The Scummy Mummies Podcast

Our guest for this episode is the brilliant Bethie Hungerford, otherwise known as Hungermama! She tells us how she went from being raised in the States on pizzas and burgers to living in London and writing a cookbook. And guess what - her kids ACTUALLY EAT VEGETABLES. We find out her secret. Bethie tells us all about her hungerpot recipes - "the laziest possible way you can make a homemade meal." We also learn her favourite way to cook Christmas turkey, and chat about everything from calamari to pigs anuses, and whether they're the same thing. Then it's time for a game, Would You Put That In Your Mouth?, followed by some food-related Scummy Mummy Confessions. For more from Bethie, visit hungermama.com or follow her on Instagram @hungermama. Her podcast, Friends With Recipes, is available in all the usual places, and there's also a @friendswithrecipes Instagram account. Bethie's hungerpots book is out in spring 2020. This episode of the podcast is sponsored by Honest Organic Kids. Their 100% organic juice drinks are certified by the Soil Association, and contain no added sugar or sweeteners - just fruit juice and water. You can find out more by following them on Instagram @honestorganic. **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We will be in Edinburgh for THE WHOLE FESTIVAL! 1-25 August at the Blue Room, Assembly Rooms, 7.50pm. Buy your tickets now!   We are also on our way to Sevenoaks, Stamford, Nunhead, Brighton, Didcot, Nottingham, Leatherhead, Hertford, Lancaster, Norwich, Lincoln, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She's fun, she's fashionable, and she's a one-woman festival - it's Dress Like A Mum, also known as Zoe de Pass! Zoe joins us in the gardens of the Horniman Museum for a special outdoor recording. We talk about why we love a good park, and in Ellie's case, hate the beach. There's some chat about our favourite summer festivals, and giving mouth-to-mouth resuscitation to a dog. Plus we get to know Ellie and Helen a little better with our brand new game, Who Did That Outside? This episode of the podcast is sponsored by Honest Organic Kids. Their 100% organic juice drinks are certified by the Soil Association, and contain no added sugar or sweeteners - just fruit juice and water. You can find out more by following them on Instagram @honestorganic. **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We will be in Edinburgh for THE WHOLE FESTIVAL! 1-25 August at the Blue Room, Assembly Rooms, 7.50pm. Buy your tickets now!   We are also on our way to Sevenoaks, Stamford, Nunhead, Brighton, Didcot, Nottingham, Leatherhead, Hertford, Lancaster, Norwich, Lincoln, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's the best bargain make-up brand? How much fun is living with drag queens? And what's it like when your stand-up comedian boyfriend is papped snogging his Strictly partner outside a pub? Answering all these questions is the amazing Rebecca Humphries! She tells us all about her relationship with Seann Walsh, and why that famous photo only told half the story. We hear her advice for getting out of bad relationships, and find out how she's doing now. There's also some chat about beauty, cats, retirement plans, and Barbra Streisand's underground shopping mall. Following the Scummy Mummy Confessions, Helen shares a fact that may actually blow your mind. This is definitely one to listen to till the end.You can find Rebecca's beauty writing over at thetrowel.co.uk and follow her on social media @beckshumps. **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We will be in Edinburgh for THE WHOLE FESTIVAL! 1-25 August at the Blue Room, Assembly Rooms, 7.50pm. Buy your tickets now!   The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!We are also on our way to Exeter, Falmouth, Newbury, Harlow, Sevenoaks, Stamford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest for this episode is the hilariously brilliant comedian Sindhu Vee! She tells us about her experience of growing up in India, and how parenting styles can differ between east and west. We also learn about a unique discipline technique involving a tea tray. Sindhu tells us what possessed her to try stand-up without ever having seen it before. And she explains how, annoyingly, she went on to become amazingly good at it, and get nominated for loads of awards.We find out Sindhu's mum's mottos for living, and she shares her tips for surviving the Edinburgh Festival. We round off with not one, but TWO of the best Scummy Mummy Confessions we've ever heard. Sindhu is currently touring her show Sandhog - for dates and tickets, visit sindhuvee.com. You can follow her on Twitter @sindhuvfunny. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We will be in Edinburgh for THE WHOLE FESTIVAL! 1-25 August at the Blue Room, Assembly Rooms, 7.50pm. Buy your tickets now! We are also on our way to Leamington, Cardiff, Cambridge, Exeter, Falmouth, Newbury, Harlow, Sevenoaks, Stamford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our special guest for this episode is Keza MacDonald! We discuss her experience of being a step-mum, and why she changed her mind about having her own kids. There's some chat about dealing with the teenage years, and we find out Keza's number one piece of advice for new step-parents. Then it's time for video games chat! Keza is the games editor for The Guardian, so we pick her brains about screentime, age ratings, and what to do if your child decides they want to become a pro gamer. We also talk about YouTube, our favourite games for playing with kids, and how Eurovision destroys families. This episode was sponsored by Must Play May, an initiative designed to celebrate the positive things about gaming and how it can bring people together. For more, please visit askaboutgames.com. Keza is on Twitter @kezamacdonald, and you can read her writing on the Guardian. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Edinburgh, Leamington, Cardiff, Cambridge, Exeter, Falmouth, Newbury, Harlow, Sevenoaks, Stamford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do you get on The Great British Bake-Off? What's it like to be kissed by Noel Fielding and sworn at by Paul Hollywood? And where does Helen think her cakehole is? Helping us answer all these questions is Briony May Williams! She reveals what it's really like inside the Bake-Off tent, and where to find the best chocolate cake recipe EVER. There's some chat about running, and we play a new game, Through the Cakehole. Plus we find out who's the best baker out of someone who came fourth in a famous televised national baking competition, and a pissed-up Australian who thinks self-raising flour is a plant that doesn't need watering. You can follow Briony @brionymaybakes on Instagram, or visit her website at brionybakes.co.uk. For more on This Mum Runs, go to thismumruns.co.uk The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Cardiff, Cambridge, Brighton, Falmouth, Exeter and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How did Sophie Ellis-Bextor offend an arena full of Take That fans? What's the worst lyric she's ever written? And why is she the Craig David of pregnancy? Answering all these questions is ACTUAL SOPHIE ELLIS-BEXTOR! We are also joined by her brand new baby, the lovely Micky! She tells us what it's like to be mum to five sons, while still managing to record a new album with a full orchestra. It all gets momentarily serious as Sophie and Ellie share their experiences of having premature babies. We talk about Borne, a medical research charity working to identify the causes of premature birth and improve outcomes. Every year 15 million babies are born preterm around the world, and over 1 million die due to complications from being born to soon. In the UK, 60,000 families are affected every year - that's 8 per cent of births. And like Sophie and Ellie, 85 per cent of women who go into early labour had no idea they were at risk. Borne is trialling the first new treatment for the prevention of preterm labour in over 50 years, and you can find out more about their work at borne.org.uk or follow them @BorneCharity. Of course, things then return to normal as we chat about Sophie's new record, George Michael, and weeing in swimming pools. Sophie Ellis-Bextor's brilliant new album, The Song Diaries, is out now. For tour dates go to sophieellisbextor.net, or follow her @sophieellisbextor. The Scummy Mummies book is STILL IN PRINT! