

30 Apr 2026 · 20m · 8 chapters

Ask Me Anything episode mixing family banter, moving house, food abroad vs UK food, kitchen mishaps, and tattoo/house-design questions.
Abbie Clancy (host; interiors/personal-life focus), Peter Crouch (host; former footballer), Gaz (co-host). Audience callers include Louisa, Kent, Katie, Saz, Stacey, and a Brit in the USA (property hunter).
Food abroad “tastes better” due to freshness/local sourcing (especially Mediterranean/Greek/Spanish). The UK’s everyday food is viewed as worse by visiting foreign footballers (e.g., beans, ketchup/brown sauce). They’re moving for a new chapter: land, animals, and a “bunker”/self-sufficient compound idea.
Easter Bunny “shabbering” at the Ivy; bacon-and-egg sandwich “hits different” abroad; kitchen blunders (oven fire from bacon on baking paper; microwave rice exploding Tupperware; cooking chicken using fish recipe with dog hair). Tattoo talk includes Abbie/Peter considering small matching ideas (A/P, half-heart, fingerprints).
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The hosts discuss a humorous family incident involving shabbering with the Easter Bunny.
“We went to have breakfast with the Easter Bunny at the Ivy.”
Abbey and Peter share their thoughts on moving houses and embracing new adventures.
“It's funny, you know, like, I've seen it, I think on, like, social media, like, why men, when they walk past their wives, they always slap their arses.”
The discussion shifts to why food abroad, especially Mediterranean cuisine, is often superior.
“i'll get started on the bunker chat i'd be too scared to go in it wouldn't you i'm I'm in bunkers every day, babe.”
The hosts share their funniest kitchen disasters and cooking mishaps.
“Do you remember that thing our John used to make?”
The conversation moves to tattoos, discussing their significance and personal regrets.
“Whatever we've got in the fridge usually.”
Discover the playful conversation about tattoos and trust in relationships.
“Yeah, so you had like tiny little stars.”
Explore the essentials and luxuries to consider when designing a dream home.
“I'm a Brit living out in the USA and on a hunt for a property at the moment.”
Hear a heartfelt message from a listener about the podcast's positive effect during a tough time.
“There's not like dead meat hanging up upside down from it.”

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Automatic transcript. May contain errors.
0:00Do you want to get straight in? I think the Shabba is getting out of control of him. Shabba, some people don't like a finger up their arse if they don't know you. What's the big luxury item you want?
0:10Abbey Clancy: We do need to build a bunker. I'm in bunkers every day, babe. Golf bans. Golf bans is just a hell no. I have the C word tattooed on my foot. Would you have **** in your foot, Ben? Oh my God, no. Obligado! Hey guys, if you're enjoying our content, please like and subscribe. Ask me anything. Shabba. Hello and welcome to the Therapy Crouch. Ask me anything with me, Abbie Clancy. I'm Peter Crouch. And I'm Gaz. How are we guys? Oh, good. How you doing, baby? Yeah, I'm good, babe. Yeah, I'm good. I'm all right. Ready for some AMAs, really. Hit me then. Do you want to get straight in? Let's get it. Let's get in.
0:50We went to have breakfast with the Easter Bunny at the Ivy. my six-year-old decided to shabber the Easter bunny whilst he was having a picture with another family and shouted shabber. I think the shabber is getting out of control with him. How do I calm the shabbering? The shabbering.
1:08Abbey Clancy: I think it's hilarious. I think let him crack on. It's funny, but you know, some people don't like putting a finger up their arse if they don't know you. Especially the Easter bunny. Yeah. But if it's a six-year-old, I don't know how I'd feel about that, to be honest. It's a bit getting shabbered by a six-year-old. If you're a man in a costume, at least a bunny costume. Quite degrading. But he must, the mum must be shabbering going on in their household for him to know what it is. Yeah, which is great. It's all healthy and above board. Good shabberings never done anyone any harm, has it? You can't beat a good shabbering.
1:48I think... We haven't been shabbering recently, have we? No. Do you think the flame's gone out?
