Episode 22

Ayshah Tull, Channel 4 Newsreader

This week I'm joined by a very special guest. Ayshah is a multi-award-winning correspondent and broadcaster for Channel 4 News. She also co-hosts the Fourcast, a podcast which goes out 3 times a week and looks at the biggest stories in depth. For the show she has done interviews with those at the heart of the Free Britney movement, and doing the story through a personal lens of being a big fan. She is also a Trustee of the Ethical Journalism Network.

In this episode we cover everything from Sister Act to Fresh Prince, and occasionally stuff not from the 90s. Millennials are in for a treat!

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Transcript

So welcome to another episode of the Friday film club today. I am delighted to be joined by channel four news correspondent. I should tell, welcome to the show.

Thank you. I'm so excited to be here. Yeah,

of course. Yeah. Yeah. We are still virtual. Um, however, I guess things are going a bit more back to normal now for you guys, I guess it was, it was a real challenge doing the news, virtually driven the pandemic.

Yeah, bringing out those boom poles and being six feet away and you kind of gave my arms a workout for kids. We used to speak to people through windows and all this crazy. But I also, um, and all of my colleagues we were working throughout. So even when it was deepest, baddest locked down. When everyone was at home, we were still going into the office.

So, um, I I've never really had a locked

down. Um, I guess it was just all business as usual for broadcasters, uh, like all these pictures of radio presents that having sort of do Veys over them and still do live shows for. Um, but what's your, uh, have you got any kind of crazy pandemic stories, I guess just like, like adapting to the kind of different.

I'm trying to think. And they are just, it was just such a mad time. I think we're so used to you work in a little crew, you have a producer and a camera person, and then you're kind of working together. We had to take separate cars. To everything we had to like, not have lunch together. I remember actually one of the, uh, one of the stories that we were working on, um, we were in three different calls in a service station.

Cause that was the only place that was open. And we had to get this report done by six o'clock had to be in, has to be legal, all this kind of stuff. So we're sitting in this car park, yelling across each other from these cars going, is this script loin. Okay. No, that's rubbish. Do it. Um, and it just looked bizarre and it was the only place that also had a toilet as well, cause nothing was open at all.

So you just had really dodgy sandwiches, no offense to any service station. Um, I felt awful in saying that, but not the greatest sandwiches in the world. And yeah, so that's probably my weirdest memory is editing in a, in a awful cold cold. Probably wanting to cry. Thanks for bringing that off.

Yeah, no worries.

No worries. Uh, people don't really appreciate or think about the, the, the kind of, uh, I guess I was going to say murky side of journalism, but you know, it's, you've got to really get your hands dirty. Sometimes.

I think you have to get your hands dirty more than most. I used to. Work at knees round, the children's needs program.

I was one of the presenters and people think it's really glamorous and you get to stand in studio and, and reveal to Q and, and tell all these brilliant stories and this part of that. But then there's also the part where you're on red carpets. A very, very long period of time and your feet are frozen and you're yelling out to a other celebrity, trying to get them to notice

me, please come up to me, say a few words so that I can get off this red carpet and get my toes warm. So there's also a lot of that as well, but, uh,

Sorry, I guess. Yeah. All you see on camera is like the glamorous stars on the red carpet. You turn the camera around and there's just like hundreds of journalists or Joslin to try and get the attention at that one person.

Yeah. And it must be nice now to actually start doing like non COVID related stories.

It is quite nice. It is. Because I think, you know, you get into journalism for the viewer, the variety of stuff that you get to do. I, I guess, I think for me, I'm not a specialist, I'm a generalist, so I do everything and anything.

And so it's quite nice to kind of go back and look at other stories that have been neglected quite frankly, because we've been focusing just on COVID. So it's good to get back out there and speak to people and find out what they really care about. I know one of the. Um, I, I, I didn't mean it to be boring, but cost of living.

It's one of those things that loads of people keep talking to me about. Everyone's like, what fattening me going? Why am I, why am I building a hundred, hundred pounds more expensive this month? I should please explain. I'm like, oh, gosh know, Um, so I'm trying to do that. I act as an agony on, I feel for a lot of my friends that want to know why stuff is going on in the world, and then they direct it at me.

