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2 Oct 2025 · 29m

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Pete: “How Boring Must I Be?! You’d Rather Look at Taps!”

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Hosts: Abbey Clancy and Peter Crouch

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Exploring the complexities of relationships through humor and candid discussions.

  • Bedtime Bickering:
  • The episode opens with humorous banter about the challenges of sharing a bed with kids and pets, particularly cats.
  • Abbey and Pete discuss their struggles with sleep space, featuring relatable anecdotes about bedtime chaos.
  • Listener Questions:
  • The couple tackles various listener dilemmas, including:
  • One listener's request for ideas on how to celebrate her husband’s 50th birthday, leading to suggestions about planning events throughout the year leading up to a festival like Glastonbury.
  • A listener’s concern about her husband's mobile phone addiction during quality time.
  • “Would You Rather” Segment:
  • A particularly bizarre "Would You Rather" question is posed: showering with an aunt or kissing a cousin, eliciting laughs and candid responses from Pete.
  • Chores Debate:
  • Discussion about managing household chores and preventing arguments about who is doing more, emphasizing the importance of understanding each other's roles.

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0:00Abbey Clancy: No, because you've got pain in your neck, your voice isn't the same.

0:02Peter Crouch: You're the f***ing pain in my neck.

0:04Abbey Clancy: Would you rather shower with one of your aunties or snog one of your cousins?

0:10Peter Crouch: He gets into bed and he watches farming videos and golf swings and then falls straight to sleep. I fucking love this guy.

0:17Abbey Clancy: Jump, y 'all. We need some para for now. He was like, what?

0:21Peter Crouch: How boring must I be if you'd rather look at taps and say, how was your day, darling? Yeah.

0:28Abbey Clancy: Ask me anything

0:32Peter Crouch: Hello and welcome to Therapy Crouch from me Peter Crouch

0:35Abbey Clancy: That's what I like Yeah

0:36Peter Crouch: I like when you started for some reason I don't It's not what we do

0:39Abbey Clancy: It's starting on like a dull tone It's like the Peter Crouch podcast

0:43Peter Crouch: Do you know what I mean? I started on a dull tone You actually believed that That's what she was going to say She's being deadly serious there as well Yeah she is No because you've got pain in your neck

0:54Abbey Clancy: Your voice isn't the same

0:55Peter Crouch: You're the fucking pain in my neck.

0:58Abbey Clancy: Charming. You didn't, this has asked me anything by the way. And that's, that's our Ross over there.

1:04Peter Crouch: I've got a bad neck, Ross. Have you? Yeah, real bad one. A tweak, do you get like a twitch in an awesome foot?

1:09Abbey Clancy: That's even with the orthodox pillow. Yeah, the orthodox. Orthopedic pillow.

1:14Peter Crouch: I do think the pillow, The OP. I don't know if I had it.

1:18Abbey Clancy: You did have it last night because you told me to get off. Do you remember saying that to me?

1:22Peter Crouch: Get off my pillow. In bed last night. Get off my pillow.

1:24Abbey Clancy: Can you just move over?

1:25Peter Crouch: Yeah, because you're... I hate it.

1:26Abbey Clancy: It's so offensive, that. Do you know why?

1:27Peter Crouch: Because the cat is taking up so much room, then you're coming towards me. And I don't mind you not being next to me. It's nice. But like, not when I'm on the right end. So my head is on the side table. She's trying to sleep like Dracula in the car. I know. Why don't you just... Will you fuck off?

1:44Abbey Clancy: Why don't you just move over? Why don't you set the edge? You set the edge. So if you're worried about being...

1:50Peter Crouch: Well, that's what I've started doing now, yeah.

1:51Abbey Clancy: You set way how far you want to go. Okay. And then I'll come close to that. But if I keep moving to you and you keep moving over, do you want to move away from me?

2:02Peter Crouch: I don't want to move away from you. I just need some room. And I start there, then you come in. Then the cat's fucking starfish. Can I just say, I've been very lucky to inherit one of your beds and the fucking size of them. I don't know how the two skinniest people I've ever seen in my life and having this argument I can like diagonally across the bed and not even be like anywhere near and then use these fucking bean balls like that

2:27Abbey Clancy: you're on my side but that's the problem when you have a big bed you do have a bit of space in between you

2:35Peter Crouch: yeah well we didn't last night

2:38Abbey Clancy: we slept in a single bed together

2:40Peter Crouch: loads of times I know I'm happy being right near you but if if we come home I don't want to put my head on the side table

2:46Abbey Clancy: like when we went when we went out with the Lanza crew on Friday when we got home Emma put the boys in our bed. Yeah. So we slept in the single bed together. Yeah. In one of their baby beds. I like that.

