Olly Murs: What REALLY Happened on US Tour with One Direction & My Unbelievable Car Crash Story

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2:30Thumbtack knows homes. Download the app today. I thought I washed my hands. I don't like it, really. I lost control of it. and I smashed it into a centre reservation and two cars came smashing into me. Oh, my God. Could be like Bran's Hatch in there. What is that? Hello, and welcome to The Therapy Crouch with me, Abbey Clancy. Me, Peter Crouch. Put your name there, Peter. I find it really tough to say my name. Yeah. Say my name, say my name. And me, Ross Pitt. Yeah, ooh, yeah, it's a bit icky. Seth Pitt. I don't like it. Say my own name's weird. Scott Pitt Scott Pitt Stop it Ross Pitt Does sound like Cess Pitt Yeah That's what My cousin Andy Calls me Cess Pitt Yeah Cess Pitt Dog shit as well Dog shit Dog shit And our Ross And our Ross How are you guys?

3:33Good thanks Yeah Yeah Looking very tanned Looking very glowing Well yeah I'm not really Peaches got that enviable skin. Although I am wearing this T-shirt that you hate. I know, it's fucking chewing gum grey, that. It's not. I very rarely wear it. You only wear it when you're lounging in the house or this podcast. Apologies for the dog barking outside. This brings me neatly on to my weekly wine. Oh, God. Yeah, if that's okay. Oh, I've got to start on me. Do not start on me with the weekly wine. No, listen to me. What I was about to say was, it's not necessarily about you. It's about that f***ing doorbell.

4:11Oh, yeah. And what it creates in this household. It goes... Yeah, yeah. Like that f***ing pterodactyl. It screams like a pterodactyl. Oh, my God. Like that. Honestly. But we've lived with it for 11 years. Why are we only just noticing this? I only just started thinking, like, what are we actually doing? That noise is... It sends shivers through my spine, right? And then the double whammy is... both the dogs then go mental. But every time the doorbell rings, I go, ah! Like that. It's horrendous. We went to our friends the other night, Riley, and her doorbell is ding dong. Yeah. It's quite a nice sound.

4:50I've got an aggressive doorbell, and it scares the shit out of you. Especially late at night as well sometimes, someone comes late. Yeah. Who's coming to yours late anyway? Fucking George, the concierge, just pick a parcel up. Delivery. Yeah, delivery. Oh, the other half, right? The concierge. The concierge, you know. in Bethel Green. How much are we paying? His security guard actually would have been a better way in the forum. The concierge. Shout out George. Shout out to who? George. George. Big G. Big G. No, but yeah, honestly what I'm saying is Yeah, I'm with you there, sister. I reckon there'd be people out there now who are living with doorbells like this.

5:26You don't have to live like this. So Claire told me to, our PA Claire, who literally runs our whole lives, she said, just send me a picture of it and she'll Google how to change the setting. No, I'm getting someone round anyway. I've had enough. When? I'm dealing with it. Today? No, I just sent an email today. Someone's coming today. Yeah, I'm not. Big people just fuck up. Yeah, I've got a reply as well. We've also got another issue that Pete just let happen for two months. Sophia's bedroom light won't turn off. It's not ideal when you're trying to get to sleep. Broad daylights. I once stayed in a flat and the lights for the UR overhead lights in the room in Spain was outside the door next to the hall light switch so like people would come in pissed at like two in the morning and it was like a dentist light as well where is this?

6:14in Madrid in Spain and they put our lights on all the time it was fucking horrendous you know I did Radio X didn't I once I used to take off Johnny Vaughan I covered Johnny Gordon Smart's like after Johnny Vaughan so it was like the drive time after that I love Johnny Vaughan honestly he's so clever he does the things called Martin's Hot Taps. And it's basically things like that you have in your house that have gone wrong, but they're not enough for you to change them. Do you know what I mean? He was talking about he had a shower door that had a jagged little cut out bit. And he said he used to kind of shiffle into it and lift his balls just over it so he didn't catch his balls on them.

6:57Just sharp it. But he said he did that for like six months. Because it's fine. you can get in fine or there's a light that's out and you're like I can't be it's annoying but it's not annoying enough I took the doorknobs off the kids bedroom wardrobes because I bought other ones to change them and they didn't work so there's just screws sticking out on every door we pulled the screw in the kids bedroom we pulled the screw it's a flat end screw but still you have to open the whole door with a tiny screw that's been there for like five years five years we pull the the where the door handle should be we pull that because i keep getting the wrong bloody thing i need a builder to come up fire me a bloody knob that fits on it honestly yeah i need him to screw me knob on please don't write in did you have a weekly wife of peace yes I do so we get home from holiday do you know my son Jack is always he wants he wears the gold chain and he wants a pet lizard Pete decided to take them to the lizard shop and I said can you just have a look and he's come home with two bearded dragons oh what no way yes can't be dealing with reptiles in your house reptile too and they can't live in the one cage where are they so they've got to get two huge tanks They grow.

8:24These are dragons. I'm getting my own back. The amount of times you bring home an animal, right? Actually, I didn't actually bring it home. We need to get the tank in first, take a picture of the set up. Because it's a reputable firm. They want to see the set up. That's good. Yeah, it's a good place. But I went there on the premise that we'd just look at the lizards, we'd hold them and then we'd go. But when we held them, they were actually great pets. They were really nice. You just put them on you. they'd chill there they'd be running around like yeah but no they were quite chilled not like the ones you got a large one no not like that no but it's like I'm like what kind of disease can you get off these things do you have to get them jabbed I don't oh god I don't fuck with reptiles bearded dragons are actually very good pets I found out I did quite like the chameleon thing the simi or whatever it was called yeah nice that was quite cute so whether the kids are adamant now they held them all and they've got their own ones with names and everything.

9:24So you've got four? No, no. Jack and Ed. Johnny and Liv are going to share one and Jack's going to have his own one. That's fair. I've got one as well. Have you?

9:37I think you should just get one, Pete. It's ridiculous. No, you need to get two. Unfortunately, it's... Did you say they're all damn jebbles or something as well? No, they can't live together. They can't live together. I've got to get two fucking cages. No, the only reason we've got to get two... We've got two cages and everything. It's not a cage. It's like a big, massive... Tank. Oh, mate. Where are you going to keep them up? That's going to mess your Feng Shui. I know. Well, there's nowhere for them to go. There's no way they're going in the bedroom because my friend's daughter had a tortoise and when you're feeding them, like the lettuce and the vegetables, you get fruit flies.

10:07The whole bedroom is full of fruit flies. So you can't do that. Like if we had a garage or something, we could keep them in there, but we don't. Did he move quick? No. All right, well, listen, babe, cheers to that. I don't think that was, that wasn't too bad, was it? They're quite mild people who answer you. You like the lizards anyway. I just don't know. I just, I wouldn't mind one. I don't want to get two. I don't understand. If you've got one lizard, you might as well have two lizards. Because the cage is that big, Pete. Where are they going to go? Where are they going to go? What do you feed them?

