favourite WhatsApp group is me and my girlfriends from school who are still the best of mates.

2:09Fearne Cotton: There's seven of us. You've heard me more than likely talk about them previously. That WhatsApp group alone has the propensity to shift a whole day in the right direction. So last night, I had very flippantly mentioned that everybody, because we were all having a shit time. And I just said, if you want cheering up, watch the Kylie Minogue documentary, because it is pure 80s nostalgia. We were all little kids in the 80s. So for instance, Scott and Charlene's wedding in Neighbours was probably the biggest event of our childhoods. Nobody missed it. Everybody watched Neighbours. Millions of people in the 80s were watching Neighbours because we had like four channels.

2:49Fearne Cotton: and it was such a cultural moment and then we were all members of the Kylie fan club we used to get like pin badges in the post but this documentary is so good if you haven't seen it that's another of my likes this week you've got Kylie Minogue and Jason Donovan talking about that whole era and their romance I mean it is mind-blowing but that one comment led to almost a 12-hour chat on this WhatsApp group that ended in a conversation that I daren't repeat on this podcast. Outrageous saucy behaviours going on and things being discussed. But it's just the level of tomfoolery and larkery that I can have with those ladies, judgment-free.

3:33Fearne Cotton: We could say anything to each other. There's no rules. We all love each other. And there's a brilliant sisterhood there but mainly it makes me howl with laughter. The chat's still going on now and Fran who is an air steward is literally going through security about to get on a flight and we're still all like having this chat. It's ridiculous but I love it. That is one of my big likes for this week. Let's check out some of yours. Go floral or go home says our new Lido in Portsmouth. I love swimming. Amelia from Team Happy Place. You like going swimming don't you? Do you go to a Lido? yes I feel like Lido's are so retro so cool I don't think I've got a Lido anywhere near me but if I did I would be in it I think swimming outdoors absolutely divine I love that for you Jo says seeing take that with my bestie and booking to come to the happy place festival oh see you there darling and yeah take that live I've seen them many times live in their various iterations and they know how to put on a show and also if you love take that we had take that as in the trio they now are on happy place I want to say three years ago around that marker if you want to spool back into the archives Darcy says a few weeks to chill before I start my new job yeah lean into that chill we all need more chill out time in our lives what are we doing why are we rushing around so much?

5:00Fearne Cotton: It doesn't make sense. Let's have a look to Team Happy Place now. Ah, this is a simple pleasure. Tia says, putting out the washing in the garden. I've got to fix my washing line. I've got one of those ones that is just a big long wire you pull out and attach to the other end of the garden, but the hook's broken. So it's just a bit of string. So that has reminded me, Tia, that I need to do that. But there is something quite nostalgic for me, certainly, about seeing washing flapping around in the garden. Something lovely about that. Flapping around the breeze. Yet we have been quite thunderstorm heavy recently.

5:34Fearne Cotton: So it's probably less of a good idea at the moment, but I love that one. Gorgeous. Should we get onto our dislikes? My dislike this week. I mean, it's actually something that I really like, but I'm disliking it this week. And that is red wine. Oh, I love red wine. I really like everything about it. I think it's great. Yeah, the other day I was at dinner with a friend and I drank too much red wine and I turned into a twat. I brought out all of my worst qualities in one failed swoop. I just turned into like a mega knob. And the sad thing is I was like really enjoying it like whilst I was swirling my glass around and saying what's what about the world I was sort of really getting a kick out of it not okay of course I apologized profusely the next day and there was no offense taken whatsoever and it ended in laughter but I learned a valuable lesson there.

6:47Fearne Cotton: Certainly with that type of red wine, which is a very strong, heady, punchy red wine, just stop after two glasses. Anything after two is probably going to turn you into a knob. Me, not you. Talk about myself here. So a valuable lesson learned from this week's dislike from me. Let's have a look at some of yours. Elaine, tiredness. Oh, I hate it. I'm really tired at the moment my sleep is real bad Elaine I hear you but even sometimes when you've had a really good night's sleep you still feel knackered the next day so annoying is it just because we're getting old that's really disappointing if it is annoying Penny says little things I'm not in control of but I'm worrying about regardless that's why I can't sleep Penny that's exactly I lie there running everything that's ever happened in the world through my brain.

7:42Fearne Cotton: And of course I can't sleep and none of it's in my control. Pointless. Nicola, don't say that Nicola. Nicola says my thighs. No, that can't be your dislike. Love those thighs, those gorgeous thighs. Nicola, demand that you, okay, demand is a strong word. I highly encourage that you grab those thighs and you go, I love you thighs. They're amazing those thighs. They're keeping you strong. Let's have a look at Team Happy Place. Okay, Lana from Team Happy Place. Is Lana's, I mean, I should know this. Is Lana's official title brand manager? I feel like it is. She just does like everything Happy Place, like ties all the loose ends together and she's amazing.

8:30Fearne Cotton: And she says, the Instagram algorithm, all I want to see are my friend's holiday pictures, but my feed is full of creators and strangers I don't even follow. This is so true. I would say like 90 % of my algorithm is like stuff and people that I'm like, who are these, who are these people? What is this? Do you remember back when Instagram started, you would only see people you knew, which seems mad to us now. And it was chronological. It was on a timeline. Do you remember that? So you would see the most recent posts would be the things that you would see when you opened your Instagram. And I remember when it changed and it was like, oh, this is just going to be all out of order now.

9:08Fearne Cotton: You're just going to get served different things from like, it could be a month ago, it could be a week ago. And I was like, what? What, you're just going to like time travel? Like what? This doesn't make sense. Now it's so normal to us. And it's probably not good for our brains, is it? That we're just seeing this bombardment of stuff that we don't even want to see. Yet we look at it because we can't help it. But back in the day, it was so easy. It was so simple. Oh, there's my friend who five minutes ago ate a sandwich. Oh, there's another of my friends who's just at her desk right now. That's right now.

9:41Fearne Cotton: Like it was what you wanted to see at the time it was happening. The world's gone mad, Lana. I totally agree with you, babe. I hope this has been a catharsis for you as much as it has for me. We love doing these episodes and we highly encourage that you send us on Instagram things that you really like at the moment things that are putting you in your happy place and things that are not your big dislikes what are they let us know we'll read them out we'll get into it we'll chew the fat thank you so much for listening to happy place i love you

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