2:57Peter Crouch: We still had half a fucking bed free. I don't even remember that though. I'm sure it was lovely. God, I don't know why I'm with you. No, we had a skin fall, didn't we? All right.

3:11Abbey Clancy: Ask me stuff.

3:12Peter Crouch: Okay. Hi guys. First time writing in. I love the pod. I'm looking for some help really. My hubby is 50 next year and he's always wanted to go to Glastonbury. Where would I start? I've no clue from a desperate wife with no clue.

3:25Abbey Clancy: Okay, so Glastonbury is not on next year. So what she could do is she could do a build up throughout the whole year and then he could celebrate his 50th for the whole year and then end on Glastonbury the following year.

3:38Peter Crouch: Very good. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah. That's good.

3:40Abbey Clancy: So just a series of nice things that they want to do. They don't have to break the bank, just nice experiences, get you know people that he's never he hasn't seen for a long time round for a drink or i don't know well you should know you're in the midst of planning a big massive

4:00Peter Crouch: huge extravaganza no i think i think definitely take it to glass it's a great idea but where just start i mean you know i think the setup so important make sure if you camp in you get it right yeah you know the way the sleep arrangements be prepared for anything but yeah it's it's It's a fantastic time. And I don't think you can go wrong, really, when you're there. Can you do so much to do? I think if he wants to do that as well, he sounds like he's a festival goer. You wouldn't ask for that unless you're like one of those.

4:27Abbey Clancy: Or what she could do is just like plant hints that they're going to Glastonbury. Or like for his birthday, buy him like a glow stick. And then like next week, get him like a flag.

4:39Peter Crouch: You could do like the 12, like you could do one a month, couldn't you? I kind of get that vibe. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Like a book of hats.

4:45Abbey Clancy: That's what I thought I'd be getting this year. The countdown to my boardroom. The countdown. The countdown. The countdown to my birthday.

4:54Peter Crouch: All roads lead to how much of a shit I wish you had a pizza.

4:58Abbey Clancy: No, just because I know you haven't planned anything. I've doubt you, no.

5:02Peter Crouch: There's loads going on. There's a scoop chat popping off. I've looked through your phone.

5:06Abbey Clancy: I've asked all my friends. You've looked through my phone. No, I haven't.

5:11Peter Crouch: I'm joking. Listen, babe, you don't worry. You'll have the time of your life.

5:14Abbey Clancy: But I haven't decided what I want yet. I don't know I'm just in two minds I'm in two minds I don't know if I just do a thing with me and Pete

5:23Peter Crouch: what are you two minds have a party

5:27Abbey Clancy: or just do something you and I

5:28Peter Crouch: can we make a decision on this podcast now because I can't be planning something and then you say I don't want to do that

5:35Abbey Clancy: like my last party

5:37Peter Crouch: like every party you've ever had

5:39Abbey Clancy: remember that other one I cancelled I cancelled a surprise party once didn't I

5:45Peter Crouch: sounds like you I can't remember which but it sounds like you why don't you just sit like sit back and relax and just let the good times roll

5:52Abbey Clancy: no because you'll just you'll just spend too much money and get it totally wrong and it'll just annoy me

5:57Peter Crouch: so how do you surprise someone like that

6:00Abbey Clancy: I know I sound ungrateful but I'm actually

6:03Peter Crouch: you put no effort in if you do it too high key how much money did you spend on this then you fuck out yeah and it's not right anyway so I think anything I do is not right for you and if that's the case

6:14Abbey Clancy: do you want me to give you some clues? yeah I think the compound just think compound that's all you need to do

6:23Peter Crouch: so if I said you woke up and I'd got the compound ready for you yeah thrown a load of horses in it that's it sheep, donkeys everywhere you'd have to find people to live on

6:34Abbey Clancy: you'd have to compound first I want to live on my I'd be like a person I'd fucking live eating

6:38Peter Crouch: I sat there and went you know happy birthday

6:43Abbey Clancy: I think I'd die and absolutely die

6:47Peter Crouch: yeah then you'd be like where's when are we going to Ibiza

6:50Abbey Clancy: who's going to mind the donkey when we go to Ibiza I'm quite digging the mules but you know they don't like their ears being touched

6:58Peter Crouch: they're not

6:59Abbey Clancy: I sound like a complete brat but I'm not being a brat I'm actually doing it for you I don't want you to waste money to try and impress me doing it for you no I am doing it for you I swear

7:10Peter Crouch: full of shit

7:11Abbey Clancy: I'm actually very low maintenance. Oh my God.

