In short
Olly Murs discusses what it’s like to be a performer, how touring and live TV require “shelving” personal emotions, and how parenthood (he’s a dad of two, “two under two”) changes his perspective and humbles him. He also talks about his health/weight-loss journey, family life, and self-defence/Brazilian jiu-jitsu for kids, plus a humorous “Please Keep Me Anonymous” listener story about a man accidentally saying “I’ve shot my load” at a family meal.
Guests
Olly Murs (British singer-songwriter; former X Factor contestant; dad of two; new album Knees Up; Heart Radio Breakfast Show with Mark Wright). No other guest is featured beyond the hosts (Chris and Rosie).
Key claims
Performing is mentally exhausting and must look effortless; friends/fans often don’t see the real work behind the scenes; weight loss was for longevity and stage confidence, not “a plan”; self-defence should be taught in schools.
Notable examples
Vegas tour when his granddad died; mates getting drunk at his Wales show and forgetting his performance; “Knees Up” singles “Save Me,” “Bonkers,” and “Run This Town.”
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Chapters
Tap a time to open that second in VONatural Conversations and Friendship
1:30 to 3:00
Hosts share thoughts on the natural flow of conversation with guests.
“He was in the older category on XFM, which we can't get our heads wrong now.”
Parenting and Performing
3:00 to 5:00
Olly Murs discusses being a dad and the balance with his music career.
“All of a sudden you're now being put on a stage in front of 12 ,000, 13 ,000 people and you're like, what the hell is this?”
Life on Stage: Pressure and Performance
5:00 to 9:00
Hosts and Olly delve into the pressures of performing live and public expectations.
“But I've got to shelve that for half an hour.”
Friendships and Real Life
9:00 to 12:30
Discussion about how friendships change in the context of fame and performance.
“And then when I spoke to the guys afterwards next day, they were like, Ollie, we're so sorry.”
Grounding in Fame
12:30 to 14:00
Olly reflects on the importance of staying grounded amidst fame and success.
“I was out in clubs and like these really hot, unbelievable, Victoria's Secret like models would come up to you and be like, all right.”
Reflections on Age and Parenting
14:00 to 18:10
Olly Murs shares his thoughts on feeling old and the challenges of parenting during school holidays.
“Didn't realise why that Simon wanted me in his category.”
Travelling with Kids and Flight Experiences
18:10 to 19:27
The hosts discuss their experiences with chaotic flights and the reality of traveling with children.
“your to-do list may feel endless with new tasks and lists can easily begin to overrun your life.”
Olly Murs' New Album and Career Update
19:27 to 22:20
Olly discusses his upcoming album, creative process, and personal experiences leading up to its release.
“Grab that boho look for that rooftop dinner, those sandals that can keep up with you, and hang some string lights to give your patio a glow up.”
Healthy Lifestyle and Generational Differences
22:20 to 24:20
The hosts reflect on health, generational differences in diet, and personal lifestyle choices.
“I was getting ready for the biggest tour of my life.”
Parenting and Family Dynamics
24:20 to 27:20
Discussion about parenting, the challenges of family size, and the experiences of raising children.
“I'm trying to eat more of the fruit and more of the veg and almost more of them sort of home-cooked meals, really.”
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The Reality of Having Multiple Children
27:20 to 28:00
The hosts discuss the chaos and reality of parenting multiple children and the implications it brings.
“And by the way, extremely blessed that we've got two.”
The Reality of Parenting Multiple Children
28:00 to 29:49
Explore the challenges and humor of raising multiple kids.
“worse well then like I see people that have got like four and five I just think that's like I just think you must have no time like what do you do you are a psychopath yeah like what do you do Like what?”
Reflections on Parenting Experience
29:50 to 31:02
Discussing personal experiences and lessons learned from parenting.
“It doesn't matter how many times people tell you what to do, get you prepared for it.”
The Importance of Singing and Musical Talent
31:03 to 33:07
Exploring the role of singing in family life and personal experiences.
“troublemaker on and they'll go dad no not today and I'll say this car we're this car we're driving in, that paid for it.”
Balancing Passion and Parenting
33:08 to 36:30
Discussing the balance between encouraging children's passions and avoiding pressure.
“I was with Righty, we went to a karaoke bar in Universal and I said to me, Mersey, what song should I sing?”
Self-Defense for Kids
38:35 to 42:00
Discussing the need for self-defense education in children's lives.
“Babadoo, babadoo, babadoo, babadoo, babadoo.”
Humorous Misunderstandings at Dinner
42:00 to 43:01
Learn about funny miscommunications and their impact on social situations.
“it's fair to say the surrounding more innocent diners and Steve himself had no idea what he actually said and I had to spend the remainder of the meal styling out my tears of laughter.”
Taxi Driver Anecdotes and Language Errors
43:01 to 44:49
Explore the humorous interactions with taxi drivers and language mishaps.
“When the taxi driver I was telling her about Charles Dickens used to go walking at night around where we are because he was an insomniac, but the taxi driver called it...”
Olly's New Single and Collaborations
44:49 to 46:37
Discover Olly Murs' journey with his new single and collaboration with Preston.
“So this album was like the first time I felt like it's the, I finally found a place for it.”
Artistic Evolution and Fan Expectations
46:37 to 48:25
Discuss the challenges artists face when evolving their music and meeting fan expectations.
“And that's kind of always the sort of body of it.”
Navigating Relationships and Music
48:25 to 50:36
Learn about the dynamics of relationships and how they inspire songwriting.
“Like I wrote and being married like to Amelia and like writing a song like there's a song that I wrote, like I'm still getting used to the ring.”
Finding Love in the Music Industry
50:42 to 51:52
Hear about Olly's reflections on love and family in his life and career.
“I'm not bothered if that's what you're after.”
Transcript
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0:45Rosie Ramsey:Hello all you all listening to Please Keep Me Anonymous This week we've got the gorgeous Olly Murs joining us Oh, what a lovely chat we have with Olly He's such a nice guy. So lovely. And you're going to notice where you actually started recording and we were having such a lovely chat, we didn't want to like abruptly say it. Like, we're going to start. It's weird, isn't it? Yeah, we didn't want to interrupt the floor. Yeah, so it's weird when people come into that little studio and we're like, oh, you start chatting, the cameras go on, then you don't want to go, hey, hey, save it. Yeah. Don't you dare.
1:12So we're just sort of.