1:54Abbey Clancy: Flame's dead. Do you shabber, Gaz? Do I shabber? I've been known to shabber, yeah. I've been shabber around the block. It's funny, you know, like, I've seen it, I think on, like, social media, like, why men, when they walk past their wives, they always slap their arses. Do you think... You don't do that to me. Is that a joke? I think you've become immune to it. every time I walk while she'll do that why why is that Jo? that's true yeah I mean it's literally the same it's like a what's it called like it's just a you just have to it's just this like natural urge it's horrible it just goes so but you're right are you immune to it do you ever notice it yeah I don't think you even notice it happens itself no I just slapped it I'm just slapping it in the morning no I don't I don't really remember this morning to be honest but yeah I don't know it's a strange one isn't it but yeah Shabrin I don't know I think maybe I think she just needs to say look son I'm fine with you Shabrin but it has to stay within these four walls i.a.
3:03Abbey Clancy: our house sorry we only Shabrin doors no Shabrin no Shabrin strangers or bunnies yeah I agree well Carol says I love I love the podcast never fails to make me laugh my question is are you moving house and if so where would your dream home be we have decided to move house because we are looking for a new chapter and we would like to live our dream of getting some land and having some animals and our dream
3:38no i'm i'm i'm for it we are going to move house we've been there we built the house we've been there almost 10 years 11 years and um you know our kids have grown up there we've got fantastic memories and stuff but we we do want a new chapter and i think i'm all for it you know it's upstream but i you know i i do i'm ready for it as well yeah i'm excited by it i think change is
4:03Abbey Clancy: good change is it's great it's healthy yeah it's new memories and it's an adventure it's easy to get stuck into a routine and a rut isn't it not not obviously not in a rut but i think i think it's now or never we decided to do it um because the kids are still young enough to like enjoy a new house and i think i would just like to teach them new skills like you know growing our own veg and yeah that's nice taking care of animals and collecting the eggs in the morning we could have done that at our old home but i think ab is becoming a hermit as she's getting older and wants to build a compound little compound where we never have to leave and i'm actually all for it yeah yeah it's hard it's back to your bunker conversation about you could have a bunker underneath you could have it all so self-sufficient we do need to build a bunker i'll get started on the bunker chat i'd be too scared to go in it wouldn't you i'm I'm in bunkers every day, babe.
5:04That's a zinger, that is.
5:07Abbey Clancy: Ick. Golf bans. Golf bans is just a hell no. No way. No way, Jose. You shouldn't be in the bunker anyway. The amount you play. I know. If I played more, wouldn't we? Fair. Potato, potato. Potato, potato. Louisa, if you had to move out of the country as a family and stay there for the rest of your lives, which country would you move to? Food would play a big part in my decision. Love the pod. Shabba. Louisa and Kent. I do think food is a big draw on them. When I go to like Mallorca or Ibiza, the food is fantastic. Phenomenal. Spanish food is top level. Fresh produce, yeah. All Mediterranean food's good, I think.
5:53Abbey Clancy: It's unbelievable. Yeah, what do you think about Italian, French. Greek. When we go to Greece, I just go for the bloody food. I love Greek food. I hear you on that. It's so fresh. The salads are amazing. I'm not a salad man, but Greek salads are sensational, aren't they? Yeah. Why is it so good? Is it because it's grown on the island? It doesn't travel far? You pretty much get it straight from the farm? I don't know. Even the bread. Even out here, bread's better, isn't it? Yeah. I must say, I had a bacon and egg sandwich this morning. It just hits different. I don't know what it is. the egg was like firmer, juicier I don't know the bacon it's up notch I don't know yeah foreign food well we when all the foreign players used to come over to play football they all said our food was by far the worst yeah they were horrified horrified yeah and I'm like really?