7:15Peter Crouch: Everyone can hear you every week. They can hear. No, but you make it out like I'm a bad person.

7:21Abbey Clancy: No, I'm low key.

7:22Peter Crouch: You're not, I'm low key. Pete. You're not high maintenance. You just are. And that's fine. That's you.

7:28Abbey Clancy: I'm not high maintenance.

7:29Peter Crouch: You are a million percent are. Pete, she's low key. Come on, she's low key. She's low key. Next question.

7:34Abbey Clancy: Okay. Hello, girly Ross. Play date Pete and age is savvy.

7:38Peter Crouch: For fuck's sake.

7:41Abbey Clancy: I haven't heard a would you rather from you guys in a while. So I thought I'd send this one in, seeing as though it's Abby's favourite game. Not. Would you rather shower with one of your aunties or snog one of your cousins? This is to Peter, as I know Ab will hate all this. Slan Angus. Slan Angus being shot, being atch.

8:05Peter Crouch: I think it's Gaelic.

8:06Abbey Clancy: Oh, Slan Angus being atch, Jackie.

8:10Peter Crouch: So Peter. fucking love what would you rather

8:16Abbey Clancy: the thing is

8:17Peter Crouch: I'm instantly thinking about one auntie it's got to be showered your auntie it's got to be showered your auntie you can't have a kiss new cousin

8:22Abbey Clancy: I've showered like my kids have showered with their auntie yeah I don't think there's anything wrong

8:28Peter Crouch: showered your auntie yeah but I was a four grown best 44 year old man but obviously my aunties

8:36Abbey Clancy: are not brood related

8:38Peter Crouch: you know my mum's got two brothers yeah they're not blood related so you can shower them all day long what I'm trying to say so we've got the answer to that question it's not a lot I think we just leave that where it is and move on I think we leave exactly where it is

8:53Abbey Clancy: Hi Pete and Abby and Ross me and my husband have completely different bedtime routines I like getting into bed with a cup of tea reading for half an hour nice calm vibes he'll crash in with Chris put on YouTube videos about tractors and golf swings and fall asleep in 30 seconds snoring like a chainsaw I'm lying there wide awake wondering how I ended up married to a farmyard do you two have totally different sleep styles and if so how do you not kill each other over it

9:19Peter Crouch: so he's hold on he gets into bed and he watches farming videos and golf swings and then falls straight to sleep I fucking love this guy yeah well she's she's reading she's bettering herself reading we need to get our books out again

9:34Abbey Clancy: we were doing so well with our we had like a no TV at bed kind of thing going on

9:39Peter Crouch: I didn't even finish that book. I'd love to get back into that.

9:42Abbey Clancy: So Peter is about 10 pages in to a book that I read in Greece and I read four books and he hasn't even...

9:51Peter Crouch: I'm three quarters of the way through but then I haven't picked it up for a long time. No, that's what I mean. He's having a go. That's what we should do

9:56Abbey Clancy: because I like that.

9:57Peter Crouch: I'd love to. I definitely want to finish that book. Let's do that tonight.

10:00Abbey Clancy: You actually get a better sleep if you read before bed. How do you put those routines

10:04Peter Crouch: into kind of place? Do you just say to each other at 10pm when you're downstairs? Okay, we'll go. or 9pm I don't know what time you're up like we're going up now yeah let's go up

10:11Abbey Clancy: we go up about half 8 do you

10:13Peter Crouch: really as soon as the kids are in bed we're up yeah okay I watch telly in bed usually or yeah what's your kind of go to sleep time would you say

10:21Abbey Clancy: 11

10:22Peter Crouch: yeah that's fair 11ish okay I know some people stay up till mad hours don't they

