Hey guys.

This is very exciting.

This is our first episode of the Close Friends podcast.

I'm so, honestly, thank you.

That's what I was hoping for, Sarah.

I am your host, Lucy. And I'm your honestly, thank you. That's what I was hoping for Sarah. I am your host Lucy. And I'm your host Tara. And I'm your other host, Sarah. Lovely to meet you all. We are not very

experienced with doing a podcast, but we're just going to make it work. Anyway, so each and every

week we're going to be unpicking a whole variety of different juicy, unscensored topics.

You might all be thinking how brave of us to share our deepest and darkest secrets so publicly.

But this is where we introduce our friends Shirley and Harry.

This is because a lot of what we do involves personal

anecdotes that are definitely not based on our lives, but are in fact the work of Shirley or

our mate Harry. Now Shirley is who you can see wrapped around Tara's neck. And if you're not

watching and you're only listening, it is a snake very high caliber.

Here she is, lovely Cheryl. She says hi.

Hi, Shirley. Thank you for joining us.

Shirley, the stuffed snake will be with us every episode to unpack some of the more personal anecdotes that we have on the go.

Now, in addition to Shirley, we also do mention a lot of romantic stories and anecdotes. And that's

where we call upon our friend Harry. Now, Harry is our metaphorical fuckboy. Why Harry? Well, this is

based on the real-life character, Tottenham Midfielder Harry Wings. And that's because, frankly, all three of your hosts have

very different tastes in men. And the only place where the overlap seems to be for the Topton and

midfielder Harry Wings. So if you don't know anything about football, we don't really either,

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