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This is Frank Skinner, MBE, on Absolute Radio, with the commoner Emily Dean on the colonial

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I mean, wow! Can you believe it? No, I can't believe I'm a commoner.

No, I know it's his shocking. If someone came and even said spot the commoner, I don't

think you'd be the first choice. You are. I have to say, Frank, worryingly good at keeping

secrets I'm discovering. Oh, yes. Because I mean, I would have had it everywhere.

Wouldn't you, Pierre? It would have been on the correspondence cards already.

Well, did it come would have been changed? The quote that people have used mainly, I've

noticed, when they talk about veteran comic, Frank Skinner, MBE, is that I said I didn't

tell anyone because I was concerned it might be an administrative era, but it wasn't a

joke. I actually did think what could be voice as Oliver Hardy would say. Then to tell

everyone you've got an MBE and then it was like the man who did Skinner's dog food, you

know, that thing for working dogs. And then on the day, I've always, my heart has always

bled for the woman from Rod Stewart's hot legs video, who's only a legs, Pierre. Imagine

she said to her mom and dad, I'm going to be in the Rod Stewart video really excited,

family gather around MTV that night. And then it's just a legs. So I didn't want to be

that girl. No, you didn't want to be. I know someone who is airbrushed off a magazine cover

once. I sang, exactly. That's not there's many slip, twist, cop and lip. That's the

way I saw it. So eventually I thought I better tell my partner. I'll tell her the day

before. I was anxious about telling Captain because why? Well, as you know, she's the woman

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