1:13Rosie Ramsey:And I think it's because you're going to hear it in a minute. We were chatting about like how weird it is having a job as a performer and how it's good to be brought back down to earth by people who are the closest to you. and it was just really natural. He sounds like he's got the same kind of mates as me. Yeah, absolutely. We really hope you enjoy it. He chatted about how he's now a dad of two under two. Two under two. Wild. He was in the older category on XFM, which we can't get our heads wrong now. Blows my mind. Over 25s old. Mad. Crazy. He's also talking about his new music. He's got an album called Knees Up, which is out on the 21st of November.
1:46Rosie Ramsey:It features the singles Run This Town, Bonkers, and Save Me, and they're all amazing tunes. We'll chat about them a little bit. And you can listen to Ollie and Mark Wright's Breakfast Show on Heart Radio every Saturday morning. But before you do that, listen to this. We had a fight about the jingle. Jingle. We couldn't settle on a jingle. Jingle. So this is the jingle. Jingle. We hope you like the jingle. Jingle. Babadoo, babadoo, babadoo, babadoo. Jingle.
2:20Not to make it serious. No, I love it. I love this. I love it.
2:25Rosie Ramsey:Have we learned anything? Probably. It's not just mad stuff. We see each other like, so we did like an arena tour and you see people at their sort of like most vulnerable. So I think we've seen each other. But then also, God, being parents like that. Yeah, so you see all of the building up, all of that, I'm nervous, I'm this, I'm that. We see like every second of it with each other. So the arena tour, I would do two arena tours as the what? Intense. Well, arena tour, like I'm an artist, so that's sort of what I do. Yeah. So for you guys just being parents, comedians, family, husband, wife, all of a sudden.
3:02You mean all of it together, yeah. All of a sudden you're now being put on a stage in front of 12 ,000, 13 ,000 people and you're like, what the hell is this? It's a lot. But because it's not normal life, is it?
3:12Rosie Ramsey:No, it's not. You know, like we talk about this a lot as singers. It's not normal. But when you're performing in front of millions of thousands of people, it's just one person with a microphone singing or two people with a mic talking. Yet these people are all there to see you. And you're like, this is just like a bit. It takes your brain a bit of a second to understand it all. Yeah. And process it, definitely. Like even doing live TV. If you think for any, most people at home just see what we do and think that is just natural. That's just normal for us to watch you on TV, do what you do. so then when you make a mistake or you do something not right or you like what's going on here ain't a normal job is it talking on live TV and everything you say they are taking in what you say I suppose the knack the skill of it is making it look like it's effortless and making it look like it's normal and making it look like it's taking a breath but it's like they're just not normal jobs are they you know what I mean like you think of the list of jobs that are out there like the jobs that we get to do are not particularly I feel like I've got mates who are literally nine to five I've got a mate who builds cars in Nissan in a Nissan factory builds cars and he'll go on but being tired after work and I can't I can't comment I can't go I'm tired as well he fucking builds cars like I can't how dare but I think this is I think our job is exhausting it's exhausting but it's not it's not on their level no no but it's a different type isn't it yeah yeah because with over the years I've tried to like get my head around the fact that my mates have all got regular jobs and obviously my job nice but their job is might be more physical labour but mine is actually more of a mental oh god yeah it's more of a mental fucking your brain is just exhausted from thinking about what to say what to do next where I'm going the pressure of turning up everywhere you go and be like on it because if you're a mechanic and you're underneath a car you can fucking be angry and be in the wake of life and you ain't got to worry about a camera being stuck in your face because if we're annoyed and angry we're like hi everyone to one show I need to talk about my new album you've just got off the phone you've had an argument with the missus or something.
5:13Rosie Ramsey:But I've got to shelve that for half an hour. Exactly. And then I can have me break down. There's always that wonderful moment in the Katy Perry film. Did you ever see the Katy Perry film? When she's just going through mid. When she's flipped up with Russell Brandt and she goes up the chute. And I really didn't relate to it, but I was like, I can imagine that feeling of being an artist where you're like, I've got all these thousands of people waiting. I've just had some really shitty news. I remember I was in Vegas on a tour and I just found out that my granddad died. And it was just like, what the hell?
5:41and I'm just about to go on stage. I just said to my team, I can't be here. This is like, my head's not in the right game. But then I was like, all I could hear was thousands of people cheering. I'm like, you've got to shelve it. I have to go out. You have to shelve it. So I had to like, my emotions were all over the place. And I was like, angry, upset. How's my dad? I want to be home. I'm millions of miles away. What do I do in this situation? And then it brought me back to that Katy Perry moment. She just was like, I've got to do this. You've got to do it. And so I did. I just went out and did the performance and afterwards I then, you know, and that's my job, isn't it?
6:15The show must go on, yeah. But my mate who works at Nissan constantly whinges about how tired he is. And I didn't realise that he does it all the time until I was out with a larger group of friends and he came in and they all went, oh, you're tired off work, are you? And I thought, oh my God, he does bang on about it. But I've never took the piss out of him because how dare, how dare I go, oh, you always whinge about being tired, you fucking lazy prick. I can't have a go at him for that The thing is my mates used to dig me out Because I would You don't realise what I've been up to Oh shut up Merz All you do is just stand there and sing songs So actually what I'd done Was I brought my mates to a day with me On tour To see the preparation before The start to the end And honest to god since that day my mates were like You know what Ollie fair play You've got a new perspective He was like they were genuinely and they were so naive.
7:08They were like, we just thought you turned up and like half seven, quarter to eight, you know, you get your makeup done and your hair done. You do a few vocal warmups and you just go out on stage. I think my mates were quite surprised actually. Like, oh, you do actually work quite hard. I'm like, yeah, I actually do. I love that you are so adamant to win that you talk them with you. I mean, by the way, I know, all my mates work extremely hard. I think it was more of like, in my defence, I was like, hang on a minute, guys. Like, yeah, fair enough. like I do get days and weeks off but in the periods that I am working I do work extremely hard and whenever your friends come to see you
7:44Rosie Ramsey:they're on a night out exactly every time our mates come to see us they're literally they're half cut and they've had a great night watching us on stage like doing our thing they're on a night out it's great well I'll tell you a really funny story I was in a tour in Wales I did a tour in Wales in Cardiff and all my mates are like we're coming down it's on a Saturday we're going to get the train early we're going to come down I mean literally started at like 9 o 'clock 10 o 'clock in the morning They've gone to a Wetherspoons They've been drinking all day Right I think your mates are my mates Yeah We've got this They turn up at Cardiff At like 6 o 'clock Whatever Half 5 They've gone to the hotel Checked in Whatever They've turned up And my tour manager's like The boys are here And I'm like He's facing it all They went What?
