Welcome friends to the Christian O'Connell Show podcast.

We started a new thing on the show last week, where we get someone well known on a Friday. You think you know them, but then we really test them with their chosen specialist subject.

Last week, everybody knows, the chef, Matt Preston. This week, it's Rebel Wilson, as you've never heard it before. Wait to hear about her chosen specialist subject

that Jackie Boy's got five questions on. Before that, Rebel, let's have a chat then. Thank you very much

for joining us. What a beautiful children's book you've made. It's gorgeous. I love it.

Oh, thank you so much. Yeah, and it's really personal to me. It's kind of Bella's based on myself.

And I wanted to put it in little stories from my childhood

that hopefully motivate and inspire kids.

So it was really cool to create it last year.

And now that it's out in the world, it's awesome.

They often say that when someone does their first children's book,

they are sort of going back and almost like giving the younger version of themselves a gift.

So is this you going back and giving yourself some advice that you'd wish you'd maybe know at the time?

Oh, definitely, 100%.

So the first book in Bella the Brave is about overcoming shyness.

And I was a kid, like I was so painfully shy.

But kind of what happened, which is in the book,

is like my mum dragged me to classes at a community centre quite violently.

No, not violently, but like, you know,

she literally did drag me off the car door

because I wasn't going to go inside and talk to people

that I'd

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