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Leamington, Cardiff, Cambridge, Exeter, Falmouth, Newbury, Harlow, Sevenoaks, Stamford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this episode, we are joined by the amazing Mel Giedroyc - comedy hero, TV star and all-round absolute legend!She doles out sage advice on everything from handling teenagers to performing at Edinburgh. We talk about the time she sang with Limahl in an airport, and cover othr highbrow topics like weeing in the bath. Then it's time for the return of the segment no one asked or expected to hear again: Bin Chat.Like us, Mel is a great humanitarian, so she is appearing on our stupid podcast in aid of Comic Relief. Please give them some money - to donate £5 text the word DONATE to 70205.T&Cs: Texts will cost your donation plus your standard network message charge and 100% of your donation will go to Comic Relief. We won't let Helen spend any of it on earrings. You must be 16 or over, just like with driving mopeds and doing sex. Please do ask the bill payer’s permission. For full terms and conditions, more information or to donate any amount you like online please go to comicrelief.com. Your home may be at risk if you drink too much white wine and give all your money to Comic Relief in the hope Lenny Henry will come round and tell you you're a great humanitarian.Red Nose Day is back on Friday 15 March - so why not do a bake sale or get someone to sponsor you for sitting in a bath of baked beans? Or just give them some money, as above, and enjoy the smuggery without the hassle. Mel is appearing in Company at the Gielgud Theatre until the end of March - tickets are on sale now.  The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Sheffield, Barnsley, Kettering, Hackney, Chipping Norton, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we chat to the lovely Elle about her son, Teddy, who died a few days after he was born. We talk grief, love, loss, and amazingly, manage to have a few laughs along the way. Elle discusses her book, Ask Me His Name, and her blog, Feathering the Empty Nest. She tells us why she is sharing Teddy's story and what she wants other grieving parents to know. Ellie talks about her own memories of having a baby in intensive care, while Helen shares her equally important experience of being temporarily vegan. We round off with a Scummy Mummy Confession starring a very special guest. Ask Me His Name is out now in hardback, and the paperback edition will launch on 7 March. You can follow Elle on Instagram @feathering_the_empty_nest and read her blog at featheringtheemptynest.co.uk. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Cirencester, Sheffield, Barnsley, Kettering, Hackney, Chipping Norton, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's been Richard Herring's favourite moment on stage? Why did he break up with Stewart Lee? And why is he looking forward to his own death? Answering all these questions is actual Richard Herring!He talks about being an older dad and whether he wishes he'd had kids earlier. We ask his advice about being in a double act, and he tells us why he thinks women comedians are better at it. We mull over controversial topics like mowing the lawn and loading the dishwasher, and introduce a fascinating new section, Bin Chat. There's just time for a new game, Did Our Husbands Really Do This?, before Richard shares his Scummy Mummy Confession and tries to remember the name of his own book. It's called Emergency Questions - 1001 Conversation Savers for Every Occasion, by the way, and it's out now. For more Richard Herrings info visit richardherring.com or follow him @herring1967 on Twitter. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Colchester, Sheffield, Barnsley, Kettering, Hackney, Chipping Norton, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

It's TV's Andrea McLean! She tells us how she went from weather girl to Loose Woman, what it's like meeting Oprah, and the best Michael Bublé story ever.We get some advice on dealing with teenagers and getting through tough times. Andrea tells us the two things she wishes she'd known before she started the menopause, and we find out Alexa's views on Brexit.You can find out more about Andrea's brilliant new project over at thisgirlisonfire.co.uk. She's on Facebook and Instagram @officialtgiof. Her book, Confessions of a Menopausal Woman, is out now.  **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live Scummy Mummies comedy show! We are on our way to Colchester, Cirencester,Sheffield, Barnsley, Selby, Kettering, Hackney, Chipping Norton, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What have been the highlights of 2018? What was Helen's most embarrassing moment? How do you use anal sex to get out of cooking the turkey? We answer all these questions and more in our bumper Christmas podcast! Joining us on the couch are Nurse Jessie and Steve Hill, as is the custom. They can get very lonely at this time of year. We hear all about Steve's book, The Card, which is out now and makes a great gift for anyone who likes football and/or laughing. Then it's time for a new feature - the inaugural Scummy Mummy Awards. We discuss our favourite movies, podcasts, TV shows and snacks of the year. Things take an unexpected turn as we learn more than anyone ever wanted to know about how Helen and Hill enjoy their special alone time. Ham Review returns, of course, and we have some Scummy Mummy Confessions too. We have lots of thank yous! Cheers to hellocheese.co.uk for sending us the cheese that was so delicious we couldn't be arsed to share it with Jessie and Steve. Thank you iheartwines.co.uk for the champagne, and for giving away loads of fizz to the winning Queens of Scum at our live shows. Merry Christmas to stateofdisarray.co.uk, who make the world's best catsuits. And finally to thephoenixcomic.co.uk, who are currently offering four issues of their brilliant comic for £1. We love you guys. Thank you most of all to everyone who's listened to the podcast this year, and to everyone who's emailed to tell us how they feel about it. We can't tell you how much it means to us. We have a few more shows this year - catch us in Brighton, Cambridge, Winchester, Bath, Milton Keynes and Hertford. Then in 2019 we are on our way to Colchester, Sheffield, Barnsley, Kettering, Hackney, Chipping Norton, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! We wish you a Merry Christmas and a wonderful 2019! XXX Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