So, yeah,

since we're on that, I mean, I noticed the other week dog food has gone up by about 30% madness. Yeah. So if you could explain that one for me, that'd be.

I wish I wished I could,

but you know, I think it's really, it's really sad cause you just think of all this, you want to enjoy, you want to enjoy stuff and you want to be able to like afford to do things. And it's not like a lot of people are being extravagant and wanting to go and jet set and do like the holidays and other things.

It's just wanting to do normal things and then realizing that you can't because you can't afford it. Not just a bit crap. I know for some people it's really, really sad.

Yeah. And a lot of people have been finding solace in Netflix subscriptions, which is very handy for this podcast. So let's talk a bit about films now as always it's the same six questions, uh, and let's jump straight in to, what is your favorite?

So I had a long and hard think about this, and I think it got to be sister act, which is of course starring Whoopi Goldberg with the big, massive fro and the nuns outfit and all of these amazing women. And it's funny. It's really hard for me to pick a favorite from, cause I love films. I just watched stuff all the time, but I think for me, it's that nineties nostalgia it's.

I just remember kind of sitting down with my mum, not knowing all the nuances and the little bits and pieces, but knowing that I absolutely just loved it, loved the vibe, love the singing and everything about it. I know. So just seeing someone like Whoopi Goldberg, just leading and starring in this big film, I think at the time looking back, and it really realized the significance of that.

But now I realize how powerful it was to have an African-American woman. Needing a film and how rad it was. Right. So I think. One of the reasons why it's so enjoying in my heart to be one of my favorite films, because I think she's battled.

Yeah. I'm so glad that sister act has come up. I was fully expecting it though.

If it did make an appearance on this show to be a guilty pleasure, um, or even an established account, it makes me so happy that you've said it's your favorite film, but yeah. Do you know. We'll be gone, but we, we, I guess we underestimate the significance of a black woman being the star of what became a little bit of a franchise.

And I guess that's a sign of how much things have progressed in the last sort of 30 years. But, um, yeah, we'd be Goldberg was really kind of on our own there championing black women in Hollywood.

She really was. You know, it wasn't a film about race. It wasn't like, it wasn't necessarily about that. It was a, it was a black character that had something to her and actually she was quite naughty.

Like she, it out in that seven and a fat, I didn't know what that was like. I just think that will be me and my brother and my mom watching that film when my mum got. And me and my brother just probably thinking, oh God, today there's some singing. Um, that's fun and not realizing all of the drama and all of the stuff that is obviously going down, but just having a fully formed character.

Um, and someone that is able to like have this life, have these ups and downs and these troughs and have something realized. I think, I think actually that's just so powerful just to be able to, um, to show. On screen. And, you know, I think there are lots of probably little black girls around the world who were growing up in the nineties as I wear that, looked at that, and then thought, you know what?

I can not be an actor, like would be like, she's amazing. I'm not going to do that, but I couldn't be on screen. And like, my dreams are possible. I think she's probably one of the first people that did that for me. So. We'll pay if you're listening. Thank you so much.

Yeah, well I'm sure she is. Uh, I'm sure.

Yeah. A side question though. What are your thoughts on sister act two?

Oh, see, I knew you were gonna do that to me. Um, uh, you know, sequels, it's very, it's very rare to find a sequel that is better than theory. Uh, you know, unless you're talking about Homeland too, I know controversial, but, um, you know, I, yeah, I, I didn't like it as much.

I'm not gonna lie. And there were rumors about like sister act three and stuff happening this year. Hmm.

The one thing I will commend sister act two on, is bringing out Lauren Hill. Cause she kind of came through as a breakthrough actress in that, um, and just have singing was phenomenal and, um, just kind of, and there was also, oh God, this woman in it, she was her mom who was also in a show called maritia for anyone that might remember.

I think it's Sheryl Lee, Ralph don't. So shoot me if I'm wrong, but I think that's her. And so it was all those kinds of characters and stuff and yeah, it was, it's fun. It's not something that I'd watch again and again, and again, I watch it if it's on, like, if it's, if it's a Sunday and I'm a bit bored and I see it on the TV, I'm not gonna switch it off, but it's not, it's not my face.