10:37Fucking crickets. At least there's not like dead mice and stuff. Imagine having them in your freezer. No, let's just... The veggie, I think. Oh, are they? No, do you know what? The locusts and crickets and stuff. for the first six months and then you can just feed them lettuce. Really? Oh, nice. Salad. I ate crickets in Mexico. They were nice. You ate crickets? In Mexico, yeah. It's a common snack there. They dried. A bit meaty. Okay, audience ones. Hi, Abby and Pete. Why is it every time my boyfriend comes to the supermarket with me, the cashier suddenly becomes the most hilarious person alive?

11:10He's cracking jokes, grinning like he's on stage live at the Apollo. Oh, you do that? But when I'm there solo, I'm lucky to get a grunt and a beep what is it about the hum of the self-service tills that brings out my man's inner showman you do that I hate them self-service checkouts I know they're everywhere now I know it's sad I don't know but do you know what because I went to a certain store the other day and they've changed all the tills even in like the clothes department to self-service and I was like bloody hell I was speaking to the lady and I was like does that mean all these people are out of jobs and she was like no we're actually on the floor now and we can deal more with the...

11:49I don't buy into that. No? No. You can never find anyone when you go to a shop. You can never find anyone. Anyone. And also, I worked behind the tail for a couple of years and some of the old people that were coming to shop, that was like their only interaction. Like, they tell you that. They love coming in here because they're speaking to people. So they're all losing that thing. Yeah, you have a little chat, don't you? But I chat to them. When I go to the supermarket, they all know me. So I'm like, how are you, Paul? How are you doing? What have you been up to? It's a lovely day. It's nice to chat to them, isn't it?

12:18They enjoy it. But yeah, it's quite sad that... I went into one shop the other day and there was a load of, like, kind of clothes. It was with... I was with Sophia and, you know, she bought quite a few things. It wasn't expensive. But I dumped him in a thing and it... Oh, mate, Zara, is it? Yeah, Zara. Yeah, yeah, yeah. How mad is that? Have you done that? No. All these clothes, right? And I went... And it all came up. You didn't scan anything? I didn't scan anything. I just put it in the box. Did they have to see the tag? I don't know how they do it. It's just like you put it in a basket and it just goes, there's all your stuff.

12:49And it just goes, all the stuff. It's bonkers. Did you check it that it was right? Uh, yeah. You definitely didn't. No, because they could easily be adding things on, couldn't they? We didn't know. You wouldn't know. It was amazing. Gosh. But I've also had side eyes thrown at me for talking to people on the till as well. It's not like flirting, but it's like chatting. I don't know if that's a problem. Pete flirts at the till. All right, girl, all right. Nice one with that, darling. Flirted Babe When you call people babe What were that? I'm like What are you doing? You've never called me babe In your life Every three seconds I say the word babe Oh darling he says as well I say darling Yeah I get called over darling Come again I will Next up Okay hi guys My weekly wine is about my husband And his showers He disappears for 45 minutes With the water running the whole time When he comes out He's still got shampoo behind his ears What's going on there?

13:43A concert a TED Talk a ex-potential crisis I think you've hit the nail on the head there it's a happy shower good eye that's disgusting is that a thing yeah I'm pretty sure he's running king yeah yeah yeah definitely or he's on the bog scrolling I do that sometimes with the shower running yeah normally I'd turn the shower on after the scrolling but sometimes you think and then I don't know well I'm going to sit in with you next time you're having a shower you do that's not shampoo behind the scenes you can watch me

14:27there's nothing more unattractive than that than seeing a man doing that it's the worst thing it's not I can't breathe because I'm on steam it's like the Titanic scene solo titanic see pathetic absolutely disgusting oh no life's not fucking me is it you come in I have a shower every time I'm in the shower you come straight in bowling in you've got a 30 second limit from now on no locked doors in our house is there no freaking hell apart from the front one yeah front and back truly hi legends I'm not sure how to say this but I've reached my limit I'm fucking hell with my husband's getting hammered here my husband's skidmarked boxes every laundry day it's like a crime scene investigation he thinks it's normal babe no grown man should a grown man should not be leaving graffiti in his Calvins I've started throwing them out blaming the Trumbull dryer it's just a hell no it's not ideal is it it's not ideal but it happens to the rest of us there still seems to be more men than women I'll admit yeah of course Yeah.

15:43Women are clean? Mm. Well, I'm not going around checking them. Yeah. What do you mean? You can be skid-set. Nobody doesn't do the washing. You take your undies off. I don't check it. I don't check. That's a good point, B. Could be like Bran's Hatch in there. What is that? What's Bran's Hatch? It's a F1. Silverstone. Yeah, yeah. Moving on. Very good, very good. I don't want to talk about any more smut. Well, listen, that was just women hammering husbands. Next week, can we have a... I'll bounce it out, I'll bounce it out. So we've got an amazing guest on today. Yeah, we have. Yeah, he's a really good lad.

16:24It's Olly Murs. You know, he's been around, what, 15 years now, and he's got some new music out. He wants to come chat to us. Looking forward to it. Well, I haven't seen him since he got a pair of knickers thrown at his head. Oh, well, that was at the global event. Yeah, the global event, and obviously he was on Crouchfest, doing the John Barnes rap. He was sensational. John Barnes, I think I did the John Barnes rap. He did the world in motion bit. Yeah. Love's got the world in motion. Yeah, I like that song. But yeah, excited. Let's get him on, shall we? Let's get him on. Let's go. Olly Mers.

16:57Right, welcome to the podcast, Olly Mers. It's good to be here. Good to be here, guys. Last time I saw you get knickers thrown at your head. Oh, I know. I mean, it's standard. It's standard everywhere I go. I don't know. That was a global event, wasn't it? Yeah, it makes some noise, I think. It doesn't always happen, but Tom Jones did tell me when I was working on The Voice, like, have you got to that level yet? I was like, nah. I had mobile phones thrown at me and now varnish. And maybe some cups of piss at Crouch Fest. Yeah, at Crouch Fest, yeah. Crouch Fest. I get a few boos here and there, but no, knickers was a new one for me, yeah.

17:31I've had a few male pants as well, which is not always a nice one. When you get a dirty pair of stinky male boxer shorts I mean my missus would be picking them off the floor and throwing them in the bin but when we were at a gig I remember a guy throwing them at me once and he proper got me as well but surely that's a compliment I think it was yeah but I think it was back in the day where Instagram wasn't as big as it was now because I'm guaranteed that probably would have made some viral clip somewhere I just thrown Olly Murs a pair of my pants stinky pants but yeah that was last time I saw you guys what are you up to now mate you've got a new tune out yeah I've got a new tune new music coming new album coming got a new baby coming it's all happening at the moment in the MERS household yeah so much is but you've already got a little young one so was this second one planned or was it you know a gift from God like our yeah we've basically got Irish twins we've got one six and seven a gift from God yeah well I'm a twin I'm a twin are you a twin yeah no one ever me and my brother we haven't spoke for a long time but yeah we were twins growing up oh my god i say we were twins we're still twins but uh but no identical no different eggs yeah amazing yeah so very special twins are amazing like when i look back it was quite special growing up but um but yeah new album coming out and just yeah with maddie with the with the with the second baby it wasn't really we we weren't we were we wanted to get to christmas and new year yeah so i said to amelia let's just because she had maddie and you know as you know having a baby it's like Like she just wanted to just enjoy being a mum.

