314: Clara Batten on comedy, wine and vaginal vapes.
The Scummy Mummies Podcast
Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorn
4.8 • 1.3K Ratings
🗓️ 30 June 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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Summary
Our guest for this episode is the hilarious actor and social media star Clara Batten! We talk about everything from writing books and kickstarting your career to what it's like to have dinner with Boris Johnson.
Clara tells us how she makes her brilliant reaction videos, and what the people she's reacting to make of them. We discuss how she got banned and then unbanned from Instagram, and how her comedy has helped her return to acting after a 20 year break.
We also talk about Clara's desert island drinks, her exciting new project with a close personal friend of ours, and we play a quick round of Wine Game. To finish, there are some superb Scummy Mummy Confessions, and Helen rounds everything off nicely by spectacularly insulting our guest.
You can follow Clara on the socials @clara_batten_. Her excellent show, Shoot Your Shot, is on YouTube, and her book Gin and Phonics is out now.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, scumbags, this is the scummy mummies podcast with your hosts, Ellie Gibson and Helen Thorne. |
| 0:16.8 | Hello and welcome to the scummy mummies podcast. It's me Helen Thorne. And it's me, |
| 0:20.6 | Helly Gibson. And I am very excited. We're at my house. And one of my most favourite people |
| 0:24.8 | are here. It is, of course, the lovely Clara Baton. Hello! |
| 0:28.9 | Yes! Wow! I'm so excited. |
| 0:32.1 | Going high energy. I'm going right out there. So for the listener, Clara, why don't |
| 0:36.6 | you introduce yourself? Who are you, Clara Batten? So for the listener, Clara, why don't you introduce yourself? |
| 0:37.7 | Who are you, Clara, Batten? I am a woman. I was about to say girl. |
| 0:44.9 | I'm just a girl. I'm just a girl standing in front of a boy. I'm a woman who is a bit of a failed actress, I'll probably say. |
| 0:56.2 | Back in my 20s, I tried to be an actress and didn't earn enough money to keep me going. |
| 1:03.0 | So then I went into sales. |
| 1:05.2 | I was really good at my sales day job. |
| 1:07.4 | So then I just... |
| 1:08.0 | What were you selling? |
| 1:09.1 | I was selling advertising space. |
| 1:11.3 | And then I sort of forgot about acting |
| 1:12.9 | because any time I got an audition, I wouldn't get it. |
| 1:15.3 | Then my agent, I saw my agent on Who Wants to Be a Millionaire while I was working in a bar. |
| 1:20.2 | And I just remember looking up at like the big screen and who wants to be a minute and a theatrical agent, |
| 1:25.1 | Malcolm Knight, based in Chizzy. |
| 1:28.9 | I was like, shit, that was my agent. |
| 1:30.1 | Anyway, he only won like 32 grand, but very quickly afterwards, he retired. |
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