8:24He went Like they're They're there They're already gone Yeah They've already had a few drinks So I've walked up to my dressing room And they're chewing all the band's ears off Because that's the only place We could stick them So I've gone upstairs I'm like sorry lads They're like Loud Essex Everything's like You know what I mean bruv Yeah Anyway So I've said hello to them I had a right laugh I said look Go and enjoy Ella Rare's performing first She was my support actor Ella's brilliant right So they've gone out To watch Ella Rare And then I didn't see them after that Because they stayed In the Cardiff show For the whole night So I'm performing I've come off stage Anyway they've come backstage And they're so pissed They're so drunk Yeah And I'm like Oh I've got to say hello to them like so I was just not different vibe I'm completely sober yeah they are like I'm 10 pints behind them yeah if not more so I'm like they've come out and my tour manager's having a go at one of them because basically he said oh so did you enjoy the show guys they went oh Ella Air was amazing she was brilliant oh we couldn't like oh he was great and Mark went did you what about Ollie and they were like oh yeah yeah he was alright
9:34Rosie Ramsey:this is after you've done yours They were so drunk. And then when I spoke to the guys afterwards next day, they were like, Ollie, we're so sorry. We can't actually remember your show. We were so drunk. But what the excitement is. They just got the best bit of Ella Rare. By the way, she was amazing. When they actually went to see their best mate, I was like, they didn't have a clue what the show was like. But you know what it is though? They're your best friend. They're not your fan. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Exactly. Our friends are the same. Exactly. So my friends, I could tell they were actually mortified.
10:03Rosie Ramsey:My two very best friends in the world. somebody we were in a group and someone was talking about the podcast and anytime anyone talks about the podcast in front of my best friend they don't listen right so they get really like embarrassed because my friend another friend was going oh when you said that and I'm going yeah yeah my friends are going don't ask us do not ask us about this podcast because we don't listen I haven't listened for years I could tell they were like oh god she knows we don't listen and they're going to fucking talk about it oh by the way yeah it was this is taking me way back I was at a new year I was at my family's New Year's Eve party and Dance Me Tonight was currently number one in the charts.
10:39And it had been out for a while at this point. And we were singing and my mum, my family were like, put Dance Me Tonight on. Like it's, you know, it's a brilliant song. We played it and my mum was dancing to me and she was singing. She wasn't even singing the right lyrics. I mean, it was way off the actual song. I'm looking around going, are you having a wind up? it's been out for like five, six weeks literally everywhere it's on everywhere it's on everywhere I mean genuine at the time I think it was at number one for like two or three weeks brilliant it was the most Play Day play record of that time my mum must be I'm thinking it's my mum she's obsessed with the song
11:16Rosie Ramsey:she's obsessed with me that's my son's song well no clearly she's going I just she didn't even know the dance with me tonight bit she got it completely wrong what the name of the song halfway through halfway through dance with her I was like, mum, like, I pulled this favourite. Do you actually even know my songs? But do you not think that keeps you grounded? It does. Like, I think you know people in this industry who are surrounded by yes people. Yeah. Just constantly. And they're not on this planet. No. Well, that was one thing when I first got into it. I was like, I could see straight through people.
11:53Like, I was just like, what is this? Like, people come up to me just saying, like, all this. Bullshit. Waffle, like, absolute waffle. I'm like, shut up, mate. Yeah. This isn't, that's not real life. The two cheek kissers. Mwah, mwah. And darling, you are this. And oh, get, crawl out of my arsehole and fuck off. The thing is as well, I think when I first started this, like I was just a regular Essex boy. And when I used to go out and party and go clubbing, like, you know, chatting up girls was a hard gig. You know, like it was like, you know, really got a graft here. And, you know, when I come off X Factor, I was just like going to these, you know, it was like single.
12:31I was out in clubs and like these really hot, unbelievable, Victoria's Secret like models would come up to you and be like, all right. And you're like, I remember once being in this bar and they both, these two women come up to me at the bar and we're just like, all right, how are you? You having a good time? And I just looked at them. I said, look, ladies, I'm really sorry, but you're barking up the wrong tree. Like I know exactly what you're after. And I made some of my mates who were like, what are you doing? I was like But you could have got swept up in that No but it's kind of like That fake industry Yeah I was so aware of like Stories being sold Or Especially at the time With like the news of the world and stuff I was just thinking like Olly Murs Cheeky Chappie Single Eye Out and about I didn't want that Kind of Smoke If anything And I was very aware of like I think being 25 I was sort of aware more so That I don't want to get myself Quarping stuff like that But
13:21Rosie Ramsey:Were you in the older category? I was yeah Oh my god you were? You were in the oldies? This is not old. He's so depressed and that's the older categories. Any man at our age now, we're like, that ain't old. It's not old. I remember being a kid watching it and being like, oh, the geriatric. Look at them. Here comes the over 25s. Oh, bless them. Here comes the Werther's original squad. Have you got their own teeth? Oh my God, it was. I remember because Simon Cowell was backstage behind the camera saying, you know, really want the over 25s. And I was in that category. And when there was Dan Johnson at the time, he was sort of, I think he was around 26, 27, Jamie Archer.
13:59He was about 30, I think. So he just wasn't in that. And I had just turned 26. So I was just in that category. I think I just turned 25, sorry. So I was just in that category. Didn't realise why that Simon wanted me in his category. He wanted me, he wanted to take us and obviously get me to the final and hopefully win it. But yeah, like now I look back now and isn't that weird though? As you get older, you see things online you think like I would have thought I was old being in the other 25s but now I'm 41 looking back I'm like god I was so young still yeah I tell you what right we we haven't even discussed this yesterday we checked in the hotel and this is the oldest I've ever felt in my life right there's a young lad behind the desk checking us in and he was asking you know are you down for business or pleasure and all that stuff and then I go to the hotel quite a lot so another young lad who I know came and stood next to him I asked him what we've been up to and I said oh we're down for too nice to do some interviews for the podcast.
14:53And it's just been, it's just been half term. We've just had two weeks of half term. And they both went, whoa, two weeks. They were coming at half term from the perspective of a fucking child. They both were like, oh, you get two weeks off. And I went, no, no prick. I've had me kids for two weeks. I'm fucking demented. But their immediate reaction, because they were close, they are closer to my children's age than they are to my age. And they work in a fucking hotel. and they were like, wow, two weeks off school, dude. That's amazing. And they jumped over the counter and smacked them both. I was so angry.
15:27I went, no, it wasn't good. And he went, oh yeah, I'm just thinking about when I was a kid. And I was like, you're fucking 12. You're about 12 years old.