19:08Yeah. Get to Christmas, enjoy drinking a little bit more, just enjoy having Christmas and New Year's. And then I think the first week in January, Amelia was like, I'm pregnant. I was like, what? It was both a complete shock. You know, we had a good Christmas basically. Yeah. We had a bit of fun. And yeah, it was completely out of the blue. We didn't expect it. And then you start to, your brain goes into overdrive because then I'm like, oh, hang on a minute. Yeah. I was just in the studio at the time writing tunes. I was just about to embark on my biggest tour of ever in my life. That looked incredible.

19:49And then I'm thinking, hang on a minute, we've got Maddie as well and now we've got to have the second baby's coming. So, yeah, working forwards, it was a bit of a nightmare, but I'm always someone that likes to live in the present and me is the overthinker. So I was like, look, let's just take week by week, month by month. Let's just hope the baby gets here safe and sound. And let's just focus on, yeah, definitely. Let's just focus on everything we're doing and just enjoy being parents. It's been mad though. Being a parent is mad. What kind of parent are you, would you say? Because we're both very different, aren't we?

20:23What are you like? What are you like, Pete? What are you like? I'm probably a little bit more chilled. Yeah, I think that's kind of why. a bit more i don't know pete likes to be good cop yeah leaves me to do all the crap jobs like i'm like the nag brush your teeth do your homework get to bed eat your veg and pete's like forget school let's just go and play football or that's what my uncle's like very much about my uncle my uncle was a professional footballer okay and um not at the level that you got too crouchy but he played at a decent level and he he's very much like with all the kids and even when i was growing up it was just like so chilled and my auntie used to be bad cop see with me i don't know i'm a bit i'm a bad cop actually more than a good cop i said to amelia look i don't mind being the bad cop my dad was a bad cop so every time i would do something naughty you'd tell me off so already with maddie of course i want to be fun dad but at the same time i do want her to have respect and know that like she's got to that point now where she starts hitting people how old is she 16 months 16 months you very hands on in the baby stage like were you changing nappies were you feeding I didn't think I would I would I hated I hate picking up dog poo that's one of the worst things in my life that's your job yeah yeah but I didn't want dogs you know and all of a sudden I'm picking up dog shit and you didn't want kids either yeah I've been duped into this whatever this is I wanted a dog I actually do yeah I actually wanted a dog it's hot and steamy yeah It doesn't make any sense.

21:53And it's so thin, the little bags that I put them in. I think I'm definitely... It's just feeling... It's like in the whole of my life, and we've never done this before, obviously, I don't ever do a poo on the floor and think, oh, I'll pick it up. Like just having it in my hands, all hot and steamy and putting it in a bag and then putting a knot in it. And then it's like... And then it's got caught on the back end of my dog's arse. And I'm like... And she's like going mental and I'm having to pick a leaf up to kind of like wipe it off. And I'm like, I'm thinking, hang on a minute. last week I was at the O2 absolutely smashing the living daylights out of it and now now I'm in the middle of a field with other people watching it and I'm wiping crap and shit off my dog's arse like what is this it's a real reality check yeah it really is and it's like I always think that as well like in this day and age you know like the things that we can do now and we're still picking up shit from the floor with a little bag there must be a new there must be I've never done it no I want an AI dog picking robot there should be robots I'm sure Shark Ninja are going to bring one of them out soon they must they've got everything else contact us yeah you're not into the nappies but you do them no do you know I said to Amelia look this is going to be one of the hardest things I'm really I used to love it the smell of poo everything about it it's not something I'm built for but I said to Amelia look I'll step up to the plate and I was to be fair I used to take a picture of every poo that they had know from bird like the first poo send it to the doctor is this normal the second poo is this normal the doctor like blocked me in the end because i was literally it wasn't ipe we were like blackish when they come out and then it goes bright yellow and then there's seeds in it and then you're like oh my god well i i actually talking about that i've got a lot of mates that are dads so before we even got to that point they were like oh mate the first couple of poos are the worst so i was kind of like prepared for it yeah and then they start to get a bit fuller and they get a bit more wetter and all that different colors yellows all these it's a lot of poo we're talking about now uh but anyway i didn't see it going this way did you no but um but no i listen i went straight into the mix with it like i was i was like dad i've got to do this it's my daughter and also you can't help it when you see your baby's face and you're thinking like yeah i've got to do this this is for you so i've just yeah put my pride to one side my dignity just get on with it, touching poo.

24:16I mean, the other day, I mean, the worst one, actually, I'll tell you the worst one, this has happened recently, I thought I washed my hands. Right? I don't like it really. And I, and I, Maddie had done a messy one and she's got to a point, man, she doesn't want to be there. I don't know if your kid's got, you're way ahead for me. That's the toughest age, that like from one to, every time I put it down, she knows, I don't want you to, I'm like, I have to change a nappy, it stinks and you're going to get a rash and I'm going to have to clean it anyway. so I cleaned it all it was everywhere it was messy it was like I've cleaned it I've done the best I can and I've put it all in the bag put it down and I was just sat down May United we're playing in the pre-season friendly I'm just sat there I'm like baby's chilling I'm like right drink shit's everywhere by the sounds of it yes and I am a little bit I do I do bite my nails a little bit and I didn't realise that obviously some of that poo I'd got underneath my nails it was absolutely disgusting and I've gone my mum used to do like my mum used to do like a test with the baby to see if they pooed I washed my hands afterwards as well to see if they pooed and they just lift the nappy and put the finger in what?

25:26yeah I've seen that I've seen that it's like an old so like loads of my friends mums do it as well like when you've got a brand new baby like the poo like I used to pick them up and smell the bomb they just go like that and put the finger in well yeah I mean I'd do the old oh yeah that's one but I mean see if there's a poo in there I've never heard of that technique. But yeah, so I've gone to bite my nail and I've realised I haven't washed my hands properly and there's obviously a little bit of... Oh, Jesus Christ. It was horrendous. Don't even know what I'm telling you. This is couch therapy, so I feel like I needed to get it out.

26:00Get it out, get it out. How do you feel, you know, when I was playing football when I had Sophia and you feel the guilt. So when you go on tours and like that, like leaving your missus kind of has that crossed your mind i don't know if you've done it yet yeah i didn't feel guilty yeah no i didn't i know it didn't cross my mind but i just wondered if it cost yours he wouldn't even answer the phone he'd be like in a hotel no he put it really scored he put the floor underneath his shirt you can see me no but i mean like it happened we we last year when we had maddie again wasn't planned i was on take that tour and um this was actually probably one of the hardest things i didn't realize how hard it was till months later and we were talking about it but um we went to hospital we planned we we knew she was having a cesarean so we planned it the week before uh i think we was going to glasgow or scotland or somewhere i can't remember it was now so there was like a window like two three day window so i said to look amelia like completely up to you it's your body whatever you decide she's like no no no i want to have a cesarean and the baby was actually transverse anyway so she had to have a cesarean this was this was being we were talking about this for months anyway we get to it we booked it in and it i so i only had i was only with amelia for two days oh and then i literally was we got home after two days in hospital i gave maddie to amelia and we were just chatting for a bit and i was like my tour manager's gonna be here in 20 minutes i had to pack my suitcase and i was back on the road yeah and so actually for like two or three weeks i was trying to get back and forth and then it really dawned on me actually i didn't really get a chance to spend and that get that connection with maddie so every time i walked in the house it was almost like i was just like a spare part i didn't really know her that well and then i actually a bit like what crouchy was saying then i i felt guilty but at the same time i love my job so it was really hard to kind of i felt bad but at the same time I'm like I love this and so it was really weird it's really hard to explain how that feeling is but I love my job and so at the same time I felt guilty not being there for Amelia but I knew that she had a mum there and I knew that I had everything set up for her to have but you know probably as well as I do and Amelia would be the same like nothing better when you guys are together that's why you're married that's why you're a team well you when I gave birth you had to go straight to training didn't you?

