Girls Aloud

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1:05Hello and welcome to Table Manners. This is a very special episode. It's a chilly, sunny afternoon. It's an exclusive. Oh, sorry, I was just setting the scene going. Okay. But it's going to be an explosive, joyous podcast. We promise. Yeah. We've got Girls Aloud on the podcast. I just can't wait to meet them. I know, the only worry is that... Don't make too many promises, darling. Oh, God. Da-da-da-da, da-da-da-da. I am just worried about there being four different cars that need to get here. How long that's going to take. Also, four microphones. Now, thank God they've all got very different accents.

1:51We've got Nadine from Derry. Yeah. We've got Nicola from Liverpool. We've got Cheryl from Newcastle. And we've got Kimberley from Leigh. Bradford. I don't think we've ever done I think that we did, my dad wrote a porno and there were three of them. Haim three of them. But we haven't had four people on the podcast before. So poor old producer Alice is about and also not you no you'll be fine, you've got girls allowed on the podcast there's a lot of microphones and conversations to be had around this dinner table today. It will be fine They've just announced that they are doing an arena tour. Pre-sales on now when they made that announcement every person posted it it feels like everyone is very ready for the girls allowed tour we've got them coming to my house it's a saturday i'm going off to australia on monday but we can of course we fit in a podcast special with girls allowed i'm on due kind of i'm on cooking duty you've definitely shared the load i'm making the wonderful alice and roman's buttered chicken tomato oregano slow roasted i've done it i think for rose matafo i know it's a bit unoriginal but when you're cooking for loads of people and the kids are in the house it's easier and then i'm just gonna do it with roast new potatoes and a herb salad and you you've got this salad that looks very beautiful a bit like hummus though if you say the h word again i'm gonna hit you it's chicory with tahini and parmesan dressing with parsley and baked maple walnuts yum it's not a lenghi recipe it's in what extra kitchen extra extra helping now we do have a vegetarian in our midst nicola is a vegetarian she says so you have made something that you made for it's the courgette and ciabatta another otto lenghi special another ciabatta frittata That's what we've got.

3:52And then for pudding, we have mum making a quince and white chocolate trifle. Yeah. I don't know what they're going to drink. I've got some bubbly that's not cold enough. We've got red wine. We've got Diet Cokes. We've got, you know, I don't know what they're going to want to drink. I think it will all be fine. I'm very excited. Girls Aloud coming up on... Table manners. Now, that's not our tune, is it? No, that's the promise. That's our tune. A poor version of the promise. Yeah.

4:35girls allowed uh in new cross can you believe it thank you so much for being here i apologize on behalf of well the mayor of london and uh amazon uh and hmv it's black friday kimberly how long has it taken you? Just over three hours. And where were you coming from? I was coming from North London. That's mad. I could have gone back to Bradford where I'm from. Oh dear. But it's totally worth it. Well, you're enjoying mum's hummus chicory dip. You stop saying it. It's tahini and parmesan. Okay, we'll just dig in, girls. We're going to eat. We have Cheryl, Nadine, Nicola and Kimberly. Girls allowed.

5:19are in my kitchen. We're going to be feeding you. We're going to be talking about food. We're going to be talking about Girls Aloud and the new tour. OK, let's just talk about this. Rylan has got you as we talk about this. This is coming out next week. Rylan's got you to number one. Yeah. With his favorite song. Yeah. For a minute. The power of Rylan. That's what I was saying. I said I missed him back today and I was like, you're only sent me a picture of him with like a or a wine on the sofa in his robe. And I was like, you're doing all this mastermind in this. He posted that picture of him. Your robe, yeah, your robe on your sofa.

5:51We all need to be scared of the power of Ireland, realistically. He's in the wrong job. For evil, we're going down. I wish the listeners could actually smell the scent in here. Smell nice. It smells insane. That's really kind of you. As a vegetarian, that's roast chicken that you can smell. No, it might be my foot. Garlic, though. There's a lot of garlic or rummage happening here. We've got a vegetarian dish for you. Thank you. Nicola, we've... Is that just roasties and veg? No, it isn't. Oh. Because, you know. No, it's not. Mum made it, and mum is a famous vegetarian, well, sceptic, and she's made you something delicious.

6:28It's also atalenghi. It's courgette and ciabatta frittata. Are you a vegetarian or a flexitarian? I'm a vegetarian. How long have you been a vegetarian for, Nicola? Since, like, 2016. I'm not buying it, are you? She sways a bit. So, hold on, when you two, when you guys... I haven't seen that eat meat since she said she was a vegetarian. You have? Yeah. Nadine, who was it yesterday? I was horrified. Someone said there's a new flavor in the KFC chips. Me. You. Horrified? It's amazing. No, I said it was amazing. What's the flavor? You've got to get the flavor. What's the flavor? Add the Christmas burger.

7:01Have you tried the Christmas burger? Oh my god. You've got to get the combo. Christmas burger! It's got cranberry sauce on it and then a pate of stuffing. Do you think you should be eating fast food like this? It's so unhealthy. As often as I can. We have kids. We have to. You've got to try this out. And then this happened before. KFC does this all the time. And this is how they suck me in. Hold on. Are you a big KFC fan? Well, this is how they suck me in, right? This is what they're advertising to. They'll advertise these new things. Remember it was like the gravy Dippenburger? And then it'll say, not available in Northern Ireland.

7:35So I'm like, if I'm going to go back home for Christmas, it's not going to be available. So I need to get it now. Or else I'll never be able to get it. I mean, you're the only person reading the small print for KFC. I swear to God. I love the kind of gal. Do you know, if you look at it, if you surround it with the small print, those of you will often say not available in Northern Ireland. So it just jumps off the page. So that's why I had to go get it. I had to do it. And what would be your out of 10 mark for the KFC Christmas burger? Okay, so there's, I mean, it was fine. It was good. The stuffing was good.

8:09It was a nice addition. but what really impressed me was the seasoning on the chips thing. No, have you ever had... Seasoning on the chips? The gravy from B &M. What's B &M? Oh, you're taking this to hell you around here. These are too posh. What's B &M? I'm getting out of here. Is it... Technically? What is it? B &M, I thought was the home place. B &M, it's fabulous. Is that like having... Oh, no. So you're not having meatballs in Ikea. Yeah, next you're going to say you have the Ikea hot dogs and I'm going to leave. I'm really food conscious. Like, I'm the one on Instagram that's, like, looking at all of the label stuff.