10:28Abbey Clancy: you stay up late don't you

10:29Peter Crouch: about midnight to 1 yeah that's too late that Russ

10:32Abbey Clancy: that's how you're always fucking late can't get up the next day

10:35Peter Crouch: the minute you get into 1 o 'clock I think like sometimes I'm tossing and turning at like half 11 one I'm like oh it's nightmare I don't want to be I want to be fully lights out by 11ish but you just have like kids in a different lifestyle don't forget as well I would say like yeah we're up at six I would say that does bring you to like kind of sleepy sleepy time I know to be honest though that's something I'm the reason I was asking you that question is because that's something I'm trying to change the moment is like having a better nighttime routine is that it's something you have consciously I think what you need to do is have your dinner earlier so you feel like you've got more chill time have your

11:10Abbey Clancy: dinner have a nice shower have you got a telly in your bedroom no we normally to be honest we

11:16Peter Crouch: normally i normally do shower before bed to be fair now because because of you actually i always have a shower before bed i normally eat about seven what time do you normally eat five do you

11:25Abbey Clancy: we eat at five we eat at half four really do you see we i don't always work until like fucking

11:33Peter Crouch: sometimes like oh five six then you get home have a shower and then it's seven

11:36Abbey Clancy: see my friends so Riley like feeds her kids then gets all the kids to bed and then her and her husband eat on their own like a different meal

11:45Peter Crouch: that's probably a better idea isn't it but

11:48Abbey Clancy: yeah but by four o 'clock I'm bloody starving

11:50Peter Crouch: but I think we should eat both

11:52Abbey Clancy: no but I would eat both that's the problem

11:54Peter Crouch: yeah but that's what I think we should do let's definitely do that let's have a full day

11:59Abbey Clancy: see I'm more of an eater I have to eat as soon as I get up I like eat loads at the start of the day and not not for any like reason I just that's just when I'm hungry

12:12Peter Crouch: that's just where your body works but also I got onto the when I lived in Spain because for example they were my they wouldn't eat till 10pm later like 11, 12 literally 11, 12pm they wouldn't have the dinner well 12am and then they go to bed at 1 and so I kind of got more into that vibe and that's affected me longer I've seen I've seen I've seen I've seen But they only have a lighter dinner at that time. So like at three or four, they'll have a big meal. And then at 11, they'll have a tapas-y style.

12:41Abbey Clancy: So their tea time's like their lunch kind of thing.

12:43Peter Crouch: And that suited me a lot better when I lived there.

12:45Abbey Clancy: Where were we on holiday where we were two hours ahead? And then when we got home, we were like, oh, we just love being on this.

12:52Peter Crouch: It was brilliant.

12:53Abbey Clancy: So we were getting up at like quarter to six. Yeah. Comatosed by half eight, nine.

13:00Peter Crouch: It is. And I just loved it. good routine is very good I love it like that

13:03Abbey Clancy: it's better for your body to get up early and go to bed later yeah it is

13:07Peter Crouch: I liked it a lot that getting up early we should do that

13:10Abbey Clancy: you should get up early anyway though

13:13Peter Crouch: and everyone go to bed late do you no

13:17Abbey Clancy: normal time I mean hey guys we're just going to take a quick break while you hear from our sponsors and remember if you're liking what you're hearing hit that follow button and if you can be bothered leave us a review because we love reading them don't we Pete we do

13:32Peter Crouch: Welcome back. Hopefully you managed to follow us in that short break. And if you want to pass it on to someone who you think might like this content, you're welcome to do so.

13:41Abbey Clancy: Do it now.

13:43Peter Crouch: Hi, Abby. I sometimes feel like I'm competing with my husband's phone for attention. This is the exact opposite. Because I've never offered a phone. We'll be sat on the sofa. I'm telling him about my day and he's scrolling through Twitter or half watching TikToks. if I call him out he says I'm overreacting because everyone does it do you think phones are secretly the third person in every marriage now or am I being needy I don't think you're being needy at all no I don't think you're being needy

14:08Abbey Clancy: booked in all fairness I'm not on like Instagram I was looking at taps last night like three hours

14:14Peter Crouch: oh fucking hell how boring must I be seriously I'd rather look at taps I was chatting to her and I went that was great I'd come home from work I was speaking to her and she was going dinner on the table may you add