28:20yeah you'd literally go straight to training then you'd have to go go away and stuff and you'd be like but that's the thing and Amelia had to be understanding knowing that that's really important for me like I couldn't let take that down I'd already signed the contract I was getting paid this is what I had to do so it was kind of like if I do that I'm also then I'm breaching my contract and I'd lose money and like you you'd have to turn up to training I mean your management probably could have said to you men get maternity leave now though they do yeah but you know in football like they did it's obviously frowned upon like yeah you can miss maybe a game if your wife's having the baby but not for looking after the baby my dad or looking after your missus my dad missed three of our births for being at the football not even playing wow okay put it on the tannoy like jeff clancy your wife is in labor and he just ignored it stayed till the end of the game went for a pint after and then came to the hospital and then just put his feet up on my almost burdenfully.

29:18Do you think, yeah, do you think though, Crouchy, like, because football's changed so much now, do you think that they're a bit more like they would have given you that time off? Well, you know what, I mean, the day when you probably felt more pressure, like, I can't, I need to go training. Yeah, no, and also there's that pressure on like, you know, if you do not play, someone comes in to take your place and you feel like, well, I've lost my place, but listen, I think every man should be at the birth of his kids. I think, I think it's a special thing that you wouldn't want to miss. I wouldn't want to miss it.

29:47And I didn't miss any of them. But there are certain, you know, I don't know if you remember the Roy Keane interview when he's talking about his away with Ireland and he's coaching the Ireland team. And the interviewer asks him, will Robbie Keane be playing tomorrow? And he said, well, why shouldn't he? He said, well, obviously they're having a baby tomorrow. And he was like, well, is Robbie having it? And the interviewer goes, well, no, no. It was his wife, isn't it? And he's like, yeah. Well, I expect him to be here then. That's what I mean, though. Bloody boy Keane. That's old school, isn't it?

30:19That's what it was. You know what I mean? That's an old school way. What I'm trying to say is it's different, isn't it? Everyone's got a different... I mean, back in the... Like nowadays, I can't imagine a manager saying that. No. Do you know what I mean? No. I can't imagine a manager... Probably wouldn't be allowed to now, would they? But back then... That's what he said. Yeah, but back then, yeah, that's what Keane said. So, but back... What I'm saying is things have changed so much now. I swear I've seen players take weeks off. Yeah, yeah, I don't know about weeks, but I think maybe a day or two pushing it.

30:44but yeah I mean they're entitled to it but it's just I mean I wouldn't say I mean listen we're very we're in we're we're in great I'm in a very lucky position and a great career so maternity leave I wouldn't say I'm I'm able to take time off when I want to take time off and obviously at the time I was on tour with obviously take that so I couldn't really get that time off but I also knew that once I'd finished that period I would be off for like two or three months and there's people that work full time nine to five every single week so then that two week maternity leave would really benefit and so for me at the time it just I said to Amelia look this is going to be tough for the first couple of months but once I finish the tour I actually get loads of time at home with you and then that will be when I can actually take more responsibility on and then I can give Amelia a bit more of a break so I'm very lucky in that sense that I'm sort of self-employed really so I can kind of pick and choose sometimes when and when I couldn't and typically at the time I'm having the baby, I couldn't change my diary.

31:44That was fixed. So, yeah, it was hard. That period with Maddie was really difficult for me. It's going to get even harder. It's going to get even harder. We had two in our room, didn't we? We didn't even, because Johnny was supposed to be our last baby. So I was like, no rush to get him out of the room. And then I gave birth and I had two babies in our room, and two cots in our room. That's mad. I know. So hang on, talk to me again. So you had your first two children. I had Sophia, then I had a five-year gap, and then I had three and five years. But the twins were the last? They're not twins, the Irish twins.

32:20Seven and six. Just a year apart. A year apart? Yeah. Right. 15 months. 15 months, yeah. 15 months apart. Wowzers. Is there similarities? No. Or not? No, they're completely different. No, they're completely different. So we're going to be about 17 months, yeah. We're close. It's good, it's good, though. It's great. That gap's great. It's going to be fair. I want a madhouse. I want a madhouse. I want chaos I want it to be a bit like Amelia's completely like you don't realise Merz you don't realise it's going to be mental everything's doubled you know like we're going to be man marked I was like what's that hang on a minute I know what that means now because I play football she's like no one you ain't going to get time to go off to the toilet now oh yeah you go and sit in the toilet for half an hour don't you you ain't going to get that because you know it's like you do realise two is going to be mad but I was like this is what it's about Pete hides in the loo for a break, don't you?

33:12I do, yeah, sometimes. It's definitely our sanctuary for blokes in it. That is literally our sanctuary. With a packet of crisps because the kids always steal as crisps. I go into a little dark room in the office or something and have a packet of hula hoops because if I know if I have it on the couch, they're all going to put their hands in. I just don't get any. So I hide and have crisps in my own house. In the toilet as well? No, I'm in the toilet. You have been not on the toilet. You've just been in there. No, I'm not. You have? Of course, you're losing it. It's not the toilet. I love the fact you go and hide in your house to eat your food.

33:44You got four kids. That's a lot, isn't it? Like, yeah. What, what's it like? What's it like, um, touring with, cause you did the tour with one direction as well. Right. And take that when you're kind of with that kind of level of like one direction stuff must have been absolutely mental, but I imagine take that being, well, I mean, the same. I mean, I've actually toured with Robbie as well, which was unbelievable. Robbie was actually probably out of all of them. I mean, actually take that was amazing because it was almost like i'm on tour with take that that's pretty cool i love take that great fans everything about them is great and obviously that connection with robbie but with robbie's was the first was actually we did a stadium tour of the uk and that was probably when i was like this ad is sponsored by zoc doc hi it's danny pellegrino from everything iconic have you been putting off that annual doctor's appointment because you don't want to make the call.

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36:35sort of at my peak at that point my all my songs were sort of connecting and doing well and i i just remember walking out of wembley stadium like with just seeing robbie's fans and just be like this is mental you know what what to be at that level to be friends with robbie to be take that but when i went when i went to when i went over to america i mean when you know like one direction had just broken america and like that experience of like because like i said take that and robbie in the UK I knew my market was strong there I knew my my fan base was strong and I was building it and I thought one day maybe it'd be great to do a stadium here but to then go on a plane to over to America and and be with five lads that I'd met on X Factor you know they were a year or two before after me and obviously they'd cracked it in America and we were everywhere we went and I mean everywhere we went it was absolute pandemonium chaos thousands of people at every hotel like we had it's like the Beatles it was and I was actually and I forget now like at the time I was on my own path and I wish I could go back and relive it a bit more because it was a bit like that it was a moment in time like I was actually in the fig as a support act for the biggest band in the world at that point and the whole of America, everywhere we went, it just shut down everywhere.

