JGS. I can't call you John Gregory Smith because you're JGS. That's how you were introduced to me. At last, you're on the podcast. Literally, I do you know what? I just got the tube here and I've been sitting the whole way just so excited because we've been trying to do this for ages. Oh my word. But listen, I've been met Gabs as a very busy woman, so I feel very lucky to be here. That'd be ridiculous. So we've known each other a very long time.

We haven't known each other at a time. And when you were first introduced to me by a mutual friend,

yes. This mutual friend said this is JGS. Yes. Because nobody, none of my friends or family ever call me John or John Gregory Smith. It's such an awfully long, clunky name. So it's either

JGS or what do my family, my family call me Skinner from, so it's very weird. Explain.

So Principal Skinner was a character in The Simpsons. There was one episode and I almost

can't remember it now, but it was so long ago that my brother and sister started calling it

to me, but then their sister started calling it to me,

but then their kids started calling it to me. And some of my cousin's kids, when they were little, didn't know who John was. They just knew me as Skinner. And then actually would I have another one. My mom and my sister and my aunties will call me boo because I didn't have a name for a couple of months when I was little. My parents couldn't decide, but you know, like babies love boo. So that was my nickname.

Oh, I love that one. I'm stuck. That's what Chris Evans' baby, one of Chris Evans' prince is called boo. It's a very cute nickname. I think quite a few people have it. It's like, but so if they didn't name you for a couple of months, What was said what did it say on your birth certificate? Well, I do have one. How quickly do you have to do that?

I think quite quickly.

Well then that's that's a rumor that my mum told me. So my mum and me are quite similar in that we talk a lot. So if I'm over talking, you can just sort of shut me up. But my partner and my dad will often say if we're talking, we'll have to say to them, and'll correct us and we'll have to say, don't know the truth, getting them over good stories.

So now my mum said that. It probably was like two days.

Oh, I love that. Okay. So, but, and on morning live, they call you, John.

Yes. Nobody calls me JGS on there, apart from you.

Me.

I quite like that you do. I can't. It rolls off the tongue better. Tong? Tong. Rows off the Tong better. No, because lovely producer Joe, I introduce you to him. Yes. JGS. Yeah. I can't call you John. Don't worry about it. I love it. Even on morning live, I always say, oh, JJ.

Oh, and we do have fun on morning.

We do.

We do. You are a, the thing about you and take this, okay? Okay, I'm going to. You are a fantastic cook. Thank you. But you're also so much energy and full of life and you are a joy spreader. And this is reasons to be joyful and we get people who spread the joy and have got lovely stories to share. I want to know how, will you like this when you were boo when you were little? What, sort of the same character? Yeah, it's so positive. Yeah, I think I was. So my mum is literally like the most positive person.

You've always said that. You keep saying I'm going to meet your mom. I still haven't met her. She would literally be obsessed with you. She's so cool and she's so lovely and she's so positive. And I think that really got distilled in me and my brother and sister. So we've sort of just always had that positive energy. And when I was at school, and same with my brother and sister, actually, we, all our friends always used to, always used to hang out at our house. It was always the kind of the house that you could go back. Oh, how lovely. What a compliment to your parents. Very, very cool. All the friends would always say that if you're ever feeling down, just go and sit with my mum for 10 minutes because she'll just be like,

darling, you look fabulous.

The jumpers's fabulous. What have you done with your maker? So you just, your ego just goes like, oh my God, this is amazing. Should we get her on the phone? What, right now? Yeah, we've done it before. She might be at, so she might be at the Royal Opera House. Of course. Well, so she's volunteered there since I was like a teenager.

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