6:45they couldn't like beans they can't get their head around beans I love beans
6:49Abbey Clancy: we do have some ketchup is another one brown sauce this just blows their mind and I can't get it I think the UK is... You wouldn't see that in Italy, would you? The UK is renowned for having a bad diet, don't you think? Well, because we've got amazing chefs, we've got some of the best restaurants in the world, certainly in London. Yeah, but I'm not talking about restaurant standards, just natural English food. It's what, like pie and mash and shepherd's pie. You've got Spam, fish and chips. Frey bentos, all that, yeah. Fish and chips. So you go to Italy and it's the most beautiful salad, fish how they cook the meat it's weird because we've got so many incredible chefs though haven't we yeah but chefs cook incredible food but I'm just talking about Britain as a nation what what what what are we known for it is like a fish and chips or a pie and mash I know what you mean if you're like a Mexican let's say footballer and you come over here and you do your Tesco shop you'd be like what the fuck yeah I do I do they all say it though it's so it's mad yeah and it's funny obviously they They complain about the weather and the food.
8:00Yeah. If I could lift and shift you into a country now for like the next 10 years, let's say, which one would you pick? Any country you could think of. Would you like to go stateside? Do you like Greece the most? I think Mallorca's a good place, isn't it? I mean, listen, we're in Portugal now and I love it here as well.
8:16Abbey Clancy: I think Spain. Mallorca, Ibiza, mainland Spain, Barcelona. I'd probably go mainland so then we can travel. Travel around. I haven't seen enough of the kind of main I've played there and stuff like that but I'd like to visit more more places I think Mallorca is an amazing place to live it's stunning there isn't it yeah when I said let's live there potential future yeah one day one day good stuff alright well it's the perfect time to hear from our sponsors and if you're enjoying this then please like and subscribe okay well Katie says Hi guys On your Peter Andre episode You talked about How to cook at Jacket Potato Oh do you know What I made the other day What Which I've never made Bizarrely Jacket sweet potato Oh my god It was brilliant babe It's phenomenal Does it work It was good Does it work Lovely Is it nice It's so good I really enjoyed that You know there's more vitamins In a bloody sweet potato Than anything It's a super food isn't it Yeah We should eat them everyday We are having them today I'm not really a fan But that was brilliant What you made That was lovely Well done for that.
9:26Abbey Clancy: Do you remember that thing our John used to make? It's a sweet potato. So you'd... Yeah. Sweet potato. You'd put feta in it. Feta, coriander, mash. Oh, my God. Oh, my God. Really good. Phenomenal. As a main, sorry, a main or a side. What was that? Side. Side, nice. So on the jack of potatoes, he said, I once left two jack of potatoes on the counter with a post-it note to my husband saying, put me in the oven at 4.30 p.m. at 200 degrees. He did this. Self-explanatory. But with the post-it note still on the potato.
9:59What's the biggest kitchen blunder you've ever made? How has he put that in with the post-it note?
10:07Abbey Clancy: That's something you'd do. That's something you'd do. I remember setting the oven on fire once. No, because you made bacon on baking paper. Yeah. And the paper caught fire. Paper caught fire, yeah. Can that happen? Oh, my God. Well, yeah, the thing is, good job I was downstairs. Because I was thinking about going upstairs. When I say fire, it was flaming. Oh, really? It was a fire extinguisher job. Jeez. Yeah. I remember, I think it was one of the kids, the dad, the oven's on fire. I was like, be quiet. So ridiculous. And I had a look and went, oh my God, it's on fire. It was coming out like that, wasn't it?
10:45Yeah, it was already coming out.
10:47Abbey Clancy: You had to get it. The tray that was on fire and threw it in the garden, do you remember? Yeah. Jesus, that's probably the worst. That's a big one. Probably the worst that I've done. What about you, Ab? Oh, I made a romantic dinner for Ab. And there was two dishes that I had to cook. Yeah. And I think it was chicken and maybe lamb or something. No, it was chicken and fish. Chicken and fish, yeah, it was chicken and fish. Yeah. And I cooked the chicken with the fish recipe. Yeah, and the other, yeah. Yeah, so I'd made chicken in the manner that you should cook fish. Oh my God. Because I read the wrong...