37:57It was crazy. And you've got like Harry and Niall, Liam, Zayn, Louis, all of them are like 17, 18, 19. And this is like, or even probably younger at that point. I'm just like, fair play, lads. This is absolutely crazy. And it was a bit mental actually. I mean, they were like, yeah, they were like the Beatles. And that was probably one of the most, yeah, craziest times of my life. and I was 27 at the time. Do you never get scared, Gareth? I was seeing, sorry, I was seeing like 16, 17-year-old girls going through the trash. Like, we're going through rubbish to like see what Harry had for his room service meal.

38:32Do you know what I mean? And that sounds really weird and people are like putting faces, but that was mental. That was a kind of level of madness these fans were up to. I was at hotels and like, Ollie, like even me, like, you know, this is our floor. like level 10 was like the one direction floor whatever and we were like we couldn't go like it was all like security everywhere because it was just yeah the protection around the boys was was was had to be put there because it was just genuinely like everywhere we went was like i mean you know when you pull out to a hotel and you know there's like something happening yeah there was like barriers thousands like hundreds of girls i'm just like fair play like this is crazy like but even like one we went to like vegas was probably the maddest one because Vegas they weren't allowed out no yeah not 21 it was really weird because in America they can't go out you have to be over 21 to drink I remember getting to Vegas like lads what are you going to do in Vegas they're like well we can't go out so they ended up obviously having some penthouse like basketball penthouse suite and something and really we're on tour with One Direction I'm out and about like casinos because I'm old enough to but yeah bless the lads they were sort of had to kind of make do with I mean obviously they lived an amazing life but I mean that it was just a bit that was probably the weirdest thing but they were brilliant like they were honestly they deserved it all like it was crazy and like I said something I'd never experienced in my life and I never will again and I actually wish I I don't know I wasn't in my own little world I wish I could have just really lived it even more because it was outrageous I don't think in scenarios like that you do take it in at the time it's always like a kind of looking back kind of scenario because even you playing football at the time you probably didn't think oh my god I'm in front of 100 ,000 people here you probably just thought I'm playing a match is there any moments you wish you could go back to and go I wish I could live that again just so I could experience that again and feel it a bit better yeah I think there's definitely because you're always on to the next thing I think when you're trying to achieve something you're like you're not living in the moment are you living on like I need to get here I need to get there you're always thinking about what you're trying to achieve whereas I was quite good at it like there's certain players I think elite players I've talked about this before where it looks like they're not enjoying themselves like Steven Gerrard for instance would would be like it's the next game you know we just won I go that was brilliant I mean whereas he'd be like it's about the next thing is there any any game that you can remember or any moment you lifted a trophy and went I wish I'd have actually gone back to that moment now I can remember it better yeah I think the FA Cup win and World Cups I did two World Cups and I was too kind of focused on what we were doing but I think I think you have to be don't you like if you do take in too much of what's going on outside you can get caught up in it all yeah what about you ab there's anything in your life no i haven't done any great to do you have come on there must be i think in anyone i think everyone in their life wedding day like that's a valid one like i think that is what i mean because you're just stressing so much and then it comes and then it's over and you're like oh we should be enjoying it more no but also in life there is moments for everyone i think where you you're rushing too much and you're always thinking ahead and you're not actually living in the present in the moment oh yeah and that one direction moment was definitely saying i wish i could go back and just live it a bit more because i was i think i probably was but again i was always thinking right i've got to keep promoting this and then the next morning we was up doing a radio station the next day i was like right got to do a video here the next day i was doing this and the next day i was asleep and then the next day i woke up like right we're at another venue or another gig it just kind of felt like it was just a revolving got to think of my voice got to get rest got to recover go to the gym i was i was not like oh man can we just like can i just go on tour with one direction and not sing and just enjoy it like you know what I mean but obviously I'm there to work so yeah that was that was one of the most surreal moments and like whenever I see Niall or you know Louis or Harry or any of them guys you know like it was definitely a bond created with them guys and like we we spent a lot of time with each other and they were good lads but even Harry like I I hadn't seen Harry in years and I went to the one that I went to the uh the Brit Awards um I think it was like what year it was 2019 and I was at The Voice at the time working with Jennifer Hudson and Tom and we turned up at the Brits to give out the awards and Harry didn't turn up to pick his award up and Jack Wye was presenting it and I was like oh well I never won a Brit so f*** it I'm taking it have you never won a Brit?

42:54no I got nominated that's another conversation I should have f***ing won anyway so I went I said on camera I said well look Harry he's not here I'll have it and then Jack was like well Ollie's taking it home Harry so you can take it off him so anyway as you walk off stage they literally take it off you it's a big joke I wasn't really going to take it and then literally two weeks later I get a knock at the door I've got like a special delivery and I'm like who's like I don't know about you but I always know when things are coming when something comes spontaneously I'm like who's got my address someone's who's giving out my address special delivery this guy turns up gives it to me I open it up and it's like a massive beautiful box I open it up and it's a Brit Award it's the Brit Award that was Harry's.

43:34Oh my God. And a little message from Harry saying to Oli, you deserve it, mate. Love, H. And I was like, fucking no way. I've looked on the top and he's actually got it engraved to Oli Murs Sign of the Times Music Video Award. Like, I was like, happy days. So, Harry, I'm going to sell it one day and make a few quid of it. That's a nice story. But yeah, no, so I've actually got that at home. I've never won a Brit, but I've got Harry's Brit. so I'll take it there's still time there's still time how much do you enjoy the presenting and stuff like when you're when you're on The Voice and the kind of the like evolution really of your career I suppose it's like you're still doing your music but obviously you've become a TV personality I suppose as well yeah the I found it in the early days because I did it with Kaz me and Kaz was like that was my first entry into the world of TV and obviously Caroline God rest her soul miss her every day she I got the call I was on X Factor obviously the year before and then I was on tour at the front end up with JLS I always seem to be supporting people and I got a call saying we've got this job offer come up for you to work with a girl called Caroline she's she does I'm a Celeb she's been doing I'm a Celebrity she's now gonna remember the I'm a Celebrity get me out of it there used to be a second show it's cool now anyway would you do it I was like yeah why not I've never done a never presented a show before fuck it I'll give it give it a blast if they think I'm good enough and then Simon made the call was like no I want Ollie to do it so I went and presented and it just became a massive part of my career being on TV as a personality alongside my music and I didn't even know if it was going to work but every time I released music and I did TV it just kind of like it just exploded and everything went number one and I was just on this amazing wave and Caroline taught me so much like it was great working with her she did all the work to be fair I was just a donkey next to her just going doing stupid dances and just having a laugh really nothing wrong with all that exactly but she was literally she was brilliant like she really held me for like two or three years and i started to find my feet and then we did then did the x factor in 2015 that was massive but yeah doing tv is just it's always been ingrained in my career really and i i it's never it was never my decision it was always other people saw that with me and there's some amazing people in my life from tv execs and that they've all given me opportunities like being a being a judge on the voice i coach on the voice sorry was was like like i came from i came from a lad from a call center you know at 25 and went on the x factor and then all of a sudden now i'm the person coaching and judging other people it was just a real life moment for me to like to do that and give something back to the industry and hopefully unearth another, you know, another, another star.