8:47Like, you can't, you shouldn't be drinking Coke because it does this to your body and you shouldn't be doing this. Like, I'm really into it. Well, look, you've got an apple waste sourdough there from the new in Somerset. You're good with that. You're good with the sourdough. The chicory, you're going to be all right with. The ciabatta frittata is going to be absolutely fine. The roast new potatoes, no problemo. Yeah. But I want to know, Cheryl, you did say something you said i've seen nicola eating meat i have since 2016 i definitely have i have definitely had bits of meat before like in the past what do you like roast beef if i'm feeling like okay i might need a bit of something i'll have like roast beef on my roast dinner but you try and avoid it normally yeah yeah fair enough are you doing it on ethical grounds like i'm doing it on multiple grounds like ethically like my love of animals the mass consumption of meat and then the um what it does to the planet and then how it affects the body like for me it's just works in my mind for me on all of those levels but if your body tells you you need it yeah because you're sort of sacrificing a lot of the time fair enough i'm loving seeing the dynamic of you lot it is literally like we're back in the early well what the early um the the noughties?

10:04When did you form? 2002. The early noughties. it is like that for us. It's like we've gone in a time walk. It's actually starting to freak me out. But can I say you don't look any different? You all look as gorgeous. You're too kind. So hold on, how old were you when you started? In 2002? 21. 19. During the audition process, I was 16. You're such a baby. So was I. But then by the time the band came around, then I was 17. We were both 17. is that the Gemini was that oh yeah were you 17 or were you I love that I you're smart Nadine I was a fascist see now you go back no I don't care no I'm quite happy I'm 38 and very proud to be 38 I was at 38 but yeah no that time when it started it was we were we were 16 that's crazy and I had done a show before where I was 16 so I had a year ahead of these girls of a year of fame, no fortune, but the fame.

11:05The dying side of it. The experience. By the time it came around to doing this one, I definitely had been, I kind of knew what was going on. I was like, oh yeah, this can really get crazy. This can go different ways. I wish I'd had that little prelude of info. I'll never forget Nicola's River Deep Mountain High. Yeah. That was unbelievable. but I replaced somebody so they gave me that song which I was so grateful for because it was a big song and I was like thank god it's a massive song and it's not just some little cheap pop ballad or whatever I mean I just this is such a treat I feel like people are going to be so jealous that we're getting to do this and it's really special we're so lucky it is really special and it's quite crazy at the same time.

12:01You don't have many people after 21 years that could sit down like this and just chat like there's never been any time past, you know? And you're going to go and do this tour? It's going to be a sell-out arena tour? We've also been through a lot personally and band-wise in the last decade, which is how long it's been, by the way, since we've performed together. Over that. We've all, you know, three of us have become mothers, which is obviously, as you know, a massive life altering situation to happen and the loss of Sarah you must miss it must feel weird when she's not so weird it's very bizarre it feels like there's more than one missing she has such a big presence that you're always like where is everyone and you're like it's actually only her something feels a bit wonky at all times and you guys would be getting a different us today if she was here as well what would What would the dynamic be?

12:57This dynamic is set here right now, but if she was here, you'd feel a different dynamic. I would just be on having a laugh mode. We'd be making plans of what we're doing after this. What would you be doing all over this? We would be going out. We would be enjoying the celebration here. We'd have something to eat. And then we'd be like, oh, we're south. We're not usually south. What are we going to do when we're here? Get the info one of who we know that loves nearby and what fun stuff we're going to do. She loved food, actually, as well. She did. She'd be talking to a lot about things. Do you know what her favourite thing to do at the weekends when we usually maybe had a day off was to go home, put a roast chicken in, do a roast.

13:37She loved it. And no one really knew that side of her. Obviously, we all know the party girl, Sarah. Yeah, she did love to party and she was a real fun girl to have on a night out. Sarah was the girl you'd be up for dinner and she'd be taking the food off your plate before you'd even started eating it yourself. Oh, Jessie, you'd have gone. Massive, massive foodie. And everything she made always looked better than what you were arranging. It was the way she arranged it. She really nailed it. Do you know why she did it? She took time with the arranging. Absolutely. Even if it was a jacket potato, it was a really good jacket potato with loads of butter and better day.

14:11She wouldn't ever just like... Yeah. She just, she loved everything. Actually, she told my mum that her roast dinner was the best she'd ever had. Oh. Your mum. We've talked about your mum's roast dinner. And that is so sober. I mean, ma 'am is wearing that like a medallion. Well, we're having a version of roast chicken. And I know you're all starving, so let's get it. Jessie, get some out. Have you got gravy? Well. Oh, my God, stop. Well, no, because it's a... You're not bloody eating it anyway, Nicholas. I don't know what you're going to eat today. No, but how am I going to make... I'm a true northerner.

14:42I need buckets of gravy. How am I going to make my roasties moist? Well, then, okay, they're sad. I can't dip them in hummus. Okay, okay. A disclaimer, they're not roast potatoes. Have you got any of this stuff? They're new potatoes that I couldn't be bothered. I wasn't going to peel. I mean, I love you, Gazzela, but I wasn't going to peel a load of bloody potatoes. I've seen a half potato. Can you give me a good day for that? What, go on. Apparently, if you score it around the middle and you do like a little one centimetre in all the way around, then boil it. When you take them out, the skin just falls off.

15:09Oh, what, like a tomato when you do that? Yeah. Oh, wow. I'll try that for... Yeah. I'll try that for... It just comes off in one... Do you need help, darling? Oh, yes, Jessie. Do you need any help? No. I love you Nadine because you've been here for about an hour and a half and you've been offering help the whole time. You are a very brilliant guest and you can come back. When does the tour start? That's what I want to mean. May. So when are you going to get all your outfits? And is it going to be leotards? That would probably be 18th April. And it definitely won't be a leotard. Are you sure? She said she thought it might.

15:41Yeah, she could have a leotard. Leotard maybe, but not playsuit. Bevan Sudkot, I think. For you? It's possible. I would imagine. Oh, you're going to go there. Guys, I'm just going to... I would imagine. I'm going to buy in. I just did my tour and I wore a leotard. Yeah. And I am, what, 39? I never felt more sexy. Really? I think you should consider it because... I think your dance is making you feel sexy, darling. Maybe, yes. Schitt's Creek. Do you ever watch it? Yes, love it. What's her name? Moira. Moira. Yeah. She says, take pictures of yourself when you are young and naked. I think you'll look back and be like...

