Jedward (Part One)
Walking The Dog with Emily Dean
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4.7 • 3.2K Ratings
🗓️ 18 August 2025
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
This week, Emily and Raymond are on Hampstead Heath - with John and Edward Grimes, collectively known as Jedward!
John and Edward are identical twins from Dublin - who shot to fame on The X Factor in 2009 when they were 17 years old. They have gone on to become pop culture icons - releasing four albums, representing Ireland at the Eurovision Song Contest twice and appearing on Celebrity Big Brother - and much, much more!
John and Edward’s family dog Blaze is back in Ireland - but they have a long history with dogs including a Shih Tzu! Raymond was utterly delighted to spend the afternoon with this iconic duo!
We discuss how people treat them as a result of their public persona, how they feel after losing their mum - and why they fought so hard to be authentic to themselves on The X Factor.
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| 0:00.0 | The thing is that we're in Hampson Heat right now. |
| 0:02.0 | Usually the wild Harry style walking around but sometimes they're on the hunt for Harry but they'll see Jedward. |
| 0:07.0 | And they'll be like, I wasn't expecting this. |
| 0:09.0 | Do you know the difference with me? |
| 0:10.0 | I'm on the hunt for Jedward. |
| 0:12.0 | Always. |
| 0:13.0 | This week on Walking the Dog, Ray and I went for a North London stroll with two absolute icons, the fabulous Jedwood, |
| 0:20.0 | otherwise known as John and Edward Grimes. |
| 0:23.5 | The twins have a beautiful Chihuahua called Blaze, who's currently with their family in Dublin, |
| 0:28.7 | as she's a grand old lady of 14 now, so she needs her home comforts, but they couldn't have |
| 0:34.1 | been more thrilled to meet Ray. In fact, they officially described him as |
| 0:38.1 | Jepic, which might be the greatest compliment Ray's ever had. Jed would famously burst into |
| 0:43.9 | our lives back in 2009 when they appeared on the X Factor, and they basically won over the |
| 0:49.3 | entire nation's hearts. I mean, how could you not adore these endlessly joyful boys with their sublime hairdos? |
| 0:56.6 | And unlike a lot of X-Factor contestants, they've gone on to maintain a hugely successful |
| 1:02.2 | career as musicians, TV personalities and influencers. And after spending time with them, |
| 1:08.4 | I can totally see why, because they genuinely exude whatever the X factor is. |
| 1:13.6 | They're just the definition of adorable. |
| 1:16.6 | It was a bit of a hot day when we met up, so we ended up sitting under a shady tree with Ray, where we had the loveliest chat about pretty much everything. |
| 1:24.6 | From growing up together in Ireland, to their experience of fame and reality TV, |
| 1:30.2 | to their incredibly close friendship with Gemma Collins, which is my favourite friendship ever, by the way. |
| 1:35.8 | I absolutely love these boys, and Ray is now a die-hard Jedward fan, and I'm pretty sure you will be too after listening to our chat. |
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