I think we'll

have to agree to disagree on that because I prefer the sequel I can watch. I can watch both like over and over again. I love

system ads. It's the last bit it not Las Vegas. It's like the Reno, me and the, uh, convincing the helicopter pilot by, um, guilt to the new light. Now that for me though, The rest and just the singing.

And I think it's the unexpectedness of the, well, obviously it happens throughout the movie, but like the novelty bit of them kind of singing all these classical hymns and then kind of bringing it up today. I think the first time I saw that, I thought that was fantastic and amazing. And I know it happens throughout the film, but it's just quite, which is quite lovely and magical.

Yeah, definitely. And I think credit is definitely due to whichever executive green-lit sister act, because I don't know how you can make that elevator pitch and, and not high as just how blasphemous it probably wasn't the time there's going to be some

nuns. And there's also going to be some gangsters. A couple of detectives and yeah.

And a helicopter, it's gonna be great,

but, um, I'm, I'm glad it happened. Sister act great, great choice. Uh, but that takes us on to the other end of the spectrum, which is your least favorite film.

And I don't like to be down on anything. I like to be quite positive. However, I think one thing for me is that because I do a job where you, um, it's quite, yeah.

My job, you'll be dealing with layers of stories of, of some awful things that happen in this world and everything can feel quite hopeless. Um, and so whenever I'm picking out movies, I liked it. I just liked to have fun. I like to watch comedy. I like to be able to switch off and switch off my brain because like, there's just so much stuff going on.

So inception for me, my least favorite film. I'm sorry. I can just feel like people throwing apples at me. I apologize. But for me it just wasn't that interesting. And I remember watching it with my, my really, really close friend Carra who was watching, watching it at the same time. I felt this. I don't know if it was cause I was tired or because I was bored, but I fell asleep and then kind of got up at the end and she, uh, kind of leaned over to me and she was just like, that was the best film ever.

Okay.

Not for me. Yeah. Do you know what I think inception is definitely. A lot of people do like it, but I think those who don't are going to really not like it, but the, I think the only thing worse than falling asleep and waking up at the end would have been falling asleep and waking up still partway through because you miss it.

You miss any of inception and it makes an already fairly confusing film. Absolutely intolerant.

Exactly. That's probably what it was. I just, I was so confused. My mind went into overdrive and was like, no, you need to sneak, like, I can't deal with this. And also, yeah. A film that you just have to, maybe I just wasn't in that kind of mood, but a film that you really have to concentrate on and concentrate.

And if you miss a particular bit like sister act, you can fuck, you can fall asleep at the beginning of the song by the end of the song, you know, it's going to be upbeat, right? Yeah. Um, I think I liked that formula. Kind of nature of comedy and things. And so for me, stuff that you really have to think about, sometimes I just, I don't want to think, I don't want to, I don't want to be smart.

I'm not that

bothered. I think you, you echo the sentiment of, of a lot of people, you know, I think there were films like insects. That people feel like they have to say they like, and it's good. It's nice that you've, you've broken that fund. You've you've, you've empowered millions of people to come out.

And so they don't like inception. I

hate I have, I have my hat, but they feel empowered that they can just be a little bit thinner and not the smartest person ever. I must say my friend, Kara is the smallest class in the I know. So I'm not surprised at all that. One of her favorite films

of all time was shout out to Cora for being smart.

Yeah. Uh, so, uh, next question, which film or TV character do you most relate

to? I'm going to take it back to the nineties again and nineties America. I think we in my house TV was a really big escape for me because my brother has autism. And so growing up in my house was. Kind of crazy things where, um, he kind of struggled a lot with, um, with noises and with different things going on.

And so a lot of the time I would spend by myself and a lot of that time I would spend kind of watching TV and films and like a little bit of a. In in some way, I would say. And so, um, the fresh prince of Bel-Air is one of my all time. Favorite TV shows. I still follow will Smith on Instagram. Like his dad Instagram gives me life.

Cause he's just, so he's still with the like really goofy dad jokes. You know, completely, just not cool. Um, if I can say that, I just said will Smith is not cool. Oh my gosh. I mean, he is really cool. The school in that kind of dad way, and I think I can most relate to Hilary banks just because. I think in that escapism, I used to try and think like, oh, I was earth, which sounds a bit weird, but it's kind of like, I liked the way that she acted.

