I'm not just saying this, but this has honestly been almost like kooky in the best possible way.

I don't mind me saying that.

But so much fun.

This has been the best podcast I think I've ever recorded.

This week on Walking the Dog, Ray and I popped over to the beautiful Thornden Country Park in Essex to go for a stroll with reality TV star, presenter and entrepreneur Fern McCann and her adorable Cockapoo Clemmy.

Fern first rose to fame on the show The Only Where is Essex and went on to start in her very own long-running reality series, Fern McCann, My Family and Me on ITV, which showed

pretty much everything that was going on in her life from meeting her partner Laurie to raising

her two girls, Sunday and Finty, and very excitingly for me, welcoming the adorable Clemmy into the

family. Fern has always come across as very honest and unaffected in her TV show,

but I think what really blew me away about her in person was just this warmth and positivity she emanates.

She's also utterly hilarious. So there was a lot of laughter, mainly at Ray and I, the hopeless urbanites trying to navigate the mud,

but it was also fascinating just to hear the journey she's been on navigating life under this

constant gaze of cameras. And how, with the help of therapy, she's finally reached a really good

place? She's also someone who clearly loves the challenge, which is why she's currently

competing in ITV's brand new series of Dancing on Ice with Skating Pro Brendan Hatfield. It goes

out on Sunday evenings on ITV and Ray and I are not only huge fans of the show. We're also now

totally Team Fern. So we'll be hitting those phone lines to vote for her, and I hope you will too.

I absolutely love my walk with Fern, and I know you're going to love her as much as we did.

I'll stop talking now and hand over to the fabulous woman herself.

Here's Fern and Clemy and Ray Ray.

Can I just say, right, your dog, I was expecting its fur to be really coarse.

How dare you?

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