On the day his daughter took her first steps, Christian Donlan was told he has with Multiple Sclerosis.In this episode, he and his wife Sarah Lea discuss the issues around trying to parent while coming to terms with the diagnosis. Honestly, it's more fun than it sounds. Christian tells us about his book, The Unmapped Mind, and how being told you have MS is a bit like being William Shatner in an episode of Columbo. We discuss whether the diagnosis affected their decision not to have a second child, and why Christian proposed in Primark after only a month. His brilliant book is out now. You can follow Christian on Twitter @DonlanWords, and read his writing about video games on eurogamer.net. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Brighton, Twickenham, Leatherhead, Bath, Sheffield, Barnsley, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

He's the star of hit TV show Lego Masters, the exec producer of the Lego movies, and he INVENTED UNIKITTY - it's the amazing Matthew Ashton! He tells us who Unikitty is modelled on and how to correctly pronounce Ninjago. We get all the gossip on the new series of Lego Masters and the second film, plus a gift that makes us cry. There's also some chat about Ben Fogle's four dishwashers. The new series of Lego Masters starts on Channel 4 this Tuesday 6 November, at 8pm. Many thanks to Lego for letting us borrow Matthew and record this podcast at their London HQ. You can follow him @matthew__ashton on Twitter and Instagram. **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Catford, Nunhead, Brighton, Winchester, Sutton Coldfield, Twickenham, Leatherhead, Cambridge, Bath, Milton Keynes, Hertford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How many times a day do you find yourself saying "I'm absolutely fine," when the truth is you're absolutely f***ed? What's wrong with the term "middle-aged"? Are we really all winging it? Or just whinging it? Answering all these questions are the fabulous Annabel Rivkin and Emilie McMeekan, otherwise known as The Midult! They tell us all about their brilliant new book and multimedia empire. Annabel tells us about her experience of being a solo parent. As the beauty correspondent for the Evening Standard, she also reveals what she puts on her face. We find out how Emilie managed a big career change, and how many times Helen was sick at their book launch. I'm Absolutely Fine: A Manual for Imperfect Women is out now. You can read more from Emilie and Annabel at TheMidult.com, and they're on Instagram and Twitter @themidult. They've also just launched an ace podcast, also called I'm Absolutely Fine. Look out for a guest appearance by the Scummy Mummies coming soon... The beauty products we discuss are Dr Dennis Gross Alpha Beta Cleanser, Votary oils, Drunk Elephant moisturisers, Bobbi Brown moisturising balm, M&S Ultimate Sleep Cream, Aldi Day and Night Cream, Ultrasun, and P20.  The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Catford, Stratford, Derry, Belfast, Brighton, Winchester, Twickenham (NEW DATE ADDED!!), Leatherhead, Cambridge, Bath, Milton Keynes, Hertford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter ( Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest for this episode is the hilarious Tom Price - Magic FM DJ, father of two, and former voice of numerous hot beverage brands! He tells us which song he secretly hates playing on Magic, and what he really thinks of Africa's Toto. We find out what it's like to work with Dawn French, Mariah Carey and Billie Piper, and to lose your job selling Nescafe to Terry Wogan. There is of course a stupid game, and we round off with some bumper Scummy Mummy Confessions. You can follow Tom on Twitter @pricetom, and hear him on Magic FM Weekend Breakfast. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Catford, Stratford, Derry, Belfast, Sevenoaks, Brighton, Winchester, Sutton Coldfield, Twickenham, Leatherhead, Cambridge, Bath, Milton Keynes, Hertford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest for this episode is the brilliant Tommy Barnes, author of the hilarious new book A Beer in the Loire! He tells us all about how he and his wife decided to pack in the rat race, move to France, have a baby, and set up a brewery, all within a ludicrously short space of time. We find out what it's like living with a dog who wants to murder you, and Tommy recalls the time Derek Acorah tried to communicate with his dead pet frog, Burt Reynolds. There's also a live beer tasting and a stupid game. A Beer in the Loire is out now, and it's one of the funniest books we've ever read. You can follow Barnes on Instagram @brasloubiere and Twitter @tommybarnes1977. Thank you to iheartwines.co.uk for supplying the wine we guzzled our way through in this episode. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Catford, Stratford, Derry, Belfast, Sevenoaks, Brighton, Winchester, Sutton Coldfield, Twickenham, Leatherhead, Cambridge, Bath, Milton Keynes, Hertford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Did you know that swearing can ease labour pains, make you exercise more efficiently, and improve your sex life? It's true - so says Dr Emma Byrne in this very sweary episode! We get some advice on how to cope when your kids start learning naughty words, and find out that even monkeys do swears sometimes. Emma explains why swearing is a feminist issue, and why she can't wait for her own daughter to tell her to go f*** herself. Then it's the return of The Swearing Game, and we finish with some sweary Scummy Mummy Confessions. Emma's brilliant book, Swearing is Good For You: The Amazing Science of Bad Language, is out now. She is on Twitter @SciWriBy. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Sutton Coldfield, Bromsgrove, Stroud, Stratford, Derry, Belfast, Sevenoaks, Manchester, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest for this episode is the fabulous Isy Suttie - comedian, author, actor, and Dobby off Peep Show! She tells us all about her brilliant comedy career, how becoming a mum affected her creativity, and the time she threw a pound coin at Mark Owen. We hear about Isy's experience of giving birth, and she tells us what NOT to pack in your hospital bag. There's some chat about Ellie's damp problem, judging other people, and why street food is bunkum. You can follow Isy on Twitter @isysuttie. Her first book, The Actual One, is out now. And the film she mentions, Pincushion, is now showing. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Sutton Coldfield, Bromsgrove, Stroud, Stratford, Derry, Belfast, Sevenoaks, Manchester, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Scummy Mummies Podcast is five years old! And to celebrate we have two very special guests - Ed Miliband and Geoff Lloyd! We find out how losing the 2015 general election changed Ed's family life for the better. He shares his number one piece of parenting advice, while Geoff tells us how to cheat McDonald's out of extra chicken nuggets. There's a game, a song, and some Scummy Mummy Confessions from Ed and Geoff. They host the brilliant Reasons to be Cheerful Podcast, and you can follow them on Twitter @CheerfulPodcast and Ed Miliband @Ed_Miliband and Geoff Lloyd @GeoffLLoyd.  