16:17We've done that, though. Do you know how many young people do that? Again. I agree. How many young naked pictures we have? Jessie, I agree. What, are you in a way? Like a pony neck and a suit? No, not a, no, an appropriate. Oh, bore off, Cheryl. Oh, that's terrible. You're gorgeous. Lenny, is that the way you've raised her to talk to me like that? I don't know. She's so rude. Isn't that rude? So rude. I just think, you know. It will sparkle and spangle in all of its glory. Yeah, sparkly. Yeah. And like. But it won't be up my arse crew. Cat suit. Yeah. Maybe I can get on board with. But like. Play suit.

16:49You'll figure it out. Yeah, no, not for me anymore. I don't think my children would appreciate it, actually. No, me either. Well, I... They're quite protective. And I think the thing about it is that we're raising them, they're not raising us. So if my child has a problem with my bum being out, which she did have when she saw the last tour, she was like, why is your bum out? She didn't say that. She was like, why is your bum all over the place? And I was like, oh yeah, it really, really is. So maybe we'll have like a little more material. But that's for me, I'm the adult in that situation. They can just...

17:19I don't want mum but mum, so I'm good with it. It's me, I don't want him going to school and having people being like, I saw your mum's ass the other day. No. He's a boy, they're lads. Yeah. Well, I'll have my ass out. I'll do it. I'll take one for the team. You take one for the team. We never dress like, well, we do actually sometimes dress identical, but we don't have to. No, you don't all dress. We usually can have our eyes. It's going to be the colour. There'll be a colour and then a theme, and then you'll all look different. Yeah, exactly. Yeah, it's just your personal style, but all blank.

17:46So is it going to be all the hits or is there going to be new stuff as well? No, just all the hits and maybe a few little album tracks thrown in there. Some of our faves maybe. We're going to do some research, I think, see what the fans actually really want to hear. What's yours? Promise. Oh, yeah. That'll be there. I'm sure that... Don't worry. Is that everybody's favourite? I think it's a big song for us for sure, yeah. It's a lot of people's favourite. We won the Brother Award with that. I loved it. Yeah, it's a really good one. I think we used to have it on every single night around the dinner table.

18:21Oh, that's amazing. Yeah, we always loved that. Absolutely. A girl's allowed. So, has your rider changed from what it was when you were younger? All right. I mean, we used to eat terribly. This one? Yeah. And by the sounds of it, these girls still do eat terribly with their bad food. Yes, you don't. I, however, do not anymore. Ironically, she was the worst. I was the worst. You were the worst? Yeah. I mean, I grew up on bad food, I'm not going to lie. By the time I got into the band, I pretty much had two heads. No. Four eyes. Nicola. I was grey in colour. I lived with her in the beginning. And?

18:57She would make her with bacon. That's alright. Disgusting. Excuse you. My God, what, like really? Why? No. To cook it. To cook it. From raw. But why would you do that? Because it was quick. So, yeah. also in my defense like i have a issue with sugar so i've got hyperglycemia no but i still felt those feelings i might not have been diagnosed but i still did feel that way where i have to eat like quick all the time like there'll be a moment where i'm like it's gone i need to eat right now yeah so when in the pop stars arrivals house it was like like girls get in the car now and i still haven't eaten breakfast it was like what what do i have so i i'd literally put microwave in the in the oven in the microwave after ironing my hair on the ironing board cereal bars there was no cereal bars there was no cereal bars in the house yeah i know that's mine i spent so so you you didn't eat particularly well you're all young but you were young it's like big students isn't it you eat badly and you're away from home we were like driving around yeah so I guess it was like what we could get so what was on your rider then oh it would be like crisps crisps sandwiches collectively though one thing that we all really do love is the Christmas Pret sandwich oh me too yeah that reminds us of being like in the band yeah popcorn delicious popcorn and what would be on it now now it would be like herb teas The best water.

20:38I have Manuka honey, 50 plus Manuka honey. And Manuka honey. On mine, so when it comes in, I've got racks and racks. Ginger, you can look like I open a ginger shop. Nicola, what's the best water? It's actually called Icelandic water. And it has a pH of 8.4. I'm going to... Noel Gallagher bought his own tea bags. No, I'm like a water fanatic. What makes it so good? It's the right pH for your body. Why? What do you want? So you stay hydrated and your body's like an alkaline environment rather than an acidic one. These guys think I'm crazy. I mean, I'm kind of with you on that one. But if you taste this water...

21:17As long as you're not drinking tap water that's got sewage in it. Exactly. I've got filtered water, but I don't know about the ages. It's not the same. I don't, but I'm sure if you get one, you'd be horrified. Do you feel that... Genuinely, this is a genuine question. Do you actually feel the difference? and when people come round to our house and we give them a glass of water they're like oh my god what is this water you're like a scientist nicola i'm gonna sound like a proper ball but i'm just like really conscious of what i put into my body don't go swimming now all the sewage and everything i don't know how we're gonna do this but it's gonna have to be you're gonna have to help yourself Yeah, great.

21:58Yeah, yeah, perfect. It's juicy. Wow. There's more stuff. So it looks a bit sad and I have to say it's gone a bit dry. It looks amazing. So I'm blaming Black Friday on that, but there's lots of tomato sauce that you can have with it. No, it looks great. And please just start helping yourself. Don't be polite. Get digging. What's this? Oh, this. I think that's how I'm going to get you something. You can have that too. That's Nicola's ciabatta frittata. Oh, love for me. Ciabatta frittata. After the last few days, this is the perfect day just to be fed and gossip. It is. But how do you feel about this?

22:31I mean, everyone kind of grew up with you. You grew up with us. And then you become, I mean, you know, Hunsnet, love of Huns, they absolutely love you. Yeah, it is funny. And it is a high accolade when you're on there. To be honest, how does it feel? Does it feel completely bizarre to be stepping back into a new world as pop stars and kind of having to navigate yourself around TikTok, even though you are kind of the queens of it in a way too. It's bizarre because back then, I think because there was such high press intrusion, it was like you protect yourselves and you don't share things. Whereas these days, it's all about excessive sharing.

23:12So it's so alien to us. People are like, oh, you should post more and you should share this and you should like you know people want to be able to relate to this and say it's so alien because for us we grew up trying to protect ourselves from all of that and it feels strange it's very obvious that none of us are really that comfortable or that good at it because we did we spent so many years doing the absolute opposite of it and like the the younger people that you know grew up with it are so into it and you're like i just don't know how you get there really People in their, what, 20s, early 20s now, will never understand.

