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And a fun RHLSTP to end it (with guest Lou Conran)
I found out that the Chase episode that I am on has been moved to 5pm on Christmas Day. I was a little concerned that naughty Kay Burley's involvement might mean it got postponed, but I guess ITV don't have a problem with her. Who would have thought I'd ever turn up on prime time Christmas Day TV? What's happening here?
Luckily my 2021 diary remains almost completely empty, so I don't think I will be making a habit of being on your TVs quite so often.
It's a very exciting episode with lots of thrills and spills and includes all the Chasers (though not the brand new one). I hope I don't fuck it all up by risking going for the high offer and then get caught by my Chaser.
They told us to dress up in something spectacular and Christmassy. I only had a Rudolph jumper. The others chose to look classy. Ah well. I always get things wrong. Is that a spoiler?
My team is made of me, Tim Lovejoy, Kay Burley and Eni Aluko.
It looks like we're all contravening the lockdown regulations in the photo, but we'd all been tested and so were allowed to get a little closer on set, but had masks and social distancing everywhere else.
Still we all had a blinding time at Kay's birthday party.
The car that I am test driving for a podcast ad was meant to be picked up on Friday, but no one has been in touch about picking it up and I am wondering if they have forgotten and I might get to keep it. That would be a nice Christmas bonus. Also as I am not the registered owner I could park it anywhere I liked and drive at 100 mph at all times with no repercussions at all. As long as the real owner just assumed that it was him breaking the law and paid off all the fines and took the points.
It's the perfect crime.
It's probably more hassle for them to come and pick it up than it is to just leave it with me. If I've still got it in a year's time I will give it away as a prize to a monthly badger. You've got to spread the luck.
I used the car to drive my wife to the station as she was heading into town to do a live Drunk Women recording (that had sadly had to go entirely online due to Londoners being filthy disease ridden scum). I then had quite a busy afternoon of picking up my daughter from school, taking her to her swimming lesson and then getting the kids to bed in time for me to do my podcast. Can't complain about that. It's called being a parent. But it made the day feel pretty non-stop.
Luckily the kids were reasonably well-behaved at bedtime for once. My hypocrite daughter was keen to be helpful and good so she could play the game on my phone that she'd told me I should delete yesterday. One rule for the elite and another for the rest of us.
The podcast was full of ghosts and goolies. It will be out on 30th December (of you can watch it in Twitch videos)
