Did We Rush Into Parenthood?
He Said, She Said
Staying Relevant Productions
4.3 • 888 Ratings
🗓️ 26 May 2026
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
This week, Louise and Ryan dive into the conversation sparked by a viral Vogue article about a woman becoming a mother at 49 and calling it the most self-aware decision she’s ever made. It opens up a bigger discussion around the pressure to have children “on time”, and the realities of having kids later in life, from the unexpected benefits to the challenges no one really talks about.
Then, with Rivals Season 2 back on our screens, they chat all things dinner parties… which leads Louise to revealing her time on Come Dine With Me alongside the rest of the MIC cast. So we do a live reaction to a clip of her time on there....
Plus, there’s an M&S sweet taste test, reactions to Venezuela Fury’s wedding choices and the wild things we'd choose on our own wedding day if there was zero judgement, and a listener dilemma about what we’d do if Leo covered the bedroom in make-up?!
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| 0:00.0 | Hey guys, it's Louise. And Ryan, hello. And we are back with another episode if he said, she said. |
| 0:06.1 | We've got so many things that we want to talk about today. I want to kick off with rivals. |
| 0:10.0 | Oh. We watched episode two last night. Steamy. |
| 0:13.1 | It's really sexy. |
| 0:15.3 | Oh, well, yeah. I was going to say sexual. Do you think it's sexy? |
| 0:20.0 | Ooh, they're quite different things, aren't they? Sexy means I'm like a bit turned on by it, maybe, whereas sexual is just quite objective. Like, there's quite a lot of sexy and some butt. There's a lot of male butts, actually. There's not a lot of female butts. There's a lot of male bottoms and... Lots of Rupert Black's butt. How you feel oh yeah Rupert he's the hot one I |
| 0:41.5 | think is he hot though I prefer him to who's the guy with moustache Declan O'Hara yeah |
| 0:47.1 | Rupert is more my speed who's more your speed more more more team Declan are you |
| 0:53.9 | because he's nicer nicer. I find the, what's his name? Rupert Campbell Black? Yeah, I don't think he's a good-looking bloke. Do you not? I get that he's playing the whole Othario character. I feel like if you look into his eyes, you can see into his soul. Oh, God. Well, you're really enjoying this show. |
| 1:12.0 | How did you feel about the two willies, the twins that jumped in the pool in the first episode? Yeah, quite brave from them, to be fair. Isn't that brief? Do you think that's real? Yeah, it is real. Yeah, that was a real weird. Those are guys that basically have gone like, okay, I'm going to have a little cameo and I'm going to get my willie out. |
| 1:26.8 | They had like exactly matching sized willies. |
| 1:29.8 | Oh, you really caught that in the two second flash. I know. I didn't watch the rest of the first step. May, that's ridiculous. That's so brave. They weren't exactly massive willies either, so. Were they not? Oh, yeah. You're like, oh, I didn't really see it. You definitely freeze-sramed it and zoomed in on that. Well, maybe they move a bit when you're jumping in. Gravity helps pull them down. Anyway, I feel like we should move away from Williams because some people might not appreciate this chat. I'm quite in on rivals, I'll be honest with you. I didn't realize that we watched the first season separately. I watched the first season when I was in hospital. Did you tell me to watch the first series? It's kind of weird that I stumbled on that by myself. Everyone was talking about at the time, but I actually think they've leveled up with this one. Huh. I think it's even better. Fair. Because there's more butts in there. There's more buts. I thought that the |
| 2:19.6 | dinner party scene in the episode that we watched last night was iconic. It felt like I was |
| 2:27.7 | at the theatre. I think they actually got like theatre stage writers. What are they called |
| 2:33.2 | script writers? Well, I didn't actually know that, |
| 2:36.0 | but I can kind of see how that would be the case with the whole like trapdoor kind of thing. |
| 2:42.3 | It felt like you were actually there and it kind of reminded me. You know what? I actually felt like |
| 2:48.0 | I felt like we were in Maine Chelsea filming a dinner party scene. |
| 2:51.8 | I'm not even kidding. It felt like that time when we were all sat around that table, |
| 2:58.7 | everyone had been arguing loads. There was so much awkward tension in the air. And then Jamie |
| 3:03.8 | just stood up out of nowhere and went, anyone for some ham? I think because it's so |
| 3:09.1 | posh and it's set in the Cotswolds, like so much of it felt really relatable from these absurd |
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