23:48If we had have said to someone in our early 20s, I'm just going to take a picture of myself, you know, pouting, looking me best. Yeah, I know. And then post it with a caption saying how awesome I am. How hot I look. How nice me jump are, where it's from. You would have been laughed out of town. Yeah. And rightly so. I think I'm too old-fashioned. I don't know. But you know what? sadly you'll get really used to it and it's really weird and you feel like a dickhead and then there's one point where you go if you like a dickhead that's the expression who's the dickhead now? I mean

24:27so who's the best chef out of these four? I think we all can we all really like cooking you know we're quite foodie as a group aren't we? we really appreciate good food and we love food and I had a restaurant for 12 years. You had a restaurant? I had a restaurant in LA. Did you cook once? Once. I would go through all of the things with the chefs and we would organise what type of things we were doing for the menu, what type of thing was right by the beach. But I was the way I was saying, I had chefs. But chefs are notoriously temperamental. And we had this really nice chef. It came from Chateau Marmont.

25:07He was an Irish guy. and he just decided to leave one night on one of our buzziest nights, which was a Thursday. And he storms out and leaves. And it was like, well, we can't not do you. Don't tell me that night you cooked. That was the night I cooked. No way. What did you cook? Well, I had to cook what was on the menu. What was on the menu? So then what I had to have was the menu because people were ordering stuff and then I had to have the menu in front of me and then what was what they were expecting to get because I couldn't remember. At this point, I was like still in the band. I was back and forth and back and forth.

25:38Sounds like an episode of the band. Oh my God. So I had to be, the thing that I couldn't do, I could do everything else. I had to look and see like, and the tickets were just coming on and coming on. Oh, it's very stressful. And one of our waitresses was Russian. So she was looking for, she was like, Raj, Raj. And I thought she was on about Rach, my sister. And I'm like, I was like, Rachel, I was like, Rachel's at the bar, Rachel's right there. And she was like, no. And she was shouting and everyone, you could see all the customers were walking by. They're like, Nadine, what are you doing in there?

26:07I was like I have no idea I don't know what was the restaurant she wanted it was called the Dean's Irish must but what did you actually have to cook that I had to cook everything that everybody ordered steak chips salmon salads steak sandwiches I had to do a full service this is outrageous how is this the first time we're only hearing about this Sarah I would have but you know what I couldn't Oh my God, we should have got Gordon Ramsay down. Everyone was slammed and jams. Rachel, everyone was working. But what I couldn't do, you know the huge bag of fryers? I didn't have the strength. I didn't have the strength.

26:45I literally was crumbling at the weight. So I had to have Jorge, one of our dashwashers, come in and do the fryers. God bless Jorge. It was wild. And I was frazzled, obviously. So when did you stop Nadine's Irish miss? Good night. They'd done it, they surprised me. I was off doing something in London. Then I came back and it surprised me that that's what it was. And it had engraved in glass in the window so I couldn't go back. I was like, why would you call it that? Why? It was always called the Irish Moss. They just were. Ah, okay. Because my family and all were over there. Like my mom, dad, both sisters, nieces, nephews.

27:25Jessie, this is delicious. This is so nice, Jessie. No, it's amazing. Mine's dry. Mine is insane as well. Do you want some more? I will have some. So good. What are you feeling about touring? How, because I can imagine that you had so much fun when you used to tour. Were you quite naughty on tour? Would you go out after a gig? In the early days we did, definitely. But it becomes quite, I mean, I'm so boring. I kind of, but I think you have to be, if you want to get on stage, you want to do the shows. You know your capacity. I had one night where I went out the night before a show. And then I think it was maybe Belfast.

28:00and I knew then it would never happen again. What happened? Oh my good God. Trying to do a two-hour show, high energy, like what we used to do. I just knew it was the worst decision of my life. That's the thing as well, isn't it? When you're putting out so much energy with the dance routines. It's painful. Why do you think you've decided to do this now? Well, we were going to do it for 20th anniversary, which was last year. so we were talking about it obviously the year before it would have turned 20 with Sarah but then Sarah said girls I actually can't I'm really unwell but she was well beyond unwell beyond anything we could have imagined at that time and then when we knew it was terminal the conversation was irrelevant by then I mean literally fellow yeah no there was nothing it didn't come it was nothing to talk about okay her mum um i know that peter's really close with her mom and i'm sure that her mom's so her mom is wonderful i'm sure she's really excited for you to do this and i'm sure you're gonna of course you're gonna you've talked about you honoring sarah you know i think it will be a big old celebration it's not gonna be easy for her it's not gonna be easy for her to see us do anything no it's so odd the visual or would just be in four hours.

29:23Exactly, right. How have you managed her voice not being there? We haven't got that far down the lane in terms of creative direction and stuff like that, but we know which bits are not... There's the odd line here and there where... We can cover it and we won't even remember what we sing on those lines. It's like literally a line or a few words, but there are also big moments that are very apparently Sarah, very iconically her. I just don't think any of us could see them. So with her mum's blessing, I think we'd just rather just let her voice play, yeah. But we haven't. This is just how I feel, that we're going to have those conversations and make sure everybody's happy.

30:10But some bits, yeah. I don't know if any of us could even do it. You've had insane sign-ups for the pre-sale. Yeah. It's looking like it's gonna sell out very quickly. Yeah. Do you think you put on extra dates? You never know, I think we just take it as it. Yeah. We're just going with it, whatever comes next. We've got a call saying, listen guys, this is sold, do you want to put an extra date, we'll see. When do the tickets go on sale? So if you're listening to this when it first comes out on the Wednesday, pre-sales are on sale now. Yep. Today. And then general sales the 1st of December. Friday.