14:27Abbey Clancy: lovely sausage and mash cabbage green beans

14:30Peter Crouch: food was lovely dinner was lovely but I ate it on my own

14:32Abbey Clancy: in total silence

14:34Peter Crouch: you were sitting next to me you weren't even talking I ate my entire dinner you didn't say one word to me then I went outside and watched the boys play football

14:40Abbey Clancy: Adam our builder

14:40Peter Crouch: that was a great chat that brought me up

14:42Abbey Clancy: no Adam our builder said I need to get he's ready to put the taps in

14:46Peter Crouch: oh wow if Adam says he's ready to put the taps in Pete come on

14:49Abbey Clancy: I haven't got the taps and everything I pick is like a 10 week lead time so I was scrolling through like every single website looking for bloody taps

14:58Peter Crouch: I wish I'd prefer you on TikTok looking at dances how boring must I be if you'd rather look at taps and say how was your day darling put it down for one second there's just so much

15:10Abbey Clancy: so much so many options

15:12Peter Crouch: so much to them worst thing is I had Gary Oldman on the podcast yes and not one word didn't ask me about it that's not true you were literally looking at taps and then I went outside

15:22Abbey Clancy: because I'm going to be in trouble because what? I'm going to be in trouble why? with the builder

15:28Peter Crouch: Not with your husband.

15:29Abbey Clancy: No, because he can't finish. He's feeling neglected.

15:31Peter Crouch: He can't finish until I've got the taps.

15:34Abbey Clancy: He can't finish shit until I've got the taps.

15:36Peter Crouch: Okay, well, great. Okay, so how can we resolve this not just for you but for other couples?

15:41Abbey Clancy: I think what Pete and I did with the kids over summer, we just took them off them. Yeah. And, you know, even their imaginations, how they play was a million times better. Obviously, they weren't on the iPads all day, but they you know that would be their go to before playing a game and I just

16:00Peter Crouch: coming up with new games it just you saw them enriching their life you know it just felt more creative it felt more fun I think that's okay for kids though but for an adult if Pete took your phone off you you'd smash his head then no you just gotta learn to put it down like I think if I in that instance I think I'll come home from work you should I believe put the phone down and say you alright how are you doing talk for at least while I'm having dinner. And then, you know... But I was on a deadline.

16:30Abbey Clancy: I agree with you. I know I won't do that again, but I was on a deadline. It'd be a different story if I was on bloody Instagram while you're doing that, but I wasn't. I was literally in full-blown shower gauge.

16:40Peter Crouch: But no, that is a problem in our life. I genuinely think that you need to curb the phone down. Everyone does it so bad.

16:45Abbey Clancy: It is. I don't. I put mine away.

16:47Peter Crouch: You are good for it, because I'll hold my hands up. I'm quite bad for it. But not that he's great for it, but better than I would... You're bad for it. I put it down. I don't

16:56Abbey Clancy: because I'm so entertaining you love it

16:58Peter Crouch: yeah you are I like talking to you

17:02Abbey Clancy: yeah

17:06Peter Crouch: just got it I do like talking to you yeah okay so there's the answer next one are you not entertained no fair enough then use your phone what were we

17:20Abbey Clancy: saying the other night like we were like where we were laughing because we were saying you know when you're hungover where people's like I just want to watch an epic tonight we're like just like Gladiator it's all we say Gladiator

17:31Peter Crouch: you know what we say the same films like Blood Diamond Gladiator

17:35Abbey Clancy: or The Departed

17:37Peter Crouch: or The Departed there are three right we go we just need something like that you do yeah yeah can't find it anyway we're not watching Gladiator again give me something like The Departed or Gladiator yeah you know like we didn't

17:51Abbey Clancy: remember we should ask ChatGPT what to watch yeah

17:54Peter Crouch: you should not watch out yeah anyway it's just we end up watching those again that new Leonardo film is going to be good oh yeah

18:02Abbey Clancy: you said you were going to take me to the cinema

18:03Peter Crouch: yeah we should do that we should find a babysitter yeah Ross yeah Ross yeah

18:09Abbey Clancy: do you trust Ross with our kids are you joking what are you on about

18:15Peter Crouch: probably be late wouldn't he shut the fuck up I wouldn't trust our John

18:20Abbey Clancy: I wouldn't trust our John what are you on about to look after them to look after them and ask what John wouldn't know how to put them in the bath and brush their teeth and all that jazz your kids have a fucking

18:31Peter Crouch: ball with me yeah you wouldn't trust them that's because you'd never want to go back to used to

18:35Abbey Clancy: yeah exactly

18:36Peter Crouch: okay got another one this one's just for me hi Pete this one's about housework my wife genuinely believes she does 90 % of it I think I do loads bins mowing fixing stuff cooking half the week but apparently she does laundry and cleaning her jobs never end. Every week it turns into a row about who's more knackered. How do you two divvy up chores without it becoming a scoreboard?