Then it's time for us to waffle on about what a fab five years it's been, and to share all the gossip from our anniversary party. Special thanks to our sponsor @nowtv, the streaming service that lets you pay for what you want to watch - whether that's movies, sport, box sets or kids' stuff. Their new Smart Stick goes straight in the back of your telly, or you can run the app through your games console, if you can ever get the kids off bloody Fortnite. For a free 14 day trial, visit NOWTV.com. Many thanks also to @birdseyeuk for the fab cake and providing the guest of honour. The wine was provided by the brilliant @iheartwines, while @bearsmyth gave us cocktails, and @dontbuyherflowers sorted out crisps and nuts from @brownbagcrisps and @mrfilberts. And finally, huge thank you to @mumstheword.online, who organised the whole thing and made it super good and are just lovely. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Sutton Coldfield, Bromsgrove, Stroud, Stratford, Derry, Belfast, Sevenoaks, Manchester, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening for the last five years. Thank you for all the emails, shares, likes, and kind words at our live shows. We feel so lucky and grateful to be where we are, and we couldn't even imagine being here five years ago. It's been an amazing adventure so far, and the plan is to keep going... Many... Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HE'S BACK! Last time we had comedian Stuart Goldsmith on the podcast, he couldn't wait to become a dad. Now that dream is a reality, he talks honestly and hilariously about just how hard fatherhood can be. We talk about the mental load, the challenges of going from one to two kids, and how Stuart's wife is basically right about everything. There's also a bit of chat about overcoming anxiety, and staying focused and creative when negative thoughts creep in. Then we discuss Stuart's ace podcast, The Comedian's Comedian. What has he learned in 250 episodes? Which are the best ones to listen to? What kind of robot is Jimmy Carr? We find out. Plus we list our current favourite podcasts - specifically, Doesn't Sound Like Anything to Me, NPR Politics, Bores, Gore and Swords, Brian Gittins and Friends, Decoding Westworld, Griefcast, Happier, Getting Curious, The Tuck Shop, and the utterly brilliant Dear Joan and Jericha. To finish up we share some Scummy Mummy Confessions, before Stuart has a go at Julia Donaldson and reveals why Moana makes him cry. Stuart's 2018 Edinburgh show, End Of, is on at 2.50pm at the Liquid Room from 4-26 August (not 16th), and it's FREE to get in. You can follow him @comcompod and download his podcast via comedianscomedian.com. If you're already a listener to Stuart's podcast, remember you can join the thriving facebook community of like-minded fans who get together online to bully him about past and future guests, and post pictures of bees. **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to St Ives, Sutton Coldfield, Sevenoaks, Stratford, Manchester, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Why are the Danes so happy? How can Van Halen get you through tough times with small children? And what would it be like to have sex with Craig David? We answer all these questions with the help of our brilliant guest, Helen Russell! She talks about why she moved from the UK to Denmark and her ace book on the subject, The Year of Living Danishly.We discuss why the Danes are so hot, and why their divorce rate is so high (surprisingly these things are unrelated.) There's also some chat about how Helen wrote her new novel, Gone Viking, which is out now. Thorn introduces an exciting new game, Great Dane or Great Dean?, and as always we finish with some Scummy Mummy Confessions. You can follow our guest @mshelenrussell on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Bristol, Whitstable, Port Eliot Festival, St Ives, Wilderness, Sutton Coldfield, Sevenoaks, Manchester, Bromsgrove, Stroud, Stratford, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

HE'S BACK! Last time we had Keith Stuart on the podcast, he was just some guy who'd written a book. Now he is a best-selling novelist, famous all over the globe, and a close personal friend of Richard Madeley!OK that's a bit of an exaggeration, but he did get to meet Richard and Judy, and we get to hear all about that. There's also some chat about Days of Wonder, Keith's brilliant new book, which is out now.In a bid to be topical we talk about Fortnite, the video game that all the kids are into these days. We also discuss our brand new, custom designed, totally awesome catsuits, which were made by the amazing State of Disarray.You can follow Keith on Twitter @keefstuart, and Instagram @keef.stuart. The website we mention in the Fortnite chat is askaboutgames.com, and Keith's ace article on the subject was for the Guardian.The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Cornwall, Sutton Coldfield, Norwich, Hertford, Cambridge, Brighton, Leatherhead, Milton Keynes, Manchester, Whitstable, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Attention Grease fans! This episode features the amazing Didi Conn, who played Frenchy in the movie! She tells us what went on behind the scenes - why was Rizzo hacked off with Kenickie in real life? Who gave who an actual hickie? Which scene did the entire cast fart their way through? We find out all this and more! We also talk about the challenges Didi faced while raising a son on the autism spectrum, and what advice she has for parents going through the same thing. Plus we discover Didi's rules to live by. Grease is now showing on Now TV - visit nowtv.com for more info, right now. You can find the website Didi mentions at autismspeaks.org. **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! CAMBRIDGE - BRIGHTON - LEATHERHEAD - MILTON KEYNES - MANCHESTER - BRISTOL - BATH - HAY FESTIVAL - LINCOLNSHIRE - WILTSHIRE - SURREY - and more! To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please do us a favour and rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

The Scummy Mummies Podcast has taken us to some exotic places - North London, Cardiff, Stacey Solomon's house. But this episode is extra special, because it was recorded in NEPAL! We spent a week there with the amazing charity Practical Action, who are working hard to improve the lives of people living in poverty. For the first part of this ep, we sat down with some mums from a remote mountain village to find out what their lives are like. We won't fanny about, so to speak - these women are telling real stories of incredibly tough things that have happened to them. There are discussions about miscarriage and baby loss, and some graphic descriptions of prolapse. We also talk about motherhood in general and find some things we have in common, and have a few laughs along the way. Then we talk to Archana and Abbie, who work for Practical Action, to find out what they're up to and how we can help. There's some chat about irrigation - not the colonic kind - and gravity ropeway pulley systems. More fun than it sounds. This is our fifth year of producing the podcast, which has always been free, and always will be. In all those 125 episodes, we have never asked you, our lovely listeners, for money, but we are asking now. Please give Practical Action some dosh. Maybe because, like us, you are immensely moved by hearing these women's stories. Or perhaps because you're a fan of the podcast, and fancy saying thanks. Think of it as buying us a drink, except you're giving the fiver you'd spend to people who need it more than we need Chardonnay. Having seen what this charity does firsthand, we are so keen to give them all our support. Massive thanks and love to anyone who wants to help us do that. So please, visit PracticalAction.org to donate. Follow them on Instagram @practical_action, on Twitter @practicalaction, and find them on Facebook. You'd be making us really, really happy. Thank you! Love Ellie and Helen xxxSmall print: we are very grateful to the wonderful Archana for acting as our translator. For brevity, we have cut down the sections of the audio that are in Nepali, as most of our listeners don't speak the language. But if you'd like to hear the full uncut version, just drop us a line. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we chat to Mumsnet founder Justine Roberts. We find out what it was like to start a business with one year-old twins, when she knew it would be a success, and what she really thought of the penis beaker thing. We discuss how Justine got the whole idea in the first place, and what she does to keep herself sane when things get too hectic. Plus there's some biscuit chat. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to London's Underbelly festival, Leamington Spa, Twickenham, Cardiff, Norwich, Hertford, Cambridge, Brighton, Leatherhead, Milton Keynes, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest for this ep is the fab Cariad Lloyd - comedian, mum, and host of the brilliant Griefcast podcast.We talk about her experience of losing her Dad when she was 15, and why she started Griefcast. We get some practical tips about what to say to someone who's grieving, and suggestions for things you can do to help them through. It's all funnier than it sounds, honest.There's also some chat about Cariad's comedy career, which has included appearances in QI and Peep Show, plus what it's like to be the first in your group of friends to have kids. We play a new game, Dead or Alive, and round off with some Scummy Mummy Confessions.You can follow Cariad on Twitter @ladycariad,on Instagram @cariadlloyd, or visit her website at cariadlloyd.com. Cariad's podcast, Griefcast is free to listen to from http://acast.com/griefcast following on Twitter and Instagram @thegriefcast. Cariad stars in Austentatious which is currently performing once a month at the Savoy Theatre till July, in Edinburgh during the festival and touring the whole UK in autumn - tickets here:http://www.austentatiousimpro.com/shows/The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to London's Underbelly festival, Leamington Spa, Twickenham, Cardiff, Norwich, Hertford, Cambridge, Brighton, Leatherhead, Milton Keynes, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How often should we have sex? What's the best way to get stuck in if you haven't done it for a while? And what on earth is a projob? Answering all these questions is amazing sex therapist Dr Pam Spurr!There's chat about everything from fake orgasms and roleplay to remote control vibrators. Dr Pam presents us with an array of sex toys to play with, Ellie gets lubed up, and we find out what Helen's S&M name would be.Dr Pam is also a childcare expert, so she reveals the two biggest problems parents come to her with, and how to solve them. Plus we discuss her experience of having a baby while still at university. We round off with some sexy Scummy Mummy Confessions.You can follow Dr Pam on Twitter @drpamspurr, or visit drpam.co.uk.The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to London's Underbelly festival, Leamington Spa, Twickenham, Cardiff, Norwich, Hertford, Cambridge, Brighton, Leatherhead, Milton Keynes, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jeremy Vine. Man. Father. Radio star. Strictly contestant. Absolute legend. And now... Guest on the Scummy Mummies Podcast! In this frankly momentous episode, Jeremy gives us some nuggets of parenting wisdom and reveals why he's not allowed to tell his brother Tim's jokes. There's a serious bit as he talks about his time as a war correspondent, and plays us some actual audio of someone trying to kill him. But then it's daft old business as usual as we chat about winding up vegans and switching from Apple to Android. And Jeremy tells what has to be literally the best Strictly anecdote ever, followed by a classic Scummy Mummy Confession. Jeremy Vine is @thejeremyvine on Twitter. His latest book, What I Learnt, is out now. The Scummy Mummies book is also OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review. **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Stockport, Leamington Spa, Twickenham, Cardiff, Norwich, Hertford, Cambridge, Brighton, Leatherhead, Milton Keynes, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! WE HAD THE VINE OF OUR LIVES. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we meet TV presenter, black belt, and Guinness World Record holder Haruka Kuroda! She tells us all about her adventures as the star of CBBC's Officially Amazing, and playing Noodle in The Gorillaz. We discuss the challenges of trying to raise a bilingual child, and the differences in parenting culture between the UK and Japan. Then it's back to the usual silliness as Ellie and Helen try to break a world record which involves stuffing wine gums into an orifice. We chat about the difficulties of trying to breastfeed in Lakeside Thurrock car park, and finish with a fantastic Scummy Mummies Confession.You can follow Haruka on Twitter and Instagram @kurodaharuka. She is currently touring the UK in fab kids' theatre show The Little Mochi Man - visit athousandcranes.org.uk for dates and tickets. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are on our way to Stockport, Leamington Spa, Twickenham, Cardiff, Norwich, Hertford, Cambridge, Brighton, Leatherhead, Milton Keynes, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

For this episode we're joined by comedy duo Steve McNeil and Sam Pamphilon. They're the creators of hit TV show Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit, which also stars our very own Ellie Gibson! We discover how they became a double act, how the show came into being, and which celebrity guests have been their favourite. Ellie tells a hilarious showbiz anecdote about the time she had a row with Gregg Wallace about crisps. Then it's time for some Dad Chat. Sam explains why children are like Macbooks, and Steve reveals the advice he'd give to his pre-kids self. We find out how well McNeil and Pamphilon know each other with a game of Mr and Mr, and finish up with some Scummy Mummy Confessions. You can follow M&P on Twitter at @stevemcneil and @sampamphilon. If you want to watch Steve play games, he's @stevefromgo8bit on Twitch, YouTube, and Instagram. Visit stevemcneil.co.uk for details of live shows, including The Video Game Game Show - Steve, Sam and Ellie will be appearing in this together on 17 April in London. Tickets are on sale now. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! There are now two to choose from - GREATEST HITS, which includes favourites like Sexybeebies and I Need a Vino, plus the ALL-NEW SCUMMY MUMMIES SHOW, with brand new jokes! In the coming months we're visiting Bath, Stockport, Cambridge, Milton Keynes, Leamington Spa, Cardiff, and many more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