11:23So what was it, pink in the middle? And it had a dog hair in it. Oh my God. And do you remember? We have some of the best chefs in the UK. It did. It did have a dog hair in it. I tried though, babe, didn't I? You did try. You did try. I can't. Do anything for you. Thank you. Have you ever done this one at uni? Rice. You know, cooking rice. I put it, it said like in the microwave for two minutes. So I just poured all this rice into a Tupperware, put it in the microwave, two minutes, it blew the microwave up. because you're meant to add water, apparently. I didn't know that. Is that... No. Am I...
11:55Abbey Clancy: Those microwave rices you're supposed to keep in its own packet? It was pre-microwave rice era. It was just, you know, big, giant sachet of it, you know, that kind of thing. So you decant it. I think you're meant to put it in boiling water, you know, that kind of way, and cook your rice. Yeah. Yeah, I just put it in the microwave and blew the whole thing up. And the whole Tupperware, it formed this big black coagulated kind of burnt mess. Oh. Yeah, not great. I can't think of it. I've had many blunders. No. I can't cook a steak really without having smoke in the whole kitchen. Yeah, you are. I don't understand that.
12:25I cook a good steak.
12:26Abbey Clancy: You can, yeah. I do it without that. Mm-hmm. I don't know what you do. Do you know what you haven't made to me since we've been here? Daddy omelette. Mm. I really like those. What does that consist of? A daddy omelette? Yeah. Whatever we've got in the fridge usually. It's loaded. But I think the key is I do it on a low light. It's very cheesy and the fold's good. Mm. Did presentations good. I like the sound of that. It's nice. Saz says, I hate abs, Pete and Gaz. Just caught up with the episode where you swap out words in songs for rude words. I have the C word tattooed on my foot. It was my nan's favourite word.
13:07So when she passed, it was only right to get a tattoo for her. Do you have any crazy tattoos, regrets or any tats that you'd like to get? Would you have **** on your foot then?
13:17Abbey Clancy: Oh my God, no. No, I haven't got any tattoos. None at all? No. Really? No. We debated doing something, didn't we, together? I saw a cute one on Instagram the other day. Give me a hand a sec. So it's when your child holds your hand. Oh, yeah. Why can't we hold hands? And it was basically where their fingers wrap round, where their fingers fell. They had like a little star for each. Really? Yeah, I just thought it was so cute. That's quite nice. Hang on. Like that? Yeah. So where they're holding the kid's hand, so they put a little star there. Oh, that's quite nice. That's nice. What a tattoo. Yeah, so you had like tiny little stars.
14:05That's a cute concept. I like that. Yeah, we were talking about getting like, I actually really like the letter A. The capital A. It's nice.
14:16Abbey Clancy: Why didn't you get one then? I don't know. it's very synonymous with footballers, isn't it? I think a lot of people get them. And I actually became one of the only ones in the dressing room who didn't have any. And then it became a thing. I was like, he's actually cool not to now. I wonder if you're the only footballer not to have a tattoo. I say everyone seems to have them, don't they? Almost all of the footballers now. Yeah, sleeves and everything. Has Ronaldo got them? Must do. I can't imagine him having them. He will have. I've contemplated them over the years, but I'm quite happy not. I would like to like put something permanent on each other yeah don't you think yeah I know what you mean it's a six and five hour deep and forever love yeah where would you get it where would you get yours could I pick yeah I think we should pick each other's then okay that because that's trust and love isn't it but I don't want like a big stupid thing A little thing.
15:19We'd have to be okay with it, wouldn't we? Why don't we do that on the pod? Just, like, send in what you think we should get. Some suggestions, yeah. Some suggestions. And the best one...
15:28Abbey Clancy: You know, I'd get an A and you'd get a P. Or we could get, like, half a heart each, and then when we go like that, it's... Yeah. That's cute, yeah. Let's get people to write in. Could you get your fingerprint on me? And I'll get my fingerprint on you. That's nice. Do you think the hand's a bit visible, though? Do you think, like, maybe, like... No, I wouldn't get his fingerprint on my hand. Oh, right. Duh. All right, well, just something to ponder, isn't it? Do footballers have feet tattoos? Or are the feet your sacred space for a footballer? You don't touch them, you don't mess with the feet.
