Hi, I'm Clemy Telford and it's time to get open and get honest.

Each week, I interview a guest about a topic that we as a society often shy away from.

From sex lives to salaries, life and death, religion and real bodies, no subject is off the table. Welcome to Honestly, the podcast.

Today on this podcast, I interview my pals Deborah James and Simon Thompson. As it happens,

Deborah, aka Balbab, is a big fan of our sponsor F&F clothing. She can often be seen rocking a slinky number from them on Instagram.

But for me, it's not just about the clothes,

it's the fact that F&F clothing enjoy challenging expectations.

There's lots that have surprised me about what they, as an affordable retailer offer.

The fact that they cater for sizes 6 to 22

and are one of the biggest retailers

in the UK pledging a more sustainable future. All brilliantly surprising and make me proud to

have them on board with Honestly Podcast. Hi, welcome to Honestly Podcast. I'm Clemmy Telford

and I'm here to do one of my favourite things. No, not

avoiding watching anything remotely scary on Netflix, having a properly frank open chat about

tricky, sticky and often not spoken about subjects. Today we've got in two pals of mine. One of them

is a multi-award winning restaurateur and blogger. The other is an ex-depity head teacher

turned multi-award

winning podcaster, newspaper columnist, Instagrammer. They are Simon Thompson, aka Curry and Cancer,

and Deborah James, aka Balbabe. Hello girls. Yay! Hello! Thanks for having us, Clemmy.

Oh, I'm very, very pleased to have you here. And what I didn't mention in the intros, because they are people aside from this, both these excellent women have cancer,

but we're going to get onto that shortly. I like to begin this with a quickfire round.

As the title of this podcast suggests, it's all about being honest, and to get us all in the

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