19:01Abbey Clancy: To be honest, we've both got our own lane. We actually don't moan each other about chores, do we really?

19:08Peter Crouch: I think we've got a good thing. I think you know the score in this house. Do you know what I mean? I've got my role and he's got... You know, cleaning, cooking. Yeah. That kind of stuff. that is your department your steady lanes would you say I would say so yeah I will obviously get up with the kids I think I'm good with the kids I would say do you think I sleep in it sounds a bit ridiculous no but I'd get them dressed

19:36Abbey Clancy: no you muck in no he means with me by the way as well yeah yeah yeah

19:40Peter Crouch: I've assumed this role of getting the little ones dressed now somehow

19:44Abbey Clancy: because I can't control them

19:45Peter Crouch: yeah that's what Ab says but I'm like

19:48Abbey Clancy: don't Jack get dressed for school now

19:50Peter Crouch: it's the hardest job getting them dressed in the morning. Okay.

19:53Abbey Clancy: And instead of me strangling them to death, Pete will just be like, turn it into a game where I can't do that.

19:59Peter Crouch: Yeah. But somehow I've assumed this role, it's not a nice role to have. And I think you respect the fact that it's not a nice role.

20:06Abbey Clancy: But I do the hairs then.

20:07Peter Crouch: Okay. And Brecky. Hair duty.

20:10Abbey Clancy: Bags packed. Yeah.

20:11Peter Crouch: All the kids walk around with a short back and sides. Yeah. Three all over.

20:15Abbey Clancy: Pete took Johnny and Jack to get the haircut the other day.

20:17Peter Crouch: Come on.

20:18Abbey Clancy: Destroyed them.

20:19Peter Crouch: No, no, no. How good they look now.

20:20Abbey Clancy: Jack's got

20:21Peter Crouch: they've grown into

20:22Abbey Clancy: so he's got long hair

20:23Peter Crouch: Jack

20:24Abbey Clancy: they cut chunks out of Jack hair like an inch long on the top I've been growing this top layer to his chin for this whole summer yeah and then there's pieces that are that long pieces that are this long I just cried when they came home the thing is

20:39Peter Crouch: with boys you're only three weeks away from a haircut aren't you I think they look fantastic now I think

20:45Abbey Clancy: it's a good job they're so good looking Johnny looks lovely now Johnny looks gorgeous

20:50Peter Crouch: you had a little shrimp there pig yeah I was I went with them yeah I can see that yeah that's shit as well what

20:57Abbey Clancy: no no I like yours

20:58Peter Crouch: no yeah I think you look smart

20:59Abbey Clancy: I think you took all the time on you

21:02Peter Crouch: yeah no they look good the boys no you look smart as well okay hi Abby Pete and Tudor Bob Ross whenever we go out with other couples my wife turns into the funny one she'll be holding court telling stories making everyone laugh I just sit there smiling like a chauffeur afterwards she'll say why are you so quiet but honestly she doesn't have any air for me she doesn't leave any air for me part of me loves that she's the star but part of me feels invisible jealous have you ever had that imbalance in your marriage where one of you is the extrovert and the other just gets lost in the shadows

21:38Abbey Clancy: yeah daily

21:42Peter Crouch: about who we do though

21:43Abbey Clancy: we we um alternate

21:45Peter Crouch: yeah okay yeah I can see that

21:47Abbey Clancy: so I can be quite loquacious after a few drinks.

21:49Peter Crouch: Very good. I think we both can hold our own on an evening.

21:53Abbey Clancy: But I have been known to be louder than you.

21:55Peter Crouch: Yeah, but also sometimes Ab will come to me and say, oh God, was that too loud? But I'm like, nah, I absolutely love it. Yeah. You'd give me a favour there. No, but also she'd get up there and sing or whatever, you know, do something funny, breakdancing. When she breakdances, I'm possibly the most proudest.