15:32Rosie Ramsey:Yeah, because he was closer to being a kid than he was. I was raging. I was absolutely raging. I got on the Orlando flight back from Universal Studios. Because you've just been there for the radio show? Yeah, yeah, yeah. I've just been there. And it was so amazing looking down the aisles of all the parents. Did you take the kids with you? No, I couldn't. They were too young. I mean Maddy's only 18 months and obviously Albert's only like nine weeks old so yeah they're not old enough yet but it was so funny going down the aisles and meeting seeing all the families and parents because we were doing it for our radio station that we're on and just seeing how all the parents were completely crumbled they were like they're like great half term holiday for the kids but we're like they're like in their chairs like oh god give me a break we did Disneyland Paris in when was it?
16:19Rosie Ramsey:August? August fuck me We were flying to London once just near the Christmas time and there was two we were right remember we were right at the front of the plane and there was two air stewards standing in front of us and I overheard I had my AirPods in but I didn't have anything playing I do that quite a lot to hear people's conversations bit of a spy Oh interesting Love it I did not know about that You pretend to have your headphones in I've got them in but they're not playing sometimes I'm doing that Stop it Stop it Something Something Something Something Something tonight Something Something thing tonight to dance tonight.
16:51That's fun. And they literally, yeah, and they were going, I've told you, man, I'm sure I said it on the podcast.
16:56Rosie Ramsey:That's weird. You've never told me that. No, what said, what was said. They literally were talking and one of them was like, I've got the Lapland flight next week and the other one went, oh, he went, I'd rather do the midnight flight back from Ibiza than the Lapland flight. Apparently the Lapland flight is just carnage with all the kids. It's basically 50, 50 kids to adults and there's just like fucking crisps and sweets and screaming and just mayhem. on the flight. I mean, that's an interesting question. He said he would rather do the flight back from Ibiza with everyone like... But would you, though?
17:25I wouldn't. That's what he said. I'm not sure about that. That's what the guy said. He said he worked on it and he said the flight back from Ibiza with the drunk people. Nah, mate, I'm really sorry.
17:32Rosie Ramsey:You've got that completely wrong. He just doesn't like kids. Do you know you can go to Lapland in a day? Apparently. That's the magic of Christmas. See, for me personally, if I'm on a... This is how I would have thought. A Lapland trip with loads of screaming kids, I could easily put my headphones in I'll be fine but on a flight to Ibiza with loads of rowdy people completely off their nut I'm not sure I could be like that gig all over again with your mates I agree with you there I'd just be like oh no get me out of here I totally agree starting or growing your own business can be intimidating and lonely at times your to-do list may feel endless with new tasks and lists can easily begin to overrun your life.
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20:20Rosie Ramsey:You've got an album coming out, Knees Up. Two days time. I know. Congrats. Thank you. What's it been like? Have you enjoyed it? You know what? It's been really fun. I started the album late last year after I'd literally just... Hang on. You've been knocking out Sprogs left, right and centre. Right. Can I just add? When have you done this album? No, so I came off the back of, I take that tour last year. And I had an amazing time. And so we sat around as a team and said, look, it's been so positive. The tour was incredible. And I just signed a new record deal with BMG. And we just felt like we needed to come off.
21:02And we had the plan of doing the 15 year anniversary tour, which was an amazing tour to do. I just felt like it'd be nice to just write some music and see creatively what we could come up with. And so, you know, BMG came to the tour. They loved what I did with Take That. They were interested in signing me. So anyway, got the ball rolling. I then went in the studio and started writing songs at the end of the year. And it was going okay. Nothing really was exciting me, but it was getting the juices flowing again and getting into that writing zone. And then at the start of the year, out of nowhere we wrote this song called Save Me which was a sort of ska record a ska song and it kind of like infused this like I don't know this energy in me and this kind of I don't know I just went on this like I don't know I just felt amazing I started losing weight I started doing all my training as well I was getting ready for the tour
21:51Rosie Ramsey:Oh I saw you last week in the paper Yeah oh yeah That was crazy Yeah what the fuck It was all a bit fucking bad It was about like dad bods and shit like that What was it? Tough luck, Oli. Your fans don't like you. Basically, in a nutshell, I'm probably going to get this wrong, but it was on the lines of, tough luck, Oli. We preferred you with a dad bod than, your fans prefer you with a dad bod than they do with your new bod or something. You can't do anything. I can't. I was like, I could not win. I was just kind of like annoyed because I was in such a good place. I was getting ready for the biggest tour of my life.
22:22I'm writing a really exciting album. Yeah. I've got my wife's pregnant. Like, it's just really, really exciting. And I was just kind of like, that kind of did kind of give me a little dig. Sorry, I didn't mean to bring anything up to my second. No, no, no, no. It really annoyed me because I've never done, as we all do when we're losing weight or on a diet or whether we just make slight adjustments to our life. I wasn't doing it to like, I don't know, I wasn't trying to, I wasn't on, you know, I wasn't like going to the paper saying, follow my 12-week plan and you can look like me. I was just, my nutritionist actually put the photo out.
22:55I didn't actually post it and then it kind of spiralled. Well, I did for the start of the year because I really wanted to get, like, I wanted to be a 40-year-old, the best Olly Murs I could be on stage for my fans. I really wanted to be, just show people that in 15 years, this is who I am now. And then being a dad as well, I felt really tired. I felt like, at the start of the year after Christmas, you know what it's like? We're all like... Oh, God. So I just like... Just the recycling bins. Yeah. After Christmas, the recycling bins alone. We're just cleaning out the garage of all the next line of presents comes in and you're having to do this kind of...
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23:29Rosie Ramsey:I think hitting 40. I'm 40 next year. We're both 40 next year. And I think you get to a stage in your life where death becomes more prominent in your life and you want to not, like, you want to, what's the word? Put it off. No, I think you want to... No, I'm sorry. When I was 25, I lost weight to look good. I didn't think I want to be healthy for longevity. So I think the point that we're at now, all three of us here halfway if we are halfway that's the best possible result if you're going to get 82 that's a hell of an age well I always think it's mad isn't it like people say this generation and maybe I'm wrong in saying this but this generation is like they say it's going to be the healthiest generation yeah I think so but then in my mind I've got two grandparents that are both in their well my my my wife's grandparents are in their 90s wow mine are in their sort of mid mid 80s and I think actually when you look back especially in you know the the 40s and 50s and 60s they were living in the food consumption would have been a lot healthier they didn't have no processed food i mean obviously they went through the cigarettes and all the 80s and 90s but i would say like you know that's still around now we're you know in a society where that's still there you know what i mean but i i don't know i hope i hope this generation will be and that's what i'm trying to do i'm trying to be less eat in processed food.