I liked the way that she just didn't care. She was really pretty. I just looked up to her. I thought she was amazing. And actually in my first job that I had, which was a customer assistant in my senses, I think because of my accent, I don't know why some people assume it's. It's really not, I don't know why, but, um, my, my fellow colleagues just wanted to call me Hilary, which I, which I was like, I'm kind of cool with, because I quite like her and I quite like crime kind of like, if you want to call me Hillary then yeah.

You know what? You can go

ahead. Uh, Henry was for all her flaws, she was a good robot. But like she, you know, she was here, she went into, she was a weather presenter. Wasn't J

yeah. Oh yeah, of course. Maybe that's why I liked it as well, like that journalism, but she, with a terrible weather didn't lift, um, she was.

You know, she's kind of just in it for the fame and just having her face on camera. I just didn't really care what anyone had to say, but yeah. And then she went on to become a talk show host, which was all also equally bad at, um, again, because she didn't listen and didn't care. Uh, I'd like to think that I do listen and do.

Uh, you never know, I might still have elements of, of Hilary.

Yeah. If you don't, you don't give off any hitter, revives, uh, that, uh, I I'd like, I would like to know a bit more about how you got into journalism, because, you know, you mentioned it is, it can be quite a bleak career choice because more often than not, you're, you're reporting on the negative rather than the positive.

So what, what was it that drew you to.

I had the best teacher called Mr. McHale, who was my media teacher, um, at school. And I just loved media studies. And it was one of those options that you got to take for GCSE. Um, my mum, you know, that phrase tiger mom, or like really, really like just strict mom's strict as mum in the world.

So it was the one frivolous thing that I would do. Everything else was fine. French. And for media studies was the one thing that I was able to choose and I loved it and I really engaged with it. And we went on a field trip to the guardian newspaper when I was 15 years old and we sat there and it was our job to come up with a front line.

And at the time we were able to pick exactly what we wanted to put on that front page. I thought, wow, is that what people get to do? That's fun. So you looked at the wires coming in. So all the stories that are going on through the day, and this is how old I am. It's where. Oh my gosh. If anyone remembers this, when, um, BBC, I think it was called BBC choice became BBC three.

So there was before BBC three, it was called BBC choice. That's how old I am. And now BBC three has come back on TV. Like that's how, like, that's literally how old I am. I'm just showing everyone my age. Um, but we were doing that front page. I was doing it with my partner Helena, and I just remember thinking.

This is so much fun. I can't believe people get paid to do this right. In a way. We were the first people to finish in the room. I was really excited and I'm still really competitive. And so that for me, sparked this magic and I had no idea how to get into it. My, um, I didn't know anyone in the industry. We, we weren't like that kind of family that's really connected or anything quite working class mum was a stay at home mum, you know, like we just, we didn't know anything.

So I read loads of different bits and pieces. I tried to ask our careers advisor, they didn't have clothes. And so I got eventually got into local radio just by messaging and doing all this kind of stuff and writing like hundreds of letters at the time and being told no on or not being told anything at all.

And then eventually getting a breakthrough at, um, radio Jackie, which is in Southwest. As a newsreader, which I didn't get paid for. So I would come in and do shifts on that. And then I kind of built it up from there and then went to, where did I go? I went to uni to do a master's in journalism. And that was my way of opening doors.

Because again, as I say, if you're not. Um, middle class background where you have a godmother that works for the BBC or ITV or somewhere, getting that foot in the door is really, really hard. So I had to go to uni and I, I saved up for, I saved up for a year, working at a food factory as a receptionist for a year to save up, to go to uni and then doors opens and then it was a bit easier.

Um, yeah. But yeah, that's mine. That's my story.

That's, that's amazing. And don't, I've got to say I kind of, I, I echo that a little bit, you know, I think that, you know, my experience too with the media is that it is a really kind of welcoming industry. If you're willing to do stuff for free days, you can build up experience.

You've just got to keep knocking at that door.

Yeah. I would say don't get disheartened. There were so many nos that. So many, just get constant rejection to the point where you could just go like, can I still do this, but I don't know if I like this anymore, but you just have to keep pushing through. And it's that perseverance that you eventually will get there and someone will listen and someone will realize that you are good and you.