She's a world famous comedian, a best-selling author, and a good mate of the Dalai Lama - it's Meshel Laurie! She tells us all about her latest book, Buddhism for the Unbelievably Busy, and offers some tips for coping with the chaos of everyday life. We find out how Buddhism helped Meshel through her divorce, and what goes on at a Buddhist board meeting. There's some chat about her career, which has included everything from performing at the Sydney opera house and working in a brothel to chatting to Pink about cheese. Then it's time for a round of our favourite game, Anything for Money, and of course some Scummy Mummy Confessions. Do check out Meshel's new book and her previous effort, Buddhism for Breakups - they're both out now. And have a listen to her podcasts, Nitty Gritty Committee and Australian True Crime Podcast. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! We are coming to Cambridge, Bath, Belfast, Winchester, Masham, Cardiff, and many more... To buy tickets visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this episode we meet Deborah James, aka Bowel Babe, who is currently going through intensive chemotherapy after being diagnosed with late stage cancer. And we have a right old laugh! Deborah tells us what it was like to receive her diagnosis, and how she's sharing the news with her kids. We find out that chemo isn't like in the movies, and discover that like most things, it's more bearable with wine. There's some serious chat about Deborah's views on mortality and how she looks to the future. Then we play a game about swearing!  Do check out Deborah's column, Facebook page, and follow her on Instagram @bowelbabe. Her book is Coming Soon. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! Our Norwich show is SOLD OUT, but be are coming back to Cambridge this February. Then we're previewing our new show in London and coming to Bath, Masham, Cardiff, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What's the best age to start learning an instrument? Can you make kids musical? And what kind of vajazzle would the host of the BBC Proms go for? Answering all these questions is Clemency Burton-Hill! She tells us all about her love of music, which covers everything from Back and Mendelssohn to Take That and UK garage. We talk about her brilliant book, Year of Wonder, which recommends a piece of classical music to listen to every day. Year of Wonder is out now, and comes highly recommended - we love it. You can follow Clemency on Twitter @clemencybh. The Scummy Mummies book is also OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! Our Cambridge show is now SOLD OUT, but in January we're performing our Greatest Hits show in Shepherd's Bush, Nunhead and Norwich. Then we're previewing our new show and coming to Bath, Masham, Cardiff, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ho ho ho! It's time to welcome back two of our most available friends, good old Nurse Jessie and Steve "bah humbug" Hill! In this Christmas special we reveal our highlights of 2017, including our favourite events, songs, food, and sex. Helen has a brand new game for us to play, and of course we enjoy the traditional Ham Review. Then it's time to round off with some festive Scummy Mummy Confessions. As discussed in this episode, we're supporting the #freeperiods campaign to make menstruation products free for girls already on school meals. The demo kicks off on Wednesday 20 December at 4pm - meet at Parliament Square. Other gubbins we talk about in the podcast, if you're interested, include Nomad by Alan Partridge, The Roasting Tin by Rukmini Iyer, I Believe in You by Dolly Parton, and Wahaca, which just opened a new branch in Shoreditch. Our book, Scummy Mummies, is out now. We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! Look out for Steve's book, The Card, in spring 2018, when you'll also be able to catch Ellie in the new series of Dara O Briain's Go 8 Bit on Dave. **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! Over the next few months we're visiting Cambridge, Norwich, Cardiff, Belfast, Masham, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit Scummymummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please rate, review and subscribe! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Do kids need vitamin pills? Are smartphones really as addictive as heroin? And how are Muslim parents supposed to stop terrorism when they can't even get children to put their shoes on? Answering all these questions and more is Dr Afrosa Ahmed!She tells us about her work as a GP and her life as a mum to three boys. We get her top doctor's tips for raising kids, and discover why Instagram Wrist is the new Tennis Elbow.There's also some serious chat about religion, terrorism, and what it's like to raise a Muslim family in Britain today. Then normal service is resumed as Helen shares a Scummy Mummy Confession about farting in a lift.Do check out Afrosa's blog at mum2sons.com. She's on Facebook too.The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! Over the next few months we're visiting Cambridge, Tunbridge Wells, Chester, Manchester, Hillingdon, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

This episode features two amazing guests - Clemmie and Simon Hooper, otherwise known as Mother and Father of Daughters! They tell us how they became Instagram sensations, and what it's like to be famous while still holding down your job as a midwife or whatever it is Simon does. There's some hosiery chat, in which Simon explains why he hates socks. We also discuss why most of his followers are women, and whether he can actually tell his twins apart. Then it's time for a bit of seriousness as we talk about the Hoopers' recent trip to Madagascar. We find out about WaterAid's plan to get everyone in the world access to clean water by 2030, and why handwashmongers Soaper Duper are donating £150k to help the cause. To get involved, visit wateraid.org. And to win a handwashing kit for your family, go to soaperduper.com. There's a bit more silliness as we play a special version of Handbag Surprise, and find out what's in Simon's manbag. We round off with a Scummy Mummy Confession from MOD and FOD. You can follow Clemmie and Simon on Instagram at mother_of_daughters and father_of_daughters. Clemmie's book, How to Grow a Baby and Push it Out, is out now. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come to our live comedy show! Over the next few months we're visiting Cambridge, Tunbridge Wells, Chester, Manchester, Hillingdon, and more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening! @soaperduper@WaterAidUK@wateraid#soapcanchangeverything#globalhandwashingday   Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Are expensive face creams worth the money? What are the best beauty products on the high street? Is botox b****cks? Answering all these questions is the fantastic novelist and beauty expert, Lindsey Kelk! Although she's originally from Doncaster, Lindsey now lives in LA, so we chat about life under Trump. We discover how she began her literary career (writing the Girls Aloud annual), and how she went on to become a best-selling novelist. Then it's time to discover the beauty products Lindsey can't live without. We tackle the question of whether you really do have to wash your face every night, and find out what it's like to have a colonic irrigation to the sound of Ed Sheeran. For more from our lovely guest visit lindseykelk.com, or follow her on all the social medias @lindseykelk. Herlatest book, I Heart Forever, is out now. And her ace podcast is titled Full Coverage. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come and see us in Sutton Coldfield on 7 October, then in Chester, Hillingdon, Manchester, Tunbridge Wells, Cambridge, Cheltenham, and many more... To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