24:54I'm trying to eat more of the fruit and more of the veg and almost more of them sort of home-cooked meals, really. Like, real good quality food. She calls it meat and two veg, don't you? Yeah.
25:04Rosie Ramsey:Just have meat and two veg. Exactly. When I'm trying to be good, I'm trying to cut weight. For them UFC fights, you know? For them fights, I mean, I just go on like a, like, just basic, just meat and veg. What do you mean, though? Like, it's different, isn't it? Like, I always, I do think this is a, I think we're more aware of our health in this generation than maybe my grandparents were back then. And the younger generation is even more. Yeah, but I do think they ate better than us, especially in the early days. I mean, this is not digging out my parents, but some of the stuff I used to eat when I was a kid.
25:32Are we talking turkey twizzlers? We're talking turkey twizzlers. We're talking turkey twizzlers. We're talking microwave burgers. Yeah, yeah. I mean, my mum and dad always laughed, but they, you know, they were on, you know, we were well budget food. Like we, you know, my mum and dad didn't have a lot of money, so we just got all we were given. And of course, my mum and dad made good dinners for us, but a lot of the time it was like they need to be fed. What can we get them?
25:55Rosie Ramsey:Chip pan chips. Exactly. Did you have a chip pan when you were younger? The microwave, the McCain's. Microchips. Microchips. Yeah. Every Saturday night was chicken nuggets and microwave chips. Oh, with a nice mula yogurt as well. How are you feeding the kids? Do you feed them really well? Amelia's really on it, yeah. She's brilliant. And, you know, again, it's getting a balance, isn't it? Not all the time can you, when you're on the go constantly. So Mealy does all that batch cooking stuff. Yeah. And she's very, very good at it. But then some days and some weeks, it's just chaotic and busy. So it is, you know, pouch food or it's like, what's the quickest thing we can give Maddie because she needs to eat.
26:32Yeah. Albert, obviously, at the moment is drinking milk. So it's just different. But I think just finding a balance, really. What's it?
26:39Rosie Ramsey:Have you got two girls? I've got a boy and a girl. Boy and a girl. So Albert's just came. Oh. Chop it off. One of you to chop it off, you're done. Chop it off. Chop it off. Do you want more? Right, I'll chop it off for you. In fact, that's why you're here today. We're going to chop your dick off. I told you couldn't say anything serious. I'm not sure I can. You can't. I'm not sure. You have to. A few people have asked me this question. My mates have all had the snip. I'm not sure. When you've just had a baby, you go, right, that's it. I mean, we all know how it works. A couple of years down the line, we'll be like, maybe.
27:13Rosie Ramsey:Do you think you could do more? We're done. We are fully done. This experience with Albert's been very different to Maddie. So I'm very much, no, I think, like Chris said, I would much prefer just having two. And by the way, extremely blessed that we've got two. Oh, yeah. And to have a boy and a girl, I'm very, very happy. But then I just got this feeling that Amelia's going to come knocking on the door in a year or two's time and go, Ollie. Nice. Can we make you have another one? If I was guaranteed a girl, I would go again. Yeah. For a guarantee. Because you've got two boys. Yeah. So if we were guaranteed a girl, we would go again.
27:47but yeah I heard a thing that says basically I'm paraphrasing but it was like having one kids like having two kids having two kids like having five kids having three kids is like having 500 kids that's what I've heard I mean well unbearable apparently three kids I can't imagine anything worse well then like I see people that have got like four and five I just think that's like I just think you must have no time like what do you do you are a psychopath yeah like what do you do Like what? Five kids? Like what the,
28:15Rosie Ramsey:what is that? I just think you've got to just not like any of your stuff anymore. You've got to not like any of your clothes. You've got to hate your house. You've got to hate sleep. Yeah. You've got to, you've got to be well on board with looking like shit all the time. Yeah. And you've got to, I'm going to be honest here, you've got to not give that much of a fuck about every kid at any time. I love the fact that I'm the only one laughing. You used to just be dead serious. I've been talking about this a lot. I'm just like, I'm sorry. Just let me, I mean, if you've got five, one or more of them kids is feral as fuck.
28:44That's my opinion. One or more of them kids is if you've got five. I don't know, like five is a lot. I mean.
28:48Rosie Ramsey:But how much fun you would have as a kid with five, it would be great. Well, that's the thing. Some people would say, some guys come up to me and said that after having the second one, the third, fourth, and if you went, it would feel just the same. I'm like, really? He's like, yeah, you're just used to having so much chaos around you. You just get used to it. You haven't got, you've not got much between yours either. Yeah, two under two. Yeah. I mean I'm not joking to you like but in saying that it's I look at my mum and me and my mum spoke about this recently because as a parent as a growing up as a teenager and into my adulthood I just didn't even ask these kind of questions but I was like mum let's just let's go back you had twins and all under two so me and my sister and my brother so that's like how did you even cope twins that's crazy yeah it is and my mum just like I just wanted kids I just loved it and yeah it was she goes it was like really fucking hard but she goes because me and my brother were just crazy and my sister was crazy too so it was it was a mad household but my mum did it all when she was like 20 in her early 20s this is the thing I mean I just I thought me and Amelia were 100 % ready at like 35 36 you know like oh sorry I'm 41 now but it was like when we got married and got engaged I was like yeah I'm ready for kids but I mean when it comes it just hits you.
30:11It doesn't matter how many times people tell you what to do, get you prepared for it. When it happened, I was like, whoa, this is tough. It's exhausting. It's exhausting, but the most rewarding thing in the world.
30:21Rosie Ramsey:Oh, and do you know what it is? We've got 10 and 4 now and I'm telling you, it just gets better. Yeah, as they get older, they just get cooler and cooler. It just gets, it's just, some of it, it's really hard, but it's just mint. And, you know, nothing humbles you more. You know, you go out and sell the O2 and then you come home and you get pissed off they couldn't give a shit yes nothing humbles me more I said to Amelia like it's just I just did I remember coming back from the O2 selling out the O2 coming home and like just there's a nappy deal with it be prepared you're going to put your album on in the car one day and they're going to go dad turn that off yeah literally 100 % you're going to put troublemaker on and they'll go dad no not today and I'll say this car we're this car we're driving in, that paid for it.
