This special bonus episode of Offair is brought to you by Smart Energy GB.

And I'm delighted to say that we're joined by Scarlett Douglas, TV presenter, to talk through all things, property and smart energy.

Now, Scarlett, you're a woman of many, many talents and many different hats, aren't you? So people might think, oh, I know her from musical theatre. I know her from the TV. I know she knows about property. Yes. Where is your head at at the moment? It's all over the place, I tell you. I'm trying to work out how I can fit all of those things into one big thing,

which is always quite difficult. But I think right now, obviously for this, in the bonus episode, which I'm excited about, I am here to talk about Smart Energy GGB and how people can look at what they can do at their property to help them make it as energy efficient as possible. Can we go right back to the beginning though when you were in musical theatre? Yes. A difficult thing to get into? Very difficult. So I studied for three years at a performance in arts college called Lane Theatre Arts in Epsom and Surrey. I always knew I wanted to be a performer of some sort. I'd be running around when I was younger, singing, dancing, doing the catwalk

from my mum and dad and my brothers who probably hated it, but I had to put up with it anyway.

And yeah, I did musicals from the age of 19 to 27 and I kind of fell into it. I actually went to

form an arts college where I wanted to be in a girl group. I used to love Destiny's Child and

Spice Girls and I thought this is what I want to do.

And I was in many a girl group actually, but it never quite worked out.

Did my musical theatre training, ended up auditioning for shows and then I just did musicals and musicals and musicals and I loved them so much.

Being on the stage is where I feel at home.

But then I kind of had a side hustle which is doing property development with my eldest brother. He was a professional footballer. I have two brothers, they both were. And he just kind of took me under his wing and said, you're not going to be able to sing and dance forever. Those jazz hands are soon going to look not very, you know, nice. Jazz turns. Not very jazz. They'll probably be riddled with arthritis at some point.

Oh, he's brilliantly supportive.

I know.

He's really selling it to me at 24. I know. I'm thinking I'll be able to step kit for the rest of my life. No, no, I won't. So yeah, we just started doing property development together. and it was great because I got to use, I guess, my creative side from being on the stage

and seeing different sets and seeing how you could turn a space into something really emotive. And I brought that into our development. So I do the interior design side of things. And then my brother works with the architect and he kind of reconfigures a space. It's annoyingly canny, isn't it, Jane? Yeah, it is. Sometimes you've just got to appreciate people have got bigger brains than us. Hard to believe.

Tell us a bit more about your career in TV property. Okay. So I transferred from musical theatre

into property. Well, you make that sound like a natural step. I know. Basically, the long and

short of it is, I went on tour with Anton DEC they do this there we go

there we go so Saturday night takeaway show they took it on an arena tour I auditioned to be a

back and dancer and I was on tour with them for like six seven weeks and it was the most amazing show

amazing tour and the boys are unbelievable and I remember selling out arenas and thinking, I want to do this.

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