They're comedians, they're mums, and they're a hilarious double act - that's right, it's Croft and Pearce! They tell us how they met, how they got their Radio 4 series, and how they ended up pregnant at exactly the same time. We also play a brand new game, Mrs & Mrs. Find out whether Croft knows Pearce's middle name, who Gibson thinks should play Thorn in a movie of her life, and everyone's favourite sexual position. You can follow our guests on Twitter @croftandpearce, and their website is croftandpearce.com. Listen to their June and Jean podcast is on Soundcloud. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Our Nunhead show is now SOLD OUT but we are trying to add another date - we'll keep you posted. Or you can come and see us in Sutton Coldfield on 7 October, Hillingdon and Manchester in November, and Tunbridge Wells, Chester, and Brighton in December. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A Pulitzer prize-winning author joins us for this episode! Mei Fong tells us all about her book, One Child: The Story of China's Most Radical Experiment, and why China is full of horny young men these days. The chat gets a bit serious as we discuss the realities of the One Child policy, and one of us has a little cry. We also talk about Mei's experiences of miscarriage and IVF. But then it's back to the usual old nonsense as Mei tells us about the time she met the queen sporting the world's dodgiest perm, and why suburban America is the strangest place she's ever lived. We finish up with Scummy Mummy Confessions, and Ellie almost throws Mei off the podcast for slagging off Marie Kondo. Mei's brilliant book is out now. You can read more about her at meifong.org, and follow her on Twitter @meifongwriter.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, do tell your friends!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do you eat well on a budget? Why are diets so rubbish? What is wrong with people who think it's acceptable to put pineapple on a pizza? Answering these questions is the amazing Thomasina Miers! The Masterchef winner and best-selling author shares her fabulous foodie knowledge and top time-saving tips. We discuss everything from getting kids to eat their greens to the best recipe for guacamole. There's some chat about eating sustainably, the importance of teaching cookery in schools, and how you know when there's enough butter on your Marmite toast. Thomasina's latest book, Home Cook, is out now. You can find her on Twitter and Instagram @thomasinamiers. And you can find us down one of her fabulous Wahaca restaurants on a regular basis. Pork pibil and margheritas ftw.The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** Come and see us in Bromsgrove on 16 September, Sutton Coldfield on 7 October, and at various other venues right through to next year. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do you have a great family day out? Where are the best places to go? And how do you survive the whole thing without going absolutely bonkers? To answer all these questions we have the hilarious Jimi Famurewa! He tells us all about his book, Family London, and reveals his favourite places to visit in the capital and beyond. We also talk about why the Swedes are so good at parenting, and discuss Jimi's career as an entertainment journalist. Find out what it's like to hang out with Leonardo DiCaprio and John Boyega, and why Harrison Ford can't hold his yams. Jimi's book is out now, and you can find him on Twitter @jimfam. Read his prizewinning short story, Teddybird, at 4thestate.co.uk.This episode was recorded at MEATliquor, who supplied all the food and lovely cocktails. We went to the East Dulwich branch because we're lazy, but their new opening in Queensway features bowling and ice skating, so it's a great family day out. Or great for making someone else take the kids ice skating while you eat your own weight in deep fried gherkins. THEY ARE SO GOOD. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** Come and see us in Bromsgrove on 16 September, Sutton Coldfield on 7 October, and at various venues throughout the autumn. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

How do you get motivated to do exercise? Is running better than sex? And what did Kriss Akabusi say to Ellie that almost made her glasses fall off? We answer all these questions and more!Our guest is Ruth Field, author of the brilliant Run, Fat Bitch, Run, which is out now. She tells us what gets her off the couch, why running can have mental health benefits, and why she doesn't think exercise has to be fun. We find out how Ruth helped Helen run her first 5K, and Helen reveals her top running songs. There's also some chat about Ruth's career as a criminal barrister, which mainly involves a lot of reminiscing about This Life. This episode's Scummy Mummy Confessions are sponsored by Acamar, creators of CBeebies favourite Bing. We are running a fabulous competition with them to celebrate the launch of the new Fisher Price Toilet Train Bing toy. The winner (as judged by us) will receive a special visit to their nursery or preschool, along with some ace Bing goodies. You have until 15 August to enter - just share a photo of your latest parenting "challenge" with us on Instagram, tagging @scummymummies, @bingbunny, #WhatWouldFlopDo, and also tagging two friends who might want to join in. If your account is private, you'll need to make it public until the closing date or send it to us a DM. Visit @bingbunny for full terms and conditions. You can follow Ruth on Twitter @gritdoctor. And do buy her book, it's great. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** Come and see us in Bromsgrove on 16 September, Sutton Coldfield on 7 October, and at various venues this autumn. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest for this episode is the wonderful comedian, writer and mum, Jenny Eclair! She tells us what she's learned in 28 years of parenting, and why she thinks all unruly London children should be sent up north for a bit. We hear about how Jenny got her start in comedy, what it's like to win a Perrier award, and why cheese conventions are less fun than you might think. We find out about her latest show, How to be a Middle-Aged Woman (Without Going Insane). Then it's time for Book Chat as we discuss Jenny's brilliant collection of short stories, Listening In. There's a silly quiz about South East London, which includes Jenny's best meat buying tips, and she shares her Scummy Mummy Confession. Listening In is out now. You can follow Jenny on Twitter @jennyeclair and see all her latest show dates at jennyeclair.com. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come and see us in Bromsgrove on 16 September, Sutton Coldfield on 7 October, and at various festivals throughout the summer. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening!Photo: Clara Molden Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mindfulness: actual science, or hippy dippy nonsense? How do you stay in the moment if the moment's sh**? And what's the best way to increase your sex drive? Answering all these questions is the brilliant Dr Genevieve Von Lob! She's the author of the ace 5 Deep Breaths: The Power of Mindful Parenting, which is out now. We talk about some of the issues she covers in the book including how to be a more confident parent, and the importance of being kind to yourself. Genevieve shows us how to do proper deep breathing, and explains how it can help in tricky situations, from dealing with toddler tantrums to talking to grumpy teens. Then there's some sex chat, because goodness knows we can't get through a whole podcast without a bit of filth. Do check out Genevieve's book, it's great. And you can follow her on Twitter @drvonLob. Her instagram is @drgenevievevonlob. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** Come and see us in Rugby on 12 July, Bromsgrove on 16 September, Sutton Coldfield on 7 October, and at various festivals throughout the summer. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