30:47it's here guys it's happening oh my god we are it has been quite overwhelming though actually the reaction has been really overwhelming it's been amazing you don't know what to expect yeah i am why i don't know it's really hard like i've been out of that world for like over 10 years and like doing my own things and just like quite in my own little world with my kids and my whatever and so to suddenly see like the the power and the reaction it is a little bit like oh wow wow okay like even my little sister text me and she was like wow you guys are kind of a big deal like the reaction i'm getting everywhere i go and i'm like me either to be honest when you're in it as well there's always like appreciate it like side of caution and you never really see it from the outside perspective you can only get like take advice from your promoters and your agents and your manager and they're all going it's going to be great guys it's going to be massive and you're like is it really though are you sure yeah once you get that first show under your belt maybe the anxiety like it's that what if what's gonna happen you do it it will be like riding a bike the performance is the thing i'm least worried about the performing and the the show of it all is like the best bit i think once we do rehearsals and we know what it's gonna look like what way we're gonna arrive on the stage what you know the set list how we're gonna work as a four rather than as a yeah and if that looks okay yeah you know then i think then it'll be there'll be a lot of pressure checking out have you started talking have you started talking to each other about the set yet briefly do you fall out about it are you in agreement i don't think we will we're quiet we're usually on the same page with stuff like that aren't we but they're gonna come over to mine one night over christmas and we'll just get the the wine and cheese and crackers out and we'll just thrash it out a little bit but it is hard because it's like well you know yourself like you've got all these hits but the order of what you do them is like the journey that you take them on so there's actually quite a lot of pressure and also when you're in a band it's not like an indulgent experience like you go with what is best for the band and what the fans want to see yeah that's kind of what you sacrifice when you're in a band rather than a solo artist so what do the fans want to see what songs do they want to hear how do they want to see the show like it's it's led by them that's how it's led by us but we're not going to be like oh we're going to sacrifice you know one of our big hits for like someone's personal album trial but your fans have grown up with you so it's going to be people of your age the same people that started with you yeah a lot of people we saw some as we left the radio station the other morning and one guy was literally apologizing for having gray hair.

33:37This is like one of our hardcore fans. He's been at every single thing we've ever done ever ever ever. He was like and I know before you say anything I know I know I've got gray hair. Well which ones of you have got gray hair? I've got gray hair. Yeah me too. Yeah who's dying the hair? Well we do anyway don't we? That's the thing so you sort of don't notice. I am nowhere near this blonde. I'm probably more your color like mine. Well this is not my color either babe. I'm very I was totally in denial I didn't even know I had any and then our head who's very much keeps it real was like babes no no no look look here they're all there I'm like thanks.

34:15Can I ask you know you're doing the UK is there anywhere that you're really looking forward to eating is there any spots that you will you know on the destination that you will be like right I'm booking in ahead. Well Cheryl will have them more luck for a chicken palm if they're up there, weren't you? Cheryl used to always take me to a Newcastle, Chinese in Newcastle. Oh yeah? Which one? Kwok Pow. Will you be going to Kwok Pow? It's unbeatable. I have been to, I can't tell you how many Chinese restaurants down here. They're not the same. I will take everyone for an Indian in Leeds as well, because I was brought up in Bradford and the Indian food that you can get there is just on a whole nother level than what I've ever tasted since I've lived on here.

35:01It's amazing. I wonder if it was either with you or Sarah, Chuck Media. I think it might have been you. Yeah, probably. Do you like a place? I like spicy food a lot. Me too. Me too. It's good, you know. Do you know? Are you a hot sauce? Are you a hot sauce? Are you a hot sauce? Yeah, I can't. How did you not know that? I knew that. I hate hot sauce. Are you two okay? I didn't know she was either. Sorry, say that again. Do you what? What's the matter? What's happened? I'm saying how could them two are like all thinking over each other oh you like spicy, I like spicy we lived together for years but we didn't know that each other really liked spicy dude I love it same out of all me and my family I pass out the hot sauce I've got some good noodles for you you know the mukbang, the samyang, the noodles the mukbang, the really spicy heart so as you can see 21 years later we're still learning things about each other It's actually really fun, I'm enjoying.

35:57So, Hon, you two lived together. Yeah, in the beginning. Nadine and Kimberley. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Who was messy? We were great. None of us. We were great living partners. You were very good. We both kind of had the same. We wanted a nice, clean house. That was the little one. Cheryl and Nicola, let's talk about your... No, no, no. There's a... Was yours a suspect? Ours was, think of university students. What was in the fridge? Nothing. to see this flat. This estate agent took us into this flat. Zero. We walked, we've seen so many flats in this complex. I mean, you are not the same people, by the way, sat here now.

36:32I can't, I just can't even imagine. No. Oh, thank God. That happened. 21 years later, I would really hope not. We walked into this flat and it had a red leather sofa. It had an iron dining table. And we were like, this is it. It's a bachelor pad for girls. We're in. We're having this. This is the one. It's got a balcony. We're going to be so cool with this. Where was it? Where was it? Princess Park Manor. Fruit Farmers. Isn't that awesome? New pop stars. New pop stars. New pop stars. It was weird spot that everyone had. It's like the record companies just throw all the new artists in there. Sugar Babes, JLS, McFly.

37:08Did you use to have house parties? It was amazing. So it was like your student halls? Yes, basically. We'd all be out. New pop star. We were out at the same clubs, weren't we? Every weekend. And then if you wanted to carry on, it was just like, pick a flat. like which one are we going to go back to? I mean it was actually so fun. I think we were pretty good weren't we? We had people over quite a lot. We were very much like Carry on the party girls. I remember you teaching me the trick that when you want to take your makeup off in the day of night you know when everybody's there and I would just be taking it off and Kimberly's like no you keep your eye makeup on and you take the other stuff off and I was like yes

37:52that's amazing but you know like we me and cheryl were so um yeah we were pretty much like students and we used to come back into our hallway every day and there'd be a pack like a big sack a sack of letters and i mean like a huge christmas sack of letters and every day we'd walk back and we'd get we'd be walking up the stairs we'd be walking up the stairs we'd be like so weird why is it's Nobody's collecting their letters. No one's getting their letters. And when I say a sack, I mean a Christmas sack. But what was who the letters was? The post in the revenue. We hadn't opened one. I didn't know you got post.

38:30We were literally teenagers. I didn't know you got letters. The record company put us in there. So you probably thought they were sorting everything else out. We did think that. Until we got a 30 grand carabond. Where would we have a tank? I thought carabond just came for free. So did you have a bounce? It was like, they just show up. Until our lawyer was like, you said 30 grand. And we did not have 30 grand to spend on camera. Addison and Lizzie were like, what do you mean we have to pay for it? Should we get a joint account to pay all our bills out of? Ours was so awkward. We had a joint account.

39:04We would buy all our food shopping, all our bills. Our decorations. Okay, okay, but let me ask this. If she didn't do that, would you have? I wouldn't have done the joint bank account. No, no. Would you have paid all your bills? Oh. Miss you're 16. And being a 16, 17. Do you know, I was, I would have been definitely mature. Like as a 16, 17 year old, I was very mature. But I did learn a lot about, but you were 21. I was older, I was wet. So you had, but that, you're still young too. But you had more, and you had an older boyfriend. Yeah. So you, Kimberly knew a lot about being an adult. I lived out.

