Ashley Roberts

Russell Howard’s Five Brilliant Things

Avalon

Comedy, Comedy Interviews

4.5 • 567 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2024

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Secrets from the Pussycat Dolls tour bus! And more! Comin’ atcha in Russell’s absolutely delightful chat with Ashley Roberts. Find out what life is like being a pop mega-star, what kind of mischief happened backstage and an alternative, let’s call it unconventional, use for a burrito. You can hear more of Ashley by getting out your digital radio (or analog? Did they turn off the signal yet?) for she is on Heart FM every week. Ashley is a showbiz correspondent on the Heart FM’s breakfast show, and presenter on Heart 00’s every Saturday, 4-7pm. You can also catch he as the host of Netflix’s series ‘Dance Monsters’. Russell is out on tour, doing massive gigs at the end of the 2024 show, and doing smaller gigs working up material for whatever comes next…keep up to date with Russell’s movements (professional movements not bowel movements) at Russell-Howard.co.uk That’s all for this episode of show notes. We should probably leave you on a cliffhanger but that’s not really the style of the…hang on…there’s somebody at the door…oh God. Oh no. Not you…But I thought you were deeeaaaaddddd! Producer: Dan Atkinson Line Producer: Daisy Knight Exec Producer: James Taylor Composer: Fat Lady Music Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hello everyone. This week's guest is a singer, dancer. She sold over 55 million records with her band, The Pussycat Dolls. She's a presenter on Hart, and she was a finalist on Strictly.
0:22.5	The wonderful.
0:25.5	Ash Roberts! And this is her Wonderbox.
0:35.1	So the first thing I was going to say, you were born in Arizona. Yeah. When the weather is this horrific, do you find yourself wanting to move back?
0:38.7	You know what?
0:39.6	I ask myself this question often because I grew up in Phoenix, which is desert.
0:44.2	It's hot.
0:44.8	It's hot.
0:45.4	It's like 45, 46 degrees right now.
0:47.9	It's disgusting.
0:49.4	But the sun is out, you know, every day pretty much.
0:53.0	I mean, I think there's like five days of the year that it rains. Yeah. And then I moved to Los Angeles, which again, sunny. You know, we go out hiking most days. But I decided to move here. Yeah, it was a choice. What made you, what do you miss? I miss the sunshine. What do you miss and what do you love?
1:11.5	I miss, well, the obvious things.
1:13.5	I mean, I miss being around my mom and I know my fam and stuff.
1:17.1	I miss, yeah, just, you know, moving the curtain aside when you wake up and like, you just know the sun's going to be there.
1:24.1	Yeah.
1:24.4	I miss that, right?
1:25.7	And I miss, like, things like food and certain bits and stuff. But I have to say, like, my community of peeps over here in the UK, it's just, they've been, the England's been so good to me. And I do. I know you mean, though, it's something about opening the curtain, particularly the minute this summer, it feels like every time you open it, you're like, oh, for fuck. What the hell is going on? Do you know what I mean? It's very seldom that you kind of, I mean. Oh, it looks all right, actually. I've been here 12 years, and I feel like this is the worst. Yeah. Like, I mean, I feel like we've had literally like five days of proper summer. But that's when you know you've become English because it's physically impossible not to talk
2:04.3	about the weather in the minute.
2:05.2	I know.
2:05.5	Like anyone.
2:06.4	Like even if you try not to, you can't help but just wander up to strangers.
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