You might not think that having your boobs removed and your ovaries taken out are the funniest subjects for a podcast - but this episode will prove you wrong! Our guest is Alice Evans, who explains how her family history of breast cancer led her to have a double mastectomy. She also reveals what it's like to go through the menopause at a young age, and why she doesn't let her husband call her his wife. Honestly, it's more LOLs than it sounds. Alice reveals that she's basically an X-Man, and she and Helen discover they share the same party trick. Ellie squeezes another woman's breasts for the first time ever on the podcast. Also ever. There's some graphic but surprisingly hilarious chat about what Alice has been through, and she offers her advice for anyone in the same situation - including her top tips for surviving menopause.We round off with some exclusive Scummy Mummies "On Tour" Confessions, direct from the Hay Festival. Thank you very much to iheartwines.co.uk for supplying the wines that fuelled this episode. We really do heart you. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** We're performing at The Scoop in London Bridge this Wednesday 14 June, at 7pm. Then we're at the Clevedon Curzon on 17 June, and at Brighton Komedia on 28 June. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

WE ARE ONE HUNDRED! And to celebrate we have a very special guest - it's hilarious comedian DARA O BRIAIN! He reveals his favourite thing about being a parent, and shares his number one nugget of parenting wisdom. There's some chat about how raising kids is like driving a boat, and trying not to get shipwrecked on Notadick Island. Helen and Ellie discuss their parenting goals, and Dara recounts the time he enraged Idina Menzel. As this is our hundredth episode, we've brought back a couple of games - the classic What's On Our Clothes This Week?, plus the ever-popular Accent Game. We round off with a special edition of Scummy Mummy Confessions, and then Helen has a surprise for Ellie. We're as shocked as anyone that this podcast has made it to 100 episodes. Thank you so much to everyone who has subscribed, emailed us, left us lovely iTunes reviews, and shared the podcast with their friends. But most of all, thank you for listening. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** We're performing outdoors at The Scoop in London Bridge on Wednesday 14 June, at 7pm - come along and see us, it's FREE! We're also at the Hay Festival on 2 June, Clevedon on 17th, and Brighton Komedia on 28th. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Making lists, managing screen time, coping with debt, deciding which animals look like which biscuits - we cover all these topics and more with the brilliant Clemmie Telford! We talk about her blog, Mother of all Lists, and her career in advertising. There's some advice on making money from Instagram, and how to boost your creativity. Clemmie discusses what she loves about living in Peckham, and Ellie bangs on about how she remembers when it was all just fields. We also chat about our support for new Oxfam campaign Dressed By The Kids. Sign up via oxfam.org.uk/silly, and get sponsored to wear whatever the kids choose for you on 16 June. Oxfam believes everyone should have access to clean water, that grown-ups should be able to earn a fair wage to feed their families, and that children should have the right to education. Which sounds pretty good to us, so come 16 June, we'll be wearing ridiculous outfits, just for a change. As usual we round off with Scummy Mummy Confessions, plus a bit of admin - you can come and see us live this June at the Hay Festival, in Clevedon and in Brighton, with many more dates planned for July and beyond. To buy tickets, visit ScummyMummies.com. This podcast was fuelled by wine from iheartwines.co.uk. We love those guys, and we're not just saying that because we're drunk on their wines. Which we heart. You can find Clemmie's blog at motherofalllists.com, and she's on Instagram @clemmie_telford. The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Our guest for this episode is the fabulous Giovanna Fletcher, author of the ace Happy Mum, Happy Baby. We discuss her book, find out how she got started, and discuss the tricky but important issues surrounding hotpants and flip flops. Giovanna shares the best vlogging tip ever, as invented by her husband, Tom McFly, and Helen reveals her favourite thing to do after the school run. There's also a bit of sleep chat, where we give our advice for coping without it, and play a stupid game. This podcast is sponsored by Leesa mattresses - visit leesa.co.uk and enter the code "MUMMIES80" for £80 off. Thank you also to iheartwines.co.uk for supplying the lovely booze. Happy Mum, Happy Baby is out now. You can follow Giovanna on Instagram and Twitter -@mrsgifletcher. The Scummy Mummies book is also OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review! **SEE US LIVE** We're performing at Brighton Komedia on 28 June. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com. We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends! Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

What is a doula? Why do birth rights matter? And how would Ellie guide someone through a difficult labour with the help of a Pepperami?All these questions are answered in this episode, with special guest Rebecca Schiller. She's the author of the excellent book Why Human Rights in Childbirth Matter, which is out now. We discuss the issue of birth rights around the world, including why it's so hard to have a home birth in Australia, and the difficulties facing migrant women in the UK. Ellie and Helen share their experiences of labour, and make Rebecca pretend she's on Dragons' Den while doing terrible impressions of Duncan Bannatyne and Peter Jones. To find out more about Rebecca's charity, visit birthrights.org.uk. She's on Twitter @hackneydoula and Instagram as @rebecca.schiller.The Scummy Mummies book is OUT NOW! We hope you like it, and if you do, we'd love an Amazon review!**SEE US LIVE** We're performing at Brighton Komedia on 28 June, with plenty of other dates planned around the country. To buy tickets, and for more dates, visit ScummyMummies.com.We're on Twitter (@scummymummies), Instagram, and Facebook. Please send your confessions to [email protected] and visit us at ScummyMummies.com. If you like the podcast, please tell your friends!Thank you for listening! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.