31:10Yeah, exactly. Just shut up and listen to it. And don't do what your nan did. Remember the lyrics, all right? Make sure you know every single lyric to this song. The thing is, Amelia's parents live down in Plymouth, so it's a four-hour drive of listening to all my albums and they're going to listen to it. You know that thing in We're the Millers? Amelia always laughs but I'm like babe we are going to be like we're the Millers singing in the car you're going to be the wife that just doesn't want to sing because Amelia just really doesn't want to sing I'm going to be like kids right have you worked on your harmonies have you got the right key in the pitch okay off we go
31:52Rosie Ramsey:can Amelia sing no as a lie she can sing but not she doesn't yeah a couple of times I've caught her singing I'm like you sound like Rosie describing my singing I wish you could sing. I would love that. I can't sing at all. I would love that so much. I hear people who can sing in the house who come in and shit all over the singing I'm trying to do. You shit all over it every time. You would love to sing. I would love you to sing. And you can't learn it. You cannot learn it. You know what? I refuse to believe you can learn it. Now, so many people have asked me about this. And my personal opinion, I'm sure there's people that would say otherwise.
32:26I think you can either hear it or you can't.
32:30Rosie Ramsey:You're born with it. Some people can either hear the key and the rhythm of it and be in time and understand it. And I'm not perfect, by the way, but I think you either can hear the note or you can't. And so, like, Righty, for example, my mate, when Righty sings, Mark Wright, it's awful. I'm like, where are you in this song? Like, I can't even... You're making me now sing badly. Do you know when you're dancing next to someone who can't dance? Oh, yeah, and they put you off. I find it when you're dancing with them, then you're like, you're a really bad dancer. And I'm thinking, I'm pretty good. And all of a sudden, I'm like dancing like them.
33:05I'm like, oh my God, I'm morphing into you. Yeah, yeah, yeah. I was with Righty, we went to a karaoke bar in Universal and I said to me, Mersey, what song should I sing? I went, Wonderwall, Oasis. It's a really good song to sing. It's a simple, it's a brilliant song. One of the best songs that's ever been written. But, you know, Liam sings it in a really good key and it'll be good for you. It's husky.
33:29But he did better than we were. You're so nice. But he came in off the top. He's nice, isn't he? It's like two days. He's like, say a day. Say a day. I'm like, oh my Lord.
33:38Rosie Ramsey:But hang on a minute. I don't know him. Does he want, does he think he can sing? No. I imagine Mark Rigg thinks he can do most things. He's a very confident guy. No, he is. But he actually says, I know I can't sing. Oh, fair enough. He gets it. He gets it. But we've been talking about this. Like, I just don't think you can. If there's something there, you know, you can cheat someone. And because kids, most kids who end up singing later on in life, they've sing from being like four. Yeah, 100%. Do you know what I mean? Like they sing, our band gets a solo at the Christmas concerts. He does, it's very, very exciting.
34:10That's really like, yeah. He gets a little solo. Probably could sing it.
34:13Rosie Ramsey:He's good. No, he is good actually, but he couldn't give a shit. Like he's not bothered about it. Like the other day on the way home from school, he's singing Somewhere in My Memory. You know, somewhere in my, and I was like, let's practice it. Let's go through it. And he's like, mum, I don't want to sing it. I don't want to sing it. And I'm like, why not? Why don't you want to practice it all the time? She's not bothered. Yeah, interesting. I mean, see, when I grew up, people ask me all the time, what was it like as a kid? I used to sing as a family, we'd laugh, play karaoke, and we'd dab a laugh, singing songs.
34:45But I wasn't taking music seriously at all. I was all about sport. No, there really is. I don't think, like, you know, my nephew, for example, Louis, he's, like, so talented at music. Such a good singer.
34:58Rosie Ramsey:but he's just not bothered oh you see that and it really infuriates me yeah natural ability you are so talented yeah but i always think well i was kind of the same at that age i was kind of loved my music but i i just obsessed with other things football and just lots of women and i was just experiencing it seeing life i wasn't bothered about music really and then it got to a point where i just it just happened for me and i just was like well actually i'm pretty good at this or there's something there and it just kind of took me on this path but like you know you can only do so much I suppose but I'm sure we all still hope for him all I think is this me this is me being weird all I think is when he's older if he ever does make it big as a singer a producer of a TV show will go have you got any videos of him when he was younger and I'll go no you've got none well because he just won't what a long game worry that is because he won't sing I've got him doing the Christmas concert yeah but that's it you know what he's like he won't like stand and sing and let me record him he's weird like that and we didn't even have that many things I used to sing in church when I was four that's the hardest thing as well I always think as a parent how am I going to be because you don't want to be a pushy parent because you don't want to like, you've got to sing go sing now, go do your classes go do music classes because then you're like, then they're going to rebel against you a little bit but then there's a part of me that's like if my son is saying or my daughter says I love singing and then after a couple of months goes I want to stop doing it now because I always think as a kid you go through them cycles don't you get addicted to something for a couple of weeks and go I'm not bothered now is that the point where you go right I've got to like you've got to try you've got to stick with it yeah it's really it stresses me out there's no right answer because my son our 10 year old he was doing Brazilian Jiu Jitsu which I wanted him to get into self defence and stuff 100 % and then he's he's sort of gone off it a bit and I don't want to push him too much into it.
36:51But then you think like Tiger Woods, how many times did Tiger Woods turn around with his dad and went, I can't be arsed, do you? I'm sure, 100%. And how hard did he push? You know, if you turn around, it doesn't matter, son. Yeah, go and do something else. We're learning who Tiger Woods is now. Well, I said this to Amelia. I actually, it's so funny you said Jiu-Jitsu. I said Maddie and Albert, well, Maddie now is a little bit older, but when they go, they will be going to a self-defence class. 100%. And whether they like it or not, I actually will say to them, you'll thank me. even if they get to 16, 17 and say, I don't want to do it anymore.
37:22They're at an age where they can make a decision at 17, 18. I go, okay, cool. Like, you know, I just remember I did self-defense classes when I was a kid. I loved it. But my mum and dad only took us for a couple of years because, you know, they couldn't afford it. And there were other things. They were like, oh, we're going to take you out of it now because you're doing so many different after school classes. You just can't cover all three of you. So that was fine as a parent's decision. but I do wish in a way I wish I could have continued as I got older. Now I do boxing. I love boxing. I'm obsessed with it.
37:54It's something that I'm like, I really want my kids to learn of self-defence because I think that's really important. Especially the world we're living in right now. Jeez. What?