Um, worth taking a chance on, and I think it's, it's a lot better now than it used to be. There were a lot more paid opportunities. Um, but there are out there and I don't think anyone should, I really hate and resent people working for free. I don't like it. I don't like it at all. Cause I had to work and then work for free on the side.

And so I really don't like. And I think less of that is happening now, which is really good because you need people from different backgrounds to talk about and do the news because otherwise you're just in an echo chamber of, of, uh, of people that are all the same or thinking the same. And don't actually go out into the real world and speak to real people.

And that's just. I could think of a bad word. It's just crap. We don't want media. We don't want the media to be like that. We don't.

Yeah, I agree. And I think crap is the, the perfect word. Um, but you're, you're also, you're, you're a trustee of the ethical journalism network.

I am not. So it's a lumpy, fancy title.

I wanted to get involved, um, with the network to make sure that I champion diversity at every single step. I did a panel for them, which was about diversity in the new. And then the lovely and delectable Dorothy Bird who, um, was, um, kind of editor at large at channel four at the time called me up and asked me if I wanted to be involved in the ethical journalism network.

And when Dorothy, I didn't know. Um, and I did, and I got involved and I'm still working on loads of different projects to do with diversity and just trying to make sure that the media is representative. So we do. You know, we've got our network, what we do. Um, we're doing a big research project at the moment.

And then we also kind of look at doing panels with industry leaders, just to get these discussions about that. So that they're still had. I think, you know, you have. Which is me being a correspondent and going around and telling people stories, but also behind the scenes, I think it's really important to fill work away and plug away at things that we haven't got quite right yet.

Like you have to admit where there's room for improvement and, oh, I'm so sorry. My phone is going off. Was that as a journalist? That's what happened, but yeah, we need to be able to look at things that are not going right and, and try and fix them and try and work towards them. And so that's what I, that's what.

Yeah,

it's also not what it is. You know, there, there was a lot of work that has to go in because I think it's not, I don't think there's necessarily a conscious prejudice in the industry and we're talking purely, you know, the media, but I guess you could apply this to every industry. And I think sometimes you need organizations like that to kind of shine a spotlight on where the, the lack of representation or diversity is, and to kind of.

Action and change in the right

places. Yeah. And if you don't know what the problem is, how are you going to fix it? Exactly. So,

um, so yeah, that's, that's awesome. Um, and I guess moving on then if your life was a movie who would play you

and why? Sometimes I feel like my life is a movie constantly. It just felt like it's it's tragedy and comedy at the same diamond, completely chaotic and crazy.

Um, I don't know. I don't know how I get out of bed in the morning. Some mornings, I think, oh, I actually just want to stay at, I don't want to get out. I didn't even have to think this was a question I didn't actually have to think about apple. Not that I would think that I would any way in one day be famous, but I was like, after the person could play me in a movie, it would be, um, Gabrielle union.

For those who don't know she's in bad boys, um, life, she was also in, I think it's bad, boy. I hope I remembered that. Right. It's just also in bring it on the cheerleader, Phil sharing that, um, she was a coach. She was a Clover, the fiercest caver, the head teenager, the head cheerleader rather, and just this boss woman.

And I follow her on every social media possible. Cause I just think she's amazing. And she also did this series called being Mary Jane, which is a news. Um, and who, who also has like this crazy, uh, life, this just mad, um, kind of thing that was shown on bet, uh, in America and also shown here as well. And I just think she's just such a fierce woman who wears her heart on her sleeve.

She's even spoken about a lot of the, she had a, um, a child by a surrogate a couple of years ago called COVID. Um, and she's spoken just so openly and beautifully about all the pain and the struggles that she's gone through. And I just think it takes a really brave person to do that. And if I had like one ounce or one little bit of that, that bravery, um, like I would, I would love that, but I just think she's amazing.

So that's the past not, I would love to play me also. She just, she looked beautiful every single time. So if she could be on screen, pretending to be me, then.

Yeah, it's a, it's a box sticker on every count for Gabrielle unions. But if there was a particular point or moment in your life, that would be the kind of big defining scene in your life movie. What, what would it be?

Ooh. Oh my gosh. I really have to think about that. There, there were like, um, I think this last, this last year has been.

Uh, like ridiculously crazy and with COVID and everything. Oh my gosh. I actually have to really like, think about a defining a defining moment. Do you know? I would say, and it's not glamorous at all, but probably the moment that has changed my life, one of the moments that changed my life the most has to be when I got a phone call about.