22:14Abbey Clancy: But it's so funny.

22:16Peter Crouch: And as you come in the morning and go like, oh God, Was I embarrassed the last day? Not for me. I thought it was fucking brilliant.

22:21Abbey Clancy: It was so funny. When we were out on Friday in our local favourite Italian restaurant, Natalie's brother Gaz, his girlfriend, Amy, she works, she does all the dancing with the flame throwers.

22:33Peter Crouch: Oh, okay, yeah.

22:34Abbey Clancy: So at midnight, I was searching for paraffin. So she could...

22:38Peter Crouch: Was she going to do it? Oh my God. You's a fucking nutter's use. Flame throw and flame. Yeah, I was eating it.

22:45Abbey Clancy: Gia Piano, we need some paraffin now. who's like what she's gonna start throwing flames she can breathe it in that could have ended in fucking

22:53Peter Crouch: that could have ended in tears you're not just a bit Jesus Christ but yeah I am

22:58Abbey Clancy: I am too loud but you're too loud sometimes

23:00Peter Crouch: yeah but like again I'm people like it though I think people like it

23:05Abbey Clancy: you do see it often with couples one of them yeah

23:09Peter Crouch: I think you know you can go too far like if you if you're being loud and I thought you were rubbing people up the wrong way oh no I would never do that I'd be like you know tone it down a bit whereas I think the same with me like I'm not arrogant with it or gregarious that's the right word you know and people shouting and screaming and pissing everyone off like you know you're not a knob

23:28Abbey Clancy: no oh my god no ours is completely a million percent fun based

23:31Peter Crouch: I think you're too self aware to be like that anyway full stop but what does this fella say to this like he can't say you know because everyone seems to be enjoying it right I want to be the funny one for the chase sorry would you let me tell some jokes

23:44Abbey Clancy: go on then mate

23:46Peter Crouch: that was shit that one Have a go. Zinger!

23:49Abbey Clancy: No, I think he's just a little bit jealous.

23:52Peter Crouch: Yeah, definitely. And I think because generally it's meant to be, meant to be, like the boys who are kind of like the holding court or the funny or louder ones and the girls. I think in general, like stereotypical relationships, yeah, for sure. And the girls are a little bit more reserved than reigning the drunk fellas in. Do you know what I mean?

24:10Abbey Clancy: God, no, I don't. Every single girl I know is well more wild than the husband.

24:14Peter Crouch: I just think the stereotype is like men they'll go out I'm a few pints they think that you know Peter K will go on and on and on and the wives Peter Crouch yeah Peter Crouch and the wives have to rein them in the wives have to rein them in yeah yeah yeah oh god someone give him a pint of tea so I think he probably doesn't like it that his missus is the funny one the thing is

24:36Abbey Clancy: with us and our group everyone's a big personality and big and equally as funny I reckon so

24:43Peter Crouch: I think if you're telling a joke that's funny and I I just I'm proud of you yeah what do you mean if like if you're telling a story do you know what I mean oh she's oh she's got to go done there let's love this one guys let's love this one whereas what what I'm really good at is if I'm telling a story she'll just completely buy in and take it off me and lie lie and the only thing is I know she's lying that didn't happen and I just keep quiet you went there babe whereas if I if I put some bit of elastic on the story. It's like, shut up, that didn't happen.

25:16Abbey Clancy: Yeah, but the thing is,

25:17Peter Crouch: blow me up.

25:19Abbey Clancy: Elastic is not lying.

25:20Peter Crouch: Lassie and lying are different, I will say that. Lassie and lying are different. You've been known to throw a few lies in some stories.

25:26Abbey Clancy: Oh, heavens.

25:27Peter Crouch: You do. She's a lassie queen. I reckon she's a lassie queen.

25:31Abbey Clancy: No, because lies sound like dishonest. Elastic isn't.

25:36Peter Crouch: Well, yeah, okay.

25:38Abbey Clancy: A bad thing. Truth shouldn't get in the way of a good story.

25:40Peter Crouch: Yeah, there we go. I agree. Okay, hi, legends. Me and my husband have completely different ideas of what quality time means. For him, it's sitting on the sofa watching telly. For me, that's just existing in the same room. I want proper date nights, dinners, even going for a walk.