46:30But yeah, I love TV. I've always loved it. Yeah. It's always been a great, it's always been a fun thing to do. Yeah. What was it like going from a call centre to everybody knows you? Like, because with the X Factor, that's sometimes been a problem. Did you ever watch the X Factor? Yeah. Sorry, I remember meeting like, Pete cries his eyes. I do. It's the only thing I cry at. No, but back in the day, Britain's got talent. Britain's got talent. And the voice. Bloody hell. And the voice, yeah. Sobbing, sobbing. Yeah, but like back in the day... Follow Clive, I think. It's only them. Really? Yeah. That's mad.

47:01But back in the day, the reason I say that is because that was what it was, when I'd come off the show, I couldn't believe how many people watched it. Oh, yeah. And also when I met footballers and like, I remember meeting Roberto Martinez at like the old firm Derby. And I was just there watching a game of football. I couldn't believe like everyone knew who I was. And I just bumped into Roberto Martinez. he came up to me and was like hello Arlene he was chatting away to me he was ah we we all us at Wigan we all voted for you every week and I was just like the Wigan bus on the way back from away games was sat there like we're in the Premier League watching us I couldn't I couldn't fathom that like it was it blew my mind and going back to what you said like that was I was a bit like us now we're sat in a room now and it's just cameras and there's a few people behind the screens at x factor it was we're in a studio obviously i've got the judges and you've got you know seven eight hundred people in the audience and you've got a tv crew that i just didn't fathom in my mind in my brain i suppose the only way i got got through it was not to think of actually there's 20 million people watching this because if i think if i really thought too much about it i was going to crumble yeah but to go from that to then not like no one i remember when my audition went out on tv and like the next day just a trip i went to the shops to just to get the newspaper because i just wanted to see what like because i'd been told like oh you you're in the papers you should you know like the x factor had told me like you're going to be in the pay i was like i can't get it so i went down and got like all the main papers and i it was it it took me like it took me two hours i walked down the street people coming out their doors it was amazing but at the same time it was petrifying i just thought fucking hell this is actually crazy went to my local shop that i've been going to for 25 years oh i mean you know i was a paper boy in this shop all of a sudden now i can barely pick up a paper i've only just done an audition like it ain't even that big a deal did you struggle with that because you know that can be quite detrimental to a lot of people as well you know i do you know what i from i i'll be honest with you abby i didn't really struggle with it because i just felt like i was 25 i was really aware of everything i'd lived a bit of a i lived a life and i'd done some stuff i'd been away i'd traveled i'd i'd got out of essex i'd seen the world a little bit and i think i was just well like as a person i was just ready yeah i'm ready for that i wanted i wanted it so much but i was kind of ready no one can prepare you for that but i was just like this is what this if i want to do it and I'm sure you guys you guys wanted to be in this career you wanted to be a footballer you wanted to be in the world of what we're in you know what I mean like model and everything so you have to be prepared in my head I was like well if I can't deal with this how am I going to deal with being a pop star like this is what my life is now I'm going to have to like fix up this is what it's about and I just my mindset just changed and I just thought actually as well I don't want my life to change so I just continued walking to that shop every day and I continued living in Whitton till I was 27, two years into my career, still living over my parents.

50:11I was still driving around in a Volkswagen and my old Fiat that I used to have till I smashed it, which was one of the weirdest stories I've ever told. I think I've ever told. I'd just finished X Factor, got a number one and I just, my album came out, nearly went number one and I was, it was Christmas and I was driving over to see Jeff Brazier, a friend of mine. We did tour together. Jeff works on TNT, does the football now. I went around to see him over Christmas. It was just before Christmas. I'm driving my Fiat Chiquento, the little red car from Inbetweeners. So I'm driving around. Didn't you have one of them?

50:43No, I had a Volkswagen Polo. Oh, yeah. My mum had one of them. So I used to, well, that was the car I used after. But I was driving the Fiat 500 around, like pretty much, Chiquento. And I'm driving around the back roads of Essex. I've come around this corner and it's too icy. And if you know the car, that Chiquento, it literally is like a go-kart. It just, I lost control of it. And I smashed it into a centre reservation and two cars came smashing into me. Oh my God. And I'm like... You could have died. And I'm like, I'm all right, I'm all right, I'm all right, I'm all good, I'm all good. And get out of the car and this guy's gone, are you okay?

51:17I'm like, yeah, you're all right, everything's all right. Yeah, yes, we've moved the car over. Literally, we pushed the car to the one side because it was just... Yeah. It was like really easy to push anyway. Got it to one side and then the guy pulled over and I've got like my hat on. I'm like trying to like... Oh God, I don't need this. I don't need this in the newspaper. I don't need this like... Oh, God. And he's just like, all right, mate, yeah, yeah, well, I need to take your details. I'm like, yeah, yeah, yeah. He goes, like, come to the car. And this is, honestly, I'm not making this up.

51:42We get to the car. Your song was on. He's got heart radio on. And he sits down and he goes, let me just find a pen. And as he's finding the pen, I call like he was, because I know that you're so, my heart skips, skips a beat. Da, da, da, da. And no joke, he's like this.

52:01That must have been strange for him. Are you Olly Murs? I was like, yeah. and he goes oh you're having a shit day yeah and he goes he goes all right um and he gets my name day as i said look like i'm gonna like i'll get whatever you whatever the damage is just let me know i'll pay for it like i've i've got insurance but if whatever you know i'll just give me go and get your car fixed send me the invoice and i'll sort it blah blah blah and then i had to then i rung my mate i said mate can you come and help me and he goes yeah yeah i'm a bit busy i'll be an hour or so so i just sat on the end of the road in my little feature quinto literally i mean this guy must have told someone because we've been like this is luckily i'm i mean i'm saying luckily i it wouldn't bother me if he went in the papers it is what it is everyone has a car accident and it just just my luck but literally i've sued in the car and like these two three four cars all pull up and all the kids come running out and i'm getting photos inside of the street and obviously my back's killing me my head my neck's hurt I'm like my car's in bits I'm like it's the last thing I need um so that was you know but what I mean is I I was I've always been very humble and like I I for two years I say off x-factor I was still living at home and my mum's little bed my own little bedroom at home I just I wasn't ready I was I was ready but I never wanted fame to take over my life so I still even to this day I still go out and do normal things I don't let it affect me.

53:27I try and live as normal life as I possibly can. And I think that's probably why, you know, I'm still around and people like me, I think. I think that fame thing just never, you know, it never affected me in the way, unfortunately, it's affected other people, you know, mentally. I think I've dealt with it quite well. But I think that's because of my age. I was 25. I kind of like knew who I was at 25. Not completely, but I was... Were you in the overs then? Yeah. I was in the dreaded category, the overs. oh my god we were half about the overs like I'm 44 and I go would you be in the overs like fucking it's 25 overs isn't it over 25 but that was the category everyone went oh oh I know yeah nowadays now we're now we're at a certain age we're like god I'd love to be in the over 25 that'd be great wouldn't it 25s is the overs it's a scandal even now they've got the 80s to 30 the 18 to 30s holidays I'm like can't go on them anymore you know what I mean the 18 to 30s yeah So where's the 30 to 50, Oliver?