And being a presenter. So picture it, I am at the desk of a, um, I was in a new job at sky news and I was at my desk and the phone rang and the person called and said, hi, is that I show? And I was like, oh, hi. Yeah. And I thought it was because I was producing. I thought it was a guest that I was trying to get in contact with.

And it just ended up being at this talent scout thought. I ended up talking to me and I had to walk out of my desk cause I was like, oh, I realized it was something. So I walked away from my desk and within the car park, because that was the only place I could get some privacy and she was asking me questions.

And um, she said, oh, you know, I would like, I'm looking for people to who would, who would be interested in talking about it, like a new. Uh, NewSpace children's program. And I was like, well, needs rounds. And she didn't say what it was and she was all mysterious. And, um, it was that moment in a car park, a weird phone call that I never usually would onset, massively changed my life because I, and I still, I love Rebecca to this day for that phone call, because it was that phone call where I just gave my heart and soul instead of.

This is something that I've always wanted to do. I'm really, I think I'm really good at presenting. I think I'm really good at reporting and I just kind of laid it all out there. And then when the phone call was over, I just didn't think much of it. And then obviously that was a moment. And that was the spark that changed everything for me, I guess.

So, yeah, it's not the most glamorous. It really isn't, but I think that's the moment.

It's a good story. I think, I think many lives have been changed from a, an unexpected call in a car park.

Yeah. Yeah. Watch out, watch out for those, those random calls. Cause actually, sometimes it's not someone trying to tell you PPI, I wouldn't try to give you a

job. It's either going to be the best school of your life or the worst

and that. Exactly, exactly. So, yeah, that was the best call of my life.

Awesome.

Okay. So why is your most nostalgic film? So

I think it will be, and again, I'm really cheesy. I apologize. I'm aware of my cheesiness and I, and I, you know, it's just me, but it's probably going to be Ghostbusters just because it's like, I watched it the other day. Actually. I watched it again with my mum, but it reminds me of sitting on the safer with my brother.

Thinking that the, like the, um, the special effects and everything were just the coolest thing in the world. And just you don't back down with those folk, you know, still a bit sketchy and the big marshmallow tire guy. But at the time it was magical. And it just takes me back to this wonderful place of make believe that I thought that, you know, monsters could be slayed with a laser gun.

Like how cool is that? And also I think a lot of the films and a lot of the references I have are of America because I watched a lot of stuff from America. And I just think that. Even that depiction of New York city made me wants to go there so bad young girl, I just thought this place looks really, really cool.

And I guess that's why I like home alone too, a lot and health and anything else that is in New York, even Godzilla to some extent.

And then when I got to New York, I realized, oh, it's not that bad. It's actually all right, actually. Yeah.

It's quite a good tourism strategy. Really?

Yeah. It really made me want to go and I haven't been like several times, so, um, yeah, maybe what

Skype did you ever have the toy ghost busters? Um, kind of packed like

backpack.

No, but I wanted it. I had an. Thing. So I was able to convince my mum to get a w which broke very quickly, but everything broke in our house. Like I couldn't, you couldn't hold stuff for too long because it was bright. Um, and we were just quiet. We're like rough housing credit, you know? And so yeah, things would break, but I, I did, I did have half that, uh, which was nice and thinking of all the toys and stuff.

Yeah.

Yeah. The nine nineties, um, toys. Well, I think the best, because it was a time when I think our expectations were really high, but there was no light technology and there was no, there was, there was no real way of making them any better than just a lot of cheap plastic kind of glued together. It was a great time to.

It was, I mean, think about our toy story and all of those sorts of things. And, um, what's that movie with Danny DeVito and, um, oh, it's a Christmas movie again, our caught member. It's Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwartzenegger and they're competing for, um, they're competing for like the best toy of the year.

And it's just like some plastic thing that wasn't, that was the night. I cannot remember what. That's what I'm thinking of, finding out the film. Yeah. So those were the kinds of toys and those are the kinds of things that we're wired to. Great. There's a great time. There's not a bit. I'm thinking, gosh, when I have kids and that they're there after pay station 17, how expensive is that going to be?

It's going to be a nightmare. It's going to get them a couple bucks for things.