39:41Yeah, I didn't live at home. I'd have to say, I'd like to live with Kimberly. So would we. To be honest, we were down there. Who decided to live with who? It was, we'd shared rooms, because it was right after the competition, so we'd shared rooms. Kimberly and me shared a room. You two shared a room. Sarah was in a different room, so it ended up that we went, you two went, and then Sarah had her own place. She wanted to be on her own, yeah. Because it just kind of went with the assigned bedrooms that we were in that place. Was she older than you? Same age. There's three days between us. Oh, so you were the same.

40:16So you were just a bit older than the teenagers. Yeah, we were quite a bit. Yeah, we were a bit older. Well, especially when you're 17 or 21. Yeah, it's a big difference. So you were definitely, you know. And also, I was scared. I was, like, afraid to level up. Like, what if, you know, what if a dangerous person comes to a knock on your door? Oh, I was terrified of my own shadow. You know what I mean? I went from my parents writing me notes in school to be like, Nadine doesn't have her homework or Nadine doesn't do it or Nadine doesn't have whatever it is, sports gear, to having Peter Lorraine and the record label, they don't care if my daddy writes a note.

40:48I would literally lie in bed, desperate, thinking, if he could just write me a note, this would be great. And I was like, they're not going to care. They're not going to write a note. He can write a novel, and they're not going to give a shit.

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42:14so i don't know how we're gonna make the last supper work with you four i think they have one turn each darling okay what's the last you're going to go to a desert you've done this before you've done this i don't know how why you're asking sherry you've done it before you'll have to remind us okay you're going to a desert i think maybe it was i can tell you what it was it was your mom's roast yeah yeah yeah and my key lime pie that i made oh yeah you love that Maybe she'll make the travel. Yeah, she might. Okay, so you're going to a desert island. You're about to have none of your comforts, your favourite things.

42:48And so your last supper before you go. Nicola, what's your starter going to be? It's going to be a burrata. Oh, yeah. The Londoner actually do the most exquisite burrata. It's got like slices of orange drizzled in something. It's delicious. Okay. That would be my starter. my main would be a roast dinner with plenty of gravy you're looking at me like I didn't give you the gravy I'm really sorry it wasn't appropriate but would you eat meat on that occasion? I probably would not even if it's your last substitute? you'd have a nut roast? Nicola go on okay I might have roast beef with extra fat oh my god she used to like the fat how do you feel like in the fat to not even eat meat?

43:33but cooked very very well done isn't it? and then my dessert would be extra fat you know those really it's extremely juicy it's literally like one way to the other those really cheap profiteroles you know the cheap ones love them from the shops the cream inside not the posh ones that are like baked yeah it would be that thank you so decisive Cheryl Cheryl is it still going to be your mam's roast yes okay what's your starter going to be oh god actually it would be more like Christmas dinner okay yeah me mam's Christmas dinner that is up there that's a good one I'm going with that with you I'm going to go with Christmas dinner yeah how can you beat Christmas dinner you can't absolutely everything on it yeah like you wait all year for that yeah I would do Korean barbecue oh because you used to live in LA I would have Korean barbecue I would have it all marinated, all your meats marinated, all like your side dishes marinated, and then have your little like your grill in front of you.

44:37And I would have just like all of the things grilled, all your vegetables, and then you put all your dipping sauces. That's like a nice kimchi. I love kimchi. Kimchi with everything. Like if I do like scrambled eggs or toast, or then I'll put kimchi with it. So good for you. Is this because you lived in LA, and the Korean barbecue is amazing. I'm presuming that's where you kind of were introduced to it maybe? Do you see, I am just bag-and-de-food. So if I watched whenever I was a kid and me and my best friend from home, he's bag-and-de-food as well, and then we would see an ingredient that we'd never heard of before, I would make it my business.

45:14We would make it our business. And my mommy would give us money to go and buy these new ingredients that we'd never had before. So we would go and go. And then we would come on and she would like give us the kitchen and then we could cook. And then it was fine because she would let us cook and we could cook for her and her friends and stuff that we're having a good time. So me and Rashi were in the kitchen from where we were nowhere. So any food that I didn't know, I'd have to go find it. So I needed to know what kimchi was. I'd heard too much about it. I needed to know. And you would literally try anything.

45:44Anything. I would go with anything just to give it a go. I feel like being brought up in Ireland and like the food that you eat there. like it's quite it's quite cool that you were like so open to try and everything a lot of frog legs she would try it I and I love do you know San Maris in Soho the what's the fondue place that they do the frog's legs on there oh I've only been to the parties downstairs wow you need to try out the frog's legs so I don't really like cheese you are going to Soho for frog's legs and the fondue so you gotta do You'll start with the frog's legs and then you'll move on to the fondue.

46:25But then you'll also get the meat pot where you can cook your meat in the boiling broth. Oh, like an entrecourt or something? No? Just like dip your... They do like a boiling broth. Like a meat fondue. A meat fondue with the broth. And then you do your thing. And then they change it to a chocolate. They put egg on it so they make your broth like a sip. You're quite fabulous. And then they do a chocolate fondue at the end. Do you think fondue's going to make a comeback? I hope so. I mean, I think she will or does or does. I do as well. I am a fan. Okay, so I'm just wondering. Okay, so we're doing Korean barbecue.

46:59Are we having a starter? Are we having a frog leg? Is the starter? At the Samarit Club. Yeah, that's from Samarit. Yeah, that's really, really nice. And frog legs are lovely. They're a really good starter. And Anaya loves it. We had to take my mom and dad for them because Anaya, my little girl, is really adventurous with food as well, which is great. We were like the two like gal pals just like taking on the world, trying out all the food. Wow. She loves that. But she doesn't like cheese. She doesn't like cheese. What, at all? At all. Well, she likes melted cheese. That's like my son. Cole doesn't like cheese.

47:34I think he either do or don't. So she'll have pizza. She'll eat like the melted cheese on pizza. But if you try to like give her a cheese and ham. A baby bell. Or a baby bell. No. She wouldn't. She wouldn't house a baby bell. with some frog's legs. She'd be down for that. Crikey. Are you going to have any requests on your tour catering? Spaghetti. I'm obsessed with spaghetti. We shot our commercial right by where my favourite spaghetti is from. What's your favourite spaghetti? It's the Pomodoro from Osterio Basilico in Notting Hill. And I got straight on the delivery with my favourite spaghetti Pomodoro.