54:27Remember them 18 to 30? It's like, oh, there'll be old people everywhere. Yeah, exactly, Cor. So I mean, that's what I mean. It's mad how your brain cycle changes because you're like, Cor, you bloody hell. I know the 25s back in the day was the category on X Factor that everyone said, oh, you're all old in that category. I just broke into it. I was like 20, 26, 25. I'd love to be 25. Yeah, we're not... We look great for our age. We did do it incredibly well. He hasn't even got dressed. today you've got your fucking pajamas on I get ripped for this t-shirt I've worn it a few times I don't know why you wear that because that's pajamas it's incredibly fashionable it's not it is a cool top it's the first thing I noticed until you said that was your pajama top I'm like no because it's so old out of the other half clear mate no it's so old he goes just like you know where you have an old t-shirt so we'll just wear it in the house now because it's like a tatty one and those holes are supposed to be there FYI it's fashion not fashion it is fashion talk us through new music what are we expecting I danced to Holly on Strictly actually do you remember that save me the new one hang on what song dear darling come on have we go I didn't know you could see it she's good I know I can't yes she's good I can't I've got to go for it oh hang on how was that actually was Strictly was that good yeah amazing fabulous did you enjoy it yeah you should definitely do that if you can oh because you're a good dancer as well you probably win my knees wouldn't work my knees wouldn't oh shut up he'd be good on it he can't dance he joking what of course I can You absolutely can't.

55:56You don't even know me. No, but new music. Yeah, new music. Save me. It's just great, man. I'm feeling like it's nice to be... Listen, I've been around the block. I'm 15 years in. You can say I'm 50. I'm 50. I'm 50 now. Not 50. I'm 15 years in. Like, I've got to a point in my life where I really want to do what I want to do, not what other people want me to do yeah and that's a really good place to be i think so this new music's kind of like it's like me rebirthed from like 2009 2010 where i was a bit of an indie boy i love my madness love my specials i kind of liked that kind of type of music so for me to go back in time and kind of do do the music that i want to do really and the stuff that inspires me i just felt like i got down a bit of a rabbit hole where i was doing what other people wanted me to do all the time i was a bit of a people pleaser so i was like oh i'll just do what you guys want me to do because now i'm like doing what i want to do which is a really nice place to be so yeah save me is kind of the first nugget of that of that of the new me really and my new style and and just kind of yeah kind of ollie mer's 2.0 that in my in my mind that's what i think i am I'm just kind of I just love it I love what I'm doing it's different you're going to be touring it?

57:20it's a sore subject Amelia's not here so I can talk about it oh yeah the bloody baby yeah so the new baby can't be going on tour it's got a new baby coming out yeah you can still get out there I would advise you as well having had four yeah well he could actually say it's the perfect time to go well I can't reveal too much but next year there is something we're going to do which makes it easier for me but also it's great for the fans and something different. I'm not going to... The next two years, I want to come away from singing the songs that everyone knows. And that's not a negative thing. But why do pop stars do that?

57:58I hate it when they do that. It's like, no, we want to hear Dear Darling. We don't want to hear the new stuff. You completely burst my bubble in. You've absolutely... I'm sorry, but... And that might be what other people are thinking. right but no but genuine everyone thinks that i love i love the fact no but i love the fact you said that let me tell you the reasons why i feel you've got to play the classic i think the odd bagger needs to be slipped in oh yeah let me tell you right so i feel like i've sung them songs a lot the last 15 years and i get my fans absolutely love it and that's fine and i won't not sing them i just want to give my new album what i mean is i'm always going to go back to them songs them songs i love them dance me tonight yeah i love the beat dear darling all them tracks of of of literally the last 15 years i've just celebrated my tour which was celebrating that and i'm so incredibly proud of that journey and them songs and of course they're with me for the rest of my life but i just feel like the next year or two it's not going to hurt my fans if when they do come to the shows i'm just playing something fresh and new and and i will be very i'll be very clear with my fans like that is what i'm gonna do for the next couple of years and then i'll go back to my i'll go i will tour again with my new my old stuff and my new stuff but i just i just feel like i i want to give this a chance and i want to like get myself into a new audience try something fresh something different something new if it doesn't work it doesn't work if it but i love it you know what i mean so if you're gonna come and see me at like a show next year like i'm not saying don't expect to hear Dance With Me tonight, but I want to play you guys my new tunes.

59:39I feel like I don't want to keep not flogging it. But your fans love you, so they will love the new stuff as well. Yeah, of course. But you know, like, how can I put it? Like, I don't want to... What's the word? Like, I don't want people to get bored. Yeah. You know what I mean? And like, if I'm feeling like I'm getting bored, I don't want my fans to get bored. And I also don't want them to be like, oh, he's doing another show, he's doing the same songs again. Like, not that that's what I think they're thinking, because like you said they might be like oh come on ollie like play dance for me tonight i want to hear it of course but i just want to give my new music a chance and if only 400 people turn up to my next show so be it i'll still sing to them 400 people because i know when i go back to the old stuff and i start doing it again i know i'd like to think that my fans will go i really want to hear that song and then then it will reignite them again to go i haven't heard him sing it for a while you know i just want to give us this new music a chance i believe in it so much believe in the sound I believe in the energy of it and the feel of it so I'm just gonna like go for it and if you know hopefully people sorry hopefully people love it so you know it's well welcome two tickets sold already no please welcome good luck with it mate I'm sure you don't need luck no I definitely need luck I need a lot of luck 15 years in the world we spoke about this off air that's a huge accomplishment 15 years to still be yeah it's really good it's phenomenal well to come from a reality TV show that's what I I always say that to people.

1:01:04I'm very blessed. Like 15 years from a reality TV show. You and me both, girlfriend. Exactly. And I think when you come from something like that and I obviously connected with people and I obviously liked what I did and I never expected my career to be as it is. So I think for the first five years, I always thought, oh, it's my last year. It's going to fucking have it. Who cares? Whatever happens, happens. And it went to the sixth year, the seventh, then the eighth. I'm like, bloody hell, I'm still around. and it just keeps revolving. And I hope the next 15 years, and now I've got Maddie talking about kids.

1:01:37I just want to like keep going. Yeah. I want to like, I want Maddie to see me on stage. That'd be lovely. I don't think I'm going to be like Tom Jones though. I don't think I'm going to be around that, like as long as him, because he's just a God. We'll never say never. But like me on stage at 60, I'm not sure my knees are going to be up for it, but I'll try my best. Right, Ollie, we do a little thing on this podcast called The Agony Abs. and we basically help people. They write in with their problems and we help them. Or we take the piss out of them. It's a bit of both. Right, okay. Yeah, same.

1:02:09One or the other. We use the word help loosely. It's loose, help. Hi, Cardi P, Abby Spanksy and Tuna Bob Ross. Long-time listener, first-time writer. Why Abby Spanksy? It's a new one. Long-time listener, first-time writer here. I need to pick your brains about a bit of a self-inflicted situation I've landed myself in. Picture this. I'm currently working on a horse ranch in Canada for the summer. Gel. Genuinely living the dream. Abby, I thought you'd appreciate that one. The original plan was to work here for the season, do a ski season somewhere in Canada, then head back to the UK next April. Which is Metcowboy.