Yeah. Um, so finally, what is your guilty.

So I feel like all of my choices have been quite guilty and just very open about, um, how , but, um, at the moment I am, I'm getting married in September. So congratulations. Thank you for, so for me and Tom.

I think I've just been having nightmares and cold sweat about a, the money we're spending. No, I think everyone tells you how expensive it's going to be. And then you don't really realize how expensive it really is going to be because you think, oh, I should've, I should've, I should've, I should've haggled that, you know, dunno flower tree that someone's trying to sell me for 500 quid.

s well, um, we got engaged in:

Uh, not Tom. He's great for that. Good. They're not anxiety about him. He's lovely. Is everything, everything else? Even today I had like, um, my bridesmaids and I've got bright. I've got three bridesmaids and a man and, um, they're messaging me about my. Hindu. And some of my other friends are messaging me saying, oh, well, I'm sorry.

I should, I can't come. And I'm like, don't tell me these and leave the things I don't need to know. I'm worried about like a 500 pound flower tree, like it's really stressful go away. So, um, yeah. And I think for me the scene, I think everyone knows the theater bridesmaids. I'm talking about the triangle on the drive.

And the few poisoning and the walking outside, and again, that is in New York city, I believe. And yeah, just the, the moment of, oh, just to shame, but I love that moment and I love it cause it's all about friendship in the end back home. And it just makes me believe that. And back to where all the kinds of crazy stuff that that's happening and all the money that's being spent that at the end of the day, It's about me and Tom.

Um, and it's also about the people that love us that want to share the day. So I've got

absolutely. And yeah, I think bridesmaid is a film that once you've, so, so I've been married for nearly five years now and we thank you. And leading up to the wedding, we were like any, anything wedding related we were watching.

So don't tell the bride, it was on bridesmaids all the time. Um, as soon as the wedding has been and gone, it's like, right. We don't even. Mentioned the word wedding for another like 10 years. We'd done

of blame

you. Yeah, but I've got some good news and bad news for you. The bad news is, so we're coming up to five years this summer and we're still paying.

Uh, but, but the good news is I wouldn't change a single thing about that day is completely worth it. And you know, as long as you have the data is just perfect for you and awesome. Then you're not going to

regret. That is so lovely to hear because honestly it has. A nightmare. I thought it was going to be fun.

I didn't think it was going to be naively. I went into it thinking you have loads of time, so it's faster, but it hasn't, it hasn't panned out that way, but it's, but yeah, with it, we'll be in lovely, lovely day and we're really looking forward to it. And so it should be good, but it's just guessing. It's just guessing that it's good to hear that you've come out the other side.

Yeah. And

you know, still, still going, she hasn't divorced me yet. So that's, that's a good thing. So I think

very, very good thing. I think it

went well, but yeah, you, you haven't done wedding planning properly unless you're sat there a week before, like putting favor boxes together and like doing all these other little things that you, you never expect to have to do.

Oh my God. I

just think people lived. And also, I think people expected me to be a bit of a bride dealer and I haven't been, but I've just been, um, I'm just like, whatever, at this point, I'm like, do whatever. I don't even get to do it. We'll just turn off on the day, whatever it's okay. It's fine. I don't want it.

I don't want to deal with any of the kind of stress and stuff. As long as people have got food and drink, I'm guessing they'll be fine. But. Yes. And no one's going to care about the color of flowers or whatever.

It's okay. Exactly. Get everyone as drunk as possible, as early as possible. And they won't remember anything.

Hey, I've got the background of Caribbean. He's got. So I think we've got that covered. I actually, yeah, kind of, I'm kind of nervous about that

should be fine. It'd be one. It would be one big RT and guaranteed.

Yeah. Well, best of luck with that. I'm sure it's going to go amazing. Um, and before I let you go, uh, remind everyone how they can connect.

Yeah. So I'm probably on any sort of social media and stuff. Um, I should tell I'm on Twitter, on Instagram, all that sort of stuff.

And yeah, you catch me on channel four news. That's probably the best place for me where like, because I love it and that's where I am, so,

yeah. Awesome. Well, thank you very much. I shot it's been a pleasure and I have to say probably my favorite set of answers. So.

Oh, bless you. But you said that to everyone lovely.

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