48:13My own. And I had to write on the bag, do not eat, do not bin this bag. While I went for my takes. Jessie, what sort of food do you eat before you go on stage? Because we've not done it for a while. I've actually, I've learnt the hard way. That I have to have at least three hours before performance. A thousand percent. You've got to work on that app. And it's horrendous. It's awful. I don't do dairy. Yeah. I don't do tomatoes, spice. It's so boring. There isn't much. It's so boring. and then you feel like you're basically Marcus Rashford because you're like an athlete eating chicken and rice and steamed rice.

48:50It's so boring. You can't have anything and actually the tall catering, some, they were, the tall, garlic is a no-go. No, because they do. It makes you burn. Oh, repeated. I always found that tall catering does not cater for the factory. They don't cater for the owners. Right, you see, I always had, they do, but then you just have to ask specifically. So I always had any form of potato. Like I'd be like, it's so Irish, but it's true. but like so if you're not making any we'll have like a little thing of mash or a baked potato or chips like you knock yourselves out as long as it's a potato of some sort of company and whatever so they would oh and I always mash is my particular favourite so they'd always have a wee pot of mash going on the side like specifically for me and then you're good it's mild you're like you're plain but it's plain you get your carbohydrate yeah you're ready to go you're the idea of doing mash before a gig is wild to me deliveroo.com because seriously or just eat are the girls allowed girls the new just eat advert that was about to be announced I don't care they don't cater for us they cater for the crew and that's fine yeah that is fine there's so much more there's so many more of them I know there's a trucker crew dinner absolute when I'm about to go do two hour stage in Elliot Todd I doubt it we used to get corn beef and beetroot sandwiches corn beef and beetroot wow delish don't knock it until you've tried okay I won't I don't think it will be good.

50:14Would you still, for old times' sake, do you think you'll be having that corned beef and beetroot? I mean, it wouldn't be what I'd choose now. I'm not claiming that. If it was the same kid, Austin. Me and who made it? Should we have some pudding? Yeah. Jessie, have you got any glass bowls? I do have four, so the girls... Okay, right. What have you made, Mum? It's quince and white chocolate trifle. So who knows what it's going to be like. I like the addition of white chocolate a lot. Me too. Yeah, it's white chocolate on the top. Just give me, if you give me a glass bowl. It's the stuff you have with cheese.

50:48Usually you have like a mule. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Like, you know, they'll make it with quince jelly. Yeah. Usually with them. Oh, God, it's very firm. Do you know what? I actually prefer that. Thank you. No. Do you think, what do you think? It's because the friend gave me some quinces. It's a bit refreshing. Yeah, it should be quite sharp. Yeah, I prefer that to sweet, to be honest. What do you think? You're not keen. She's not keen. What are you not keen about? I'm not that much of a dessert person. The only thing, I think the ladies' fingers aren't... Okay, I'm not saying I think that I'm about...

51:23Never ever let me do something and not have a little... I think it tastes really nice. I just think the ladies' fingers aren't soaked enough. I think it tastes amazing. There was masses of liquid on it. I would not use ladies' fingers again. No. Oh, it's delicious. That's really yummy. There is a delicious kick to it. I really appreciate a texture. But I like the quince. It was only a way of using the quince as up. Quite a good way to do it. But I think you're right. I'm not keen on the ladies' fingers. No, they feel stale. That's not your fault. Jess. Cheryl. You're rude. Cheryl, you literally just went, not sure about it.

52:09and now you're digging me out thank you very much lady before we put you back in the cab for three and a half hours can you all give me a nostalgic taste it doesn't have to be from the girls allowed era a nostalgic taste that can take you back somewhere so vividly go on Cheryl it's either going to be Anglo hubba bubba's what are Anglo hubba bubba's there is chewing gum yeah I know what hubba bubba is what's an Anglo one an English one I don't know that's just what the name of the brand maybe do you know what an Anglo hubba bubba is what's that what's that Anglo-Saxon hubba at the end of the day really nostalgic like bubble gum but it's it's like a childhood thing we always had them where where would you get them from the the corner shop the corner shop the corner sweet shop That's them.

53:08That's exactly them. That's my childhood in a wrapper. I don't know them. Oh, they are called Angra. They're not Hubba Bubba's babe, they're called Hubbly Bubbly aren't they? They're called Bubbly. Bubbly. I don't know Bubbly. You said Hubba Bubba babe. And then, remember the really old fashioned cola cubes? Yeah. Where in the centre was Chewy. Chewy, yeah. My dad used to call me that. That's my nickname in my family, Cola Cube. Is that why you're a little cola? Cola, yeah. Cola cube. I always wondered that. My dad would be like, cola cube. What, dad? Did you love them? Nicola. Because my mum wanted my name to be Nicola, not Nicola.

53:47But how do you dictate that? It's the same spelling, right? Yeah. Pronunciation. So that means you'd spend your whole life going, it's not Nicola. Although when I go to America, they go, Nicola in Starbucks. They're calling me Nicola. It's worked. Kimberly, have you got a nostalgic taste for me? I'm gonna go with hot pot now stick with me I was like one of four and you know when you're like trying to feed a lot of kids and money is tight it's hot, have you ever had hot pot? yeah, so with the corned beef and the potatoes you make it with corned beef but you don't have a lot of money but it's basically like a corned beef hash-ish but in Yorkshire or Bradford where I come from it's called hot pot and I don't know like if I was to taste that now I would literally be transported back to the first house I ever lived in we should get Diane to make us some I would say she would still make it the same way to be honest yeah I mean and you get parasites yeah Nicola live a little Nicola Nicola stop it do all your parents feel like these are their children as well like they're godparents do you so did your Your mum, Cheryl, does your mum know all the girls and think they're like her?

55:06Yeah. They're all of our families. So everyone's invested. The whole family's invested in everyone. Like each of our brothers is like kind of a brother-ish. What she's brought. Yeah, exactly. Like we were always in the club with Kimberly's brother or Gary's brother. It was pretty much a group thing. Like we didn't go out separately. Like we'd finish work, but we'd all still go out together. We didn't know anybody else. It took so long to know anybody else. You had your friends over. At home, but in London. Then if we had friends coming over, then it would be like your sister and friends. It would just be a bigger group.

55:43So that's melted white chocolate in the cream. Do you like that? Cheryl, for somebody that said they weren't sure, you're finishing your bowl. I think you'll find whatever the thing is I've left. You don't like the quince. Oh, is it the quince? It's the quince she doesn't like. But actually, I think it would work well with raspberries, that. The cream's delish. Or Swiss roll with the white chocolate on the top. Or peach. Do you think peach? Yeah. Like a peach. Yes. Yes. Okay. Peach would be delish. Nadine. Oh my God, a nostalgic flavour. Yeah, a nostalgic flavour. I mean, I feel like I just pick up new flavours all the time.