15:59Does that make sense as a question? Well, it would be, it's like, because you know sometimes they're a bit sore, aren't they?
16:06Abbey Clancy: Has Scott got a camel on his toe? He has. It's really ridiculous. That's amazing. I think something like that, yeah. That's great. That's really good. All right, moving on. Okay. Hi, guys. Love the pod. I'm a Brit living out in the USA and on a hunt for a property at the moment. I know you love design, Abby. I loved your show on interiors. What are some of your non-negotiables in the house and what are the biggest no-nos? Ooh. If I could build the dream home, I would like, well, I'd like a south-facing garden so you could send in the back. I think it'd be nice to go out out of your kitchen onto the garden.
16:49Abbey Clancy: And I like a big air and cupboard. You do love air and cupboard. Love storage. That's like your fetish, isn't it? You love the storage. I think in a dream world, I'd like every room to have its own kind of cupboard for its own bedding and its own towels. Obviously, that's not always possible. But if I was to have the big, if I could build a house, that's what I'd have. Yeah. Storage is key. What's the one luxury thing that you, you know, what, like a cinema room or a swimming pool? Or is it like massive island? What's the big luxury item you want? I think a double island. A double island. Wow.
17:38Abbey Clancy: One for cooking and one for sitting on. That's nice. That's the dream. around. Yeah. I can't even picture it. I would like it. In the middle of the room like that. Just like two big close to each other. Yeah. That's cool. I'd quite like a pantry as well. I've seen those walk-in fridges. A walk-in fridge? Now we're talking. That sounds good. Unbelievable. That's like a butcher's. Like an abattoir. No, not like an abattoir. There's not like dead meat hanging up upside down from it. You just walk in and it's a room and all your stuff's just on shelves. Yeah. It's a good day, isn't it? On the cinema room, that's got me thinking.
18:15How often would that ever be used in your house?
18:17Abbey Clancy: Every day. A cinema room. Would you just be sat there with like 50 chairs just by yourself, just watching a giant cinema? No, not a giant cinema like that. Just have a couch with a massive screen. Oh, I see, right. Okay, let me finish on this one from Stacey. Okay. It said, it's the first time I've ever messaged into a podcast or anything, but I just wanted to say thank you. Probably a nice place to finish. I know it's not really an Ask Me Anything, but thank you last week. I had to undergo an emergency C-section as my baby arrived over seven weeks early. I've been a listener for a while, but last week I was in hospital.
18:51This podcast helped take my mind off the drama and lighten my mood in what was probably one of the most traumatic times I've ever experienced. I just wanted to let you know the positive effects you've had helping me and no doubt others who maybe need a wee mental health boost. Keep up the good patter.
19:09Abbey Clancy: Thank you. That's sweet. Scottish gal Scottish oh that's lovely well done that is nice that's lovely and I really appreciate those messages yeah they're nice they're nice aren't they yeah it's really nice nice on Stace yeah well you know thanks for listening and we'll see you next time see you next time ask me anything drama
On today’s episode of The Therapy Crouch, the Portugal Series continues with another chaotic Ask Me Anything as Abbey and Peter answer your questions and accidentally reveal some huge family plans.
The couple open up about deciding to move house after ten years, why they’re ready for a fresh chapter, and Abbey’s dream of more land, animals, growing vegetables and creating the ultimate family home. Peter also gives his honest take on Abbey wanting what sounds suspiciously like a private compound.
Elsewhere, the pair discuss dream homes, luxury interiors, tattoos, terrible cooking disasters and why men simply cannot resist touching things as they walk past them.
There’s also a touching message from a listener whose week was made easier during a difficult hospital stay thanks to the podcast.
Expect laughs, honesty, relationship chaos and classic Therapy Crouch energy throughout.
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00:00 Introduction
00:45 Easter Bunny Chaos
03:10 We’re Moving House
04:30 Abbey’s Compound Plan
06:00 Why Food Tastes Better Abroad
09:00 Cooking Disaster Stories
13:00 Tattoos Debate
16:20 Dream Home Must-Haves
18:35 Emotional Listener Message
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