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38:41Rosie Ramsey:Babadoo, babadoo, babadoo, babadoo, babadoo. Do you do Jiu Jitsu then? Yeah, yeah. Oh, right, okay. Ask him what belt he is. Blue belt, Ollie. Thank you for asking. How far is that? No, that's only the second belt, but it takes a long time to get a blue belt. This is where she goes. She's gone completely. No, but like, you could grab a guy, he could be this big, and you could be this big, and if you're not used to contact in that certain way, you've got no chance. Yeah. So even, no matter how small Maddie might be, if a guy approaches her in a certain way and she doesn't like it. She can get them.
39:12She'll be so used to that contact and strength. She'll move the body in a certain way and just, they're gone. Love it. And I just, I'm obsessed by it. We're not here to recruit a cult of children to do Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu. No, but. We're here for you to read the story that you have been sent. And I completely agree with you, but I don't want to run out of time. No, but I mean, as in, I just, I just like. I never thought I'd stop someone talking about Jiu-Jitsu, by the way. No, but I just genuinely believe in, kids should have that. I agree. And I think it should be in schools. Yeah. I really do.
39:41Is it not? I don't think it is. It really should be. After school clubs. But I genuinely think that that should be something that kids learn during school. Do you know what? I have to agree with you. I think it should be in the curriculum for kids to just learn some form of self-defence. I don't know if that's because then they don't want kids, school kids using it on each other. I don't know. I don't know. Maybe there is a reason for that. But don't they teach it to be
40:01Rosie Ramsey:quite like, I know at Robbins Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu it's very much like you do not use this. It's like a code of conduct type thing. I remember Sensei John. Sensei John was fantastic. The kids that went to that class. Who's Sensei John? That was his name, Sensei. Why are you laughing? Is it because there's always a Sensei John? I thought it was a film. It's the juxtaposition. It's always, it's like, yeah, it's like something out of Napoleon Dynamite. It's the juxtaposition between the word Sensei and the name John. That just fucking floored me there. I didn't mean it. I didn't mean it. And I'm sure Sensei John, a bit like kick the fuck out of me.
40:34I guarantee you. No, but he always was. Sensei Barry. Yeah, there's always a Sensei John, I think. But like, he was just, you know, when you hear a different voice, he's gone. Sorry, he's a little less. Sorry. He didn't see it like, my Sensei is Sensei John. You went, Sensei John, you're not Sensei John. We all know Sensei John. That's when they say, oh yeah, I've got a friend, isn't it, that lives in London called John. You know what I mean? It's like that whole American thing. I got a friend in London. You know a guy called John? No. Anyway. Right, so. This is what you're going to read. Okay, I'm going to read this.
41:09Dear Chris and Rosie, please keep me anonymous.
41:12Rosie Ramsey:We don't know what this is, by the way. We've got no idea what this is. Okay. Quite earlier on in my relationship, I was invited to a big family meal to celebrate my boyfriend's grandparents' wedding anniversary. Oh, nice. Does it say how long or not? No. It doesn't say how long. Okay. As a newbie to the family, I was seated at the bottom of a long table with a very elderly lady to my left. a super gentle aunt opposite and my father-in-law Steve in the corner. It was a very pleasant meal and Steve ate heartily throughout. So enthusiastically accepting further helpings of everything when the dessert menu came round and everyone discussed what they're going to have Steve leant back in his chair patted his full belly and said very loudly he couldn't possibly have any more dessert because he had shot his load.
42:03Rosie Ramsey:it's fair to say the surrounding more innocent diners and Steve himself had no idea what he actually said and I had to spend the remainder of the meal styling out my tears of laughter. I love that. I love that. So now and then we get one. I'm sorry guys, I've shot my load here. I can't possibly eat anymore. Oh, that is nice. Come on, he knew what he was saying. Do you think? Yeah. Now and then we get one. That's not filth. It's not disgusting. It's not bad. That is just, that's just funny and cute. I like that. Do you think that's a genuine, he said it, not knowing what he said? Or do you know what he was saying?
42:39I live with someone who says the wrong thing in every situation and never remembers any kind of phrase for anything. So I guarantee that was accidental, but I would have died if I was at a table. But then again, I wouldn't have kept required. Yeah, no. Oh, you've shot your lord. What do you mean? Change your pants, you dirty fucker.
42:55Rosie Ramsey:You have a problem with correcting people, though. Yeah. By the way, we need to talk about the taxi here. Taxi here? Yeah. Yeah, why? When the taxi driver I was telling her about Charles Dickens used to go walking at night around where we are because he was an insomniac, but the taxi driver called it... Hypochondriac. Hypochondriac, right? And I knew he meant insomniac, so I was just going, oh, right, yeah, so yeah. He was a severely, he was a hypochondriac, so he didn't sleep, so he walked around the streets at night. I'm sitting in the back one. No, that's wrong. But why couldn't you just let him...
43:29I'm not letting him have it. I'm not letting them have it Taxi-riders throwing their opinions at me all day every day I'm not letting you're not having hypochondria I'm not you're not having it So Chris Bowden only went
43:38Rosie Ramsey:you mean insomnia? Yeah I was like Chris shut up No I'm saving him so next time he probably says that every day I'm not letting him say that to someone else Yeah you use it I do that all the time I sometimes use words in the wrong context Oh I do And my team always says to me why did you say that on the radio? I'm like Oh that's so cool You get it wrong But if you're not Me and Riley do it a lot I don't know how we've got a radio show together. We get so many things wrong. But it's funny. It's funny. It's fun. That's why you're likeable. Don't worry about it. So listen, just before you go, I want to mention the single as well.
44:07Run This Town. Is that the single from the album? Yes, I've done three singles. Save Me Bonkers, but Run This Town is the new single which we've been making. We've just been listening. It's really good. It's awesome. We love this. Yeah, we will just listen when we're getting ready. It's really nice. It's got like, I hope you don't mind this. It's got like sort of like an ordinary boys vibe. Like a kind of like, I remember being younger and getting ready to go out listen to all that The maddest thing is Preston, the lead singer of Ordinary Boys wrote that song so that's so mad you said it 15 years ago Wow What?
44:33That's so mad You wanted me out No, I swear to God I swear to God Me and Deasy, the producer I was like I love it She was like It's a bit odd It's an ordinary boy So he wrote he wrote the song 15 years ago and we did a lot of writing together on my first album and he said to me I've got this song Run this town Do you like it? I went mate I love it so I recorded it and it just didn't quite work with the album at the time and I just was a bit like, it's a bit, it felt a bit older for me and I was doing kind of something a little bit different and so I had it in my demo list like in my phone for years and it always comes on at parties and I always love listening to it in my car and I've always wanted it on an album.