56:20Like I had. You've got a staple one from your childhood. A staple from my childhood. She likes kimchi, darling. No. I know. I'm not sure about her palate. I know. What is the stew that you always used to make? My mommy's stew. Irish stew. My mommy makes it the same way. I know it's like whatever, but it was like specific, wasn't it, with the dumplings? With the meatballs. She'll do it with the meatballs, but she doesn't like it. So my mommy will cook her meatballs. My mommy's not a fan of cooking everything in the one pot, although she is. So if she's making a stew, the onions will be done separate to the meatballs, the potatoes are done separate to the carrots, and I'm like, whack it all in and put it all together.

56:55She'll isolate all of her flavours. so that is a very clean no fat transfer no like a very clean so maybe that my mommy's cooking but my mommy is you know my mommy's in the house my mommy will be cooking dinner tonight so it's less nostalgic and it's more on the present do you know what I mean it's more so when I think about nostalgic things I'm like I don't know alright what's a girls allowed nostalgic drink from when you were younger Red Bull Red Bull no it wasn't I drank it once and it was at night time and I had no idea I'd seen the adverts. Kimberly and I loved together. And the tour manager had it in the back of the car.

57:32And I was like, I'm thirsty. Cracked open a Red Bull at 10 o 'clock at night. You know, like not knowing. Until I'm on and I'm trying to brush my teeth like shaking. And I was like, Kimberly, Kimberly, make a buddy die. Something's happened. You shouldn't have tried that Red Bull. I told you. I told you. You shouldn't have had that. I had no idea. So yeah, maybe Red Bull. Oh, bubble gum show. Bubble gum show. Do you remember the bubblegum shot? Oh yeah. They used to hand us the bottle to go like this? There was a club called Trap, Propaganda then Trap, and when it all went a little bit, you know, to the next level, the guy who ran it would come round with a liter bottle of bubblegum tasting shot.

58:13We have no idea to this day what was in that. We have no idea. And we would all partake in this. And could you imagine if somebody passed you down? Does it taste like Hubba Bubba? Yes, it tasted exactly like a bubblegum. Like Anglo-Buzzley. And like, COVID-wise. Literally passing it around each other. Westlife were there. Like, I remember like, all sorts of people being there. They were fun. They were really fun. I don't know. They were actually. Who was the best band to go out with that could do, go as hard as Girls Allow? They were up there. Westlife? Yeah. Really? Yeah. Flying without ice? At the table.

58:49Because we had the same floor. Is that the one with Roman Keating? No, that's Boys Lane. Okay. So who was in Westlife? We had the same. The blonde one. Yeah, the cute blonde one. Mar. Nicola, we haven't got your nostalgic taste. My nostalgic taste. Make a waved beacon. Stop, Cheryl. No, my nostalgic taste is actually stuffing. So when I was a kid, my nan used to take, all the women in the family used to go to church on a Sunday. And then the whole family would go back to my nan's house after church. All the guys would be in the lounge. they didn't go to church they were all watching the football so in the lounge they'd be screaming no god god such aggression coming from the from the lounge and my nan would be in the kitchen cooking the roast and she'd make this amazing stuff in and then when everybody had their bit she used to let me sit and eat out of the the bowl so i used to love peeling the hard hard for the crispy bits.

59:48The crispy bits are the best bits. And they'll be like, Nan, please can I get the ball again at the end? And she'll be like, yes, love. Nice to sit with the ball. That's very, very cute. That answers to all of them, wasn't it? Yeah. Girls Aloud, it has been a total pleasure having you here. It is so wonderful to see four inspiring, brilliant, warm, honest women that are having, hopefully, the time of their lives. You're about to go on tour. You're going to sell it all out. You are so loved by everybody. and we just wish you oh fuck off are you fucking watching my phone? that was so good thank you that was so good on and we wish you and we wish you all the best with the tour you're going to smack it we can't wait and can we come?

1:00:29absolutely front row only if you bring Trayfield without Lady Philly okay or quince I will I promise

1:00:51That was the sound of the underground. Four Girls Aloud voices, Nadine, Kimberly, Nicola and Cheryl. Girls Aloud have just been in New Cross and had their opinions on the meal and eaten a lot. And been brilliant and generous and funny and just so... Warm and open. Honestly, national treasures. To me, they look the same. They don't look like they've aged a minute. I promise you. They're beautiful, wonderful, inspiring women. And I can't wait to see them on tour. Yeah. The idea of Nadine doing you a steak sandwich. Yeah. And I think if you complained, she'd have thrown it at you. Also the fact that Nadine has variations of potato before she goes on stage.

1:01:39I'm not going to try that one. Cheryl's on Deliveroo. Okay. Nicola's on the pH levels and Kimberly I think Kimberly just has a Mac E D's doesn't she I love them I love them they're brilliant they're all lovely they're so wonderful they were so fun some of them have been in the car for three hours and they just got right into it and we had a lovely lovely afternoon together and thank you so much to Girls Aloud for coming on the podcast I do feel like I know them a little bit absolutely I feel I'm invested oh we're fully invested the pre-sale is on sale now Wednesday the 29th of November general sale 1st of December I don't know how many of you are going to get to general sale snooze you lose thank you girls allowed mum I thought the trifle was really interesting no no I liked it listen you have got a horrible trait of being critical but I'm not being critical of you I'm being critical of the recipe no but there's always a little something but mum do I ever do that to you no you were very kind about my dry chicken It wasn't dry.

1:02:42It was fine. Okay, thanks, Mar. I think... Right, whose recipe is it? Right, for a start, let me tell you something. Your hummus was great. Piss off, it wasn't hummus. It was tahini and parmesan dip. Actually, they've robbed it. I didn't even get a bloody taste of it. It was so delicious. I'd do that as a little canopy. For a start, I had quinces from our darling Judith Ish Horowitz, from her treat, and she gives them to me every year. the fact that they've sustained about six weeks have we just given girls that have food poisoning no no no they weren't cooked so they've been outside in a bag in a bag oh god hold on a sec only the best for our girls I found I was looking for recipes for quince yeah and I found a recipe for quince and white chocolate trifle yeah and I thought it the the topping I thought was brilliant raspberry works with white chocolate yeah Nicola thinks peach Nicola thinks peach I think raspberry would be better because I think it naturally goes with white chocolate but I thought that topping was fantastic thank you so much for listening thank you to Girls Aloud and we'll see you next week

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