1:02:46Wrapping up four years of travelling through Australia and Canada. Here's where I've managed to complicate things. Ranch life is amazing. Outdoor, dausy, wholesome, peaceful. but let's be real we all have needs the gender ratio here is about 25 to 2 female to male so I my love life was very dry I gave hinge a go locally but wasn't feeling it so I cheekily managed my location back home just to swipe for fun cut to me matching with an absolute smoke show somewhere from New York where I live near to where I live now I've fallen head over heels Thinking it would just fizzle out after a few hours like they do, I told him I'd be back in the UK in October, even though I wasn't planning on being home till next year.

1:03:34Fast forward to now and we talk constantly. Every second we're both awake, he calls me every day on his way to and from work. Always tells me how beautiful I am and says how natural it feels between us. Am I absolutely mad to even consider flying home in October and cutting my last year of travel short for someone I haven't met in person yet. I don't think she needs to cut the whole year short. She could just go home for a little visit and then back. What would you do? P.S. Abbey, the ranch is called Sundance Guest Ranch in British Columbia. Did she say how old she is? And it's incredible. Have a stalk on Instagram.

1:04:10I think it might be right up your street. She's not saying how old she is, no. She sounds like she's on kind of a gap year from uni or something. If I was going, say this was like my cousin and she was 22, 21, 22, I would be like, don't come home. He'll be here when you get home if he's interested and likes you enough. Continue the chat, chat, flirty stuff, whatever. If you get a chance to come home, great for like a week or so, then go back, maybe meet him, whatever. Stay where you are. Enjoy the rest of your life. But if she was in the overs, you'd be like, get over there now, get it. Enjoy the next year.

1:04:50Enjoy the next year and then what will be will be. Yeah. Now, if she says... I'm 35. I'm 31, 32, and she's going, like, that story there, I just haven't really found love yet, and all of a sudden I found it, then I would, in my mind, like, this sounds really corny thing to say, but I'm going to say it. I wrote a lyric in the song recently about me and Amelia, and one of the lyrics that we wrote for the song was, think of all the lonely hearts that have never found love. And think of the people that, like, never quite found it. Yeah. And if you believe you've found it, then go and chase it. Yeah.

1:05:25That's what I would do. A bit like myself and Amelia. When I knew we broke up, I f***ed it up, pied her off, and then chased her back because I just knew, like, what am I doing? I'm being an idiot here. I need to, like, this is something special. I need to chase it. And I did and got her back and we've got family and kids together and I couldn't be happier. So that's mine. What I've realised there is actually you're a lot better than us. I'm not really that. What would you have said? Fuck him all. What would you have said then? Go on. No, I thought that was really good advice. I think that's, you know, if you're young, like, he'll be there.

1:06:05He's from your local area. Yeah, but you say that. We were 19. I was 19 when we got together. Yeah, but you had me. Come back for that.

1:06:16Mate, I'm headlining match of the day every week. Come on, love. Have a look.

1:06:27You. Is that really how young you guys were? Well, I was... 20 years. He was 24. I was 19. 20. Wow. But then going back to what we were just saying, if she... If there is a spark and there is something... I mean, the internet's mad, isn't it? If we want to be really honest as well, come on, like, you haven't met someone, you've met them on the internet. Like, although that's the world we live in and you're in two different countries, I'd be a bit like... As a friend, I'd be like, whoa, whoa, whoa. Just, like, don't be hasty. Like, maybe go and see him or, I don't know. It's weird, isn't it? She doesn't have to forget the whole year.

1:06:59She could nip back and nip back there. Expensive, though, isn't it? The detailed nip. I know, but it's worth it. How'd you do that? What if you FaceTimed and it was like, like, you know what I mean? If they didn't want to FaceTime you and stuff like that, like, surely there's things that she can do now to go, look, I haven't really met him face to face or I haven't spoken to him face to face. Have they FaceTimed or, like, had some sort of, like, Sexton Sexton Sexton Dick pics You know All that jazz But that might not be His real dick That's what I'm saying It might not be real So true It could just be some It might not be real This thing yet I need more information To be perfectly honest Me too We need more information We need live encounters We need live encounters Abby needs to know What the text is I've been saying Right one more If we need to let Ollie go Okay Evening guys All the best to your families Miss has got me onto the pod as I listen to Pete's.

1:07:52And I must say, it's pretty decent and it helps my missus from chewing my ear on road trips.

1:07:59Here's my pickle. Last weekend, we were invited to my fiancé's friend's house for drinks and food. I don't really know them all, but I've met the majority of them. One in particular, my missus' best friend, who she lived with for a bit when she moved back from London. Anyway, we arrive early and I firmly remind myself with the beer and snacks. Half an hour goes by and more people arrive. my missus best mate by that time i'm two beers in and about five to six garlic olives in as they're entering i'm out the back in the garden munching on all the ground and my missus best friend comes to me and we hug etc and i say sorry these olives have made my breath stink and as i said it it's um as i said it she turned from happy to a bulldog chewing a wasp and didn't let me try and blame my smelly breath on the garlic olives anyway i start getting daggers from all the girls and one approaches me and suggests that i apologize to the host which absolutely baffled me luckily i told my missus and she's super calm about it and laughed that is outrageous i'd just leave and say fuck you and your olives that's outrageous i just find that mad he's only saying i've just eaten a few olives like you know Went to say hello to someone.

1:09:13I'm sorry about my breath, which I think is a really lovely courtesy. I never say that to anyone. I'm sorry about my breath. I hate the word breath. I have really bad breath sometimes. Genuinely, I don't care. Don't be telling anyone that. Sometimes I forget. I just can't be bothered. My missus always digs me out about it. But like, that's fine. But when you're actually... No, but I mean like... Do you actually? I know, yeah, you tell me often. She's obviously a little bit, The woman or the host is obviously very like, oh, it's not my food, as if maybe she's had complaints before in the past. Sounds like she's got a bit of insecurity about her.

1:09:48A bit of insecurity about the food. Digging someone out like that you don't know, it's a bit harsh, isn't it? That is harsh. No? Yeah. Awful? Can I imagine? She sounds like a right bollick. I'm saying that though. Garlic breath is hard. I actually don't mind garlic breath because I love garlic. Yeah, but this is true, isn't it? This is a true thing. when you've eaten garlic and your partner's eating garlic you don't smell the garlic but when Amelia's had garlic oh I can't kiss her or go near her honestly it is I don't mind no I don't like it I'm like oh babe she's like come here I'm like no Cor that garlic but then the funny thing is is when she was on the other foot and I've had garlic she hasn't she goes Cor you've had garlic it's very pongy though isn't it it is pongy yeah but I like it what do you think Pete what do I think I just think it's ridiculous from her from the lady like grow up listen mate always great to see you thank you I appreciate it you know we're glad it's going so well and you know the family's growing it's good to see mate well listen next time if we come back I'll bring the missus yeah that'd be great and the kids then she can really lay into me then yeah amazing and the kids as well thanks for having me though guys no I'm a pleasure man good luck with the new music mate

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