45:09So this album was like the first time I felt like it's the, I finally found a place for it. That's brilliant. So I contacted Preston and said, mate, is that song still around? He's like, 100%. That's mad. And then we're actually a bit of an exclusive but we've actually kind of like we're going to make it into a Christmas song. So we've rewrote it and rewrote some of the lyrics. It's going to be, yeah, that's going to come out next month. Is it? So we're going to make it into a Christmas song. Really, genuinely, I'm glad that that turned out the way it was. But when I said, I was like, I hope you don't mind saying it because I know music's weird.
45:41And I was like, Ordinary Boys vibe. The moment of silence on your face when you stared at us, I was like, have you read that from someone? No, I was like, he is fuming about this. No, I think my brain was trying to like, Are you one of them up? No, yeah, that's totally amazing. I was a man, I loved them back in the day. Yeah, and they, well, yeah, I mean, he's such a, them guys back in the day, Ordinary Boys, because I'd come off X Factor, and I remember watching Big Brother when Preston was in it, when him, do you remember, is it Chantel? Yeah, yeah, yeah. They were like hooking up, and he was just so cool, and I remember all the boys, boys will be boys.
46:11Yeah, just like a tune. I remember getting ready for going out with me, I had to listen to that. So we just formed a really good friendship, and you know I haven't seen him for many many years but you know he wrote Heart Skips a Beat as well so there's been a real sort of history with me and Preston so it's gonna be and he's such a cool guy so yeah it's been good to have him back on the record and I'm really excited about the album you know it was the it's the first time I feel like I've done an album for me not for everyone else that's good so it's nice creatively to write something that I wasn't feeling like I'm doing it for what you know I mean if I didn't play this album I said what do you guys expect my music to feel like Like it would be, I'd like to think you'd go, it's all fun, happy, kind of filled with music.
46:55And that's kind of always the sort of body of it. But this time I wanted to kind of be a bit edgier and a bit more like scurry and go back to my like lad days when I was kind of like in my early 25, 26 age where I love ska music. I love indie bands and I kind of liked all that madness feel. And so that's kind of the Knees Up album.
47:16Rosie Ramsey:That comes with age. we were talking to Leanne Pinnock as well who's just come out of Little Mix and she's doing exactly this she's like this is what I want to do like this is really you know I've loved everything that she's wrote loved everything that she's made but she's like this is really what I'm passionate about. It's a really hard place to be because in one way you're not giving maybe your fans what they expect so you are in a bit of like a place of like you've got to almost stick to your. But your fans have grown with you you've got to remember that your fans will be similar ages to you.
47:48Rosie Ramsey:I saw you at Newcastle Arena, by the way, years ago. Oh, did you? Yeah, it was great. Mincho. And you've got to understand that everybody else, it's like our podcast, they're all going through the same thing that you're going through. So, you know, doing stuff that you loved when you were younger, they will also love that. No, and I felt that already, but what I mean is when you're going on a different sort of path, it's not a completely different path, but when you're going down a route like Leanne would be doing as well, It's kind of like you just hope people accept it and love it. But at the same time, you almost have to forget everything else and go, do you know what?
48:21I did this for me. Yeah. I did this as a journey for me. And I really enjoyed writing this album. Like I wrote and being married like to Amelia and like writing a song like there's a song that I wrote, like I'm still getting used to the ring. And it's all about like, you know, I might not be the perfect husband. You know, I might not be able to like change doors, you know, but I mean, I'm still getting used to the ring. the ring that's why you married me like i'm not the perfect person you know i mean and we're always learning as as partners and dads and and like there's you know there's a song that i wrote called honest which is about like when you walk home from a night out and you you walk in the door and there's just i mean chris will know this when you walk in there's just a cloud around the house you walk in and there's just this oh she's pissed off at me like what the fuck have i done dude that's always there and you're like it's always there there's a fog on for hours was it did I not take the bins out?
49:13Rosie Ramsey:Was I out too late? Was I supposed to be, you know, it's all these things and like, all three. Yeah, no, you're completely shit scared of what your missus is going to say to you next. You have no idea. And you just go, are you all right, Diane? Yeah, I'm fine. You're like, okay, I know you're not fine. Are you sure everything's fine? Yeah, everything's fine. She said, fine. This is brilliant. Why are you all terrified of it? Because you're all really scary. No, but isn't there really funny, there's really funny things online where they say, when your missus says she's fine, this is the actual, no, I fucking hate you tonight.
49:42Do not talk to me. It's like, I feel like that sometimes when I walk home, not all the time, but I just think, oh no, what have I done now? So with this album, it was fun to kind of experiment with loads of stuff like that. So I heard this quote recently and what I do is I hear a quote and then I find myself just regurgitating it. It's me quote of the moment. You've heard us say it a few times.
50:01Rosie Ramsey:I don't remember. It's a Henry, I don't know where I heard it, but it's a Henry Ford quote. I heard it on something I was watching. is this where I correct you and say you got it wrong yeah please I hope you do good luck dickhead Henry Ford Ford cars what gets you to the top doesn't keep you there you've already said that twice today not on the podcast I said it in the other room what gets it to the top doesn't keep you there very true I like that that is what I like we should end the podcast on that it's yours I'm going to take that with me yeah exactly I think you have to evolve in your career you know what I mean you think of where we would have all started and what we've been doing and where you evolve to.
50:37You've got to keep moving and changing. And as long as you're doing things you're happy with doing, I think that energy will bring people into it.
50:44Rosie Ramsey:And you've bought a house, haven't you? Nearly, yeah. But you're all right. I've got a house. You've got a house. And I've got, honestly, genuinely, and this is not being too soppy, but falling in love with Amelia and having kids, genuinely, in an industry that I'm in that's, as we said at the start of the pod, about the waffle and the fake people, my biggest fear was that I was never going to fall in love or meet the right person so to meet someone who's as down to earth as I am and is just not being affected by this industry that I'm in is just so beautiful that every day I go home I get that love you've won the lottery that's more than anything I promise isn't that lovely I'm surprised you found anything because you were standing at the bars going sorry love sorry but look I know my worth and it's not that I am well below your level.
51:36Rosie Ramsey:Hit the world, sister. Have you seen his wife? She's fucking stunning. Yeah, exactly. Actually, do you know what? You. No, okay. I'm not bothered if that's what you're after. Come on in. Thanks, Ollie. It's my pleasure. You guys are great. Thank you, mate. Cheers. Such a good podcast. That is funny. That's great.
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who brings his trademark energy and cheekiness! Expect a deep dive into
everything from being a dad to two under two, doing karaoke with Mark Wright and how his family and friends will always keep him grounded. All of this plus a brilliant 'Please Keep Me Anonymous' from one of you lovely SMAS!
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