25:57Abbey Clancy: Same, sister?

25:59Peter Crouch: Yeah, so do I. I want that. He swears I'm being unrealistic because we live together. That's enough. Do you think couples need to work at carving out special time? Yeah. Or does the everyday stuff count just as much?

26:12Abbey Clancy: Both. But I think, you know, especially for us, we've been together over 20 years. It's like, you can't just say, oh, we live together. That's enough. Yeah. I'm not saying it's not enough, but you know, it just makes you feel good about yourself. If they, they or yourself does plan, right, we're going to book cinema tickets, we're going to the cinema. Oh, I'm going to get dressed up. I'm going to take you out for a nice meal. It can work both ways.

26:37Peter Crouch: Yeah, yeah, yeah.

26:38Abbey Clancy: I think it's very important.

26:41Peter Crouch: I think it's very important to...

26:42Abbey Clancy: But for a man, like if he wants to go out and he'll go play golf and be with the lads, but a man is more prone to saying quality time with his wife is, let's watch a film on the couch.

26:54Peter Crouch: I think it also depends on your job as well, though. Sometimes it's maybe, I think men will often work more kind of like manual laborious jobs. I mean, builders, plumbers, whatever. Like if you come back and you've had a day lifting and shifting, scaffolders, you do want to kind of sit on the couch and do Jeff Hall whereas you know some people might have more energy to go okay are we going on a date night now X Y and Z I think you have to bear that in mind as well that is that is a difficult one like you say if you've been on your feet all day and you're like oh I've got I want to go out for dinner through the week I think you can definitely stick to on the weekend you kind of need to make the effort I would say

27:27Abbey Clancy: yeah

27:27Peter Crouch: definitely to make an effort I mean it's we're not talking even weekly

27:31Abbey Clancy: I'm not even talking weekly it'd just be nice to have that gesture

27:34Peter Crouch: 100 % yeah I agree

27:36Abbey Clancy: Because when you first meet someone, you're going out three, four times a week together.

27:40Peter Crouch: No, no, I agree. No, completely agree. But I think through the week, depending on what your kind of job demands are, or even not your job demands, but your kind of personal life demands are, you kind of need to...

27:49Abbey Clancy: Most nights I can't think of nothing worse than going out. You know what we're like? We book cinema all the time. We're like, oh.

27:54Peter Crouch: A lot of times I've booked tickets to cinema, which aren't cheap, by the way. And also, you're only sitting in another place watching telly. You're not like... You're not going, go ape. You know what I mean? That's a good point.

28:06Abbey Clancy: Yeah, but it's...

28:07Peter Crouch: Let's just watch Blood Diamond here, mate.

28:13Peter Crouch: All right, well, yeah, that's the AMA.

28:15Abbey Clancy: On that note, sorry, you did say you were planning a date night.

28:20Peter Crouch: I'd love to... I'd like to go to the cinema.

28:23Abbey Clancy: I'd love to, Pete.

28:25Peter Crouch: That new Leo film's nice and really good, you know? Why don't we go? Why don't you go watch that? Why don't we go? You can hang around, Ross. Yeah, I'll go. No, you're not going. You can stay with the kids. I'll be doing Spanish with Sophia.

28:35Abbey Clancy: Absolutely. you said you'd help but you could maybe por supuesto

28:38Peter Crouch: por supuesto

28:39Abbey Clancy: of course I will yeah

28:41Peter Crouch: of course yeah muy bien

28:43Abbey Clancy: I can understand that no no

28:46Peter Crouch: adios

28:47Abbey Clancy: very good

From the publisher

On today’s episode of The Therapy Crouch, it’s bedtime bickering and festival fantasies galore as Abbey and Peter dive into the hilarious highs and lows of married life.


From fighting for space in bed with cats and kids to planning the ultimate birthday celebration (spoiler: it may involve donkeys). We hear from listeners grappling with snoring spouses, mobile phone addiction, and awkward bedtime routines. There’s also a delightfully weird “Would You Rather” that forces Pete to choose between showering with his aunt or snogging his cousin. Classic Therapy Crouch chaos.


Whether it’s household chores turning into scoreboard wars, debates over how late is too late for dinner, or trying to survive your partner’s tractor YouTube addiction. If you’ve ever argued over pillows or tried to plan the “perfect” surprise that backfires, this one’s for you.


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